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Nokia Comes With Music »

October 4, 2008

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Nokia is launching a new music service , called ‘Comes with Music’. Quite late, but pretty interesting. I am sure you know that iPod is not successful because of its cool looks. It is successful because of the way it integrates with iTunes. In fact, the older version of iPods (before the touch series) are quite dumb – they cannot record audio, take pictures, not bluetooth compatible and many other things my smart phone can do. But the video iPod I have is lot more expensive than my phone, with lot less features. But….I still love my iPod. I download lots and lots of podcasts and listen to them in my car. And iTunes does a great job downloading stuff from the store to my iPod…all within the same window. It is so simple and seamless and I believe thats where the magic is. I also believe that Apple did a great background job getting the iTunes model correct before it launched the iPod. And today, Nokia seems to launch a similar service, but it did take lot of time to do all this. I am sure other players, like Sony, Motorola will try some thing similar very soon. They got to. In fact, I believe they should integrate with other photo sharing sites seamlessly, to have an edge. Choice is always good for the consumer, so I will give it a try, even if I have to dump my SE phone.

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Java Applets with JNLP »

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Web page with an applet embedded in it is painfully slow to load. We were using java applet to play videos online and we have lots of issues with browsers freezing up…in all browsers and on all platforms I always wondered why people did not re-think the JVM in the browser all along.

I just found an interesting article at SDN.

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I love my Mac »

January 22, 2008

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I just love my Mac and it is not the latest Intel Core 2 Duo based Mac Book Air. It is a 3 year old 13″ Powerbook – PowerPC based. I recently upgraded to Leopard and thats when I was enlightened. Computers were supposed to work like Macs. When I say that, I just don’t refer to Windows. I also mean to Linux

Honestly, it is sad for me to say this since I have been toying with Linux, for over a decade now. But believe me, Mac is just what I wanted, but I was too afraid to get one because of its price when compared to a PC.

Earlier, to work on a PHP based project, I used to have two machines – a Linux Server and a Windows Laptop. Well, I tried different other ways to get rid of one machine, like using PHPTriad on Windows or just using Linux or even trying dual-booting linux and windows on my laptop. I know that there are many good products today on Linux that compete very well with Windows, like Evolution, but Mac is just way above all this. It has too many apps that just fit perfectly.

iPhoto just rocks! It allows me to export slideshows into mov format and easily mail them. It comes with a “robust” development environment. XCode works very well with SVN and now support PHP 5. I have virtual hosts set up and I have clean environments for each of the apps I work on. I just cannot ask for any thing more! The battery of my laptop, even after 3 years last more than an hour. My Powerbook, even after 3 years, looks as cool as it did the first time I saw it. I guess most of you already know what I am talking about, but at $2500, it is one of the best investments I made till date.