• How to get passport appointment online?

    Since 2012, the Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has changed the process of passport application and reissue. The application for issuance of fresh passport or reissue of expired/expiring passport has been made online. This has been done to streamline the whole process. Also Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has been roped in to manage the online application system as well as to manage the data entry process. MEA and TCS have launched many passport kiosks also known as Passport Seva Kendras (PSK) where an Indian citizen can visit to submit his or her passport application. This is certainly a good news for Indian Passport applicants as it removes all middlemen…

  • iPad App and JetPack for WordPress

    WordPress iOS app allows you to manage your WordPress blog from your iPad and iPhone devices. You can manage comments, reply to them, add/edit posts and publish them too. The app also allows you to tag your location and any photos/videos that your may want to publish along with your post. This is excellent for someone who is constantly traveling and wants to update his/her blog on the move. Another cool plugin that I installed on the blog is JetPack which is cloud hosted WordPress.com engine. JetPack comes packed with host of features including Stats, social plugins, URL shortening service, Akismet powered contact forms and much more. It also connects…

  • Moved from MovableType to WordPress

    After much delay, I finally moved the publishing platform from Movable type (installed in 2004) to WordPress 3.0 today. Ideally I would have preferred to move all my posts to the new system as well, but then I decided to leave them in the older format for SEO reasons. Now that I am on WordPress platform, hopefully I will be able to spend a little more time updating this blog and also create a mobile version of the website.