Through The Steets Of Purani Dilli

We started off. Pretty early. 8.30 am !!

First stop – Karim’s. We had to reach here pretty early so that we could have our share of the  ’heavenly’ dishes. We came here twice later that day

While searching for the ‘chor bazaar’ we found plenty of others as well.

The bazaar had been moved so we had to walk to ITO. And we spent half our time walking that day. 

We have finally ‘found’ them ! The entrance to the ‘bazaar’. And people !!

We found some pretty weird things there. We haven’t seen one of these lately.

The entire ‘bazaar’ was a 2km stretch.

Next stop was the Sunday Book Bazaar.

Sometime later we ran out of cash.

GPS at work ! We got directions as well.

 

yay !! We found the ATM ! 

But I wasn’t carrying my ATM card  So we moved on to the next ATM which was 900 metres away

The GPS did help through the narrow streets.

We had walked past Jama Masjid many times earlier. But never had we bothered to go inside. And this time we did.

It was nice inside.

And well ! This is was it ! Old Delhi

Google Launches It’s Online Treasure Hunt

Google announced it’s first ever online treasure hunt.

It has already announced two out of four questions. The first one to answer all four questions correctly wins a prize.

Better hurry up !! Here’s the link

Rapidshare.com Has Happy Hours !! :)

Today while sharing a file through Rapidshare, I got a message that Rapidshare  was having  “Happy hours”, so no waiting time for Free Users !! Thanks a lot…really saved some time…

Gmail Finally Gets Faster !!

Finally some relief for people with slow connections. Gmail has got a speed boost recently.

They’ve apparently reduced some requests sent to the browser by Gmail.

One more feature is that now you get the “Load Basic HTML View” option right on the front page. Really saves a lot of time.

Read more…

Another Firefox Addon : Cache Viewer (Save youtube videos, images , flash animations etc)

Lot of people have been asking me how to save swf animations and YouTube videos. Although i have already covered these in my earlier posts, but this time we see a new way to view temporary internet files for firefox.

People know that in Internet Explorer they just open a folder of temporary internet files, view all saved content and copy any file they wanted. Some people still come and ask me which folder to open for firefox ??

Actually for Firefox there is no folder. Firefox stores all its cache data in a single file. Now to read this file you can go to you address bar and type

about:cache

You get all the cache entries stored on your disk or memory, whichever you choose.

Now its pretty difficult to locate what you are searching for and this is where Cache Viewer comes into play.

This extenion is GUI Front-end of “about:cache”.
Allows searching and sorting memory and disk cache files.

Just install cache viewer addon from firefox website. Here’s the link .

When you open the viewer you get a complete list of the cache. You can search anything you want.

Now when you need to save something just right-click and select the Save As option.

Enjoy ! Browse and Save what you want !!

Dumbest Solution Ever !!! lolz

In my last post I was talking about the contest which was organised. There was a particular question. This is the question -

E-Commerce R-Us recently discovered that their e-commerce site did not include a credit card number verification operation on the data that the user submitted for buying their software. The company decided to hire you and your team to develop a credit card validation program. You will be provided with a credit card number with the length varying from 13 digits to 16 digits. The algorithm is a simple mod 10 operation. Each number of the credit card is weighted by either 2 or 1. The credit card number must be zero-filled on the left to create a sixteen digit number, and then the pattern starts with 2, alternating with a 1. If the number multiplied by the weight results in a 2-digit number, each digit is added to the sum. The final sum with the check digit should be a multiple of 10.

Input Format: The user will provide you with a credit card number without spaces.

Output Format: The program will return “Valid” or “Invalid” depending on the success or failure of the check digit.

 Input:

5499001100120034

 Output:

Valid

 Input:

5499001100120036

 Output:

Invalid

The question is so easy that you needn’t even solve it.

But now comes the main part, a team from 1st year submitted the following solution. Read it and laugh aloud !!

#include<stdio.h>
#include<conio.h>
void main()
{
long int a;
printf(“enter value of credit card”);

scanf(“%d”,&a);
if(a==5499001100120034)
printf(“valid\n”);
else
printf(“invalid”);
getch();
}

Organising A Programming Contest

Last month I got a chance to organise an event all by myself. We had to do all the work from preaparing notices to checking answers. I took around 4 hrs to select ssome questions because questions had  to be easy and tricky. The worst part was checking answers, because we had to go through some of the dumbest solutions ever    I will cover that up in my next post my one extremely ‘intelligent’ solution.

Click on the link below to download the questions -

programming-contest.doc

The Questions are of very easy leveland were made for beginners.

Have fun.

Silly Tricks With Counter Strike

With WordPress giving us 3 GB of free space, I can upload all kinds of images i have and my creations as well.

Thanks to WordPress.

And here we have two really ‘friendly’ enemies standing on top of a streetlight in the map Inferno. Lolz…Tooks us some time and people to get up there !!

Watch This Space !!

