By nitin on January 29, 2010
Firefox is my favorite browser. The biggest reason for this is its repository of useful plugins. The only problem which I see in its default installation is the screen usage. With this I mean, Firefox wastes a lot of screen real estate in unnecessary menus, buttons. The good news is that it also provides flexibility to customize its overall look and feel.
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Posted in Hack, Tips & Tricks | Tagged Customize, Firefox, productivity, UI |
By nitin on January 6, 2010
Drop Shadows adds extra glare to any design. They can be easily accomplished in any graphic editor, however its a little tricky in web programming. In this post I'll walk you through various ways in which you can add shadows to images without any extra markup used. Continue reading…
Posted in CSS, Tips & Tricks | Tagged box-shadow, CSS, css3, image, shadow |
By nitin on January 3, 2010
Google URL Shortener at goo.gl is a service that takes long URLs and squeezes them into fewer characters to make a link that is easier to share, tweet, or email to friends. [official announcement]
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Posted in Tips & Tricks | Tagged bookmarklet, google, Javascript, url, url shortner |
By nitin on April 9, 2009
One of the most awaited feature is to set invisible status in gtalk. Just like yahoo messenger invisible status in gtalk will allow you to be online without being bugged by gtalk friends when you are at work or don’t feel like to be annoyed by your gtalk friends.
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Posted in Tips & Tricks | Tagged gtalk, idle, invisible |
By nitin on March 23, 2009
I remember the days when I used to struggle while debugging django web applications. But after working for more than a year now with django, I am more or less settled with tools I use for debugging Django Application. My Development System is on Windows XP, so this post is specifically for Debugging django on windows.
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Posted in Django, Tips & Tricks | Tagged breakpoint, debugging, Django, windows, winpdb |
By nitin on March 17, 2009
Following my previous posts about cleartrip train search engine and naukari.com job search engine this post is regarding various other services available on GTalk Client. Here are various other usefull services being offered on Gtalk/Jabber Clients. Continue reading…
Posted in Tips & Tricks | Tagged browser, chat, gtalk, services |
By nitin on March 16, 2009
Following a train search ChatBot from cleartrip, Now Naukari.com has come up with a new chatbot to search Jobs.
For this all you need is to add jobs@chat.naukri.com to your GTalk Client and start searching jobs. This hady tool will definetly make job search a little easier, although i doubt if there are any good job in this recession.
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Posted in Tips & Tricks | Tagged chatbot, job search, naukari |
By nitin on March 5, 2009
As we all know that Google took Chrome out of beta almost a month back, but still there is a strong feeling that there is a long way to go for the browser if it has to compete with other browers such as Firefox. The biggest feature that is missing in Chrome/IE is lack of addons support. So in place of using addons I am using bookmarklets a lot more now.
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Posted in Tips & Tricks | Tagged bookmarklet, chrome, google chrome, ie, internet explorer, Javascript |
By nitin on March 4, 2009
Cleartrip has always been one of my favorite startup. This company has everything which one can think in a good company. Moreover, every now and then they come up with small small things that really makes travel simpler. They already have a train search engine which is dead simple to use(way better than its alternatives). And now they have come up with another app, which is a innovative use of IM for search. Continue reading…
Posted in Tips & Tricks | Tagged availability, cleartrip, train search, trains |
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