Anil’s Weblog

WordPress sent me Golden Ticket today. The Ticket was an invitation to start a blog on WordPress. I accepted the invitation immediately. Following are some of the lines that mail contained,

We’re now inviting small groups to use WordPress.com and your email address was selected today!
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While you’re on a string of good luck it might be a good day to buy a lottery ticket.

I will definitely use my WordPress blog.

Why Students Are Leaving Engineering? – A great post on Slashdot.

I got connected through Google Talk today. I had some problems with Google Talk 1.0 previously. Google released GoogleTalk 1.0.0.70 today. I installed it and got connected. It’s a cool application. I liked it very much.

Today, I gave my first seminar. Want to read about it? then here is the link.

Firefox 1.07 released. Get it now!

Are you sick of all those “personalized search” sites that really just feel the same as the original site? Want to see your name in lights - or colors? Check out GoogleFor - it’s a truly personalized search page to start on. It doesn’t personalize your results, or even give you customization options. All it does is replace “Google” with the name or word of your choice. Yes, that’s a different take on personalization, and yes my tongue has been firmly planted in cheek for the duration of this post. But this is kind of fun; check it out.
from downloadsquad

Opera Software today permanently removed the ad banner and licensing fee from its award-winning Web browser. The ad-free, full-featured Opera browser is now available for download - completely free of charge – at http://www.opera.com.

“Today we invite the entire Internet community to use Opera and experience Web browsing as it should be,” said Jon S. von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera Software. “Removing the ad banner and licensing fee will encourage many new users to discover the speed, security and unmatched usability of the Opera browser.”

Opera was previously available free of charge with an ad banner. Users had the option of paying a licensing fee to remove the ad banner and receive premium support.

The Opera browser, available in 20 languages. The complete download is less than 4MB.

About Opera browser
Already regarded as the world’s fastest, most secure browser, Opera speeds up your Web browsing with these innovative features:

* Navigate quickly using intuitive mouse gestures and browser tabs
* Start from where your last browsing session ended or save your entire session
* Access downloaded files quickly with the transfer manager
* Protect against identity theft and phishing with integrated security features
* Speak up: surf the Web hands-free using voice commands
* Shop Amazon, browse Ebay, and search the Web with Google right from the address bar
* Set reminders for Web pages you visit with the notes feature

Recently, I got an email with following content

This one is too good !!!

This is why people say google is the best search engine.

Its not only fast, its accurate and shows only truth.

–> Open Google Site [ http://www.google.com ]
–> Type ‘failure’ or ‘miserable failure’
–> See what is the Very First Match !

Hope you had a heartily laugh at this one.

Yesterday, Google blog have responded to this by a post on the blog.

Netvibes is the latest web-app based on the idea of personalized home pages. There are already services which offers personalized homepages like Google’s personal homepage, Microsoft’s Start. It is powered by nicely developed Ajax.

The aim of it is to provide a place on the internet where you can set just the content you like, a super easy way of building your personnalized homepage, available anywhere, anytime. No registration is needed, however if you want to access your page from another computer you’ll be able to do it by registering with your email address and a password.

The page looks pretty good, modules are intuitive, the page interaction is easy. Netvibes looks like a pretty good Ajax-based homepage, so you should definitely check it out.
via techcrunch.