Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Google Talk formatting/effects : Bold and Italics

This is yet another one of those short posts for the sake of posting.

Before you cry out that these are very well known, I can promise you that I discovered these in my experiments. Well, proceed.

Are you bored with the plain text in GTalk? Try these, you can add bold and italics effects to your text.

To give a word/phrase a bold effect, just enclose it within asterisks (Example: *me* would produce me ).
To give a word/phrase a italics effect, enclose it within underscores (Example: _me_ would produce me ).

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Comix : "Could not find unrar executable. Please install it if you wish to open RAR achives"

Comix is the software used to open *.cbr and *.cbz files on Linux.

In Windows Comic Reader was my favorite but now that I have completely moved on to Linux, installation of Comix was deemed necessary.

Comix by default can open *.cbz files.

To open *.cbr files using Comix, you need to install the unrar executable by the following procedure.

$sudo apt-get install unrar

Done. :)

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

A Brief History of Gravity

A Brief History of Gravity

It filled Gallileo with mirth
To watch his two stones fall to Earth
"Their rates are the same,"
He gladly proclaimed,
"And quite independent of girth!"

Then Newton declared in due course
His own law of Gravity's force,
"It goes, I declare,
As the inverted square
Of the distance from object to source."

Next Einstein revealed his equation
Which succeeds to describe gravitation
As spacetime that's curved
And it's this that will serve
As the planets' unique motivation.

But the end of the story's not written,
By a new way of thinking we're smitten.
We twist and we turn
Attempting to learn
The Superstring Theory of Witten.

Taken from: http://limerickdb.com/?380

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

A Google blooper ,yet again

Wow, not even in my dreams did I imagine that my article on MRAM would turn out to be a search result for...

Ladies and Gentlemen, hold your breadth ...only Google can relate MRAM with the search term...

"find out who i will be with in the future"



C'mon Mr.GOOG, that's way too funny.

Long time ago, I thought that this was the problem only with Google Ads alongside the search results.(Refer: here)

Look out for more blooper updates, and comments from friends :)