WordPress Update

By Ashutosh in Design and Usability on

I’ve finally updated the blog to WordPress [http://www.wordpress.org] 2.0.4 (latest). I was earlier running version 1.5 with a custom mod of the Orange Sky theme and a couple of plugins. The update process [http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress] was quite straight-forward (files,…

Menwhopause album is out

By Ashutosh in Entertainment on

Yesterday I received a nice message from Satish, the manager of the desi rock band – Menwhopause [http://www.menwhopause.com/], that the band has released their new album “Home” and it can be downloaded online. You can also catchup with these guys through their blog [http://blog.myspace.com/menwhopause]…

How I saved over $4000 on software?

By Ashutosh in Entertainment on

Is the “free software [http://www.fsf.org/licensing/essays/free-sw.html]” revolution a myth or a temporary trend? I don’t think so. Being a technology evangelist myself, who’s been involved in software usage & construction for over 10 years, I feel that “free software” has a tremendous…

Shopping Search By Color

By Ashutosh in Business on

ComparisonEngines.com writes about a cool feature in the shopping space [http://www.comparisonengines.com/2006/10/19/become-adds-search-by-color/]: “It’s great to see companies adding cool, innovative features in the shopping space! First it was Etsy, then it was ShopWiki, now Become has entered the search by color arena.…

Firefox 2 released a day early

By Ashutosh in Linklog on

Firefox 2 [http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/2.0/] released a day early! What’s new [http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/2.0/releasenotes/#whatsnew] in this release? Don’t know where, but I read that Firefox is upto 6 times faster than IE7 and…