Just read on Yahoo search blog about the Yahoo-IBM solution for enterprise search. And it is called IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition.Anybody can install the IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition for free.Its going to be boon for small business ( may be medium sized ones too). And it seems to be in direct competition with Google Enterprise Search - Goole Mini which costs around $1995 for small business version. The google version includes the hardware too. Read the rest of this entry »

WordWeb is a dictionary and word finder. Its one of those very useful freewares. When you want to install the Word Web Pro freeware version then you have to agree for a license ( of course everybody has that I agree checkbox). Here comes the interesting part. To get a free version you must agree to the following

Pretty cool. They have an explanation for this kind of licensing

Various people have questioned the WordWeb 5 licensing terms. It is true that targetting flights and SUVs is a very crude measure; many people’s CO2 emissions come mostly from their home due to inefficient heating, insulation or air conditioning. However the licence is designed to be easy to understand, and sufficiently simple that people will know immediately whether or not they satisfy it. If you break the licence you are certainly responsible for more emissions per person than are sustainable, and you can certainly afford to buy the Pro version. The licence is not telling you what to do: that is up to you, but if you don’t satisfy the licence you need to pay.

I have a dozen of domain names which I bought from godaddy. All of them have been easy and clean transactions. But this time I wanted a .in domain for filmcamp which is not sold by godaddy. I thought either sify or rediff will be good. I settled for rediff as it was much cheaper. I happily paid Rs.640 and went to sleep after I got a mail that the transaction is in progress.

In the morning I was eager to map it to my hosting service. I tried logging into to rediff to see if I can access the domain records. There was no clue! Then saw the order it showed “Delivery Status = Pending”. I was not sure what it meant, All I bought was a domain name. I did a whois search to see that it showed nothing. I was lucky. I went to Name.Com and bought the filmcamp.in domain again. Can you imagine buying a domain second time? If they can’t handle a domain purchase properly how will they handle business emails? I feel sad for them. God save their business customers. BTW Name.com was cheaper than Rediff and I could use paypal.

Then I thought may be rediff will send my money back in a day or two. But it didn’t happen. Then I became busy and didnt think about my 640 rupees. Today I logged into rediff to see the status. Here it is.

They still think they can get the domain for me. Idiots. I sent a mail today to customer service. (They don’t have a toll free number. They just have one land line number of std code 022.) Lets see what happens.

But one thing for sure I am not going to buy anything from Rediff. It looks like Sify is no better than Rediff.

Looks like bollywood is slowly has started getting what web2.0 can do for them. Few days back at Filmcamp myself and Sanjay Jha had a long discussion about bollywood and blogging. How much it can cut the PR and newspapers? How much near it can bring the actor to his fans? I have been reading Aamir Khan’s blog ever since he started to blog. I have been his blog’s biggest fan. Of course Aamir was the starting point of my and Sanjay’s discussion ( BTW we met Sanjay on LinkedIn- How cool is that).

I had this dream of Aamir twittering about his life/work. I had left a comment on one of his blog post too. I am not sure if he read it. But looks like Saawariya team picked it up. It was a shocker when EventsBangalore got followed by somebody named Saawariya. Well I did not believe until I got a confirmation.

I am happy to see a main stream movie team picking up non-main stream method to give the details about the movie. Now I don’t have to send an SMS to one of those costly NUMBERS to get updates. All I have to do is follow saawariya on twitter. I get all those tweets on to my mobile. This might be that one reason for me to watch Saawariaya instead of OSO

When you try to close the main browser window using the close [ window.close(); ] method. You get the confirmation prompt

The Web page you are viewing is trying to close the window.
 Do you want to close the window?

This warnning message appears only if you are trying to close the main browser window and not the popups. To stop this use the following snippet
function closeMe(){
window.opener = "";
window.close();
}
It works because the browser checks for the value of window.opener to see if it is a child window or main window. if the value is null then it assumes the window to be main window. Now we are cheating the browser by assigning the window.opener to some random value!