Kokul’s World

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 [...] Read more »

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 me. but [...] Read more »

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, Firefox and Opera. [...] Read more »

Recently I decided as a side project, to get a gallery up and running for my blog. I would use it to display anime screenshots to help with my reviews of anime, when I do them.
So eager as I was I ran out into the world to find myself a little gallery script that could [...] Read more »

Over the past few months, I have gotten active in web site design, particularly for the websites about my home village of Idaikkadu in Sri Lanka. After several emails being sent without a response, and a lack of motivation from the admins to even change their sites, I’ve decided to write a little guide that [...] Read more »

API stands for Application Programming Interface. Program developers often supply it with their programs so that other developers can access the functions and code of their programs without seeing the actual source. In essence, APIs allow third-party developers to use other software’s code to do things without ever having to see the first-party software’s code.
This [...] Read more »

Everyone has at-least once picked up a computer game or a console game. But it can get pretty lonely, when all you do is play single player mode. In today’s age, where everyone is connected through the Internet, it is sometimes nice to play games where you can interact with others at all stages. For [...] Read more »

One of the things I like about Google is that unlike most other big corporate companies, Google still has a sense of humour. Well shows one anyways. Anyone heard of the trick of typing into the Google search engine “the answer to life, the universe, and everything else” bringing up 42 from Google calculator? Google pulled [...] Read more »

Youtube, a user-powered revolution. We’ve all heard about it in the news. CNN has done countless stories about it. Even TIME magazine featured it in their person of the year issue. The site makes antipiracy advocates uneasy because any user can get easy access to movies, TV shows, anime, etc.
It’s amazing how much of an [...] Read more »

Today I decided to try out the 3D feature of Windows Live Local which is powered by Microsoft Virtual Earth. I was using everyone’s favourite and Linux friendly browser Firefox. However, when I click on the 3D button, a little bubble pops up telling me to go to Windows Live Local in Internet Explorer 6 [...] Read more »