Javascript validation made easy

JSValidate is ibrary based on Prototype and Script.aculo.us which lets validate your form fields through Javascript

You will have to include src="scriptaculous/lib/prototype.js, scriptaculous/src/scriptaculous.js and jsvalidate.js and you will be able to use the following classes for validation

jsrequired - Field must have some sort of value.
jsvalidate_number - Any integer; accepts decimal and negative
jsvalidate_digits - Only Numbers
jsvalidate_alpha - Only letters
jsvalidate_alphanum - Only letters, numbers, and underscores.
jsvalidate_email - Any valid email address.
jsvalidate_uscanzip - US or Canada Zip code; Accepts optional US zip + 4
jsvalidate_usstate - Any 2 letter uppercase state of the United States.
jsvalidate_usphone - US Phone Number, accepts most common formats.
jsvalidate_creditcard - Validates VISA, MasterCard, American Express; formats: no spaces, spaces, or dashes.
jsvalidate_ssn - Social Security Number in the format: XXXXXXXXX, XXX XX XXXX, or XXX-XX-XXXXX
select-notfirst - This class can be applied to select boxes (drop-downs). It prohibits the user from selecting the first option from the list.

See the demo

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Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon 7.10 Release Countdown

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Mutating Pictures

A population of 1,000 random pictures, created in October 2007. You allow the fittest pictures to survive. You rate the pictures based on a question and the higher your rating for a pic the more mutated offspring it produces.

More here

Microsoft Zune 2 rolling out soon

Zune 2 might be rolling out as soon as tomorrow

Engadget reports that we might have two flash models and a slimmed-down hard drive editions

Ebay - Skype a mistake

Two years later, after paying $2.6 billion , Ebay now says that Skype was a mistake

Ebay says that they paid $1 billion in excess, and will now be effecting management changes - the skype co-founders will now be leaving the company

Read more

Adobe AIR - new technology !

Adobe AIR lets developers use their existing web development skills in HTML, AJAX, Flash and Flex to build and deploy rich Internet applications to the desktop.

See more

Here are some of the showcase applications

Nokia's anti-apple campaign

Via Engadget

Microsoft Office Live Workspace - Google can smile!

If this is competition, Google can keep smiling!

The great Microsoft Office online is .. well , read for yourself


How much does Microsoft Office Live Workspace cost?

It’s free. No purchase or credit card information is required. Microsoft Office Live Workspace may eventually include advertising, but we’re still testing different designs. At some point, we may also offer additional features or services at a charge.


What is a workspace?

A workspace is an online place where you can store, access, and share documents and files. Use it to group related information for work, school, or personal projects. Sharing is easy – all you need is a person’s e-mail address and you can invite them to your workspace. You decide if they can edit or simply review. You can access your workspace from any computer with an Internet connection and a Web browser.


Who is it for?

Anyone who uses Microsoft Office can benefit from this service. If you answer ‘yes’ to any of the following questions, this service is for you:

* Do you store information on a flash drive or send yourself documents via e-mail to work on later?
* Do you need to access work files when away from your office?
* Do you need to access school documents when away from your desk (at the library, home on break, etc.)?
* Do you share documents via e-mail and then manually merge all the comments later?
* Do you use e-mail to coordinate and share information with your sports clubs, PTA, study group, etc?
* Are you planning an event and coordinating with multiple people or vendors?

So, much for Online Office Suite!

Apple iPhone Protest

PDF processing using perl

Looking to modify PDF files using perl ?

perl.com has a nice article on how to use PDF::Reuse to manipulate the pdf files including adding bookmarks, combining files and more.

See the article here

Netscape - about to die...

Netscape.com (Click to view Fullsize)

Propeller.com

(Click to view Fullsize)

Looks like AOL is doing a good job killing Netscape in entirety !

Gnash - open source Flash player!

Gnash is a project which aims to create a player and browser plugin for the Adobe Flash file format which is free software, replacing the proprietary software niche currently occupied by Adobe Flash Player.

Gnash requires either of the following - AGG, Cairo, or OpenGL for rendering.

