S Anand

Why good programmers are lazy and dumb. Comments Prasenjeet 26 Aug 2005 3:01 pm: Like the chap who created some-language-or-the-other

Broadcasting on Google Talk. Comments Dhar 28 Aug 2005 3:32 am: I tried streaming music to friends… Cool hack. The only thing is that it is not a broadcast… Can be streamed only to a single person unfortunately… :( Arun 29 Aug 2005 7:10 am: wow, this is pretty cool. Dhar, next time you are free, let’s try this out :-) S Anand 31 Aug 2005 7:20 pm: I did, this afternoon. I could hear Dhar’s broadcast clearly, but he couldn’t hear mine. Problem with my laptop, I think.

Folder Size lets you see the size of folders in Windows Explorer.

I installed Google Desktop Search 2. The best part is “search as you type”. It also introduces a sidebar showing e-mail, RSS feeds, news, photos, popular searches, etc. The indexing is much faster too. (I take that back. Indexing is as slow as ever.) Comments Sumeer 24 Aug 2005 5:15 am: I am installing the same. Yet to use it khjk 24 Aug 2005 9:44 am: nice one Aditya Chaturvedi 25 Aug 2005 9:50 am: Yes Indexing is very slow. when working i had to stop Google desktop. S Anand 25 Aug 2005 10:21 am: I did the same. But fortunately, it’s finished indexing within 48 hours (with lots of breaks).

Google Talk is a Google instant messenger. It’s quite small (900K), very simple, and uses HTML+Javascript+CSS+XML. But I’m yet to figure out it it has any cool features. Quick review at DownloadSquad. Comments Prasenjeet 24 Aug 2005 12:53 pm: Not sure about the HTML/JS/CSS … looks like a tightly-written Win32 app to me S Anand 24 Aug 2005 2:07 pm: Oh, is it? Looked quite like a web page to me… will check out. Dhar 25 Aug 2005 12:08 pm: I tried out the voice chat. Leaving comparisons aside (as I have not used Skype), the sound quality was amazing. It was almost as if the person was in the room with me. Other than that, no cool features. :( S Anand 25 Aug 2005 1:35 pm: Probably thanks to all the fiber optic bandwidth they’re supposed to have purchased. But I wonder how. Dhar 26 Aug 2005 1:57 am: Finally got it working at home and tried exploring various features. At the end of the process, realized there are hardly _any_ features. Will take it some time to catch up with features of clients like Yahoo Messenger. jayant 27 Aug 2005 9:21 am: I guess it is better with less features. Thin client is all about that. Less download time. More functionality which avg users click more. Voice quality is great if both parties are using broadband. On dial up, it comes with bit of lag and some echo. Dhar 9 Sep 2005 3:42 pm: Anand, had some thoughts on where Google Talk may really be headed. Have put a rough outline here.

A9.com Maps. Provides photos of building elevations of location!

Download Squad. A bunch of free (or cheap) software that will give you many of the tools used by special effects houses.

Top 500 blogs. Each month, Feedster brings you a list of 500 of the most interesting and important blogs. Enjoy browsing to see what people are reading, to find feeds that will bring topics of interest to you… and to discover new voices in the Blogosphere.

Don’t click it. An interface where you navigate completely without clicks.

Aamir Khan’s blog? Is it really him? Comments sekhar 6 Sep 2005 3:58 am: supposed to be …………

The authors of Freakonomics visited Google, and were asked “What would you do with our data?” BTW, there is a regular Freakonomics column on the Times.

Google supports wildcards

I need to get used to the British way of responding with “No” when they really agree with you. For example, in response to “The weather’s not looking good,” I would say “Yeah.” The British say “No.” (No, it isn’t.) It’s a bit jarring – feels like they’re disagreeing. For instance, “London isn’t expensive.” “No.” (what? you’re saying it’s expensive?) “I don’t have a ticket.” “No.” (what? you’re telling me I have a ticket?) ...

The complete ‘Friends’ scripts Comments A 9 Aug 2005 3:03 pm: thats new..the place that I usually check is http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/friends/

Flickr has introduced a set of new exploration features. You can view interesting photos, tag clusters, and Flickr’s favourite sets / groups.

I’ve typed up a some Calvin and Hobbes quotations Comments FrogsIntoPrinces 1 Aug 2005 2:05 pm: By the way I have the entire C S Anand 1 Aug 2005 7:26 pm: As text? Or the images? Dhar 2 Aug 2005 2:44 pm: Unfortunately images… Dhar 2 Aug 2005 2:45 pm: And for links, check out http://digg.com/spy They use Ajax, which is a Good Thing (TM). Ravi 2 Aug 2005 7:14 pm: There is a searchable text-index at http://users.rcn.com/dtweed/calvin/index.htm S Anand 2 Aug 2005 7:38 pm: I know. I wrote to David in Feb. He could not share his database with me. So I am recreating it.

Wikibooks. Comments Arun 2 Aug 2005 11:43 am: well, i start typing in the box…then i take the cursor away from it…hmm..it works now… :) sorry, i guess it was tempoarry hitch…anyway, not a big deal…was just irritating me at that point… Dhar 2 Aug 2005 2:49 pm: No, I still have that problem. Type something in the textbox, click somewhere else and click back on the text box. There are times the cursor plain disappears. But occasionally it does re-appear. S Anand 2 Aug 2005 8:18 pm: I haven’t been able to reproduce it. Well, hope it’s a browser glitch. kinu 11 Jan 2009 6:46 am: i havent tried it yet. could u throw light on watare the tings that a finance student wanting to go in equity research shuld inculcate.. .i mean im a perfectionist and detail oriented

Mobile Google Maps with GPS.

I got on to a taxi at the station. As usual, I sat in the front. When the engine was turned on, it started making loud siren noises. “Oh, you have to put your seatbelts on, you see,” the driver said. So, I did. “It’s really annoying,” he continued. “You’d think it’d shout a few times and then shut up, but no, it just goes on and on.” “Well, good isn’t it,” I countered, “if it’s the law to have your seatbelts on if you’re sitting in the front?” ...

Skype allows you to call toll-free numbers free. This, to me, completely removes the need to use a telephone line. With a cable internet connection and a calling card, you’re set.