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2024

July 11 Amazon Prime Day 2024: Get up to $75 off with Amex Membership Rewards credit cards

2023

October 11 How to search for products sold and shipped by Amazon
June 30 Amazon: Get up to $60 off with Amex Membership Rewards credit cards – Amazon Prime Day 2023 Prep

2020

November 21 Get $400 after making $1000 in direct deposits on a new Capital One 360 Checking account
July 15 Use ethernet on MacBook with regular USB port
April 26 Download from Google Drive using wget in Linux
January 17 Get 20% off on Amazon using Amex Membership Rewards (max $50)

2019

December 19 Enhance scanned text online
December 2 Fitbit Versa 2 smartwatch for $130

2018

June 1 $25 Vultr SSD VPS Server credit

2017

December 5 Wingding characters to letters mapping
May 26 H-Mart Frederick Maryland opening May 26
May 11 Get 50% off your Spotify Premium subscription with the Capital One Quicksilver card
March 28 Delhi DEL to Washington Dulles IAD Air India direct flights are live on AirIndia.in
February 22 Open a Wells Fargo Checking account and get $250
February 15 How to edit your “Home” location in Apple Maps
February 15 How to unlock yourself from the WordPress Login Lockdown plugin
February 15 Trash Doves – Purple Pigeon – Viral Internet / Facebook meme
January 30 CNN Facebook account hacked by OurMine

2016

May 20 American Airlines – 350 Free AAdvantage Frequent Flier Miles + 350,000 Mile Sweepstakes through June 1, 2016

2015

October 3 CNN iPhone app displaying Dotomi/ConversantMedia ad scripting code instead of actual ad
July 30 Good iPhone app now has Touch ID support
July 15 Amazon Prime Day Deals
February 10 100 GB Microsoft OneDrive Storage – Free for 2 Years (Ends Feb 28)

2014

July 10 Camel Camel Camel
June 24 MetLife Blimps Snoopy One and Two
June 22 Moved blog to WordPress

2013

May 5 TIME magazine – $15 per year or $25 for 2 years + Ultrasonic Weather Station Clock

2012

December 26 Best Groupon GoDaddy deal – $70 for $25

2011

November 27 Get a $20 gift card back after spending $200 on your MasterCard
August 21 HP TouchPad 16GB for $99 and 32 GB for $149
July 13 Get up to 3000 Free AA Miles – AA Appraiser
June 10 $9 for 2 Fandango movie tickets – LivingSocial Fandango deal
April 2 Gmail for Blackberry
January 24 $4 for a Movie Ticket to AMC Theatres (Up to $12 Value) – Groupon AMC deal
January 21 Austin Food Tour – Austin Eats Food Tours

2010

November 23 Crazy DC Capital Beltway Traffic
November 15 GoDaddy Web Hosting Renewal – best rates with 3 year renewals
October 22 =rand(99,200)
September 22 Fortune – $10 per year, and TIME magazine – $15 per year
April 29 Screen capture from video / movies / DVDs on Windows
February 10 Brother MFC-7840W Wireless Laser Printer, and Amazon Amzn.com Short URLs
February 9 Gmail HTML version link
January 30 Snow Day

2009

November 16 Good free FTP/SFTP server for Windows – Core FTP / SFTP Server
October 27 Count number of lines in a file using DOS
October 23 How to use gift cards on Amazon.com
September 28 Google Apps Free/Standard Version Link
September 27 7-Zip – Free open source program to open zip, tar, gz, tgz files
September 23 How to transfer domain name from OfficeLive.com
August 20 Vista Disk Management Console (diskmgmt.msc)
June 29 NPR by phone – dial 202-609-7549
June 4 (Kill) Bill is dead
June 1 First 50 Manipur related Domain Names
June 1 Importing waypoints from Garmin 650 GPS
May 31 Order Dell backup Windows and Driver CDs
May 29 Jay Leno’s last Tonight Show
May 8 How to scroll left and right on a Blackberry 8703e
March 17 Enterprise Rent-A-Car Car Rental Free Upgrade coupon
March 13 Sort your Firefox bookmarks
March 7 StanaCard Calling Card – direct dial and get up to $10 bonus
February 4 Roku Netflix Player

2008

December 4 It always pays to be generous to others
November 27 Yahoo! Domains – Price hiked to $35 – Don’t forget to cancel after transferring!
August 8 08/08/08 – Olympics start, 17000 marry in Beijing
July 1 Citibank’s Virtual Account Numbers
June 9 Two worlds, just across the street
April 1 Virgle, Custom Time, gDay – April Fool’s Day from Google
February 10 Protecting a folder in Unix/Linux using .htaccess and .htpasswd
February 6 fungible
January 31 Excel does not allow more than 15 digits
January 10 Blair joins Chase

