February 2012
2 posts
Why I Don't Like Metro [Microsoft] - What Games... →
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Steve Ballmer Reboots - BusinessWeek →
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November 2011
9 posts
Open Source (Almost) Everything →
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inessential.com: What we talk about when we talk... →
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inessential.com: Why “Just Store the App Data on... →
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Ideas are just a multiplier of execution →
How true.
(via Daring fireball)
Device Specs have become meaningless →
Not sure if I entirely agree with this, but the more I think about it, the harder it is to ignore.
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Real competition from Redmond: Windows Phone 7... →
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Siri and Apple's silence - my thoughts
Ever since the iPhone 4S was announced, there has been a mixed bag of reactions surrounding the phone’s latest voice-control feature called ‘Siri’. A lot of people love it. A lot of other people either dismiss Siri’s usefulness or claim that this stuff has been around in Android for ages.
Despite the negativity surrounding the new iPhone 4S, people have been using...
Wedge →
A nice talk show about Amazon, Google, Webservices and Apple. Recommended listening.
September 2011
8 posts
Minimum viable Personality →
Fun. Must read. All the way to the end.
(via @codinghorror)
What Apple needs →
Ben Brooks’ cogent analysis on why Facebook isn’t a threat to Apple. It is so easy for all of us to forget that Apple is primarily a hardware company that uses beautiful software (and hence great user-experiences) to get people buy their devices. Must read.
(via Daring Fireball)
Write like you talk. →
Wonderful advice by the brilliant Seth Godin.
My writing has not been as good as I would like it to be. To improve that, I have been meaning to follow the exact thing that Seth proposes in his article
“Write like you talk. Often”.
Only when I actually get into some challenge like this that you realize how hard it is to actually write good, readable and cogent text that keeps...
Why I come home... →
Wonderful piece by a software developer about the importance of spending time with family.
(via Marco Arment)
Systems →
Heck of a post. I have been thinking about setting up such a thing for various aspects of my life. Church, music, exercise, finances, learning a new language etc.
Questions to self:
What are my systems? Do I have atleast one already in place?
What are my goals? Specifically for 2011? And how many of them have I failed? Succeeded?
Report back with updates by the end of the month. Make this...
Windows 8 - what's to come →
Excited to see Microsoft innovate in the tablet space. Windows 8 seems interesting. I do hope they deliver all this on decent hardware with reasonable battery life. With WebOS almost down the drain, the tech industry desperately needs someone to provide alternatives for iOS (Android cannot be the only one). It remains to be seen how this un-folds.
Identity on the Web →
Jeff Attwood makes an interesting suggestion about managing user identity on the world-wide-web. He argues that normal users having to remember username/passwords for every web service they use, is a huge problem and it indeed is. He postulates some high-level solutions as his dream (without getting too specific about the implementation details) and they are pretty interesting. I do believe web...
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Dreamforce 2011 - my thoughts.
On August 31st 2011, I had the opportunity to attend the keynote at Dreamforce, a conference organized by Salesforce at San Francisco. The keynote was presented by the CEO of Salesforce Mark Benihoff. I wanted to pen down my thoughts on the experience. Here they are.
Emphasis on Social
Every conference has a theme associated with it. Recent and trending topics include the Cloud, Mobile...
August 2011
12 posts
Credit where it is due. Microsoft improvements... →
As much as we bash Microsoft for being slow to adapt in various markets, we must give them credit, in light of how far they have come with Windows. Nice!
Anna Hazare vs Corruption vs Indian Govt →
While it is sad that the corruption has taken such deep roots in our country, Anna makes me feel there is hope. Hope if enough people unite and force the government to do something. It is my hope that the naysayers who complain that the Democratic system is being disrupted realize that there is good that can come out of this movement and it is worth fighting for, worth living for!
It's a wonderful machine... →
Fictional, but still quite a heart-warming thing to read. A post by David Pogue on Apple and Steve in 1999.
