Death of the PC

Author : vtrravikumar      Blog : Ravi's space      Date : 5/17/2013 3:18:19 PM

'Just realized how much time I spend with my Nexus7 (tablet) now a days. I hardly sit before my laptop unless it is utterly necessary. Most of my usual task like Checking my email, Googling something, browsing a website, tweeting, checking my calendar, etc., all are comfortably done with the tablet over the couch watching […]'

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Obsolete Gift

Author : vtrravikumar      Blog : Ravi's space      Date : 5/7/2013 6:51:30 AM

'I recently had to write a note (pen and paper) that I realized how bad my handwriting has become. Thanks to the digital age we no longer write anything on paper but its mostly typing in the laptop or on a smartphone. We have become so used to typing that we almost have forgotten handwriting. [...]'

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The Fourth Necessity of life.

Author : vtrravikumar      Blog : Ravi's space      Date : 5/6/2013 7:23:43 AM

'Three decades after the advent of internet, this is the first time it has started to make more sense, with smartphones and social networking internet has become the important backbone. Information arrives and changes in fraction of seconds that yesterdays news seems like history today.  I just read an article ( http://goo.gl/SCZ4F) and realized it would [...]'

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Two factor authentication

Author : vtrravikumar      Blog : Ravi's space      Date : 4/24/2013 11:33:22 AM

'Two-factor authentication systems rely on a second code, besides the password, to allow access. This code is sent by SMS or is generated by an app and is accessible to only one person, or at least at only one location. Google has been offering two-factor authentication long since. The first factor is the Gmail password [...]'

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Using Smart Phone to pay your Toll

Author : vtrravikumar      Blog : Ravi's space      Date : 4/20/2013 8:57:35 AM

'How convenient it would be to be able to pay your toll booth using your smart phone. This could reduce the headache of the toll booth collector or you looking for exact change also avoid the unnecessary frustration of the other cars behind you because of your inability to find the right change in the toll plaza. [...]'

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The Crystal Ball

Author : vtrravikumar      Blog : Ravi's space      Date : 4/19/2013 8:20:30 AM

'You can call it a “crystal ball” or “Paul – the Octopus”, Big data is here to be the Oracle. Data which had been always around has now attained a new level of importance. The abundance of data due to the increase in social interaction has fuelled the necessity of effective usage of this data. [...]'

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Website Changes

Author : vtrravikumar      Blog : Ravi's space      Date : 2/11/2013 7:30:18 AM

'A recent decision from the Google appengine hosting of changing their Master/Slave storage to High Replication Database(HRD) left my website hosted over there obsolete. This required me to migrate my existing homepage to the HRD. Since there was no migration tool to facilitate this change I had to a manual move by creating a new [...]'

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Career Resolutions for 2013

Author : vtrravikumar      Blog : Ravi's space      Date : 12/26/2012 4:19:57 PM

'It was quite a heart break for quite a few who had depended a lot on the Mayan Calendar and expected the world to come to end this December, now that we know  the doomsday is not going to happen its time we started to think of the year to come. This is the time [...]'

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Christmas Eve AWS outage stings Netflix but not Amazon Prime

Author : vtrravikumar      Blog : Ravi's space      Date : 12/25/2012 5:38:09 PM

'Reblogged from GigaOM: Updated: Oh to be a fly on the wall for the conversations that must be going on between Netflix(s nflx) and Amazon(s amzn) engineers this holiday season. If you’re not a Netflix subscriber, you may not yet know that issues at Amazon’s US-East data center facility took down Netflix’ streaming service on [...]'

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Google Nexus 7″ Tablet

Author : vtrravikumar      Blog : Ravi's space      Date : 12/24/2012 11:43:48 AM

'Recently I got my first tablet. The choice was very difficult but several factors like my inclination toward Google/android, the price, etc finally prevailed and I got myself a Google Nexus 7 (32 Gb). The Nexus runs on the latest version of Android Jelly Bean and is backed by a 1Ghz nvedia tegra quadcore processor. [...]'

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How do you keep yourself updated in this ever changing world of IT ?

