by Prakash Rangarajan on December 15, 2009
Seth Godin’s recent pet project, the much awaited free e-book “What Matters Now” is on the websphere now. Game changing conversations, power ideas that can accelerate positive change, sacrosant food for thought that can make your 2010 an elevated journey of realized potential and enhanced growth and more, form the essence of this book, a collection of ideas of around 70 big thinkers who have seen it all and made it happen.
Each thinker was asked by Seth Godin to dwell on a single word that really matters now in the form of a short essay. The end result of this wonderful project has been a remarkable treatise that is an inspirational and fulfilling read. Download “What Matters Now” right now and you will be asking for more definitely.
by Prakash Rangarajan on September 14, 2009
For all those who are gung-ho about Twitter real time search results, however buggy it might be, here is a wake up call. Search behemoth Google maybe has it all too, just that they are not as close as can be. Even when they enhanced the search time frame in May, the minimum option was the past 24hours, hardly in the scale of Twitter. Yet, you can get search results right upto the last minute and second by changing the search parameters on the address bar as Ran Geva of the Omligi Blog has found out.
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by Prakash Rangarajan on September 13, 2009
The recent makeover unveiling of Facebook Lite this week is a welcome addition to the Social Media Bandwagon. The lighter, streamlined version has many takers among the early entrants as well as the late adoptors with its spartan demeanour and simple visage. As also slow internet connection users can breathe easy now with Facebook Lite.
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by Prakash Rangarajan on August 13, 2008
Microsoft’s Skydrive online storage service has prompted Google to jump in the bandwagon albeit a shade late, just a few hours to be precise.
Google has announced pricing options for both Gmail (email) and Picasa (photo services). The paid model would come in handy for those users who would want much more than the existing free allowance namely 1GB for picasa and 2.8 GB for Gmail. Annual prices are pegged at $20 for 6 GB. Other pricing models fall in the realm of 25GB for $75,100GB for $250 and 250GB for $500.
by Prakash Rangarajan on May 16, 2007
There are no two doubts about the fact that Google Earth is one of the coolest things on the internet right now. There are not many in the web space who dont know about Google Earth now. From kindergarten to commerce, the Google Earth fever has left none untouched. GE is one new age tool that awaits further exploitation.
Start clicking, zoom, hover and pronto, you just reach where you want to be.The first thing that I did and I presume that every one does when they log into Google Earth is to search for their residence location. Thanks to the data collected by NASA’s Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, the digital elevation model (DEM) was made possible. And this means fantastic views of anyplace on earth, anywhere, anytime, and that too in 3-Dimensional format. Fantasies can’t get any better.
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by Prakash Rangarajan on April 20, 2007
With the advent of open source applications, Microsoft’s monopoly in the computing world is gradually getting eroded day by day. The latest in the growing list is the release of Thunder Bird 2.0, the much vaunted email client alternative to Outlook Express. Get your free download at GetThunderBird in over 35 languages of your choice.
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