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Wishing everyone a very happy new year

Posted on Monday, January 2nd, 2012 in Thoughts with tags .

Spend every day as a Happy New Day, the year will follow

I have to say, the credit largely goes to Instagram’s simple user experience.

This video contains content from Vevo, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds. Sorry about that. Now thats just great. You put your video online and then block it off from large audiences for whatever reason. This is the kind of stuff that Inspires Piracy.

Banerghatta National Park

Posted on Monday, January 31st, 2011 in Photos Thoughts with tags .

This was taken on a safari ride within a National Park a few days back. The idea is to have the people with cameras in a cage while the animals roam free. However I found that the vehicles are in fact an intrusion in their habitat and probably a better approach will be to construct [...]

Black and White / Color Photos

Posted on Tuesday, January 11th, 2011 in Design Thoughts with tags .

A generic study of how Black and White / Color Photos behave when viewed. Just an observation on how a Color Photograph compels us to look at color where as the same in Black and White emphasizes more of the Structure and Form. Idea probably is to use each judiciously where necessary!

Is this the Future?

Posted on Friday, September 10th, 2010 in Design Gadget Technology Thoughts User Interface Video with tags .

This is the result of TAT’s Open Innovation experiment. It is an experience video showing the future of screen technology with stretchable screens, transparent screens and e-ink displays, to name a few. Well actually I would expect more. For instance the Keyboard and Mouse sure look redundant with a display and touch sensitive table surface. [...]

Future or Keyboards

Posted on Wednesday, August 25th, 2010 in Gadget Thoughts with tags .

Over the years we have used many types of keyboards. Early years they were the bulky ones with klunky keys that still made a “klapaty-klap” noise. In fact I still use a later version of that for my daily work, never needed a reason to upgrade. Over the years they got quieter and sleeker. The [...]

Reminders | Flickr – Photo Sharing!

Posted on Wednesday, August 25th, 2010 in Thoughts with tags .

Reminders | Flickr – Photo Sharing!. A Post-it note is a piece of stationery with a re-adherable strip of adhesive on the back, designed for temporarily attaching notes to documents and other surfaces. While now available in a wide range of colors, shapes, and sizes, Post-it Brand notes are most commonly a 3-inch (76 mm) [...]

Control | Flickr – Photo Sharing!

Posted on Friday, August 20th, 2010 in Thoughts with tags .

Control | Flickr – Photo Sharing!. There is something about heavy machinery that’s unmatched. They have character.

Some interesting bookshelves

Posted on Wednesday, August 11th, 2010 in Design Thoughts with tags .

Have been on the lookout for the best and most innovative bookshelf and came across these. Very inspiring. Will post my own version in a few days, either a sketch or a 3D mock. (Via funniez.net)

Tea Cup

Posted on Friday, June 4th, 2010 in Thoughts with tags .

For those who know me, they would also know that I have been having tea from roadside vendors for over 2 decades now and I simply enjoy these moments when strange and various types and tastes of tea are served with equal amount of enthusiasm, every single time.

Imagine this. You have a server room in your multi-million dollar corporation that is generating so much heat that you have to use 5 tonnes of air-conditioning to just keep it stable, and probably another 1 tonne more to make it perform well. You do have the other option to put it up in Alaska [...]

A tribute to the Walkman

Posted on Saturday, April 3rd, 2010 in Gadget Thoughts with tags .

Sony Walkman, the original “Personal Media Player” is probably outdated today and the brand re-targeted and populated with MP3 players and phones, but it was this machine, a small mechanical wonder that was one of the first to allow users to carry their music almost everywhere. And tapes had their advantages too over MP3 files. [...]

The Indian Memory Project

Posted on Thursday, February 25th, 2010 in Thoughts with tags .

The Indian Memory Project A few years back I got a couple of old photographs from home with the intention to restore them and get them printed. Somehow I never managed the time to get all of them done, but this was the first one. (More info is on the photograph itself and will try [...]

Google Buzz!!

Posted on Friday, February 12th, 2010 in Internet Thoughts with tags .

Why again? It was supposed to get me updates from Picassa, Blogger, Flickr, and some more things. But initial experience soon became a pain of repeated comments and updates. Simple things are not sorted out. Things like sending me an update on my own comment. These kind of things just highlight the fact that the [...]

Flip! A jQuery plugin v0.9.9

Posted on Tuesday, February 9th, 2010 in Internet Thoughts with tags .

Flip! A jQuery plugin v0.9.9. Just came across this post while browsing for 3D Topic Browsers in Jquery. It’s a simple Jquery funcltion to flip a container within a web page. I think, it’s a great idea to have spot reply forms created with these. They will give a blog very ‘Dashboard – Widget – [...]

How safe are modern buses?

Posted on Tuesday, February 9th, 2010 in Thoughts with tags .

There have been recent cases of people getting stuck in bus doors and the bus moving off resulting in injury. It is true that the drivers and conductors of these buses care very little, and in the stressful traffic have little to spare to do that. But can’t the manufacturer rig the doors correctly? Metro [...]

Users, Websites and Bots

Posted on Monday, February 8th, 2010 in Internet Thoughts with tags .

Back in the late 90s most websites were made for the user. And they are so even now. But the definition of the user has changed over time and become complicated. The concept initially was much like a software, “a person comes and uses a website” and has changed over time to “a person comes [...]

Why Apple leaves out Car Audio?

Posted on Saturday, February 6th, 2010 in Gadget Technology Thoughts with tags .

This is not a rumor or a hoax, this is just a suggestion. We all know that iPod is probably one of the most used devices in the car in conjunction with other devices that already exist. But why doesn’t Apple get into the market directly and give us front row right from the driver’s [...]

Short-Sight of Short URLs

Posted on Saturday, February 6th, 2010 in Technology Thoughts with tags .

Now a days we are flooded with a crowd of short URLs that inadvertently  find their way to Blogs, Posts and other such places. By nature, these URLs do not disclose the source of the content. However, once ported to a larger medium like a Blog or Forum, they need to disclose their final target. A need [...]

How many of you use Top Sites on Safari?

Posted on Friday, February 5th, 2010 in Technology Thoughts with tags .

Just curious, how many actually use this feature in Safari? Top Sites is a feature in safari where it gives you a thumbnail display of all frequently visited websites. Although the function is very simple, the display however is fantastic like all things Apple.

I have an internet enabled phone, which I use primarily to talk (90%), text (8%), click images of vague animals and impromptu kid actions (2%). I did try using it to receive my emails, at least read through them or reply back but the lack of screen space is just a killer. That’s how this [...]

Save the TIger Campaign

Posted on Thursday, February 4th, 2010 in Thoughts with tags .

Related Tweet It seems there is a Campaign on supported by our cricketers and a popular mobile company to save the Tigers that are left in India. An alarming 1411. The Campaign in it’s true ad world way shows a tiger cub waiting for his / her mother followed by a gun shot echoing through [...]


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