Archive for July, 2007
Joe’s Goals – A Site To Track Your Goals
While there are thousands of To Do List tools and online services, and hundreds of line calendar applications, I have never seen such an idea put into practice. Joe’s Goals let’s you, in a very nice fast and easy way, list down your target goals and activities you are supposed to do in a week, [...]
Harry Potter Book Sales Break Record
8.3 million copies sold in the first 24 hours inside the US. Wonder if my brother online order counts as one here! This compares to the previously world’s fastest book selling record, Harry Potter 6 which sold 6.9 million copies on it’s first day there. All those sales and my Harry Potter banner that was [...]
Tips to continue using Windows XP
Windows Vista has made it finally into the market. Still many people are hesitating to upgrade to the new operating system. They like the existing one. There is certainly new bugs and incompatibility issues with the new Windows, as was the case always. While still having doubts about moving to Vista, Microsoft have announced their [...]
Windows sneaks on your files to display relevant ads!!!
When Google first announced Gmail and it’s relevant ads behavior, public concern over privacy was raised and expressed. Nevertheless it was all a free service that Google wants to make money out of. Now, and as per this new patent, Microsoft will be utilizing the email and word processor clients stored on your PC to [...]
Google Custom Search opens for Business
For the benefits of Ad-Free, XML feed of search results, optional Google branding and a few extra advantages in terms of support, Google Custom Search is now open for Business for a small fee, starting at $100/year. While for many, this may not be important, or feasible, large corporates may want to incorporate Google Custom [...]
Google most influential in e-commerce
The list of top-10 most significant developments in e-commerce published by The Software & Information Industry Association has named Google (no wonder) at the top for this decade. The reason for that choice is how Google have changed the way the internet is being used today. The company started back in 1998 when the founders [...]
Amazon starting to overlook customers?
This is really strange and new experience with Amazon I faced recently. I always say buying from Amazon is more safe than buying from the store downstairs. This time, it was not the case. I ordered video card from a reseller, TigerDirect and since they don’t ship international, I had to ship it locally to [...]