January 2012
December 2011
Interesting links (weekly) →
A Christmas Message From America’s Rich | | Rolling Stone
Makes for very sad reading. The more things change, the more they remain the same. Human nature hasn’t really changed a bit –…
A Christmas Message From America’s Rich | |... →
Makes for very sad reading. The more things change, the more they remain the same. Human nature hasn’t really changed a bit – just look at the way civilizations & societies evolved, and you’ll see…
ifakesiri.com | Generate your own Siri... →
I now wonder whether all those Siri screenshots that showed up were genuine or not
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Tags: iphone, siri, tools, generator
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The Art of Borrowing | OPEN Magazine →
A classic piece on how to borrow & get rich in a kinda sorta questionable way. In all likelihood, we have dozens of examples of such elite in India.
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Tags: finance, Business, borrowing
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The Protester -Person of the Year 2011- Printout – TIME
Really makes you wonder what type of system actually works – communism failed, dictatorship usually reaches a violent end, and…
The Protester -Person of the Year 2011- Printout –... →
Really makes you wonder what type of system actually works – communism failed, dictatorship usually reaches a violent end, and looking at US & India, democracy also has its pitfalls once the…
String Tripod →
Another useful hack to gain camera stability without a full fledged tripod
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Tags: photography, diy, tutorial, camera, tripod
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DIY Lighting Hacks for Digital Photographers →
A pretty useful collection to improve your flash lighting
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Tags: photography, diy, lighting, hacks, tutorials
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মন আমি
My Mother’s blog. It’s in Bengali & deals with psychology and spirituality.
tags: blog Bengali psychology
17-year-old wins 100k for creating cancer-killing…
মন আমি →
My Mother’s blog. It’s in Bengali & deals with psychology and spirituality.
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Tags: blog, Bengali, psychology
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October 2011
How much money does Google make from mobile? →
Two and a half billion reasons why Google loves mobile.
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Thomson Reuters Unleashes Game-changing Products
Improving products to stay ahead…
Interesting links (weekly) →
Bluestacks :: App Player for Windows :: Run apps fast on your PC or tablet
Useful utility to run android apps on Windows
tags: windows app android
Steve Jobs: Why did…
Samsung Lawyer Cannot Tell Samsung Tablet From... →
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: Samsung Lawyer Cannot Tell Samsung Tablet From Apple iPad — What an uncomfortable moment for Samsung at its court hearing with Apple on…
How to Easily Transfer Files Across Cloud Services →
Cloud storage services like Google Docs, Dropbox, Amazon S3, etc. have made it easy for you keep your important files and documents online. These services are mostly free and you can have multiple…
A Simple Fix for iOS 5 Upgrade Errors 3002 &... →
If you have been trying to upgrade your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch to the all-new iOS 5 but getting unknown errors with codes that read like 3200 or 3002, here’s one possible…
The Bulldozer Review: AMD FX-8150 Tested →
AMD has been trailing Intel in the x86 performance space for years now. Ever since the introduction of the first Core 2 processors in 2006, AMD hasn’t been able to recover and return to the heyday…
Windows Phone, One Year In →
Horace Dediu: During the last quarter for which we have data (ending June) I
have an estimate that Windows Phone sold only 1.4 million units
(Gartner’s sell-through analysis suggests 1.7…
★ The iPhone 4S →
This is the easiest product review I’ve ever written. The iPhone 4S is exactly what Apple says it is: just like the iPhone 4, but noticeably faster, with a significantly improved camera, and an…
Remote Desktop Beta Extension Brings Remote Access... →
Google today introduced a beta version of its Chrome Remote Desktop functionality for the Chrome browser and Chrome OS. This functionality, news of which first made the rounds several…
Whatever Happened to the iPad Rivals of 2010? →
Harry McCracken takes a look back.
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September 2011
The Real Problem with Facebook →
Yesterday I was reading an article titled Why
Facebook is the New Yahoo by Mike Elgan which argues that Facebook adding features
driven by its competition with Google+ “smacks of desperation”….
