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FriendFeed – One feed to keep track of all your friend’s activities

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FriendFeed is a new entrant to the web 2.0 social networking arena, and seems quite useful. The FriendFeed service tracks and aggregates content from people’s accounts across different web services.

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Upon signing up for FriendFeed, you can add a list of services to your account (Twitter, YouTube, Picasa, Google Reader shared items, etc) by providing your usernames, and you get an aggregated feed listing the latest activities. You can share this feed with others, and also subscribe to similar feeds from your online buddies.

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October 22nd, 2007 at 11:34 am

Posted in social networking

Make Defragmentation faster

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Most guides on speeding up Windows XP tell you to do many things, and I’m sure all of those guides tell you to defragment your hard drive once in a while to make Windows XP function faster.

Power Defragmenter for fast defragmentation

The default Windows Defragmenter isn’t a good choice if you want to defragment your computer’s hard drive. The Windows Defrag tool is ridiculously slow, and tests your patience like nothing else can.

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October 7th, 2007 at 1:41 pm

Posted in tools

September Digest

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The month of September didn’t witness spikes in traffic like it was in the last month. Yet, this month had the highest number of visitors from Google which makes me glad :D

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October 1st, 2007 at 3:17 pm

Posted in round-ups

My Desktop

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Madhur recently tagged me for the “What’s on your Desktop” meme.

Here goes my simple desktop with nothing special :P

Shankar Ganesh | Desktop

It’s time for me to tag others. I’d like to tag Ken Xu, Sankar Anand, Rishi, Ashish, Sumesh to share their desktop screenshots with everyone!

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September 29th, 2007 at 5:25 am

Posted in personal

How I manage time between blogging and studies

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Vivien of Inspiration Bit is conducting a group writing project and is getting inputs from people on how they manage their time. Just thought of pouring down my thoughts.

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September 25th, 2007 at 2:22 pm

Posted in personal

Top free Download Managers for windows

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We all download loads of softwares and tools everyday from the internet. Some of us have download queues that never end. Not all of us have high speed connections though.

So the best thing to do is try some download managers for Windows that actually help you in managing your downloads efficiently and also help in speeding them up.

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September 25th, 2007 at 9:23 am

Posted in software

Download BitTorrent 6.0

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BitTorrent, a very popular torrents client has gone into version 6 with a revamped user interface, and has added new features in the latest version.

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September 22nd, 2007 at 3:50 am

Posted in software

Photobucket – Bulk upload photos

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Photobucket, one of my favourite image uploading services has gone ahead and added some new and exciting features. Photobucket now sports a slightly redesigned homepage, private/public setting of photo albums, enhanced Adobe Premier to edit and remix photos and videos.

One important feature that has been added recently is the ability to bulk upload photos to your Photobucket account via a web-based interface.

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September 19th, 2007 at 3:18 pm

Posted in web 2.0

Kazaa Uninstaller

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Kazaa is a P2P file sharing desktop client, and has a high reputation for the number of spywares that it comes attached with. Though Kazaa’s official website claims it to be spyware free, many users who’ve downloaded and tried it have suffered from innumerable virus attacks and spyware threats.

These spywares and other bundled adware don’t get uninstalled completely from Windows even when you try to remove them from the Control Panel.

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September 19th, 2007 at 10:14 am

Posted in tools

Ubuntu themes for Windows XP

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Earlier, I had written about Windows Vista themes for XP – it got a good response, so just thought of compiling a list of Ubuntu themes for Windows XP.

Some of you might be unable to use Ubuntu on your computers, due to some problems or issues. But you may miss the look and feel of Ubuntu on Windows. So, here’s a list of Ubuntu themes for Windows XP to keep you satisfied, and to keep that boring default Luna theme away.

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September 18th, 2007 at 11:45 am