Macbook Air - A Shortcoming

Source:Apple.com

 

Apple Corportaion has earned a name for the sleek finish in its products, having used Apple related products for just four months I was inspired by the experience it delivers.

However I was suprised to see something unexpected in Macbook Air(Netbook released by Apple), it is the screen in Macbook Air, which has been placed in such a way that it seems as if it had been fitted from another vendor. This may not be categorised as a flaw but compared to the perfectionism seen in Apple products this is something that suprised me.

Lets hope that I will not notice this in their next Macbook Air release.

Who Copied Whom?

It was while listening to a popular song sung by H.R. Jothipala in Youtube that I came across the first comment in the video, which stated that the song has been borrowed from a Bollywood film named 'Star', however once I saw the other video I realized that there was something familiar in the latter as well. This song had some touch of a Modern South East Asian (Japanese/Korean) Music.

Nevertheless the sound track of this film was popular in India as well as H.R Jothipala's song was popular in Sri Lanka, This was when I recalled the famous phrase by Pablo Picasso  (and Steve Jobs)"Good Artists Copy Great Artists Steal".

Here is the Sinhala Song sung by H.R Jothipala (This song did appear in a Sinhala film).



Here is the Hindi Song 'Zindagi' from the Bollywood Movie 'Star'

Sri Lankan Kings - Aren't they?

 

 

 

Sri Lankans have been privileged to have a wide variety of Kings, ranging from different ethnic origins and nations. Here are some of them

King Prakramabahu - A Sinhala (Also known as Parakramabahu the Great) ruled the Country somewhere during the 2nd Century AD

King Sri Wickrama Rajasinghe - The Last Sri Lankan King  - A Tamil

King George - An Englishman, ruled Sri Lanka (Then known as Ceylon) together with other Countries belonging to the British Commonwealth.

Its nice to have a variety, After all they are Sri Lankan Kings, Aren't they?











To the point

Picture by: Julian Colten

If you want your blog to be popular one thing you should keep in mind is that keep all your posts simple to the point, however the term 'To the point' has a deeper meaning. The most important person is the reader, if we become successful in exhausting and disappointing him/her, we have not been to the point. Our posts should convey the message to the point and be relevant to the point.
For instance we will not expect to see a review of a mobile phone on a Culinary Recipe blog, this is where personal blogs score over blogs related to a subject matter, yet people prefer to stick to the subject to read to the point. 

Programming a Trackpad

Picture: Fabián Rodríguez

When I was first introduced to the Magic TrackPad, I was a bit hesitant to use it partly due to the familiarity of working with the mouse and partly since it resembled of the touchpad in my laptop which I never use (I use a USB Mouse instead).
However after playing with it for sometime I loved it, I loved it to the extent that I am trying to be a bit more friendly with the touchpad in my laptop, but it lacked the sleekness and above that the features of an apple product. The most useful feature in the Magic Trackpad is that you can find the meaning of any word presented in HTML by just placing the cursor on top of the word and pressing it with three fingers, the definition pops up; This feature is not available in my touchpad, so the only option available for me is program my embedded touchpad. However the Success or the failure of this feature will be left to the future.

P.S: Eureka! According to a blog post in one of the popular Technology blogs 'Digital Inspiration', you can sync the Trackpad with a Windows PC.
Click here to read the post.  

Pictures and License

Pictures that are freely available online are not freely available for disposal.

They need to be used according to the license that has been attributed to the picture, this is rather scary, even though the original user may not bother to take the next step of taking you to courts it will always be a good practice to follow the license in the image and use the picture according to the conditions in the license.

Some individuals and organizations have been generous enough to include their pictures under the Creative Commons License (Many of these Pictures could be used freely unless they are been utilized for Commercial Purposes, while proper attribution should be given to the owner).

In case you are not sure always speak to the owner of the image, this is a good and appreciative practice. As people living in the Information Technology era it is always good to follow something that is beneficial for the new entrants to the Information Technology arena.

From a Technical Writer to a Game Developer

Imagine you hire a plumber to repair your bathroom pipe and he turns out to say that he can repair only pipe fittings and not pipes. Trust me I will never get angry, but I will politely suggest him to change his profession from a Plumber to a 'PipeFitting' Plumber as that will inform the society as to what he could do.

 

Similarly a if Someone calls himself a Computer Scientist or an IT Professional he/she must be able to handle any part of the IT process ranging from Technical Writing to Game Developing. He may not be knowing all the programming languages in the world but should be able to handle the learning curve effectively.

 

Having worked as a Technical Writer, I am now employed as a Game Developer - Such is the power of having a Computing Degree. Sky is the limit in the silicon chip universe.