It supports SWF-4 version completely and parts of SWF-8-9 formats

To install Gnash -

sudo apt-get install gnash

sudo apt-get install mozilla-plugin-gnash

N800 - iphone Killer ?

Via Downloadsquad

Downgrade iPhone to 1.0.2

If you have upgraded your iphone to 1.1.1, luckily, there are few instances reported that you can now downgrade so as to avoid locking of non AT&T sims

Hit here to see how to downgrade

Anyone for hotmail ?

Hard to imagine anyone signing up for a hotmail account these days - So, Microsoft is trying their hardest offering you Cool Hotmail where you get to choose customized email addresses - however, you can do that only from the domain names that they have chosen for you just like those days when one used to have mailaddress@india.com or mailaddress@mail.com. Anyway, if you are still interested having a weird email address like address@mailmumbai.com or address@shree420.in and more, head out to Cool Hotmail

More Blogrush problems

We hear that the dashboard is not being displayed for couple of days now due to "upgrades"

Here is a note


Your Dashboard is currently unavailable as we are in the process of rolling out all the new changes to BlogRush. Please read our
recent announcement for all the details.


We're doing a major overhaul of our network and we'll be releasing a completely revamped Dashboard. Your new Dashboard will contain new charts and additional statistics aimed at helping you maximize the traffic we drive to your blog. We're also working on "per post" syndication activity and results.


We expect to have your Dashboard (and our other major changes) fully active in the next few days -- please be patient as we finalize our major systems upgrade. Rest assured that this will not affect your current account activity. All of your credit and syndication activities, as well as all of your referral activity, is still operating normally.


We apologize for any inconvenience. Please know we are working hard to help you generate more targeted traffic to your blog!

CSS Sprites

CSS sprites are a way to reduce the number of HTTP requests made for image resources referenced by your site. Images are combined into one larger image at defined X and Y coorindates. Having assigned this generated image to relevant page elements the background-position CSS property can then be used to shift the visible area to the required component image.

Generate your own sprites on this site

India Pakistan T20 Final Video

Yuvaraj - 6 Sixes - England

Blogrush - already cheated

For those of you who are using Blogrush, there is bad news

Apparently, some users have started cheating the system and hence clickthrough ratio has been very low. Here is a message passed on by a friend who is using Blogrush


IMPORTANT MESSAGE: Click- through rates are very low right now due to problems with some users cheating the system. We are a few days away from removing all abuse from the system and you will see your click-rates increase. We are also moving to a Manual Review Process for all member blogs which will also increase the traffic you receive. Thank you for your patience -- we're working hard to improve this beta version of our service.

Google Calendar - not supporting Airtel

In India, Google Partners with Airtel to provide mobile search services. However, their application Google Calendar doesn't seem to provide support Airtel.

They do support Hutch/Vodafone which incidentally has partnered with Yahoo

Here are the list of service providers that Google Calendar supports -

India

• Hutch-Mumbai
• Hutch-Delhi
• Hutch-Gujarat
• Hutchison Essar Cellular Limited
• Hutch-Kolkata
• Spice Karnataka
• Spice Punjab

Gran Paradiso Alpha 8 for download

Gran Paradiso Alpha 8 is an early developer milestone for Firefox 3 and the next generation of Mozilla’s layout engine, Gecko 1.9. Gran Paradiso Alpha 8 is being made available for testing purposes only, and is intended for web application developers and our testing community. Current users of Mozilla Firefox should not use alpha releases. Some of the changes included with Gran Paradiso Alpha 8 are:

• Basic and unpolished UI for starring and tagging pages has been added, as well as a richer Location Bar autocomplete algorithm that matches against page title (see Places UI Plan for more details)
• Prompt for remembering passwords is no longer a modal dialog
• Built in malware protection (which you can test here)
• Basic and unpolished UI for indicating richer website identity information has been added
• Support for web-based protocol handlers, though it doesn’t work in all situations (see bug 394483).
• A new Applications preference panel for configuring handlers for various content types (see bug 377784) has replaced the Download Actions dialog and the Feeds preference panel
• All Firefox add-ons must now use a secure method for auto-updating (see bug 378216 and this guide for more details)
• Firefox now quits properly (instead of just being killed) when Windows is shut down or restarted (see bug 333907)
• Added support for document.elementFromPoint method (see bug 199692)
• DOMWillOpenModalDialog events are no longer fired by the nsIPrompt implementation (see bug 391100)
• TYPE_PLUGIN has been removed from the Extension Manager code (see bug 392140)
• You can also see the full list of all bugs fixed since Gran Paradiso Alpha 7

