Google Task Lists

       Horrrrrrraaay……..Finally, Google released a much awaited Gadget: todo or Task list. Checkout the Google Blog post for more details. Based on few minutes of testing, below are some insights: 
Pros:

1. Similar to any Google product, the Task Gadget has a clean interface and is simple to use. 
2. Users can create multiple lists to [...]

Search Engine Jargons

Recently, I have been doing lot of literature review related to information retrieval research and thought of building my own list of jargons used in the field of ’search engines’.

Search Engine Related Jargons

Relevance  – Asking a computer scientist ‘what is relevance’ is same as asking a philosopher ‘what is knowledge’. Although, the term ‘relevance’ [...]

‘Save to My Map’ – A missing (hyper)link

Today, while trying to help one of my friend plan his Yellow Stone trip, I created a Google Map of one of my most memorable road trip (image below). For long, I have been thinking of creating a map of this road trip and today, finally, I got a chance and reason to do it.
Creating the map of my [...]

Microsft Word 2007 Bibliographic Feature – A Half Baked Idea

Update: Checkout my word 2007 Add-in plugin “Reference Manager” to import/export bibliographies using BibTex, RIS, and other formats and also to automatically import articles from many different journal websites such as ACM Portal, Nature, Amazon, etc.

Within the scholar community (or alteast for me), there is much excitement with the introduction of new bibliographic manager feature in [...]