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Apr 27 / Nikhil

Get a free domain name and 2 year unlimited for free

Update: This offer has expired but I would recommend you to follow the Dreamhost blog. They come up with similar kind of offers often

You can get a 2 year web hosting and a top level domain (.com,.info or .org) absolutely free .But only if you are an existing Geocities user (Note that Geocites do not accept any new registration).Yahoo! is  shutting down GeoCities. But Dreamhost is providing 2 years of hosting with a free domain name to those customers.

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Apr 16 / Nikhil

My first vote

Finally I can decide who should rule me !I voted for the first time in my life. The first phase of polling to the Parliament started today and would end on May 13th  in 5 phases. The results would be out on 16th.

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Apr 15 / Nikhil

The road is not so smooth for Shashi Tharoor

Former UN Under Secretary General Shashi Tharoor is contesting in the current Lok Sabha Elections from the Thiruvananthapuram constituency as a candidate of the Indian National Congress. Unlike many other constituencies in the state where the contest is primarily between the Left Front (lead by the CPI-M) and the United Democratic Front (lead by the Congress) candidates, he faces tough challenge from BJP candidate P K Krishnadas and BSP candidate A Neelalohithadasan Nadar apart from the Left Front candidate Ramachandran Nair.

shashi-taroor

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Feb 16 / Nikhil

Create your own handwriting font

YourFonts is a free online font generator that lets you create fonts from your own handwriting.All you need to do is to download a template page, print it , write all the letters and upload it back. You font is ready within seconds! Don’t worry if you don’t have a printer or scanner because still you can do that as I did that. All you need is to download the template page, edit using any editors like Photoshop or even MS Paint and upload. Cool :)

yourfonts-template

Nov 26 / Nikhil

Election campaigns goes online in India

The US elections and the Obama campaign was closely followed here in India also and the way Obama reached the youth and common people inspired many. Now it seems that the political parties are experimenting with similar campaigning tactics here also in the coming Assembly elections. The youth forms 2/3rd of the total population and the political parties are trying to reach them through the new age media’s including  the internet and mobile phones. While the Indian National Congress has produced some promotional videos (link) that are widely promoted over the internet the BJP goes much beyond that through official websites and forums. Through this BJP hopes to reach individual voters. read more…

Nov 3 / Nikhil

Orkut get sms notification for new scraps for free

Orkut has introduced Orkut SMS in India also so you can receive new scrap notification and sen scraps via your mobile. But this is a premium feature and you are charged by your operator (Rs 2/-) per sms. But here is how you can get SMS notifications for new scraps absolutely free. This is similar to my post about getting email notification via sms but this one doesn’t use  FreeMyFeed service.

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Nov 2 / Nikhil

Make any web page print friendly

Many web pages don’t provide a printer friendly option and the result you have to either print unnecessary text, images and ads or you have to copy paste the required things to a text editor and print that. A solution for this problem is provided by PrintWhatYouLike read more…

Nov 1 / Nikhil

Get email as sms for free

[digg-me]Here is how you can get your Gmail emails as SMS for Free in India. This uses the Google SMS Channel that has been recently introduced and FreeMyFeed service

About FreeMyFeed

Free my feed is a service that allows you to bypass password protected feeds. They say passwords are “never stored on the server,” and discarded immediately after parsing your feed. This is featured in Lifehacker and Google systems. So you might try this risk free. read more…

Sep 11 / Nikhil

Save images from orkut albums

You must have noticed that Orkut has disabled right click on images in orkut albums. This means you can’t save images from an orkut album. There are a couple of tricks throug which you can still save images.  These tricks can be used to save images from many other sites with right click disabled.

The  simplest way is to drag the image to the address bar. You can also drag it to a new tab or to the new tab area to open in a separate tab.

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Aug 10 / Nikhil

Add user menu to Orkut

This is a GreaseMonkey application that adds  a user menu to user profiles on orkut that provides one click access to their scarpbook,album,add as friend etc when you right click on user pictures. This is really cool feature and avoid wasting time by visiting the user profile each time.

There was some other userscripts for firefox similar to this that replaced user name with links to scrapbook, album etc, but this one is better and beautiful. See screenshot

usermenu

This script works only with Mozilla Firefox free downloadable.

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