Gran Paradiso Alpha 8 is available for the following platforms:

Microsoft Windows 2000 or later
Mac OS X 10.4 or later
Linux

Google - the king of search

Hitwise, the leading online competitive intelligence service, today announced that Google accounted for 63.98 percent of all US searches in the four weeks ending September 1, 2007. Yahoo! Search, MSN Search and Ask.com each received 22.87, 7.98 and 3.41 percent respectively. The remaining 48 search engines in the Hitwise Search Engine Analysis Tool accounted for 1.68 percent of U.S. searches.

More here

New Digg Features

Digg has revamped user profiles in their latest update making it easy for you to share your favorite stories and discover new interesting content by seeing what your friends are digging. It’s also even easier to find and add friends on Digg.

Hack your phone using Asterisk

Via Lifehacker

pidgin for Ubuntu

Looking to install pidgin 2.2.0 on Ubuntu Feisty ?

Remove your old version using sudo apt-get remove gaim

Download Pidgin from Getdeb

and

Pidgin Data files

and use sudo dpkg -i <>

What is Google trying to do ?

What is Google trying to do here ? Suggesting a search somewhere else ?

Trying to help competitors ?

See the Try your search on Yahoo, Ask ...

Tennix - tennis on your Linux system

Written in C using SDL, Tennix is a simple tennis game for your playing pleasure

On Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install libsdl-mixer1.2 libsmpeg0

Get the deb file from here

Install

sudo dpkg -i tennix_0.4.0-1\~getdeb1_i386.deb

Go to their home page to know about Game hints and keyboard shortcuts

Distrowatch.com hit by a massive DDoS

Looks like Distrowatch has been hit by a massive DDoS as reported on Digg

Here are some of the mirrors

USA: http://distrowatch.serve-you.net/
Ukraine: http://distrowatch.lafox.net/
Czech Republic: http://distrowatch.cz/
Romania: http://dw.rohost.com/
Austria: http://distrowatch.gds.tuwien.ac.at/

Twenty20 Live Cricket

For UK visitors please use Real Player and stream this

Advanced Glow Effects in Photoshop

Here is a tutorial to create some really sharp looking glow effects using a combination of layer styles, the pen tool and colour blending.

The end effect is quite amazing as you look in the picture above (click on the image)

See the tutorial here

Gmail features you may not know

Gmail has a lot of features :-) .. The gmail team has put up a list of features that are very useful once you know them ..

Here are the list of gmail features


1. Create event

2. Offline chat

3. Advanced search

4. Conversation update notification

5. Smart links on the right

6. Gmail for mobile application

7. Reply by chat

8. Gmail gadget for iGoogle

9. Open attachments in Google Docs & Spreadsheets, or view as slideshow

10. Custom "from"

SCO files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection

Rejoice ...

No business strategy is more time-honored than using a sleepy Friday afternoon to drop some seriously bad news on investors, and SCO has followed the old playbook to the letter. At 3:21pm this afternoon, SCO sent a press release across the wire announcing that it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. That sound you hear is the giddy chuckling of Linux devotees across the globe.

More on Arstechnica

Free iPhone unlocking for dummies

Download

• upload all 3 files to your phone in some location you prefer
• ssh in
• run iUnlock_Reloaded (./iUnlock_reloaded)
• be happy if its done

Via Engadget

Walter Mossberg - Ubuntu not for everyone

Mossberg in his WSJ column says Ubuntu isn't for nontechie users

Says it looks like Windows, but doesn't work like one

Clearly a novice but it is these people who we are targeting to start using Ubuntu

Cellular - why are you here ?

Why are you searching for Cellular ?

Are you looking for the Movie ?

or Cell Phone Providers ?

