Honorified Glories

A Closer Look At The iPhone

2007-01-29T11:32:00.001+09:00

This is a must watch. I am becoming more and more a fan of iPhone. And these days I am thinking around buying a Mac box too... Well no wonder why they dont call this a touchscreen phone. This is much more than that. I really liked the scroll screen... like a wheel it scroll up and down! And the album flips!

Why Apple is sweet still

2007-01-15T16:08:00.000+09:00

The touch screen is not for Apple and LG alone. Nokia has started shipping the Internet Tablet N800. With a Wide VGA touch screen display. With full browser. With music and video players. But Nokia missed what Nokia means. This device is not a phone. This is just an internet device plus a media player. What it misses compared to iPhone- no iPOD. Well, media player is not iPOD. iPOD is iPOD and

Apple is not alone

2007-01-14T09:14:00.000+09:00

The touchscreen keypad for a phone is probably the first for the UI experts at Apple. But not the only one for a long time. The Koreans are coming up. Look at LG-KE850. That sounds good for Apple. The industry is picking up its new "standard"For me, I really like the single screen multi-function idea, but not the touch screen. Apple click-wheel would have been there too?

Job well done or Magic Jobs ?

2007-01-11T15:45:00.000+09:00

Finally the iPhone is out. The industry has been speculating this. Papparazzis has been behind it - tracking some order that went to a Chinese company and so on. Jobs has raised the curtain now - not fully yet, though. Its iPhone finally. A new device that you can call a phone. Or an iPod. Or a PDA. Or an internet device. Or everything in one.The Apple touch is there. Of course yes. Like the

Listening to the new tunes

2006-07-31T12:40:00.000+09:00

July was a hot month in terms of weather across US and Europe. And it has been harsh to the east - rains, floods and tsunami.Though no such tsunamis in the tech world, the Intel announcement of a new core architecture to power computers from servers to handheld is seen by the media as a big change to come. When Intel moved from memory to processors in the early days, it was becoming a leader.

The BOX

2006-07-04T15:45:00.000+09:00

Well, I am getting to believe what I wrote. Just came across this article on FT http://www.ft.com/cms/s/8cde5246-0aba-11db-b595-0000779e2340.html Not exactly on mobile TV, but it says how the future of broadcasting corporations is not going to be too bright. How things are to change. And again, the personalised ads on broadcast too. Since every program also transmits the content info and since

Playing LIVE on a mobile phone near you

2006-07-03T13:40:00.000+09:00

Thought I would touch on a technology that I was remotely watching for around 2 years now. Mobile TV. Looking through my lowest resolution, smallest , monochrome screen, cheapest available Nokia, initially I was not impressed of the idea of watching KrishiDarsan on the mobile TV. Until I saw a real one at Samsung Korea.I think the mobile TV, if the current interest and pace are to be believed,

nanni munni bachi teri mutti mein kya hai?

2006-06-26T12:07:00.000+09:00

What the common man in India needs is not phone and TV. Give them good job (means wages not really work) and rice - used to be the slogan of the communist parties in Kerala during the Rajiv Gandhi era.Ten years later. A lot has changed and everyone is now on a mobile phone. Communist Party office was said to be giving instructions to Police chiefs over mobile phone on how to handle a BJP bundh in

Gates, Fences and Exits

2006-06-19T16:05:00.000+09:00

"In a world without fences, who needs Gates?" - ran a TShirt slogan in one of the earlier days Linux Developer Meets. Linux was not so popular that time, but it was seen by fans as very promising. To take over the world dominated by MS in actions, thoughts and dreams.Not to debate on where does Linux stand now, MS has announced last Thursday that very soon its going to be a world of no Gates.

Still Googled

2006-06-15T14:18:00.000+09:00

For no valid reason I signed for a new Google product yesterday. Of course a free one.This is called Picasaonweb. I have been using Picasa for a long time now and flickr for putting pics on web. I am definitely happy with flickr, its tagging and its google like UI. Still when Google started Picasa web, thought of giving it a try. I dont appreciate what I did. When I am satisfied with something, I

Reflections re-visited

2005-08-29T15:36:00.000+09:00

Taken with a later technology. On FOMA901i 2MPixel camera-phone.

Switch off and Slow down

2005-08-01T13:02:00.000+09:00

For all the people in the engine room of technology and IT tools. Slow down and read this news item from BBC.I remember my first year in college. I stayed at a place with not many eat outs around. We had one "puttu nair" for breakfast. No questions - he will have only puttu and pazham. At times a blue moon and he will have "payaru". A "kanjikkada" for the afternoon "kanji". The same kanji

The 10 months of Google

2005-08-01T12:55:00.000+09:00

A great read. I did not know how Google was born. Now the mom and dad is talking about that. It was not the search engine that was invented. It was the algorithm that the search engine uses, that was invented. Read onWired 13.08: The Birth of Google

Reflections

2005-02-09T13:07:00.000+09:00

I am no tech fan. I am not non-titanic. I am not amused by what I see around. I am not unaware of what I do not see, what haunts a huge section of mankind, with God's grace. I am not planning to write some serious mail today. I was just looking through the window as I sat in the "break room" at TI Japan. The whole glass buildings reflecting the other

Still searching and sorting

2005-02-01T22:42:00.000+09:00

When I started off based on a mail from a friend, Mozilla Firefox was not any special browser for me - I just installed to see how it looks like. I still don’t feel it is fast. I have even felt that, left open for a long time, it gets slow to act. Still, by mistake I made it default. The standard ways of getting IE back has failed so far. I asked IE to check if it is the dafult browser everytime

Search and Sort?

2005-01-25T11:57:00.000+09:00

Whats Google upto? Till Anoops dissertation I never thought Google is entering into the portal world taking head on with Yahoo. He has proofs for that. To me it feels that they will look for a value - value business. They will give value using an execellent serach'n'sort'n'search algorithm, and they give some ads alongwith the results. Thats the business model. Why a blogger? Where does it come

Sort and Search!

2005-01-11T11:56:00.000+09:00

I am getting better out of Google deskbar. Today I added customisations. Now I can get desktop search also from the same deskbar. And a shortcut too. Good, now my m-w dictionary search also is simpler. I dont have to type in site address. Type the word on the deskbar, and press Ctrl+M, my shortcut. Well, I really like the mini-broswer. Google calls it a mini-viewer. So what. I just added a few

Search, don't sort

2004-12-25T07:30:00.000+09:00

Search, don't Sort Keeping things sorted used to be part of discipline. Used to be. May not be well into future. Google has started changing that concept. Discipline is keeping the right tools handy with you. Search was always a problem. Kids started with searching the number of birds in the picture problems and later grew into efficient sort and search C programs. The problem of search. My