Applications I can't live without : Part 1.

I work in the software Quality assurance field, and here are the Windows Applications I can't live without.(Doesn't involve the software testing apps - that list is endless). I use 3 windows OS: Win XP / Vista/ Win 7. These must have applications(atleast for me) are mostly free and open source which are sure to work in all the three OS. Check them out.

1. Notepad++:  free as in both "free speech" and "free beer"
        - The replacement for notepad, having advance features, and easy to use with a tabbed interface. It helps me a lot in writing my technical blog, as well as do some basic programming as well.
More info in Notepad++ website

2. Paint.Net :
        - Replacement for the Paint in Windows (the MSPaint in windows 7 is more powerful than the one in other versions like xp and vista). This application can handle layers, and can do almost all the adjustments that are needed for your small time picture editing needs.
More info in Paint.Net website

3. Open Office :
        - Open Office(earlier with Sun, now with Oracle after the acquisition) is an open source office applications having almost all the capabilities of of MS Office. A true MS Office replacement and nifty to work with!
More info in Open Office website

4. Foxit reader :
        - I use this instead of Adobe Acrobat reader to view *.pdf(Portable Document Format) files. Light to the memory, and easy to use.
        Foxit Reader website

5. Browsers - FireFox/ Chrome :
        - Firefox is the thing with fire in it's stomache and can be claimed as the IE killer - Open source, fast(except may be because of some scripts), and almost crash free. Chrome from Google is also reliable in most of the cases.
         FIrefox and Chrome can be obtained from their websites.


To be continued...

New building for Infopark; Athulya opened by Chief Minister

Infopark's new building, Athulya was inaugarated by Mr. V. S. Achuthanandan, the cheif minister of Kerala, India on last day. This Information Technology Park(Info Park) is the second initiative of Kerala Government in the field of Information Technology after technopark, Trivandrum, and already houses some of the big names in the industry. The chief minister also opened the 2.4 KM infopark express high way, that links the technology park to the sea port airport road.

Situated on 7.1 acres of land in Infopark SEZ, Athulya has a total built-up area of 5.5 lakh square feet and can house a software development block (with an area of 3.5 lakh square feet), a cafeteria building (with an area of 0.50 lakh square feet), and multi-level car parking facility (300 cars). With a total seating capacity of 4000, Athulya will have a total of 10 elevators (8 for the software development blocks and 2 for the cafeteria). With an average floor plate size of 50000 sq. ft. Athulya also boasts of facilities such as incubation centers; training rooms; direct four-lane connectivity road ...etc.
More info on the facility of athulya in infopark can be found out in Kerala Information technology's blog.. in the function a mention on the smartcity issue also came up.

image courtesy : The Hindu

Adsense.. how much do you earn?

When ever some one clicks on adsense ad, Google shares its revenue with you.. but how much.. google recently disclosed the same and it is around 68 percentage see about that in here

Story of pagerank, blogger, wordpress and more..

A couple of years ago the most important thing around for webmasters was how to increase Google page rank or PR. In those times, I was also in constant search for articles around the internet by using keywords like "how to increase the PR", "Increase the Page rank" etc. Occasionally I used to search for "Increase the Alexa ranking" keywords too. I was able to increase my page rank(maximum of 5 for a short duration) and increase my Alexa score to the range of 2,00,000. After that I migrated my blog to Wordpress, tried Drupal, again to Wordpress and then back here to blogger. if there wasn't a DB migration at my host side, i wouldn't have got my articles deleted in Wordpress and i wouldn't have came back to blogger. Every thing happened for good(courtesy: Bhagavat Geetha).
Last day when i migrated my page rank was 2 and this day its updated and is now 4! err.. What's happening Google?
What is left? I now have a mission in Hand, to migrate my blog sqaguy to blogger. i think I'll loose my articles in sqa blog.. wanna try all the options..

Tiger and Elephant - a video

Just found this video of a tiger pouncing up on an elephant!
Posted coz found this interesting

A friend - Lost for ever

We were 23 people studying MCA @ GRD Coimbatore and now our beloved Suji(Sujith) is no more.. met with an accident in Bangalore, on his way back home from work. Rest In Peace my dear.

Those days with you will be there in our heart.. those trips to Ooty, small quarrels we made, the project we have done in Kochi, those combine study sessions, those short phone calls you made to ask whether I forgot you ...

Update(Jan12): The relatives of Sujith were ready for donation of his organs and a news came in malayala manorama print as well as online editions
the same is accessible in manaroama online . (MAlayalam)


The same is in Print edition as well. Print edition is scanned. Click on the scanned image to Zoom the same. Another Article appeared in Times of India, Bangalore Edition and you can read the same in here.