web-applications on S Anand

Software update

Sun, 27 Feb 2011 19:33:36 +0000

Time for the annual update on software I use. This time, I’ve got Wakoopa to help me with the relative usage as well. Here’s the top 100 software / web apps I’ve used recently, and how long I spent on them.

Gmail 186361 seconds
Notepad++ 130641 seconds
Google Chrome 79879 seconds
GitHub 43780 seconds
Windows Command Prompt 40967 seconds
Microsoft Excel 32578 seconds
Microsoft Word 27067 seconds
Microsoft PowerPoint 27059 seconds
Windows Explorer 20902 seconds
Google Docs 17989 seconds
Foxit Reader 17001 seconds
Microsoft Outlook 15855 seconds
Internet Explorer 15830 seconds
Google Search 15616 seconds
Skype 14423 seconds
Media Player Classic 14159 seconds
Google Groups 7061 seconds
Google Calendar 5531 seconds
Wesabe 2814 seconds
Google Analytics 2665 seconds
TeamViewer 1985 seconds
RGui 1875 seconds
LinkedIn 1528 seconds
YouTube 1400 seconds
Stack Overflow 1167 seconds
Acrobat Connect 964 seconds
Kongregate 914 seconds
HTML Help 871 seconds
PicPick 790 seconds
Zoundry Raven 684 seconds
Mockingbird 657 seconds
Twitter 655 seconds
iStockphoto 590 seconds
7-Zip 584 seconds
Buzznet 552 seconds
Inkscape 516 seconds
Bitbucket 499 seconds
Microsoft Visio 496 seconds
Paint.NET 474 seconds
IrfanView 461 seconds
Tableau Public 436 seconds
µTorrent 435 seconds
HandBrake 422 seconds
Check Point Endpoint Security 411 seconds
Windows Task Manager 385 seconds
Microsoft Project 372 seconds
IETester 347 seconds
Google Maps 340 seconds
eBay 310 seconds
Spokn 270 seconds
Firefox 269 seconds
Google Calendar Sync 259 seconds
Windows Calculator 247 seconds
PayPal 246 seconds
JsonView 220 seconds
Windows Live Writer 184 seconds
Junction Link Magic 152 seconds
WinDirStat 142 seconds
Kindle 139 seconds
XAMPP 127 seconds
Wakoopa 105 seconds
Dropbox 100 seconds
Office Help Viewer 99 seconds
PrimoPDF 94 seconds
PuTTY 84 seconds
Python 80 seconds
Flavors.me 75 seconds
Google Sites 71 seconds
Process Explorer 70 seconds
Windows Volume Control 63 seconds
Wikipedia 58 seconds
Nitro PDF Reader 57 seconds
Management Console 47 seconds
PythonWin 45 seconds
Windows Based Script Host 45 seconds
WinDiff 45 seconds
VLC Media Player 39 seconds
ClipX 35 seconds
Windows Installer 35 seconds
The Internet Movie Database 32 seconds
ImageShack 31 seconds
WordPad 25 seconds
TeraCopy 22 seconds
Skype Portable 22 seconds
Picasa Web Albums 20 seconds
Syncplicity 17 seconds
Google Reader 16 seconds
Google Talk 15 seconds
VirtualDub 12 seconds
Adobe Manager 10 seconds
FreeCall 10 seconds
Notepad 8 seconds
Codebase 5 seconds
eTrust ITM 5 seconds
Google Checkout 5 seconds
GDI++ Tray Notifier 5 seconds
ImgBurn 2 seconds
Virtual Desktop Manager 2 seconds
Tesseract201 2 seconds
TortoiseHg 0 seconds

