Today, I casually went to see what’s new on jQuery mobile and was treated with a wonderful surprise. The alpha is released! I immediately fired up my stock browser on droid and tried it out. It is so beautiful and I can’t believe its not a native app! It worked great when the device orientation … more
I’ve never been excited about typing text on my mobile, but a new technology called swype well might change that, and I bet is going to revolutionize the way we all input text on mobiles. Unlike tapping a series of softkeys, you enter text by “connecting” keys. You should check out the demo videos! When … more
You would have all known about freeware, shareware and vaporware. I’m experimenting with a concept that I call Socialware – that is using software to help with social causes. While shareware is used by the developer to fund their developments, all proceeds gained by a socialware should go to a charitable cause. In addition, All … more
Recently, I wrote a Java Servlet for sending SMS messages. It had a method that communicated with a GSM modem connected to my PC. It was working fine – well, most of the time! Whenever you interact with a piece of hardware, or for that matter any external system, things can go wrong. A good … more
Ever had this problem? – you have checked in your Eclipse project Java code in Subversion (SVN) and all of a sudden the bin/ directory is peppered with .svn/ directories, and to make matters worse, TortoiseSVN picks this up and indicates as if the bin/ directory has been checked in. I’ll tell you how to … more
The wannabe Google killer Cuil (pronounced cool) failed to impress. Like many others on the net who did the same thing, I tried out ego-searching. What I found was that, it didn’t even return 20% of the result what Google gives. Among the ones it returned, interestingly, it somehow associated one of my conference papers … more
When I was studying in 9th/10th standard, ZX Spectrum was my object of desire. I used to buy whatever books on ZX Spectrum I could get hold of. Finally Dad bought me a similar Z-80 based home computer called Color Genie. The above is a spectacular interview with Sir Clive Sinclair, the man behind ZX … more
Played around with POV-Ray, GIMP and the photo I took, over the weekend. Oh the joys of ray tracing! Credits to Ian Shumsky for the mug object! P.S: If you like any of your photos to be on the virtual mug, send it to me and I’ll generate a scene similar to this and send … more
I usually take a nap Sunday afternoons, and I like to hear some streaming radio during that time. I wanted something that would fade the volume down to 0 after a certain period of time (say half hour). I decided to give it a shot myself. It’s Tcl and Snack to the rescue! After twiddling … more
The presentation I gave at SKP Engineering College on 04/18/2008 Disruptive Technologies | View | Upload your own SlideShare Link