October 2009
15 posts
Apple has an edge, but...
The ever venerable John Gruber makes an excellent point in his piece Herd Mentality. He argues that Apple is the only company with its own OS and is hence able to stand out from the herd of PC makers. I cannot agree more. I believe that Apple is able to be competent and play the game well because they have a different strategy as opposed to other PC makers.
There is one thought that I disagree...
Make an Installation DVD from Windows 7 Student... →
Important notes for converting a student edition into a bootable Win 7 ISO
iPhone 3G 3.1.2
This is definitely a polished version of 3.1 Despite having to pawn and jailbreak it for unlocking it over a contract free iPhone3G, iPhone Dev team have done a wonderful job with Pwnage Tool 3.1.4.
The jailbreak is seamless and ultrasn0w continues to rock. The phone itself feels a lot more stable. Unfortunately, I am not sure what would be the result if you just restore the phone with the...
Tips to conserve your iPhone battery
Turn off push
Turn off push notifications
Install Privacy after jailbreaking
Make sure that all “connections to the outside world” is blocked
Whenever you need, the data is synched, and when you don’t your phone is not connecting randomly to the internet.
Non-contract iPhone 3G with Tmobile lasts me for 2 days. However, with everything enabled, it lasts me about 8 hours....
“Expecting the world to treat you nicely because you’re a nice person is...”
– via Karthik Narayanaswami
How to write, think and learn more clearly?
Michael Covington from The University of Georgia has presented the reason and suggestions for writing, thinking and learning complex material clearly.
It’s worth a read and there are surely some take home lessons.
The Indian IT industry...
How many software professionals are proud to be in their job? How many of them wake up everyday in the morning and say, “Today’s an awesome day because I get to go to work and do awesome things with code and writing amazing test cases.” How many IT professionals consider their job as awesome?
Their answers would determine the fate of the Indian IT industry. If people are in it...
Shaping the city →
Paul Catherall, the printmaker on how he produced the prints when he was commissioned by the Transport for London
“You grow big by charming people and you stay big by being mean”
– Paul Graham @ Startup School 08
“As a small company, you need to charm your customers”
– Paul Graham Startup School 08
Google Wave: Marketed to perfection →
Harini Saladi mentioned something in passing today
Google needs to be commented on how well they have marketed Google Wave to the geeks. They have done a tremendous job in positioning themselves…
Offer letter done the Apple way →
This is awesome. To see that they have spent so much time designing and perfecting the first physical interaction with their employee is B E A utiful!
That said, this is not something that every company should really copy, but should definitely mimic. What they should copy is the thought process that went behind designing and providing this experience to their employees.
Free does not mean...
that as a product manager or developer or both, you shouldn’t forget the value of the product to your customers. Just giving away something for free doesn’t cut it. You need to understand what you are giving away to your customer, why and make sure your customer understands it.
Only then do you do your job of contributing value to your customers. Giving a product/service away for...