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November 24th, 2007

FrostWire

The best P2P sharing client I’ve used till date. It uses the Gnutella network, and has been written in Java, and thus is a bit heavy on resources. But the search, result filtering, sorting, and music playing features make it really cool. It has all the features of the very popular LimeWire, but the icing on the cake is that unlike LimeWire, FrostWire is free and open source. Available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.

FrostWire


November 24th, 2007

Rifle Jeans

Looks like I’ve found a brand that pleases the mind, body and the pocket too! I recently bought 3 jeans from a factory outlet, just for 2000 bucks! How cool is that?

Very comfortable, and stylish too. The anti-fit collection rocks.

The company is Italian, and has recently set up manufacturing units in India too. But factory outlets springing up so soon? Doesn’t make sense. Anyway, what matters that I have 3 pairs of cool jeans.

Rifle Jeans


November 23rd, 2007

Microsoft Office 2007

The new ‘Ribbon’ interface sucks. And introducing new formats for the 2007 version was lame. Anyway, the usability is somewhat better than Office 2003. But I am not at all impressed. Powerpoint is stupid, as ever. But MS Office remains a preference over Ooo because of the speed factor. I can run Office 2007 smoothly on an old machine with 256 MB of RAM.


November 19th, 2007

New GMail

I guess I had it since a long long time, considering that my id is very old. It wasn’t supported by Opera, so I never got to see it. Now that Opera doesn’t work on Ubuntu, I’m using Firefox. And the new GMail works smoothly on Firefox.

I’m not very impressesd by the new features, except for the mail prefetching one. The contact management is better, but not something to really boast about. The labels and search is now slower than before. Overall it is a shame that they took so long for something this weak. Nevertheless, GMail still remains the best web based mail that is free of cost.


November 19th, 2007

PERL

I never knew PERL was actually an acronym for Practical Extraction and Report Language, a.k.a. Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister. Was a question at the TCS prelims.

Perl




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