5 Good Image Search Engines Apart From Google Image Search

2009-11-10 1 min read Uncategorized

Even if you are using Deeperweb for firefox, sometimes google isn’t just getting you to the right page and picture. You start hunting for more picture search engines, so here’s the list of best for you.

When the right picture is everything, you need to go deep into the web and comb through the millions that are out there. Image search is just like normal search and similarly painstaking.

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Google wave invite, get one for yourself.

2009-11-09 1 min read Uncategorized

<img src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/500x_wave-invites.jpg" alt="" width="500" align="bottom" />Earlier this week, Wave re-upped invitations in many users&#8217; Wave inboxes. I chatted with a few folks via Twitter, and we&#8217;ve got several readers willing to donate some Wave invites. Now pay attention, because we&#8217;re only going to explain this once.

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URL: <a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/Iu3MpCuOIjU/the-wave-invitation-donation-thread">http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/Iu3MpCuOIjU/the-wave-invitation-donation-thread

How a live distro can save you.

2009-11-08 1 min read Linux

Some time back I wrote about <a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/2009/03/07/" target="_blank">how to use a live distro without CD or VM. Today that experiment saved my day.

My RAM went bad couple of days without my knowledge and I kept using the system finally causing the &#8221;/usr&#8221; to be completed unusable.  And that is when I was able to still login to the system, as I still had that Nimble X installed on the HDD without actually installing it. Now I need to re-install the OS but at least for the time being I am able to use my system. 🙂

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Introducing Amit Agarwal\’s Photography Site.

2009-11-08 1 min read Uncategorized

It it immense pleasure to announce to you the arrival of <a href="http://aka-photo.com">http://aka-photo.com

Right now I am nurturing the idea of having this site dedicated to Photography with links to various sites and other such things. If you have any suggestions, drop me a message.

Linux xdg-open — replacement for start in windows

2009-11-05 1 min read Fedora Linux

if you want to open any document with the default document handler from the bash prompt or command prompt in linux then the simplest way to do that is use &#8221;xdg-open&#8221;.

This can also be used in bash scripts to allow users to select which document to open without worrying about if a particular application is installed or not. Example could be where you have list of documents in the current directory (same kind or of different format.) and you want the user to select the document. In such a scenario you can take the user input for the filename and user &#8221;xdg-open filename&#8221; to open the file irrespective of the file type or worrying about if xpdf is installed or abiword is installed or not.

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