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news.ycombinator search
I am a regular reader of news.yc and like most people using that site, I wanted to be able to search the site. Since the site does not have an inbuilt search functionality, I created yc.news search here. Just like in SansJ, one can use the search plugin (FF and IE7 only) and search from…
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SansJ.com-Social Search done well!
My search site can be accessed at SansJ.com.I have also created a what-is-SansJ-kinda page here: SansJ Wiki. I intend to write about SansJ and the latest development happening at SansJ in that part of the site. Also, was successfully able to implement a SansJ search plugin for Firefox 2.0 and IE7(haven’t tested in IE7 as…
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A Democratic approach to Internet Search.
Over the past few months, I have been working on a concept that was in my mind for quite a while. I wanted to combine a Forum, Search Engine and a Bookmarker, and ,I did. A little intro on how the site works: Search engines as they should be: powered by computers and rated by…
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Starting with Revolution/Wii
“Wii is a gaming machine also for the non-gamers”-is how the CEO of Nintendo describes/markets it. I would agree as, I never was a big fan of Games (I was a big fan of NFS & Age of Empires titles though). If you consider watching TV (or Idiot Box) as a waste of time then…
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Torrent of bits – Cohen on Fortune
Bittorrent is hugely popular with me and my friends.I guess a lot of people use torrents.It’s creator used to live like this: First he lived off savings from the handful of jobs he’d worked during the bubble. When that ran out, he lived off credit cards, following a rigid system for applying for and transferring…
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Nano Problems
[img] flawedmusicplayer.com flawedmusicplayer.com shows that iPod Nano is fragile, looking at the pictures and the response from many people, I have to say wait for some time before u get the nano. Software and Hardware have one thing in common, don’t get one until it has been there for some time and a few versions…
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a tamil film in Time’s Top 100
it is great to know that the Film Nayakan (1987) is in Time Magazines Top 100 movies.I like Kamal Hassan (the actor) and Mani Ratnam (the director), these guys are widely respected in the Indian film industry and also in abroad. it is also interesting to note that most of the top 100 films are…