Google Sports a New Table Based Look

May 14th, 2009 This is an exclusive stuff for your MySpace or friendster users. Frankly you are there to make friends.

February 5th, 2008 Every time I have to find the Google Analytics tracking code again for an existing website (rather profile) , I go through the same pain of hunting it down as it is definitely not obvious. Google Analytics tracking code is unique for each profile.

August 20th, 2007 Nowadays my WordPress comments table is frequently getting corrupted and I have to repair it. The MySQL table repair command does the trick.

March 7th, 2006 RoR multi-table transaction appears to be a mess. You have to create transactions on each table.

October 14th, 2007 Autoexec.bat is a legacy file in Windows which is executed every time you start Windows. Commands you want to run with startup of windows, and applicable to all users, are added to autoexec.bat.

September 23rd, 2008 As you may have noted, Simple Thoughts sports an enhanced headline section with 4 tabs. They are: Headlines - Provides latest news we deem to be worthy of headline Hot Topics - Most popular news in the last 24 hours (from Google Analytics via free Gadging service) Most Voted - Most popular news ever based on your votes Most discussed - Most commented news in last 30 days Would you like more such tabs? What should they be? Do you find them informative? Would you like any changes?

June 19th, 2006 Google Inc. unveiled a search site today to help you find U.S. government information.

January 8th, 2008 It has been several hours since Google search went down. Google services on google.com domain, including but not limited to GMail or Google Analytics, Google Adsense etc., are down too while blogsearch.google.com is up and running.

May 19th, 2009 Come summer, the movies blockbusters and music tours would peak the entertainment carts. The video game industry might loose its charm in summer.  At least this is what Wedbush Morgan Securities analyst Michael Pachter apprehends.

April 20th, 2008 Here is a simple command to auto repair, check and optimize all the tables in all databases running on a MySQL server: mysqlcheck -u root -p --auto-repair --check --optimize --all-databases mysqlcheck is available in MySQL 3.23.38 and later. mysqlcheck uses the SQL statements CHECK TABLE, REPAIR TABLE, ANALYZE TABLE, and OPTIMIZE TABLE in a convenient way for the user.

November 23rd, 2007 I learned it the hard way. Our gateway machine with firewall (shorewall) has multiple ADSL connections configured with load balancing for more bandwidth and transparent fail-over.

January 15th, 2005 In my microcosm of viewers (of this blog site) Firefox is rapidly gaining in popularity and accounts for ~24% of the market share. Mozilla & Netscape accounts for merely 6%.

February 24th, 2006 Google seems to have developed a habit of introducing new services and then withdrawing them due to high demand and reintroducing them selectively later. Google Web Accelerator, Google Analytics and now Google Pages, all follow this overused pattern.

April 10th, 2008 JInvite is a simple Java API which makes it easy to add invite capabilities to Java - the ability for existing members of your web service to invite other members. This capability was in the early days of GMail and now widely adopted by Web 2.0 (beta) sites for limiting site load and gradually increasing capacities.

September 11th, 2005 There are hundreds of online calculators ranging from javascript, flash and java calculators. Many of them provide an astounding array of functionalities.