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Laptop sales have never been better, they have beaten desktop sales this year.
Laptops are built for mobility, and that’s how they should be. But if your lifestyle involves dowloading torrents, encoding videos, access to a huge database of songs (which is mostly in your external hardrive), you’d end up using your laptop as a desktop [...]

Unfortunately many blogging platforms (Blogger being one of them) don’t publish feeds for comments. There’s no way to track comments unless you have a way of reminding yourself to periodically visit that post to check for new comments. This is laborious and irksome. Moreover, if you post occasional comments while on your daily visit to [...]

“But words are things, and a small drop of ink,
Falling, like dew, upon a thought produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions think.”
Lord George Gordon Bryon
English poet (1788-1824)
But beyond similes and metaphors, there lies a domain that bloggers are increasingly becoming aware of — the domain of multimedia. Picture hosting services brought in Photoblogging. Then came [...]

If you notice, there’s a new section “Asides Besides” added in the sidebar. This is because I faced a weird problem. I often came across interesting pieces of news which I want to share (Amit Verma calls it “news filtering”), but couldn’t post them on the fly. Partly because of I was busy or I [...]

[tag]WordPress[/tag] [tag]widgets[/tag], something that you must have experienced if you had blogged at wordpress.com, is now available for full version wordpress users. It has a highly configurable dynamic sidebar that could be now modified without writing a single line of code. The configuration menu uses AJAX that allows easy drag drop [...]

So finally I have my own space. That was inevitable. The journey from Blogger.com to WordPress.com and then to a full version WordPress server spanned around 2.5 years. I moved from Blogger.com to WordPress.com for the sake of categorization, and then from WordPress.com to a personal WordPress server for the sake of customization.
The journey was [...]

Darn! I’ve a lot to crib about. WordPress.com is behaving a bit erratically nowadays. The dashboard never loads completely, rendering the WYSIWYG editor completely useless. Their server was down for one full day without prior notice. This is a sign of irresponsibility. I hope wordpress.com guys resolve the problem soon.

You guys [...]

My old linux partition was gathering dust; and so that it doesn’t feel like a sautan, I went on to update it. I upgraded my Ubuntu installation from Hoary to Breezy — took about 3 hours on a T1 connection . Ubuntu is a nice debian based distro, but the debian community has [...]

Scobleizer says:
Oh, while we’re talking about WordPress, lots of people are asking how I got my custom design. That’s actually a preview of a new feature that’s coming to WordPress.com soon, says Matt Mullenweg (he did my custom theme). Thanks Matt, keep the good stuff coming!

Great! Some of our complaints are going to be addressed. [...]

Takes the concept of bookmarking to the next level.
It often happens to me: I visit a page; find something appealing; bookmark it; and when I visit the page later, I forget why I bookmarked it in the first place. This tool allows you to conveniently clip sections of a webpage. A boon for forgetful [...]

I had been noticing this ‘abc’ button on the Flock blog editor for long. Clicking on it did nothing. However all of a sudden it started working — showing spell check errors! Great — now the blog spell check is working. I had also felt the absence of an HTML view in the blog editor. [...]