Kapil’s Korner

Simple happenings in the interesting thing called LIFE.

Entries from December 2006

links for 2006-12-30

December 30th, 2006 · No Comments

PigPogPDA - A Moleskine Hacked into a Complete System
(tags: moleskine gtd lifehacks)

Hacking a GTD Moleskine at hyalineskies
(tags: moleskine gtd productivity)

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Tags: General

links for 2006-12-28

December 28th, 2006 · No Comments

Flickr Tools on Flickrbits
The definitive collection of Flickr tools, plugins and API applications
(tags: flickr tools plugin photos photoblog)

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Tags: General

Dinner @ Indigo Deli

December 24th, 2006 · No Comments

Last night Nitika and I dined at a really lovely place called “Indigo Deli”. This is a second outlet started by the well-known Rahul Akrekar of Indigo located in Colaba, Mumbai.
Although we skipped the drinks, there seemed to be some nice mocktails/slush we hope to try the next time. The steward ensured a very personalised [...]

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Tags: Food

I really really want to own this car

December 24th, 2006 · No Comments

A few days back I watched a new TV commercial released by Skoda India. And I fell in love with this car. It’s awesome and I am putting this car on my wishlist for the year 2007. (although I know it’s more than what I can afford at the current stage of my career, but [...]

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Tags: Thoughts

links for 2006-12-24

December 24th, 2006 · No Comments

Ask Lifehacker: Moving Firefox to a new computer - Lifehacker
If you can’t live without your copy of firefox here is a great tool to back it up and move it to a new PC.
(tags: firefox backup tutorials software)

Digital Photography School - Digital Photography Training for You
I have been looking for a website like this in [...]

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Tags: General

ICICI Bank does a copycat

December 21st, 2006 · No Comments

I have been relatively free at work these days, so I look at the web banners with a lot more attention and there has been some good learning on the biggies are using the web as a medium. However on a different note I just found something rather striking.
A while back Kotak [...]

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Tags: Advertising

Get online and be courageous

December 21st, 2006 · No Comments

If you have a story to tell, tell it. Get online and be courageous. Ernest Hemingway is quoted as saying that “there is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed”.
You never know who may need to hear it.

Read full article. Such thoughts keep me blogging no matter [...]

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Tags: Thoughts

Reliance Money uses smart keywords

December 20th, 2006 · 9 Comments

Try doing this search on Google. And take a closer look at the “Sponsored Links” on the right-side column.

I think somebody at Reliance Money’s online agency has worked out some very smart keywords to ensure that their ad appears when the search is made. I am impressed.

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Tags: Advertising · Internet/Blog

Warren Buffet says…

December 20th, 2006 · No Comments

I picked up this from a Yahoo! group of my college alumni. It was a very interesting read and thought it would a good idea to share with all, so here it is. There was a one hour interview on CNBC with Warren Buffet, the second richest man who has donated $31 [...]

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Tags: Thoughts

Can I zip Firefox?

December 20th, 2006 · 3 Comments

I just settled into my new job at Mudra. Of course there was no firefox on the machine I was assigned, so I spent quite some time installing the browser and it’s necessary plug-ins, extensions, greasemonkey and it’s scripts I am so used to.
During this process I was wondering if there was a way to [...]

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Tags: Internet/Blog · Technology