Technology Articles

The Time Paradox: by Philip Zimbardo and John Boyd

Manish Agrawal — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:55:21 GMT

The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life

Your every significant choice -- every important decision you make -- is determined by a force operating deep inside your mind: your perspective on time -- your internal, personal time zone. This is the most influential force in your life, yet you are virtually unaware of it. Once you become aware of your personal time zone, you can begin to see and manage your life in exciting new ways.

In The Time Paradox, Drs. Zimbardo and Boyd draw on thirty years of pioneering research to reveal, for the first time, how your individual time perspective shapes your life and is shaped by the world around you. Further, they demonstrate that your and every other individual's time zones interact to create national cultures, economics, and personal destinies.

Philip Zimbardo is professor emeritus of psychology at Stanford University and has also taught at Yale University, New York University, and Columbia University. His informative website, www.prisonexperiment.org, is visited by millions every year. Visit the author's personal website at www.zimbardo.com.

Solar Roadways -- What a revloutionary concept!!

Manish Agrawal — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 10:18:39 GMT

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..

UUI - Ubiquitous User Interface

Manish Agrawal — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:32:30 GMT

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 :)

Sixth Sense -- What a Demo!!

Manish Agrawal — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:20:22 GMT

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

Convert PDF to Word for Free

Manish Agrawal — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 01:33:42 GMT

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.

Mobile 2.0

Manish Agrawal — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:26:58 GMT

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

Mobile 2.0 @ Plugg

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: media retail)

Future of Mobile VAS in India

Manish Agrawal — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 13:49:38 GMT

Nice presentation on Mobile VAS in India.

Mobile Vas In India

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Future Mobile -- nice Presentation

Manish Agrawal — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 04:29:18 GMT

How the future of the mobile web is going to change everything

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: fowa fowaexpo08)

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 - (Part 9) - ANDROID Specific

Manish Agrawal — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 17:47:03 GMT

An Introduction to Android by Jason Chen. Android is the Open Handset Alliance's mobile software platform. In this session, Google introduces Android and discuss their vision for more open, powerful, and us...	Anatomy & Physiology of an Android Patrick Brady (Google) Android has been designed as a modern mobile platform that will enable applications to take full advantage of the mobile device capabiliti...


Inside the Android Application Framework Dan Morrill (Google) Android is designed to be fast, powerful, and easy to develop for. This session will discuss the Android application framework in dept...	Building an Android Application 101 Jason Chen (Google) This session is a practical introduction to building Android applications using the SDK and developer tools. We'll walk through building a n...

Google I/O 2008 - (Part 8) - Python Specific

Manish Agrawal — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 17:45:38 GMT

Rapid Development with Python, Django, and Google App Engine Guido van Rossum (Google) Learn how to create great web applications quickly on Google App Engine using the Django web framework and th...

Painless Python for Proficient Programmers Part I ---- Alex Martelli (Google) Python is a popular very-high-level programming language, with a clean and spare syntax, simple and regular semantics, a large sta...	Painless Python for Proficient Programmers Part II ---- Alex Martelli (Google) Python is a popular very-high-level programming language, with a clean and spare syntax, simple and regular semantics, a l...