Leave a comment - This is a survey blog post to see how Google fares

Yahoo Mash - social networking

Yahoo Mash is Yahoo's new social networking effort. While I haven't checked it out it yet - here is their blog

Its currently invite only

Reboot your Frozen Linux based system

Ctrl-Alt-Backspace doesn't work ?

Try this

Hold down the Alt and SysRq (Print Screen) keys.

While holding those down, type the following in order. Nothing will appear to happen until the last letter is pressed: REISUB

Watch your computer reboot magically.

What the individual keys do in that sequence are not as important as what it does as a whole: stops all programs, unmounts all drives, and reboots.

To remember this,

Raising Skinny Elephants Is Utterly Boring or R E I S U B - is just the word busier in reverse.

R gives back control of the keyboard
S issues a sync
E sends all processes but init the term singal
I sends all processes but init the kill signal
U mounts all filesystem ro to prevent a fsck at reboot
B reboots the system

Via Fosswire

Free iPhone SIM Unlock Software

Engadget reports that there is a free iPhone unlock software :-)

Go here

What more .. its open source too... here is a snippet

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
 const char * hehe = RE;
 int fd;

 credit();

 if (argc != 3)
   usage(argv[0]);

 void * secpack = malloc(0x800);
 ReadSecpack(argv[1], secpack);

 void * fw = NULL;
 int fwsize = 0;
 fw = ReadBL(argv[2], &fwsize);

 RestartBaseband();
 fd = InitConn(115200);

 GetVersion(fd);
 CFIStage1_2(fd);
 SendBeginSecpack(fd, secpack);
 SendErase(fd, 0xA0020000, 0xA03bfffe);
 Seek(fd, 0xA0020000 - 0x400);
 unsigned char foo[0x400];
 memset(foo, 0, 0x400);
 SendWrite(fd, foo, 0x400, false);
 SendWrite(fd, fw, fwsize, true);
 SendEndSecpack(fd);
 ValidateFW(fd, fw);
 printf("Completed.\nEnjoy!\n");
 free(fw);

 return 0;
}

Ubuntu Packages by "Seveas"

Dennis "Seveas" Kaarsemaker provides you 3rd party packages that Ubuntu don't include in their official repositories for various reasons

These packages include backports, custom packages and packages like libdvdcss :)

Go here to know how to add his repository to your sources.list

XMLHttpRequest - basics you should know ...

You have heard of it a number of times, haven't you ?

Here are few basic things you need to get you started

What is XMLHttpRequest ?

A Javascript object which can be used to retrieve data via HTTP

So, you can retrieve XML data ?

Not really, any type of data, not just XML

What's the dope ?

You can retrieve data from a server without having to refresh the page, this differs from the traditional page where you if you had to retrieve data - you had to do send the data to the server and retrieve it through a different page

Give me an example now!

var request = new XMLHttpRequest();
request.open('GET', 'http://techflock.blogspot.com', false);
request.send(null);
if(request.status == 200)
dump(request.responseText);

What happens to the browser when data is being retrieved ? Does it hang ?

You can prevent action when you are performing your operation. However if you want the user to still use the application when you are performing an operation, you could request the data asynchronously

Asynchronously ?

var request = new XMLHttpRequest();
request.open('GET', 'http://techflock.blogspot.com/', true);
request.onreadystatechange = function (aEvt) {
if (request.readyState == 4) {
   if(request.status == 200)
    dump(request.responseText);
   else
    dump("Error loading page\n");
}
};
req.send(null); 

the onreadystatechange property will have a function callback assigned which will handle the response of your action

Works on both Mozilla and IE based browsers ?

Yes, but differently - For Mozilla based browsers, the above works

For IE, you have to

var request = new ActiveXObject("MSXML2.XMLHTTP.3.0");

Great! Where can I find more ?

Mozilla Developer Site

Apple

Microsoft MSDN


Examples ?

Here

Shop Ubuntu gear!

Canonical has started a online store for your Ubuntu gear

Go here and shop away!

Linux - the fastest smartphone OS

Over the next 5 years, Linux is expected to be the fastest growing Smartphone OS with a compound annual growth rate in excess of 75 percent. By 2012, a recent study from ABI Research forecasts the Linux-based OS to account for nearly 31 percent of all smart devices in the market - representing more than 331 million cumulative shipments over the same period.

