Kapil’s Korner

If you live in one of the major cities of India, you’ll know that most office-goers have a tough time commuting between office and home. Either you get squeezed in public transport or the pain of driving through the traffic wants you to leave the car home and hop into a cab. But here is [...]

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Thanks to Floola I can now hear songs from my iPod songs on my office PC without having to move them all to my hard disk. Floola is a helpful utility because it makes your songs much more manageable. At home, my sister uses iTunes to transfer songs to the iPod, but then I use [...]

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Times Of India reports that if the government for once becomes serious about their ambitious plans all Indians will be offered free, high-speed broadband connectivity by 2009, through state-owned telecom service providers BSNL and MTNL.
Now that is something so cool, but instead why don’t they go the US way and make the cities of India [...]

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Last week I noticed two interesting posts at Adverblog. One common communication directed towards probably a new set of consumers: technosexuals. I think till sometime back only those into hardcore programming or gaming were called “computer geeks”. And typically computer and other related stuff was being marketed at them but now I guess lifestyle and [...]

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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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A few days back I was checking if there were spell check plug-ins available for Wordpress. In the search I found an interesting article which told me about how the Google toolbar has a spell-check feature which works pretty well in the “Write Post” textbox too. So I tried it and it seems fine. For [...]

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Long weekend holiday, so I spent some good time surfing around and added two new blogs to my Google Reader list.
ContentSutra
Bumped into this website when I was exploring career opportunities in the internet/digital advertising area. Lots of news updates and the comment activity is also very interesting to monitor. Recommended reading for those in the [...]

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After searching for long and even experimenting with a few programs, I found a real neat and small application which lets me track the battery level in my imate JAM without eating away too much screen space and also loading extras which I really don’t want to have. It has a cute name – Batti. [...]

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Yesterday I got my Toshiba laptop online. I got myself a Linksys Wireless Broadband router and the simple set-up got me online within just a few minutes. The connection is not bad and I am happy because it’s strong enough in those zones where I am likely to be using the laptop most often. The [...]

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A while ago I looked at the spam mail I was getting into my Inbox. Take a look at some of the Subject lines. They have got a bit smarter over the time. Rather than bombarding the mail with typical words like “sex” “penis” “vigara” etc. They are crafted as an e-mail with some really [...]

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