December 2010
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Released new version of "Daily Cartoons" App
Published next version of my Android app - Daily Cartoons. New features are,
Ability to browse and view cartoons from various channels like AnderToons, Cricinfo, Times Of India, Deccan Chronicle, Amul.
More channels will be added on the fly, without needing to upgrade the app
Cartoons are now grouped by publishing date viz. Today, Yesterday, 2 days ago and older.
Download by clicking this...
October 2010
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Daily Cartoons - Android app
My first Android app is in market now. Its a simple app to browse cartoons from CricInfo.
Download by clicking this link from an Android phone
OR
Search for “Daily Cartoons” in market
OR
Scan this QR code
Future releases will add Cartoons from magazines like Times of India, Indian Express, Deccan Chronicle.
I also hope to add features like notifications, unread items,...
September 2010
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Twitter OAuth PHP library
Twitter API shut down Basic Auth on August 31. I was a big fan of the Arc90 Twitter library, but its no longer usable because of the shutdown. Even before the shutdown, I’d been using Abraham’s twitterOAuth for Twitter Signin integration with my websites. Its a nice library that hides the OAuth security aspects from developers. But after having used Arc90 library in all my projects,...
August 2010
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Combining MySQL FULLTEXT match with other WHERE...
I was too late to realize that a query like the following, which combines FULLTEXT match and another where condition is not scalable.
SELECT * FROM mytable
WHERE MATCH(message) AGAINST (‘inception’) AND is_member = 1
(In this table message is FULLTEXT indexed and the boolean type column is_member is B-Tree indexed)
The query is not scalable, because MySql can’t use both the...
July 2010
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Associated Parsers: FootTweet and Twitter... →
My post on AP blog about how we used Streaming API for gathering Twitter posts to FootTweet
FootTweet is a virtual FootBall game played on the platform of Twitter. We use the powerful Twitter Streaming API to get the tweets to FootTweet in a few seconds after they were posted to Twitter.
When you have number of keywords to track and you want the information in real time,…
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Associated Parsers: Foottweet ! →
Our first launch from Associated Parsers. Go check out!!!
Introducing FootTweet, a very advanced web app that displays and categorizes tweets according to their content !
We’ve decided to show our technology applied to the World Cup, ‘cause there’s about 3 billion ppl watching, and we thought some of them could be tweeting as well ;)
Twitter.com…
May 2010
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Quick hack on Twitter Follow bug
We made a quick hack to find out the most demanded followers during the Twitter follow bug drama.
Associated parsers:
Seemingly Twitter had a small bug tonight. Here are the top “requests” for acceptance made by users : http://www.associated-parsers.com/accept/
April 2009
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CricTwits
Check out my biggest launch till date: CricTwits - an aggregator of Twitter conversations revolving around Cricket matches. This project was inspired from Title Tweets, a similar initiative for a basketball tournament in USA. It took 2 weeks to build this website after getting an inspiration from Title Tweets. CricTwits collects twitter posts containing references to cricket matches, team names,...
August 2008
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Postal Address Locator (PAL) - an innovation by...
Those who think Postal Services are not meant for this generation, rethink!!!. India post has proposed to replace the age old Postal Index (PIN) code with 8 digit Postal Address Locator (PAL) code. In the past we have seen such revolutions in Telecom industry, when the number of digits in our telephone number increased from five to six and then to eight. Now we will soon see our pin codes also...
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A RSS feed for your country’s medal hunt in...
I’ve created a Yahoo Pipe to find the list the medals won by a country in the ongoing Olympics 2008. Visit the pipe, enter the country code and click on “Run”. Find the list of Country codes here. The results are displayed as shown in this picture, And how to create a feed for the medals won by your country’s Olympians from this Pipe? Here you go!!. This is the format of...
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Pipe Feeds - a website for showcasing my Yahoo...
Pipe Feeds is the directory of my Yahoo Pipes. I will publish the Yahoo pipes created for my personal use on this website. Most of my pipes attempt to simplify the way you read your favorite content across the websites. My objective of creating Pipes is that, if you like a content from a particular section of a website, let the content come to you next time without you having to visit the website...
July 2008
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View cartoons from Indian magazines
In continuation to the Adade Cartoons site and feed, I’ve created two similar sites for aggregating cartoons from English and Tamil magazines. The Toons of India site pulls cartoons from Times of India, Economic Times, Indian Express, Deccan Chronicle and Hindu, while the Tamil cartoons website aggregates cartoons from the popular Tamil magazines of Dinamani, Dinamalar and Dinathanthi. View...
June 2008
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Common problems faced in Yahoo Pipes
Why my Yahoo Pipe shows “No Results” on running it? Beginners in Yahoo Pipes may end up getting this error message while running their Yahoo Pipes. There are two reasons for a Yahoo Pipe not showing any results. The Pipe Output is not wired. Make sure that the Pipe Output is wired. Verify the raw output in the debugger. No description element Make sure your pipe has an element...
January 2008
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Chart added to Poorman’s Stock watchlist
Today is a testing day for naive investors in the Indian stock market. Index advanced and declined at 1:14 and it touched 700 negative in late trading. I wanted to make some quick bugs by investing in a loser and selling it when the market bounces back. So I shortlisted five such stocks using the BSE trends worksheet. As I also wanted to track few other stocks that are not in the index, I added...
November 2007
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World Wide Spreadsheet - WWS
The title doesn’t mean that a spreadsheet can be world wide, but can be a powerful www contributor. Believe it or not, I’ve just constructed a stock watch list in a spreadsheet in 2 hours. I’m a great fan of Microsoft Excel and have used it effectively for many of my projects. It allows you to manage large data effectively. You can do calculations, define formulas, conditional...
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Reasoning for why bodies fall at same rate
We all are aware that bodies fall at same rate irrespective of their weights. Well, let’s see how our geniuses have arrived at this in the days where there was no definition for velocity or acceleration. While reading Stephen Hawking’s A Briefer History of Time, I stumbled upon the explanation given for bodies falling at same rate. This snippet taken from Google Book Search shows, ...
August 2007
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Crystal Xcelsius
I got an opportunity to learn about a tool called Xcelsius. It’s been a wonderful experience so far. This tool lets you create handy dashboards in less time. The tool is very useful for those who work in Data Ware Housing and would like to create a presentation out of their data. Designing a visualization is very simple and requires no analytical skills. It generates a interactive Flash...