Found this interesting tool in today’s NYT. The tool created by Anatoly Zenkov tracks every momvent of your mouse and draws corresponding lines on a “page”. With circles and dots for clicks and time spent at spots, it not only creates some interesting art but also makes you think about your mouse habits. For me, over a 3 hour period center part of the drawing became very dense. Which made me realize my hands don’t sit still. More concerning thought was I use track point on my thinkpad. Regardless.. interesting random art…
February 17th, 2010
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Why? Why there is no real toll free numbers for cell phones? Because of 611 service we know that it is not that cell phone service providers can’t recognize when not to charge for air time. Are there technological limitations? Too expensive?? In India they have free incoming calls (yes no air time charged on incoming call!!) and east is way ahead for introducing new cool phones first. Let’s hope services here get cheaper and more attractive.
September 23rd, 2006
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My wish about interoperation between Yahoo Messenger and MSN Live has come true. Check out information about it here for MSN users and here for Yahoo lovers. Happy IM’ing 
July 13th, 2006
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Last week’s buzz about interoperable instant messaging software made me think why there is no such effort for phones and credit cards. With all the gizmos like ipod, multiple cell phones and digital cameras techies may have to start wearing tools belt. Luckily there have been efforts for putting music player, camera and credit card in to cell phones. But I do not see any major efforts to combine all your phone numbers to one device. Most of the people these days have at least two cell phones, work & home. To start with it would be really helpful to have one device for multiple cell phone numbers. Later your Landline / VOIP numbers can be combined to same device. There are call forwarding facilities but there is no true integration in this manner. I personally think this combined cell phone would be in greater demand then those claimed “ipod killer” cell phones. Similarly combine all my debit and credit cards in one. Even though that would make my wallet lighter, I will not complain about it There have been a big push towards unified messaging lately and I hope my wish gets integrated in that.
Update: Cell phone as guide and as game controller
June 26th, 2006
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BumpTop 3D Desktop Prototype A very neat video on YouTube about 3D UI.
Originally spotted it here
June 22nd, 2006
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With the latest version of Yahoo! Messenger 8 beta, Yahoo has once again proved they have most innovative and useful ideas about instant messaging. Major feature of this release as already reported on so many other sites is third party plug-ins. Just to give one example, I installed amazon's plug-in and now I can see amazon wish-list of all 150 contacts of mine just by selecting their name. Such a time saver when buying gift for someone. I do not know any other messenger that comes close to Y!M in terms of useful features, stealth settings, offline messages, VOIP, .. all in one. I have been using Windows Live Messenger 8 Beta as well but Yahoo just beats everything.
Most of my friends use Trilliansince that saves you time from using 4-5 different IM provides like Yahoo, MSN, AIM etc. But then you can't use specific features of any one provider. It would be really nice if I can use all my accounts like AIM, MSN from Yahoo Messenger. Is that too much to ask?
Update: Actually MSN Live is working on interoperability with Y!M. Will Yahoo follow same?
June 20th, 2006
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Downloaded and installed Office 2007 Beta 2. Most visible feature is completely redesigned user interface. File menu replaced by office logo. Instead of vertical drop down menus, menu opens horizontal. Default extension for new file (in 2007 format) has an extra "X" for e.g. instead of .doc it is .docx. User interface is very intuitive and I liked it in general. Most annoying thing so far is it takes 2 clicks to open, close and save a document. I plan to use it for my day to day use so will post my experience in detail later.
June 20th, 2006
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Google news is great. But I don't go to actual website to satisfy my news quest, rather I use their RSS feeds. These feeds work very nice for their standard pages like "World", "Business", "Tech" etc. But when you use feeds for custom news search, it SUCKS, especially for company specific search. Every-time there is a new source that reports same story it adds a new link to that story next time you refresh the feed. So rather then smartly grouping same news related links, it actually adds new entries for news source updated since last time. Sure this may be result of the nature of RSS feeds itself, but yahoo finance seems more mature in this matter. Google financealso gathers company specific news neatly but then they don't have RSS for that. Also I was unable to find link for feedback to google on either news or finance site. Google are you listening?
June 13th, 2006
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I installed Google Toolbar Beta 3 for IE. Now I am moving to Philadelphia this weekend on permanent basis, and was looking for housing in nearby areas of my office. The Autolink feature was really really helpful while finding apartments, as it was just one click to find distance and direction from my office. Saved lot of time. SpellCheck is also useful. I use Firefox for majority of my work and let’s hope that these features get ported to Firefox very soon. Everything looked fine except that it never remembered my origin address (its still beta…) and so I had to copy paste it all the times.
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March 4th, 2005
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Microsoft announced about new version of Internet Explorer, IE7 for WIN XP today. First beta will be released this summer. Interesting time ahead as they compete with Firefox, we consumers will be the winner by getting hand on more innovative products
February 15th, 2005
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