2007

December 12 12/12: Label “important” not allowed in Gmail
November 15 Black Friday Deals websites
October 5 Hard to Find 1-800 numbers
October 5 Convert pps to ppt (PowerPoint SlideShow to regular PowerPoint)
September 5 Fax It Nice – Review
August 26 Installed Movable Type 4
August 8 5 years
August 3 Bourne Ultimatum
July 17 Toyota Camry 2007 LE
July 5 Reduce size of desktop icons in Windows Vista
May 17 Set paragraph indentations in Powerpoint 2003
March 7 XCOPY – copy entire directories in MS-DOS
January 23 Macedonia – first Wi-Fi country
January 5 Bird Nests – a highly expensive Chinese delicacy
January 4 Restoring .eml files to open with Outlook Express

2006

November 13 D-Link DWL G-122 Wireless USB Adapter
October 2 Wonderworks
September 20 Enabling Remote Desktop in Windows XP
July 29 Google Phonebook link
July 25 DTMF tones in Skype (or how to use pin/access numbers with Skype)
July 20 Nashville in Lebanon and Lebanon near Nashville
July 11 🙂
June 8 How to delete/clear drop-down list of Google past searches
June 6 Slashdot redesign
May 26 Changes
May 9 Taipei 101
May 7 Mission Impossible III
May 4 Fries With That?
April 29 Second time uncle!
April 21 01:02:03 04/05/06
April 17 Fortunes from fortune cookies
April 13 Hibernate shortcut in Windows Xp
April 10 UT receives largest gift ever – $32.5M from the Haslam family
April 1 Google Romance
March 12 GoogleMail.com
March 8 Dell
March 8 Radio Manipur
March 5 Oscar Night
March 3 First Friday
February 23 Firewall
February 14 Happy Valentine’s Day!!!
February 5 How to find your cell phone’s IMEI number? Press *#06#
January 28 Munich
January 5 Who is this?
January 1 Happy New Year 2006!

2005

December 18 DU Meter – bandwidth monitoring software
November 16 Blogs by Manipuris
November 13 Mobile number series in India
October 26 Where night meets day
October 13 01038555749524191151
August 16 Aamir Khan’s Blog
August 8 3 years
July 22 Windows Vista
July 21 Laptop arrived today
July 21 Google Moon and the Copernicus Initiative
July 14 Dell Inspiron 600M
July 4 Fourth of July
July 4 The first .com domain name
June 22 Batman Begins
June 19 CNN offers free video
June 13 The longest domain name in the world
June 10 AOL/AIM Mail – 2 GB with IMAP access
May 21 Bobo’s first birthday
May 20 Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
May 15 Rediffmail autologin shell script
May 13 Finding new 93 number for old Reliance number
May 5 Yahoo now offers 1 GB email space
April 25 Walk your dog 3 times a day — or be fined
April 18 Adobe to buy Macromedia for $3.4 billion
April 14 Cheiraoba 2005
April 8 The Motorcycle Diaries
March 23 Yahoo to increase email storage to 1 GB
March 15 Random Gmail invites on Google
March 10 L for Love – Richard Clayderman
March 7 Mark Jen joins Plaxo
March 2 Yahoo turns 10 today
March 2 New lines in an Excel cell
February 28 First Tennessee Bank Redesign
February 18 .in domain names, maisnam.in
February 17 Serial burglar caught by webcam
February 15 Six Apart Redesign
February 12 182,505 Gmail invites available at isnoop.net
February 11 EPIC 2014 – GoogleZon, Google Grid
February 8 Aishwarya Rai on David Letterman’s “The Late Show”
January 25 Google Video
January 20 Preventing comment spam – the “nofollow” tag
January 6 UT webmail quota is now 100 MB
January 4 The Leonardo Bridge Project
January 1 Happy New Year 2005!

