Recently I needed some images to create a dataset for a project I am doing. While Flickr.com seemed to be the best source. All i needed to do was to put in a query and a large number of relevant images would show up. But downloading original images from Flickr.com can be bit of a [...]
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Google goggles
Google has recently launched its latest in image search, called Google Goggles. It is an application for Android operating system that allows a user to perform searches based on images instead of text.
According to the official statement “Google Goggles works best on books & DVDs, landmarks, logos, contact info, artwork, businesses, products, barcodes, or text. [...]
Dec
16
2009
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2009
The Nuance of Getting Tagged
All of us have heard people complaining about a flood of Facebook notifications from unwanted tags. As hard as I have tried, I failed to find a way to prevent people from tagging me without my approval; in photos, messages, notes and wall posts. It appears Facebook does not give its users the ability to [...]
Dec
16
2009
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2009
Google Adsense Wordpress Plugins
Original Article appeared here.
Listed below are 10 best Adsense plugins which help you work smarter with wordpress.
Adsense Deluxe – offers advanced options for managing the automatic insertion of Google AdSense or Yahoo Publisher Network (YPN) ads to your WordPress posts. Easily switch all AdSense ads to a new color scheme across the entire site.
Adsense [...]
Aug
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2009
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2009
Basic Laws of Technology
Here are some funny Technology laws.
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Aug
5
2009
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2009
Good and Bad Procrastination
Paul Graham, December 2005 The most impressive people I know are all terrible procrastinators. So could it be that procrastination isn’t always bad? Most people who write about procrastination write about how to cure it. But this is, strictly speaking, impossible. There are an infinite number of things [...]
Aug
5
2009
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2009
Richard Hamming: You and your research
Talk at Bellcore, 7 March 1986 The title of my talk is, “You and Your Research.” It is not about managing research, it is about how you individually do your research. I could give a talk on the other subject– but it’s not, it’s about you. I’m not talking about ordinary run-of-the-mill [...]
Aug
4
2009
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2009
Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule
I just read this wonderful article and I could not resist sharing this with others. This is the best article I have read on the topic since the ‘First things First’ approach. I love this article primarily because I find it extremely relevant to my situation and this perhaps pointed to a problem I was [...]
May
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2009
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2009
Windows 95, 98, 2000 and XP simultaneously running virtualized on Linux
The idea of visualizing the history of Microsoft on four sides of a desktop cube does sound enthralling no matter how much you despise the company’s products. That’s precisely the reason why I spent a whole night trying to configure four different operating systems to run virtualized on QEMU/KVM with networking and multimedia capabilities. The [...]
May
13
2009
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2009
First day at Bentley Systems
Today was my first day at Bentley Systems as an intern. When I got there the very courteous Bushra showed my my desk. The desk was nice with a reasonable machine. I got my first pleasant surprise when i started the machine, that was to see my name as the user name. So when they [...]