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Title says it all ~ Waste = Food (An inspiring documentary on the Cradle to Cradle design concept)

Posted by Ram Vijapurapu in Uncategorized on March 2, 2010


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Readability experiment by @arc90 is just awesome – http://bit.ly/9OXltc

Posted by Ram Vijapurapu in Uncategorized on February 28, 2010

Even the most horribly styled websites are beautifully modded to enable better reading

After using Readability:

If you guys like reading frills readable text head over to http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/ and add get the bookmarklet. 

PS: I am not against ads, but I prefer my text to be legible & ofcourse readable. Many public sites ignore this basic need. 

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Augmented Reality Software: Unifeye® Mobile Augmented Reality SDK – looks very promising

Posted by Ram Vijapurapu in Uncategorized on February 15, 2010

Augmented Reality SDK looks very promising:

Maybe this would be a good starting point to test out a few concepts which are still on paper.

More details here: http://www.metaio.com/

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My Xperia X1 with latest S.E. Xperia X2 ROM and Google Android 2.0.1 – Part 2

Posted by Ram Vijapurapu in Uncategorized on February 3, 2010

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This looks way too promising..

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Chris Bangle says great cars are Art

Posted by Ram Vijapurapu in Uncategorized on January 30, 2010

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design = love

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Fields Wicker-Miurin: Learning from leadership’s “missing manual”

Posted by Ram Vijapurapu in Uncategorized on January 30, 2010

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Remarkable! A must watch.

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Bertrand Piccard’s solar-powered adventure

Posted by Ram Vijapurapu in Uncategorized on January 14, 2010

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Imagine…

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Chrome Features – most creative video I have seen – Google knows how to sell

Posted by Ram Vijapurapu in Uncategorized on December 23, 2009

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Chrome Features – most creative video I have seen – Google knows how to sell

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Mobile Platforms & Diversification – how ~they~ are killing mobile developer productivity & profits

Posted by Ram Vijapurapu in Uncategorized on December 10, 2009

Samsung recently announced Bada OS with much fanfare & a competition - Yay!

This got me thinking yet again as to why any developer should support / build for it? What is the killer feature which will make me want to invest in building apps for this platform? Apart from the fact that it has a large market share – nothing. I am not trying to second guess Samsung’s intentions in bringing Bada to life – I mean rather than choosing from choice list of OpenSource OS choices these days (Android, Symbian & Maemo …) – they probably know what they are doing. As long as a mobile manufacturer provide ways to port our existing apps using a standards compliant platform we are game.

Diversification of Mobile Platforms today is killer of mobile developer’s productivity (& profit). We are forced to choose a platform and stick with it – I guess this will start becoming a common place & the best platform will eventually win. Many developers will only focus their efforts on one platform. Btw: It already started happening.
I am more than happy to support any platform which comes to play. So long as I can find developers for the given language needed for the platform, the platform is standardised (eg. Java) & deploying/porting the app to a platform does not involve rewriting it from scratch.
Between guys, Qt is one amazing platform – played around quite a bit and I have to say I am impressed. Hope iPhone would one day be fully supported along with Symbian & Maemo. Also fingers crossed as to whether Bada would be on the list of supported platforms for Qt.

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Open Letter to Manufacturers of Mobile Devices

Posted by Ram Vijapurapu in Uncategorized on December 9, 2009

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Dear Manufacturers of Mobile Devices,

Please stop creating your very own cocoons (read OS) and start sharing.

We developers (ISVs, Individuals..) don't have the time or energy to support you all at once.

Regards,

Mobile Developer.

PS: My earlier Blog post w.r.t. to the same: What should Nokia do? – a developer’s perspective

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