By Nitin on October 30, 2010
I am much excited about the long delayed Mobile Number Portability (MNP) in India which is now pretty much ready for arrival next month during 2nd week of November (http://goo.gl/DuUo). I am not sure if it will be free (as it is in most of the countries, http://goo.gl/2ihz), but even if it isn’t I am [...]
Posted in Nitin's Blog | Tagged mining, mnp, mobile, technology
By Nitin on September 18, 2010
I just came across this website (Hotels.com), so went ahead and started playing around the website. I really liked the interface, though a little cluttered homepage, it gave a complete overview of the offers on the website. I saw the “Price Match Guarantee“, so went ahead to check their rates for the hotel I stayed [...]
Posted in Nitin's Blog | Tagged bug, hotels, trip
By Nitin on September 17, 2010
Most of the websites today have the the pre-sales chat options on their site. These chats usually do not assure you about the quality of the product/service you are going to receive but still if the sales person can convince you to buy the product and can answer all the questions you may have about [...]
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By Nitin on May 8, 2010
I discussed a little about URL encoding in my recent post Facebook: Bug with URL encoding, although it seems like the bug still exists. In this post I will discuss “how to encode a given URL before accessing it using CURL or fsockopen”. The problem with URLs is that they might contain certain disallowed characters [...]
Posted in Nitin's Blog | Tagged encoding, facebook, php, URL
By Nitin on May 3, 2010
We visit and revisit web pages. You will find that more than 60% of your web visits are actually revisits of some sort. But web browsers support for such revisitations is limited to bookmarks, history list, URL auto-completion and back button. Here are a few history tools which can greatly improve your experience during web [...]
Posted in Nitin's Blog | Tagged addons, extensions, firefox, history
By Nitin on April 25, 2010
Some of the “quotes” I like from South Park, by Chef. Disclaimer: The following contains coarse language and due to its content it should not be viewed by anyone. Episode 401 Chef: Well look at you cute little crackers with your money and your fancy clothes and your cell phones. It’s almost like you were… [...]
Posted in Nitin's Blog | Tagged chef, fun, south park
