Technology

What is Phisling and how to avoid it?

By abhishek at 8 October, 2009, 7:52 am

The first thing my 55 year old not so IT savvy boss told me when I reached office yesterday was, ‘Did you read today’s front page news? Some thousands of emails from Google and Hotmail have been hacked and posted online for every one of us to see.’ As a subscriber of Google News, I simply nodded for I admittedly had not received any RSS feed of any such news that morning! And then my boss enquired, “What’s this deal with Phishing?”

Twitter: Venture Capitalist’s new Infatuation

By abhishek at 28 September, 2009, 10:51 am

Not very long ago, Marc Andreessen, the hungry and ambitions founder of Netscape Communications was remembered more for his being a casualty of the dot com era than for earning the first billion dollars on the Internet. His quick shot to success and the sudden realization that gravity is not a myth confirmed that not [...]

Hindustan Times vs Times Of India web design comparison

By abhishek at 15 July, 2009, 7:47 am

Hindustan times recently redesigned its newspaper and website to a more “youthful” look. While, the newspaper design looks really clean and nice, it’s website has an uncanny resemblance to its TimesofIndia.com (or vice versa). Anyone wants to play spot the difference?
Hindustan Times Homepage

Times Of India Homepage

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Manmohan singh invites Nandan Nilekani to head the National ID Project

By Aditya Mhatre at 23 June, 2009, 1:42 am

As promised, the UPA governement is going ahead with the National identity card project and are trying to the get the most influential mind to work on it. The project intends to provide each Indian with a National Identity card and replace the various kind of identiy cards that are currently being used [...]

5 reasons to migrate from Joomla to Wordpress

By Aditya Mhatre at 17 June, 2009, 7:26 am

After being a Joomla user for over 3 years, I have decided to migrate to the Wordpress platform. Here are my 5 reasons behind the decision.

Community orientation: Joomla and Drupal are designed for community oriented websites with its built in features like the restricting content access to members-only. Wordpress has no such built in features. So [...]