Bend it like u want

Bend it like u want

" Samsung just busted the entire planet with their latest toy! If you thought Sony had something cool with their UX90, well, think again! Here’s the SPH-P9000 Deluxe MITs, a PC shaped like a PDA, with Windows XP, a 30GB hard disk, 256MB of RAM, a 5” display, a 1GHz CPU, WiMAX, CDMA EV-DO, and a 1.3Mpix camera. It measures 143x94x29mm and weights 580g. That’s it, I officially declare now that Japan has dropped down to the level of Europe and the USA, in terms of geekiness. Korea has become the almighty country! "

For proof: checkout this

Google into Machine & Tools Manufacture ?

Google into Machine & Tools Manufacture ?

"I could see Google just buying Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment to get the Utube.com domain, and all of the traffic they're missing out on! Then they could develop some extra strong, high speed data pipe roll things for networks to search Google or something "

"why not Google get into the tubing business as well, start expanding out, maybe get into plumbing, then merge into the real estate business as well. I can see it now, Google Homes."

"Seriously, one day the internet might not be around anymore!. so it could be a goog idea for Google and shareholders to start thinking about more offline ventures. This is a perfect start."

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Wassup-in-design

Wassup-in-design

I'm just back from ultra-rocking trip in Goa, Lohagad, Mahabaleshwar & Puna. Will post the glimpse of it soon.

Btw, to keep you engaged with wassup-in-design I found quite a few interesting links:

1. 'Designing with colour is perhaps the element of graphic design which is the most difficult to get right. Why?' Keep reading: Five Simple Steps to designing with colour.
2. 'It's important to emphasize usability in form design because forms are for collecting information, and the right approach for usability may not always be the same as that for data integrity.' Catch this interesting read from Sarah Horton.
3. Being affected with yahoo UI lib bug oflate, the happening yahoo scripting snippets looks promising in terms of RIA kind of user expereince without flash but only with yahoo-UI. Check this link to short overview of how each utility was used in a large scale production environment of yahoo merchandise aka shopping site.

18 till I dejavu :)

18 till I dejavu :)

"Class of 2005 - Reunion", read the banner,
Oh! The last 20 years has gone so sooner,
The great college days, I started remembering,
Seems like only yesterday I finished engineering.

Seeing my class mates, after 20 years,
My eyes were filled with tears,
Everyone has changed a lot,
No one escaped nature's plot.

Guys who were smart and handsome,
Have become bald and buxom,
Girls who used to fill our dreams,
Almost brought out screams.

Saw the girl, whom once I thought as my life,
Oops! today she is somebody else's wife,
After years, talked to her for a little while,
Learned she is happy, that made me smile.

Entered our class' Mr. Romeo,
Who has played many a cameo?
We started teasing him together,
About what all he did to-get-her,

Project reviews to campus interviews,
Nicknames to last bench games,
Cultural rehearsals to love proposals,
Short term crushes to class room blushes.

Everything was fresh in our mind,
Wished life could rewind,
Laughed, played and rejoiced,
Once again we became girls and boys.

Chatting and laughing, we all were in elation,
Till the painful moment of separation,
It was time to part,
Returned with a heavy heart.

Today life is full of commitments,
And too many worries,
But those cherished moments,
Will live forever in our memories ...

This's nostalgic. I sense some 'kind of familiar rhythm' moving iniside these lines.Somehow the tune of summer of 69 of BAD fits well with this lyric.

Thanks to Mayank Saxena for this.
* dejavu = The experience of thinking that a new situation had occurred before

The Dangers of Browser Detect

The Dangers of Browser Detect

Browser detection is something of a cat-and-mouse game, with manufacturers always finding new ways to convince scripts they’re IE or someone else and scripters finding cunning ways to reveal their true identity.

Browser detection doesn’t always work. This is the first, and clearest, danger. Browser vendors have been avoiding browser detects since 1994 by changing their navigator.userAgent value to what the browser detects script expect. Does the script expect “MSIE”? Then the user agent string contains “MSIE”, even though the browser is not in fact Internet Explorer.

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Interesting stuff:
The Internet marketing, experience marketing & SEO have gathered highlevel attention due to the possibilities of clear-cut user experience tracking in recent times. This Neat app (crazyegg) helps you improve the design of a site by showing you where people are clicking and where they are not. The idea behind Heatmap simply amazing to me. It might revolutionalize the hot linking areas & user tracking techniques of internet campaign & internet marketing. It could be the hot-spot area specially for the co's solely survive on online ads.

