I really like easy to use features for photo editing in Picassa but don’t like Google albums instead use Flickr for all my photo storage. I had to go through the manual steps to edit the photos in Picassa & then use Flickr uploader to upload photos manually to Flickr.

Luckily there is a plugin, Picassa2Flickr,  that allows you to upload your photos to Flickr from Picassa directly. It is very cool. Check out.

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

Many things make this little personal organizer special, here is a list.

1. It fits easily in your back pocket or purse.
2. It’s as cheap as one piece of paper (Because that’s all it is!)
3. It opens like a book. Leading to easier to find, more organized notes.
4. The first page has a pouch, big enough to carry a business card!
5. Customizable with “Mods” tailored to your needs.
6. It’s free and fun!

Pocketmod

Interested in viewing what a website looked back in history, check Internet Archive Wayback Machine. It shows you a snapshot of the existing websites from the history. You can also navigate the website as users did years ago.Here is the link from the archive on how eBay looked in last 10 years as early as 1997 when it was commonly known as AuctionWeb & how Google looked way back in 1998 linked to http://google.standford.edu

via Google Operating System

Google Pack, the collection of applications recommended by Google, includes a new software: StarOffice, an office suite developed by Sun. In 2000 Sun released StarOffice’s source code, which became the foundation of OpenOffice.org, an open source project sponsored by Sun.

As I predicted about 6 weeks back, Prathibha Patil would be sworn in as first Women President of India on Wednesday.

Are we ready for an American Female President?

I have been using GrandCentral  for a while now now and I must say it is a great service. I wasn’t sure if I needed another phone number (even though free) but now after using it for some time, I am liking it…

It is still in beta but has some nice features such as routing of your calls based upon your filters, gettting customized ringer-tone (for your callers).

I have a couple GrandCentral invites to share. Leave a comment if you need one.

Digg.com founder Kevin Rose’s new startup Pownce is in private beta right now. Invites for Pownce are available for sale on eBay. I too have few invites available. Post your info here and you can get one for free.

Mike Arrington, one of my favorite writer had some really strong words today for Valleywag and some other bloggers.

Valleywag says its wrong. Om Malik, an innocent babe in the woods when it comes to being on the receiving end of valleywag attacks, folded, apologized and had the ads pulled. Someone over at CNET jumped on the bandwagon, saying we were all pimping advertisers slogans. He emailed us (I was driving to Foo camp and offline), and shortly thereafter wrote “surprise, surprise–heard nothing back.” Yeah, that’s me, shrinking from controversy and afraid to answer emails. I just wrote back to the reporter, calling him an idiot for falling into this trap.

Even Dave Winer threw a few logs on the fire, while acknowledging that Valleywag is generally full of shit.

So here’s my position on all of this: Go pound sand. People understand that if there’s text in an ad box, someone is paying for it to be there.

Yes, Ma’am Supreme Commander! - First in India’s 60 year history India is all set to get a Female President, though it had a female prime minister twice, I guess, having a female president is slightly different as Hindustantimes, one of the top two newspapers in India reported

Yes, Ma’am Supreme Commander!

The last male bastion — the position of supreme commander of India’s armed forces — will fall if UPA candidate Pratibha Patil makes it to Rashtrapati Bhavan. But the generals are fine with snapping out crisp salutes to her.

Army chief General JJ Singh told Hindustan Times: “As a nation, we have always been open to women holding the highest offices. We have had a woman prime minister and now we are likely to get a woman president. It will be a great honour for us to serve whoever is appointed the supreme commander.”