The Danesh Project

advertlets offline

advertlets seems to be offline, their ads are ok but advertlets.com is down. Looks like a DB issue.

Update: Advertlets is back online. The downtime was for scheduled maintenance work.

OpenOffice.org 3 beta released

OpenOffice.org 3 Beta is out. The Beta is available to all those who wish to test, evaluate and report bugs about the next major release scheduled to be released in September.

The new release is packed with tones of new improvements. See the full feature list.

1. New “Start Centre”.
2. New icons.
3. Zoom capabilities.
4. Improved spreadsheet features. Columns now increased from 256 to 1024.
5. Support for ODF 1.2.
6. Support for Office 2007, 2008 document files.

OpenOffice.org 3 Beta is currently available for MS-Windows, GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and OpenSolaris. Head on over to the download page to grab your copy.

Source: OpenOffice.org

Office snapshots

That’s the famous Googleplex. A place many dream to work at.

But why? Is it their brilliant ideas or os it the alternative office workspace that Google practices? Either way I would love to work for them someday.

Today, Google is not longer the pioneer in alternative office workspaces, familiar companies like Facebook, Flickr, Mozilla, LinkedIn and many others are coming up with impressive office workspaces too to bring out the best in their employees.

If you need a glimpse of what these offices look like, Office Snapshots has an impressive collection of snapshots of workspaces

Trust me, after looking at them. What we have in Malaysia feels like a factory. Seriously.

Skribit , content suggestion for blogs

Hi, writer’s block is something very common amongst busy bloggers nowadays. Most often this is the case with part time bloggers who have to juggle between their full time jobs and their love for blogging . I’ve been stuck with work lately and it’s draining all my creative juices. Ideas don’t seem to flow in easily anymore.

I need your help, there’s a new tool in town. Skribit, I’ve added the widget. Skribit’s basically a Web 2.0 suggestion engine for blogs. Readers get to submit ideas for posts they would want to read and I the blog owner get’s to overcome my writer’s block syndrome.

Give it a spin. Remember to do drop me an idea or 2 on topics you would like me to post about.

Moving shared hosting account to new server

Shinjiru will be moving my shared hosting account to a new server tomorrow. The move is scheduled for 9pm (GMT +8) 8th May 2008.

Since my DNS records will also need to be updated, The Danesh Project will be down till the updated DNS entries propagate to all DNS servers on the net. This will take up to 72 hours.