Windows Mojave Experiment Kicks Ass

Wow, this is totally cool. A great lesson in creating buzz.
The folks at windows vista wanted to convince people that Vista is indeed a good operating system and upgradable from XP. But there are lot of bad opinions floating around and end users are more or less confused about it. Personally I have rarely used [...]

Watch out if you are buying insurance online at GEICO - your password is not encrypted

I have noticed something totally strange while trying to get an auto insurance quote online at GEICO. See it for yourself.

They are showing your password in the URL… OMG
Make sure you don’t use the site for getting new quotes as it could be a potential privacy breach as anyone watching the URLs like [...]

Vodafone - creativity gone awry

Just click those ads and tell me what you understood. Humor me, go ahead, I am waiting.
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Ok, stop scratching, you might loose more hair than the common sense brand managers at vodafone lost.
Apparently these adds convey that Vodafone has solved the unsolvable conundrum of “talk-time” or “validity” by introducing a lifetime valid pre-paid card [...]

Get stock quotes with one click in excel, and company profiles too

While trying to spell check one my sheets I have learned this cool trick to fetch real time stock quotes without any webqueries or vba or anything.

First enter the stock code in a cell (this works for US stocks only), for eg. AAPL for Apple, MSFT for Microsoft etc. Then ALT+CLICK on that cell, [...]

App. idea for iPhone developers (for other location aware phones as well)

Now that iPhone is going to have GPS built in, here is an application idea any of you iPhone app developers out there.
The idea is simple, whenever the phone-holder is driving, this app would automatically answer calls with a pre-recorded message (that can go like, “Hi.., I am driving right now, please leave a [...]

Cool outdoor advertising by Google Russia

This is cool, apparently Google resorted to this to beat the leading Russian search provider Yandex. I am not sure whether this would be effective though. Its like forcing people to break a habit. This, probably is the most challenging task for marketers all over the world. When customers are used to Yandex or Naver [...]

Am I a Japanese Translator?

Fridays can be immensely fun, as I anticipate 2 days of doing-nothing while sipping coffee working on excel sheets. But nothing can make my day better than this immense suckmanship displayed by Naukri with their job recommendation for me.

All the Japanese I know can be summarized to 1 word - “omurice“, now that I think [...]