Orkut, Facebook pushing growth in sales of digital camera

Who is benefiting the most by increase in number of users of social networking website. I think its the camera industry that is getting fruits of increasing foot print of social website. People want to upload more and more photos on social sites and show it to their friends(show off). Thus increase in sale and use of camera..............

Water Tap

The drinking water tap is different in India and US. In India it is designed in such a way that one cannot directly place water in his mouth. One has to place hand so that water will flow first in hand and then in mouth. Here in US it is different. The tap is placed in such a way that no need to use hand. Water has to directly go into mouth.
Its not important whether I like that of India or US. Because everyone has his way to do it. The wastage of water in the system used in India is less. Moreover it satisfies my thirst better. But there is one disadvantage. What if a person who does not have hand wants to drink. Its not possible in both system unless some sensors are used since atleast one hand is needed to turn on tap. If one has atleast one hand US system is better.

why not?

Recently while I was watching video from yale university on academicearth.org. , I came accross a wonderful site named whynot.net. Here people put their ideas which sometimes sound so simplt but are not used much in daily life. I thought one of them and decided to post it on the website. You can see this by going to the following link: http://www.whynot.net/ideas/5295

SUBway..........why different?

Today I decided to take lunch at Subway. Usually on friday Subway has short queue so I go there. It was sad that I had no friend to accompany me. I was sitting on the table that was exactly opposite to logo of Subway. I started observing the logo. After some time I noticed that it has arrow on first and last letter. Arrows at front and end made logo very balanced. There are two colors used. "Sub" is written in white and "way" is written in yellow. I wondered first why they used different color. I came to conclusion that using 2 different colors forced the people to remember the entire logo as consisting of 2 words. Moreover "sub" and "way" are very simple words. People use it often in day to day life. Great work Subway!

Next generation public transport should have.......or not?

Most of the time, I use public transport to commute. A thought came to my mind: Should public transport in the near future be designed in such a way that one can use their laptop while traveling.
I use public transport for half an hour a day to move from one place to another. I don't put the laptop on my lap and use it during this period. Instead I do planning of the activities I would be doing that day and while returning home, I prefer to take rest. Just remain idle. It sometimes produces new thoughts for me. I like to observe the people and look out of the window. I am fan of cars but still I like to travel in train. At least I don't have to worry about the traffic. Public transport is generally designed to transport as many people as it can in safe way. If extra space is provided for laptop then this would decrease number of passengers it can take.

What if I had to travel 2 hours everyday to reach my workplace. Then I would definitely need special provision where I could also surf the web. This is happening in most of the airlines. They are charging just now but I think it would be free in short time.

Linux - Pain to Joy

I took Open Source Software Development as one of my class during Spring semester. I was very excited for this course. Seniors had told me that it would be one of the toughest subjects. Professor had given a list of softwares that would be needed for the course. So I wrote the list on paper and started installing them one by one. I was so obsessed with installing softwares that I was just looking to press next button. I wanted to install linux. Ubuntu is famous here. So I downloaded it. I was running installation, it asked me for drive where I wanted to install it. By mistake I selected same drive in which I had installed windows. Then guess what? Hard drive crashed. I called BestBuy and asked for replacement. Due to recession there were not eager to please their customers immediately. They asked me to leave laptop with them for 2 weeks. I had no choice. I had to give it to them for repairing. Then began my most frustating days in USA. My semester started and I was without laptop. I shared laptop with one of my friend who was in Electrical. Thanks to Samip oh! sorry Sam. I had to remain in this situation for 3 weeks. I hated it. Finally I got my laptop. 

In open source subject I had to work a lot on linux commands. I installed cygwin on windows and this was my substitute for linux. However once I had to build openjdk. I had 2 options. Either use virtual machine or install new linux operating system. I decided to be on safe side and so installed vmplayer. But this was pain too. It was too slow. With 3GB RAM nothing is expected to go slow. So I removed player. Now I had no choice but to install linux. I shrinked some space on hard disk and was about to install ubuntu. Suddenly out of the blue I decided to google issues related to installing ubuntu. As the search is not perfect to 100% it gave me a link for Wubi. I went through the tutorial for installing it and found that it was the easiest way to install ubuntu on the planet. I downladed it and began installation. Just asked password and space I wanted to give for ubuntu. Thats it. No pressing Next button or agree button. It all did by itself. No manual partition to be done. Moreover it can be removed easily from windows just like normal software programs. It was easier then installing yahoo messenger.