Thoda sa main...(A little bit of me)

Google is working hard to make its sites available even to people on low bandwidth. Last they worked upon gmail & now its time for orkut.
They have reworked on the code so that if the pages are taking time to load, user will get a prompt to switch over to low-bandwidth version of the same.

Good to see the initiative, at times I'm sitting idle at airport on low speed data card connections. Thats the best time to contact friends on orkut and now it will be more easier :)

Source: orkut Blog: A faster, lighter version of orkut

tags: Google

Have you attempted to set a World Record with no luck? Well, now is your chance to change that!
Help set a Guinness World Record by pledging to download Firefox 3 today.
I've pledged. Have you???

Source: http://xkcd.com

tags: comic, Fun Blogging

:)

tags: comic, Fun Blogging

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Today we are celebrating "150 days to go..." for the commonwealth youth games 2008 in Pune.

Celebration includes waking up @ 6 in the morning and being at sarasbaug @ 7 to attend a painting event. It was hard getting up but when we reached sarasbaug, it was real fun

Painters and prominent Pune citizens came together to paint there love for the spirit of games

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rohit11/sets/72157605064295912/

Let's see if I get time to attend other events like "Mall Activites" & "Paryavaran Mitra".

I'll update this post accordingly.

I'm loving this
Today I tried playing with "Google Hindi Translater" on my site and I'm still laughing on some of the translations. Some commonly used terms are very nicely translated, like "about us", "contact us" etc. But the fun is to go through the uncommon sentences. Here are a few examples

Making security a common sense
--एक सामान्य बनाने में सुरक्षा की भावना

a member driven community to spread the security awareness
-- समुदाय के एक सदस्य संचालित करने के लिए जागरूकता फैलाने की सुरक्षा है

Its fun to ride on my cruiser
-- इसका मजा की सवारी मेरे क्रूजर

Man uses networked 'crazy' toaster to hack PC (from clubhack.com)
--मनुष्य का उपयोग करता है नेटवर्क ' पागल ' टोस्ट सेंकने वाला हैक करने के लिए पीसी
[Who is using whom]

ClubHack is proud to sponsor the 4th BarCamp of pune
--क्लब पर गर्व है हैक करने के लिए पुणे के प्रायोजक के 4 BarCamp
[Oops, the meaning got changed...]


Loved reading all these, try out the fun yourself via http://translate.google.com/translate_s?hl=hi

You must have contingency plan for every thing, even for the planning ;)

tags: comic, Fun Blogging

Thanks to Deepa Gupta for the interview which got published on 27th April 2008 in "MeerutPlus".

For those who don't know, Meerut is the city where I have done my graduation from and it's like my second home today.

contd...

tags: interview

tags: interview

Geeks always find ways to protect their privacy.

Maa!!! mere liye bhi ek sweater bun de... :)



Source: http://www.geekologie.com/2008/04/warmth_and_privacy_while_using.php

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Thanks Preeti for pointing me to this. She sang this with her kids for ~16 times :)

Thanks Ye Li for the hard work

[Source] http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/1091.html

tags: comic, Fun Blogging

Andrew bled to death

tags: April Fool, comic, Fun Blogging

As we all remember, Google generally have something or the other for April fools day.
I was waiting to see the one for 2008 but what I noticed that this time its not 1 or 2 jokes.

Here is the list of jokes for April 2008

Gmail: Custom time
http://mail.google.com/mail/help/customtime/index.html
Google Calendar: Google Wake Up Kit
http://www.google.com/googlecalendar/new_wakeup.html
Gtalk: Goes green
http://googletalk.blogspot.com/2008/03/google-talk-goes-green.html
Google Virgle
http://www.google.com/virgle/index.html
Google China: Human Search Engine
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.cn%2Fintl%2Fzh-CN%2Frenrou%2Findex.html&langpair=zhen&hl=en&ie=UTF8
Google search DAJARE
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.co.jp%2Fintl%2Fja%2Fhelp%2Fsearch%2Fdajare%2F&langpair=jaen&hl=EN&ie=UTF-8
Google Docs
Start or open an existing google doc. Select the file menu and you should see the option for "New Airplane" under "New Document".
http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dftvhrcj_285ccgzh4tq
Google book search
http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2008/04/google-book-search-now-smells-better.html


That's all for now, will update with more as I find them (if there are more ;))

UPDATE:
Google gDay™ with MATE™
http://www.google.com.au/intl/en/gday/
XKCD / qwantz / questionablecontent
http://xckd.com/ & http://www.qwantz.com/ & http://questionablecontent.net/
Youtube
http://www.youtube.com/user/YTRickRollsYou
MetaSploit
http://metasploit.com/
Orkut
is now yogurt ;) http://rohit11.com/share/outer-court/yogurt.png
More UPDATES:
Google Adsense
http://adsense.blogspot.com/2008/04/introducing-adsense-for-conversations.html
Blogger
http://buzz.blogger.com/2008/04/announcing-google-weblogs-beta.html
Google Calendar
In Google Calendar today, when adding a new event, an extra button labelled "I'm Feeling Lucky" appears. When clicked, it adds a random event at a random date/time on the screen with such descriptions like "Date with Anna Kournikova" or "Date with Angelina Jolie".

tags: April Fool