Google’s got a new favicon

Google’s rolled out a new favicon. You like it? It’s basicly a white “g” within a google colored canvas. Standing out from the crowd is the idea behind the white “g”. The new design was inspired by user submissions, same as their previous favicon release back in June. The winning design this time came from André Resende, a computer science undergraduate student at the University of Campinas in Brazil. A quick look at Google’s favicon history....

2009-01-12 · 1 min · Danesh Manoharan

WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg turns 25

For those who don’t know, Matt Mullenweg is the guy behindAutomattic. The company behind the world’s most popular publishing platform WordPress (6 years old) and it’s accompanying services. Askimet, Gravatar, bbPress, IntenseDebate, BuddyPress and WordPress.com the free WordPress hosting service. Today, Matt is amongst The 25 Most Influential People on the Web and 30 under 30 America’s Coolest Young Entrepreneurs . At only 25 Matt has managed to accomplish so much and there is still a long way to go....

2009-01-12 · 1 min · Danesh Manoharan

Facebook hits 150 million users

This just in, Facebook has reached 150 million users world wide. About 50% of it’s users log in everyday. Facebook’s users today range from students right up to grandparents, this is no surprise to me as everyone in my home has a Facebook account including my Dad who’s 63 this year. Facebook now covers over 170 countries in 35 different languages, anyone from anywhere on the globe can get a piece of Facebook in their own language....

2009-01-09 · 1 min · Danesh Manoharan

Hindu festival dates for 2009

Here’s a list of Hindu festivals for 2009 and their respective dates. January 2009 Vaikunta Ekadasi – 7th January, 2009 Wednesday Makar Sankranti – 14th January, 2009 Wednesday Pongal – 14th January, 2009 Wednesday, 11.51am Vasant Panchami – Saraswati Puja – 31st January, 2009 Saturday February 2009 Thai Pusam – February 8, 2009 Sunday Shivratri – 23rd February, 2009 Monday March 2009 Holi – March 10th, 2009 Tuesday Ugadi (New Year in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh) – March 27th, 2009 Friday...

2009-01-08 · 2 min · Danesh Manoharan

How to flush the dns cache in windows

To flush the DNS cache in Windows, Get into command prompt. ( start -> run -> cmd ) Run the following command “ipconfig /flushdns” .

2009-01-07 · 1 min · Danesh Manoharan