G.Venkat

Amazon's Kindle

gvenkat — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 05:18:12 GMT

Amazon released a product called Amazon's Kindle where it can store lots of books, newspapers delivered to you. No need for computer, CD, purchase all these. It has all Dictionary, Synonyms and Thesaurus as well. Product was released and now it's very hot in the market. Not sure on the review. But it seems like very useful gadget for readers...check it out at http://amazon.com

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Ice rain

gvenkat — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 05:03:08 GMT

Yesterday we had a very different experience here. It was raining heavily in the evening and after few minutes I was hearing a different sound. It was Ice Rain. It was very solid and for around 10-15 minutes it was there. Once it stopped entire area was covered by white ice. It was cold yesterday around 2 degrees. Nice experience...

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Latest product reviews

gvenkat — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 19:27:00 GMT

I was searching for review of the products and I came across this site. alaTEST This has all the latest product and reviews of those products and I find it very useful before we purchase any of the products which help us to decide best product of our needs and good price. Also we can get various people opinion based on their requirement. Also this opinion site "epinion" is also nice to see the review and user feedbacks after they purchase.

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Driving in LA

gvenkat — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 23:50:43 GMT

I was driving in Seattle for about an year and its easy to drive with all the traffic and as I am familiar with the place I know how people drive and how I need to drive. This week I was driving in LA in both freeways and in country roads and I feel it is similar to Indian driving skills. The traffic is huge and merging on freeways and country roads are very similar to my home country. I love both the places and its nice to drive.

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Indian Intelligence

gvenkat — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 23:35:00 GMT

We are displaying in Digital Hollywood event this year showcasing our Vishwak Portal Framework (VPF) service for web portals and Mobile Content Delivery Services (MCDS) for mobile WAP sites. From yesterday there are some many interesting visitors and today one visitor came to our booth and asked me "Are you from India". I said Yes. Then he immediately reacted that you people are Intelligent and he saw our display of brouchers and posters. We displayed our front end and back end of our broucher and after seeing this he said, you guys proved that Indians are Intelligent by displaying this. He quoted he can't see that in any of the stalls. So this shows Indian Intelligence.

Happy to hear that and we are proud.

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Why to take a risk

gvenkat — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 07:24:00 GMT

This morning I was travelling in a flight and due to heavy fog it got delayed for 1:30 hrs. After that everyone was onboard and the guy who sits before me was listening to iPod. While takeoff flight attendant told that person to switch off his iPod now and then he can switch back on after takeoff. First he said OK and after he left, he just ignored that and keep listening to music and till the end including landing he didn't switched off his iPod. Why because of his ignorance everyone in the flight need to take risk. Will people know the importance of it?. Its all for us only...not for the flight...

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Microsoft Popfly

gvenkat — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:31:00 GMT

Yesterday Microsoft released official beta version of popfly and in that the invitation approach was removed. All you need to have is a Windows Live ID. We are working on some prototype on this and excited to see this cool feature.

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Online car purchase

gvenkat — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 04:33:00 GMT

I came across this website to purchase cars online. I believe it was the first website in India who sells all cars online. It is a "Beta" web site at present and it has lots of options to choose. Check this website at http://www.infibeam.com. Its a new website launched few weeks back and they sold their first car. Its "Toyota Innova"

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Customer support

gvenkat — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 04:24:00 GMT

Yesterday I went to few shops to buy a tonner cartridge. But I couldn't find any in the racks. So I asked the sales person, whether they have anything in stock or do they carry or will be available in few days. But the reply I got from them is "Don't know". It was very strange to me that as a sales person they should know those details. Even they didn't showed any interest in checking those. In a big store why the management or the concerned is not carying about these things? Is that because of these small things which is less than $100? Will they check and take care of the customer if they buy a $4000+ worth of Plasma TV? The funny thing is all the shops I went they told me the same answer without any change in the word. But finally I ordered thru online as always.

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Seattle Vs. California

gvenkat — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 04:21:00 GMT

For this labor day weekend we went to California (bay area) and the trip was good. I feel like as if I am in my home country. The reason behind that is the climate is hot (105 degrees). In seattle during summer it was only couple days it went beyond 100. Rest all the days it was below that. While coming back to Seattle it was raining and the temperature it was below 70's. That's a total change in the climate and pretty much I can feel the difference. The city was nice and the roads are wide and it was good. I liked the city.

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Compensation for passengers

gvenkat — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 06:09:00 GMT

Today I saw in our local India news paper that supreme court of India has given a verdict makes me feel different and think a lot on that. The verdict is that, there is no need to provide the compensation for the standing passengers who got hurt in a accident. Just wondering if a bus met with a accident (praying not to happen anywhere) who will notice that these passengers were sitting and these people were standing passengers. I believe everyone will be in a situation to save their life, dear onces or the neighbour. How this verdict will help people other than Insurance company.I understand if 90 people were travelling in a 40 people capacity bus then its easy to say it's overloaded. But individually how you identify these people are standing passengers? Strange...

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Tifiti - Search visualization with silverlight

gvenkat — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 20:20:00 GMT

Microsoft today announced a website called Tifiti. This is experimental web site showcasing live search experience. In this search is powered by live search and client experience is build on silverlight. the interface is good and you can store your searches and label it. the interface looks like old ruled paper book. it stores your search keywords and it has different views. I like the tree view. Try it out.

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Troubleshooting Win XP and Vista

gvenkat — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 17:24:00 GMT

Today I found this website to do a fix in my laptop and also got lots of information to customize Win XP. This site also contains articles on Vista. Check it out http://windowsxp.mvps.org/

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13 Simple Rules for Speeding Up Your Web Site

gvenkat — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 18:57:00 GMT

You can follow these 13 simple rules to speed up your website.

1. Make Fewer HTTP Requests
   2. Use a Content Delivery Network
   3. Add an Expires Header
   4. Gzip Components
   5. Put CSS at the Top
   6. Move Scripts to the Bottom
   7. Avoid CSS Expressions
   8. Make JavaScript and CSS External
   9. Reduce DNS Lookups
10. Minify JavaScript
11. Avoid Redirects
12. Remove Duplicate Scripts
13. Configure ETags

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Rewards for Rewarding

gvenkat — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 00:54:00 GMT

Rewarding is a big thing and when you do that you can extract more from them. Today I read this nice article on "Rewards for Rewarding". The most important 5 things we need to have for rewarding.

Explain yourself clearly
Set high expectations
Praise often
Reward more often
Celebrate achievements

you can read the article in detail at http://ezinearticles.com/?Rewards-for-Rewarding&id=614096

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