ActiveSkype

By Ashutosh in Entertainment on

ActiveSkype [http://www.khaoslabs.com/index.php?page=skypeapi] is a COM wrapper around the Skype API [http://share.skype.com/sdp]…

Mobile Movies

By Ashutosh in Entertainment on

Lately, I’ve been very interested in the visual-quality and utility of mobile-cams (besides the crappy MMS spy stuff doing rounds). After reading about an article the other day on the advent of SMS novels [http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1189429.cms], it hit me whether the tech-savvy have already…

Turn camera phones into bar code scanners

By Ashutosh in Gadgets and Gizmos on

Optical Intelligence Evaluation SDK [http://www.scanbuy.com/Website/developers_sdk_cameraphone.htm] enables developers turn camera phones into bar code scanners. Also note-worthy in this context is Semacode [http://semacode.org/], which has some interesting application possibilities [http://semacode.org/about/apps/possibilities].…

Amida Simputer

By Ashutosh in Business on

Amida Simputer [http://www.amidasimputer.com/], the successor (it seems) of the Indian-made Simputer [http://www.simputer.org/] PDA, has been launched. Its price tag reads USD 240 (and above). To me, that doesn’t seem consistent with the companies mission statement — “The Simputer is a low cost portable alternative…

Inventor of the remote control is “confused”

By Ashutosh in Gadgets and Gizmos on

Inventor of the remote control is “confused” [http://www.engadget.com/entry/7832617637315816/] > “You know it’s a bad sign when even Robert Adler, the retired Zenith engineer who helped invent the remote control over 50 years ago, says that “you need a pilot’s license to…