Category Archives: tech

Future Shock by Alvin Toffler ? No.

Apple’s former CEO John Scully had described a concept called “Knowledge Navigator” . It describes a device that can access a large networked database of hypertext information, and use software agents to assist searching for information. The video shows the view of Apple Scientists in 1987 about how people would use computers in 2010. Though …

September 11, 2009 – 12:30 | By sridharo | Posted in Apple, tech | Comments (1)

Literature on Google Earth

Here’s a new mashup for Google Earth called “Google Literature Trips“. Its a cool way to see all the places and take road trips mentioned in a book. So if you’ve read Kite Runner and want to follow the path taken by Amir,download the kmz (Keyhole Markup Language) file and open it in Google Earth. …

January 12, 2009 – 00:40 | By sridharo | Posted in Art, Books, tech | Comments (0)

Telepresence finds its application

Here’s a perfect example of adopting and putting technology to good use. Well the lady there is not present in the same studio but is ‘telepresent’. Check the video below for another demonstration of the same:

November 5, 2008 – 16:28 | By zoso | Posted in tech | Comments (0)

Dream Laptop

An interesting way to build your dream laptop.Check here. (or) is it Product Management?

October 31, 2008 – 11:58 | By sridharo | Posted in Laptop, Neo Business, tech | Comments (0)

AllTop

Now that Guy Kawasaki’s AllTop.com has a new channel I am passionate about viz Product Management, I’ve replaced my link on my Opera’s Speed Dial with AllTop.Seems like I’ll be spending lot more time this weekend on my lappy.Do I get the badge now Guy?

October 17, 2008 – 11:47 | By sridharo | Posted in tech | Comments (0)

Dell XPS 1330 review

I recently bought a Dell XPS 1330 laptop.Don’t regret the decision.Even though I was all out for a Sony Vaio.Specs are :4 gb ram,320 gb disk,Intel GMA,Vista Home Premium,13.3″ monitorHere are a few facts: 1.Vista works like a wonder on this m/c.Even though the spec is great,I was still apprehensive about the  O/S jacking up …

September 26, 2008 – 17:33 | By sridharo | Posted in Laptop, tech | Comments (2)

Scouring the searches…

Further to my previous post w.r.t competition to Goog,here comes another another search tool,rather “The Social Search Engine” : Scour. The idea is appealing.All the top search engines aggregated on a single page and better still users can rank the results making the results supposedly better by the day. I don’t mind a social site …

July 23, 2008 – 13:18 | By sridharo | Posted in Launch, search, tech | Comments (0)