Technology Category

The Web Team

In: Kuwait, Technology, Work

Well, this is probably the last photo of the SWITCH Web Development Team in Kuwait. We did some great stuff together and I especially enjoying all the hacking Above is a photo of our last time together hanging out at Marina Mall. Hope we 3 meet up again someday. Good memories!

Hacking Live TV

In: Fun Times, Technology

This guy is just amazing.

Hacking Traffic Signs

In: Fun Times, Technology

I can’t be sure if this is for real, but if it is, its simple awesome. I wonder if this can be done on those new traffic information boards in Kuwait! Maybe I should give it a try .

Revamping Goan.Name

In: Goa, Hobbies, Technology

I’ve had this site running for a while. It gets a lotta visitors and eats a ton of bandwidth. Seems to be pretty popular with Goan in the UK and States. I need to revamp this site one of these days, mostly the design I guess. Maybe some ads too. I have to add a [...]

Indian Call Centre

In: Fun Times, Technology

I came across this real funny video! Must check it out!

SAGE – Blog Tool for FireFox

In: Technology

Found this real nice RSS (and Atom) reader for FireFox. I’ve been using it for a week now and its very simple to use. Click the Magnify icon to search for feeds. Cick the Refresh icon to find out whats updated. It shows a summary within the browser. But mind you it will use the [...]

TOR – Surfing Anonymously

In: Technology

Privacy is a big thing. And a lotta people just don’t realise that almost everything they do on the Internet is recorded or can be recorded. Flushing the cache and deleting the history in your browser isn’t enough. Most ISP’s keep a log. Heck, any decent IT admin logs all traffic to and from the [...]

Sabre POS – hacking MySabre

In: Technology, Work

Was going over some of my great hacking achievements over the past few years at SWITCH. One of the best was creating the Sabre POS for travel agents. MySabre from Sabre is a 100% web-based application for travel agents to book airline tickets, hotels, cars, etc. Sabre said their app would only work in IE [...]

My First Blog Post

In: Technology

Well, here we are finally. My first ever blog entry.  Its 11:09pm and I just got this blog setup. A nice Goan Sunset seems fit here I had this domain name lying around for the last few years and never knew what to do with it! I’ve used WordPress as my blogging software although Drupal [...]

About this Blog

This blog is run by Mario Alvares, a Goan Web Guru living in Kuwait, sharing some of his thoughts with the rest of the world. Click the About Me link for more info and a funny mug shot. Check out the posts on this blog and feel free to leave your comments. Use the RSS links above to subscribe.