S Anand

It’s finally happened. The Internet has grown to the point were a meta-search engine (a search engine to search among search engines) has come up. Lookoff.com.

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Free PCs are dead. Freebies are dying, since online advertising is dying. Now, Altavista’s free ISP died. Is this the beginning of the end for free ISPs in India? For that matter, is this the end of free everything? No. Free software thrives (Opera will be free). Why is that?

The classic collection of smileys and more 🙂

Want to record downloaded MP3s into an audio CD? Want to take home software? See the CD-Recordable FAQ. Rookies, see Josh’s page

I bought an MP3 CD from Tamil MP3 CD. You get about 150 songs for about Rs. 900, including shipping. Of course, you can only listen to it on a computer.

What’s new on 123india is a good way to find out new Indian sites. So is What’s new on Yahoo.

You can book train tickets online in Chennai. In fact, the Indian Railways will probably introduce it soon.

What are brands worth?

I received a file called Navidad.exe a few days ago and stupidly ran it. Turned out to be a virus that killed the system. Google produced no answers to searches on “Navidad.exe virus” except a posting on egroups — in Spanish. A translation through Babelfish almost yielded readable material and I was able to fix it. Symantec’s AV Center has a cure.