Monthly Archives: January 2009
‘The genius behind Steve’ – Fortune Magazine
Fortune magazine recently ran a cover story about Steve Jobs. The article deals with the health issues that Jobs has been facing, how Apple and the media are handling it, and Tim Cook, the interim boss of Apple. It’s a … Continue reading
Hillary calls up Zardari
Hillary clinton, the new US Secretary of State called up the Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari on Thursday. You can imagine how the conversation must have gone. Zardari would have tried to flirt with Clinton telling her how pretty she … Continue reading
Flipping Typical
Flipping Typical is a neat website that allows you to checkout what your text will look like on the web with various fonts. It only uses fonts that you have installed on your computer. But the implementation is so simple, aesthetic, … Continue reading
A homage to the Flash preloader
Prettyloaded.com is a website that pays homage to one of the things that bugs me most on the web – Flash preloaders. I just spent a good 30 minutes going down ‘preloader memory lane’! What a fantastic (and inspiring!) new … Continue reading
Bicycle rental in Mumbai, India
I’ve been planning to start something like this for a while now. Also had a few discussions with a friend about this. But the idea didn’t even get to the design boards. Now a firm in Mumbai has started something … Continue reading
Steve Job’s health – how the media screwed up royally
Read this article on Newsweek recently about how the media screwed up the Steve Job’s health story. Dan Lyons, who we know as Fake Steve, the author of this fantastic piece, explains how the media, like all Apple fanboys (myself … Continue reading
Specialization is for insects
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, … Continue reading
Added a ‘city info’ section to Pondicherrycity.com
Added a new section to Pondicherrycity.com yesterday. It’s called “city info“. As of now it’s mostly under construction, but it has the following info: A photo and video gallery where I will upload my own pictures on Pondi as well … Continue reading
Introducing the new and improved MacBook Pro 17″
Apple introduced the long-awaited MacBook Pro 17″ during the Macworld 2009 keynote yesterday. Some major changes include a built-in battery that Apple says will last up to 8 hours. This baby starts at about $2799 US. Makes me wanna just … Continue reading