Lone Immortal

I has always been a fan of Moleskine for writing, but this time I decided to try some other product for the year 2010. And I bought Leuchtturm Agenda 2010. In my earlier blog, I talked about my notebook mania. And there I described very slick Leuchtturm 1917 products. In fact, in that blog, I talked about Leuchtturm notebooks. And Leuchtturm Agenda carries the same sort of practical sense seen in them. Read the rest of this entry »

In the previous article I discussed about the plight of the printing media at the beginning of this century. But there is a big hope that they will survive. Only the mode of delivery will slightly change. The electronic displays like eBook readers shall partially replace the traditional paper. Looking at the bold initiatives of some big media conglomerates, it seems that they are going in proper direction. In these initiatives, they are making second most important source of revenue, subscriptions, more appealing. These new electronic devices, such as electronic readers, tablets, etc., are keeping this appeasing charm of reading on paper. Apple showed that people are interested in paying for digital media. And the steps taken by big media companies like News Corp., New York Times, Reuters, etc. may outdo what only-for-internet-media-companies, like Yahoo, AOL, etc., were attempting for so long. In this blog, the new products introduced by New York Times and Reuters shall be discussed.

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Newspapers and magazine, so-called printing media, have always been one of the most prominent medium of information distribution for many years. Thanx to the chinese invention of paper and popularizing efforts of printing by Gutenberg, printing media has always been at forefront of any revolution as well as any controversies. For many years, this sort of printing media was the quickest way to acquire the latest information on any new happening, be it political or scientific. With the emergence of electronic media, such as radio, television, it was thought that printing media shall become yet another piece in the museum. But the aesthetic appeal of reading a printed material could not let this happen. And it seemed that printing is here to stay forever, but until the dawn of Internet. Read the rest of this entry »

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Amid the advent of electronic mean of note-taking, the traditional medium, paper, thought to be loosing its charm. Digital note-taking, these days, seems more like a neo-revolution of an original one started long ago when paper was invented. In my opinion, paper, the very product of age-old invention shall never become redundant; unless we run out of trees or any synthetic material which produces it. Human, as a thinking living being, is confined to two-dimensional way of acting. Whenever there is a question of an act, he confides himself to anything which can be parametrized in two dimensions. When it comes to writing, in this timid reality, paper is the best medium available. Paper provides two dimensional space to interpret an idea.  Although in electronic input media, the device try to replicate the same functionality, there is always a third parameter concerning the knowledge and the ability of the device. There are some advantages of electronic medium, but paper shall always allow the flow of an independent free idea.

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It has become very common to personalizing your computer after installing the OS. This personalization does not only include something simple like desktop background, but also amount of software it comes with. Sometimes these softwares are too much for certain needs or sometimes too less. The problem becomes more prominent in different Linux Distribution. Interestingly, on this front, there is great solution (in fact, innovation) coming up in the form of SuSE Studio.
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After getting confused with different versions of Windows Vista, it seemed perhaps Windows 7 Upgrade will me pretty relief, knowing there shall be less difference between different Windows 7 Version. Well, this is how the Windows 7 Upgrade chart looks like:

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Now there shall also be new upgrade coming to Mac OS X, and it is called Snow Leopard. Have a look at the similar upgrade chart for Mac OS X 10.6:

Mac OS X Snow Leopard Upgrade Chart

I know that Microsoft has to deal with different vendors, but why make the life for the user so complicated at the buying. Even I didn’t mention the prices for the Windows 7 upgrade. Those are so complicated to comprehend that I should say it is out of the scope of this post

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Some products are so fixed in the minds of the people that it doesn’t come out of its fundamentals. It is just tweaked and designed differently in accordance with the times, but true foundation remains the same. Eyewears or so-called glasses is one of these products. Apparently, there seems to be an endeavor out of deadlock of the time to innovate it even further, with some tweak, but not to the product rather to its foundation. Innovation has always been the product of necessity. I’m going to talk about two new designs of the eyewears that came out of absolutely distinguished necessity, the first being cost-effectiveness and the second being convenience. Interestingly, both made for the masses at two opposite extremes of their incomes.

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Couple of years ago my online presence was limited to surfing, emailing and sometimes chatting. Friends were mostly the part of the offline activity. Over the time some friends left the city to pursue different career and rather deferred life elsewhere. Emailing was the main source of keeping contacts. But the time has changed ever since. The so-called socializing has become more prominent online activity than offline one. Emailing and traditional instant messaging became redundant and online social networking took over their place. Read the rest of this entry »

I saw the movie “Letter from Iwo Jima” yesterday. The movie was made by Clint Eastwood directly after directing preceding movie “Flags of our Fathers”. It was about showing the people on the contra side of the war, who seems to be evil when we watch the movies from the regular side (well, the allied force’s side). But the fact is, we have, in the end, human beings fighting against each other. Each have their own story. Then how come they can turn into beings who find their conviction reflected in the conviction of the evil ruler? Read the rest of this entry »

Accuweather AIR App

It’s not new that man was always fascinated with what the weather would be like in the near future. I wonder to how many of them does it really matter seriously on daily basis! Perhaps it’s the craze towards following and speculating something, which never stopped the man from unknowingly believing in Astrology or erroneously trading at stock markets. Anyway, but honestly, the knowledge of weather in the near future is very important to various industries. They have their own accurate devices to take a note of it. For the other mortals, they are left with open media like TV or internet.

Accuweather.com has established itself over last few months quite a leader in providing the weather forecast, at least on internet, with over 65000 locations. Even my small town of Göttingen can be found. Perhaps the only non-German weather service providing weather prediction for this town. There are no shortages of tools available to get the weather information from this website, without directl visiting it. Now, Accuweather has taken a bold step to release the AIR app for weather information. The app looks pretty sweet and fits perfectly with any background. The advantage of AIR app is that it is available on all platforms. You have to first install Adobe AIR before installing this app. Adobe AIR is available here: http://www.adobe.com/products/air/

And Accuweather AIR app, called Stratus, can be download from here: http://www.accuweather.com/stratus/