Links

An animated description of how DNA gets converted to proteins.

Marc’s Outlook on Productivity – a good blog on productivity software.

Apologetic software.

Microsoft bought Lookout. Lookout searches for e-mail in Outlook across .pst files. As soon as they did, Microsoft closed downloads of Lookout. In contrast, when Google bought Picasa, they opened it up for free.

Picasa is good. I incorporated all my photos in it, and I can now search for photos of people by name. (I have catalogued my photos’ file names with peoples’ names.) Now, with Google taking over Picasa, we will soon be able to store/share photos on Google, and search across others’ shared photos, using Google’s image search!

I have 3 gmail invites available. Mail me if you’re interested (and WHY you’re interested in gmail).

I have no gmail invites left. Please wish Rajneesh, Joseph, Kannan, Mark, Mohamed and Naresh all the best with their accounts.

I have 6 gmail invites available. Mail me if you’re interested (and WHY you’re interested in gmail).

BugMeNot – registrations for famous sites, along with passwords. Mozilla also has a Bugmenot project.

About the FastTrack (Kazaa) network.

Kevin Kelly’s cool tools blog.

Wearable displays. via Anders Jacobsen

It’s possible to make sense out of keyboard whispers.

CIBIL – Credit Information Bureau of India Ltd gets going.

Google IPO. Their SEC registration is very readable – and gives a perspective on how corporate governance should be.

Bruce deserves Gmail. Context: Google has invited active bloggers on Blogger.com to use Gmail Beta. Bloggers who joined post facto have not been invited. (I can empathise with what Bruce feels.)

You can buy Jet airways tickets online.

Gmail Gems and GmailForums are discussions on Gmail.

Terrorists use the Internet well.

The Economist: Americans get better service because they complain more. (subscription required)