Wireframing in firefox !

Wireframing in firefox !

My tryst with wireframing softwares still continuing. Though interactivity related red flag is still up, I'm kinda content with the new beta release of Visio 2007 with upgraded features. Demonstration & workshop is the little bit nagging area when it comes to on-screen demo or conference calls presentation. Converting visio wireframes into XHTML was a good option, but due to the fact that most of the interaction elements get converted to images in visio; on the fly editing images is a tricky issue.

It seems, this nicety link should solve those bottlenecks of standard oriented browser prototyping using javascript & stylesheets. It's a neat little tool Frametastic 0.1 which allows a Firefox user to create simple wireframes inside the browser space. "Code" is downloadable & runs locally. Would be useful for table less layout generation as-well.

To beat morning blues, here's a cool humor, enjoy it:

Friendship between women:
A woman didn't come home one night. The next day she told her husband that she had slept over at a girlfriend's house. The man called his wife's 10 best friends. None of them knew anything about it.

Friendship between men:
A man didn't come home one night. The next day he told his wife that he had slept over at a buddy's house. The woman called her husband's 10 best friends. Eight of them confirmed that he had slept over, and two claimed that he was still there.

| Links: Raj Shah & Ravi Gokulgandhi |

RSS de basanti !

RSS de basanti !

Which link do you access the moment you get connected to internet ? bookmarks like news, mail, photoblog, design showcase, gizmo-gadgets, horoscope etc in multiple windows? Finding choked net connection & slow response time of browsers ? finding too many windows to handle ?In that case, how about displaying all the favorite web-pages-news-feed in one window in easily accessible, usable, clean navigable fashion.

Here's the new breed netvibes.com, (rather 'beta turned 'alpha' ;) inspired by web2.0 trend & crafted with Ajax. Simply the best personalized home page and RSS/Atom reader I've ever used. It's even better than Google's-home in my opinion. It's just got a multi-page view feature I like it a lot. Recently they have included meebo syndication.The project looks great with simple & slick interfaces, runs great with ease-of-use navigation. Modules are intuitive, page interaction is quick to catch up with just a few seconds. User expereince is easy, fast, simple, higly responsive; every thing one can expect from this kind of web app. Stuffed with tight usability in catering basic user interaction. Learning curve is too minimal; which is the basic essence of any complex design. You should definitely check it out and draw your conclusions. Also don't forget to look out for the new features & updates from the netvibes Blog. The team behind netvibes.com is constantly adding new & more advanced features keeping User-Experience in tandem with latest web standards. Netvibes recognises a Atom or RSS Feed formats for content syndication. Really Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0) is a sum-up of dynamic web news feed. A content provider publishes a web feed link on their site which end users can register with an aggregator. In simple words -Netvibes is a intelligent web news aggregator.

Netvibes, a project started in France by Florant Fremont, is the latest web-app based on the idea of personalized homepages and like some others (like Start and Google’s personal homepage), it is powered by some nicely developed Ajax.

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Less-Table-Less

Less-Table-Less

"StopDesign did on a remake of the Microsoft website from a tablebased site to a tableless layout. That remake showed a 62% file size reduction of the site, and using their average hits per month for the Microsoft site, calculated that Microsoft would be saving 924 GIGS in bandwidth per day, and 329 Terabytes of bandwidth per year. For any company that pays for bandwidth, these things are important."

Interesting isn't it ? It's a very interesting statistics blogged by webtrend evangelist Nicole Hernandez in her blog on Creating Tableless Sites Why and Some Basics. She continues to elaborate logical factors which drives one to opt for a tableless layout :

• Forces You To Write Well-Formed Code
  
• Faster Loading Time
  
• Easier to Read Code
  
• Print Alternate Views
  
• Search Engine Optimization
  
• Presentation Flexibility
  
• Selling Yourself On Standards

Was reading a lot on tableless-datagrid-layout for client-side presentation in recent past. Layout design is quite easy & workable compared to data-grid design in div based environment. I'm looking for a grid based content display technique for the current project I'm working on. I welcome your ideas, thoughts & techniques on designing div-based-grid layouts for dynamic data-grids display. I had a look through finetooth DataGrid, but it's not yet cross-browser compatible. I'm clearly looking at something which could run on 1.5 +above versions of FF.