My Life in Beta... Always Improving (New Theme)August 13th, 2008 The Angsuman Chakraborty Blog (personal weblog) has been re-designed. Check it out.
Battle Royale: Microsoft vs Google War on Office Web Application IntensifiesNovember 18th, 2008 The war of the technology giants (Microsoft and Google) have now reached office too. No, I am not talking about Mountain view or Redmond literally.
Time Machine Travel Through Microsoft's Windows 1.0 - 25 Years CompletedNovember 11th, 2008 Just more than two decades ago, a young man from Washington had some things to say at New York's Helmsley Palace Hotel. He claimed that, powered by a unique graphical interface, his new OS, (coincidentally named Windows!) would be running 90% of IBM systems from the next year.
10 Minute Survey to Life ExpectancySeptember 7th, 2005 A simple ten minute survey to determine your life expectancy. It says about me:
In an extremely high risk overweight category, meaning you are at extremely high risk for obesity-related illnesses such as heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke and cancer.
Windows Vista and Server 2008 SP2 DownloadMay 27th, 2009 Microsoft's Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 has been officially released for free public download on Microsoft Download center. It is also being distributed via the updates.
25 Killer iPhone TipsDecember 6th, 2008 Yes you can not do a lot of things with iPhone but that hasn’t stopped iPhone to be one of the most popular piece of gadgets in the history. So let me give you 25 more reasons to wonder about iPhone.
Microsoft Makes a Mess Out of Silly Laptops Giveaway to BloggersJanuary 13th, 2009 Watch out bloggers! Those of you with Microsoft's laptops gifts can keep them back. MIcrosoft had send Acer Ferrari laptops to 90 bloggers during pre-Vista-launch.
Second Life Enables Vibrant Virtual Economy With Linden DollarsDecember 30th, 2007 Second Life is 3-dimensional online digital world mostly created by its residents. You can buy and sell land and artifacts of this virtual world with Linden dollars.
I Never Thought I would Say This... Commenting By MinorsOctober 8th, 2007 One implied restriction on commenting on this site: I will allow commenting by a minor so long it it appropriate. However I will never allow displaying their emails or any other personally identifiable information in their comments.
Microsoft and Dell Want You to Fight AIDS in Africa through their PRODUCT (RED) ProjectFebruary 13th, 2009 Microsoft and Dell have joined hand in hand for a project called PRODUCT RED in order to help Africa fight AIDS. Such a noble venture needs your contribution as well.
Top 10 Gadgets for Christmas 2008December 17th, 2008 Enough has been discussed about Christmas gadgets and its various categories (you can read all of them here). So we thought it is about time to come out with the best of the lot- the top 10 gadgets for this Christmas of 2008.
Get Huge Discount on 50+ Mac Apps, Hurry!November 26th, 2008 20% Discount if you choose 3 apps!
50% with 5 apps or more! and you have only until the 30th of November 2008 to get the best of the offer. If you still didn't understand, I am talking about Mac.
Are Most Link Extractors (Including WordPress Comment Link Extractor) Wrong?January 30th, 2008 Most link extractors I know, including the function in WordPress to linkify comments, incorrectly assumes that any text containing http:// is a hyperlink including obvious mistakes like the following:
I propose a new protocol starting with phttp://... What do you think?
phttp is not http protocol and it should never be treated as a link.
Pet Owners Warned of Diabetes RiskJuly 17th, 2005 The RSPCA is urging pet owners to be aware of diseases that pets can have that are normally not associated with animals like diabetes. Amid National Diabetes Week, the RSPCA says even though it is a rare disease in animals, it can still happen.
Google Docs Moves Closer to Microsoft Word with Fixed Width Page View aka Print Layout ViewMay 22nd, 2008 One of the big challenges in using Google Docs was editing documents big windows which would cause the writing canvas to stretch the entire browser width. On wide-screen displays, this often meant viewing entire paragraphs on just a line or two of the display.