New features in iPhone 3.0 firmware
Apple recently released the 3rd iteration of its iPhone software bringing it a few steps closer to perfection. Its amazing how apple not only manages to generate buzz for it's products but also for the firmware upgrades of its products. The iPhone OS 3.0 upgrade is available free of cost for iPhone users but iPod Touch users will have to shell out $9.95 for the same but I am sure some smart cracker will find a way to get the 3.0 firmware onto the iPod touch for free. What's new in iPhone firmware 3.0? Cut-Copy-Paste: Apple made a lot of people unhappy ...
Indian elections 2009 coming soon..
Will Mayawati succeed in becoming the Prime Minister of India or would Sharad Pawar manage to pull a coup? That’s the million dollar question doing rounds on the dinner table of most of us Indians these days. Unlike earlier, elections are no longer about Congress versus BJP, they are more about coalitions versus coalitions. Mergers and acquisitions are what the political doctors have ordered for the aspirant PMs of the country. So you have the BJP-BJD marriage breaking up in Orissa, Shiv Sena getting back together with BJP after threatening to file for divorce while it still continues to flirt with ...
All one: The Dance of Shiva
We all live in polarized world. We breathe in a world where people take pride in being distinct from each other. The polarization theory has crept into the society so badly that its ugly manifestations are witnessed from the micro to macro level. What is even worse is that polarization gives an opportunity to each sect, community or any group to claim superiority over the other. Our minds have succumbed to this nasty game so much that we have started discriminating against our own countrymen in schools, colleges and workplaces. Colleges have become a new playground of creating disharmony. Prominent B–schools ...
Amazon’s Kindle, an iPod for books
Here's a small riddle! What weighs a little more than 10 ounces, is about the size of a paperback book and costs $399? It is Amazon's Kindle, a device which helps you read upto 200 eBooks with a built in 256 Mb memory (and another 180 Mb free). Like a cell phone, it has wireless connectivity to the web allowing the users to download e-books, subscribe to magazines and blogs directly from Amazon.com. This is for the first time that Amazon has ventured in the computer hardware market and it is being compared to Apple's iPod which changed the way ...
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The Herd Mentality
By Akhilesh at 12 March, 2010, 7:04 am
Erich Fromm, a German – American psychologist and Humanistic philosopher once quoted, “The Danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots.” I believe the psychologist is talking about the heavy dependence of technology that human beings are used to nowadays. Though I think [...]
Read More >>Mitchell Johnson does a mini Zidane
By abhishek at 7 March, 2010, 11:11 am
Cricket is no more a gentleman’s game, but a little bit of Zidanesque head butt will not hurt cricket. Entertaining stuff.
Read More >>Sidewalks anyone?
By Adwait at 7 March, 2010, 9:46 am
There are no adjectives to describe the traffic scenes in the cities we live in. There is no scope for lying and praising it or justifying how crazy it is. ‘Seeing is believing’ as it is said and everyone who has been a traveler for a day at least, has seen the traffic.
Read More >>A tribute to Mr Vodafone
By Adwait at 22 February, 2010, 11:03 am
Creating brilliant ads is quite a challenge. They are not like movies. They aren’t three hours long and most of them aren’t even aired start to end on television. They are short. They need to capture your intelligence long enough so you would go and buy that product. They have to be eye-catching. A good ad is judged by its repeat value and whether you look for your remote to switch channels when the first ad pops out in the middle of a serial that you might be watching.
Read More >>Living for that one day
By Adwait at 17 February, 2010, 10:34 pm
A routine sets. Invariably.
School. College. Work. We all have one.
After getting up in the morning, there is this imaginary list in our sub-conscious mind which eventually we start ticking off.
Bathroom : done. Breakfast : done. Newspaper : done. And so on subjectively according to our own lives. After some time. Once you set into college, or you get comfortable at work, this checklist is completed effortlessly and unconsciously. You don’t think while carrying out your routine after a certain period of time. Again not set in stone, but something which needs a personal touch.
