Archive for April 2010
In their annual TIME 100 issue the Times Magazine name the people who most affect our world. As always with the people who made it to the list, there is no denial that whether they are influential in a big way or not, they sure have made news in one way or the other. The [...]
Add-Art is a firefox plugin that would replace banner ad’s with some art. However lately, it’s become an embarrassment to see such images being called as art, see Image below. I keep checking Cricinfo at work to stay abreast with the scores, hence I had to do something about this. The good old GreaseMonkey came [...]
A Thousand Words, is a short film by Ted Chung. The tagline is “Every day: so many opportunities to connect…What if you took just one? “. This film has a great soul to it. Every shot in the film is so simple and self-explanatory that it cuts the language barrier, background music is superb. A [...]
Try running this piece of javascript, it would throw a “URI malformed” exception. javascript:alert(decodeURIComponent(escape(’http://rushis.com/®’))); The ® character is transformed to %AE, which is not a valid input to decodeURIComponent function. This issue is clearly evident in the latest prototype js 1.6 framework. _getHeaderJSON: function() { var json = this.getHeader(’X-JSON’); if (!json) return null; json = [...]
Changing the proxy settings in windows is a pain. However most of the folks working in corporate offices ritually do this every single day. Here is an easier way to do that. Of course we are tweaking the REGISTRY of windows a litle bit, so back up your registry before attempting this. Step1: Create an [...]