2004

December 24 Upgrading from Fedora Core 2 to Fedora Core 3
December 24 2004 Google Zeitgeist
December 19 Google SMS
December 13 .mobi and .jobs domains
December 10 Ocean’s Twelve
December 10 Google Suggest
November 25 Alexander
November 23 Kevin Sites clarifies
November 20 Why is “i.e.” read as “that is”?
November 16 Gmail POP access
November 13 Hotmail offers 250 mb email storage space
November 12 Happy Diwali and Ningol Chakouba
November 10 Firefox 1.0, firefox.com, Kevin Karpenske
November 3 Bush wins
October 29 First Flight Couriers – absolutely miserable shipping
October 21 Movable Type 500 Internal Server Error
October 20 FeedBurner
October 17 The Day After Tomorrow
October 17 Copy entire folder in Linux
October 15 Google Desktop
October 15 Left brain, right brain!!!
October 15 Lexar 8 gb CompactFlash card
September 30 “The Reason” by Hoobastank
September 21 Restart Apache in Redhat/Fedora
September 18 Tennessee “Vols” beat Florida “Gators” 30-28
September 13 Changing the default editor in Unix/Linux
August 30 Plesk Commands
August 19 Knoppix – run Linux on your Windows machine
August 12 symlink in Unix
August 11 Manish’s B’day
August 11 E-commerce turns 10
August 2 IIS log files location
August 2 No “Add Member” feature in Yahoo groups.
July 28 No chewing gum in Singapore
July 23 The Bourne Supremacy
July 20 Blog Spam, MT-Blacklist
July 20 RelianceIndiaCall.com
July 16 Fuji FinePix S3000
July 14 PHP Redirection Script
July 13 Delete Temporary Internet Files
July 9 Nigritude Ultramarine
July 7 Spiderman 2
July 1 Amzanig huh?
June 29 Monday night
June 25 Lakshya
June 23 Mai’s B’day
June 19 Excel tips/commands
June 17 Rediffmail now offers 1 GB of email space.
June 17 How to send email from a cingular mobile phone using SMS.
June 15 Yahoomail now offers 100 MB of email space.
June 14 Meet Joe Blog
June 13 Hum Tum; Mangoes !!!
June 12 Got my Gmail account!
June 10 SpaceForHost.com Webhosting Review
June 9 Shubha’s B’day
June 3 Manthan farewell party for graduating members
June 1 UT DSL changes to DHCP
May 21 Became an uncle today!
May 20 Webcams at UTK (UT Knoxville)
May 18 Sony Ericsson T616
May 15 UebiMiau – POP3/IMAP Mail Reader
May 14 Troy
May 13 Problems with Envision EN-775E
May 11 Main Hoon Na!
May 9 Mother’s Day
May 7 Accessing the UTK LDAP server
May 6 Last episode of “Friends”
May 6 Faezeh’s B’day
April 29 Click for a cause
April 28 Manthan GB meeting and elections.
April 27 Unix/Linux commands
April 26 Western Digital 120 gb harddrive (WDC WD1200JBRTL)
April 21 Testing from IS 567 class
April 21 Archiving Yahoo! Groups messages; Yahoo! 999 Error
April 16 UT International Festival
April 13 Cheiraoba
April 12 Computer Science ACM Banquet
April 2 .org domain names, UltraDNS, PIR
April 2 maisnam.org
March 29 Google’s New Look now official
March 28 MT bookmarklets and Trackback.
March 18 Google’s New Look
March 13 Google vs. Yahoo search results.
March 11 Plone
March 11 FeedWrapper.com
March 10 RSS Feed Aggregators
March 9 SMS to Reliance mobile phones.
March 3 CS Home Area Quotas
February 28 Perl Script for redirection mapping
February 27 blog.maisnam.com
February 27 New webhost
February 26 Snow!
February 21 Reserved MS-Access/VBScript field names
February 16 Monday afternoon
February 7 maisnam.com; Saumil’s Marriage; Ek Hasina Thi
February 2 orkut.com
January 26 26 Jan 2004

2003

December 6 Xp crashed.
November 21 ACM ORNL Trip
November 2 Manthan Diwali 2003 Celebrations
October 7 Anoushka Shankar Show postponed.
September 29 apache 2.0 on red hat 9
August 31 Ganesh and Ganesh
August 30 Game Day, S.W.A.T.
August 24 Sunday early morning
August 20 maisnam.com
August 16 Login required in GR internet lab.
August 8 Denver Airport
July 24 Qayamat
July 24 tfstf.org
July 23 New SEVIS I-20
July 23 Bandwidth Meter Checks
July 23 OpenSSH for Windows
July 23 Updated CS Website
July 22 Bandwidth Meter
July 21 Sunday Night
July 20 Sunday Morning
July 20 Movies and phone calls.
July 19 Port forwarding, kazaa and usenet
July 18 Installed Lotus Notes
July 18 Shifted blog to CS server
July 18 Everything is working fine.
July 17 Thursday Night
July 17 Installed MovableType