Category: Design
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Visualizing data using graphs and charts
With analytics becoming increasingly important for web products, reporting data using charts has seen a surge on the web. This has brought in the trend of infographics and new Javascript graphic libraries. Many people though get too occupied in visual design and overlook what charts actually fit their case best. What’s really bad is when infographics…
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Redesigning Windows desktop theme with Rainmeter
One thing I miss about the Windows OS is the nifty selection of desktop applications developed by some amazing people over the years. Macs were too closed and expensive when I started working with computers. While, Windows and Linux gave me an opportunity to dissect my PC and play around with installing different OSes. An…
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Turn the volume down
Jan 18, 2010 Reposting comments from a discussion about earphones on slashdot — Re:Turn down the volume (Score:4, Interesting) by Khyber No, your ear drums are not a nerve. They’re a tympanic membrane. Where you lose your hearing is from the loss and the degradation of the three inner ear bones caused by intense sound…
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The Art of Engineering
Ever given a curious thought to what happens when that 220 Volts is plugged into the computer? Here goes: A basic circuit converts the 220V AC to a 5V DC and feeds it to the Oscillator on the MotherBoard. A wave of electrical pulses that flips about 109 (1000,000,000) times a second is generated. For…
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Electric Emotions.
Sep 30, 2009 You never compromised. Why should anything be less than perfect. The things you loved to do, you couldn’t. And still been there, done that. Who was it that you actually cared for. Who got sidelined. How many have you left behind — when they wanted you — and then the order reversed.…