Steve Jobs: Today is that day... →
Today will be one of those days in history which marks the departure of the man who took Apple to such heights that few could imagine. Steve Jobs stepping down seemed inevitable for a while now, but as Gruber puts it, it is indeed sad to see him step down from the empire that he created. One could argue that even though Apple is in safe hands under Tim Cook, it will never be the same again without...
Facebook, Germany and privacy! →
Jeff Jarvis makes a case against Germany’s attack on Facebook’s “Like” button on webpages. I cannot fathom how stupid these arguments against Facebook are and how Germany continues to uphold them against many such online corporations.
(via Bill Gross from Google+)
What HP could have done for WebOS? →
Peter Bright of Ars Technica offers some very interesting possibilities for HP and WebOS.
The cheap and easy one is to port webOS to Windows. Or rather, to port the webOS runtime environment. Not the Linux-y bits, but the JavaScript-y, HTML5-y bits.
In short, make WebOS visible to (a lot of) Windows users. Showcase its potential and make the experience easy. I would add “make the...
HP WebOS: Keeping my fingers crossed →
For the sake of the original idea and design superiority let us all hope that WebOS finds a new home. It is a very sad thing to be throwing away such great design just because no one had the boldness to volunteer to take care of it and maintain it.
Are you throwing out milk too early? →
Nice piece of analysis by Jason Chen at Lifehacker. Talks about one of the many things we worry about things in our refridgerator - milk - and how long can you keep it.
HP Touchpad sales →
This is disheartening to hear. As much as I love the iPad I really wish the Web OS platform succeeds because it has many of the design qualities of iOS. Besides that, we do need worthy competitors to Apple. A monopoly in mobile phones and tablets is not an ideal situation. We do not want Apple to be the Microsoft of the portable devices category, for better or for worse. But can the tech industry...
Version numbers in browsers →
If Mozilla were really serious about preventing people from depending on the version number, it’s not the About dialog that would lose the version number—it’s the version information sent to every Web server every single time the browser requests a page that should disappear.
The evolution of Apple ads →
July 2010
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June 2010
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May 2010
1 post
Wall-E connecting to Evaaaa? This is so cool! →
(via John Gruber, of course)
"The best things in life aren't things..." →
Yet another reminder for all of us to be grateful for everything we have - before it is too late.
April 2010
10 posts
“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.”
– Happy (belated) Earth day!
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“When I was five years old, my mom always told me that happiness was the key to...”
– Anonymous (via aayush)
Why does the iPad picture say 9:41 as the time? →
Talk about attention to detail!
WatchWith all the corruption, religion-based/caste based hatred, pollution, lack of infrastructure and all the other innumerable problems that our country is facing, Change can begin at a very small level. By starting small, I think it will make a big difference to a lot of people, despite the petty politics played by the giants at power. By concentrating on one small village at a time, this man is...
“Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs… since the...”
How do you identify a Programmer?
Funny reddit thread which makes fun of programmer habits. The question was “How do you identify a programmer without asking them?”
The ones that made me chuckle.
1) They complain that Google doesn’t have regular expressions support.
Stop, go read that again. Now think. Do you really get it? Yeah, now laugh :)
2) If every question is answered very precisely. ex:
Spouse: ...
March 2010
29 posts
Made by Sofa →
Drop-dead-gorgeous web design. I know it is HTML, CSS, Javascript and a lot of hard work that goes behind the scenes. But how do they even manage to come up with such awesome-ness is beyond me. Someday I will get it, someday!
The Gates foundation... →
Bill and Melinda Gates have “made a commitment that 50 years after the last of the two of us has died…all our money would have been given away.”
Say what you want about Microsoft and its products, Bill, Melinda and their team are doing an incredible job at lifting up the lives of people all over the world. And all we do is, read about this, and say “oh good, nice!” (that includes me...
“Google is a car-mechanic wanting to be a poet, while Apple is a poet wanting to...”
– Heard somewhere over the internet :)
Update: I heard this in the Reporter’s Roundtable podcast at CNET.