Over the last couple of years, it is interesting to see the amount of android related content in the press and how much share it has in the Open Source related news. In Linux For You magazine, which I have been folowing since its first issue, the gadgets page happily lists dozens of android smart … Continue reading »
Make the news follow you!
We all like to keep track of news in certain topics. With the advent of google news, it has become quite common to setup alerts for our favourite search strings (E.g. Forest+Rights+act), so that we get an email everday with links to news articles as they appear. If we have a lot of such search … Continue reading »
Back after a break
I am blogging again after a few months’ break. My daughter is now ten months old. I am blogging again with the hope that when she grows up she will be living in a world that would have embraced the open source philosophy in a big way in all walks of life. I am sending … Continue reading »
Managing Personal Financial Information
These days its not uncommon to have more than one bank account in different locations and regularly accessing them online. Add to this credit cards, investment accounts, insurance policies etc. and you have a lot of people scrambling to make spreadsheets to put all the figures in to get a full picture. Yesterday, Mathew my … Continue reading »
Data Analysis
I have been meaning to write about ‘Many Eyes’, an online service from IBM, that enables anyone to upload their data and use a variety of visualisations. This morning I was pleasantly surprised to see it and Gapminder, another favourite of mine, being mentioned in Netspeak in today’s Hindu paper. The article can be found … Continue reading »
How to check many blogs constantly?
Tired of having to open a new tab for every blog you follow just to see if something new has come up. If you do that once in a few days and have only a few blogs that you follow, then that’s probably fine. But I track more than ten blogs through the day, and … Continue reading »
Shock/Surprise
I checked the stats for my blog to see if anyone had visited, and i fell off my chair (nearly) when i saw 66 hits on 6/6. 64 of the visits were from a site – alphainventions.com I went to the site and it seemed as if my browser was having some problems as pages … Continue reading »
O Browser! Where art thou?
In terms of compliance with HTML 5 standards that is! Okay, agreed that not knowing this is not giving you any sleepless nights, nor is it to me for that matter. But if you see this visualisation, then you will agree that it is a nice example of how interestingly you can present data. One … Continue reading »
World Cup Special
The only event that’s worth waiting for for four years is the FIFA World Cup. For the special occasion, here is a special treat, if you are as kicked by new data visualisation types as i am, that is! Thanks SP for pointing this one out!
Full Circle (of life?)
There is a magazine that I came across recently that is dedicated to ubuntu. Its hosted at this website. Its an interesting mix of news, tips, reader contributions etc. Podcasts are also available although i haven’t tried them as yet. You can also subscribe to their RSS feed to get other ubuntu related news. I … Continue reading »
