The World's Most Addictive Game

The Box Game [http://66.197.187.149/~magipcom/mostaddictinggame.html] is said to be the world’s most addictive game. U.S. Air Force pilots have been known to average a score of more than 60 seconds. Sweet!…

Menwhopause album is out

Yesterday I received a nice message from Satish, the manager of the desi rock band – Menwhopause [http://www.menwhopause.com/], that the band has released their new album “Home” and it can be downloaded online. You can also catchup with these guys through their blog [http://blog.myspace.com/menwhopause]…

How I saved over $4000 on software?

Is the “free software [http://www.fsf.org/licensing/essays/free-sw.html]” revolution a myth or a temporary trend? I don’t think so. Being a technology evangelist myself, who’s been involved in software usage & construction for over 10 years, I feel that “free software” has a tremendous…

Shopping Search By Color

ComparisonEngines.com writes about a cool feature in the shopping space [http://www.comparisonengines.com/2006/10/19/become-adds-search-by-color/]: “It’s great to see companies adding cool, innovative features in the shopping space! First it was Etsy, then it was ShopWiki, now Become has entered the search by color arena.…

Yahoo! Music LAUNCHcast in India

Seems like the Yahoo! Messenger India [http://messenger.yahoo.co.in] version 8 doesn’t pre-install the Music LAUNCHcast plugin, and there is no way to activate the plugin as well. To resolve this issue, the plugin must be installed separately from the Yahoo! Music LAUNCHcast plugin gallery page [http:…

Nokia Shorts 2006

I wrote about mobile short films [https://www.nilkanth.com/archives/2005/08/04/mobile-movies/] in brief last year. This year, the Nokia Shorts 2006 [http://www.nokiashorts.com/finalists/] competition (15 second mobile handset-shot films) has announced the finalists of the Handset category. The shorts are also now screening…