Archive for November, 2006

Stellarium, a stellar software.

Posted on November 29, 2006. Filed under: software |

They say,
Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. Itshows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye,binoculars or a telescope. It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go.
I tried it and I found [...]

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A mechanical Vaccuum.

Posted on November 27, 2006. Filed under: Uncategorized |

This post is taken from my blog:flintsparks.blogspot.com
One of the ideas that i have is that of creating a light hand held and mechanical vaccum cleaner.
Most vaccum cleaners available in the market are electrical.but in India electricity is not a thing you can rely upon.also the major type of thing that needs to be cleaned upis [...]

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Beg to differ

Posted on November 27, 2006. Filed under: Uncategorized |

I felt that after Karthik’s moon mission post we were all swept away by emotion
Here’s a dose of objectivity :
It is not always technically possible to do all the stuff u said with robots.A standard moon rover can go at a maximum of around 2km/hr easily outstripped by any fit human.
Secondly assembling stuff requires a [...]

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PS3 and we the Indians.

Posted on November 26, 2006. Filed under: Uncategorized |

To be honest I havent seen PS3 and neither PSP in real. There are few reasons for that, firstly I am not a good gamer, and secondly there is no gaming device policy in place from sony. For those who are planning to buy any of the two device and want an Indian warranty version, [...]

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Suggestions for better democracy.

Posted on November 25, 2006. Filed under: India, Politics |

Crazy, you can all me, but I won’t shy away from proposing some constitutional change or to say a demand for better performance of our central government. I recently read, which many of you would have read, that India is one the failed democracies, though I don’t buy there vision and neither there methodology, but [...]

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PS3, gaming in Indian context.

Posted on November 24, 2006. Filed under: gadgets, gaming |

To be honest I havent seen PS3 and neither PSP in real. There are few reasons for that, firstly I am not a good gamer, and secondly there is no gaming device policy in place from sony. For those who are planning to buy any of the two device and want an Indian warranty version, [...]

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Yaari.com (Friendship)

Posted on November 24, 2006. Filed under: social networks, web services |

Its an India centric social network, that is trying to woo users by offering them free Ipod(shuffle-old), for them reaching over 100 friends or become heavily popular. A nice go, but I think is not that effective.
Its a invite only social network startup from two NRI, and looks pretty cool, in flickr pink and [...]

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Yaari.com , Friendship, which gives ipod

Posted on November 23, 2006. Filed under: social networking, web services |

Its an India centric social network, that is trying to woo users by offering them free Ipod(shuffle-old), for them reaching over 100 friends or become heavily popular. A nice go, but I think is not that effective.
Its a invite only social network startup from two NRI, and looks pretty cool, in flickr pink and parrot [...]

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ALIPR – Another approach for photo search.

Posted on November 22, 2006. Filed under: Web Technology, web services |

ALIPR:- Automatic Linguistic Indexing of Picture- real time.Pretty interesting indeed. I have been saying it for quite some time, that common image search which google or for that matter any other search engine does is not up to the mark. Riya broke the mould and they once again did it with Like. But what they [...]

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Google services, and thier Notebook

Posted on November 20, 2006. Filed under: google, web services |

Yesterday I was pondering, about the services of google without which I will feel uneasy, Saying that life would be impossible would certainly be an over statement.So here I am with my list of the service offered by google which I use almost daily…
OrkutReaderNotebookGmailHomepageSearchBlogger

Hmm thats it.Though all its services are nice, but [...]

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