Jan
31
2011
Sometime back, one of the military forums copied and pasted some of my content without adhering to the terms and conditions. The owner of the forum has taken measures so that his physical location cannot be traced. I emailed him via his forum contact. He replied from his live.com email service. He said that he [...]
Jan
30
2011
Microsoft has rolled out its webmasters tools and Bing search widgets etc. The problem is adoption. The option that Big gives us is passive. There is no attempt to dole incentives to the users. Bing is hardly exciting. Go to Bing webmasters tool, add your link and then forget about it. If you are a [...]
Jan
28
2011
With effect from 1 March 2011, Paypal users are required to comply with the requirements set out in the notification of the Reserve Bank of India governing the processing and settlement of export-related receipts facilitated by online payment gateways (“RBI Guidelines”). In order to comply with the RBI Guidelines, our user agreement in India will [...]
Jul
02
2010
If you use VLC media player on Compaq or HP, be warned. I sent my compaq over to the HP service center. The issue had nothing to do with speakers. But, the HP service station dude warned me to use VLC Media Player sparingly. He told me that if VC media player is installed, HP [...]
Feb
03
2010
Update 2: 9th Feb 2010 @ 08:20 IST: One the payments which was reversed is back in my paypal account. I will watch for 2 days and tell you if they reversed it again. Update 1: 4th Feb 2010 @ 20:32 IST: I got this reply from paypal Thank you for contacting PayPal.
Nov
19
2009
With Microsoft officially acknowledging the issues with Vista and the offer to large organisations for a free Windows 7 OS (if on Vista), I feel cheated. As advertised in the newspapers and other sources that Piracy is bad, I dutifully purchased the Windows Vista along with the laptop. Now Microsoft says that Vista was a [...]