Removing Glycerin: A Trick to make your Indian beer taste like Bud

Why do Indian Beers taste bad? I have had this question buzzing in the back of my mind for quite a long time. Till now I believe that all my friends and colleagues think we Indians just don’t know to make Beer. Like how hard is it?
In my Tharavadu (Ancestral home), I have drunk pure [...]

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Page Faults and Context Switches: Chrome, Flash and Techcrunch are killing my system

Update: Beta News reported a similar performance drop when running chrome 3.0.193.1 on Windows 7 RC
I am a power user. When I surf, I have around 20-25 tabs open. I have many processes running simultaneously on my windows 7 RC. When I code, I have a test Ubuntu installation running on VMware.  To do [...]

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Download videos from any sharing site(Youtube, Dailymotion, Metacafe, vimeo etc)

There are a lot of ways to download content from a video sharing sites. Most folks rely on applications to download videos. Applications are really unsuitable for 3 reasons

Mostly they are specific to one or two sites
In some cases they are shareware
They have hardcoded techniques for url retrieval which outdate easily.

A slightly better technique for downloading [...]

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Swipeball for iPhone

SwipeBall is fun and addictive yet simple to learn and play! Light up bulbs by bouncing balls off of walls and lines that you draw by swiping your finger on the touchscreen! Balls bounce and change in color as they touch the colored walls.The objective of the game is to light [...]

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