Arun Ramarathnam
IT professional from Bangalore, India.  

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  • Public: arunram25 @ gmail . com
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About me

Welcome to my personal corner on the Web. I am a IT professional and Technology enthusiast from Bangalore with over a decade of experience in the IT industry with leading Indian companies like Satyam and Tata Infotech (now part of TCS).

I express my views and opinions on Project Management, Technology, Palm PDAs, India and Bangalore among other things in my blogs.

My Blogs

Bangalore View  XML
My photo blog on Bangalore. Pictures I shoot in and around Bangalore that give you a vignettes of daily life in the city.
See Snap Share  XML
My moblog. Life as I see it.
Ponder Point  XML
My blog about my professional interests.
My Journal  XML
The musings in my journal revolve around my local context.
Events I track / attend...

 


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Must Read:  DailyCalendar  |  Quotes A-Word-A-Day | NYT-Almanac |  Rediff  | CNN  | BBC | Ciol  |  Slashdot  | News.com  | Serverside  | Wikipedia  |  Freshmeat
Indian Calendar: DailyCalendar | Festivals | Panchangam | IndianAstrology | AstroGyan
Email: Yahoo!Mail | Google | Indiatimes | Hotmail | Rediff | Netaddress | Indiainfo
Almanacs: NYTimes | Yahoo | CNN | HistoryChannel | Refdesk.com
Bangalore News: Weather | TOI | DeccanHerald | VijayTimes |  Yahoo
India News: TimesofIndia | Hindu | IndianExpress | HindustanTimes
World News: CNN | Usatoday | Guardian | TheAustralian | PeopleDaily
Indian Economy: India | Ecotimes | BusinessLine | BSE | NSE
World Economy: World Markets | Global | US | USLayoffs 
India IT: Nasscom | Ciol  | Satyam |  TCS | Wipro | Infosys
World IT: CNet | Yahoo | Australia | Singapore
IT Stocks: Satyam | TCS | Wipro | Infosys
W e e k l y   W e b 
Y!FC (IT): Tech | Ecom | Wireless | Internet | Linux | Hacking
Palm: Palm | Y!FC |  BPUG | SPUG | Avantgo | Memoware
Tools: Blogger  
India Portals: iPortalWatch | Rediff | Indiainfo | Indiatimes | Sify 
After Hours
Comics: Dilbert | Peanuts | Garfield
Cartoons: Keshav | Paresh | More...
Try Open Source on Windows...

Open Source Software

Best in class applications for the Windows platform. Infact, these are cross platform tools. Here's my top twelve for every user.
  1. Firefox: Web Browser on fire. Fast, safe with Tab support.
  2. Thunderbird: Email client.
  3. Gaim:  Multi  protocol IM.
  4. OpenOffice: MS Office replacement.
  5. AbiWord: Word processor.
  6. PDFCreator: PDF document creator.
  7. RSSOwl:  RSS reader
  8. Freemind: Mind mapping tool.
  9. 7-Zip: Handle Zip files and more.
  10. Nvu: HTML editor.
  11. Gimp: Image editor
  12. FileZilla: Elegant FTP client.
Experience these! You will find yourselves saying GIMME MORE!
Membership and Forums
Current Responsibilites
Project Management Interests
Technical Interests
General interests
Currently Browsing...
My favourite Gizmos
Currently curious about
  • Podcasting
  • Nano Technology
  • DRM
  • Metafile holes
I support / recommend

Open Source Software

Any Browser campaign

Firefox 2


Web sites I maintain

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