December 23, 2006

How they steal your card at ATMs
One surveillance camera in a bank in Italy has captured these images. They clearly show how easily you may be swindled out of your money, while banking at automatic teller (ATM)

Vijay Mallya's birthday
Priyanka Jain had the rare chance to spot Dr Vijay Mallya in an unguarded moment lounging with two-three people at Baga beach sometime around October end.
In graphics
Muslim veils unveiled on BBCNews.
Making my day
The ironing guy comes everyday and these days I barely have two shirts to give him on a regular basis, since I have stopped wearing clothes that need ironing. Tough hubby tries his best to dirty as many as possible regularly.

Blogger’s hasty exit from Beta
The new Blogger is out of Beta. Defying “conventional” Web 2.0 “wisdom” of a perpetual Beta, the new version of Blogger has been formally launched.

A Tabloid New York Times?
Even The New York Times is planning on a tabloid-format newspaper to suit the younger generation’s desires, although “it’s way too early to talk about it,” said executive editor Bill Keller.

December 04, 2006

The big Digg rig
Digg became one of the top sites for tech news because it lets Web-savvy geeks decide what's newsworthy, offer up stories they like and vote on their favorites.


Who ever thought it would be like this?
Japanese manhole cover art
Free online file conversion
Have you ever wanted to convert files without the need to download software? (I have not tried it out)

The world's most famous actor...
...and you've never heard of him (Sunday Times). Uh?

November 12, 2006

How a newsroom should work...
...and how it
works.

November 10, 2006

Yahoo! Messenger in Yahoo! Mail
Yahoo! is planning to incorporate the Yahoo! Messenger Instant Messaging (IM) service into its email service, Yahoo! Mail

Clever game
Type words correctly or die...
The worst political web sites
Go ahead, have fun!
Ontario-based musician takes down Slashdot
Apparently an musician posted the 16,777,215th comment, blowing up the comment table on the popular site.

Digital newspapers by 2008
Saving the planet through paperless printing?

Time should name Stewart, Colbert as POY
The Person of the Year honor would be appropriate

November 03, 2006

The Firefox Kid
Blake Ross helped make Firefox one of the biggest open-source success stories ever. Just wait until you see what he's up to now.

October 24, 2006

Easy publishing tools for online journalists
Put your site online, without much money or tech effort, using these blog and content management tools.

October 23, 2006

(Just a few of) the worst mag covers of all time!
Here are Media Guy's nominees; send him yours.