Double U Blog

personal site and portfolio of Waleed Zuberi

Double U Blog random header image

Entries Tagged as 'google'

15 Tech Predictions for 2009

January 1st, 2009 · 4 Comments · Thought

At the year’s end, the interwebs are full of all and sundry trying to predict what the next year will bring. So I joined the bandwagon and gazed into my own little crystal ball to see what the entire hubbub will be about. This is of course concerned with the tech world (with focus on [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: ·························

Currency Conversion with Ubiquity

September 6th, 2008 · 29 Comments · Code

UPDATE: See below for updates and changelog. I’ve been playing around with Ubiquity since the day it came out, and I’ve been working on making some routine tasks easier with it. This time, its a currency conversion command that will get the current approximate value of one currency in terms of the other that you [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: ·······

The Hacked Effect

August 17th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Articles, The Web

This article aims to cover some basics on how to improve the security of your email address. Inside, I will try to cover some good ways with which to protect the most important part of your online presence, ie. your email address; following that will be some good password suggestions, advice on how to prepare for a disaster beforehand, and dealing with it after it has happened.

[Read more →]

Tags: ···················

Some more articles

August 8th, 2008 · No Comments · Articles

So I wrote a few articles some time ago for DAWN SciTech World and Spider Magazine and because I didn’t have a site when they were published, they sort of got lost on the Web. In loving memory, here they are in reverse order of publication:

[Read more →]

Tags: ··········