Do They Really Know How To Sell Something In India?

Update: UK Ad Authorities have declared iPhone ad as “misleading”. I guess then they should declare it plain fraud in India.

This is a short rant about two of the “big” products launched recently in India in the last one week and how the people behind their sales/marketing teams either try to take the Indian

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Project: Splert – A Custom Answering Machine And More for IMs

Update Aug 25 2008: Updated to v0.02 and also added 32 bit package. Hit the link given below to download.

You must have heard of (or used) the auto-reply features given by today’s instant messengers that are sent to the ones messaging you while you are not at your desk. But those are one-size-fits-all kind

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Project: Shantz Webcam Autolocker

Sometimes I do some things that even I can’t explain why I did ‘em. Did this one in one of those times as well. This is a simple script to monitor motion in front of your PC, auto-lock it when you are away and auto-unlock it when you come back. Did it just because I

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Fixing The WordPress Drain Hole Pugin v2.1.3

If you use the awesome download manager plugin “Drain Hole” for your WordPress blog (A short review here), and upgraded to the latest version 2.1.3, you must have noticed that it doesn’t scan and add new files to the download repositories now. Well, this is a quick and short post to tell you how to

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Hi BIOS! My Name Is “Linux”, Or Is It?

A couple of days ago, I read this on Matthew Garrette’s blog, where he tells us about a vendor’s BIOS trying to figure out the OS type/version and setting things around on deciding the OS it is running. The call in question was _OSI(“Linux”). He goes on to say that the action the firmware takes, on

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