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August 2012

RT @rameshsrivats: Basically, St. Stephen’s is asking Unmukt Chand to choose - Tests or Exams?

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RT @ScepticGeek: Google, Apple CEOs in secret patent talks | Reuters j.mp/ODmUZr

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The easiest way to add device frames to your mobile screenshots bit.ly/TBTh9s >> Very useful tip. Thanks @labnol

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@nirmaltv: Facebook Offering 2GB to Store your Photos Privately nirmaltv.com/2012/08/30/fac…

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RT @mattcutts: Want to hear about Goobuntu, the in-house flavor of Ubuntu that Google uses? Here you go: goo.gl/t31ml

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RT @mattcutts: OH: “Websites are like kids #1: Everybody is proud of their own and believes it’s the best, but that’s not always the case.”

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@ryah Whats your take on vert.x?

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RT @verge: Samsung Galaxy Camera announced: 16 megapixels, 21x optical zoom, and Android 4.1 vrge.co/PrHxoN

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RT @fasuke: Death sentence for Ajmal Kasab, says Supreme Court bit.ly/PqpCyI

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BigScreen — Javascript library for HTML5 Fullscreen APIbit.ly/OvbfvSD

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Javascript tips for non-specialists bit.ly/Qv9fFx

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New Actionscript compiler from Adobe bit.ly/Qv9ikC

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Go Mobile with Google - Create a Mobile Site for Free bit.ly/TnPYmb

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RT @mattcutts: Here’s a new tool from Google that makes it easier to register to vote in the US: goo.gl/uck9b

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@gkns @vigneshv_psg I welcome this move. Currently you need to navigate 2-3 pages to make the payment. RDS mode can be a bit simpler.

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@buchireddy yeah. It’s Arun’s. But I am using that as a test device. It doesn’t work as a phone.

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MT @janole: If cars were invented today, one manufacturer would’ve a patent on using 4 wheels n all others had to pay a license fee for it

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RT @psankar: Move away electric car, make way for Air car - tech.slashdot.org/story/12/08/26…

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Samsung unveils Galaxy Player 5.8, pockets everywhere brace for impact engt.co/MUVEFS via @engadget

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Google Nexus 7 overclocked to 2GHz, punches well above its weight engt.co/SGaXEM via @engadget

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@raghugs it’s a simple process only. But, I had to tweak my phone a bit too get it working. Will write a blog post.

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MT @mohanstatsman: Today is the 104th birth anniversary Sir Don Bradman: The batsman with a Test ave (99.94), a FC ave (95.14)

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@raghugs Its LXDE desktop. I have Android alongside Linux. Haven’t really tested the performance.

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Successfully installed Ubuntu on S2! \m/ post.ly/92dWJ

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@kowshiknag What features?? I couldnt find any differences.

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RT @rameshsrivats: Today’s News - Townsville: Indians beat Australians. Hyderabad: Indians beat New Zealanders. Delhi: Indians beat Indians.

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RT @cricarun: The Hyderabad was the first time since Delhi 2008 (vs Aus) that Zaheer Khan went wicketless in a Test match.

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India won by innings and 115 runs. 12 wickets by @ashwinravi99 . Good show by Pujara as well.

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@BCCI: Ashwin gets his five-for, Boult OUT!!!

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First ten wicket haul for @ashwinravi99 . Congrats da.

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:P RT @vinayvasan: Its a bird, Its a plane, Its Viru!!!!1

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@BCCI What does Ravi like the most abt Hyderabad? Hyderabadi Briyani??

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@mohanstatsman: winners: 3 Australia (1988, 2002, 2010), 3 India (2000, 2008, 2012), 2 Pakistan (2004, 2006) and 1 England (1998)”

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We are the champions in ODI be it U40 or U19.

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Congrats to Team India U19 for winning the world cup. :-) Great stuff by Chand.

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Aus U-19 41/4 after 12 overs. Go India.

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@vvijaybharath yes, it was a heavy rain and water logging all around the outfield.

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No rain. Dark clouds hovering over the stadium. Just hoping that the wind will clear the clouds.

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@rameshsrivats: Meanwhile New Zealand get all out for 159. R. Ashwin takes 6 wickets thereby earning the title Aaru Ashwin.”

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It’s gloomy out here. Floodlights are on. Feels like a day night match.

