Steve Jobs resigned today from Apple Inc. When he did it so last time in 1984 it did not turn out to be good for Apple Computers.He rescued Apple again when he was back in 1996 with fascinating products like iPod and IPhone in later years. This particular movie was released 1999 which is mostly …
Category Archive: Technology
Jul 23
Back to WordPress
I had just shifted my blog to blogger last week and guess what, I am back to wordpress again. Thanks to free PHP and MySQL host freehosting.com . It was one week and I realized that I do not want to be restricted by Google’s constrained blogging platform where you can not your own server …
Jul 21
Migrated to Blogger.com
This blog was earlier hosted in xtreemhost which gave me decent uptime and features till now. This includes 5GB of space , PHP, MySQL and FTP log in with no ads. However sometimes the webhost got blacklisted by some search engines and protection agents like McAfee and my website became inaccessible.Since I hosted this as …
Mar 13
Generate Test data for programming and demo
I have been looking for a decent amount of test data for giving a demo of my test program and I came across this website I hosted this data generator in my website at the following location , one can make use of it for free http://neilghosh.com/util/datagen/ This is capable of generating sample data (name …
Mar 12
Determining Local IP address
I just wrote a small script to determine local IP address of a machine http://neilghosh.com/util/ip/ I have tested this only in firefox and working on the other browsers.
May 30
Know your location without GPS (Geolocation)
I was fascinated by the Google I/O day one session specially the HTML5 capabilities and Geolocation feature in the latest browsers. Last weekend I thought of combining the this feature with The Google Geocoding API. In fact I used the Reverse Geocoding (Address Lookup) to determine the approximate Address of your current location from the …
Mar 14
Simple Free Web Proxy Server
http://proxy.neilghosh.com/ is a new addition to the set of tools in this site.This uses Python scripts in Google apps engine. Thanks to the article in labnol.org. You can see the difference between visiting a site with and without proxy. It does not work for all the websites which are restricted in your region (specially the …
Jan 19
The easiest way to download video from YouTube for iPod
1. Add a bookmarklet To download videos is to save the following link as a bookmarklet by dragging it to your Links bar (in Firefox, Safari) or right-clicking and adding it to your favorites (in Internet Explorer, Opera): Get YouTube video When you want to download a YouTube video, just click on "Get YouTube video" …
Jan 07
Free online Website Building Tools
snappages.com Office Live weebly.com edicy.com yola.com Also one can Create CSS Based Web Templates Online using the following services http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/grids/builder/ http://drawter.com/ Update : http://www.smashingapps.com/2010/01/25/13-easy-and-powerful-website-building-tools-to-create-your-free-site.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SmashingApps+%28Smashing+Apps%29&utm_content=Google+Reader
Sep 15
Free online OCR [Extract text from image]
Its often very tedious to read the huge error message in a pop up window which is not selectable and re-writ eit a forum or email for help. free-ocr.com allows you to upload any image containing the text and extract the text in an editable format for further usage. There are several OCR software available …