My Mind Leaks

Wikipedia adds Video support

Soon Wikipedia is going to add support for Videos in the wiki entries, along with tools to search, edit and link videos in the Wiki entries. Shortly you will find tags and user interface for this facility. Wikipedia will allow to search videos from pre-defined sources where you can obtain ...

Girls dies after twittering during bath

It's a bizarre event at a very unusual place. A 17 year girl dies of twittering while she was twittering in the bathroom. People are obsessed with technology and the social-networking, which they couldn't resist being dis-connected from the world. The girl dies when she was trying to plug in the ...

Firefox bug reports - Some interesting facts

Today I was curious to know about the list of bugs that has occurred for the Firefox browser over all these time. And the count of bugs received and fixed made me surprise about the development at Mozilla. Bugs are important players in any development projects. Hence bugs determines the ...

Firefox 3.5 beta “Restore Session” has got smarter

Firefox 3.5 beta has improved a lots features and added few stuffs too. One of the thing which impressed me is the "Restore Session". In the older firefox, once you session crashes, and you re-launch the firefox, it will popup this. And it will open up all the browser tabs in ...

Know it: Terms of Service

Source: bigocean You are living a life in Internet and you are using a lots of web-application, services via Internet. But still there are much better services comming up and we tend to subscribe and start using it. But, are you ever read the Terms of Service ( shortly ToS ) ...

Google Book Tip: Manage Your Library via Barcode

I Came across an interesting tip for Google Book. If you are having a lots of book and you arent not able to type in all your ISBN number and need to keep track of them using Google's book service. Here is a quick tip. Google's Software Engineer Matt demonstrate a ...

Google Book Tip: Search your home library

Source: sbj Have you ever used Google Books? If yes, have you unleashed the power of Google books? For those who aren't aware of Google book, Google Book Search is a tool from Google that searches the full text of books that Google scans, converts to text using optical character recognition, and ...

Mailplane - A better gmail client for mac

I came across this Mailplane application for Mac recently and I started liking it as soon as I used it in 5 minutes. Probably will buy one copy for me. Mailplane provides a GUI interface for Gmail. Consider this as Microsoft Outlook for Gmail, but without modifying any thing that ...

Even Mac can get viruses too - iWork 2009

Mac is Immune to Virus. This is globally acclaimed status until the iWork' 09 worm infused into the Mac. So this tell you none of the OS in the world is immune to virus analogous to no human is immune to any virus. But the difference is, until we are ...

How to turn on CAPS Lock and NUM Lock in Blackberry 8900

CAPS lock and NUM lock are cool features in Blackberry, which was not known by many Blackberry users that they exists or how to activate it. And I was also one of those poor user ;-). I was not using this feature to its full extend until a necessity arisen ...

Imagining the ten dimensions

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:04:08 -0700

You can see how you 3D enables you to travel quickly travel from one point to another without literally traveling on the plane.

Remember the deja vu movie ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0453467/ ) ?

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Gmail labels, how useful is that?

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:20:00 -0700

Gmail has revolutionise the concepts of labelling in mailings. The concept of folders are now at the stage of obsolete. A conversation can be have more than one label. The labeling has become a kind of tagging. More than one label has been labelled on a conversation. But, did labels improvised the concepts of folder? Yes, you do label it and archive it, it acts as a folder. Whoa! what a brilliant concept. Now the mail conversation exists in more than one folder. Kind of Quantum mechanics, the object exists in more than one location.

And Today Gmail had a new featured showed on to the face. The drag and drop feature for the mails into labels. Gmail is constantly improving with the User Interface. But sometime, such user improvements doesn't give much improvement to the user experience. Similarly, this drag and drop doesn't make me feel that it's actually improved my working style.

I'll tell you why. When I drag one ore more conversations(s) into a label, all the conversation are first labeled and then archived. But why is the conversations archived by default when I drop the conversations, I didn't expect them to be archived.

Lets say, I've a label called "Followup", and I move the items to Followup. What I expect is,

Either the items count is shown in the Followup label area like "Followup ( 12 )", unless there are any unread mails in it.
The conversations should be visible to my eyes. So that I don't forget that there are some mails for follow up.

Because, Gmail doesn't have an option to setup follow-up remainder for conversations, which will pop-up according to the remainder.So, I would like all those conversation to be in front of my eyes, even though I move them to a folder / label them or just show up counts near the labels. I'm testing other gmail features too and will post soon on how I felt about them. And if Gmail team feels that my suggestions are quite useful, I would be glad!

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Steve Jobs - My role model and an Icon

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:58:09 -0700

Image via CrunchBase

Today I browsed through the life pictures of Steve Jobs, the one of the great visonaries in the field of Computers and Software. I'm living my life using the machine he has built and It wont be a fair, if I dont write few lines about Steve in my life. I would say! and of course anyone would agree that he is the Pioneer, an Icon in the computer industry. Sometime It makes me think that why anything things related to Apple makes a revolution in the world ( Newton & Apple ).

Using Mac is not just like using any other computer. It's a Cult. Cult of Mac. I was wondering why the people who buys Apple product or Macintosh machines goes crazy about them, until I bought one. There are lots of things written about Steve which leaves me nothing much to write about him. All I can say is, he is a role-model for me and an icon in computer field.

I bought a iMac 24" around mid of 2008, which was my first try with Apple. It's robust and stable UNIX based operating system allowed me to extract most out of the machine which instantly impressed and made me to buy a Macbook Pro 15". I'm eagerly waiting to get the copy of Snow Leopard.

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Histogram helps determining the type of statistical distribution

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 08:08:00 -0700

It was a pain time for me to learn how to determine which statistical distribution does a given set of data obeys. You have various probabilistic distribution like Geometric, Normal, Poisson distribution. Unless you determine how your data is distributed , you cant choose the appropriate tool.

Here is the data stream.
4 3 2 6 8 7 5 6 7 3 4 5 5 6 4 5

Are you able to identify which distribution does this number following? By looking at it, it's pretty difficult to determine what kind of distribution it does follows.

Now just feel how histogram will help you to visualize what kind of distribution did the data follows.

Now this histogram provides a pattern on how the data is distributed. Can you identify the pattern?

Let me show you another visualization of the same data.

Now? Hope you would have identified now. Yes, the data follows a Normal distribution. The histogram will help you to determine it.

If your data point is large enough, the bars will gets close enough and all those bars be filled within the curve and looks like an area filled inside the curve.

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Hello World! Hello Lifestreaming! Here I come.

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:25:21 -0700

Hello World!

This is the first text that would be printed if I’m trying out any new programming language. So, this is my new Lifestreaming blog and hence shouting to the world! Hello World!
I will be keeping this as as my personal notebook / workbook, where I would have my thoughts recorded ( of course not any such scraps ). This will be filled by new ideas and crazy thoughts that would be generated out of my mind.

I was exposed posterious via steve rubel. He have moved from blogging to life stream recently. And he continues to live with the lifestream instead of blogging. Though I record my randomness in this lifestream, I will continue record my work in my blog as an archive.

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