When: Sunday November 11, 2012 - 5:30 PM to 10:30 PM Venue: ITC Gardenia, Bangalore Hosts: Vikas Khanna (New York based, Michelin Starred, Celebrity Chef!) Rajiv Makhni (Popular TV anchor, one of India’s leading technology analysts, gadget guru!) This was the first IndiBlogger meet I attended and believe me I was really excited and the event did not let me down. The venue for the meet was ITC Gardenia one of exotic hotels in Bangalore....
This blog is a self managed installation of WordPress which means that the overall responsibility of taking backups and ensuring that the blog is always up and running rests solely on my shoulders. So the first task was to ensure that I have a backup of the blog, the second was to have it in a cloud service so that I can restore it easily in case of any issues. During my search for an easy and quick way of making backup for my WordPress installations I came across ‘WordPress Backup to Dropbox’ (WPB2D) which is an extension for WordPress which makes use of the cloud based folder sync service ‘Dropbox’ to store the backup....
It is very common for us to find out after we reach the railway station that the train we are to catch is running a couple of hours late, leaving us frustrated. Well there is good news a revamped National Train Enquiry System is in works, currently in beta it can be accessed via http://trainenquiry.com/searchtrain.aspx(use the new look button). The site is very simple to use, in the search box provided, enter either the (a) Train Name or (b) From and To Station Name or (c) Train Number....
It was a lazy Saturday morning, I was getting bored, there was no power and I was done with the newspaper. Just then my land line began ringing, I was expecting it to be a wrong number as I use it only for Internet and I myself do not know the number. Here is how it went: Lady Caller: Hello is it Mr. Kamath? Me: Yes. Caller: Hello Mr. Kamath this is Ms xyz calling from abc, Delhi....
With internet becoming a part and parcel of our daily lives, the amount of information we consume when online has gone up considerabily. But there is one major problem, most of the websites have content that is very difficult to read either due to the font used or its size or just because there is too much distration from elements surrounding the content like the sidebar. This is where the two plugins I use come into the picture....