Anil's Musings on Technology and Life

Back to the past

Fri, 06 Apr 2007 03:23:06 GMT

By having hours of fun with LEGO - now in digital ishtyle - grab it here.

Another update on feed reader

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 03:45:49 GMT

Am now using Google Reader for all my feeds. Looks like I am spending way too much time on reading feeds during the day n week (as indicated by the trends charts on the page). Any ideas on how to manage n read around 230 feeds?

Google Reader has a nice option of sharing articles - you can find mine here. The other thing I like about the feed reader is that it has lots of keyboard shortcuts - can view most of them by using '?' shortcut for help.

I had to post this

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 04:08:19 GMT

Wish games could make me laugh like this :)
Found it from Digg.

Many Eyes

Thu, 25 Jan 2007 02:03:01 GMT

Now this seems to be an actual "data wiki" kind of site - Many Eyes. It's an experimental site for social data analysis and collaborative visualization. Though the visualizations are in Java, they offer pretty good set of visualizations - much better than the Swivel site I had blogged about earlier.

96k Doom III

Sun, 21 Jan 2007 03:48:56 GMT

A Doom III quality (actually much better than that) in 96k of executable code. See screen shots and download the game here. Wow! These guys are something.

DIY Comics

Fri, 19 Jan 2007 02:57:40 GMT

Make your own comic strips on the web - Stripgenerator.com

Swivel

Wed, 20 Dec 2006 04:49:15 GMT

This Web too dot oh thing is catching up like crazy. Another day, another site. This time it's Swivel - a site to share and explore data through graphs. Had thought about something like this few days back to have a "data wiki" - where people can upload data and share them using charts and other visualization techniques. Swivel comes quite close.

Share your slides!

Tue, 19 Dec 2006 04:05:14 GMT

SlideShare.net - a place to share and discover slideshows. Kinda like youtube for slides - site for uploading slides, sharing them and embedding them in blogs. Flash is really changing the web.

Online Spreadsheets

Fri, 15 Dec 2006 02:17:47 GMT

Editgrid - An online spreadsheet service with real-time-update and extensive collaboration features. Seems to be much better than Google Spreadsheets and has charting feature as well.

Game On!!!

Sun, 08 Oct 2006 07:46:20 GMT

The desi ad for the XBox360 - here.

And the corresponding site - here.

Shortcuts

Wed, 04 Oct 2006 03:39:00 GMT

For those who use the command prompt a lot on Windows...here are a bunch of shortcuts for you -

start . - will start up an explorer window with the current working directory.

start cmd . - will start up another command prompt with the current working directory.

i Tuned

Fri, 15 Sep 2006 12:00:04 GMT

Downloaded and installed the new iTunes yesterday, and, boy, is the new coverflow thing addictive or what. And it also easily finds cover art albums for your music. Nice!

I hope they include some sort of search by color for the album art in the next version - something like this.

One button -> Multiple RSS readers

Tue, 12 Sep 2006 12:19:50 GMT

The button on my page earlier pointed to a service called MultiRSS (http://www.multirss.com/) where one can decide which RSS reader to be used. It's impossible to add a RSS subscribe button for each of the newsreaders ... and MultiRSS fit the bill quite perfectly.

But, it seems the service has now gone down recently ... and so started my search for other similar services. It seems there are quite a few similar offerings -

SoloSub

quickSub

SingleSub

AddToAny

I am using the AddToAny service now. It's quite good and also lets you narrow down the list into feed readers and social bookmark managers to help you quickly locate your favorite newsreader from the big list.

Link for one to subscribe to the feed of this site.

If one is still wondering what RSS and syndication is all about, maybe this page will help.

Buying a Digital Camera?

Fri, 08 Sep 2006 06:25:22 GMT

Been a long time since I updated the blog...and received a nudge from one of my friends today. Thats the reason for this post ;)

Anyways...heres a nice link for someone who is looking to buy a digital camera sometime in the near future.

I already have a Canon Digital Rebel XT - highly recommended from me for some serious photography. Canon also has a nice set of tutorials to get started with the camera.

Neophilia

Wed, 19 Jul 2006 05:43:29 GMT

I think I have this in my genes.

Web in a Flash

Tue, 11 Jul 2006 05:01:17 GMT

Earlier it was Flash animations, games...then audio, video and now documents.

Not even a drop in the ocean

Wed, 28 Jun 2006 02:16:22 GMT

Relative size of our world.

Also an interesting video - Powers of Ten (on YouTube).

"Eventually, everything connects" - Charles Eames.

Am on top of the World!

Wed, 07 Jun 2006 10:06:29 GMT

With my better half!

The past week I have almost been disconnected from reality. And as my fiance puts it - I need this in bold caps and large font-size.
THIS IS REAL!

Thanks. No.

Tue, 23 May 2006 20:01:50 GMT

http://www.thanksno.com/

- A friendly one page site that you would send to someone who sends you chain letters, jokes, pictures, videos, or other crap. Great idea!

Lets call it a weekend!

Mon, 22 May 2006 17:41:44 GMT

Occasion: nvivek's graduation walk.
Location: Pittsburgh.
Duration: 05/20-05/21.
Participants: nvivek, iamneo and Pranali, Rakesh Malpani and his wife Aarti; and Venkat in a cameo role.
Description: Head over to vivek's post here.
Memorable quotes:
Vivek in the "Black Robe" (special emphasis on the quotes).
Vivek as the Lightning L----- (LL).
Do you think I am an idiot.
Snap:

All in all: Definitely one of the best weekends out of the 1000 and odd weekends in my life till now.

Gallery

Mon, 15 May 2006 12:22:04 GMT

The Gallery now points to the Flickr slideshow flash application instead of the photo blog. Time to upload some of my experiments with the camera.

Biking

Thu, 04 May 2006 22:29:10 GMT

May is national bike month here in the US. So, to celebrate it - bought a bike last Friday. Been biking on the easily accessible Eliza Furnace trail (near my work place) for the past 2-3 days, and it's fun. It's a nice 8-speed bike and you really appreciate the presence of gears when theres a uphill section in the trail (this is the first time I've had a bike with gears and with pedal toeclips). Theres also a Bike-to-Work Week from May 15-19 and Bike-to-Work Day on Friday, May 19 - don't know whether I'll be able to celebrate that :)
Useful sites for cyclists in Pittsburgh - BikeSafe and Bike-Pgh.

Time to start thinking in 3D

Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:49:57 GMT

With Google SketchUp. In the news here.

Processing

Tue, 25 Apr 2006 12:08:17 GMT

Theres a new kid on the block for graphics enthusiasts or ui prototypists - a visualization language called Processing. Seems to be used by many graphics artists these days for creating visualization programs.

WOTD - enamored

Sun, 23 Apr 2006 06:20:51 GMT

As in - I am enamored by my own LiveJournal style that I use this userscript with greasemonkey extension in Firefox to change all views of LiveJournal journals to display in my style.