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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 -

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 [...]

The rule of $100 0

I wish I had found this earlier. Can’t even count how many “living in the moment” purchases I have made!

iPhone and the Men from Mars 0

Found this Flickr set on TUAW. Simply couldn’t resist posting it here. The iPhone being unboxed by tiny little men. Amazing. Refreshing. Creativity at it’s super duper best!
PS: I reserve the creative rights to assume these men may be from Mars and not belong to a toy village called Lego!

Think Different 0

TUAW reported on Friday that the iPhone may be on it’s way to India this september. Gotta love the picture that they put up on their blog. The Mahatma himself endorsing Apple. I bet he would have loved to make the Macbook Air a part of his dandi march gear … yeah yeah and [...]

The Nirvana story 0

All right so this morning I set my IM status to “Just found Nirvana today” and it caused a stir. I am not kidding, it really did. There’s something about people. They are really nice, mostly at least. They seem to notice all the weird things you do, but they don’t say a thing. They [...]

Drop Clock 2

really cool screensaver

Transferred to dreamhost 0

If you see this blog entry, then amitabhjotwani.com has successfully been transferred to dreamhost

It’s that time again – Macworld 2008 0

That’s right..it’s that time again – when Steve will dash in with his magic wand and make the Apple lovers go crazy over the latest and the greatest toys.
Found this really cool list of predictions at Macrumors. Spot on – best list ever

Passport renewal – Indian Embassy, Washington DC 109

I had my Indian passport renewed this week at the Indian Embassy, Washington DC. I had a little trouble finding or rather ‘confirming’ the information that I wanted. After visiting the embassy twice, I decided to write down the answers I found through the process.