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		<title>Thank you, Steve</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Your time is limited, so don&#8217;t waste it living someone else&#8217;s life. Don&#8217;t let the noise of other&#8217;s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. &#8212; Steve Jobs (1955 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://xinh.org/misc/thank-you-steve.html</link>
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		<title>Yahoo-Alibaba</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Post Carol Bartz, it seems Yahoo! has put up a For Sale board. Among various contenders, it seems the privately owned Alibaba Group is rumored to be prime. Who knows what future has for us. Yahoo! was once an icon of interwebs and represented the concept of &#8220;being connected to the internet&#8221;. I&#8217;m going to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://xinh.org/news/yahoo-alibaba.html</link>
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		<title>Flickr Android app, finally.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Finally, Official Flickr app for Android is here. Ever since I upgraded to the Android smartphone, I&#8217;ve been looking for a good app for Flickr. They have one for iPhone for ages, but didn&#8217;t care about Android.
The app has in-app camera and can upload the photos directly to flickr, or share it via facebook, twitter [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://xinh.org/apps/flickr-android-app-finally.html</link>
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		<title>Firefox 7 is out, already!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The fine folks at Mozilla are out with Mozilla Firefox 7. After adopting a rapid release cycle inspired by Google Chrome, Mozilla has been releasing Firefox almost every month. Firefox 5 was released on June 21, 2011 and Firefox 6 was released about a month back, on Aug 16, 2011.
Mozilla team has been largely focusing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://xinh.org/internet/firefox-7-is-out-already.html</link>
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		<title>Samsung Galaxy Skin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A flexible cellphone that can be rolled up on your wrist?
Rumor has it that Samsung is coming up with flexible AMOLED displays by 2012, that would allow one to bend and twist the phone, or roll it up like a wrist watch.

Samsung is the big daddy of displays. Its ultra low power consumption AMOLED family [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://xinh.org/mobile/samsung-galaxy-skin.html</link>
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		<title>reCAPTCHAs from hell</title>
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Yesterday while I was browsing the interwebs, I landed up on a letter calling President Obama to direct the US Patents Office to cease issuing software patents. While this topic is highly debatable, its not the subject of this post. To sign the letter, I had to create a washington.gov user account.
As usual, the registration form had a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://xinh.org/fail/recaptchas-from-hell.html</link>
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		<title>Solar power on the move - Voltaic solar backpack</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I leave the city for treks and hiking, my most frequent excuse for being unreachable on cellphone is &#8212; battery drained out. When the car is around, I usually plug my battery hogging smartphone to car&#8217;s USB port, but that&#8217;s not always the case.

I just came across backpacks by Voltaic with detachable solar panels! [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://xinh.org/utilities/solar-power-on-the-move-voltaic-solar-backpack.html</link>
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		<title>What does it take to run imgur.com?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
imgur.com is a popular image hosting website used by several twitter clients and tools by defauly. But what does it take to run a no frills image hosting site like imgur?
As per imgur stats page, the service is now averaging up to 40TB of data each day and averages up to 255 million image views [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://xinh.org/computing/what-does-it-take-to-run-imgurcom.html</link>
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		<title>Huge datasets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Looking for big huge datasets to play with? Peter Skomoroch maintains a delicious bookmark on datasets which he&#8217;s been updating since 2007. From NCDC weather data, to wikipedia traffic dumps, to amazon public datasets &#8212; you&#8217;ll certainly find something interesting there.
With cheap computing power easily available for hire, crunching huge datasets isn&#8217;t limited to just big [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://xinh.org/computing/huge-datasets.html</link>
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		<title>The all new FutureBazaar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[FutureBazaar was under maintenance for the new year weekend, but its back on new year with an all new reworked interface. Product navigation is easier, so is searching and narrowing down for what you are looking for. The eshop was offline for a sometime while they transitioned their systems from SAP to popular ATG e-shopping [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://xinh.org/ecommerce/the-all-new-futurebazaar.html</link>
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		<title>Starting your own TLD</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have $185,000 lying around? If ICANN&#8217;s latest plans come through, you may just be able to start a new Generic TLD registry. After about an year of discussions between ICANN, U.S. Government and the community, US government has called the new gTLD plans a real stinker.
After the recent launches of arguably useless top level domains [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://xinh.org/internet/starting-your-own-tld.html</link>
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		<title>We have a new logo!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I sat with Kamaleshwar till 3AM to get a couple of logos designed for this logo-less site. We came up with two logos, one in warm shades of brown (human color) and the other in shades of Blue and Grey. I think the bluish one gels more with the current css theme.
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		<link>http://xinh.org/self/we-have-a-new-logo.html</link>
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		<title>Manage your todos in Gmail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The guys at Gmail labs never sit idle. This week they launched a much needed feature in Gmail. Now you can manage your Todo list in Gmail itself. For a simple and personal todo list, there&#8217;s no need to maintain that spreadsheet or signup for Tadalist.

To start using Gmail&#8217;s todo manager, move over to Gmail [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://xinh.org/utilities/manage-your-todos-in-gmail.html</link>
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		<title>Amazon launches Cloudfront - its own CDN</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I may be the last person to write about it. A few months back Amazon pledged to launch its own Content Delivery Network (CDN). And now they are ready with Amazon Cloudfront. Like all Amazon&#8217;s cloud services product offerings, this one too comes without any contracts or monthly commitments. Just pay for what you use.

Amazon [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://xinh.org/news/amazon-launches-cloudfront-cdn.html</link>
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		<title>Gmail gets themes support</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google added themes support for a select batch of Gmail users. I logged in a while back to find out gmail inbox in a strange shade of blue, with a notice at the top informing about new theme control panel in Gmail settings area.


After getting several gadgets and toys from Gmail labs, we knew theme [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://xinh.org/google/gmail-themes-launched.html</link>
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