Kapil’s Korner

Simple happenings in the interesting thing called LIFE.

Entries from December 2006

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December 16th, 2006 · No Comments

The Simple Dollar ยป 30 Essential Pieces Of Free (and Open) Software for Windows
(tags: software freeware opensource windows utilities)

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Tags: General

Subscribe to my blog via email

December 16th, 2006 · 2 Comments

I realised that a good number of my blog readers are not so tech-savvy and don’t really know how to fiddle around with RSS feeds and other such techie stuff. In which case they find it really difficult to know when my blog gets updated. So to help my readers keep an easy track on [...]

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Tags: Internet/Blog

Two ads which caught my attention

December 16th, 2006 · No Comments

Over the last two weeks I have been traveling extensively which has given me the chance to view a lot of media which I am not exposed to when at home. Here are two ads in particular which caught my attention instantly.
It was interesting to see this Nokia ad which talks about it’s new phone’s [...]

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Tags: Advertising

Vrindavan: The Headquarters of Lord Krishna

December 10th, 2006 · No Comments

This is where he was born, this is where he performed his daring tasks and this is where people have temples dedicated to him on every street. Lord Krishna is in every inch of the space surrounding Mathura. Be it Vrindavan or Barsana or Giriraj.
The place is like just any other religious center. The streets [...]

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Tags: Travel

Disconnected

December 5th, 2006 · 1 Comment

I will be disconnected from cyberspace till Saturday. So there will be no posting, comment approvals or replies till I get back home. I am off to Vrindavan for a short religious trip with wifey and in-laws.
More on the trip once I am back.

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Tags: Travel

Sparks of light

December 5th, 2006 · 2 Comments

There was some welding work happening in the building. Here are some shots captured at various shutter speeds.

I would really be interested if any pro photographers can leave comments on such shots can be captured in a better mode. I have captured them on the “Tv” mode keeping the aperture on auto mode and manually [...]

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Tags: Photography

Turbo-charge your Gmail signature

December 4th, 2006 · 4 Comments

This is how my updated signature in Gmail looks like. I have just inserted the Feedburner Headline Animator to my signature. Gmail does not allow HTML in it’s signature but if you are using Firefox this can be done easily. A quick run down on how this can be done:

Install Greasemonkey, a Firefox plug-in.
Install this [...]

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Tags: Internet/Blog

What I must do…

December 2nd, 2006 · No Comments

Next few days I am off work, but I am hoping to keep myself busy constructively. I have a couple of things on the list which are a must do and others which I really wish I can do considering life is going to get busy once more when I get back to work.

Need [...]

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Tags: Thoughts

Farwell from Think WhyNot

December 2nd, 2006 · No Comments

Last evening the office team organised a very cute see-off for me. Think WhyNotters THANK YOU very much. I am surely going to miss you all a lot. And I really hope we can be in touch via orkut, gchat and any of those things we keep connnected at office. If ever there is something [...]

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Tags: Workplace