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Mouse Movement Tracking

Aakash — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 02:35:01 +0000

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…

Toll Free on Cell Phone

Aakash — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 04:06:40 +0000

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.

MSN Contacts In Yahoo Messenger

Aakash — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 14:21:22 +0000

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

Superman Returns in India as Krrish

Aakash — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 15:25:57 +0000

There is an interesting story about Indian super hero movie Krrish in BoingBoing. From the story,

“Throughout the film, in fact, the other characters consistently cite his “talents” but rarely his “powers” as if he were destined to become an extremely gifted knowledge worker (and indeed, it turns out that the ethics of knowledge work for hire are at the center of this epic saga.) ”

Hahaha, Read rest of the story here. I didn’t get chance to watch Krrish yet but I did see Superman Returns and based on the length and storyline of the movie, to me it was a bollywood flick

PA Flooding

Aakash — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 14:26:59 +0000

Some of pictures I took during yesterday’s flooding here in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania. Conshohocken railway station,

Office Buildings …

You can find more photos here.

Trillian Equivalent for Phones and Credit Cards

Aakash — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 21:16:23 +0000

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

Worldcup Soccer Live Online

Aakash — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 20:16:19 +0000

Catch all live action online on espn at http://espn360.com Feed is deferred by about 30 seconds.

3D User Interface

Aakash — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 17:52:49 +0000

BumpTop 3D Desktop Prototype A very neat video on YouTube about 3D UI.

Originally spotted it here

Y!M 8

Aakash — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 18:45:38 +0000

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?

Office 12

Aakash — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 06:19:27 +0000

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.