MSN Live messenger ver: 8.1 (Do not install)

There are problems in the new version of MSN live messenger (8.1). Since installing the new version i have been getting the contact not available message.

After uninstalling the new version and installing my 8.0 version all my contacts are gone from my contact list, but still i am able to chat if someone else initiates the chat.

Apple iPhone... new buzz

The rumors of iPhone has been out for sometime now, and Kevin Rose's podcast on the iPhone is a good one. Just caught this on TechCrunch.com and liked the way Alex tries to squeeze out information from Kevin. The link of the blog at techcrunch.com.

Some of the information are slide-out keyboard, 2GB and 4GB flash RAM sizes, and innovative dual-battery design. Dual-batter, one for mp3 and the other for phone is a pretty innovative design.

You have to really watch this videos to see how Alex pulls out information on iPhone.

My snaps

  

Snap Preview Anywhere (TM)

“Snap Preview Anywhere is a tool for site owners to provide a sticky and informative experience for your users. And it's free!”

That’s how Snap starts with the description of its new product or rather web base tool “Snap Preview Anywhere”. (I have used SPA in this blog. The snapshots you'll see on the links are SPA preview)

A simple to implement tool, SPA(Snap Preview Anywhere), is a great addition to the Snap search Engine. It gives an insight or preview to the links on the Snap search results so that you can verify if it is actually what you are searching for or is just a spoof site. To further their innovation they have now provided a free service where you can use the service to let a user in your site view any pages linked from your site.

This free service provided by the Snap I would presume is to act Google. The simple funda of this free service is you tell Snap that you are here in the internet and take my snap rather than Snap doing that on runtime when your link is shown on their search result for the first time. But, they are providing a cool tool so it’s great.

Someone said “Great things should always be free” and that’s what is happening these days, especially after Google. (I am a Google fan..:)).

And the best is the implementation part, you just have to add some javascript within a page’s head tag and the rest of the hardwork is done by Snap itself. Simple isn’t it, well, then try it yourself.

I am an avid reader of Techcrunch.com and I read about this tool in Techcrunch.Com. Link to the artcile posted on Snap Preview Anywhere.

Commitment and IT

Recent developments in my company have left me thinking. I am a supermonkey so I can think but I hope I think right and good for “my future”.

Well, I am working at company XYZ (it’s a software company; we are so called the software architects, sounds better than programmers). It’s a small- medium sized company and was doing well until few months back.

What happened few months back? Few key players in the company left and started their own company. Starting up a company, being an entrepreneur is good but pitching on your ex-company’s employees and pitching on your ex-company’s projects is bad. And that’s exactly what happened.

This whole scenario has now led to the ultimate question, “Are the employees committed”? It is right for the company to know whether a person it is hiring or an employee, is really committed or not. But it is foolish for a company to expect an employee will be there forever for an average salary and that too in IT sector. (For a programmer 3 to 4 years in a company is “forever” and that’s a fact.)

It is right for a company to know an employee’s commitment, why, because it’s investing money and time on him. More so, my company has been open to one’s capabilities and has given enough room for one to excel. I have no two thoughts on that. But it is still foolish for a company to expect an employee to stick with it forever. For god sake, this is IT company and we are programmers, it’s a small-medium company and pay is average, we are not in Japan and this no Japanese company; and I am confused as of now what to do.