Author : vtrravikumar      Blog : Ravi's space      Date : 9/2/2012 8:42:09 AM

'“How do you keep yourself updated in this ever changing world of IT ?” This is one of my favorite questions during an interview and it always amazes me how many of them to whom I ask this start fumbling or talk about some half a decade old technology. Unlike other careers where the basic [...]'

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The Amarnath Pilgrimage - History & Facts

Author : vtrravikumar      Blog : Ravi's space      Date : 6/25/2012 5:40:25 AM

'Reblogged from The Kashmir: Historically, the worship of Shivalingam has been a very popular religious practice in Kashmir. The same stands corroborated by Kalhan Pandit who in his monumental work, Rajtarangini, makes a mention of ‘vateshwar’, an ancient Shiva-lingam worshipped even in his lifetime. A king of Kashmir, Ravana, (1000 B.C)worshipped it as it was [...]'

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Evolve or end up like a dinosaurs

Author : vtrravikumar      Blog : Ravi's space      Date : 6/22/2012 11:02:02 AM

'We all knew that dinosaurs ruled the world long back. I am sure they were the top of the food chains. But what brought them down is probably the fact that they did not change much with the changing world. They kept consuming all their resources and there was a time when all their resources [...]'

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Samsung Galaxy S III

Author : vtrravikumar      Blog : Ravi's space      Date : 6/1/2012 11:28:25 AM

'Particulars Samsung Galaxy S III HTC One X Samsung Galaxy S II Samsung Galaxy Nexus Processor Quad-core 1.4 GHz Cortex-A9 Quad-core 1.5 GHz Dual-core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A9 Dual-core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A9 RAM 1GB 1GB 1GB 1GB GPU Mali-400MP ULP GeForce Mali-400MP PowerVR SGX540 Display Type HD Super AMOLED Super IPS LCD2 Super AMOLED Plus HD [...]'

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Ready to ride the Cloud ?

Author : vtrravikumar      Blog : Ravi's space      Date : 5/28/2012 5:04:42 PM

'Cloud computing is the most bandied term in recent times, with Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and other big players joining in the fray.  Gartner lists Cloud computing one of the 10 Key IT trends in 2012.  It has been the topic of discussion in almost every technology seminar this year. Cloud has become the most famous [...]'

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Arowana

Author : vtrravikumar      Blog : Ravi's space      Date : 5/26/2012 3:39:08 PM

'I always wanted to have an aquarium , my first glimpse of an aquarium dates to a few decades before when one of my school mate asked me if I would like to accompany him to a pet shop where he wanted to buy some worms for the fishes he had. Since then I had [...]'

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Mobile e-Waste

Author : vtrravikumar      Blog : Ravi's space      Date : 4/27/2012 6:21:49 AM

'The total mobile subscription as of now is 6 Billion and a study says that there will be One Billion smartphones users by 2015. Out of the 6 Billion users roughly a 15% of them live in India. An year old mobile phone can just work fine but fast phased technological changes render them obsolete. [...]'

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New Google + Design

Author : vtrravikumar      Blog : Ravi's space      Date : 4/12/2012 8:17:27 AM

'It will take some time to get the hang of the new google+ design.. I am confused so far.  The following are my likes and dislikes of the new design. Likes The positioning of the chat window in the right corner which goes down to a hidden mode if the window width is reduced. The [...]'

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Get ready for the mad rush!!!

Author : vtrravikumar      Blog : Ravi's space      Date : 4/12/2012 7:38:24 AM

'Earlier people had been talking about cloud, cloud computing during some technology meets, conferences. In the recent past these whispers in closed corners have grown to a level audible to people not related to the technology world. But this is not the last, believe me when I say “The Mad Rush is yet to begin!!!” [...]'

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Collaborate and Share

Author : vtrravikumar      Blog : Ravi's space      Date : 4/4/2012 9:15:40 AM

'Remember the days when your Laptop/PC had a hard disk of some 40 Gigs and you scampered for more storage for your photos, documents and music. The obvious choice then was to buy an external hard disk mostly portable to store and backup. Whenever you take your portable hard disk out and connect it to [...]'

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