Yashventures

It looks like Wikipedia’s annual fun raising is going on. I have donated whatever little I could contribute. In my opinion Wikipedia is a great service. I pay money to buy newspapers and subscribe to magazines. I use Wikipedia in the similar fashion – to gain information on various topics so the donation is well [...]

I keep getting this mailer from HDFC Bank about opting for e-statements and saving paper thus saving trees. I get a paper statement of my account every quarter and for my company’s account every month. This particular letter with the headline “There’s a substitute for paper, there’s none for the trees” is invariably sent with [...]

I just noticed Google has started using a new Favicon. It’s a lower case g in blue colour. I liked the old one more. It was a capital G with all of Google’s colours. More about the old favicon. I ran a search on Google and saw people are already writing about it. Google Favicons [...]

This stumbleupon thingy is amazing. So very often I stumble upon stuff that seems rather absurd. I just came across a sound test! It tests your hearing ability with ultrasonic sounds to ascertain how good your ears are! I couldn’t hear a sound above 12 Khz. Here’s my test result – You’re in a mid [...]

Usually I never call back people who simply give a missed call hinting me to call back (and save a few bucks of their own). Today I was in a good mood and called back to a missed call. Whoa..the guy was looking for a job! How professional! I liked the daring of that fellow. [...]

I have been missing from these pages for almost a month! A lot of things are going on at Uconomix. We renovated the entire office and doubled the seating capacity. We also launched the new product Uconomix Encryption Engine. Development on Janoos has started again and a lot of new features are being coded at [...]

..is no more! Steve Irwin famously known as the Crocodile Hunter was killed today by a stingray fish. Such an irony of the fate – the man who spent his life capturing crocodiles lost his life to a fish! Steve died after the barb of a stingray punctured his chest while he was filming a [...]

All right, I have decided to use individual scripts for Yash.info. o I have used WordPress for the blog and Coppermine Photo Gallery for the photo gallery. These are great packages! Hats off to their developers! Now I am going to add a few more packages like news and poll.

I am evaluating a few CMS (Content Management Systems) for Yash.info. I’ve tried Mambo and DotNetNuke. None have ALL the features that I am looking for. I am itching to put the pics taken with new K750i ! So my first requirement if a good photo gallery. WordPress – the software I am using for [...]