Winamp 5.1
Winamp 5.1 [http://www.winamp.com/player/index.php] released with Surround [http://www.tuner2.com/ismp.html].…
Jyve Plugin for Skype
The award-winning Jyve Plugin [http://plugin.jyve.com/] for Skype [http://www.skype.com] adds additional functionality for interacting through a web site (without the need of a client software).…
Why Good Programmers Are Lazy and Dumb
Why Good Programmers Are Lazy and Dumb [http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2005-08-24-n14.html]?…
O Fortuna
Ever since I saw the first Old Spice Ad years back I was curious about its background music which sounded very gregorian. The same score (but different lyrics) is played in the recent Carlton Draught Big Ad [http://www.bigad.com.au] and I was finally able to trace the…
Nokia N90 Review
Gizmodo’s review verdict on the Nokia N90 [http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/cellphones/nokia-n90-review-verdict-its-hawt-122653.php] is that it’s hot! As I wrote about mobile movies [https://www.nilkanth.com/archives/2005/08/04/mobile-movies/] a few days back, N90 is the first mobile phone to record video at…
Carlton Draught Big Ad
Carlton Draught Big Ad [http://www.bigad.com.au/] is really cool! Saw it on the tele tonight.…
Live in Concert
The credit to help me develop a taste for Urdu poetry and Ghazals goes to my dear buddies-since-school Horil and Moses. These guys introduced me to the world of Jagjit Singh. It all seemed so vague and over-board at first but Horil being a great singer himself has a way…
Google Talk
Here’s the big news: Google Talk [http://www.google.com/talk/], the much anticipated Instant Messaging service by Google has been launched. All you need is a Gmail [http://www.gmail.com] address and an IM software [http://www.google.com/talk/otherclients.html] compatible with Jabber [http://www.…