For some time now, I’ve been wanting a Firefox UI button for Gabriel Coarna’s extremely useful Readable Bookmarklet/Script which makes the web “reading-friendly” by cutting out all the flashy ads and colors. Only, I don’t like bookmarklets, they take up too much space. Fortunately you can use existing Firefox extensions to turn this bookmarklet [...]
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Life is diverse. There is no doubting that. In fact, the diversity has led many to believe that the possibilities offered by the seed of complex interactions, several thousand genes and their myriad products are so large, that we shouldn’t really be surprised at just about anything we see in the biosphere. Adding a little [...]
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
You see, this is why you begin to mistrust journalists. The passive sensationalism is, ironically blatant. I am referring to an article in the Indian Express . Before I begin I’ll reproduce the article here…. China considered India ‘bottomless pit’ for foreign aid Agencies Tags : Jawaharlal Nehru, Richard Nixon, Indira Gandhi Posted: Sunday [...]
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Twitter finally on the Phishing Target list
Thursday, October 1, 2009
I woke up today to Wavemania hitting the tubes. Google apparently decided to send out 100,000 invites to their chosen lot. Obviously , I am not one of their chosen lot – since a quick check of my inbox revealed no invitation. Twitter however was buzzing, and Google was bombarded with searches for “Google Wave [...]
The Readability Experiment lets you restyle web pages for better reading. They offer “Bookmarklets” that one can click to re-style a given webpage so that it is easier to read. Ubiquity is an “intelligent” command-line and natural language parser for Firefox. Its hard to explain because of its ubiquitous features( everything from Twitter posts to [...]
UPDATE 4th July 2009 : Due to lack of time and the fact that similar and much better scripts have been written, I recommend everyone install the Gadget-supported Gmail (ad-less and wide) script. I myself use this script now, and it is done much better. The author also commits to updating the script periodically. Cheers [...]