Just realized how much distraction the dock, the desktop clutter (icons and the wallpaper) and the menu bar can cause. The weekend got a lot more productive with all that taken care of with little help from Menushade (Hides the menu bar) & Backdrop (hides the desktop icons and fills the background with a color of your choice) Highly recommended both…
related: MacBreak: Minimize distractions on your Mac (via 43folders)
Recently while browsing through the trailers on the Apple TV, we came across the trailer for the upcoming movie ‘Chandni Chowk to China” starring Akshay Kumar and it got me excited. It’s the first time I have seen a Bollywood film’s trailer on Apple TV. The film is being produced by Warner Bros which makes it’s appearance on Apple TV a little less of a wonder. Incidentally this is Warner Bros’ first Bollywood production.
Here’s to the Hindi Film Industry for having come a long way…As Akshay puts it in one of the scenes in the trailer “Chinese bhaiyon..sawdhaan!”
After a few dozen invitations and daily dozes of “come on already” by the beloved early adopters, I have finally boarded the Facebook wagon. As much as I would like to debate that I have been pushed in to it by forces beyond my control, the experience actually hasn’t been too bad. Took me a little while to understand it’s intricacies, but I think I am now up to speed with it. It’s been fun really.
I had read some time back that Facebook is fast turning out primarily to be a photo sharing website rather than just another social site. And if you look at the thousands and thousands of pictures being uploaded and shared everyday, it’s not hard to believe.
Now as much as the internet community would like us to think that keeping photos online is the way to go and that it has replaced the local storage of your precious photos, I am still one of those who likes to keep a copy of a few good ones in iPhoto as well (the satisfaction of having local copies of your photos has been proven to give you a better sleep, even better than the sleep number mattresses). Hence the argument, that if I would be using Facebook to view shared pictures, I must find an easy way to be able to download them as well.
So when my cousin Kareena sent me the New Year pics on FaceBook, the quest to find an easy way to download them became stronger and eager and it led me to the discovery or rediscovery of this really slick piece of software called the PhotoBook (Mac Only) which does something really cool. It lets you browse all your friends’ albums and with one-click lets you import them into iPhoto on your Mac. And the best part – it’s free! I am pretty sure that there is a PC equivalent available, but am not motivated enough currently to go dig for it. Maybe sometime later this year 
On that note, here’s wishing everybody a very Happy New Year 2009!
Found this Flickr set on TUAW. Simply couldn’t resist posting it here. The iPhone being unboxed by tiny little men. Amazing. Refreshing. Creativity at it’s super duper best!
PS: I reserve the creative rights to assume these men may be from Mars and not belong to a toy village called Lego!
TUAW reported on Friday that the iPhone may be on it’s way to India this september. Gotta love the picture that they put up on their blog. The Mahatma himself endorsing Apple. I bet he would have loved to make the Macbook Air a part of his dandi march gear … yeah yeah and iPhone too!
All right so this morning I set my IM status to “Just found Nirvana today” and it caused a stir. I am not kidding, it really did. There’s something about people. They are really nice, mostly at least. They seem to notice all the weird things you do, but they don’t say a thing. They give you a benefit of doubt. They keep doing that over and over until that one day where you over stretch your luck and do something really uncanny. And then they question. What? Why? Where? How?
That is what I think happened to me today. I keep doing weird things but today I got all the permutations right. All the stars in the sky were just perfectly aligned and I hit the nail on it’s head with that IM status.
