Monthly Archives: May 2013
BookAdda gets its data from Barnes and Noble
Looks like BookAdda gets its data from B&N 
Memories on the Cloud
The Cloud companies are competing for end users for allowing them to use their services to store their memories(mostly photos/videos) in the Cloud (Ahem! remote harddisks that scale). Its the era of the cloud and sharing.
Pictures are the fastest way to capture a moment. A picture is worth a 1KB of words (but sized about a few MB). Sharing and saving photos, videos are getting famous and easy with cloud storage from each of Adobe, Amazon, Google, Dropbox along with Flickr (now providing free 1TB of storage). Google Glass makes it very easy to snap photos. (Article on Wired). (Don’t forget to read through the most boring parts of Disclaimer and T&C before using services).
Adobe Revel::
Pricing: Free | $5.99/Month – Unlimited Photo Upload during 1st month
Works On: Mac, iDevices, Web
Uses: Amazon EC2 servers
Amazon CloudDrive::
Pricing: Free (5GB) | $10/year (20 GB) | $25/year (50GB) | $50/year (100 GB) | $100/year (200 GB) | more …
Works on: Android, Mac, Web
Flickr::
Free 1TB of space (1000/1024 GB) (with Ads when browsing)- Announced on 21 May 2013
Pricing: Free | $49/year | $499/year
Works on: Web
Dropbox::
Free 3GB or 5GB space for photos/videos – Announced early 2012
Pricing: Free 2GB + 250MB/invite | $9.99/month (100 Gigs) | $19.99/month (200 Gigs) | $49.99 ( 500 Gigs )
Works on: Web, Android, iDevices, Desktop
PicasaWeb / Google+ Photos::
Pricing: Free with 5GB / 15 GB (15 GB now with Google Drive) | $4.99/month (100Gigs) | $9.99/month (200 Gigs)
Works on: Web
Box ::
(Nothing special for multimedia content as per advertisement)
Pricing: 5GB Free | $9.99/month (25 GB) | $19.99/month (50GB)
Works on: Web | Windows
Omgrofl Programming Language
Sweet Syntax – Omgrofl – Esolang.
Programming Language Trends | Drew Conway
Find the Hot Programming languages from the Programming Language Trends.
Competition Monitoring
A book costs 11.36 Lakhs. Source: Silence on the Wire | BookAdda.com.
Screenshot:
Something like this happened between two sellers on Amazon.com
Quantum Computers are the upgrades to PCs
For the first time, a commercially available quantum computer has been pitted against an ordinary PC – and the quantum device left the regular machine in the dust.
Read more: Commercial quantum computer leaves PC in the dust – physics-math – 10 May 2013 – New Scientist.
The Old Queuing Problem
In Thailand, they figured out how to solve the age-old queuing problem! i.imgur.com/eKgAP6O.jpg #gov20 #brilliant
— Sheba Najmi (@snajmi) February 16, 2013
DOGHOUSE | Heaven and Hell
Beautiful Sculptures on Folded Book Art | The Design Inspiration
Infographic Contest Winner: #Blame Twitter – Blog About Infographics and Data Visualization – Cool Infographics
HowTo: ‘grep’ Text Between Two Words in Unix / Linux
10 Reasons The Haters Are Mad About Adobe Creative Cloud | Photofocus
10 Reasons The Haters Are Mad About Adobe Creative Cloud | Photofocus.
(This is the REAL reason for 90% of the noise!) The haters are mad because they realize they can no longer pirate copies of Photoshop.
acqhiring – the new way of hiring without portals :)
This practice is so widespread that a term, acqhiring, has entered the industry lexicon to describe it. Even for the skeptics, it’s difficult to argue that these acquis- itions are about anything other than people. In many deals, like Facebook’s acquisition of Gowalla, the technology was not even a part of the transaction. And when the technology is included in the transaction, it is frequently released as open source post-acquisition. [ The New Kingmakers via OReilly ]
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Why you should be betting against the rupee now – Firstpost
Source: http://www.ccs.in/ccsindia/policy/money/studies/wp0028.pdf
Chronology of India’s exchange rate policies
• 1947 (When India became member of IMF): Rupee tied to pound, Re 1 = 1 s, 6 d, rate of 28 October, 1945
• 18 September, 1949: Pound devalued; India maintained par with pound
• 6 June, 1966: Rupee is devalued, Rs 4.76 = $1, after devaluation, Rs 7.50 = $1 (57.5%)
• 18 November, 1967: UK devalued pound, India did not devalue
• August 1971: Rupee pegged to gold/dollar, international financial crisis
• 18 December, 1971: Dollar is devalued
• 20 December, 1971: Rupee is pegged to pound sterling again
• 1971-1979: The Rupee is overvalued due to India’s policy of import substitution
• 23 June, 1972: UK floats pound, India maintains fixed exchange rate with pound
• 1975: India links rupee with basket of currencies of major trading partners. Although the basket is periodically altered, the link is maintained until the 1991 devaluation.
• July 1991: Rupee devalued by 18-19 %
• March 1992: Dual exchange rate, LERMS, Liberalised Exchange Rate Management System
• March 1993: Unified exchange rate: $1 = Rs 31.37
• 1993/1994: Rupee is made freely convertible for trading, but not for investment purposes
Protecting our brand from a global spyware provider | The Mozilla Blog
I’m a web developer/programmer, and I’m working with a web/print designer. During discussions of a website in development…
Me: For reference, to help you figure out what height to specify, the height of the Home page slide show (right hand) column, from top line to bottom line is 631px. On the Portfolio Page it is slightly taller at 689px.
Client: I am not going to deal with pixels.
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