Try this: Take a plastic bag (the one you got on your recent shopping trip will do). Cover your nose and mouth with the opening of the bag, making sure that no air escapes from the sides. Start breathing normally. Keep doing it. Feel the air in the bag (and that you are now breathing) [...]

Apple has FINALLY released guidelines for designing webapps for the iPhone! Go here. Reads like a straight-forward how-to for mobile web applications – effectively what I have been “preaching” in my mobile computing talks.

Today, the iPhone gets released. And while everyone is going overboard about the features, the glitz, the hype, etc., I see something else that most people seem to be missing: The iPhone is finally going to force people to write *real* mobile web-applications. Designed for a mobile interface, without sacrificing visual appeal, functionality or “whoa!”. [...]

Innovation isn’t about creating something new. Innovation is about creating something that makes people sit up and say “Whoa! I want that!”

Woke up earlier than usual today, and lay in bed reading mail and my feeds on BlogLines on my PDA. A long-time blog I have been following is that of the guy who got me into keeping an online diary in first place (I refuse to call it a blog) – Wil Wheaton – blogger [...]

I am in the market for a new motherboard for the RadioVeRVe studio machine, and was doing some research on CPU performance and reviews. And I ran into this. (Read the whole thing, right to the end). As Shreyas just put it: “The Internet is truly magical”.

Well, I am back in Bangalore, after a nerve-wracking trip back from Berlin. When I set out from Berlin, I was worried to death for a number of reasons: Due to the G8 meet in Berlin, security at the airports was reported to be unbelievably high. And I was worried because not only was my [...]

How many of you kicked yourself for missing Eben Moglen when he was in Bangalore last August? Well, for those of you who did – here is your second chance: Monday, 6:30pm, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Don’t miss this! Eben is the world’s foremost authority on the GNU General Public License, for one simple, [...]

Been to RadioVerve recently? As in the past 24 hours? Or less? No? Shame on you! Go check out the magic that is Behold the goodness of not one, but EIGHT (seven now, one more coming up) channels of 24×7 independent music from India – ranging from everyone’s favourite main RadioVeRVe station, though dedicated Rock, [...]

You know how sometimes, you feel that you shouldn’t do something, then you do it anyway, and realise that you were right all along about feeling that you shouldn’t have done it? Today was one of those days for me. One of the items on my list of things to do here was to buy [...]