Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Flying Maruti

 India's favorite car Maruti 800 is back in news after MUL decided to stop its production last year. A.K. Vishwanath inventor from Bangalore gave a new life to the hatchback by giving it wings to fly, he extended the car with rotor blades.


http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/et-cetera/indian-inventor-claims-to-have-made-flying-car/articleshow/7492471.cms
http://www.mid-day.com/lifestyle/2011/feb/150211-Indian-flying-car-that-looks-back-to-the-future.htm

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Firefox 2011 roadmap

Mozilla planning to ship 4 releases this year (2011 Firefox Roadmap here). Looks like Mozilla is feeling the pressure from Google Chrome's smaller release cycles. One of the Firefox's greatest strengths is its firefox add-on (extension) community. Every major release of Firefox calls for an upgrade of the firefox release version in the add-on's manifest file(which is a new version of the add-on), shorter release cycles calls for regular add-on update which is an overhead to add-on developers and AMO reviewers. I am very eager to see how Mozilla will be handling this.

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Beyond numbers

This video Power of ten gives a very good pictorial explanation of what each unit of length angstrom, micron, meter....etc mean. This video has changed my perception of the length.