Google doesn't get it →
I usually don’t say this about people or companies, aware that I am that it’s often the other way around. The one saying they don’t get it is the one that don’t. In this case I am absolutely sure…
Interesting links (weekly) →
Amazon’s Future Is So Much Bigger Than a Tablet | Epicenter | Wired.com
Bottom line is that you need a strong business model backing your products. Apple has one, and Amazon is just…
Unintentionally Funny, Must-Watch Bollywood... →
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Not a movie where you’d even bother trying to look for plot consistencies, but still summed up pretty nicely (except for the fact that the heroine’s name is switched mid way…
harman/kardon HS 280 →
Got this home theatre system a couple of months back after doing quite a bit research on speakers & home theatre systems. Have been pretty satisfied with the system so far. The…
Irom's cause is riskier to support, Anna's is safe →
“Why don’t you cover Irom Sharmila’s decade-old fast with the same intensity as you did Anna Hazare’s 13-day fast?” asked Binalakshmi Nepram, the founder of the Manipur Women Gun Survivors
Switching to a light theme →
Switched to the light version of the current theme (Coraline), as the dark version seemed to be a bit difficult to read. Also shuffled some widgets so that the more relevant ones were on top….
AI →
The Tragic Triumph Of The MBAs →
“We’ve seen Mubarak fall,” said Salesforce’s Marc Benioff of the corporate need to focus on social networks at the recent Dreamforce conference. “We’ve seen Khadafy fall. When will the…
Interesting links (weekly) →
Draw – Google Correlate
Draw a curve & have Google find query terms matching a similar search frequency
tags: google visualization search draw
Do E-Readers Cause Eye…
Draw - Google Correlate →
Draw a curve & have Google find query terms matching a similar search frequency
★ Compromise →
Another interesting post from Microsoft’s Steven Sinofsky, on the thinking behind the design of Windows 8. I detect a theme (emphasis mine): From the start, our approach has been to…
August 2011
Web Browser Grand Prix VI: Firefox 6, Chrome 13,... →
Chrome 13 on Windows & Safari 5 on Mac OS X
Firefox 6 remains a decent performer on Windows too
IE9 has its strengths on some hardware accelerated stuff, while Opera is an erratic performer - poor…
The US Open Explains the Dangers Posed by Twitter →
It’s time for the US Open tennis tournament and inside the players’ lounge, there’s an ominous sign posted by the event’s Tennis Integrity Unit warning of the dangers posed by Twitter. Snapped…
The Elusive Big Idea - NYTimes.com →
“This isnât to say that the successors of Rosenberg, Rawls and Keynes donât exist, only that if they do, they are not likely to get traction in a culture that has so little use for ideas,…
A patriarch for the nation? (via Summify) →
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Biology defied
About 20 years ago, I found myself in the same room as Anna Hazare, at a meeting organized by the Centre for Science and…
Interesting links for the week (weekly) →
Steve Jobs’s Patents – Interactive Feature – NYTimes.com
Quite a varied bunch including the iPod, iPhone & the likes. Also include the notorious hockey puck mouse.
tags: apple …
P2P Alarm Clock Service →
bs0d3 writes “Instead of waking up to a regular alarm clock, TalkO’Clock will let others help you get out of bed. The service allows you to choose whether you want to be called by a male or a female…
★ A Simple Explanation for Why HP Abandoned Palm... →
HP acquired Palm at the end of April 2010, for $1.2 billion. HP’s CEO was Mark Hurd. Three months later, in early August, Mark Hurd was forced to resign over that scandal with forged expenses…
Interesting links for the week (weekly) →
IBM PC @ 30: Original review of the Personal Computer Model 5150 – reviews for UK IT professionals – V3.co.uk
Key points:
- You could actually use a TV as the monitor
- The function of…
June 2011
How to be interviewed →
The explosion of media channels and public events means that more people are being interviewed about more topics than ever before. It might even happen to you… and soon. They call it giving an…
May 2011
The Truth About That ‘Landmark’ Twitter Case -... →
So, a landmark case that wasn’t
“Needless to say, despite Twitter clearly doing all it can to help maintain the privacy of its users, maybe itâs time we all reviewed & reconsidered the TOS of some…
Interesting links for the week (weekly) →
Happier meals: four Toronto chefs reimagine the Big Mac combo
“Four local chefs turn the most famous dish (the Big Mac combo) at McDonald’s into a five-star meal” – Makes for some pretty…
Weird Tape Effect →
I liked a YouTube video: So where I work I have about a 12” frosted glass barrier on top of my counter for privacy reasons. I found out today that a simple piece of scotch tape will make the…
Happier meals: four Toronto chefs reimagine the... →
“Four local chefs turn the most famous dish (the Big Mac combo) at McDonald’s into a five-star meal” - Makes for some pretty interesting looking results