Read more

Backup your hard drive online

Basic CSS Tutorials

Max Design have nice simple tutorials on how to use CSS properties and understanding CSS floating

You should go here

the iPod touch

More here

Chade-Meng - the Google Engineer

Chade-Meng is a engineer at Google who likes to be photographed with Celebrities

So, whenever someone visits Googleplex, he is there with them for a Photo :)

Check his other photos

Flickr Mashups

Here is a list of Flickr mashups worth checking

Retrievr

Flappr

Captioner!

Fastr

Flickrball

Flickr Sudoku

Tickr for Flickr

Flickr Logo Makr

Spell with Flickr

Tagnautica

Linux to be Fastest-Growing Smartphone OS

Over the next 5 years, Linux is expected to be the fastest growing Smartphone OS with a compound annual growth rate in excess of 75 percent. By 2012, a recent study from ABI Research forecasts the Linux-based OS to account for nearly 31 percent of all smart devices in the market - representing more than 331 million cumulative shipments over the same period.

More here

Gmail viral collaborative video

Ubuntu Hardy Heron

Now what's that ? Its Ubuntu 8.04 ! Ofcourse its releasing April 2008 (8, 04)

Ubuntu Hardy Heron is the next LTS ( Long Term Support) version which means that there will be 3 years of security updates for the desktop and 5 years for the server.

Here is the mail to the list

Watch your TV remotely on your mobile

There are couple of companies which let you watch your TV, photos and listen to your music stored on your computer. This way, you would eliminate the need to have a high capacity mobile phone.

The one we are looking at is Orb

It works like this, you install the software on your home PC. If you want TV, you then install a TV tuner card, and then keep your PC switched on and connected to the Internet. You can then access whatever is stored on your PC remotely on your mobile. Its not just that, you can remote control too!

Most of the recent phones with a internet browser, real player or windows media player will work just fine. Also, you will have to have a 3G or a Wi-fi connection for this to work really well. A GPRS connection would work too, only that its slow :)

Now you go to orb.com, login and request for TV, songs and photos and they will be redirected from your PC. There are specific applications like Winamp which could be remote controlled as well

There are others as well - Slingmedia which provides physical devices called the Slingbox do the same job as well lets you stream directly from your TV too and lets you remote control your TV as well as your computer.

Uniquephones - iPhone unlock video

Bloglines beta - uses Dojo, Dijit Widgets

Unlocking the iPhone Links

New Jersey teen cracks iPhone

George Hotz' iPhone unlocking HOWTO

Engadget verifies iPhone software unlock utility

iPhone unlocked using SIM cloning

Instant Messengers for iPhone

IM Client	Supported Networks	URL for Safari Browser
Meebo	Yahoo!, MSN, GTalk, AIM, ICQ	http://www.meebo.com
Trillian Astra	Yahoo!, MSN, GTalk, AIM, ICQ	http://www.astra.im/iphone/
JiveTalk	Yahoo!, MSN, GTalk, AIM, ICQ	http://iphone.beejive.com
Mundu IM	Yahoo!, MSN, GTalk, AIM	http://iphone.mundu.com
eBuddy	Yahoo!, MSN, AIM	http://www.ebuddy.com
Heysan	MSN, AIM, ICQ	http://m.heysan.com
Tinybuddy IM	AIM	http://tybyim.com/
FlickIM	AIM	http://www.flickim.com
iPhoneChat	AIM	http://davidcann.com/im/
IM+ for Skype	Skype	http://www.skypeforiphone.com
Apollo IM	AIM	http://code.google.com/p/apolloim/ (download)

Via imessengr.com

Getdeb - the latest Ubuntu packages

The official Ubuntu policy is that you don't get newer packages unless its a critical bug fix. So, the good folks at Getdeb thought that they would give the latest deb packages.

So if you wanted Pidgin for your Ubuntu installation and all the related Pidgin packages, you just go in here, get the packages and install it - simple isn't it ?

Dojo - tutorial - in 30 seconds

If you are planning to use a Javascript framework for your web applications, Dojo 0.9 which was released recently is a almost a perfect choice.

