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Techie Blues Redesigned

Well, the purpose of writing this post was because of 2 reasons:
1. Total Redesign of Techie Blues
2. New Logo of Techie Blues
A Redesign of Techie Blues was long pending. So around a month or two, I started searching for good Wordpress Themes, during which I saw this amazing theme at Blogohblog.com, I just lapped it [...]

[ More ] May 11th, 2009 | Comments | Posted in General |

Q10 – A Minimalistic Word Processor

Q10 is a simple, minimalist, and full-screen word processor with a dark background. This processor also produces Typewriter type of sound effects whenever you are typing something, making it look like you are staring at a 80’s machine or something.
As a writer, sometimes you are bound to get distracted by something or the other while [...]

[ More ] May 8th, 2009 | Comments | Posted in Softwares |

Google Internet Bus enters Karnataka

Google India’s continuing efforts to increase awareness of the benefits of Internet in India has now reached Karnataka. Google India in a blogpost have mentioned that they have recently kicked off the Internet Bus Program in Karnataka, after its successful completion in Tamil Nadu. The bus will travel through 15 towns in Karnataka, the next 50 [...]

[ More ] May 7th, 2009 | Comments | Posted in Internet |

Make Twitter Look like an Excel Window

Don’t want to get caught using Twitter at work? Do not worry, Spread Tweet is to your rescue.
SpreadTweet is an AIR based Twitter Client from @elliottkember which camouflages your timeline as a Excel workbook. There are 3 different versions of the client that mimics Office OSX (for Mac’s), Office 2003 and Office 2007 (for Windows) [...]

[ More ] May 5th, 2009 | Comments | Posted in Twitter |

Windows 7 RC Out. Download now

Finally, The much awaited Windows 7 Release Candidate is out for Public. And unlike the mayhem during the beta version download , you don’t need to rush to get the Release Candidate this time, it will be available for download till July 2009. Also there is no limit on the product keys. Some things to note [...]

[ More ] May 5th, 2009 | Comments | Posted in Operating Systems, Windows |

Turn off Post Revisions in Wordpress 2.7

Though I just love the new features of Wordpress 2.7,  one of its most nagging things is "Post Revisions".  If you don’t know what Post Revisions is, well it is a wiki like tracking system for both Posts and Pages which might come in handy for multi author blogs.
It keeps every post revision in the [...]

[ More ] May 3rd, 2009 | Comments | Posted in Wordpress |

Optimize your wordpress database with Optimize DB plugin

MySQL is an Amazing Database but one of its biggest grouse is that it cannot clean by itself. And as the time passes, the clutter in your wordpress table keeps on increasing, making your blog load slower. Therefore it is always good to optimize your database once in a while.
Optimize DB from Joost De Valk [...]

[ More ] May 2nd, 2009 | Comments | Posted in Wordpress |

Get Notified About New Mails via Gmail Notifier

Gmail Notifier is a standalone application from Google that notifies you whenever you have a new mail.

After the Install, it sits in the system tray and ask for your GMail credentials. Once the credentials are added, it will check if you have any unread mails and notify you with snippets of the unread mails.
Thereafter, it [...]

[ More ] May 2nd, 2009 | Comments | Posted in Softwares |

Twitter Brings Search and Trends To All

For the past few weeks, lots of my friends had seen the new Twitter interface which displays both the Search and Trends on the home page, and I was feeling jealous that I hadn’t seen it yet.
But today when I logged in to Twitter, I was overjoyed to see that Twitter has finally considered me [...]

[ More ] May 1st, 2009 | Comments | Posted in Twitter |

Search the Web in IM using Sbot

Search IM Bot is an IM bot which lets you search the web using Google/Yahoo/Twitter through IM.

[ More ] April 26th, 2009 | Comments | Posted in Internet |