Return from hiatus of sorts. Just wrote a post on Rootein’s blog – check it out – “For God’s sake, Follow your dreams”
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Appreciate the appreciation! 0
Didn’t realize this post actually found it’s way to the blokes at Simplify Media and was appreciated on their website. It still rocks btw!
And finally… Amitabh: That’s Freedom, Peace, that’s Nirvana in a nutshell!
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Slumdog Millionaire – The Anguish of an Indian 0
Amid all the “Come on you gotta see it” and “Are you kidding me?…you don’t wanna see the film that has created records at the Golden Globe”,I finally succumbed and watched the much “raved for” Slumdog Millionaire
To be honest, I didn’t have too many expectations from the film even though the whole world was gushing [...]
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Removing the distractions 0
Just realized how much distraction the dock, the desktop clutter (icons and the wallpaper) and the menu bar can cause. The weekend got a lot more productive with all that taken care of with little help from Menushade (Hides the menu bar) & Backdrop (hides the desktop icons and fills the background with a color [...]
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Chandni Chowk to China via Apple TV 0
Recently while browsing through the trailers on the Apple TV, we came across the trailer for the upcoming movie ‘Chandni Chowk to China” starring Akshay Kumar and it got me excited. It’s the first time I have seen a Bollywood film’s trailer on Apple TV. The film [...]
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Satyam Nursery Rhyme 0
The new Nursery Rhyme doing the rounds after the “Satyam fiasco” -
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Raju Raju? Yes baba.
Cheating us? No baba.
Telling Lies ? No baba.
Open the balance sheet! HA HA HA!
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Background: http://bit.ly/2IZzHk
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Facebook (NOT)ifications – Setting up RSS feeds 0
If you have a few active friends on Facebook and you have email notifications turned on, you are probably familiar with the phrase “Facebook is f***ing spamming me” .
Long story short, I try to practice Inbox Zero and having Facebook send me emails on every comment, tag added, tag removed, friend added, friend removed and [...]
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Of Photos, Facebook & a Happy 2009! 0
After a few dozen invitations and daily dozes of “come on already” by the beloved early adopters, I have finally boarded the Facebook wagon. As much as I would like to debate that I have been pushed in to it by forces beyond my control, the experience actually hasn’t been too bad. Took me a [...]
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W.hy Bit.ly 0
Bit.ly seems to be the the favored URL shortening service these days on the blogging and micro blogging arena (aka twitter). Here’s what makes Bit.ly stand out -
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Tagged: geek_talk, twitter, web_service
Firefox 3 strikes back 0
Ever since I switched to Mac last year, I have been going back and forth among the browsers – Safari, Firefox, Camino. I even tried Fluid which actually turned out to be something very different.
Anyways long story short, I had settled down to using Safari in the last few months. It worked for the most [...]
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