To get started with Dojo, Alex of Dojotoolkit.org has an article describing on how to get started with Dojo, including using the CDN (Content Delivery Network).

Take a look at the tutorial

Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon

Ubuntu has released Gutsy Gibbon - Tribe 5 image for all you folks to download!

There are plenty of features to look forward to in this version including a new printing version.

You can get the image here

The final release date for Gutsy Gibbon is on October 18 2007

If you would like to track how the schedule for the Gutsy Gibbon looks like - Go here

Adsense between Blogger Posts

1 Log into your Blogger account at http://www.blogger.com .
2 Visit your blog's Template tab and click on the Page Elements link.
3 Click Edit in the Blog Posts section.
4.Check the box next to Show Ads Between Posts. You can then select how often you'd like your ads to appear, such as once after every post or once after every other post.
5.Please note that right now, it's only possible to insert Google ads using this widget, and not AdSense for search boxes or referral units.

Via Adsense.blogspot.com

Google Adsense - no support, you are screwed!

Does Google give you any support at all ? One of my friends had his Adsense account disabled and despite many mails to Adsense Support (email) and the Invalid Clicks Appeal
they don't seem to respond at all. My friend owns a popular website which gets over 8000 pageviews per day (not named, because his invalid clicks appeal is not responded yet!)

It's just not Adsense, Google doesn't provide any support to most of the products be it Google Groups, Gmail or more . Services go down regularly, and there is nil support!

The intoxication of being rich and big has got to Google for sure!

MapmyIndia - local maps for India

I am sure many of you would have already heard of this before - If not, here we go - MapmyIndia is the Indian version of Google Maps/MapQuest - It supports most of the features that Mapquest and Google Maps have, gives out detailed information including distances. Search is a bit flaky, but overall, something is better than nothing

Go to MapmyIndia

Back to School - Firefox!

Back to School ! Why would Firefox be left behind. This edition comes with add-ons that students might frequently use , such as Zotero, StumbleUpon, and Foxytunes.

Get it

Google Local and asklaila search for India

Google Local for India launched sometime back and is getting fairly popular. Along with the search, you get related pages, reviews, photos and more.

asklaila is another such service which seems to provide just a little more - even your local plumber wala's details. pretty neat too.

Know any other ? Let us know!

Google Maps - embed in your page

View Larger Map

How ? Search for your location, Click on the Link to this Page, you will get your embeddable code!

Fake death to get out of Verizon contract!

Corey Taylor said he became irate when he learned he'd have to pay $175 to get out of his long-term contract with Verizon Wireless

Washington Post has more!

Gtalk - cannot connect on Pidgin ?

If you have problems connecting to Google Talk on Pidgin, make sure you have the following settings

Click on Accounts > Your Account > Edit Account to get the Modify Account Screen

In Advanced Tab,

Connect Port : 5222

Connect Server: talk.google.com

HTML to Wiki Converter

html2wiki converter lets you convert html to WIKI pages. If you have never used WIKI markup before, this is for you. It's probably a good starting point to start learning the WIKI markup language by looking at the converted code.

Dojo 0.9.0 released

Dijit

• unified look and feel for all widgets
• ambitious a11y and i18n features in every Dijit widget
• a mature CSS-driven theme system with multiple, high-quality themes
• huge improvements in system performance
• data-bound widgets
• Declarations for lightweight widget writing
• a new page parser that allows instances of any class, not just widgets
• no magic

Core

• reduced API surface area (easier to remember and use)
• dojo.query() always available, returns real arrays
• from-scratch high-performance DnD system
• Base (dojo.js) is 25K on the wire (gzipped)
• dojo.data APIs finalized
• new build system
• new test harness for both CLI and browser use
• dojo.behavior now marked stable and based on dojo.query
• excellent animation APIs with Color animations in Base (always available)
• all the features you’ve come to count on from Dojo (RPC, JSON-P, JSON, i18n, formatting utilities, etc.)

