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Free 1 year subscription of McAfree Virus Scan Plus

Posted by sraghav on March 19, 2008

I dont quite believe this, but havent tried this either.

Free 1 year subscription of McAfree Virus Scan Plus

I have heard about free trial licenses from such companies for a month or two or three, but never for 12 months.

I just tried to register following the link, and it does seem to work. I didnt actually download the software yet, but I would sure do that. Sometime over the weekend.

It sounds really really amazing to me. A 12 month free subscription.. great… :)

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An interesting site…

Posted by sraghav on March 19, 2008

An online document viewing website, you upload your document, the world sees it.

To me, an equivalent of blog, only not in terms of putting up content, rather organized documents. 

Home | Scribd

Blogged with the Flock Browser

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so many new technologies…

Posted by sraghav on March 16, 2008

It was my first weekend after I started working on my domain name and website. The last I was doing something with web technologies was like a few years back. Kinda nostalgic in that sense.

There are many new technologies coming around the place, and sometimes I feel left out. When I started digging this time around, I got to know a few more things.

So many new things I learned in one day…

  1. Mephisto – blogging engine
  2. Typo - Another blogging engine
  3. Trac - SCM engine , used for bug tracking etc.
  4. Intro to Capistrano - the magical deployment tool from rails framework. Some documentation from my hosting people also on integrating capistrano.
  5. FastCGI and its usage with rails

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On Bloger templates are making money with google

Posted by sraghav on March 15, 2008

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Thinking of changing blog host…

Posted by sraghav on March 12, 2008

I was talking to this friend of mine who moved his website from blogspot to wordpress.  WordPress have nicer templates, some really cute.

I felt like doing that as well, already last week. But, wordpress has some limitations, e.g. their free account does not allow html template editing. And without editing html, it wont be possible to track site statistics with google Analytics. I would really want to collect that kind of statistics.  Though the wordpress people provide some statistics, I am not sure if they would be comparable to Google Analytics

Also, since my blog’s url contains .blogspot.com, its hard for me to switch anyway.  However, there is an easier solution for this url issue. Build a blog in wordpress, and start publishing that url.

To make sure all who come and hit the old url, just enter this line in the <head> tag of the old blog page’s html code.

<meta http-equiv=”REFRESH” content=”0;url=http://new-blog-url.com“/>

Found this code sample here…  html redirect

thanks google for allowing to find stuff so easily… I knew that it exists, but syntax would have been hard to figure out.  

Blogged with the Flock Browser

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Flock : The Social browser

Posted by sraghav on March 7, 2008

I was just checking Firefox 3 beta 3 today, when I found about this new browser called Flock.

Its a great browser for people using services

  1. Blogging
    1. Blogger
    2. WordPress
    3. Blogsome
    4. Typepad.. etc..
  2. Photo Mgmt
    1. Flickr
    2. Picasa
    3. Photobucket etc..
  3. Social sites
    1. Facebook
    2. Twitter
    3. etc..

The browser provides amazing functionality for different sites built right in. Many a tasks you would have done manually are now completely automated, thanks to new browser functionality.

Powered by Mozilla, I found it to be a very interesting browser option against Firefox.

  1. Picasa on Web

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Interesting site found

Posted by sraghav on February 26, 2008

I found this interesting site that talks about various topics in IT industry. Browse for few minutes and I liked it…

http://www.ajaxian.com

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Useful color codes

Posted by sraghav on February 20, 2008

Found this very useful color code page.

http://www.pitt.edu/%7Enisg/cis/web/cgi/rgb.html

Very useful when you want to manipulate something on your blog’s template by yourself.

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Making a Tag cloud for Blogger

Posted by sraghav on February 18, 2008

I have always seen web pages (blogs actually) showing many tags with different font sizes showing prominence of one tag over others. Today I realized that these things are called tag clouds. And then I was searching already as to how can I get one for myself.

It seems google can find anything for you, proven umpteenth time… :)

Here is what I found, first read looks promising…

http://phy3blog.googlepages.com/Beta-Blogger-Label-Cloud.html

Will implement it later though .. and report of course…

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