Pogie awards celebrate the best ideas of the year: ingenious features that somehow made it past the lawyers, through the penny-pinching committees and into real-world tech gadgets — even if the products overall are turkeys. Here's a paraphrased summary of the winning ideas:Power Nap is a feature of OS X Mountain Lion that works on recent MacBook models. It lets the laptop keep backing itself up, downloading e-mail and syncing its online data (calendars, calendar notes, reminders, photos) & allows the network activity to chug away even...
Thursday, 27 December 2012
Wednesday, 26 December 2012
Vocabulary.com does a great job of "gamify-ing" the process of building your vocabulary through its adaptive learning systemIt is among the PC Magazine's Top 100 Websites & the Time magazine's top 50 websites of 2012 The site's main attraction, the quiz, has some 100,000+ questions and the answers are educative. The site reportedly contains over 100 million sentence examples.The site is ad freeTheir dictionary is blazing fast. In an unscientific...
Sunday, 23 December 2012
From his interview in the Economic Times -"We, as Google, are not in the search business. We are in the business of knowledge." - Google's Senior Vice President for Chrome and Apps & IIT-ian, Sundar Pichai (40)A few facts -About 20% of the queries we get everyday are new.Our user base for Gmail has grown to 50 million users in India. Chromebook will be available in at least two countries in the Asia Pacific region, excluding India, by...
Taking advantage of the free Exam Voucher for the Microsoft exam 70-480: Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3, I passed the 70-480 exam yesterday.I used the following resources for preparing:W3Schools - I've been referring to this awesome tutorial site since a decade and preparing for this exam gave me a chance to dig deeper into the HTML5 & CSS3 sectionsMicrosoft Virtual Academy course Developing in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3 Jump Start Hello! HTML5 & CSS3 by Rob CrowtherMSDN Internet Explorer API referenceThis...
Monday, 17 December 2012
Vital stats & interesting facts about Reddit paraphrased from this article on Forbes:Reddit was started in 2005 by two fresh University of Virginia graduates, Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman (22), after they couldn’t finance a previous brainstorm: An online food-ordering site.Ohanian created a zany aura, doodling up a goofy red-eyed alien named Snoo that became Reddit’s logo.Reddit’s visitor traffic was so feeble at first that the founders spent...
Thursday, 13 December 2012
Lucene & Hadoop are both created by Doug Cutting and they are open-source.Lucene is a text search engine API. It can be used by applications which requires full text indexing and searching capability. Lucene.Net is a port of Java Lucene written in C# and targeted at .NET Framework users.Hadoop is a framework that enables the distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of commodity hardware.Hadoop is a clone of...
Monday, 10 December 2012
Notes from the Pluralsight course SharePoint 2013 Developer Ramp-Up - Part 1:Significant changes in SharePoint 2013:New development model - SharePoint Apps - ideal for Office 365, App MarketplaceMinimal Download Strategy (MDS) UXWeb Apps support claim based authentication by defaultArchitectural changes:WorkflowSearchWeb content managementDeprecated capabilitiesSharePoint Designer's Design viewMeeting & Document WorksapcesBI: Chart Web Part, Status Indicators & Status ListsAn app can contain a solution. A solution can contain...
Friday, 7 December 2012
A recent Wall Street Journal article reveals that companies today are increasingly tying people's real-life identities to their online browsing habits.WSJ also provides these startling privacy insights among others -Americans' license plates are now being tracked not only by the government, but also by repo men who hope to profit from the information.The government follows the movements of thousands of Americans a year by secretly monitoring their...
Thursday, 6 December 2012
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In about 21 minutes, Jai Haridas runs through the basics of Windows Azure Storage in the Channel 9 video Windows Azure Storage Introduction of the Meet Windows Azure series (June, 2012). This video is a shorter form of his more detailed TechEd Europe 2012 session, Windows Azure Storage: How it Works, Best Practices and Future DirectionsSome pictures from his slides (link to PPT) -Related:Introducing Table SAS (Shared Access Signature),...
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