People, I’ve just launched http://www.notemonk.com, an education portal. At notemonk you can Download books Share and read notes on text book topics Watch relevant videos Notemonk aims to create a rich and fun learning experience around text books. For launch, we’ve included the higher standards in NCERT. Please take a look and spread the work. [...]
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Tagged: education, headrun, notemonk, text books, website
I refer Wikipedia frequently. I use this BASH function to help me do that from the terminal. For explanation of how this works head over here. BASH function # wiki # eg: wiki India # wiki Apple_Inc # wiki Anglo_Saxon wiki() { dig +short txt $1.wp.dg.cx } Example usage prashanth@prashanth-desktop:~$ wiki India “India, officially the [...]
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Tagged: bash, code, function, productivity, terminal, wikipedia
Here is a simple utility created using Python for translating text from various languages into English. It uses the Google AJAX API to do this. Usage prashanth@prashanth-desktop:~$ translate bonjour hello prashanth@prashanth-desktop:~$ translate guten morgen Good morning
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Some time back I had done some work on extracting topics from an arbitrary piece of text using Wikipedia data. Recently I thought of a concept to put that algorithm to work. As a part of this project, I need to extract relevant text from an arbitrary HTML page. By relevant I mean the “meat” [...]
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Firefox 3 has been getting rave reviews ever since it got in to beta. The blogosphere was abuzz with reports on how much more efficient and snappier FF3 is compared to its earlier incarnations and more so with respect to the competition (Opera, IE7, Safari). Features like “Places” (Bookmarks on steroids), Cairo for rendering and [...]
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Tagged: download day, firefox, firefox3, guiness book
I’d thought of making a word quizzer as a web application to improve my vocabulary when I took the GRE test a couple of years back. I’d written one in Visual Basic 6 when I wrote SAT , but desktop applications are boring! I got inspired to bring my long standing idea to fruition and [...]
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Tagged: quiz, vocabulary, web, word, wordza
What is Alexa rank? Alexa collects statistics about visits by internet users to websites through the Alexa Toolbar. Based on the collected data, Alexa computes site ranking. By examining the Alexa rank of a site, you can get a rough idea of how popular the site is. Many argue that Alexa rank is misleading but [...]
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Tagged: alexa, alexa rank, programmatically, python, script, xml
One of the trickiest and enjoyable parts of starting something new (be it a website, project, band) is naming it! Sometimes a good name can be quite elusive and cause more than the deserved share of brain ache. Here is a list of automated services around the internet that will help you get name suggestions. [...]
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Tagged: domain names, name generator, name suggestions, product names, web2.0 names
Every once in a while, someone comes up with a way of doing things in an extremely obvious and simple way. When this happens, a zillion others say, “of course that’s the way to do it!”. Songza is a music search engine and jukebox that is dead simple to use. You should try it to [...]
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I recently came to know that NCERT was providing all the text books (class 1 – 12) for download. However, I found their interface hard to use for browsing through. So I wrote a crawler in python to get all the books to my webserver. Along with storing the books, I generated thumbnails for every [...]
I was hosted with “routhost” until April this year when I decided I needed more features like SSH access, build environment so I would be able to download and compile applications and most of all more disk space. After much hunting around I discovered DreamHost. The feature list is astounding. Here are a few to [...]
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Tagged: dreamhost, web, web hosting