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Friday Linkfest

Sharninder — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:49:18 +0000

Been a while since the Linkfest … well, I’ve been travelling and have been kinda busy. Here is the collection of links from what I’ve been reading this week.

Business

Scobleizer.com: Rober Scoble has been travelling in China this week and he’s amazed by the speed of development in there and the way business is conducted in that country. He posted about it earlier this week.

China makes, the world takes: The Atlantic’s excellent article on China.

Humour

I’m a Mac, I’m a PC

And I’m Linux, losers

Technology

Build your own Wall-E: This dude is awesome !

Yahoo officially introduces their new Open Strategy

The Best way to tether your iPhone to your laptop … for free – Unlike AT & T, which is going to charge $30/month for this basic facility. Boooo AT & T !!

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Friday Linkfest #3

Sharninder — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 09:55:21 +0000

Welcome to the Third edition of the Friday Linkfest. Read on for the best of the web :-)

Travel

World’s top 10 trekking destinations

The adventures of Wan

Must read for anyone who likes to ride on two wheels.

Roopkund Trek

Flickr stream of a friend who just came back after completing the Roopkund trek.

Technology

10 insanely useful Django tips

Amazon Kindle 2 in the wild ?

OpenSource you can use

Install boxee or xbmc on an Apple TV

Life

Bollywood – a misleading model for contemporary cinema

Deal Sealed

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Friday Linkfest #2

Sharninder — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 06:55:18 +0000

Welcome to the second edition of the Friday Linkfest. A week sure passes by quickly ! This post is to share with you guys some of the cool stuff that we’ve been reading here at NomadicRider.

Open Source

16 Free tutorials for top open source applications

OStatic’s firefox superguide

Old and evergreen posts from OStatic. Lots of good stuff there.

GNOME 2.24 released

The latest and greatest release of the Open Source GNOME Desktop. Read the release notes for a glimpse of all the cool stuff the GNOME people have lined up for us.

The browser arms race/

Nice collection of links and thoughts on the (renewed) browser wars.

building a custom Lifestream website with Sweetcron

Build your own lifestreaming website with this awesome Open Source software.

Iron browser – A port of Google Chrome

A port of the Google Chrome browser for the privacy junkies. Iron removes all code which makes Chrome go back to Google with information about you, your machine or browsing habits. The srware.net site is in german but the folks at Incomplete News Project have a translation up. So, in short, Iron is Google Chrome without all the snooping and that should please a lot of folks.

Humour

The aam sutra

Best geek quotes

Hilarious

Travel

London loses worlds most expensive title to Monaco/

Monaco is now officially the world’s most expensive property market. As if we didn’t know that already !

http://www.gadling.com/2008/09/25/air-conditioning-coming-soon-to-londons-underground/

Finally !

London’s best indie bookstores

If you’re in London, make sure to check out these.

Technology

Alternatives to apple spaces

The Apple blog lists some really nice alternatives to Mac OS X’s Spaces feature.

Kosmix eschews the needle delivers the haystack

A nice review of the Latest search engine to hit the Internet. This one (like all others) promises to be different. Well, atleast in theory it is.

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Friday Linkfest #1

Sharninder — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 07:55:55 +0000

So, I’ve been reading a lot. Two thousand seven hundred and ninety seven items in the last month, or so Google Reader tell me.

While I’m at it, I decided that I might as well share some stuff with you guys. After all, reading is a good thing, right ?

Here is a round up of some stuff that I’ve been reading from around the web.

Humour

Close shave with insurance

Sarcastic and Funny account of a person’s struggle to get a medical checkup done to get an insurance.

Travel

Experiencing an Asia beyond China and India

Experience Asia in the Big Apple.

Post-Olympics Beijing To Traffic: “Welcome Back!”

The olympics are over and the traffic and jams are back to this large Asian metropolis.

Technology

What would I do if I was Steve Balmer

Interesting thoughts on helping Microsoft get on the SaaS bandwagon.

Yet Another MSI-Wind review

Those netbooks have started to look really interesting. Read on for a 10-week review of the Akoya Mini aka. MSI Wind.

Email is Dead and the Counter-Argument

Ah !! The age old debate. Question to all reading this: Does anyone of you think that Email is dead ?

Life

Terrorism in India – Paying the Price for Long Time Complacency

Well thought out post on the problem of terrorism in India.