I found a new media player/manager today. MediaMonkey. For a few years MusicMatch has been my media player of choice. But Media Monkey is far superior with far more features and performance than MusicMatch. Sometime around MusicMatch 8, I had bought MusicMatch Plus (with all future versions for life time). But Media Monkey offers all the features and…
I installed Zimbra as my mail server a couple of days ago. Zimbra is still in beta but I am impressed. They also provide ‘Outlook Connector’ in their ‘paid-for-support’ version for corporate environments. The amazing thing is they just popped out on the scene some 6 months ago. At the heart of Zimbra are all popular open…
This is an update to my older blog entry about my gadget wishlist. Now there is one more model available from Canon that is placed right in the middle of 20D and 1D Mark II. It is 5D which also has a full frame CCD and other goodness of 1D except for some cut corners (like resolution of 12…
Photos of our Dec 2005 trip have been posted to Photo Gallery. This was a nice trip. I met two of my friends, one in Chattanooga, TN and one in Melbourne, FL (about 50 miles south-east of Orlando, FL).We also visited Atlanta, Disney World, Kennedy Space Center. Shraddha has also shot some video which I’m…
The gentleman at the travel help desk at the hotel told us that this was one of the slower years with much less crowds than normal during the holiday. And he was right. We reached Disney World Magic Kingdom just before 11. Much less crowd than regular holiday season. We were able to take all…
We are in Orlando, FL. Yesterday’s drive was really tiring.Throughout the I-75 drive in Georgia, we had rain. And at times it was so heavy we could not see much farther than 100-200 feet. I could barely see the tail lights of the vehicle in front of me. About 25 miles into Florida there was…
We arrived in Chattanooga, TN taking a long circuitous route from Portland to Seattle, Seattle to Chicago, Chicago to Atlanta by plane and then from Atlanta to Chattanooga by road. My friend had come to Atlanta airport to receive us. The journey was uneventful and boring except for a glitch on Atlanta airport when one of my checked-in bag didn’t show up. But it…
I found a new tool called w.blogger. It’s a desktop blogging client. It lets you write your blog on your PC and then post it to your site. It supports several APIs. This blog is just a first test of this application. I am going to try and include a screenshot of this window at the…
AJAX stands for Asynchronus Javascript and XML.It’s a web application development technique. Traditional web applications had many limitations because of restrictions of the browser capabilities. Today however browsers like IE5 and FireFox can run Javascript natively and fetch arbitrary data through XMLRPC interface (which is not supported by all browers). This allows a web application to…
Google has created a new ‘News Reader’, while this is just another web based RSS News Reader, what is different about it is the user interface. Again google has created something really nice to use. Google seems to get the AJAX technology pretty well. Gmail is very good example of that, and now News Reader…