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Covers are coming off. Sun is out. Play abt to begin soon. Me and @arunkumar_n sitting right above the sight screen near pavilion

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Booked tickets for day-3 of India Vs New Zealand. Might go on day-4 as well. @arunkumar_n

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Damn, again!! :( RT @IBNLiveRealtime: 8 dead in shooting outside Empire State building in New York

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It’s drizzling here. There could be some delay to the start of second day’s play.

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RT @shankargan: Microsoft unveils its new logo, 25 years after the original theverge.com/2012/8/23/3262… via @verge

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RT @NameetBansal: List of blocks issued by Ministry of IT and Communication economictimes.indiatimes.com/photo.cms?msid…

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RT @rem: @js_bin How to customise the editor panels in JS Bin: youtube.com/watch?v=pzFqaR… n how to enable debug mode: jsbin.settings.debug = true”

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Congrats Pujara for the maiden ton.

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@venkatananth I see players 19 years + some days. How is that allowed??

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@venkatananth Wondering what is the age criteria for this U-19 tournament. I see players 19+.

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India U19 to play Australia U 19 in the world cup finals on Aug 26.

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RT @rameshsrivats: Sehwag for PM. Why? He never ever blocks.

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Weird to see someone else coming in at No. 3 for Team India.

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@harry_sistalam I mean to ask what is demo’d on stage or something like that??

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RT @jungleecom: Amazon launches Kindle in India: Customers can now purchase the Kindle at Croma stores across India.
bit.ly/Kindle_on_Jung…

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RT @amnigos: Another amazing low cost data backup offering from AWS called Glacier - aws.amazon.com/glacier

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New version of my employer site is up — deshaw.com Better and informative than before. Its responsive.

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@mohanstatsman: ICC no 1 Test teams: AUSTRALIA 6y-2m-22d (2003-2009); SA 3m-15d (2009), INDIA 1y-8m-7d (2009-2011) & ENG 1y-7d (2011-12)”

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Great win by SA. :-) Awesome test match.

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RT @suhel: VVS Laxman never played in a world cup. Sreesanth has already won 2. Everything is fair in love, war & cricket.

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Mat Honan: How I Got My Digital Life Back Again After An Epic Hacking — wired.com/gadgetlab/2012…

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@rameshsrivats: Anything good: Congress Hand. Anything bad: Foreign Hand. @mohank

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At Merina beach, Chennai.

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:O “@imjadeja: Whan I was named junior player of the year yfrog.com/mnov7irj

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RT I want to win the ball from @cricketicc

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@ibnlive: RT @cricketnext North stand at Uppal to be named after Laxman cricketnext.in.com/news/north-sta…

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@ESPNcricinfo: From the archives but worth a re-read: Dravid on his comrade in arms es.pn/NwJdS9

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@ibnlive: RT @IBNLiveRealtime Yuvraj Singh to be given Arjuna award”

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@rameshsrivats: Anyway, whatever does next, he’ll be most successful at it. Why? It’ll be his 2nd innings, no.”

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@bhogleharsha: a man of great dignity says good bye with great dignity. that is how vvs laxman has always been

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@fakingnews: Australia has just asked BCCI if they can tour India instead of New Zealand.

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@fakingnews: Congratulations to Australia.

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@BCCI: VVS Laxman announces retirement from Test Cricket”

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@rameshsrivats: VVS Laxman scored most of his runs in the company of Dravid, or tail-enders. The Wall and the Vaal.

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:-P “@fakingnews: After retirement, VVS Laxman should start a company offering guided tour of Australia.”

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@gauravCNNIBN: can confirm now that a press conference is scheduled at 4pm today in hyderabad where vvs is set to announce his retirement”

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@arfunnnnn: Some dude on Bangalore Traffic Police FB page ” Can u do something abt Pollution in Blore”. BTP” Use Public transport”. PWNED.”

