Yes, I do like colors.. especially vibrant flag colours of different countries. And if you have an online presence of your own like a blog or a website

isnt it great to findout who your visitors are ? Yes, you might have implemented Google Analaytics for a detailed statistics on all your webpage views.

But for my blog, i liked a sweet little tool by www.flagcounter.com which will display the flags of the countries from which your site was visited(along with google analytics).  You can see my flagcounter in my blog's footer.

Here is a screenshot from my blog:

Doesnt it look good? every morning you see a new flag in your site.. yea I am excited to see more international readers.

And if you want to see  a detailed report, just click on the "Click here for More" link on the flag counter.

You will see something like this:

Its an awesome idea and I am loving it...

Last week I got my new car. Hyundai Accent Executive. Color is Champagne Silver. 

Bought from Advaith Hyundai in Residency road, Bangalore.

The over all experience was nice compared to Trident Hyundai whom I approached first(I didnt like their behaviour. pathetic sales guys, I would say). 

Accent Executive is the latest model from Hyundai and driving comfort is awesome in

the 94bhp,1496cc engine.   

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 More reading: 

http://hyundai.co.in/accentwebsite/index.html 

Some instructions to first time buyers:

1. Do not take insurance from the car dealers. Usually insurance companies will offer us 20-30% discount for a new insurance which these dealers will not offer us.

2. Ask for a minimum 30% discount on accessories. They will give you for sure as the dealer margin on accessories is huge! 

Do u have the habit of sending an email saying "please see the attachment" and forget to attach the file?

Gmail Labs has the solution, After logging to Gmail -> Settings-> Labs.

Go down and find the Lab "Forgotten Attachment Detector" . 

Google says "Prevents you from accidentally sending messages without the relevantattachments. Prompts you if you mention attaching a file, but forgot todo so." .

I tested this and it couldnt detect the mail with body . "please see the attachment" , but it was able to catch the sentence "I have attached a file".

May be in future google might come up with more  releiable mechanism to identify forgotten attachments. but its quite useful to enable this lab now.

Today I wanted to write some post in blogger.com . So I searched for a good english to malayalam translation tool and stumbled upon

Google Indic Transliteration . Its awesome and the best Transliteration tool I have ever used.

Check this out here: http://www.google.com/transliterate/indic/Malayalam# . 

Tip: Type a word and hit space to get it in Malayalam.

Complete help: http://www.google.com/transliterate/indic/about_ml.html

Are you searching for the missing solution file in your solution explorer of Visual Studio 2005 or Visual Studio 2008??

If yes, go to Tools - > Options- > Projects and Solutions-> General . On the Right side, check Always show solution.

Click OK. And you are done. Now You can see your Solution file in the Solution explorer.. Happy Coding!!! 

Microsoft Virtual Techdays are back. its a great opportunity lo learn new Microsoft Innovations .

I am looking forward to Silverlight 2 session on Nov24th 10:30 to 3 PM IST and Building Data-Driven Applications with Silverlight 2 and the new Silverlight Control Pack

on 25th (2:15 to 3:30 PM IST)

Agnda: http://www.virtualtechdays.com/agendaday1.aspx

For more details: http://www.virtualtechdays.com/home.aspx

 To attend the event, u need to install MS Office live meeting. You can download it from here: