Raj Mandalia

Member since: Jan 26th, 2006

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Engadget's recession antidote: win a 1.5TB Drobo! (Engadget)

Mar 24th 2009 12:13PM me please

Engadget Black Friday giveaways (part 2): Nikon D40 DSLR! (Engadget)

Nov 24th 2006 4:51PM Thanks!

Blockbuster's Total Access plan allows in-store returns of mailed movies (Engadget)

Nov 1st 2006 3:57PM The way I read it, they are basically saying that *every* on-line rental is also now a coupon for a free movie. And instead of the weekly e-coupons (newer plans), you will just get 1 each month. Also, once you return your on-line rental in the store, the next movie in your queue will ship the next business day. So basically they are now giving you as many coupons for free in-store rentals as movies you mail back as long as you take the trouble to go return in store. Pretty sweet deal I would say. The store is just down the street and we do step out of the house, least most of us do. And if the 2-day rental is a hassle for you, use your queue for new movies and rent favorites and older movies in-store (1 week rental).

Check out their FAQ online for full details. BTW, this is just offered in the Colorado Springs area at the moment. For the rest of us, its business as usual.

One in five use iPod at work (TUAW.com)

Oct 31st 2006 4:25PM I find that when I really need to concentrate, music is a must. Its been that way ever since I can remember, way back when work was homework. These days its XM Radio or my mp3 player (it doesn't have to be an iPod!) or mp3 files on my computer, or the latest addition to this list, mp3Tunes's locker Oboe (http://www.mp3tunes.com/locker).

Microsoft is offering Office Accounting Express 2007 for free (Download Squad)

Oct 30th 2006 6:02PM Thanks for the info, I'll check it out as soon as I can find a download. BTW, I just wanted to comment on the free software, who would have thought comment. Not get me wrong, I would normally be the first to join in a good ol' Microsoft bashing but I have to give credit where credit is due; don't forget all the free Express developer tools (VB Express, SQL Express, et al). These are simply gold for programmers without big budgets.

Corral your email with ePrompter (Download Squad)

Sep 15th 2006 11:31PM Widows 3.11 called and it wants its ugly interface back! Anyhoo, it also messed up my GMail account by marking everything in the inbox as "unread".

Also, you know how GMail, bless its soul, will contract the message and give you a little clickable "- show quoted text -"? Well, ePrompter brings that down, just like that, only it plain old text!! Therefore, it doesn't support GMail, not really. If you use GMail and

Frankly, I am a little surprised; I am a long time reader of Downloadsquad and this is the first time I've seen such a terrible product featured here.

RSS Readers: SOUND OFF! (Download Squad)

Jul 21st 2006 3:19PM Stayed with Bloglines for the longest of times, but started to look for something better; never really liked the interface. Tried almost everything mentioned above but never found The One. Finally started to using Reblog (http://www.reblog.org/) but you have to host it and it needs MySQL - Dreamhost works nicely but anything else will do. Will show some crontab love to get it to refresh regularly. So far I like it, espically the fact that it procduces a nice feed of all the items I "publish" ie posts from my subscriptions that I mark "Publish". Nice, check it out.

For a local client with BlogLines integration, check out the free GreatNews (http://www.curiostudio.com/) - its a FeedDemon knockoff and then some. I'm impressed with all the effort the developer has put in.

ActiveWords - The most useful utility I'm no longer using (Download Squad)

Jul 21st 2006 1:39PM Exact same situation here. Though I have ActiveWords, I moved to AutoHotKey. I use upto 3 machines and rather than get lics. for each and then sync up the the database, I find just installing the free AutoHotKey and copying the my single all-inclusive .AHK to each machine so much easier.

Same deal with other software. My list fo licensing schemes in order of decreasing prefernce are: OpenSource, Freeware, FullVersion (once you pay, no codes), FullVersion (with serial numberkeycode). Using software with an machine-dependant authentication mechanism is a last resort.

With ActiveWords and software like Embarcadero's are espically painful since the mechanism is NOT automated, you have to wait for a human to respond via email (at least it was the last time I had to do this). Argh!

Colibri Type Ahead - Today's Free File (Download Squad)

Jan 26th 2006 2:31PM I emailed Colibri's creator, Michael and he replied promptly with help regarding the getting to the settings - check http://colibri.leetspeak.org/whatsnew/. Also he said in his email that to search Google its

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