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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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…
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Posted by sraghav on March 14, 2008
Found this interesting page… I am pretty sure there are other sites and pages talking about similar stuff.
How To: Install OS X on Your Hackintosh PC, No Hacking Required
I still have to check out how it works, but looks like a very interesting idea to start with…
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Posted by sraghav on March 14, 2008
For some time, I have been thinking of getting my own domain name, and thereafter get rid of all these .blogspot.com or .wordpress.com kind of names for blogs. Will also get rid of email addresses from gmail or yahoo or likes.
The idea is pretty interesting and right now I am evaluating whether its a financially feasible thing to do.
Well, I checked at a few domain name registration sites and it doenst sound very costly to start with. However you have to be careful reading their pricing models. It IS misleading.
e.g. when you find a domain at www.networksolutions.com, they say that it costs 10 USD. Fine, that looks cheap and so you move on. When you finally land on the checkout page, you find that its not actually $10, but $29.99. The $10 mentioned at the first page was actually something else. Some private registration thing, but the actual domain name costs you three times that.
Similarly when I was checking this on an Indian registrar http://www.net4.in , their site was advertising that .in domains cost on Rs. 199. Fine, thats pretty cheap actually. I went ahead and when I landed on checkout page there, it turned out that 199 is only the cost for 1st year. Second and third years cost about 4-5 times first year. And therefore, you are lured only because of the first year promotional pricing.
A friend was suggesting earlier to use dyndns for this. The idea was, buy a domain name, buy a customer dns from dyndns guys. Then it would be a job of configuring the dns entries in a right way. So that,
a call to techblog.mydomain.com goes automatically to techraghav.blogspot.com,
and still maintains the url for mydomain.com…
I am not sure if that would work technically or not, but that could be a much cheaper solution. Custom DNS at dyndns.org costs about $ 28 per year. domain would cost about $10 per year. Sounds ok.
Also, I am not sure what kind of dns mgmt freedom is available when I buy web space with some hosting company….
I have posted this dns configuration question to dyndns.org forums also.. lets see how they come back.
Reading about dns records etc.. List of DNS record types – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Posted by sraghav on March 11, 2008
Working with computers can be frustrating…
Nothing has showcased this more than this video…
I hope never to reach such stage of frustration…
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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
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.
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Posted by sraghav on March 5, 2008
Hey… Informatica have launched a brand new set of discussion forums on their website. This url should normally point to the overview .
I have a good feeling about this, the company hosting its own discussion forums. Before this there were some yahoo groups that acted as discussion forums for the company, and some developer network forums.
See how it goes…
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Posted by sraghav on February 29, 2008
Another blog on ruby-rails
http://blog.whitet.net/
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Posted by sraghav on February 28, 2008
I am starting to think of joining another open source project on RoR. Its basically a helpdesk and workflow management solution, which would be totally web based.
I have used Peregrine for quite sometime now, and therefore have a view. I feel that there are some things in the tool that can be improved and therefore the idea. Another guy in US is also working on the topic.
Currently its hosted at rSupport.googlecode.com
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Posted by sraghav on February 27, 2008
I found this amazing image processing technique called image re-targeting. This really is amazing.
Read more about it at this link here http://www.humansoftware.com/pages1200/XFile/HSxfil0.html
Try this youtube video as well…
This stuff is really really innovative and brilliant. Congrats to the people behind it…
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