kite photography – India

French Photographer Nicolas Chorier who is specialized in Kite Photography has taken photographs from different parts of India, If you are a photographer, Don’t miss these amazing Photos at the BBC

Nicolas Chorier - Kit photography India

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Future of softwares

This is just my wildest imagination, sometimes I get cranky, may come true… Well I am not Nostradamus for Information technology either.

We currently see a change the way the internet is operating, sooner our internet speeds will be equivalent to that of our local area network (LAN’s),  Desktop  softwares will be obsolete,  the only illegal software on a pc can just be the OS.

Enterprise to soho applications will move to the web as services, late adopters will be forced to make their desktop applications free so that they can sync with the online service sooner or later.

Companies will run their applications on behalf of the customers on servers grids or even serial main frame computers.  Where applications gets legitimate and revenue would be pay per use.

PC also might get obsolete or it may take other forms like your house hold items like table to refrigerators getting smarter or even the Mobile phones turned to powerful features of a PC.

all this could happen between 10 to 15 years from now i.e 2015 -2020

LEAVE STEVE JOBS ALONE!

Just happened to stumble upon justine’s blog, an ardent apple fan . Her video remarked to be either sarcastic or she really felt for Steve Jobs.

The whole world knows when you buy new Gadgets or Status icon products, they are meant to be bit pricey and as time passes by, old models have to give way for the new model products and the prices have to be slashed in order to keep the old one in the market to meet the manufacturing cost of the production.

I bought my Nokia N70 in India, when the product was just launched it was 25000 INR (USD 500 approx.) and 6 months down the lane it was 15000 INR (USD 300 approx.). Does it mean, we all send mails to Nokia.

What a crap, There are still Iphone users who believe that they have premium product or atleast an usable product.

Well I love Apple for the WOW/usability products, being an ardent fan of the PC for years, I do have second hand Ipod mini Apple did replace the batteries free of cost after 1 yr and would love to possess the Iphone when it hits the Indian market.

Steve I am not complaining, just get us the Iphone to India, even if you hike and reduce the price, there will Indians Apple fan who love your products.

One thing I would like to say “Steve you have crazy Apple fan, who makes crappy videos out of your name”

Justine: No hard feeling, If you felt the post is in appropriate, let me know. ( I am away for this weekend, no computers, no cellphones. Will respond soon.)

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Which gas station / petrol pump BESt?

Which gas station did you fill up, for your vehicle?

  1. This is the most common question which your friends question you, when you tell them that you didn’t get a better mileage.
  2. When your vehicle pollutes the atomosphere

Do you know what kind of graded petrol/diesel you fill up your vehicle?
OR
Does any one know according to gas stations, how they are graded?

A friend of mine who worked at various marketing agencies said that private one are the top quality ones and rest followed by public sectors

Here is the list in the order of purity and quality of gas as quoted by my friend

  1. Reliance
  2. Essar
  3. Shell
  4. BP – British petroleum
  5. BPCL – Bharat Petroleum corporation ltd.
  6. IOC – Indian oil corporation
  7. HPC- Hindustan petroleum corporation

Google didn’t help me out to find answer on this query. If any body has an answers I am ready to update this post with full credits to the righteous owner.

Most of the time it is a battle between friends saying, this is best, that is best. My quest for BESt just started.

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Learn Foreign Lanaguges with mango

Mango learn foreign languages

What if you are able to learn foreign languages at your comfort?
try Mango, languages.

Mango learn foreign languages

Just tried to learn French, I love the way they spell the French words. Bonjour (“Hello”) ;)

I am sure most school and college students in India would use this portal, All the site needs is little advertisement on the web

Mango learn foreign languages

One thing I quickly noticed on the usability part, when you sign up they asked for the First Name. I guess they wanted to have it as full name instead of First name, some times typo errors occur.

Wildhogs – true essence of bikers

Dudes these guys rock, Yeah you guessed it right, it is about bikers. I am sure most of us have a group, right from childhood, If you have taken a road trip with your bunch of friends, you will surely love this movie. Most details of movie surely covered my road trips. I had been on road trips twice with my friends and planning for the third, coming week end.

Wildhogs

Starring Tim Allen, John Travolta, Martin Lawrence & William H Macy

Why I love this movie?
It is the character William H Macy , a computer geek and not so great biker, making mistakes, At the end of the movie he wins what he wants. He seems to be the looser from the very start of the movie, but wins his hearts desire.

Bikers Attitude?
The essence of bikers is actually conveyed in this movie. You don’t have to be true bikers (macho, arrogant etc), all it needs is the love to go on a long drive and enjoy with friends.

Sure it did win my heart.

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Transparent Apple Laptops

If you are ardent fan of Apple, here is some thing  of your interest.

transparent Apple Laptop
transparent Apple Laptop
If you like to watch the video here is the link from metacafe. Been thinking how Apple alone makes innovative stuffs which keep bringing WOW’S. I believe it has got something to do with the Apple fans.

The buying power – support the new technologies or staying up to date on the hardware & the softwares

Take the same on the PC platform, at least 60-70% of them fail to upgrade.That doesn’t seem to happen with the Mac, the number of people using Mac’s are less than the PC, but for sure I have seen Mac lovers upgrade like hell with their hardwares.

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Brazil vs Argentina – funny Ads

A friend of mine just sent me a forward mail. Thought, it would be good to share with all of you. Amazing advertisement

Before the football match between Argentina and Brazil…,

An Argentinean condom company came up with this advertisement to show the Brazilians what they were going to do to them

brazil argentina condom ads

Brazil won the match and their Football organization replied to the advertisement.
brazil argentina condom ads

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Designer product, bad usability

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Believe me if this product is available in India, It is an absolute flop. Reason
What are the options available for you to wash the bottle?
Assume you consume milk, coffee or tea. You may have to throw the glass and the bottle.

Kindly note: I don’t mean to offend the designer of the product. It looks good, but not so good to use.

A good example of bad usability. Courtesy

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