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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 »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, ...
Don’t Repeat Yourself
Sunday, June 5th, 2005 Posted in General, Ideas, Technical, Technology, Tutorials, Tips & Tricks | No Comments »(Don't Repeat Yourself. Don't Repeat Yourself.) Context: Duplication (inadvertent or purposeful) can lead to maintenance nightmares, poor factoring, and logical contradictions. Duplication, and the strong possibility of eventual contradiction, can arise anywhere: in architecture, requirements, code, or documentation. The effects can range from ...
Differential Web Pages
Friday, August 27th, 2004 Posted in Ideas, Technology | 1 Comment »Anyone who has used an HTML based navigation system for a web-application of any sort realises that there is too much redundant information that has to be loaded each and everytime one navigates to a certain part. e.g. when you are ...
understanding the human brain
Saturday, May 31st, 2003 Posted in Ideas, Philosphical, Social, Technology | No Comments »understanding the human brain.The human brain is a very nice example of interdependance. Everything that our brain percieves is based on everything else it percieves.Whatever our brain knows depends on everything else our brain knows. You cant tell red from ...
Me
Wednesday, February 5th, 2003 Posted in Ideas, Philosphical, Technology | No Comments »The human mind learns by relation.To learn something new, I relate it with something I know. That way I can learn anything new. If the amount of overlap is more then I retain it better.So that means, probably everything I ...
