Following Jesus

Something really nice I read in the Beliefnet [http://www.beliefnet.com] Bible Reading newsletter I receive everyday: > I don’t follow Jesus because I think Christianity is the best religion. I follow Jesus because he leads me into ultimate reality.…

Internet Explorer 7 is out

Internet Explorer 7 [http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.mspx?mg_ID=10010] is out! A bid to catchup with Firefox in terms of web browser security, but IE7 falls short [http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/6486/53/] just after a day since launch.…

Nokia Shorts 2006

I wrote about mobile short films [https://www.nilkanth.com/archives/2005/08/04/mobile-movies/] in brief last year. This year, the Nokia Shorts 2006 [http://www.nokiashorts.com/finalists/] competition (15 second mobile handset-shot films) has announced the finalists of the Handset category. The shorts are also now screening…

Palm Treo 680

Since I’ve been using the Palm Treo 600 [https://www.nilkanth.com/archives/2006/09/27/moblogging-soon/] for a while now and loving this “retro smartphone”, I thought I’d mention that Palm has announced an all new Treo 680 smartphone [http://www.palminfocenter.com/news/9035/palm-announces-the-treo-680/] (after…

Yahoo RSS-to-Mail

Yahoo has launched a RSS to Email [http://alerts.yahoo.com/main.php?view=blogs] delivery service for mobile notification. More info … [http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/1008706.html]…

Gmail MP3 Player

Looks like Gmail [http://www.gmail.com] now has an integrated MP3 player! It enables users to listen to audio attachments in a streaming mode without downloading the whole file. Ubercool!…

What do I own?

> How do you prevent a drop of water from drying up? … What do I own? In our textured lives, why do we often talk of disownment? If I don’t own anything, how can I disown anything. We won’t take anything with us when this life ceases, except…

Save electricity by hoarding it

In the May 2006 issue of Fortune Small Business, there was this great article [http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fsb/fsb_archive/2006/05/01/8376209/index.htm] on how, inspired by TiVo [http://www.tivo.com/], one company decided to create a device (GridPoint Protect [http://www.gridpoint.com/…