Beware, all you typists!

Ever seen fingers fly on the keyboard? Just take a look a professional typists. Some of them type over a hundred words per minute. Imagine! A HUNDRED word per minute! That would amount to 10 sentences or a whole paragraph in hardly a minute! How cool could that be? For geeks, bloggers and addicted chat-freaks,… Continue reading Beware, all you typists!

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Blitzkreig

Disclaimer: Prior knowledge of Malayalam (മലയാളം), or rather,its roman variant known as ‘Manglish’ in common parlance, is suggested in order to decipher the contents of this post. Excerpts from a GTalk conversation: One fine evening, the world was going as placidly about its ways, while I was killing time online. Like bolt from the blue,… Continue reading Blitzkreig

A caveat for mobile phone users…

Critics have always denigrated mobile phones. Despite all their blitzkrieg, the Cell-phone industry survived, multiplying profits by the day. Today the industry is at the tipping point of its fame. India, a late entrant to catch the cell phone buzz, today clocks 250 million-odd subscribers with 8 million joining the bandwagon every month. At this… Continue reading A caveat for mobile phone users…

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Break free!

Ever since I started computing at around the age of 11-12, I’ve been using MS Windows. At that time, the computer topped a pre-teen’s wish list. I reigned over the PC, triggering missile launches, racing obnoxiously-fast cars, maneuvering fighter planes; even plundering aliens. I felt like Neo himself with my own cyber identity; logging in… Continue reading Break free!