Category Archives: Internet

Web based password managers: 3 years later

By Diwaker Gupta | Published: February 3rd, 2010
Almost three years ago (yes, I was quite surprised myself), I wrote about my requirements from a web based password manager. That post generated a lot of discussion, and we have come a long long way since then. I figured it was a good time to step back and present what I feel are some [...]
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Google (Contacts, Mail, Talk) confusion

By Diwaker Gupta | Published: August 11th, 2009
Image via CrunchBase When Gmail first introduced the ability to import Contacts, I prompty exported my addressbook from KAddressbook. And then I mostly forgot about it, until recently. In the meantime, Google happily kept adding “suggested” contacts to my addressbook. I decided to revisit my Google Contacts after reading some blog posts about new functionality. Sure enough, [...]
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Angies List

By Diwaker Gupta | Published: July 29th, 2009
Ever since I moved to the bay area and joined Aster, I have started listening to KQED in my commute. The best thing about public radio stations is that they you don’t feel like ripping your hair out just listening to commercials. They do have some advertising, but it usually doesn’t show up on my [...]
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Web services I wouldn’t mind paying for

By Diwaker Gupta | Published: April 8th, 2009
Here are some web service I wouldn’t mind paying for, simply because of the value they add to my day-to-day life. Note that some of them already have paid plans, it is just that I haven’t reached a stage where I actually need to upgrade. All I’m saying is that these websites have enough real [...]
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GAFYD slowness

By Diwaker Gupta | Published: March 30th, 2009
I have been using Google Apps For Your Domain (GAFYD) for my floatingsun.net email for a while now (earlier I was using the email setup at my hosting provider, but moved away because of the lack of adequate spam filtering). In the beginning, it was just a joy and everything was nice and peachy. However, over [...]
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