Category Archives: Reviews

Olacabs, a bad User Experience (Update: Bad Customer Service too)

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Olacabs (source : Olacabs) India is on a 48 hour stand-still with the ‘India Bandh’ called by the All Trade Union. They are protesting against privatization, outsourcing, violation of labour laws, price rise and several other burning issues of the country, trade unions of banking, insurance, public sector undertakings, transporters and unorganized sectors. Nope, I’m [...]

Create that ‘OneBucketList’ for your life and act on it

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Not a To-Do list. Not an agenda for your life’s routine. Something, which you usually have in your mind, the list of things you would love to do in your life. Be it – learning to sky-dive, go on that dream vacation, visit that exotic island, spend few undisturbed weeks in a less-trodden place – [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Krassimir Fotev scoffs at SEO with his brainchild, Peer Belt

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If you’re like me then you are sick of SEO. These cookie-cutter predictive patterns that create a myopic filter for the content we see online make as much sense as casting a rapper in a film noir, or taking a three-year old to a fine china shop. This must be what Krassimir Fotev thought when [...]

Adobe Creative Suite 6 – the new face of creativity

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Adobe recently released their latest version of Creative Suite – Adobe Creative Suite 6, introducing a slew of features and enhancement to their software line-ups. I was fortunate to be present at the Media Launch of Adobe CS6 in New Delhi, India. Presided over by Umang Bedi, Managing Director, South Asia at Adobe Systems, there [...]

Dayson Pais: Entrepreneur²

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Mumbai-based Dayson Pais is the founder of Webly, of Epicwhale, of The Womo — and now he is the founder (and janitor) of Textme. And all this has been in the past 5 years. Dayson’s passion is incubating services and products for the web, brand identity, print, mobile & digital field — hence the creation [...]

Google’s Updated Privacy Policy Angers Europe

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People are not unaware of Google’s Privacy Policy being updated every now and then. The latest version of its privacy policy that was unleashed on March 1st, 2012, has made it the centre of a huge controversy amongst the European nations. Some of the rules that have been included in this policy have fallen under [...]

StockTouch app is Bringing Sexy Back to stock markets

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The successful build-an-app plan seems to be: take a useful service, make it intuitive and put a shiny veneer on it. Steve deBrun’s StockTouch has done that, in spades. Although if you ask Steve what the entrepreneurial key to app-building success is a top-notch team, the ‘classic trio’ as he calls it: the “designer, hacker, [...]

Social Folders – share your social content online

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Ever get irritated that you can’t push/pull content between your computer and your social networks and sort it in handy desktop folders? Instead you have to manually update each as new content is added? Martin Pannier did. In response he created SocialFolders. The SocialFolders app allows you to more easily manage content across your desktop [...]