Let the NEWS flow to me

Every person is unique; in addition to that I assume every person (I know) has access to information. In my case: my interest areas vary depending upon my mood, behavior and my likings and vary almost every month if not every week. For example my current interest area has been Indian stock market (some specific stocks) and UID (Indian government Unique Identification project) .

To satiate my thirst on these topics/interests I spend on an average 14 hours (in a week) on internet.

This calls out for approximately 2 days of every month on internet searching for something which I know I will be interested in reading. This is called as NEWS searching.

Now think something like NEWS flowing to me on a specific topic rather than I go and dig out for NEWS. Google Alerts do exactly this. One just has to do something like:

1. Setting up a search item which I am interested in reading.
2. Ask Google alerts to send me alerts (in case I want mails) (every month/day/moment)
3. Or Ask Google alerts to write it to RSS feeds and have a reader on top of it in one's mail box.

I found this amazing to be in touch with what I want. And actually I have saved almost 1 day of my month... at least I can spend more time doing something more worthy rather than just blindly searching.

10 useful web based tools

I had an oppurtunity to read through one of the artciles of int newspaper which have excellent tools that can be used online for free. http://www.livemint.com/2009/06/16204233/10-free-web-tools-you-didn82.html

Some tools which i haved used extensilvely are :

http://www.docjax.com/home/index.shtml : DocJax

http://superminder.com/ : Superminder (Reminder Tool)

http://www.cometdocs.com/ : Cometdocs (Free Online file converter)

http://bubbl.us/noflash.htm : Brainstorming and mind-mapping software

http://www.openwith.org/ : Offering detailed information about most file extensions that you can encounter & provides links to free programs that you can download and open such atypical files with.

So happy being online.

Something technical - Connection using proxy in eclipse

Though i have restrained myself by not entering some hard core technical things in this blog; it has sometimes negated my initial thinking of "Just Write"....

so adding some technical information.

I was recentrly facing a simple task of making a java program run which was making HTTP/LDAP connection using a proxy in eclipse. I tried various search terms in google but it pointed me to "adding proxt in install/update of Eclipse". Finally i found out that by using "-Dhttp.proxyHost=host.example.com -Dhttp.proxyHost=7777" as the JVM params will resolve issue for any IDE java run. It does not have to be specific to Eclipse.

Hope someone else also finds this useful.

PC Gadgets

Found this article while browsing my daily newspaper.

http://www.livemint.com/2009/06/30231716/Free-and-usefuldoes-your-pc.html

It excited me as i was using most of these softwares and found them useful. So want all my blog readers to give a try to them as well.

It is getting bigger : 2009 Lok Sabha Elections

With 2009 year 2 crore more people will be eligible to vote. Having said that more youngsters with a bend of mind towards internet and information will be into voting procedure.

Internet community, newspapers and even political parties are well aware of this. And this can be corroborated with following points: -

1. A lot more videos on youtube this year than what it was a year ago.
2. All Political parties better web-sites these days. check out websites of BJP and Congress.
3. BJP has a team of people for internet campaign.
4. Even Google is in foray with 2009 Lok Sabha Elections.

So it is no longer restricted to newspapers & street campaigns. 2009 general elections are getting bigger and digital.

Just one question : Can someone actually do this?

My goodness how can someone actually achieve this feast. If someone can do this I believe that all our dreams our un-imaginable things as also achievable.

Worth Watching.

This shows how simple things can be more attractive

One needs to be just creative in doing things no matter how simple they are they will be always be catchy!!

Lip Dub Pop Muzik from fredasterical on Vimeo.

A lip dub by me to M's Pop Muzik. I took a bit of time with this one. Hope you enjoy!

Publish posts using emails

Though this technology might be there for some time now on web but I found it really fascinating that one can post on blogs using emails as well. All one has to do is following (this is specific for blogger, there might be different ways for other blogging websites)

 

1.       Login to our account

2.       Go to Settings à Email id

3.       Set an email id to which you should mail so that the mail comes as blog entry.

4.       Just mail blogs to this email id and it will get published/drafted on your blog.

 

Isn’t that simple!!!

 

 

To be Good is not enough

Is doing something which you have been doing for years good enough? Is it good to do what just bears everything materialistic you need in our life? Isn't your goal to beat yourself what you were a day ago, a month ago or even a year ago?

If it is then this little video can be a real stimulus to your thinking.

Success and not winning

Small things and they mean a lot. really we feel that winning a war is such an important thing to do when we keep loosing small small battles in our lifes. Worth watching video.