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Single! 5 0 0 4 4 “@ImRo45: Guys please!!! pic.twitter.com/yjcSHyJU

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@maxogden: ATTENTION ALL CATS WHO WANT TO LEARN JAVASCRIPT: YOUR DAY HAS ARRIVED jsforcats.com (also potentially useful for humans)”

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@rameshsrivats: Dhoni to launch own perfume line. What’s so good about that? Smell, of course. bit.ly/Nwd8d0

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@cricketicc: Kumble rang the NASDAQ closing bell on Friday and will be promoting the in New York this weekend bit.ly/Sz9go7

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@MarsCuriosity: Incoming! Watch my heat shield hitting the ground on Mars & raising a cloud of dust [video] bit.ly/SxVZME

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:-( “@IBNLiveRealtime: VVS Laxman likely to retire from Test cricket: Reports”

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RT @BloodAid: 1 AB+ve Platelet donor reqd. for Suhkjeet Singh @ Max Hosp., Padpadganj Call: Ranjeet : 9891326262,Deepak: 9266622222

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Twitter to Client Developers: Drop Dead bit.ly/OorZAy

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Dravid wants ‘give-and-take’ between IPL and Tests espncricinfo.com/england/conten…

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@arunkumar_n No. Was not at my desk. Will ping u in 2.

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Dumminy’s strokes remind me of our own dadas.

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Between Sachin, Ponting, Dravid, Kallis, Gavaskar, Lara, only one 100 had been scored at Lords. It was scored by Dravid in the recent series

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Oh. “@harbhajan_singh: 4 for 91 against Glamorgan in first inn.”

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@arunkumar_n Very later. This was released abt a month ago. It was covered in some newspaper as well.

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@psankar Default is UTF-8 right. Unless you changed it explicitly using meta tag charset

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RT @ibnlive: Northeast people flee Hyderabad after rumours ibnlive.in.com/news/northeast…

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Independence days: Pakistan and India celebrate their 65th boston.com/bigpicture/201… via @BostonDotCom

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@psankar Its working for me. Are you trying from Chrome developer tools? or, using the button you have written? Any exceptions in dev tools?

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@psankar And, you should probably look at strict mode JavaScript. ejohn.org/blog/ecmascrip…

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@psankar You should use Chrome developer tools (or similar tools) to write / test code. Error reporting is better with these tools.

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@psankar you have closed the match but not the alert. Fixed code: function myFunction() { alert(“இந்தியா”.match(/[\u0B80-\u0BFF]+/g)); }

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@psankar Typo in your function definition. Parenthesis missing. It works otherwise.

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Mozilla Firefox OS Ported to Raspberry Pi $35 Mini PC (video) bit.ly/NGsZE8

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@psankar Personally I found the course to be slow. Perhaps the beginners will find it useful.

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Khan academy teaches JavaScript as the first language. Thanks to @jeresig. Nice to see that they have adopted Brett Victor’s techniques.

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RT @qrush: OH ‘Showed my boss my code on github today, she says, “Why did you spend so much time coloring all of these words?”’

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Dropbox in space — blog.dropbox.com/index.php/drop… One of the best hacks I have seen.

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RT @nirmaltv: Windows 8 is now available on MSDN and Technet

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India announces plans for a Mars mission in 2013 bit.ly/TF1c7K

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Oracle proposes Java GPU support bit.ly/NDpjTJ

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Samsung Officially Announces The Galaxy Note 10.1 For The U.S., Available August 16th Starting At $499 androidpolice.com/2012/08/15/sam…

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RT @labnol: Google doodles for the two neighbors. pic.twitter.com/x2HRiJGU

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Google doodle for “India’s Independence day 2012” post.ly/8o77b

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:P RT @fakingnews: Happy Independence Day. And please outrage that Google Doodle is not on this theme.

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RT @AndroidDev: The Android Design site has been updated with new in-depth content and new Jelly Bean content: goo.gl/mraFa

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Khan Academy Introduction to Computer Science bit.ly

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RT @reachaditya: AB+ blood required in Yashoda, Hospital Hyd now . Please contact asap @8142045313.

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RT @rameshsrivats: Nehru to Patel: Boss, aaj night-out karna padega.

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Google Makes Some Changes to the I’m Feeling Lucky Button labnol.org/?p=24747

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RT @rameshsrivats: Our Parliament is used as a stadium, and a stadium is used as a jail. Hmm. How to complete this circle?

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@psankar Recently started using Sublime Text 2 for all scripting. It is THE best on that space. Auto-complete, multi-edit n much more.

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@psankar Ok, never faced this problem. I upgrade at least once a week. May be I have never noticed this because of the fast connection.

