Digging for Information on RE

Redfin and Zillows of the world are doing great job. But sometime they just don't have "all" the data you need.  Thankfully King county has its database online. And for a government web site its surprisingly easy to find the information. You can search King county Parcel database here.

Now its super easy to pull-up database of  my favorite condos: Windwood, Rivertrail  & MedowView

Happiness

I always believed that happiness is constant. Circumstances do not change the level of your happiness in the long run.  

Now some serious research agrees with me:)

 

Dan Gilbert also wrote a book  about the things that he's talking about. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In a nutshell, it does not matter if you are one of these

 

 

  

Or these!

 

 

 

Your happiness is going to be same after about an hour the picture was taken.

Don't worry, be happy!

windows Live writer..

With windows live, Microsoft is getting it. With Windows Iive photo gallery application it took 3 seconds to start uploading pictures to flickr..and 3 seconds to post this blog to blogspot!!

MiraWebware.com!

I am on paternity leave this month. with my parents being around, it wasnt really a full time job. It gave me some time to work on my long awaited project. I always wanted to write an application for Vista media center. I started my leave from 5th july, and today the application is released!

MiraWorldTv is Vista media center addin that lets you watch thousands of internet TV streams from the comfort of your sofa on VMC.

I was kind of too much in love with this application that decided to take a plunge and register my domain get it hosted by godaddy.com

and now the application is hosted on www.MiraWebWare.com! if you happen to download use it please drop me a line.

searching for files using google.

If you want to search for files via google, you know just how tough it is and just how many irrelevant results you get.Now do the following: in the google search box, put in the following:-inurl:(htmhtmlphp) intitle:"index of" +"last modified" +"parent directory" +description +size +(wmamp3) "Nirvana"Now just customize the "Nirvana" above with the artist name you are searching for or the song title or maybe the album name.

Here is how i found desert rose..
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=-inurl%3A%28htm%7Chtml%7Cphp%29+intitle%3A%22index+of%22+%2B%22last+modified%22+%2B%22parent+directory%22+%2Bdescription+%2Bsize+%2B%28wma%7Cmp3%29+%22Desert+Rose%22

amazing devnagari editor

I have always been in lookout for good devnagari editor. with the Unicode support inbuilt for windows these days things have gotten much easier. all we need is good editors that can translate the roman keystrokes into devnagari unicode characters..there are quiet some there, but my favorite is Baraha more that the main application, the utility Baraha direct that comes with it is most impressive. it lives in your system tray and converts your keystrokes from ansi to devnagari!! it also has a shortcut key to translate the text in keyboard into the devnagari.

that makes it piece of cake to write: या जन्मावर या जगन्यावर शतदा प्रेम करावे!
and its most powerful when you impress your buddies by typing in marathi in msn messenger :)

Vista Media Center

I cant seem to get enough of vista media center. This thing is gettng more and more interesting. with new apps comming up very fast. Hats off to MCE team and Power of platform. And people thought that stupid company named after fruit understands the media best.

Today I downloaded this nice upgrade to TvTonic. This is best for RSS feeds with Video, I bet soon there will be enough RSS video feeds that i wont need any television anymore. Cant wait to see some mainstream TV shows supporting RSS feeds (abc and some other networks already let us watch tv shows..now only if they integrate with RSS).

Big screen headlines is another must have. It lets you view your RSS feeds with Remote on nice media center interface

and finally I am waiting impatiently for aufero to come to life.