June 2010
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On Airtel: Oh, how the mighty have fallen!
[This essay is strictly for residents of India. Please feel free to skip it if you are not one of them.]
I’ve been an Internet user in India since the Satyam and Sify dial-up days. As Internet access kept becoming more and more affordable and new technologies kept making their way to the mass market, I kept upgrading to newer and faster connections. I’ve had more ISPs that I could count on one...
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An elementary lesson in (n)etiquette
A few weeks ago, I received the following message on my iPhone from someone who’d recently purchased an iPad:
Your favourite iPad paid Apps
When I did not reply to the message, I received a more descriptive message on the following day:
Suggest me some good iPad apps to go for (games etc) and I am looking for paid Apps
I did not reply to that message either and just looked the other way....
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10 TV Characters Who Need a Spin-off Series →
Sawyer and Miles in a cop show laden with wit and sarcasm? Sign me up.
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“That a movie about talking toys could be enjoyable is a no-brainer. That a movie...”
– Eric D. Snider, Movie Review - Toy Story 3
And Pixar does it again with Toy Story 3. Another movie with a 99% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a sure shot Oscar winner. Ever since their inception, they’ve been delivering one hit after another, every year. Eleven years and they’ve never failed to...
“At some point or another, we have to stop bouncing off the walls worrying about...”
– Peter Cohen, Let’s forget this ‘Mac is dead’ crap and get back to work | The Loop (via Instapaper)
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“Should be really something in 2040 or so when a Generation Y’er gets...”
– Andrew Jensen, The Rampant Overuse of the Word “Like” is Making People Seem Stupid
“When a figure skater falls, everyone is rooting for the person to get up and...”
– Carmine Gallows, How Steve Jobs beats presentation panic (via Instapaper)
No More iTunes by Florian Pichler →
safariextensions:
NoMoreiTunes is an extension for Safari 5 which disables the script that tries to start iTunes when you visit a link to the iTunes Store. It’s annoying and redundant as there is iTunes Preview for Music and Apps now.
Since this doesn’t work on movies I modified the redirecting page for them to show a big button which loads iTunes once (and only if) you click it. I’m working...
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“iPhone 4: The biggest thing to happen to iPhone since iPhone.”
– Apple
Consider me well and truly blown away!
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“Just because we compete with them doesn’t mean we have to be rude!”
– Steve Jobs, when asked whether Apple would be removing Google from iPhone OS
It’s nice to know that he remains just as quotable as ever.
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This column will change your life: Are you an... →
The advice of etiquette experts on dealing with unwanted invitations, or overly demanding requests for favours, has always been the same: just say no. That may have been a useless mantra in the war on drugs, but in the war on relatives who want to stay for a fortnight, or colleagues trying to get you to do their work, the manners guru Emily Post’s formulation – “I’m afraid that won’t be...
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iBooks versus Kindle
There are a few things the Apple iPad isn’t good at—making phone calls, for example, and taking pictures. But then there are some things it is excellent for, like browsing the Internet, going through news feeds, doing the social networking thing, playing games (especially board games), watching movies and reading books.
The iPad has already been talked about to death and every single aspect of...
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