Pradeep Sethi's Blog

Ergo - Desktop Search for Vista (& SharePoint)

Pradeep — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:13:11 +0000

I found Ergo and it has some nice UI to perform search from across various sources such as Flickr, Youtube, Your Computer etc. And it also supports Sharepoint so you can search view your SharePoint documents from your desktop. Head over to http://yourergo.com for a free download. See screen-shots for more details:

Facebook for BlackBerry

Pradeep — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 03:45:48 +0000

Facebook web applications are extremely popular but the Facebook desktop app often don’t get enough attention they deserve. Here are some of the apps that I have been using. Facebook app for BlackBerry is very useful in particular. Facebook widget for Netvibes and Facebook for flock are also worth checking.

Hooked on Facebook®? BlackBerry® smartphones can help! Now you can take Facebook with you on your BlackBerry smartphone! The best part is: you stay connected to Facebook the whole time. Download this free application and take communicating with your friends to a whole new level.

The Netvibes Widget allows users to view their Facebook profile and friends from their personalized Netvibes homepage.

The Story of Stuff

Pradeep — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 01:01:57 +0000

Funny video - passport control

Pradeep — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 03:00:45 +0000

Free PHP 5 / Rails Hosting for Facebook app developers

Pradeep — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 20:47:03 +0000

Facebook developers get some more good news. If you are worried about having a reliable hosting space for your Facebook application, you can get it Free. Joyent is giving free PHP5 hosting along with MySQL, Rails 1.8.6 ,Python free for 1 year, if you are a Facebook application developer.

Other companies offering free hosting for Facebook developers include Jumpline.com & Freeunmeteredhost.com.

SilliconValley CodeCamp 2007

Pradeep — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 05:55:31 +0000

What is Code Camp? Code Camp is a free conference by and for the developer community. Speakers volunteer their time and everyone attends for free. It’s a place to learn, to network and to dig into some code.

This conference has some really great sessions on Javascript, .NET & SharePoint that I look forward to attend.

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Puts all Shows Online

Pradeep — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 08:40:58 +0000

If you a John Stewart fan, there is some good news for you. Yesterday, “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” put its entire video archive online (see www.thedailyshow.com). The archive goes back eight years. It’s completely free. And it’s all highly searchable.

You can watch Guests on the show:

& the World leaders:

I particularly enjoyed the interviews with Lynn Cheney & Pakistan’s president Parvez Musharaf.

Tags: humor, john stewart, comedy, politics, satire

Microsoft Popfly

Pradeep — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 15:03:49 +0000

Popfly is the fun, easy way to build and share mashups, gadgets, Web pages, and applications, in many ways similar to Yahoo Pipes. Here is a simple application that I created using Popfly.

Raat Chaand Gulzar - Sunday September 30

Pradeep — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:15:00 +0000

4 p.m. Sunday September 30
McAfee Theater, Saratoga High School
20300 Herriman Ave, Saratoga, CA 95070

Buy Tickets Online
Group and children discount available!

India Has Become 14 Percent Less Corrupt

Pradeep — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 19:57:53 +0000

This article from Hindustan Times is quite interesting. RTI and eGovernance initiatives have already had a visible impact in reducing corruption in India.

Ashok Malhotra, even from behind the bars, would have been really amused to read the latest report of Transparency International. “A few counties, most notably India’” the Report went on, “managed to bootstrap themselves out of the truly corrupt group”. In the corruption perception index (CPI) we scored 3.3 in 2006, up from 2.9 a year back. That is undoubtedly encouraging. more