DojoX

• high quality implementations of previously experimental features: gfx (portable 2D drawing), data wires, offline, storage, cometd, etc.
• dojox.gfx now includes Silverlight support

Here is tour of 0.9 !
Get it here!

iriverter - convert your videos for multimedia players

iriverter is a frontend to mencoder (comes along mplayer) that lets you convert videos for various multimedia formats like H320, H340, PMP120, PMP140, U10, iAudio X5, iPod Video

iriverter is available for Windows, OS X and Linux

On Ubuntu - use - sudo apt-get install iriverter

For others download from the iriverter site

30 P2P services

Mashable has come out with a list of 30 P2P tools, some of them you wouldn't have heard of !

Go there

Truveo - improved...!

AOL has released Truveo - their video search engine as a separate product and not as a part of their AOL Video site.

Truveo is a neat video search engine and is rated very highly in the industry - This version of Truveo is much cleaner, results look great - it searches multiple web sources and categorizes the results based on those channels. One irritant is not able to play videos from sources like BBC, CNN on Truveo itself.

Try it out at http:/www.truveo.com

Limo Foundation - a open mobile software platform

Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic Mobile Communications, Samsung Electronics, and Vodafone established the LiMo Foundation to develop the Foundation Platform, a Linux-based, open mobile communication device software platform.

A world-class Linux-based platform aims to provide key benefits for the mobile industry including lower development costs, increased flexibility, and a richer mobile ecosystem - all of which contribute to the group's ultimate objective of creating compelling, differentiated and enhanced consumer experiences.

The Foundation's purpose is to advance the creation, evolution, promotion, and support of the Foundation Platform and to cultivate an ecosystem of complementary products, capabilities, and service

Go there

Search engines and privacy

CNET makes a comparison of how the search engines handle privacy. Big boys Google and Yahoo retain your data even after 18 months.

Youtube streaming made easy

Youtube now allows you to stream videos much more easily - You can now fast forward, view any part of the video and not wait for the buffering to be completed - just drag it with your mouse!

Joey by Mozilla

Nope .. its not Firefox for mobile phones yet..


Joey can be used to watch a video or read on your PC, and then read the same on your mobile phone. Not sure why someone would do that, maybe a way to send directions, maps ? to your mobile phones.

Look at the video below for more!




Project Joey, Customize Your Mobile Web Experience - Tutorial from AirMozilla and Vimeo

Intel Classmate PC

The Intel Classmate PC displayed at OSCON. Looks good, apparently sells for 200$ (maybe large volumes) - one of the developing countries has ordered more than 100,000 of these. Has a 20G hard disk, 512 MB (?) RAM, runs a 900 MHz mobile celeron processor.

The Classmate runs Mandrake and Microsoft Windows XP

Feedburner Blogger Integration

From the Feedburner site,

If you host your content on a Blogger blog with a blogspot.com address (or use Blogger's “custom domain” feature), you can now redirect your native Blogger feed to your FeedBurner feed (quite easily, might we add). Gone are the muggy, languorous days of wrestling with "autodiscovery" tags in foreboding corners of your Blogger template code or hacking through this tangled discussion thread for a glimpse of configuration clarity. Starting right now, you just log into your Blogger account, select Settings | Site Feed, enter your FeedBurner feed address and click "Save Settings." Zap! Pow! Kraaakkkk! Now you've got the complete picture of how your content is being consumed out here, out there, out everywhere.

Why is redirecting so important?

We're glad you asked. By redirecting your feed, you can get a true picture of how many subscribers you have. Some of you might even see a few more subscribers magically appear, though results will most certainly vary. Why so? Sometimes, publishers inadvertently fragment their feed audience by offering more than one feed address on the blog itself or within their autodiscovery tags (the method by which feed readers automatically detect the address of your feed for syndication purposes). This results in some subscribers not being counted, and no one wants that in a world where everyone should count for something. By redirecting your feed, you can consolidate any straggler subscribers and greatly improve your ability to effectively measure your audience.

Fun with Tables

Via Ajaxian

Brasero - CD/DVD Burner for Linux

If you are looking for an CD/DVD software other than the usual K3B/Nero for Linux/wodim, Brasero might be worth looking at.

It has a simple interface which supports drag and drop of files from Nautilus, previewing of files.

On Ubuntu

Install : sudo apt-get install brasero