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Shaastra SEO starts off again!

Okay, but this time, not on WordPress / Blogspot. But, on IITM’s webserver Yet, it is still powered by the great publishing platform, WordPress. Quick! Go to

http://seo.iitm.ac.in and grab a blog. Good luck to all who participate.

Here is a sample link

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Vim7.0, the features

Vim has always been a great tool, a great editor to people who know how to use it. Vim7.0 was indeed an improvement over an already improved Vi. I found this site, which has a visual walkthrough of all Vim7.0’s new features.

Here it is:

http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2006/09/visual-walk-through-of-couple-of-new.html

technorati tags:vim, linux

The Gigapxl Project captures image nearing 4 GIGAPIXELS!

Weighing more than 100 pounds, the camera captures images at 4 gigapixels — a resolution high enough to photograph four football fields and capture every single blade of grass.
a real-world 90-degree panorama would need to be searched with 12X tripod-mounted binoculars before one could hope to accumulate an equivalent amount of information.

Wow, I was simply astonished.
But, what could be the possible use of such a camera? A photo fitting onto a DVD, taking some N time to load?
:-/
But that lens is doing some amazing work! I wonder whats the technology behind that lens.

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Helping out with AmarokLive

Here is how it began.

Recently there was a news item on kde-look.org, where they said, they were looking for Artwork for AmarokLive, a LiveCD packaged with Amarok and free music, sponsored by Magnatune.

Now, I had made my artwork, and the kde-look.org somehow didnt let me in :-/ So, I contacted the admins, and asked them to upload the skin on my behalf, since time was running out!

They replied happily, they upped the skin, and finally they also said that the skin was looking really good, and that the AmarokLive maintainer liked it very much.

I then contacted him, and chatted with him on IRC, to find out if there is some way I could help them out. He told that they were looking for Website designers… Hey! I have experience in that!

And then, I submitted two designs. I cannot show them now, I will surely, when one of them is put up. And finally, it seems even Mark liked it. Who is Mark?

Google for Mark Amarok.

Over 60 amazing optical illusions

By far the coolest illusions you will ever see!
Really amazing content… But, I got a quiz tomorrow to mug for

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My Google Gadgets

There was a recent Google Desktop Gadget competition, wherein I coded and submitted four Gadgets

1. Translate
   
   A simple gadget, that uses Google’s Translate server. Google hasnt released APIs for this service, but this is a small hack to get it going.
2. Topcoder Events list
   This gadget parses the Topcoder’s Calendar page, and lists all events of that month. It was a pretty tough job parsing HTML with regular expressions! But, amazingly, it worked.
3. GScheduler
   
   A simple event / reminder scheduler, add multiple friends, and get the reminder by chat!
4. MD5 Generator
   
   A MD5 checksum generator of a file. Just drag n drop. Uses the freely available C code written by RSA Security, released to public.

All gadgets can be found here:

http://desktop.google.com/plugins

Most important, Firefox!

All you webdevs out there would surely use it, but this is for the others.

Firefox is the browser. The shaastra website renders perfectly in it, the pictures of Zeppelin look fantastic on it! Hehe