Author: rakesh

Sandisk’s ads for their new TakeTV are starting to annoy me:

TakeTV™
The next obvious step in human evolution.
Take video from your PC and play it on your TV, the way Nature intended.
Experience the Awesomeness

…my brother-in-law did just get a Mac (a pretty good deal actually — $1300 for one of the almost-latest gen 24″ iMacs with Leopard) and so far he does love it. After fielding lots of phone calls from my sister about how her Windows PCs (all three of them) had become malware/spyware cesspools, how she was worried about her data, most of all her years of photographs, I recommended they make the switch to Apple. So far so good, but watch this space, I’ll keep you posted on how it goes for them. (I still use Windows as my primary PC, though I feel inclined more towards Apple everyday thanks to my latest new Vista PC)

(New Mac ad: “Actually, my brother-in-law just got a Mac and loves it.”)

Erick Shonfeld at TechCrunch has it wrong, IMO:

It will remain a niche device

There’s an inevitable mass market for a tablet computing product, I’m convinced of it. And having spent a lot of time surfing the web with the iPhone, I think Apple has all the right ingredients. Like Dave Winer said, the iPhone is a tablet computer.

I bought the Eye-Fi SD Card from Photojojo (my first purchase from them, actually — a good experience) and it’s spectacular. What a great product! I have some more testing to do, but from what I’ve seen so far, this thing is really cool. Apart from uploading photographs to lots of online services, it’ll also make a copy of your photographs on your computer, basically eliminating the need to sync photos to your hard drive. And the setup was blissfully simple and quick.

(taken and uploaded to Picasa Web with my new Eye-Fi)

A T-rex part-car, part-motorcyle thingy seen on the way home from work on Friday

(side note, when I saw this thing, I thought to myself, “What the heck is that?!”. It was a perfect use case for image search on a mobile device.)

I don’t have any real complaints about the Doubletree Metropolitan (in Manhattan on the east side near the UN) except this:

“We hope you are enjoying the options of this basket. The items can be picked up and viewed for 20 seconds before being automatically charged to your guest room folio. If you need to move the basket, please do so carefully as the shifting of items may cause inaccuracies or charge on your folio.

Thank you and enjoy!”

Thank you, indeed!

From geekdad

I’m very impressed by the production quality of this Greenpeace video (though, in my opinion, it goes slim on content/substance towards the end). It’s obvious from this video that Greenpeace isn’t messing around when it comes to using video on the web to tell their story.

A simple productivity tip that works really well for me: Include your e-mail address in your voicemail greeting and let callers know that sending you an e-mail will get a quicker response than leaving a voicemail. Doing this will save you the hassle of responding to voicemails — even if you have CallWave or an Apple iPhone with its visual voicemail, e-mail’s almost always easier to manage and respond to.

I’ve been setting up a test on one of our websites using Google Website Optimizer this morning and it is terribly sloooooow! I’m pretty amazed by how poor the performance is. Google, please throw some more servers at Google Website Optimizer! So I don’t have the spare time to make blog postings like this one.