Regional font support in Opera Mini

August 31, 2010

If you are using your Opera Mini mobile browser to access regional websites, you might have faced this issue. Instead of seeing the proper regional content (in my case, its Tamil), you might have seen boxes all over there in that tiny mobile screen. This is because, by default, Opera Mini browser couldn’t be able [...]

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Photos from Terry Fox 2010 run at Chennai

August 24, 2010

Last Sunday, I, along with CVR, Anantha and Sreedhar, went to the Terry Fox run for a photo shoot. The Terry Fox run is organized every year to spread the cancer awareness and to raise funds. This year, in Chennai,  the run was organized at IIT campus on Sunday morning 7 AM. While entering the [...]

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Slidr – HTML5 app for making online presentations

August 12, 2010

An Event Apart + MIX is organizing a contest for implementing a cool web app, using HTML5+CSS3+JavaScript combo, with a rule that the final app size should be less than 10K. That’s the challenge. From my side, I tweaked my earlier code and redid that as Slidr, a web app for creating online presentations. The idea [...]

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CSS Summit – 2010

July 29, 2010

Got a chance to attend the second edition of CSS Summit, organized by Environment For Humans. There were several CSS experts (8, to be exact), sharing their experiences and tips to improve the CSS development. Overall, the session was so informative and worth the money. Here’s some tit-bits from the summit. Summit started at 7:30 [...]

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Google is good, but…

July 26, 2010

This happened to me few weeks back. I was googling for the 2010 MAT exam results and I was expecting an authentic website link, something from the institution which conducted the exam. Instead, all that I got was spam sites, posting the link to the actual results site, and trying to monetize using Adsense. So, my [...]

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Few photos from my Nikon D3000

July 25, 2010

It’s been a month since I bought my Nikon D3000. But I haven’t posted any photographs here (even though I update Flickr). So, I decided to cross-post few photos here which I feel confident in sharing with my readers (:)). Without much ado, lets dive into my Nikon! Colors of Nature: I took this photo [...]

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Codered – Less SPAM, More Code!

July 22, 2010

I hardly got ay response for my question about custom search engine to search only in programming related websites. I asked this because, at times I felt that I have been spending more time in Google search result pages than in the actual pages itself. As you must be knowing, Google relies on PageRank and [...]

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Infinite scroll : Loading content while scrolling, using Java and JQuery

July 13, 2010

Have you seen the infinite scrolling of content in some web pages? For example, in DZone.com when you scroll the page to the bottom, new links will be loaded automatically and it’ll give you the illusion that the page scrolls infinitely. Another good example is that Bing’s Image Search. The technique is not hard to [...]

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I’m alive

July 7, 2010

Hi Guys.. It’s been several days since I posted anything in my blog. So, this post is just to let you know that I’m still alive and kicking! Okay.. what kept me busy for the past few days? Bought a new DSLR camera – Nikon D3000. Spend a lot of time to get myself familiar [...]

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