Webtop or Deskweb

November 19, 2006 at 6:31 am · Filed under Technology and Software

Webtop is a new term floating around for applications that traditionally used to be on your desktop, but now can be seen and used on the web, thus making it available from any computer in any part of the world.

Since the Ajax hype, everyone is building webtops. eg. Google Calendar, Google Spreadsheets, NetVibes etc.

But there are also tools developed that can sit on your desktop and show you all the information that normally used to be accessed on the web. eg. Google Desktop, Yahoo widgets. I like to call these as Deskweb application, opposite of Webtop.

It seems like redudant work, so why do we have two different trends going on?. My guess is that some users prefer web while some prefer desktop application and may be some like both, and some have no clue about either :-)

I predict that, instead of creating different applications showing same information, future applications will come with flexibility of converting your webtop to a deskweb and vice-versa, making everyone happy.

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New Don

October 29, 2006 at 10:09 pm · Filed under Bollywood

There was never a doubt in my mind that the old Don would always be far better than the new Don, but for me the real question was would the new Don be able to keep the audience happy at the end of the movie.

I saw the movie recently and I was quite happy with the overall movie.

Shahrukh Khan was real good but no match for Amitabh Bachhan. The new movie is slick and modern with all modern settings. It has an added twist in the end which is the only part that differs from the original movie. Overall, its a timepass movie.

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Firefox beats all browsers

September 25, 2006 at 9:14 pm · Filed under Technology and Software

Firefox seems to be the most popular browser around. My personal experience with Firefox has been great, its easy to adapt, its quick, has tabbed browsing and lots of useful extensions.

Below is the comparision chart from google trends.

ie opera firefox mozilla safari

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Paes and Damm won Men’s Doubles at U.S. Open 06

September 11, 2006 at 12:09 am · Filed under Tennis

U.S. Open 2006 concluded today. Federer and Sharapova took the honors in the individual events.

Other highligths of this tournament have been
- Agassi closed his 21 year career after making an interesting run in this tournament.
- Navratilova closed her pro career with 59th Grand Slam title after winning Mixed Double.

Paes and Damm won Men’s Doubles. Paes won 4th Grand Slam title and Damm enjoys his first.

Though not much emphasis was given to this by the press, I think it is a good achievement and deserves accolades.

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Munnabhai Rocks

September 5, 2006 at 1:50 pm · Filed under Bollywood

Eight out of ten movies and nine out of ten sequels are disappointing in Bollywood.

But not this one, this sequel called “Lage raho munnabhai” is very entertaining.

The movie starts on a comic note with Munnabhai (Sanjay Dutt) and Circuit (Arshad Warsi) and then it takes a sentimental turn, but still manages to keep the comedy alive.

“Gandhigiri” as the movie puts it has been potrayed in a new light making people want to believe that there is Gandhi in all of us, just waiting to be heard.

I won’t give up too much, go see for yourself.

I hope there is a sequel to this one too !!

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Feeds, Podcast and Blog

August 31, 2006 at 1:46 am · Filed under General

RSS Feeds, Podcast and Blog have become integral part of businesses on internet. If you are not using them, consider them asap. I am listing the advantages of having them for your business

1) RSS Feeds: Using RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, a business can quickly and easily broadcast its corporate news and product information to customers, partners and journalists. Customers can subscribe to this and get updates instantly.

2) Podcast: Using Podcasting, a business can send their information in multimedia (Audio and Video) to their customers. Same as RSS Feeds, customers can subscribe to this and get updates instantly.

3) Blog: Business Blogs brings you and your customers closer, it increases interactiviy and informality with the customers. This will let you know more about your customers, their demands and complains.

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quikmaps.com

August 27, 2006 at 6:33 pm · Filed under Good Websites

Few weeks back I created a web-page to put my travel information on the map. It took me around 5-6 hours to complete that and it involved
1) Getting an api key from google.
2) Getting the co-ordinates of the places I want to put.
3) Writing custom code that zooms in and stuff.
4) Wrting my travel information.

quikmaps.com is really cool as it allows you to create the maps instantly by allowing you to draw pictures and labels on a google map using simple clicks and drags.

You can even email or put the map you just created on your blog or website.

Overall a pretty cool website.

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Dwarf Planet ?

August 26, 2006 at 10:45 pm · Filed under General

Pluto was recently stripped off its Planetary status. Two consistent reasons are.

- Pluto is too small and does not have enough gravitational pull to be a perfect sphere and neither to clear its neighborhood.

- Pluto’s off-center orbit intersects the orbital path of another planet (Neptune).

Astronomers wanted to get rid of the controversy/confusion surrounding Pluto because of its so many unique qualities. I’d say I was convinced with these reasonings and was ready to live with it. However, I got very curious to know that if Pluto is not a Planet, what is it?

Lot of articles were not consistent, but most said Pluto is now a “Dwarf Planet”.

A Dwarf Planet, What kind of name is that? Dwarf Planet is not a Planet ? or is it ?

I think they never wanted this controversy to end !!

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Taking a bite of Aapl

August 23, 2006 at 10:26 pm · Filed under Markets

Apple Computers mainly designs and manufactures personal computer and digital music player. As most of you might already have, Ipods have taken this company to another level, people love and trust this company and its products.

I like the marketing strategy of Apple, they hardly put their product on sale. They charge good money for good products and give away software to get people to buy hardware.

Since Ipod sales is the most crucial factor to its financial resurgence, I always thought what will happen to this company once everyone will have an Ipod ? Well, they will come up with new/better/cool Ipods. Now you can make Ipod part of your excercise and how about having a cell phone within Ipod (always thought it would happen otherwise)

I stand corrected, Ipod sales are still soaring and with holiday season coming up, its just gonna go high. Apple Mac computers sales are going up too and with Microsoft delaying Vista, Apple has no additional competition for its computers as well.

They have had a recent set back with stock-options grant problem that has not let this share jump crazy, but its slowly making its way to top and I think its a good buy right now.

Hoping for Appl to make me some moolahs in next 6 months.

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Doctors should prescribe blogging

August 23, 2006 at 1:19 am · Filed under General

Blogging can be a very good medium of letting out your ideas, thoughts, opinions, teachings, frustration ..

As soon as you publish a post on your blog, you have written something for the whole world to see (may with the exception of China?)

Ever feel like something is wrong with the world (War, Terrorism, Global Warming ..), just blog it, you will feel great about it. If you are lonely, it could be a great way to connect to the world and it could surprise you that how many people actually agree or for that matter disagree with you.

I believe that worst state a human faces is being helpless, dont be..write what you think is right and should have happened.

It is ok to write about things which other may disagree but never write about things that can hurt others (eg. Religion). Somethings would always have good and bad sides and should be presented in right way or you’d be better off not writing about it.

So, here we go, a blog about blog..how deep can we go ? :-)

Keep your blogs rolling guys.

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