Amazon S3 is a very useful service. S3, according to the official Amazon Web Services website is
Amazon S3 is storage for the Internet. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.
Its a no frills service and does exactly what it promises — makes it easy for developers so that they can concentrate on features and leave the scaling to Amazon. If you are new to Amazon S3, heres a good starting guide for you.
S3 is like a sharp sword, you must know how to play with it lest you can hurt yourself. Thats exactly what happened to me. (more…)
Last year while I was at SlideShare.net, me and my friends were thinking of some cool ways to use our API. At the same time we were checking out emails from our users about how they are using sideshows in more fun way. Just then we came to know about PowerPoint Karaoke here and here.
Demo
After a few hours of javascript hacking, this is what I came up with. (more…)
Aksharabhyas is a interactive game for children to learn Oriya. I made this game for the school Akshara to promote multilingual education among children and to encourage the use of Oriya (Odia) in schools.
Google’s Project 10100 is a call for ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible.
Its your chance to make a big impact by affecting lives of billions of people around the globe. Your idea, Google’s implementation.
Or is it that Google wants to fool people to give them their ideas so that it can get richer? Either ways, its good that someone’s thinking about the Earth.
You might have heard about the recent Floods in Orissa. Its a unfortunate event for Orissa and its people. Its one of the most worst flood to hit Orissa ever. It has already displaced 5 lakh people and relief operations are facing difficulties as many areas are totally cutoff by road.
Excellence and perfection are so relative terms that its very difficult to explain or describe your thoughts about them to a second person. Even if you try your best to explain, often you fail to produce the same spark that kindles in you.
The following short story was forwarded to me by my friend Ameet.
Interestingly, the same guy won the 1st prize last year for his presentation Shift Happens. Both of his presentations have a similar theme, they talk about statistics with the motive of generating awareness (or an emotion of insecurity) in the viewer and are thought provoking, I am not too sure about the authenticity of the statistics they bear. Nevertheless the presentation style is awesome. I loved it. (more…)
