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Picking an effective domain name for your web product/service/company is currently at the top of on my list of the hardest things to do for a web startup. For a web startup, domain names can make or break a business. You don’t want a name like expertsexchange (figure this out). Here is a simple checklist [...]

I ordered my first Android phone, the Google Nexus S about a 4 months ago. Part of my phone was paid for using the prize money I won for building our Augmented Reality Android application. This is my first smart phone and I thought I should share my experiences around my phone. I live in [...]

After following a lot of discussions around the devops role, I was eager to put my new found knowledge to use. After i attended a talk by Jez Humble about his new book Continuous Delivery, I was fascinated by the concept of a fully automated deployment script for applications. I am still yet to get [...]

Shutter is an open source alternative to Skitch, which is a mac only advanced Screenshot utility. This tool will help you capture screenshots  in sections, full screen or multi-monitor mode. You can then do some minor modifications such as adding annotations, highlighting specific regions, adding small icons , free form drawing , cropping etc. It’s [...]

A trend I am seeing nowadays involves people De-Googling themselves. The intention is to not let one public company own all of your private data. By data, I mean everything from your private Email, Calendar , Blog feeds, web search personalization, facebook tracking etc. Luckily I happen to know a few of them who de-googled [...]