Yearly Archives: 2012

Culture Unplugged Film Festival 2013 – Humanity Explored

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A quick chat about “In50Hrs” with Vijay Anand

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Many in the Indian Startup scene knows Vijay Anand or have heard of him. Vijay Anand run The Startup Centre and is very involved with Startups and Entrepreneurs in India. I recently had the opportunity to meet him in person when he brought In50Hrs to Bangalore for the first time. In50hrs is The Idea-To-Prototype Event. [...]

Adobe & HTML

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Honestly, I’m not really impressed with many things Adobe’s been doing lately. Actually, I believe that Adobe is going through some sort of an Identity Crisis. Nonetheless, you cannot really ignore some of the innovative and good things they’re spearheading, specially with open standards like HTML. Recently, few of us were hurriedly called to the [...]

Interesting, strange, weird way to ‘save our forests’

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Greenpeace India has released an interesting Facebook App where you can add a picture to a video, portraying you as a ‘hero’ saving the forests in Central India from coal mining. The whole idea looks interesting and you should try it out. Unfortunately, for me, I’m a little confused as none of the menus seem [...]

Filmography 2012 – remixes of over 300 Movies of 2012

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Here’s to the great movies that inspired us and the bad ones that made us feel better about our lives. Filmography 2012 remixes over 300 movies to explore and celebrate the work of this year’s cinematic storytellers. I just could not resist posting this awesome montage. Now, you know what movies to watch this Holiday [...]

Adobe Acrobat XI

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Adobe Acrobat XI, besides being the leading PDF converter, is packed with smart tools that give you even more power to communicate – easily, seamlessly, brilliantly. Until recently, I had the notion that Adobe Acrobat is just a glorified PDF Converter, of course, with a very powerful document management system. However, after attending a special [...]

In50hrs – The Idea-to-Prototype Event

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In50hrs is an interesting concept, where ideas meet doer to build something in a short time – a weekend. In50hrs is The Idea-To-Prototype Event. Entrepreneurs (or Idea Smiths), Developers and Product Designers come together to work on audacious ideas and build working prototypes (MVP) over a Weekend. In50hrs have few chapters happening across major Indian [...]

Adobe introduces Acrobat XI

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In a small, focussed and quite gathering, Adobe unveiled their new Acrobat XI. Acrobat is Adobe’s product suite for creating, editing, and viewing PDFs. It is literally used by all big corps, government institutions and many non-profit organization. The event was India focussed and Adobe showed some pretty interesting statistic and details on how Indian [...]

’twas an evening of laughter at the Black Dog Comedy Evenings “Uncensored And Unleashed”

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Recently, I was invited to attend an event – a Standup Comedy. Well, it was a surprising invitation. I had been invited to lots of events, but there were either technical, blog-related, startups, entrepreneurship and alike, but a Standup Comedy Event! I’m sure the other ‘bloggers’ were equally surprised. I realized they want to highlight [...]

7 year old writes his first game for the Raspberry Pi

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Philip, a 7 year old lad, has written his first game using Scratch for the Raspberry Pi.