First a short introduction on Instagram, it is an iphone app for taking pictures, adding filters to make them look retro, and then for sharing them with sites like Twitter, Flickr, Tumblr, and Facebook, more importantly, it’s a simple social network of other people’s photos. You can “like” or comment on the photos, and see [...]

You want your book to use Roman numbers for the first few pages, and Indian (often called “Arabic”, although the Indians invented them) numerals for the rest of your book? PDF supports multiple page numbering styles, even in the same document. This was added since PDF version 1.3, and can be found in the 1.7 [...]

I have been thinking of writing this article for some time now. I am currently planning to do a series of articles describing various ways you can convert an old PC into a useful device. Some of the areas I want to cover are converting the PC into – Movie / MP3 player Network storage [...]

I’m not talking about NASA’s manned mission to moon 50 years after the Apollo mission and repeat the same things they did in the 1969. In 2004, the world has seen Burt Rutan and his team successfully launching the first private manned spaceflight, spaceshipone, a suborbital air launched space plane, which won the $10 million [...]

According to the latest update from Google it says that it has made a considerable change in its algorithm to improve the ranks of the high quality websites and lower the visibility of the low quality sites. While this is mainly based to lower the ranking of the sites which are populating 100′s of articles [...]

Work together on source code, just like Google Docs, but now with syntax highlighting and using your own server. You instantanuously see what others are doing, you can chat with them, and you can periodically compile your source code to an executable (or Latex to PDF).

This is a continuation of the previous post about Increasing traffic to your blog. While in the previous posts we discussed use of keywords and their placement to improve chances of users finding your blog through search engine and we also looked at the importance of link building in this post we would look some [...]

Here is a list of useful windows shortcuts: Win key + E    -> Open the explorer window Win key + R    -> Open the run command Win key+ M    -> Minimise all windows use Shift Win key + M to undo minimise Win key + L    ->  Lock computer Win key [...]

An amazing TED video.

Stumbleupon has taken up my huge amount of hours, stretching deep into the night, into the wee hours of many mornings while promising a never ending stream of interesting randomness at the click of the mouse. Recently in January Stumbleupon with its 12 million users surpassed Facebook and its 600 million users in the amount [...]

I have this habit of collecting quotes that I find interesting here are 50 randomly selected quotes: It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.   —Albert Einstein Eighty percent of success is showing up.  —Woody Allen I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.   —Wilson Mizner [...]

Here is a nice insight from the guys at theRSA.org into what really motivates us. This video really got me thinking about how can you redefine rewards to get the most out your own self and others; a must watch.  

Five additions to the Rands In Repose’s classic essay The Nerd Handbook. This is intended for the significant others of nerds and is a good read for anyone trying dive into the mind of nerds.

The recent post by Navin on education got me thinking about one of my favorite topics once more – educational reforms. Specifically, what to do about education in the post-information-revolution world?

After the previous list of single player flash games, here is a list of online multi player flash games!! 5. Artillery Live:  You have to destroy the battletank of your opposite team before they destroy yours! The game features vs. computer mode and also lets you form your own team

Just a random thought… is education really killing jobs or are there huge flaws in the assumptions below? We have an ever increasing population but the increase in population is somewhat linear with increase in jobs More and more people are going to university and getting university degrees This leads to us having to invent [...]