Comments

Somnath 1 Mar 2011 4:38 pm: More time on Gmail than browsers - how are you accessing Gmail then?
S Anand 6 Mar 2011 8:51 pm: @Somnath, mostly breaking through proxies – see http://goo.gl/6wyg0 and http://goo.gl/DNtui. @Thej, no idea I’m afraid, but before I used Wakoopa, I was using https://gist.github.com/857652 which worked just fine, except that it wasn’t social and didn’t have the pretty charts. You might want to tweak that for Linux.
Thejesh GN 5 Mar 2011 5:29 pm: It doesnt run on Linux (only PC n MAC). Anything for me?
Shankar V 28 Feb 2011 3:10 am: hi Anand how do you generate this list? Wakoopa is blocked at Infy. So could not check that one out. Also, surprised to note that you are a Chrome user against FF. I have used both and my preference is still FF.
S Anand 28 Feb 2011 6:38 am: I work out of client sites – so sites aren’t blocked. Plus, it includes software from my home laptop. I shifted to Chrome a while ago, even for development, mostly because it’s faster than FF. The only thing I miss is Firebug, really.

twofifty.org

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:00:00 +0000

It’s been a good movie month for me, and I’ve managed to nudge closer to my target of watching the IMDb Top 250. But one tool I had in the past, that I sorely miss, is twofifty.org. It’s a now-defunct site that kept track of the IMDb Top 250, and let you strike off the movies that you had watched. You could see which movies you hadn’t seen, keep score, and discuss the movies. Since it’s demise, my movie watching slowed down as well. Earlier this month, I set up a similar site at 250.s-anand.net. It has the same basic function. You can log in, strike out movies that you’ve seen, and keep track of what’s left to see. For the more technically minded, the source-code is at two-fifty.googlecode.com.

Visit 250.s-anand.net

Happy movie tracking, and looking forward to your suggestions.

Comments

AG 20 Oct 2005 11:35 am: www.whatshouldireadnext.com is similar, but a lot more customized. For books.
S Anand 4 Feb 2009 2:28 pm: Welcome, Sacha. Enjoy!
SMG 5 Feb 2009 7:53 am: check out this site…
http://www.listsofbests.com/
You can track a lot of lists out there
S Anand 5 Feb 2009 1:58 pm: Pretty neat. Looks like a site I’m likely to use quite a bit going forward.
Thanks, SMG!
Pramod Singh 6 Feb 2009 8:54 pm: Thanks dude !!! I used to track movies on twofifty.org and sorely missed it since it went down. Now I can keep track of them again and complete my mission of watching all of the top 250 movies. Great work !!!
Thejesh GN 29 Jan 2009 6:43 am: Awesome.

Can you just print the name and not email ids of “Top movie watchers”..
S Anand 29 Jan 2009 9:39 am: That’s next on my to-do list :-)
Binny V A 29 Jan 2009 2:55 pm: Wow - I did not know others where as crazy as me ;-)

And thanks for the app - it will come in handy. Until know, I was using a text file - I just deleted the movies I saw.
S Anand 30 Jan 2009 9:48 am: Yeah, it was a bit of a shock to me as well ;-)
Sacha 4 Feb 2009 1:46 am: THANK YOU! It really sucks that twofifty.org went offline, but it’s awesome that you created a replacement.
Mofette 21 Feb 2009 5:08 am: Oh My God I think I love you! And they shut down just after I donated. Gits.
John Baptist 8 Mar 2009 11:37 am: Cheers, I too miss twofifty.org - going to be quite a chore ticking them all off again! Does your site (like twofifty.org) also ‘remember’ movies that have been ticked off but temporarily fall out of the top250 list?
S Anand 8 Mar 2009 4:03 pm: Yes, John, the 250.s-anand.net remembers moves that have fallen out of the Top 250 list. It also lets you know which movies have recently moved into the Top 250, and whether you’d marked them as seen.
Al 24 Mar 2009 6:03 am: Awesome, thank you.
Michael 17 Mar 2009 3:33 am: Thank you! I had toyed with writing something in Rails but I just didn’t find the time. twofifty.org was a good site but it wasn’t reliable at all.
Tamlyn 28 May 2009 10:23 am: Amazing. I was crestfallen when I saw twofifty.org had disappeared but your version is even better! Thanks so much for this. And i guess as it’s Google-hosted, it’s here to stay.
Sacha 18 Aug 2009 4:57 pm: I have to log in every single time I visit the list. Is that intended or a bug? It really sucks quite a bit.
Himanshu 10 Aug 2009 9:45 am: Thanks for the site. I was planning to do something similar since the day twofifty.org is down.
Brawler 17 Sep 2009 9:50 pm: http://www.icheckmovies.com seems very nice. Though is missing those codes you could use anywhere with html-code to track your count, and last 5 seen IMDb Top250 movies… Even that, I hope you’ll like the site, it has more topics than Top250 ;)
Limeworld.com » Blog Archive » IMDB Top 250 6 Dec 2009 1:12 am (pingback): […] mere 95/250. My list: http://twofifty.org/user/Limegirl/ Update: twofifty.org is now defunct, but a clever fellow has launched something […]
Stijn 25 Nov 2012 2:28 pm: Just noticed the Facebook app no longer exists. So, I signed up for your alternate version. Let’s see what my score is… 106/250. Still a loooong way to go.
F 14 Aug 2015 2:11 pm: Hi, I really like the site but now i get a 404 when trying to access it. Is it permanently removed or just temporarily? If you don’t plan to put it up again would you be interested in open sourcing the source code so i can continue to use your handy tool? :)

