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Just read over at groklaw about a ruling made last night by the US Appeals Court.

For those who are new to this plugin, Shantz WP Prefix Suffix is a light-weight and easy to use plugin which allows you to add any text, HTML/CSS/PHP/Javascript code to your posts and/or pages as prefix and/or suffix.

For those who don’t know ShantzTodayChanger is a small Windows Mobile tool that allows you to cycle through your wallpapers/themes or run applications after specified intervals of time automatically and provides you a lot of tweaking options to control th…

A webhost that puts building relationships with customers before making money is definitely a good webhost.

A friend called me today and happened to mention his biggest gripe about Lotus Notes, that it hangs ever so often (ok that’s acceptable), but the clincher is that if you kill it through the task manager it will not allow you to restart and relogin until y…

FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) community rejoices today as google finally lived upto their promise of releasing the android source code.

There is still a day left for the first Android based Device, T-Mobile G1, to come out into the hands of general public but I was in a for a small surprise as I went through my Google Analytics report for the last week.

As some of you know that I’ve taken up the development of the ultra-cool xwinwrap tool that allows you to use movies, screensavers etc as wallpapers for you linux desktops.

For those who don’t know Shantz-WP-Prefix-Suffix is a WordPress plugin that allows you to add any text and/or HTML/CSS/PHP/Javascript code to the top or bottom of your posts (e.g. see my site links at top of each post and the copyright link and permalink…

Amit has written a detailed Satellite TV (DTH) Guide and Comparison about the scene in India.

If you are a student (this works for non-students as well but I expect you to be honest ;) ), you can download a whole bunch of software for free.

Just came across this very cool online emulator that lets you get a first hand experience of how the Google Android based phone T-Mobile G1 (aka HTC Dream) will look and behave like.

I updated my project splert to version 0.03 today.For those who don’t know splert is a tool that lets you convert the multi-client instant messenger pidgin (connects to gtalk, msn, yahoo, jabber, etc) into a full blown answering machine and much more.

Recently I wrote a small autoreply-answering-machine app for pidgin with a simple premise.

Update: In a thread about this post at Dropbox forums, it was brought to my notice that Dropbox has now changed its terms to remove the objectionable clause.

Just a small shout out to let you guys know that you can use the discount coupon code “linkup” while signing up the excellent online backup service SpiderOak to get a major bump to 10 GB from the 2 GB that they give to normal accounts.

A few people (e.g.

Update: Part 2 of this post is now up here to allay some of the drawbacks that were pointed out.

I recently wrote a simple answering machine program/plugin for pidgin and someone asked me to port it to 32 bit.

Guys, for the past few days if you downloaded any “.tar.gz” packages from this site (like my splert or shantz-xwinwrap tools), then you’d have got a corrupt package.

XWinWrap is a small utility written a loooong time ago that allowed you to stick most of the apps to your desktop background (Thanks to fsckin for introducing me to it).

XWinWrap is a small utility written a loooong time ago that allowed you to stick most of the apps to your desktop background.

Update: UK Ad Authorities have declared iPhone ad as “misleading”.

Update Aug 25 2008: Updated to v0.02 and also added 32 bit package.

This is a simple tool I wrote a few months ago to turn Pidgin, everyone’s favourite multi-client Instant Messenger (works with gtalk, msn, yahoo, aim etc), into a customized answering machine (and more) when you are away from your computer.

Sometimes I do some things that even I can’t explain why I did ’em.

Sometimes I do some things that even I can’t explain why I did ’em.

If you use the awesome download manager plugin “Drain Hole” for your WordPress blog (A short review here), and upgraded to the latest version 2.1.3, you must have noticed that it doesn’t scan and add new files to the download repositories now.

A couple of days ago, I read this on Matthew Garrette’s blog, where he tells us about a vendor’s BIOS trying to figure out the OS type/version and setting things around on deciding the OS it is running.

Just wanted to apologize to you guys for not updating this blog frequently as work load is becoming more and more these days.

**UPDATE: **Surprisingly this post has found favour with “digg”ers :).

I watched “Harold and Kumar: Escape from Guantanamo Bay” a few days ago.

My brother “Amit Goel” has started a tech blog, primarily about Reverse Engineering nuances, but he plans to write much more.

Everywhere you go, any building you enter, any OS you operate, any settings window you open, one rule remains set in stone, “THE ESCAPE DOOR”.

I’m going to be bespectacled and have been advised to reduce and limit my computer usage considerably.

iPhone 3G, the “supposedly” latest and greatest handhled, just continues to amaze me, with its ridiculousness of course.

This is the last part in this series.

Last time we discussed how to select the gadget that you want to buy.

If you are a gadget freak like me and can’t resist the temptations to buy the newest toy on the shelves, then you’d obviously want to eek out the maximum you can from whatever budget you have.

It’s amazing, isn’t it?

If you think that all geeks do is walk around wearing thick glasses, code in unreadable languages and make weird gizmos from parts scrapped out of your junkyard, well you think wrong.

Just a small tip.

With the recent release of Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron), a lot of hype was generated (Overhype or well-deserved, that’s for another post).

For the past many years, I’ve seen a trend that has been on a meteoric rise.

Worried about someone breaking into your house in your absence?

Did you know that instead of installing special software to view your webcam video, you can simply use mplayer for the same purpose, and with a lot of fine control. e.g. try running the following command with your webcam attached to your computer. mplayer…

I have an old noname cheapo webcam, that I dusted out of my junk (why?

HTC announce their shiny new Touch Diamond recently.