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Nov 21
Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar, the most famous cricketer ever was born on April 24, 1973 in Mumbai.
Sachin With His Father Ramesh Tendulkar
Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry demo SixthSense | Video on TED.com
Oct 07
Misc new invention, Sixth Sense, video No Comments
Absolutely Jaw Dropping Invention! Proudsome effort by a boy from Ahmedabad – now rocking MIT Campus!
Typography (FREE STUFF!)
Jan 05
Misc, New Updates, iphone / Mobile No Comments
http://ilovetypography.com/ (My Favorite!)
http://www.bluevertigo.com.ar/bluevertigo.htm
http://cameronmoll.bigcartel.com/product/letterpress-poster-16×24 (NICE POSTER)
Mumbai Shakens, India UNITES – Politicians: JUST STAY AWAY!
Nov 30
Explosions, fire at Taj Hotel – Mumbai 26 november 2008 terrorist attacks
Top cops die on duty – Mumbai terrorist attacks 26 november 2008 India
Visit to Yahoo! – Sunnyvale, California
Sep 25
It was a greatest milestone in the career to visit the Headquarters of the most loved company – Yahoo! in Sunnyvale, CA this september. I was representing IndiaNIC – my company there. The pleasure multifolded when I met with the guys who help us earn our bread and butter. It was very emotional moment to get out of that campus after 2 day meetings – and it was a unforgettable experience – a definite feather in my career.
I thank my entire Team – without whom, I can not work – yes, I can not work. They deserve all what it takes and next goal is to take someone with me on board 
Jigar
Use the Best Available Ampersand
Sep 23
I love ampersands. And interest in this quirky character seems to be on the rise as of late. Case in point: Just last week, I purchased not one, but two t-shirts adorned with nothing more than an ampersand. That’s telling, no?
For much of last year, I had a little portion of a presentation dedicated to using CSS to serve up alternate, compelling ampersands. It’s also something I’ve done here on SimpleBits for quite awhile in our tagline. The simple little concept comes from one of Robert Bringhurst’s guidelines in his seminal typographic bible, The Elements of Typographic Style.
Guideline 5.1.3 offers this little tidbit regarding ampersands:
In heads and titles, use the best available ampersand.
Bringhurst explains that frequently the italic version of an ampersand is more decorative and interesting than its roman counterpart, and goes on to suggest:
Since the ampersand is more often used in display work than in ordinary text, the more creative versions are often the more useful. There is rarely any reason not to borrow the italic ampersand for use with roman text.
So why not apply this to the web? We can use CSS to cleverly specify a list of our favorite ampersands, with the reader getting the best one available. We’ll first apply a class wrapped around the ampersand we’d like to beautify like so:
<span class="amp">&</span>
And we’ll build a list of cool italic ampersands that readers might have installed by default, while also specifying the italic version:
span.amp {
font-family: Baskerville, Palatino, "Book Antiqua", serif;
font-style: italic;
}
We can weight our list, putting our favorites near the front, understanding that the reader may get one or none, depending on which operating system they’re on, and if they have the font installed.
Thanks to the excellent efforts of our newly-hired help, here are some charts showing some of the more interesting italic ampersands available as default fonts on Mac and Windows. These’ll help get you started building your own awesompersand list.
These charts are by no means comprehensive, but were created from the default lists from each operating system. Pre-bundled or third-party applications may install other cool fonts that could be common enough to use as well. If you have a favorite that’s not listed, let us know in the comments.
Mac OS X (10.5)
Windows XP
Windows Vista
Vista added several new fonts, all beginning with the letter ‘C’. What’s nice is that Constantia nicely matches Palatino on the Mac and Palatino Linotype on Windows XP.
For more Bringhurst-to-CSS goodness, see Richard Rutter’s The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web project. And be sure to grab Meagan’s wallpapers to ampersandify your desktop.
What to Expect from Google Android (And What We’re Hoping For)
Sep 20
A lot of hopes and open-source dreams are riding on a plucky little phone platform called Android, and its public debut on a real-live phone happens Tuesday. Those of us at Lifehacker HQ who didn’t spring for an iPhone, and even some who did, are eager to see how it performs and, more importantly, what kind of useful apps will soon appear for the open Android. That’s not to say we (and many other bloggers) don’t have our reservations and lingering questions. We’ve put together digg ita guide to get you up to speed on the Android platform and the first phone that runs it, along with what we expect, or just hope, to see in Android’s very near future.
What is Android, exactly?
Android isn’t the “Google Phone” or “GPhone.” It’s a (mostly) free and open-source mobile operating system that’s made to run on all kinds of cell phones, and allow nearly anyone who can program in Java to create and distribute applications for it. Google spilled their plans for Android at the same time—November 2007—they announced that 34 hardware, software, and network companies had signed onto their Open Handset Alliance. In other words, Tuesday’s press hoopla surrounds just the first phone to utilize Android, T-Mobile’s HTC Dream; unless it’s an outright failure, most cell customers can expect to see their carrier hawking an Android phone in the not-too-distant future.
So what will Android look and feel like? We know that, at least with the Dream, phone users will use the flip-out mini-keyboard to enter text, but rely on a prominent, iPhone-like touch screen for navigation. Of course, if an Android developer wants to build a touch-screen keyboard, there’s nothing to stop them. One major difference between any Android phone and Apple’s iPhone stems from the Cupertino company’s patent application for “multi-touch” features; Android users can’t resize their screens by pinching and expanding, or use two fingers to dual-finger scroll, but, other than that, you’re flipping between work screens with a finger flick, tapping and dragging icons around, and otherwise manipulating your phone world with your fingers.
Don’t take our word for it, though. To see Android in action, check out our sibling Gizmodo’s in-depth video tour of Android’s 0.9 development environment. The Dream and other Android phones may end up looking different (and, inevitably, deeply branded with your carrier’s colors and logos, because you obviously can’t remember who you pay more than $40 each month to), but they’ll share the basic navigation, app-launching and phone-using functions explored in that video. More
Boring Days!
Sep 20
It is a boresome day of the tour. Since last couple of days, working with my laptop on the bed – responding to clients, lots of skype calls, scheduling of flights and waiting for some more calls!
Not the day that I’d like to have in Sunny California!
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