July 2010
19 posts
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Slaughter House
What would be the ideal defence against the slaughter of chicken? Buthcher’s defence would be:
“I provide you food, shelter, and protect you. You took everything for granted, till the time to die!”.
Some times we play the role of the chicken.Do we know who is behind our lives? Is it the butcher? In other words - Are we living for the butcher.
I am not sure if I know the answer...
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Set out to make MEANING
Set out to make MEANING. If you make meaning, you probably make money. Three ways to make meaning:
Increase the quality of life
Right a Wrong
Prevent the end of something good.
-Guy Kawasaki.
The cat and the designer →
Nexus one - RIP
Google shuts door on Nexus One, and all future Nexus Models!!! This is my take on it! With the death of Google Nexus One model, dies the freedom of consumers.
With Nexus one, Google was swimming upstream. They tried to take on the likes of ATT and Verizon head on. They sold the phone, without subsidy from any of the carriers, and of course later there was a tie up with T-Mobile.
They tried to...
High Key Photos At Home - How To
This is an experiment that I had done on the high key photos at home. Will explain the set up and settings first. Then you could easily make sense of it
SET UP
Window - Find a Window in which sun is shining through. Better if you have white curtains on. If not no worries, leave that open. No blinds.
Model - Place the model in front of the window. The window should be behind the model. Model...
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Free Iphone4 Cases = More Problems
Free iPhone4 cases, creates more problems than it solves. Why?
It is a stark reminder that your phone is a defective one. Needs a rubber to work
Well if you go without the case, there is a nagging feeling that something is not right without the case.
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The Future of publishing
Publishing needs a conscious effort to move beyond the arcane text. Why? The reasons are
Nobody wants the publishing industry to die. At least not me.
Now that there is potential to see just papers. There is iPad, and tablets, which will give a new reading medium
iPad would do to books, what iPod did to Music.
Since publishers have that ability and contacts to make this happen, they can grab...
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How to de-clutter Google Reader
The most depressing thing about Google Reader is the remorse it brings, when the unread goes into thousands. That leads to more housekeeping, and remorse, and less reading and lesser usefulness.
How to set this right? I jot down a few steps that I followed.
Start with a clean slate. - Create a new gmail account
Follow the 80-20 rule. Pick out ten feeds. Just ten feeds.
Look at the number of...
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Configure Google App Engine Launcher in Ubuntu...
Google App Engine Launcher is an indispensable tool when it comes to GAE development. Sadly Linux devs do not have a compiled package. However there is a way out. No we dont have to compile it!
The following steps works fine for me in my Ubuntu 9.10
Checkout the Google App Engine Launcher. If you dont have Subversion. Install it using the “Ubuntu Software Center”(under Applications...
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Apple, Let us play a Dare Game
It just takes common sense to determine that apple is lying about its solution to the Antenna problem. Now, the real proof has come from consumer reports that it is lying, based on the tests they had conducted.
If Apple feels that this design has nothing to do with the signal problems, it should retain this in the next design of Iphone4.
It is an open Dare to Apple. If you believe what you are...
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What does Microsoft have to loose about Android
Who is loosing because of this phenomenal growth of Android?
The immediate response would be Apple and RIM. Because these are the ones that are loosing out on the short term. Then how about Microsoft?
In my opinion Microsoft is a long term looser. It is not just the Mobile market that Android is eroding into, it might well extend into the Desktop. One thing Android has done to people is to make...
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An Apple Lie
Here is what apple posted about their Iphone4 problems!
Problem Addressed - Why ONLY Iphone4 - (not Iphone3G, Iphone) - drops signal when held in a way. Apple’s solution - Simple, we got the bars wrong. So we would get you an update to set that bug right.
However the problem is that Apple says it will roll out this fix to all the iPhones (4, 3G, 3). Since all the generation phones are...
