Wednesday, July 29, 2009

MonaLisa in MS Paint

I’m sure many of you must have already seen these video, but this is the first time I saw it and was stunned beyond words. As if creating something so brilliant with a mouse itself is not amazing enough(though I have a feeling the artist used a tablet), the whole thing was done using Microsoft’s much maligned and abused MS Paint.

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Google fusion tables: is it from Gapminder?

Quite some time back, I had come across this talk by Hans Rosling at ted.com. Ted is one site, which I frequently visit to listen to great speakers, tech leaders and futuristic ideas. Hans is a Swedish professor, who built a tool to present data in a visual format using multiple dimensions rather than the usual 2 dimensional graphs.

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

How to make $37mn: the #squarespace way

If you saw your twitter account today, you might have noticed a bunch of posts with ‘#squarespaces’ tag in them. Some of the tweets were totally irrelevant, while others at least bothered to enlightened you to squarespace.com which is giving out free Iphone 3GS it seems.

Monday, June 8, 2009

Iphone 3GS: What is the fuss all about?

Apple launched the new Iphone 3gs at the WWDC today. Rumors had been circulating around the tech world over what are the features that the new Iphone will carry. Some of the rumors and leaked pics actually turned out to be true. As was expected, the new iphone carries a new 3.0 mp camera, with VGA shooting video support.

Thursday, June 4, 2009

3 Reasons why Bing won’t become another Cuil

So Microsoft has launched Bing after months of secrecy and hype. Is it just another over hyped Cuil? In case you forgot, Cuil was supposed to be the big Google killer created by ex-googlers themselves. My belief is that Microsoft has played a good hand and Bing is here to stay. Here are my reasons: