Technology Category

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 [...]

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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.