SwiftKey is one of the on-screen keyboards that just became available for Android devices. It’s released as a time limited beta and the full version is expected soon. SwiftKey is from a company called TouchType and uses their “Fluency” prediction engine which is apparently available in other text entry systems. SwiftKey is their keyboard for [...]
There are a lot of note taking applications available in the Android Market. Most of the ones that I tried were either too simple or had just too many features that I would never use. ColorNote solved that problem for me. ColorNote by Social & Mobile is the best application that I found that is [...]
With all the fancy phones that are coming out all the time, I think that its a good idea to have a mobile version of your blog also available so that people with mobile devices are able to get the full experience of your website even if they visit through a mobile browser. While the [...]
If you are like me and dual boot your computer with Windows and Linux (pick a flavour, any flavour), then you might have come across the need to access your ext partitions while you are booted into Windows. While the opposite (accessing ntfs partitions in Linux) requires no “doing” as such, you do need additional [...]
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District 9 was an awesome movie. So long since I have seen a Sci-Fi movie that dazzled me with its plot and not with its special effects. Wikus’s acting was just so natural. Reminded me of Leonardo DeCaprio in Blood Diamond. Can’t wait for District 10.
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A few days ago, my one and a half year old Acer laptop developed a display problem (I think). The system would boot to a display littered with small lines and then freeze. I have a Acer 4520 service guide that is supposed to be standard issue to the Acer service centers. This guide didn’t [...]
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It took quite a lot of effort on my part to be able to see G I Joe. Since I did not catch it in the first week of release, all the shows in the next week were in the day time. Apparently the movie was not a priority for the theaters. Finally after a [...]
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I am big fan of Google Maps. The sheer amount of time I can spend on maps planning routes, looking at landmarks and generally loitering about, is simply astonishing. If I am still not satisfied I can continue to waste my time on views from Google Street View, which is just an amazing way to [...]
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Xmen Origins featured the motormouth katana slinging character Wade Wilson (played by Ryan Reynolds) who goes on to become Deadpool as part of the Weapon X program and tries to take out Wolverine. The character has earned its own movie which is currently looking for writers. The movie will give the real picture of Deadpool [...]
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As soon as Google provided the developer release of Google Chrome for Linux a few weeks ago, I have been using it regularly as a replacement of Firefox 3.0 that has been my main browser on Linux Mint. Right from first use the speed of Chrome blew me away without even conducting any benchmarks. Chrome [...]
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Exposure blending is a good starting step to create realistic and also not so realistic HDR images. Getting an image that has an enhanced dynamic range has also given me better tone mapping results. Having spoken about using the Advanced Tone Mapping plugin for GIMP in another article, I figured that it is only logical [...]
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