Kokul’s World

The folks over at hongkiat.com offer tips through a blog post on how you can get the most out of your WordPress site using 30 new useful tricks and hacks. There are some great tips on that site. However I also wanted to add a few of my own in addition to what is there. Continue reading →

BatteryCare is a great program that allows you to monitor the state and health of your battery in detail. You can get it at: http://batterycare.bkspot.com/en/index.html If you laptop is like my machine, and it does not give Windows a means of estimating how much time your laptop has left until your battery is drained of Continue reading →

After watching the Iran protests and seeing the overwhelming response of internet users to create web proxies for Iranian citizens to use to get their messages, photos and stories out onto sites like Twitter and Facebook, I decided that I would make a guide to allow web users to quickly set up their own proxies Continue reading →

The full 111-second trailer of Summer Wars has been released:

This anime film is from Mamoru Hosoda, the same person who directed The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. The film is scheduled for an August 1st release in Japan. It seems pretty interesting from the trailer, and the animation, character development and comedy seem right up there with The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. I’m definitely looking

Recently in work, I had to implement an  Ajax powered web page for a project I was working on. However, being a complete beginner in Javascript, this was quite a daunting task since I would have to write my own Javascript code for common functions that are used on many websites. Then I did some Continue reading →

Youtube recently launched a subsite called Youtube Edu. The purpose of the site is to list, index and make easily accessible the hundreds of lecture videos that are offered for free by many universities throught their respective channels. Basically anyone can go onto the site, and start viewing lectures from universities such as University of Continue reading →

Now I’m been looking around the web and I have noticed that there aren’t many comphrensive sources of anime screenshots. So I decided it would be a good idea to try to fill the void with my own such project. Check it out at http://anime.kokul-idk.com/ It’s basically just going to be a hobby site for Continue reading →

So recently this site blew up as it suddenly stopped working. When I looked into it, it seems like the Gallery2 software database which I integrated with wordpress just completely got erased/corrupted. Now I have to piece together my lovely galleries again and fix about three dozen different posts -_-. Well atleast it isn’t too Continue reading →

Verdict: Google Chrome is a surefire winner in the browser market. The Good: Small, fast, secure with a clean, intuitive interface. The Bad: Not enough customization options available in terms of themes, addons, and extensions. Google released their web browser not so long ago into a market already dominated by the likes of Internet Explorer, Continue reading →

Yes this is old news, but BONES has finally announced a remake of the Full Metal Alchemist series. It will be another 52 episode run, however the quirk this time is that they will stick faithfully with the manga rather than diverging halfway through. As a fan, I am sort of dismayed since this creates Continue reading →