By Prax, on October 7th, 2010
Libya has shut down the popular adult URL shortening service http://vb.ly citing violation and non-adherence to Libyan Islamic Shariah law. Since this domain is not hosted in Libya and if you are wondering what Libya has got to do with it, note that: .ly is the top-level Internet country code for Libya and it is registered with Libyan Domain Registry.
Cyber world is abuzz with the action of the Libyan Domain Registry for this action as this can have ramifications on various such domains with catchy names like justin.tv, radioindigo.fm .tv is owned by . . . → Read More: Libyan Domain Registry shuts down vb.ly
By Prax, on October 5th, 2010
Google Wonder Wheel is an awesome improvisation on search from Google by showing related search terms in hub and spoke model with the results on the right hand side for easier resolution of the searched query. The searched query item is at the center and if you click on one of the offshoots or the spokes, the clicked item now becomes the hub of the related search queries. The results are refreshed on the right hand side every time you click on one of the search items in the spoke. Here is the introductory video from Google’s Engineer, Adam . . . → Read More: Have you tried the Google Wonder Wheel,Not yet enabled for Google India
By Prax, on October 4th, 2010
Indian politicians now take their war to the cyberspace. The ruling Indian National Congress party and the main opposition party Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are embroiled in a bitter war over domain redirection of BJP.COM
It all started on October 3rd a http request to http://bjp.com would redirect to Congress party’s website. It appears like some smart bloke (read Cyber Savy) at Congress or a prankster setup this redirection.
However, Congress now appears to have taken a step back with the request to http://bjp.com now landing on a parked page with ads. A Whois search for http://bjp.com . . . → Read More: BJP vs Congress Domain War
By Prax, on October 4th, 2010
GeekStyle Registration HPprint4life for awesome prizes RaghavaSatish for inspiring talk Civil Defense awareness. I am looking forward to enroll for this. Here is the Civil Defense Page A blogger who wanted to setup a site for uploading pics of Polluting vehicles (read Smoke Chimneys) and notifying them to PCB (with Registration numbers), no its not Pak…Cricket Board, its Pollution Control Board. Youngest blogger @ 14yrs Oldest blogger @ 62yrs Hot samosas! Indiblogger Team ROFL tweets JP Fortune Hotel Folks. Great Ambience & Good Location AnshPrat’s Mass Follower tool: http://anshprat.info/twitblr/usersList.php
~~~ BIGGEST of them ALL – . . . → Read More: Movers and Shakers of IndiBlogger Meet, Oct 3rd, Bangalore
By Prax, on September 24th, 2010
Today morning was just about going as usual till I noticed an email. It seemed to originate from AXIS bank and it had an HTML attachment and it was an important announcement.
The contents of the email looked valid considering Government of India had placed a ban on sending of bulk SMS till 29th. Now I am not sure if such ban holds good for financial institutions. But some smart bloke seems to have capitalized on this ban. The email stated that:
“In view of the Govt. of India directive to mobile operators, all the corporate sms messaging . . . → Read More: Phishing attack leveraging SMS ban
By Prax, on April 28th, 2010
Government of India’s Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) now has a brand name, called AADHAAR and also a new logo:
Started by GoI last year to given every Indian a unique ID, it has former Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani as its chairperson. The reasoning behind the name AADHAAR, is that it translates into ‘foundation’, or ‘support’. The word is present across most Indian languages and can therefore be used in branding and communication of the UIDAI program across the . . . → Read More: UIDAI gets New Logo and Name – AADHAAR
By Prax, on April 7th, 2010
If you look-up for Airtel’s GPRS and Mobile Office connections details on their website, I am sure you will go around in circles. The last resort is their paid support (Yes, Airtel now charges 50 paise per 3 minutes for contacting their customer support via phone). Having been through this, I am posting the following information that you could leverage if you were to avail Airtel’s GPRS services.
Listed below are Airtel’s g various packages, Download limits, tariffs and Activation/De-activation codes. Hope you find them useful.
Airtel-GPRS Pack Download Limit /month Tariff/month SMS Activation Code SMS De-Activation Code Airtel . . . → Read More: Airtel GPRS Mobile Office Tariffs and Activation Codes
By Prax, on March 3rd, 2010
How Not to Follow Fake Profiles on Twitter
Twitter has to be one of the amazing innovations in recent times giving us realtime status of things happening around us. We all love to Follow and be Followed by people we know, like and relate to.
Apart from friends, relatives and colleagues who doesn’t want to follow favorite actors? sports-persons? politicians? etc and be updated on whats going on with them as well?
However, are you sure the Lewis Hamilton or Priyanka Chopra or Shashi Tharoor you are following are real and not fake? Are . . . → Read More: How Not to Follow a Fake Profile on Twitter.
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