How to change the default location of the My Documents Folder?

I thought about it at times, but never explored how to do it and agreed to Microsoft. Seems it is quit simple. Here it goes – just one right click and selecting a location and you are done.
Change location of My Documents folder

Journey through the internet archives

A ride on the Wayback Machine at Internet Archives is a bit of fun, and a lot about understanding business strategy. It can reveal a depth of information about the challenges a business had, the decisions it took, and the results that were achieved. Take the health insurance portal vimo.com for example

Google Wonder Wheel

Google Wonder Wheel is similar to a mind map that a user will create. The wonder wheel suggests related searches and helps narrow down the user search to a relevant keyword/keyphrase.
To get to the wonder wheel, make a google search and use the ‘Show Options’ menu on the bar that shows the number of search [...]

The US Health Insurance System

I recently joined a company by the name hCentive Inc, which is creating a health insurance exchange for US, where people could logon and buy affordable health insurance. After spending some time on understanding the US health insurance system, I realized that consumers need someone who could explain to them the policies they were buying. [...]

Enjoy Google and Wolfram Alpha together

Now, one can enjoy the coverage and ranking of google with the preciseness of Wolfram Alpha at the same time, for the queries that Wolfram Alpha answers very well.

All one has to do is to download this excellent firefox add on available here.

The addon, throws the same search to Wolfram Alpha as well in addition [...]

Wolfram Alpha disappoints

Had a first look at Wolfram Alpha and got disappointed. The search engine which had so much of euphoria built around it did not deliver to my expectations. Here are the results of the test drive.

Search 1:Number of internet users in India. 

Wolfram gives a number (80m) which seems higher than the number that we had [...]

Move over microfinance, microtelecom is here

Have you heard of microtelecom? I hadn’t till upto 15 minutes ago.
Microtelecom is all about optimization of telecom infrastructure for a very specific application: serving low-income, hard-to-reach communities in rural areas. As with all industries and all early movers, the company pioneering the concept has gone ahead and coined this term.
But what a wonderful idea [...]

Information Technology Act (Cyberlaws) 2000 Simplified – Part 2

Continued from part 1 …
Regulation of Certifying Authorities

Central government may appoint a controller of certifying authorities, and also deputy controllers and assistant controllers
Lays down the functions of the controllers, especially certifying the public keys of the certifying authorities themselves and the form and content of the digitial signature certificate and the keys
Lays down procedure for [...]

Information Technology Act (Cyberlaws) 2000 Simplified – Part 1

Part 1 of my attempt to put the Indian Information Technology Act of 2000 in simple words, without legaleseDigital Signature

Recognizes digital signature and approves that electronic records can be authenticated with digital signatures. Also empowers the government to decide and modify rules around digital signatures

Electronic Governance

Allows for exisitng laws to recognize electronic documents at par [...]

What do people blog about?

The number of bloggers and blogs is growing at a fantastic pace. According to a report by Universal McCann (March 2008) there are 184m internet users who write a blog, with China emerging as a leader, with 42m users, more than USA and western Europe combined. Individuals, and organizations are both adopting blogging as a [...]