Excel is buggy!

I was evaluating some options for buying an LCD TV. I found this!

Just consider the plight of those using excel for applications involving money in their day to day lives. How much moolah have they lost! May be M-crosoft is responsible for the recent economic downturn. Who knows

Building libraries

Heck, building libraries for c++ is a headache. Atleast there are some people out to help people like me. Get a mingw distribution with many prebuilt libraries including boost, libpng, libSDL,etc.Get it from http://nuwen.net/mingw.html

Trip Pic

Book: Parva by S L Bhyrappa

It is very sad to know that a ‘Sahitya Akademi’ award winning novel has been out of stock for more than two years(since I started searching). Anyways I am still looking forward to get a copy of this book.

Cool Apps that save your time

Launchy
Just hit "Alt+Enter" and fireup your app. Recognizes all installed apps and adapts itself.

Tomboy Notes
Use a shortcut like "Shift<F1>" and you paste your notes with a heading. Press Esc and forget about it(automatically saved). You  can get it along with  all the other notes with another shortcut key.

GTD Timer
The best timer/reminder app I have seen till date. Trial version.. Inspired to write my own app based on this. Design already done!

Windows Live Writer
Again the best for maintaining multiple blogs! Surprising to see such a product from MS. I think most of us have it installed with  as part of "Windows Live"

Google Chrome
Those willing to try it..can go ahead..very excellent interface..except "on the fly bookmarks" Badly missing this feature.

StickyPad

This piece of software from greeneclipse software is a real gem. The UI is good  and has a very high usability index.

Stock Exchange of Visions

I recently stumbled upon http://stockexchangeofvisions.org when I was reading about Tathagat Avatar Tulsi who is the youngest PhD in India. Finding this particular website was like hitting a treasure trove! I would like all of you to have a look at all those daring ideas.

No single alarm / reminder utility

I was recently searching for a good reminder /alarm utility. But all the of the features I wanted were strewn across many little utilities. So I have decided to write my own tool in .NET

List of various utilities:

• Google Calendar
• GTD Timer
• Fifteen Minutes (Its actually an AutoIT script)
• SimpleWorkTimer

So writing a reminder & Google Calendar plug-in for “Launchy” would be a good idea too.

The eWorld Supplement in Business Line

I have found the eWorld supplement (published every Monday) provided along with Business Line to be very good. While every other publication seems to be copying content from the internet, these guys are taking the extra effort to provide original and useful content. Most of the links provided are not just for the sake of providing. They are rather provided with a sense of being very helpful. The entire archives of the supplement is online.

Winrar — not a ware?

To my shock I found that Winrar could not detect files which were repeated in many directories…A set of directories totalling 14.4 MB was compressed using winrar and 7zip. winrar spit out a 3.4 MB archive whereas 7z was able to give me a tiny 360KB archive. I wasted no time in uninstalling winrar. Decide for yourself

SAKSI

I was reading about SAKSI and its founder Dr. R.L Kashyap. He is a professor of E&CE department at Purdue university. Its just amazing to think about how wide and deep his knowledge is regarding ancient Indian scriptures and CS! Just have a look at his homepage.