Manish Agrawal

I have posted a Poll on Linked IN, to study about the pattern of usage of Voice Message and its awareness.

I request you, to kindly spare few seconds of yours to provide your valuable answer. 

Poll Question is:

What do U do, when the Person U are calling is not reachable / not picking & a Voice Prompts u to leave a Voice Message (VM)?

You can answer the Poll on Linked IN site (recommended, as it will give very good comparitve analysis) by clicking on this link: http://polls.linkedin.com/p/65807/ugsqd

Or if that is not possible, then by leaving your answer (from below mentioned options) as comment to this post:

1. Leave a VM
2. Don't leave VM & wait for callback
3. Don't leave VM & later send a SMS
4. Don't leave VM & try calling again later
5. Don't know, What is Voice Message (VM)

Thanks in advance...

Though everybody knows: "It is always better to come to terms with realities and accept things as early as possible..." but there is a in-built thought process in our mind (Sub-Concious Mind),  which keeps pulling us away and makes the process of coming with terms to realities slow and painful..

Saush has written a great article about  "why it is difficult to accept the realitlies of a downturn..."

Just by going thru this article, one can realize the common human mistakes, which if can't be avoided can definetly be made less painful..  just by looking at things in a different prospective..

 Great work!! Scott and Julie Brusaw

 What a great discovery.... It can solve so many major problems of the current world in one shot..

Video from: http://green.autoblog.com/2009/08/28/solar-roadways-get-prototype-funding-from-dot/

To check more details, you can visit the Solar Roadways website.

Join & spread the revolution by making others aware about it.

Cheers..

Finally, The world is evolving towards a new mode of interaction.

Where human doesn't haveto give inputs to machines using some input devices like keyboard, mouse, touch etc. rather machines are made capable to understand human body movements and take inputs accordingly.

I will like to give it a new name     UUI - i.e. Ubiquitous User Interface

Some examples of this are Accelerometer based inputs in many devices, Microsoft's new Project Natal for XBOX 360 .

Refer my previous blog posts on Sixth Sense, iPhone SDK showing accelerometer based input. And now have a look at this demo of Microsoft's Project Natal for XBOX 360:

It shows, how technology is gradually  evolving

from Punch Card based instructions   to   Command line based instructions   to   Mouse / Digital Pen / Joystick    to   Voice / Touch / Accelerometer   and now to   Observation

for interfaces, from Console   to   GUI   to   IVR   to   UUI

What's Next ??     TUI  -- Thought User Interface    User can just think of an action and machine will understand :) 

When you think out of the box, this is what is the possibility, you can make something so advanced with something so simple... and that also cheaper than the current available options....

Thanks to Parnav Mistry and Pattie Maes for such a brilliant work they have done.

I bet you will not be able to stop yourself from clapping after looking at the video / future.

If you can't see the below video, click here

--Manish Agrawal 

Got a good link to convert PDF to Word and that too free.

I checked converting one PDF with Image and Page Header / Footer Margins. And bang it goes...  it has converted it very nicely.

Only trade-off was the size of the document, it converted 386kb PDF file to 1.42 mb MS Word file. But never mind, as the quality of output was very good.

To access this tool click here.

This is a nice presentation prepared by Ruddy, capturing Mobile Trends and Mobile Products.

Nice presentation on Mobile VAS in India.

If the above presentation is not very clear and is not making sense at few places, you can see the Full Video or Highlights of the Video also.

Google I/O 2008 was a big event and exposed many Open Google technologies which can be used for making Internet Applications Fast, Easily & Economically.

It shows, at what speed Google is growing itself and making the Internet grow.

I will log the Video links, of this event, available on YouTube. I know it is already 5 months old, but I am trying to make a collection of some important ones (according to me), at one place...

I will divide it in 9 parts, and here goes the videos for Part 1:

For more info on Google App Engine: http://code.google.com/appengine

I know it is little old... but I have seen this today only and it is great!!

Thanks Joe Gregorio for posting the Video. Good work!!

This is a great PDF, written by Ken Schwaber. Summary of it can be taken from the below table:

Shiffin.Com has come-up with an exciting tool for GPS tracking of BIAL Buses over Google Maps.

This tool is very good and provides not just the location of the bus, but also keeps the pin  moving in real-time as per speed of the bus. You can highlight the route (path) of individual bus and even Zoom-in to check the Satllite Image (static) of the location where the bus currently is. More-over it shows the Bus No. and even speed of the bus also.

Bravo, Great Work guys!!!

Some screenshots:

It is a very nice browser.. is the feeling, I got after using it for an hour or so. So the first impression is good.

But I can't write this blog post using it. So there is lot to be still done. For example it doesn't shows the RichEditBox toolbar as shown below over the Post Body entry box.

Similarly it is unable to show XML content as XML and renders it as html (without tags). These just some examples, I am sure Google will incorporate all such features in coming releases.

The things which I liked about Chrome are:

• Smart use of Screen space (as default feature), providing maximum area for viewing
• Smart use of Status bar, by only showing when it is required
• Google Search directly from Address bar
• Drag tab out to create new window or gather multiple tabs into one window
• FAQ for web developers
• Comics interpretation of key engineering decisions
• Hold Back/Forward button to see history
• Web Inspector: to see the elements and resources associated with the component by right clicking on it, including a hierarchy view of the DOM and a JavaScript console.
• Treating Tabs as independent process (great lesson for Microsoft to improve IE's never ending Crashing problem)
•  Open Source
• Text Area Resizing option. Click & drag the bottom right corner of text area to resize.

As this is from Google the company which believes in releasing of rock solid products. And Chrome is still in Beta, so I will not mind the shortcomings and would wait for more features to be added.

Great work guys keep it up...

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