Carry the web with you – offline

Webaroo is a free software program and service that lets you search and browse real web pages without a connection. Webaroo’s advanced technology makes it simple for you to take the web with you — and find what you are looking for anywhere, anytime. It’s easy — Webaroo stores searchable web content on your laptop, PDA or smart phone. It’s fast — searches run and pages load instantly at memory speed. It’s fresh — your Webaroo content is updated every time you sync

http://www.webaroo.com

Update: This site is no longer active and has been shut down

Google launches new services

For those of you who didn't know Google has recently launched 2 new services – Google Pages for creating your own ad free web sites and Google Calendar – for organizing all those important events in your life and more. Go ahead, and check them out -

http://pages.google.com

http://calendar.google.com

Also check out the following links -

Click here to view a sample Google Pages site
Click here to view a screenshot of Google Calendar 

Huge list of freeware/open source software

For those of you who hate paying for their software, here is a huge list of freeware / open source software. P.S – I have not compiled this list. I just got it through an email received from a friend. The list includes Windows as well as Linux software.

3D Graphics:
3Delight Free – http://www.3delight.com/index.htm
Anim8or – http://www.anim8or.com/
Aqsis – http://www.aqsis.com/
Blender – http://www.blender3d.org/
Houdini (Free Edition) – http://www.sidefx.com/apprentice/index.html
Now3D – http://digilander.libero.it/giulios/Eng/homepage.htm
OpenFX – http://www.openfx.org
POV-Ray – http://www.povray.org/
SOFTIMAGE|XSI EXP – http://www.softimage.com/products/exp/v3/
Terragen – http://www.planetside.co.uk/terragen/
Toxic – http://www.toxicengine.org/
Wings 3D – http://www.wings3d.com/

How To Improve Your Study Habits and Remember Better

I came across this article on DIGG
A real good piece of advice for last minute exam crammers like me . If you’re a student attending classes, you have probably experienced many moments when it was hard to make yourself settle down and study, even when an important exam was coming up.
If you’re like most students, you put off studying until the very last minute. The night before the exam, you’ll stay up all night cramming, getting little or no sleep. In the morning, you’ll drag yourself out of bed, psych yourself up with lots of coffee and some cigarettes, and go into the exam feeling exhausted, drained and jittery all at the same time. You’ll find it hard to focus or think, and you’ll be cursing yourself for not starting to study sooner.
Click here to read the full article

Humour : Google blunder

This is funny. Just try it out -

1.) Goto http://www.google.com. Click on language tools

2.) Write “Aishwarya’s mom is very nice” in the “Translate text:” textbox

3.) Select “English to Spanish” from the combobox

4.) Press “Translate” and wait for the translation

5.) Now copy the translated text from the above text and paste it in the ‘Translate text:’ textbox

6.) Select “Spanish to English” in the below combo.

7.) Press Translate and wait for translation. Have a good laugh!

Google features you never came across

The other day I came across this blog which had a few interesting links on the google site. A few of these we already know, but then there are some which will surprise even seasoned Googligans.
Lets start with these 2 common links. Most people know about these. But for those who don’t I’d like to show them that these services exist -

Google Linux Search

http://www.google.com/linux

Google BSD Search

http://www.google.com/bsd

And now for the not so well known links and features of google…

http://labs1.google.com/gvs.html (Google Voice Search)

http://www.google.com/intl/en/Easter/feature_easter.html (Google Easter Egg)

http://www.google.com/jobs/lunar_job.html (Jobs on the moon)

http://www.google.com/intl/xx-klingon/ (Remember klingons from Star Trek??)

http://www.google.com/unclesam (Uncle Sam watching you)

http://www.google.com/intl/xx-bork/ (Speak Bork??)

http://www.google.com/intl/xx-hacker/ (For the wannabe hackers)

The Daily WTF

Curious perversions in information technology. That’s what this blog is all about. A blog which shows weird code and program behaviour. The blog shows us how software really is getting it wrong — from both the user’s and the developer’s perspectives. Click me to go to this blog. Here’s an example of the content (fake screen shot) that you will come across on the site -

Biker Drool

Those of you who aren’t from India might not find this post the least bit interesting but we bike starved Indians will definitely enjoy the presence of super bikes. I was getting fed up of looking at 150cc puny crotch rockets when I saw these bikes parked at the MESCOE campus. Pix clicked by my friend amit.

Go on… drool…

The Generator Blog

This is a really different kind of blog that I came across. It contains all different kinds of generators like name generator, anagram generator, bitch letter generator etc. The list goes on… Most of all, I really  liked the intro of the site -

This blog is not about those machines used to change mechanical energy into electrical energy. It’s about software that creates software. Software to play around and have fun with.

Click the following link to visit the site -

http://generatorblog.blogspot.com/

Campus Rock Idols rocked

Today were the western region finals of the campus rock idols that takes place annually. Bands from different campuses compete against each other for a shot at the title. This years function saw the participation of bands like Brute Force, Nemesis, Raging Hormones (wid a female drummer), Black Hole Theory etc. and a special appearance by Zero. It wasn’t very crowded in the morning as compared to the evening. One thing I noticed this year was that the crowd was a lot better than last year.