Thought experiment: Google Web Accelerator and phpMyAdmin combo

November 14th, 2005 Google Web Accelerator is back with a vengeance. If your web site bandwidth consumption has spiked in the last couple of days, look to blame it on Google Web Accelerator.

March 2nd, 2006 Mambo / Joomla passwords cannot be recovered as they are set using a one-way hash function (MD5). However they can be reset to new values.

September 9th, 2007 I was looking for the wiki of a popular Linux based firewall site. The main url was 404, so I went up one level hoping to find a new url.

May 9th, 2005 Discussion on the current coma of Google Web Accelerator...

May 11th, 2005 An attempt to demonstrate how such brain-dead schemes gets approved in a corporate setting looking to maximize shareholder values.

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.

July 20th, 2006 I found a simple two step process to transparently circumvent any website access ban for non-password protected sites. 1. Install Google Web Accelerator.

December 18th, 2007 That's about the best you can say about the 8 Mbps plans from Airtel. The starter Combo 1299 plan provides 8 mbps @ only Rs.

June 9th, 2008 We have developed a new combo bar for displaying the languages for Translator Plugin Pro & Gold. Check it on the top right of this blog.

January 22nd, 2007 I am using Google Calendar, as an experiment, for my projects. I noticed 5 things, between unprintable curses, which make it seriously dysfunctional as an usable product.

May 14th, 2005 Some people have started preaching/scolding the web developers for using HTTP GET in non-idempotent manner. In other words GET is often used to change the state of the system, when it shouldn't be.

October 8th, 2006 While downloading Fedora Core 5 using DAP, I ran out of temporary disk space (which is by default in C: drive) thereby wasting several hours of download. Download Accelerator Plus (DAP is a popular file download utility) saves the partially downloaded segments in %TEMP% directory.

April 1st, 2009 Do you wanna brainstorm the logical Google to think of something more human? Have you ever thought what if you could ask the Google search to find the name of that kid across your room, just from your mobile? May be you never thought of it in the first place. But, now that you have Google Brain Search (BETA) on the Google Mobile App available for your iPhone, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry or the Android-powered phones, you can try it out.

October 26th, 2006 I have been in an interesting discussion with a very high profile client when Google Search came up. One recurring thought which came up was how the apparent strength of Google search, that made it the number one search engine, is its very weakness in several industries.

January 13th, 2009 Are you a Mac-buff and looking for a Google experience. Obviously you know Google is best for online searches.