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Access Google APIs with Dart bit.ly/O7P1yn

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Vote for us!!! RT @SujayKrishna Just submitted a hack in Yahoo! Open Hack India 2012 eaSYnc goo.gl/lFAY2

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Vote for us. Still a WIP RT @SujayKrishna Just submitted a hack in Yahoo! Open Hack India 2012 eaSYnc goo.gl/lFAY2

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RT @sudarmuthu: Code samples in various languages to access YQL sudarmuthu.com/code-samples-t… Very useful foia

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:D RT @vigneshv_psg: Experiencing the @varunkumar and @arunkumar_n confusion for the first time ;-)

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RT @harikt: 800 people from 20 states for

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RT @sudarmuthu: Just finished my talk about flickr. slides — slideshare.net/Sudar/picture-… n YQL queries from gist.github.com/3321846

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Looks like I am the only one with descent internet connection at . Lucky me.

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RT @reid: How to Win at Node.js, slides from my talk at reid.in/g0

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Yahoo! organizing its fifth . This is my third#openhackindia. ExciTED.

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At Sheraton, Bangalore for Yahoo! OpenHack India. Crazy crowd at the moment. Hope it gets better as the day progresses.

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@ikuberan I am also thinking of upgrading to SSD and 8GB RAM. Oh, yeah, will call you da.

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@psankar The same applies to Sachin as well right. Has he ever been considered alongside other ranji players??

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@ikuberan How much did it cost you? What is the config?

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RT @BCCI: Team India for T20Is/ICC World T20- MSD(C)/Gauti/Viru/Raina/Virat/Yuvraj/Irfan/Ashwin/Zak/Balaji/Dinda/Rohit/Chawla/Bhajji, Manoj

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@BCCI: Team India for Test series against NZ- MSD(C)/Viru/Gauti/SRT/VVS/Pujara/Virat/Ashwin/Zak/Ojha/Umesh/Rahane/Chawla/Ishant/Raina”

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@sangeeths @psankar It has an option on toolbar itself. Small merge icon.

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@psankar did you get confirmation?? If so, you would have got invitation for openhackindia2012.hacker.yahoo.net this has the schedule and everything.

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Android based camera from Nikon: Coolpix S800 bit.ly/Np75lf

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Leak Finder: a new tool for JavaScript bit.ly/QOpOxh

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Updated Google Translate for Android reads text from photos, adds dialect preferences — theverge.com/2012/8/9/32299…

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@psankar Office is one of the best from M$.

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Google Bringing ‘Google Now’ Siri-like Voice Search Features To iPhone And iPad [VIDEO] redmondpie.com/google-bringin…

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Google: India ranks second in education-related searches - The Times of India timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/news/inte…

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Yet another animated Google doodle for Olympics 2012! post.ly/8hcSl

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@murugaprabum Hi da, need a help. Can you pls come online on gtalk.

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@vigneshv_psg come online on gtalk if free.

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Google Tests Adding Gmail To Your Search Results techcrunch.com/2012/08/08/goo… via @TechCrunch

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@VigneshMohan there is no third place play off in boxing. Both the semi losers will get bronze. I think it’s because it’s a judged event.

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@ibnlive: RT @IBNLiveRealtime Olympics: Mary Kom loses SF 6-11, wins Bronze”

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@harry_sistalam In October da. Wait for few days. Our company might sponsor the participants. I m trying to push it thru HR.

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Planning to give a talk on “Debugging JavaScript” at JS Foo Bangalore 2012. Vote for it if you like to hear from me — funnel.hasgeek.com/jsfoo/445-debu…

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RT @om: Starbucks partners with Square, will accept payments from Pay-By-Square gigaom.com/2012/08/07/sta…

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Google basketball doodle for Olympics 2012 post.ly/8gySW

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Rovio teases new female Angry Birds character bit.ly/NBoQNf

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@prdpnayak I used to getup at 2 AM and feel sleepy around 6 PM itself.

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“I can bowl faster than Zaheer Khan.” Yohan Blake, Olympics 2012 100m race silver medalist espncricinfo.com/magazine/conte…

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RT @sriramk: scary bit is that AMZN accounts are also AWS accounts. How many startups can u take over by knowing founder email/billing addr?

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RT @prassanaj: Interesting insights from NYT as always - nytimes.com/interactive/20…

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@vvijaybharath planning to upgrade my MBP to 8GB. Know of any good deals in Chennai / Hyderabad / Bangalore?

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Damn you @google for the doodle. People around me are making soo much noise with the keystrokes. :|

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