Google News was different when I browsed it yesterday morning. On a look, there was just a box of three words that made it different – Customize This Page. I clicked on it and it expanded where I can change the position of news sections, add or remove, and determine the number of news to be displayed. The feature I liked the most is, off course, the ability to add a custom section – if you subscribe to Google Alert in your email, then this can save your inbox space. A great feature added by Google – and yet another confirmation that Google is thinking big – indeed, very very big.
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Tech Talk
UTL Wireless Phone Is Resuming
UTL Wave Phone, the wireless phone of the United Telecom Limited pvt ltd, is resuming its services to the subscribers who chose to re-register for free. The advertisement of the company asking for re-registration says its in accordance with the ‘directives of Ministry of Information and Communication and Nepal Telecommunication Authority’. The subscribers have to fill up a form and attach citizenship certificate, if applicable employer’s letter and house owner’s letter. Continue reading…
Where Does NewsLookMag Go?
I don’t know what happened but when I tried visiting NewsLookMag.com, a site that collects all the headlines relating to Nepal, it didn’t appear. It looks like either the site has ceased operation or is being blocked by my ISP.
Update:Ditto with Nepalipost.com, a site operated by Nepali journalists in US. Thanks to Dinesh
The Mobile-Less Life
Many may think the living with out a cellular phone is really, really hard as I used to think. But I was wrong; I am finding it really easy given that nobody else has it. I certainly missed the SMSes; otherwise I am perfect without a mobile. Continue reading…
Suffocating IT Show!
The CAN InfoTech 2005, Nepal’s only Information Technology show, organized by Computer Association of Nepal (CAN) ended yesterday with a record number of visitor, 230000. But my visit to the show, as in earlier years, left me cursing CAN for the crowd. When I was out of the show after suffocating 25 minutes, I had a wet handkerchief (due to sweat) and a triumphant feeling that I was killed in a stampede.
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ME2XP: Off Course, Windows Switch
Doesn’t the title look like a love poem? I seriously think this sounds like Me2U from one window to another (I am trying hard right now not to be tempted to write about love in this post). But this post is not about love, this is about Windows Millenium Edition and Windows eXPerience – Bill Gates’ Operating System that every computer user hates (Does Gates too?!!) yet can’t live without. Last week, I switched from ME to XP and that kept me hell busy.
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Yahoo!, Hotmail Goes 250MB
With GMail offering 1 GB (1000 MB) email space for users, popular free email service providers have felt the heat of losing customers and are ready to compete. Hotmail annouced the increment of its 2MB limit to 250MB and Yahoo!, which increased its 4MB mailbox to 100MB after GMail annoucement are also increasing it to 250MB. Did you remember, a year ago or so, there were news saying that Hotmail was going to charge fee!
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I’m Turning A Great Googler!
Everybody knows Google! everybody uses Google! About a year ago, I read an article about Microsoft’s plan to turn users into Microsoft-only-users, now without any annoucement of that kind, Google is turning me into a google-only-user (a googler)!
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PHP, CMS & an amateur webmaster
Having renovated my site, www.NepalCricket.com, five time this year, I have found confidence to recommend a few things to amateur webmasters: Which CMS is the best for them and how much PHP or HTML should they know?
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More on Mobile
It’s not only our friend Deepak who is experiencing bitter taste of mobile. Everyone is Kathmandu is willing to carry a mobile and this overwhelming interest is being wrongly cashed.
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