Author: Aditya

• 11 “Modern Antiques” Today’s Kids Have Probably Never Seen – Mental Floss

  I’ve seen only no 9 (no draft window) thanks to my grandfather’s Fiat. I doubt most of the others were even seen in India.

  tags: history design antiques

• What Amazon’s ebook strategy means – Charlie’s Diary

  Very interesting outlook – the book publishers seem to have painted themselves into a corner here. It’s not very different from what happened between Apple & the music industry.

  tags: ebooks amazon monopoly publishing drm future

• iTextEditors – iPhone and iPad text/code editors and writing tools compared

  That’s a lot of text editors for a platform not conducive to content creation

  tags: ipad ios apps writing text

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• 93-year-old lens hacked onto a Canon 5D Mark II with amazing results | The Verge

  93-year-old lens hacked onto a Canon 5D Mark II with amazing results http://t.co/WvljfnTS

  tags: twitterfav

• Your Old iPad Will Suddenly Feel a Lot Smaller – The Next Web

  Suddenly, the storage on your old iPad or iPad 2 is going to feel a lot smaller (@martinsfp /… http://t.co/DMTkwgIJ http://t.co/yhMbydDk

  tags: twitterfav

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• Transparency Life Sciences | drug development you control

  Interesting idea, but will it fly?
  “Transparency Life Sciences is the world’s first drug development company based on open innovation. Our goal is to develop medicines for significant unmet medical needs by acquiring promising drug compounds, designing studies via crowdsourced methods, and conducting those clinical studies with unmatched productivity.”

  tags: transparency development medicine opensource

• Comparing today’s computers to 1995’s | Relatively Interesting

  My first PC was a 286 with 1 MB RAM, a 40 MB HD, 5 1/4″ floppy drive, CGA monitor, no mouse, no sound, no CD-ROM.
  Also used a dB Spectrum before that – it used a cassette recorder for storage, had 64K memory, and used a TV as display.

  tags: computers history technology

• Start 2012 by Taking 2 Minutes to Clean Your Apps Permissions

  Handy website that provides you with links to the app settings pages of different online services like facebook, Google etc. Good to visit these pages from time to time & revoke access of any suspicious or unwanted apps.

  tags: privacy permission socialmedia apps tool web

• Right versus pragmatic – Marco.org

  Well summed up:
  “Relying solely on yelling about what’s right isn’t a pragmatic approach for the media industry to take. And it’s not working. It’s unrealistic and naïve to expect everyone to do the “right” thing when the alternative is so much easier, faster, cheaper, and better for so many of them.”

  tags: copyright Business piracy

• The Death Star Is a Surprisingly Cost-Effective Weapons System | Mother Jones

  Turns out that it is indeed very cost effective, given the size of the empire. Also, don’t miss out on the comments picked out by the author.

  tags: weapons economics starwars

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