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Super-Plus It!!

Published on July 10, 2011 in Veni Vidi Vici. 0 Comments

Hi Google,

Google Plus is great and I love it. Listing some areas where the product needs to get better:

Redundancy in the system:

Google has been aggregating my social data (contacts, pics, shares, etc) through its various services since almost 7-8 years now. It would be nice if I had the choice of moving this data to Plus, thus eliminating all redundancy. e.g.:

  1. Either integrate buzz with G+ or discontinue it. Why should I have two separate sharing streams? [Well, no more!!]
  2. I have tons of valuable pictures in my Orkut albums. Why can’t I export them to G+? [I can now, :) ]

Exploiting Current Google Infrastructure:

It’s nice to see Picassa, oops, Google Photos adapted to G+. It would be even better to see other Google services employed for few missing chunks in Plus: Continue reading ‘Super-Plus It!!’

Editing K2 CSS for wider Columns

Published on March 9, 2011 in Veni Vidi Vici. 0 Comments Tags: .

Not sure if this is something that people do not know already. I would still like to share this precious find, even at the cost of sounding like a moron.

System: I have a wordpress blog with K2 Theme (Fixed – Two Columns)

Requirement: I wanted to increase the column width so that blog covers a larger area in the browser window.

Solution (which I could not find after hours of googling :( ): Edit the style.css file.

Caveat: May not work well if you have flexible columns

Here are the steps:

  1. Go to the Editor section under Appearance
  2. Select the style.css file
  3. Scroll to locate “columns-one #page”
  4. Edit the value mentioned for width for columns-one, columns-two and columns-three as per your requirement.
  5. Scroll further below to locate #primary
  6. Edit the value mentioned for width for primary as per your requirement.
  7. Save the file

Step 4 will change the width of the three columns of your blog. Step 6 will change the width of the text displayed in the first column. I increased the value of all 4 width variables by 200. Take a look at my blog to judge the result. I am sure similar changes can be applied to other themes on wordpress to increase the width of your blog. Happy Blogging!!

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Hit it, AT&T.

Published on July 1, 2010 in Veni Vidi Vici. 2 Comments

OK, so this can turn out to be something really interesting if AT&T takes a cue from history and plays its cards right. As per reports from Bloomberg, Verizon may also start offering iPhone early next year. This could be another of those scores of news (read rumours) which “reported” that Verizon may offer its very own iPhone, and later turned out to be false. But in case it is true, AT&T is in the right place to take some sweet revenge.

Ever since Verizon ridiculed it’s 3G coverage, AT&T followed the righteous path of making an effort to upgrade its 3G infrastructure. And as evident in the results of PCWorld’s Second 3G Wireless Performance Test, this turned out in AT&T’s favour finally. Now, if the news about Verizon’s fling with iPhone is correct, the Texan Telecom giant has the right opportunity to turn the tables by doing to Verizon what Apple did to IBM in the year 1981. When IBM announced the introduction of its PC, Apple ran a full-page “Welcome, IBM. Seriously.” advertisement in The Wall Street Journal. David (Apple) was aware of Goliath’s (IBM) strength, and an in-the-face public challenge of this proportion was primarily aimed at fooling the market into reckoning the two companies at par.

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The Search

Published on February 10, 2010 in Not So Funny and Veni Vidi Vici. 4 Comments Tags: , .

Roughly ten years back, Doordarshan ran a series of selected Discovery Channel programs under the name Discovery Hour. The one hour show, instant pleasure for a nerd kid, was telecast everyday at noon during the summer vacations.
One of the episodes in the series was on Hinduism in the South-East Asia. The episode could also have been on Tourism or Architecture or some weird Satanic Science prevalent in that part of the world. It was such a long time ago and the memory is so faded, I hardly remember anything. But there was one part of the show that got etched in my mind permanently. The narrator spoke (in poorly dubbed Hindi) of a river which had numerous Shivlings carved all along its bed. Apparently some sages, who had too much devotion and too little work at their hands, thought it was cool to cover the river bed with thousands of sacred phalluses, the aniconic representation of Lord Shiva. Continue reading ‘The Search’

Level 10 crossed. Finally!!

Published on June 5, 2009 in Veni Vidi Vici. 7 Comments Tags: , , .

Came across this amazing amazing amazing game few weeks ago, and have been trying to complete it ever since. I recently crossed level 10, only to get stuck at level 11.. ;) . The game is very addictive and is an ultimate time killing weapon (you have to start from Level 1 every time you give it a retry) but it boosts your Geography quotient like anything.

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