Conditions are never just perfect
Note to myself: > Conditions are never just perfect. People who delay action until all factors are favorable are the kind who do nothing. The wishbone can never replace the backbone.…
The Tilt-Shift Illusion
Update (9 Jan 2009): TiltShiftMaker [http://tiltshiftmaker.com/] gives your photos that delightful tilt-shift look (via Boing Boing [http://www.boingboing.net/2009/01/08/web-site-to-tiltshif.html]). After some playing around, I think that the manual effect in Photoshop or Gimp gives better results. Couple of weeks back, I saw…
Where is the "Common Man's" Mobile Application?
Half of world’s population has a mobile phone [http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,25642,23755389-5014108,00.html], yet, only 21% of the world’s population uses the Internet [http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm]. On my last visit to India, I was not so astounded to…
First look at Windows 7
At PDC 2008, Microsoft gave the first public demonstration [http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081028-first-look-at-windows-7.html] of Windows 7, its next generation operating system. [https://www.nilkanth.com/content/images/2008/10/win7_1.png] [https://www.nilkanth.com/content/images/2008/10/win7_2.png] I’ve been…
Embrace the new .NET Logo
With PDC 2008 [http://www.microsoftpdc.com/] coming up, Microsoft’s .NET Framework [http://www.microsoft.com/NET/] gets a refreshing new logo [http://www.hanselman.com/blog/PDC2008NewNETLogo.aspx]. Yesterday, Seth Godin also wrote [http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/10/your-brand-is-n.html] about the importance of a…
I'm On Twitter
Now you can also join me on Twitter [http://twitter.com/VoidMonk], a social messaging service. > Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing? I’ll be…
BarCamp, New Delhi
As Paras Chopra informed me, the BarCamp Delhi conference [http://wiki.barcampdelhi.com/] is coming up in October. BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences, often focusing on early-stage web apps, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats. Paras mentions: > BarCamp Delhi – 11th…
Content, not Chrome
Today, most of what we use the Web for on a daily basis aren’t just web pages, they are “applications”. These applications, which run inside our Web browsers, are increasingly becoming more advanced in their functionality and more interactive in their usability. The Web browser acts as the core…