Deepfish: different browsing experience for Windows Mobile
Though my smartphone provides Internet connectivity to me, the browsing experience has not been very pleasent. Most of the times when it transforms actual layout of any page to displayable format, it becomes very difficult to browse.
Microsoft labs has launched a project called Deepfish to enhance browsing experience on devices running Windows Mobile 5+. It creates a full screen size thumbnail of actual layout of the page and displays a zoom box that you can move and zoom a particular part of page, which then displays that part of page zoomed to the screen size.
Sounds really interesting concept but lets see if it really improves the browsing experience. Sadly its in limited beta and has already exhausted the limit. Lets see if they increase it.
Windows Vista: more than just a pretty face ….
A nice article describing new features in Windows Vista. I agree with the author’s claim that Vista is more than just a pretty face but I still think its very expensive for home users considering that OSs these days have become commodity software. Corporations might be able to afford Vista and features like the ones described in this article might persuade some software developers to upgrade from older versions of windows but for a regular home user alot of these features are not that important to justify the price. Anyway this article gives a good insight into the new features of Vista
Wharton study – Benefits offered by Google may be grand, but they’re all business
A very interesting article about benefits offered by Google and others, which ultimately concludes that in the end its all business. Another intersting thing in this article is that it categorises emplyees into Integrators and Segmentors. Integrators who tend to mix their work life and home life, and Segmentors who try to keep a distance between them. This article tries to study what these benefits mean for each of these type of employees and how do they percieve them.
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=1690
Security issues with smartphones
These days you can see almost every other person (atleast in corporate world) having a smartphone – a blackberry or a symbian/windows mobile phone, which not only lets you make and recieve calls but also provides internet connectivity enabling you to check emails, access calendar and surf internet on the move. Since so many people are carrying these devices (including me) that are connected to internet all time, I wonder how many of them have anything like an antivirus or some sort of firewall installed on their phones. I think this is a very serious issue specially after reading this article -
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9014118
Whenever I (and I think alot of other people) have bought a new computer or reinstalled OS on a computer, first thing I do is get all latest patches, install virus scanner and configure a firewall. I really wonder how many people update their smartphones with latest patches. Also I never connect my computer to internet directly without a router being in between or a firewall being installed on it but our smartphones dont have any kind of firewall and are connected to internet all the time.
I think this is a very important security issue specially for corporations whose employees have these phones and might have alot of confidential information/data stored on them.
How to market your web application
These days you can find a new web application (web 2.0 startup as they say) being launched everyday. Quite a few of them rise to fame as soon as a major blog or a social news website writes about it but sadly, in most cases this fame is very short lived. This article on Read/Write web very interestingly divides these web applications into the WAIT list, the WALK list and the RUN list, and suggests some strategies to effectively market web applications belonging to each category.
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how_to_market_your_web_app.php
Palm might not be Palm anymore
Lately there have been alot of news about Palm being up for sale and companies like Motorola, Nokia and some private equity players being some of the suiters. I have heard Palm prefers private equity investment over Nokia or Motorola. Personally I think Motorola would be a better suitor among the rumored ones as it already has decent exposure in multiple platforms – its own OS, linux and windows mobile. On the other hand Nokia is an all in all Symbian shop with some R&D and other initiatives in Linux. Also, if this deal goes with Nokia or Motorola, Palm would get a good exposure to emerging and fast growing markets like India and China.
So in a few days Palm might not be Palm anymore ….
10 things you can do to keep your old computer useful
http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/03/16/ten-things-you-can-do-keep-an-old-computer-useful/
Came across this post today. This is one of the things I really like about linux that you can customize it enough to make it run on very old boxes. Being a software developer working on Microsoft technologies, I am a very avid windows user but I have always secretly wished to be able to do my .Net based devlopement on linux. Though to some extent Mono helps but it still has a long way to go.
Anyway I have a very old currently non-functional laptop that I am now thinking to get fixed and install some flavor of linux on it, most probably Ubuntu.
First Post
Well lately I have had some spare time on and off so I thought may be I can start blogging. As the sidebar says I will be writing mostly about technology, business, technology in business and business in technology. I dont have very good writing skills though, so this can help me improve it. Also I have always hated writing long texts, be it essays in high schools or exams in college. I prefer wiritng less but meaningful stuff. I hope I will be able to write something meaningful and interesting.
