Vikram’s “Muse”

“And this one thing is what gives the confidence, however out of place this confidence might seem, to be absolutely unworried about the permanence of this bond. How can you somehow lose your reflection?” - Vikram

Everyone calls it Hotlanta..

I am spending the week at the Microsoft Global Briefing in Atlanta. It feels most like Chennai weather... above 90 F (32 C) and humid. Even more fun was watching the CEO of one of the world's largest software companies go absolutely bonkers on stage and in the crowd. It ...

Because Tiger likes tablets…

Ah.. yet another Apple tablet sighting. So far I hadn't linked to these rumors but Rob says he got it from a source. I did know that there was an Apple Tablet like device in existence (and that there was some work going on) but whether it's a lifestyle device, ...

Quick Note: Tablet Mac?

An interesting comment on slashdot about Tablet events in Tiger.

Evolving the Tablet UI

The Experience Pack for the Tablet PC has just moved the Tablet UI a small step closer to where it should have been already. The boon and bane of Microsoft seems often that they are compelled to stick to a familiar (read Windows) UI irrespective of how radically different a UI ...

October 28th 2008
Tags: Software, Tablet PC, Technology No Comments

Quick Notes from the PDC

Great Win 7 demo. For those of us who is into UX, the new UI features are outlined here. Great Touch UI improvements. My next laptop HAS to be a convertible with multi-touch (along with the digitizer). I saw most praise from the audience for the stability ...
January 24th 2008
Tags: Software, Technology One Comment

Troubleshooting driver problems in Vista

This is a problem that has confounded and caused no end of trouble to me and several friends/colleagues. Now that I seem to have found a fairly reliable solution, I wanted to highlight it here. Problem Symptom: Vista fails to find drivers for devices - typically USB devices. Often these ...
November 26th 2007
Tags: General One Comment

Forever Star

As someone said on TV recently, "I don't want to give an eulogy because that would be acknowledging that he is gone" - I have been trying to block out this reality for a little while now. The last email I got from the man who I have often ...
September 18th 2007
Tags: Cool Tools, Software, Technology No Comments

All your Translation are belong to Us

Mike tells me that this is what he translates every time he finds a new translation service. So, I decided that I would run it through the new translator service that went into silent beta recently. German: Alle Ihre Übersetzung gehören zu uns Arabic: كل جهاز الترجمة تنتمى بنا French: Appartiennent tous votre traduction sont à ...
June 2nd 2007
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Business Models for India - Recycling

There are two kinds of disappointments to those with an entrepreneurial bent. One - the "in retrospect" kind and another - the "ideated but un-executed" kind. The first kind is where you look at something that just happened and say "that is so obvious", and the second kind is where ...