November 29, 2003
iTunes to go
With a month and a half of using, I am convinced iTunes for Windows is the Music Jukebox app I was always looking for. A combination of simplicity and rich features is what iTunes is all about. After using and dumping Musicmatch, Creative Playcenter and a host of Music and Tag management software, iTunes is here to stay on my Windows desktop for a long time. Read ahead for my detailed opinion on iTunes.
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January 04, 2003
Swarming, KM and Reliance
Although I am not a KM buff, I discovered today that Swarming is a very interesting concept in KM(via Smart Mobs). There is a programming paradigm similar to this - Swarm programming, what my friend Selvin seems to be doing.
Much has been talked about the Reliance way of management. Not having figured that out from the day I joined, I often wondered how such a huge company with all its internal chaos, petty squabbles and inflated egos manages to keep posting profits year after year, blowing away all myths and defying all market predictions.
What am I talking about? Why am I relating Swarming with Reliance's management? I swear there seems to be a relation between the two. Here are some of my observations (Well, even if you don't give a damn about Reliance) »
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December 10, 2002
Super Ragged Floats
First
there was slantastic
and then curvelicious.
Then came ragged
floats and then finally here is Super Ragged Floats, advanced
CSS for your viewing pleasure. If you have used Eric Meyer's method
to wrap around images, you will like this too. Here is a simple
tutorial on how to use CSS for wrapping text, but not by slicing.
An alternative to Eric Meyer's ragged floats. And a live example
can be seen here. »
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October 19, 2002
From the Vedic Perspective
What is an ancient Indian technique that is being taught in schools
in UK but not in India? What is it that beautifully corelates all
the mathematics operators if they were never different. What is it
that allows you to solve quadratic equations using differential calculus
yet still do it mentally? You guessed it. It is Vedic Mathematics.
This long forgotten technique for mathematical calculations is gaining
popularity by the exponent.
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October 06, 2002
Invisible Web
The latest issue of Businessworld India (14th October 2002) has
a very interesting article on web searches (page 50). Charles Assisi
has given some very good site links for searching what the everyday
Googles and Altavistas cannot give you. Even me, with a 61/2
year web experience, never came across some of these links!! For
you lazy bones who do not want to get off the keyboard, I put it
all in brief with my perspective.
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October 05, 2002
SVG Pie Charts
In perfect continuation to the SVG primer I wrote few days earlier, Here's how to do pie charts in SVG - Pie Are Square - Charting with SVG from Jake Howlett's codestore.net.
September 07, 2002
SVG Primer
SVG is the new in-thing
in graphical presentation on HTML pages. Like HTML is to content display, SVG
is to graphics display, in the same way as VRML is to 3D displays. So to get
you started, a brief primer on SVG »»
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