Google Spreadsheets

Thu, 08 Jun 2006 12:00:00 +0000

I got an invite for Google Spreadsheets. Very impressive AJAX interface.

Comments

Dhar 9 Jun 2006 11:36 am: Tried Google Spreadsheets. Love the concept, but I seem to be missing the Grand Picture. How is Google going to integrate things like Calendar, Spreadsheets, Notebook, Browser Sync to give us an “Aha” moment? The glue that should hold these applications together seems to be missing. Quite a few of them are very average and scratch the itch for a small section of web population. Nothing earthshaking like Gmail or search. :(
S Anand 9 Jun 2006 2:31 pm: Funnily, the very apps you mentioned (Calendar, Notebook, Spreadsheets and Browser Sync) are the ones I use the most – as much as GMail and search! You’re right, there isn’t much integration, except perhaps between Calendar and GMail. Maybe it’s coming. But even as standalone apps, I’m surprised at how much I use them. I’ll write about how I’m using these sometime…
Madhu 12 Jun 2006 7:03 pm: Its more when than how i think

Google Reader

Sun, 09 Oct 2005 12:00:00 +0000

Google Reader. Gmail principles applied to RSS. You can subscribe to posts, label feeds and star RSS items. The reader suggests items from your subscriptions based on your interest.

Kiko

Thu, 01 Sep 2005 12:00:00 +0000

Kiko Calendar looks like a promising online calendar, offering “A powerful and flexible servlet API that allows third party developers to produce tools which enhance the value of your Kiko Calendar.”

Gmail is fast

Mon, 29 Aug 2005 12:00:00 +0000

As Jeremy put it, GMail is really damn fast. Faster than desktop email. I prefer it to Outlook, and hence to my work e-mail ID.

Google Maps

Wed, 09 Feb 2005 12:00:00 +0000

Google Maps. Only has the US for now. But that may change, given that

not to mention that google has been primarily focused on the u.s. market and is now turning their full attention to the global marketplace.

The interface, as always with Google, is fantastic. This is the way to go for Web applications.

via Google Blogoscoped.

Comments

m1108061928989 9 Feb 2005 12:00 pm: Actually, google maps produced better routes too (more intuitive or just plain luck in my case ) but 2 consecutive routes cant be coincidence
S Anand 9 Feb 2005 12:00 pm: Their database may be from Keyhole, whom they acquired recently. I didn’t see anything from India on it, though.
Sathish 9 Feb 2005 12:00 pm: This is an interesting way to comment..
TOPFRAME 9 Feb 2005 12:00 pm: their interface is pretty good.. but, I wonder if they could do the maps of India in the same manner..

Google blog

Wed, 17 Jul 2002 12:00:00 +0000

A Google blog. And while we’re on the subject, I’ve found Google labs’ glossary very useful. So are some Google applications based on their API. (Incidentally, their server is overloaded. I tried getting a key yesterday, put it politely declined.)