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“There is no future. There is no past. Do you see? Time is simultaneous, an intricately structured jewel that humans insist on viewing one edge at a time, when the whole design is visible in every facet.” – Doctor Manhattan

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Usability round-up of some OS X apps

I can comfortably say that Cocoa is one of the best UI platforms there is, owing to its standardized, beautiful and intuitive interface. Most Mac apps are built using this framework which makes them consistent. A clean and simple looking menu bar, for example, throughout all software is an almost welcome offering. I guess Windows [...]

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Hind-Sight: Two Thousand and Ten

With the dawn of another bunch of three hundred and sixty five (or so we wish to believe) days, I present to you a new Hind-Sight comic. This is for the die hard Max Payne lovers! Oh, and a very happy new year to you

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“Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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TEDx Chennai 2009

Well, I got lucky this time. I won a free pass to attend TEDx Chennai (an independently organized event bringing people together from primarily the walks of Technology, Entertainment & Design), and it turned out to be quite an eventful Sunday. Joseph (an organizer of the event) called me on Saturday evening to inform me [...]

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Hind-Sight: Burn

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Hind-Sight 1.0

Well, with this, I present to you “Hind-Sight”. Yes, a comic! I’m guessing it will be about instances of my life and the people around me. And yes, of course, celestial marvels I haven’t set a schedule for rolling out these yet. But here’s a start, I’ll leave you to it!

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Good design – the coffee mug

I found this in Egg Factory, a good brunch place on St. Mark’s Road in Bangalore. The mug had a lovely handle, offering a comfortable grip. It is one of the simplest ergonomic marvels I’ve come across lately, and is available for sale at some of the kitchenware/cutlery stores on Commercial Street.

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Q

“Looking from one emotional state to another is difficult. But to make informed decisions we need to somehow experience and understand the emotional state we will be in at the other side of the experience. Learning how to bridge that gap is essential to making some of the important decisions of our lives.” — Dan [...]

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