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Whats with __MACOSX in Zip files?

By Diwaker Gupta | Published: February 7th, 2007
More and more people are using Mac's for development these days. As an example, a lot of the core developers from some of the leading web frameworks use Mac as their primary development platform. Several plugin and theme authors for Wordpress also develop on Mac. While this is a good thing, there is one particular [...]
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Why bharat1 sucks?

By Diwaker Gupta | Published: August 16th, 2006
Desicritics had a glowing review of bharat1.com. I don't have anything specifically against it, but I think the review is a bit biased. So to play the devil's advocate, let me point out why this so-called “preimer news aggregator” is not as great. There are many ways a website can distinguish itself – user experience, content, [...]
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Image management in KDE

By Diwaker Gupta | Published: January 31st, 2006
Why can't KDE have a single photo management solution? I've often been a proponent of the “Choice is Good (TM)” philosophy, but I have to admit, when it comes to image management in KDE (or Linux, in general), I really feel lost. For KDE to emerge as a strong contender in the desktop arena, it [...]
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Konqueror Wishlist

By Diwaker Gupta | Published: January 26th, 2006
I have talked about my dabblings with Konqueror earlier. However, there are still a lot of things I find missing in Konqueror, as a result these days I end up running one instance of both on my desktop Here are some of the things I really wish Konqueror had: http://del.icio.us integration: Bookmark management in [...]
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Google and Urchin

By Diwaker Gupta | Published: November 15th, 2005
I was talking to Asim yesterday and he seemed to be having a hard time understanding exactly what my problem was, vis-a-vis the Google/Urchin/Analytics fiasco. He couldn't imagine why anyone would get pissed if they were paying for some product and now that product comes for free. I guess I didn't communicate well. Perhaps, the this [...]
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