Archive for December, 2008

iPhone

Sunday, December 21st, 2008

iPhone. Therefore I am.

A friend was very surprised that I bought an iPhone. I bought a Nokia N95 8GB and one of the key reasons was the 5 Megapixel camera

Compared to that, iPhone camera resolution is just 2 and out of the box, there is no option to record videos. I still do not know how to record videos.. But it does not matter _so_ much now!

The apps more than make up for this missing feature!

Most of the iPhone Ads end with “Solving Life’s Dilemmas one app at a time”

The Nokia N95 GB was not one of the first answers for “When your house is on fire..” scenario. The iPhone is

The iPhone and many of the apps are awesome and inspiring..

In Hard Work and Practice in Programming, Tim O’Reilly writes

There’s a long arc in computing that teaches us how much we gain through advances in ease-of-use, with the iPhone being the latest breakthrough success. But it’s important to remember how much we lose when we think that ease of use is everything. Many things worth doing are hard, requiring a great deal of practice before you achieve mastery.

The iPhone inspires me to achieve mastery in many areas :-)

Seasons Greetings

ps: I have been twittering more often and that will only increase with tweetie getting better.. => twitter.com / colladude

pps: Another article comes to mind so very often in the last days Helping to Write History

“So,” he [Obama] said. “What’s your theory on speechwriting?”

“A speech can broaden the circle of people who care about this stuff,” Favreau said. “How do you say to the average person that’s been hurting: ‘I hear you. I’m there. Even though you’ve been so disappointed and cynical about politics in the past, and with good reason, we can move in the right direction. Just give me a chance.’ ”

“I think this is going to work,” Obama said.

2008 christmas

five daily mental things

Monday, December 8th, 2008

Came across a timely (new year coming soon) call to action by Mindapples at confused of calcutta: Five-a-day mental habits

Write a post telling your readers five things you do that help keep you mentally well

  1. Play with Mukesh and talk about his school day
  2. iPhone
  3. Smile (for even the supposedly most negative signals and _think_ what was my action that caused such a reaction)
  4. Read
  5. Walk

Reminds me of the phrase “mental hygiene” by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Why I bought iPhone App Classics

Monday, December 8th, 2008
  1. At first, there was a pointer to a mosaic of the 10,000+ iPhone apps
  2. The post How to prevent the App Store from becoming the Crap Store
  3. Q&A With Co-Creator of Classics iPhone E-Reader
  4. very well designed and informative taptaptap blog blog blog
  5. Several Important Principles – “Everything should look amazing”
  6. Designing Classics
  7. Fundamentally, a goal for 2009 to read more

Why is there no link from classicsapp.com to taptaptap.com ?

The 21.9 MB is still being downloaded.. Is there any site showing the graph of $ against download size?

Cool shaking icons effect

Monday, December 8th, 2008

Press any icon for a few seconds. WOW. Move or delete. Press home button to stop the shivering

Inspired by A Real Tree and Mokugift

Sunday, December 7th, 2008


Plant a tree for $1

Please point me to apps like A Real Tree