How safe are modern buses?

There have been recent cases of people getting stuck in bus doors and the bus moving off resulting in injury. It is true that the drivers and conductors of these buses care very little, and in the stressful traffic have little to spare to do that. But can’t the manufacturer rig the doors correctly? Metro [...]

What would You Prefer?

User interaction forms have been around on the web for a very very long time. And just like software on desktop, each operational item is displayed either by and Icon or a Button or Both. [poll id="3"]

Users, Websites and Bots

Back in the late 90s most websites were made for the user. And they are so even now. But the definition of the user has changed over time and become complicated. The concept initially was much like a software, “a person comes and uses a website” and has changed over time to “a person comes [...]

Most Innovative Spam

“I don’t know if i totally agree with that. But nevertheless, you make a good point. What if I can come up with a response in opposition to your arguments” Yep. That’s a spam caught in Akismet. On a regular blog that may sound like a legit comment, but when its posted on a tweet [...]

Who is Cook Pu?

While there can be many Cook Pu but the one that Internet is now searching for is a character from HIMYM (How I met your mother), a popular comedy periodic from cbs. The character is Architecture Professor Ted Mosby’s student. Popular for all the jokes that can be played on the name. Character is played [...]

Short-Sight of Short URLs

Now a days we are flooded with a crowd of short URLs that inadvertently  find their way to Blogs, Posts and other such places. By nature, these URLs do not disclose the source of the content. However, once ported to a larger medium like a Blog or Forum, they need to disclose their final target. A need [...]

P2 from Automattic

The P2 theme from Automattic is probably the best theme there till date for an active blog. It supports inline comments and posting right from the homepage itself. The inline comments on this blog is also inspired by the P2 theme, in future would probably style P2 to run on this blog.

I would have loved if my Mobile and TV did this

I have an internet enabled phone, which I use primarily to talk (90%), text (8%), click images of vague animals and impromptu kid actions (2%). I did try using it to receive my emails, at least read through them or reply back but the lack of screen space is just a killer. That’s how this [...]