Software Review - BulkWhoisFinder

After starting a web development company - a business which involves understanding the domain games, I was searching long for a tool which would help me to extract domain information. After trialing out multiple software, I finally found my true north at Bulk Whois Finder (http://www.bulkwhoisfinder.com).

It is a very simple software to use, and very trustworthy. I also tried other commercial software like Atomic Whois Explorer, which used to crash when I gave a bigger list to extract. This tool however, was much faster, and also never crashed irrespective of how big the list was.

The application is not that resource hungry too, it used minimal Windows resources and did not make the computer slow. The extraction was also simple, as it provides multiple options like Excel, CSV, etc.,

It provides exhaustive information from whois, including all the Admin details, Technical details and Registrant details. It easily saves a lot of time for my domain research team, and I clearly get to know which domains to buy and when to buy. Previously, I used to do a lot of manual work in this area, and now all that manual work has stopped.

In short, I would definitely recommend anyone in the web business to download this highly useful tool from http://www.bulkwhoisfinder.com and use. You will be amazed at the amount of work this small application which is less than 20mb, is capable of. Once you use, I am sure you will recommend this to your other friends and colleagues who are in the web industry. 

The Life that was , and the Life that is not...

It’s been a really long time since I wrote something here, but a recent chain of events have literally kept me in point blank until I vent it out somewhere, and here I am , back to my very own place for that, the place where the dangerous mind re-invents itself!
The past one year has been very different for me, a new city, new people and a new way of life. A way of life which has clearly made me lose friends and alienate people.
Every now and then. I get reminded of the best days of my life, the days when we proudly wore the blue outfits in and across the campus of Sandwich tech. The waves of life are very dramatic in change. There I was, enjoying my life with the thundu bedis, road-side loose-boils, cutting teas, ‘project’ night-outs, it was something in the lines of Arundhati Roy’s God of small things, we literally made ultimate fun from things so ordinary, things so small..
And here I am today, with a luxurious life before me, where I have the freedom to spend my own money, the way I want, the freedom which I rarely had whilst in college. Taking 10 rupee tickets to the first day first show for movies which even the directors would think twice before watching ;), with just money enough for a interval tea and cigarette, were far more pleasing than sitting in the last rows of a high-class multiplex with popcorn and pepsi in hand. Buying 40 idlis for fifteen of us and fighting them over a single plate satisified hunger more desirably than a rich buffet dinner in a posh hotel. Having the cheapest of drinks in the stingiest of places got me to a better happy high than having a rich foreign drink in the comfy of the best bars in town. There are tons and tons of things Ill keep adding to the list. Those days were simply legendary.
Where does this change come from? In college, you spent money, here they give you loads. In college, they pressed you to keep the attendance. Here they themselves give you off days. There, no one gave you any sort of respect, you had to hear the curses of so many people in college as well as hostel, here you get so much respect(whether its true/fake, whether you deserve/ or not). All the pointers suggest that this new life ought to be more interesting and fun-filled than the prior. But to be honest, this is nothing even distantly close to the life that was! . Monday through Friday, office and back home, waiting for the stupid weekend, which will run away before you realize its arrival.
This is not the way life is meant to be. It needs to be enjoyed, explored. It doesn’t deserve to be spent before the computer doing the dumb day to day work. The corporate lifestyle is the most dangerous of all. It’s just like the pitcher plant which lures you with all it has to attract, a lumpy salary, a respectable job tag, what not. Many fall, not even realizing that they have just been trapped.
Life has strewn wonderful things for us as we move forward, and choosing a profession which is not close to your heart, will definitely make even the most wonderful of things seem cursed. There is this one golden rule, “Don’t do things just because you CAN do them, do things only if you LOVE doing them.” Life is actually very simple and elegant, it’s we who make it complicated with our foolish decisions.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
-Robert Frost

The Nobel American and the Noble Indian!

The one most dreadful trait of the common Indian has come to the fore yet again. And this time, for the Nobel prize. I was reading a post on similar lines by a fellow blogger, and felt that this “dangerous mind” should express its views on the issue too!
I simply can’t find a reason why we should celebrate Mr. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan’s achievement, just because of the trivial reason that he is of “Indian Origin”. And I am very clear in my views- I am not undermining the work of the Nobel Laureate. I just do not want people to feel happy as if the prize was won by a citizen of India. The man is a complete citizen of the United States now. Mr.Venkatraman would take the prestigious Nobel prize to the US of A or the UK. He most definitely won’t give it to India. But we, as benevolent Indians, laud him with praise and give him a cover story on papers and a headline on TV! The situation is nothing short of pitiable!
I simply cannot digest the fact that a person, who grew up with the food, drink, clothing, education, what not from India, gives all the laurels to another foreign country, which gave him just money and a career.
This is not the first time that we witness such a thing in India. We took privilege in Kalpana Chawla’s lunar voyage for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the US of A, and rejoiced at the occasion of “Slumdog Millionaire”- a British movie winning at the Oscars. We lack clarity. Is it very rare for an Indian to achieve something? Are we suffering from a nation-wide inferiority complex? Because that would be the only acceptable reason for hailing and commending a man of Indian origin.
Wake up India. We invented the Zero, we calculated the value of Pie, we computed the length of the year, we performed the world’s first cataract surgery, we gave the Raman effect. The feats of our own, ‘completely Indian’ scientists are astounding. "We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made!" – these are the words of the greatest scientist- Albert Einstein. Take pride in this. And not on an American’s achievement.

Living the Lie

I was wondering for more than an hour, confused a propos what to name this post as!!
Eventually I decided that this would be the apt title for it.
If you look up the word “lie” in wiki, you would find diversified kinds of lies! But as far as this topic is concerned, I only muse upon the masks we wear on our day by day chronicle of life.
I was very much worried with myself for having to live multiple lives almost everyday.
Just then “Dexter” came along. If at all, there is one ‘close to the real life’ show on TV, this would be it. Only then it struck me, that not only ‘me’, but each soul in this world has the compulsion to put on masks just to continue their existence in this rapidly evolving world of ours.
Why do we wear these masks? Is it to make others around us happy? Are we such ‘good good’ people who wear these masks with utmost difficulty, just to see smiles amongst the people we spend time with? I really doubt it! Masks are the only things which make us ‘civilized’ human beings in this world. If a person ever has a chance to live by instinct,
there is absolutely no qualm that his entire way of living would turn on its head!
Is wearing a mask bad? I still don’t have an answer for it. And I am pretty sure I would never find it. But still, this is the question which keeps ringing in my mind! Till I find it, I will continue Living the Lie!

Change

It’s been a real while since I scribbled here. So, I’ve decided to scribble more frequently henceforth! So here goes! It’s been nearly 3 months since I moved to Bangalore for work. I didn’t have much expectations about corporate life, and living up to that belief, corporate life isn’t much. You just have to act as if you are a very decent and ethical person! An act which so many people manage to put on with an uncanny ease!
I have always believed that being myself is the best way to live life. And I sure believe that this new life, has not changed me a bit. Of course the money factor is there, but I am talking bout the inner self.
The common man always seems to live for others. They bother more about what others may think about him/her, rather than bother about their mental comfort. Just hearing rock music, which doesn’t impress you at all, and putting on an awesome American accent won’t make one a so-called “Corporate”! You may impress people, but you wont impress yourself!
But people always ponder upon the phrase “Change is the only thing which is constant in this world”. I have nothing against this. Without change, the world will never manage to survive. But change must be towards the good. Change must be true. It must not be an act, -an illusion, a mirage!