Come Friday, 15th February 2008 this blog gets bigger.

Google PageRank is the motivating factor. I recently noticed that I got a Google PageRank of 4/10. And thus decided to improve upon it. See you soon…

Another Addon For Firefox : IE Tab

When was the last time when you were already logged in Orkut and wanted to check your Gmail account but with a different user account. And when you opened up Gmail you ended up with the other account. Also you need to login simultaneously from different accounts in different Google services. So you had no option but to log off all accounts and check them one by one.

So here’s IE Tab for you !!!

What is does it gives you the option you run tabs with the internet explorer in them.

So how does it help ??

When you open up tabs in IE form it gives you an entirely different set of session cookies and so you could log on through differnt accounts like you did when you used Internet Explorer.

What you just have to do is click on the bottom right corner where you see the small icon for Firefox. The moment you click it, this now becomes IE and shows the IE icon.

Have fun !!
Get it from here !!

How To Use Trackbacks, I Finally Know :)

After much confusion and delays I finally figured out ow to use Trackbacks. I came to know about Trackbacks when sometime ago I got a notification from wordpress telling me that somebody had liked one of my posts and had tracked back to it !

Trackbacks are a good way to promote your blog. And they also increase the number of backlinks to your blog.

Using trackbacks is very easy. Easier than you thought. But you need to know a few things.

Read them here. (was the best resource I could find !!)

What does Wikipedia say ??

A Trackback is one of three types of Linkbacks, methods for Web authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their documents. This enables authors to keep track of who is linking to, or referring to their articles.

A Trackback is an acknowledgment. This acknowledgment is sent via a network signal (ping) from the originating site to the receiving site. The receptor often publishes a link back to the originator indicating its worthiness. Trackback requires both sites to be Trackback enabled in order to establish this communication. Trackback does not require the originating site to be physically linked to the receiving site.

Trackbacks are used primarily to facilitate communication between blogs; if a blogger writes a new entry commenting on, or referring to, an entry found at another blog, and both blogging tools support the TrackBack protocol, then the commenting blogger can notify the other blog with a “TrackBack ping”; the receiving blog will typically display summaries of, and links to, all the commenting entries below the original entry.

deviantART – An International Online Artistic Community

Here’s an awesome website for all art lover or designers/artists/etc. Every user gets a webpage in which he can post his creations. The website has a large repository of stock images and photoshop brushes.

Check out my page – http://ankitsabharwal.deviantart.com/

(thanks to tajeshwar for this awesome website !)

About DeviantArt

deviantART is an international online artistic community. It was first launched on August 7, 2000 by Scott Jarkoff, Matthew Stephens and Angelo Sotira, amongst others.

deviantART aims to provide a place for any artist, photographer, writer, or Flash artist to exhibit and discuss his or her works. It also provides a community of like-minded individuals and is visited by 1.5 million individuals per day who view approximately 35 million pages. As of December 2007 the site consists of over 6 million users and over 46.95 million submissions, and receives around 60,000+ submissions per day.[1]

deviantART features many forms of creative expression organized in a comprehensive category structure. The artwork on display includes photography, digital art, traditional art, literature and skins for applications. The site also has extensive downloadable resources for use by creators such as tutorials and stock photography.

Link – www.deviantart.com

ImgLikeOpera – The Best Addon For Mozilla

Load only what you want !! Over these months this has been the best tool that I have used (recommended by Vijyesh). Working on slow bandwidths can be tedious, but this tool helps load webpages faster by displaying only what you need.

ImgLikeOpera allows load only the images that you want in Firefox browser. This extension is very useful for non broadband users…

ImgLikeOpera allows load only the images that you want in Firefox browser. This extension is very useful for non broadband users.

Features:
- placeholders for blocked images (hi, LJ treads!)

– (re)load image from context menu or Ctrl+rightMouseClick

– forced expiration time (5 minutes – 3 months)

– policies for tabs

– filters

You can set one of policies for each tab:
- don’t load images

– load cached images only

– load images for the originating Web site only

– load all images

Get It Here : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1672

Exams Again !!

Lately I have been too lazy too update the blog. And now it’s the exams.

Visitor numbers have been going down.

Dell Inspiron 6400 \ 1520 Unofficial Review !!

First of this is my first ever gadget review.

For the past few weeks my blog has been getting around 10-20 views daily because on the Dell Inspiron Article I had posted earlier. So I thought why not write a complete review. I myself own a Dell Inspiron 6400.

The old Dell Inspiron had just one drawback, it wasn’t appealing for some of the people. The appearance of a laptop depends on your viewpoint. Actually the old inspiron didn’t have a sleak look (as the HP Laptops have with them).

But the new Dell Inspiron is just PERFECT !!

The new sleek look. Some very exciting colors (oh ! I really miss this one). And a 2 Mega pixel camera. A faster processor. Lots of hard disk. 1 Gig of memory. etc. etc.

Check out some more Laptops