Rakesh Agrawal’s Blog

“Nice picture. When you figure out what to do now that we’re on facebook, let me know.”

I haven’t tried every photo frame out there, but the few that I have tried (CEIVA, Pacific Digital, PanDigital) miss something simple: I don’t ever want my frame to display anything without filling the frame.

Simple example: If I place my frame horizontally (ie landscape orientation), I don’t want it to display any portrait photographs — or at least not without cropping the photograph to landscape proportions first. No one would ever place a real photo frame horizontally and display a vertical photograph in it. Never.

If a digital photo frame is displayed horizontally, it should either exclude portrait photographs or provide some simple controls for a user to crop/zoom portrait photos to the appropriate proportions.

I wonder when a tech company will come along and do a digital photo frame the right way?

Google Shared Storage Program Released

Last weekend in Louisiana:

At the rest-stop just over the Texas border in Louisiana.

Why walk around half dead?

Alligator skulls for sale… in Louisiana (the best part is hard to read, but it’s entitled “Aren’t alligators endangered?”)

Bobby Jindal bumper stickers and lawn signs were all over the place!

And in Washington D.C. earlier tonight:

Linotype machine in front of the Washington Post office — this is what your laser printer obsoleted.

P.S. I caught Spartan on television this evening and re-discovered how much I like David Mamet movies. I’ve only seen a few of his movies (Wag the Dog, The Spanish Prisoner) and one of his plays (Glengarry Glen Ross). What should I see next?