Google Gears: Browser up, OS down!
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007 Posted in Technology, Web, Windows | 2 Comments »We all knew this was coming and it has finally come. The final problem of offline access to web-based services has been addressed by Google Gears which was released last week. Today, I saw the first instance of it being ...
What’s that under my skin – an RFID?
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007 Posted in General, HCI, Privacy, RFID, Technology | No Comments »I have always been very excited about this but have been putting it off. However, the IEEE doesn't want to let us on-the-edge engineers rest in peace – they went ahead and dedicated an entire issue of Spectrum magazine on ...
Republic Day of India
Friday, January 26th, 2007 Posted in Social | 1 Comment »India got it's freedom on 15th August, 1947. It is referred to as the Independance Day. The constitution of India was formed on 26th January, 1950. It is referred to as the Republic Day. Both days are national holidays in India. 26th January ...
Amdocs 7
Thursday, January 25th, 2007 Posted in Technology | No Comments »Amdocs' latest offering is Amdocs 7. When I read about this, I got an instant flashback of the time I spent working in Amdocs. Always on it's heels, always thinking ahead, prepared well in advance. It was a very good ...
Perceptive Pixel - Multitouch Touchscreens
Friday, January 19th, 2007 Posted in Technology | No Comments »Remember these touchscreens from "minority report". A real version of this will be commercially out soon: [via Gizmodo]
Microsoft Robotics Studio Released
Wednesday, December 13th, 2006 Posted in Technology | No Comments »I had referred to this before and I was eagerly waiting for a release. Well, there you go, Microsoft has released the commercial Robotics Studio (1.0). It is quite exciting and I hope to be able to play around with ...
The sanctity of a complete album
Monday, December 11th, 2006 Posted in Gumption, Music, NewAge, Social | No Comments »Does having playlists of mp3s in random order mask the "full album" experience that we used to have a not so long time ago? Back in the tape days, I would have complete albums which I would play and get ...
Wikipedia asking for what content should be freed
Monday, October 23rd, 2006 Posted in General, Ideas, NewAge, Social | No Comments »Jimmy Wales is asking people to come up with ideas and suggestions about what premium content they would like to be freed up and made available in the public domain if they had the money to do it. Dream big. ...
Microsoft Zune - A new social experience?
Thursday, September 28th, 2006 Posted in Buy Me This, Gadgets, Technology | No Comments »So Microsoft has finally declared that the Zune will be priced at $249. They make a bold statement there on the press release: “On Nov. 14 we’re delivering not only a device, but a shared, social experience that will be shaped ...
PlanetRead - A small change for Colossal gains in Literacy
Monday, September 18th, 2006 Posted in General, Progress, Social | No Comments »A fairly simple yet promising idea. Link to PlanetRead .. A small change for Colossal gains in Literacy
Darfur is Dying
Thursday, June 29th, 2006 Posted in Social | 2 Comments »Darfur is Dying A very touching and potent way of highlighting the problems in Sudan. A free flash-based game that puts you as one of the thousands of people living a life of unrest.
Not just another Google - Microsoft comparision
Wednesday, October 26th, 2005 Posted in Technology | No Comments »I am tired of people saying how Google will eat away into Microsoft, and how the software Giant will be overshadowed by the new 'revolution'. I want to clarify some things. Most often than not, Microsoft has always been very active ...
USB Powered Sewing Machine!!!
Sunday, October 23rd, 2005 Posted in Technology | No Comments »Brother corp Japan has launched the Innovis range of sewing machines which connect to the PC via USB and can be operated via the PC. There are two models the "Innovis M200" and the "Innovis N150". Size is common 436 x 204 ...
P2P for premium content: finally.
Wednesday, September 28th, 2005 Posted in General, Ideas, Progress, Technical, Technology | No Comments »As I had mentioned in my previous post, P2P can be used to explore new economic models. It's nice to know that there's formal work in that direction as can be understood by this post. They are doing exactly what I wanted ...
Public Proxies and Thought Pointers - where will google stop?
Sunday, September 11th, 2005 Posted in Ideas, Web | No Comments »The next thing google will probably do now is provide public proxies. Using a google proxy will be faster than surfing the internet directly - the catch - nice pretty plain-text ad's will get embedded in the web-pages we browse through ...
Personal Fabrication - not too distant reality
Friday, September 2nd, 2005 Posted in NewAge, Technology | No Comments »If you could make anything you wanted, what would it be? The Dream Factory The concept is simple: Boot up your computer and design whatever object you can imagine, press a button to send the CAD file to Lewis' headquarters in New ...
Random Event
Monday, August 8th, 2005 Posted in General, Social, Technical, Technology | 1 Comment »Hybrid Cars
Thursday, August 4th, 2005 Posted in Progress, Social | No Comments »This is a field that is maturing fast and it is very significant. Fossil fuels (gasoline, petrol) are getting over. We need to find alternative sources of fuels. Until we find total replacements for the present fuel sources, we need to ...
Katsuya Matsumura’s PC Cases
Monday, July 25th, 2005 Posted in General, NewAge, Technology | No Comments »Katsuya Matsumura makes PC cases which are very "different". Take a look here
A Good GPS device
Sunday, July 24th, 2005 Posted in General, Pre-Buy research, Privacy, Technology | No Comments »A GPS Device I really want a GPS device. I have a smartphone, so I want a bluetooth GPS receiver so I can use them together. Read a lot about them, SIRF chipset or XtracSIRT chipset. Finally liked the Fortuna Clip-On, ...
