February 2010
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Instapaper Blog: Instapaper Pro 2.2 now available →
After months of development, Instapaper Pro 2.2 is now available. The full changelog is below, but first, a brief explanation if you’re interested.
After the previous version’s release, I took a break from reading on the iPhone and read everything on the Kindle. I learned that I much preferred…
Instapaper is the single most commonly launched third-party application on my iPhone,...
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Palm CEO’s Letter to Employees →
Do these sound like the words of a company that is going to last very long? They do not to me. More thoughts on Palm coming up in another post. Soon…ish.
[via Daring Fireball]
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“Our planet is really tough and that’s not about to change. In the long run,...”
– Iain Stewart
Like most geeks, I’m a movie and television show buff and, perhaps unlike most of them, have a huge collection of both forms of media that has almost filled my 2.7TB Drobo to full capacity. Recently, however, I’ve found that documentaries about geology and science are starting to...
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Short reviews of Indian travel sites
Due to the large number of train and flight tickets I have to book on a regular basis, I’ve had the opportunity to try out a fair number of travel booking sites in India. Here are the reviews of the ones I’ve used so far, in reverse alphabetical order.
Yatra: It is one of the most popular travel booking websites in India and for good reason—it has a very well laid out user interface and they...
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“Impatience is the mother of all reckless purchases.”
– Aayush Arya
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How to use a semicolon →
Read. Remember. Bookmark for future reference.
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Why is Airtel treating Delhi like a stepchild?
I just sent a letter to Airtel that I thought some of you may want to read. Here goes:
Hello. I’m Aayush Arya and I have been an Airtel mobile subscriber since as far back as I can remember. I also subscribed to a 2Mbps unlimited broadband connection when I moved to Noida. I’ve dutifully been paying Rs. 3,373 every month for the past half-a-year, content in the assumption that I would be able...
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Pitchfork steals URL to start a Tumblr, Tumblr... →
I love Tumblr just as much as the next person but this just reeks of incompetence. And all this lying to save their asses is just making it worse. They need to step up and admit that they made a mistake, apologise for it and offer to put the domain back under the control of its original owner. Otherwise, all they are doing is digging a deeper hole for themselves.
[via Preshit Deorukhkar]
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Facebook Wants to Be Your One True Login →
marco:
(via Zoya)
Dear visitors from Google. This site is not Facebook. This is a website called ReadWriteWeb that reports on news about Facebook and other Internet services. To access Facebook right now, click here. For future reference, type “facebook.com” into your browser address bar or enter “facebook” into Google and click on the first result. We recommend that you then save Facebook as...
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Aardvark joins Google! →
This is terrific news. Now that Google is going to put its weight behind it, it will hopefully grow to a massive scale, which in turn would mean there would be a higher likelihood of its finding someone to answer your question. Congratulations to the Aardvark team for this grand acquisition.
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2009 Best App Ever Awards →
I really need to stop going through these lest I run through the remaining balance on my iTunes Gift Card. I’ve already spent $20 in just the past hour.
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iTunes celebrates 10 billion songs downloaded. →
Help iTunes reach 10 billion song downloads, and you could win a $10,000 iTunes Gift Card.
iTunes changed the way you buy music, making songs and albums available for download, day or night. Seven years later, we’re about to celebrate our biggest milestone for music, yet — 10 billion songs downloaded. Buy a song, and if it’s the 10 billionth download, you could win a $10,000 iTunes Gift Card....
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How the Letterman-Oprah-Leno Super Bowl Ad Came... →
It’s the funniest Superbowl commercial I’ve seen in a while and this is the story of how it came about.
(via Instapaper)
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“If my partners lose, so be it; if I lose, so be it. My stardom is transient, my...”
– Shah Rukh Khan
Shah Rukh Khan expressed his disapproval of the way Pakistani cricket players were disregarded when the auctions for the upcoming Indian Premier League tournament were being held. He said, “We are known to be good, we are known to invite everyone, and we should have.”
Uddhav...
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How NOT to limit your tweets to 140 characters
Twitter, as you all know, imposes a strict limit of 140 characters on the length of any individual tweet. The original intent of this limitation was to ensure that most tweets would fit within the 160-character limitation on text messages, allowing Twitter to send alerts to users about new ‘@’ replies (now called mentions) without having to pay for a couple of texts per tweet.
It also, however,...
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“An artwork can stay frozen in time, but I stumble through the years like...”
– Bill Watterson, creator of Calvin and Hobbes, in the most humble and down to earth interview I have ever read. Tears. *Sniff* (via goobimama)
John Gruber mentioned it a while back on his blog as well but I skipped it at the time. As a Calvin and Hobbes fan though, I had to click through and read...
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“I made this letter very long, because I did not have the leisure to make it...”
– Blaise Pascal
You only realise how right he was when you’re given a word limit for a software review. Rambling on for several thousand words is much easier than limiting yourself to five hundred.
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This is how Urban Dictionary defines “Aayush” →
Milind looked his name up on the Urban Dictionary and it turns out that it’s used to describe a “diligent brown driver”. Of course, I had to look up mine as well. You’ll never guess how it describes “Aayush”.
Legend has it that this guy is a human blessed with unearthly powers. The sexiest man on earth according to Indian mythology, he is the Indian counterpart of modern superheroes like...
Fraser Speirs - Blog - Future Shock →
Another opinion column about the reaction to the iPad that I highly recommend.
(via Instapaper)
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Understanding Multi-tasking on the iPad: What is... →
Milind’s take on the iPad’s lack of multitasking. It got Fireballed so it must be good.
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iPad Snivelers: Put Up or Shut Up →
Joel Johnson:
Apple is selling a product. They’ve chosen to keep it closed for demonstrably reasonable benefits. And—yes, okay!—several collateral benefits that come from controlling the marketplace that services their products. But Apple is not the government. There’s no mandate to buy an Apple product except the call of excellence. And if you think the average persona on the street...
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Charlie Brooker | iPad therefore iWant? Probably.... →
Ever since the iPad came out, I’ve been thinking aloud about it on Twitter and going into furious debates with Apple apologists and haters alike but I haven’t been able to express my exact sentiments about this device as accurately and humourously as Mr. Brooker has. So go and give his essay a read. Needless to say, I absolutely agree with him.
In fact, a week before its launch, I wrote an...