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Home wireless overhaul successful !

By Sayan, on August 7th, 2010

I had been struggling with the poor wi-fi at home for a while. After some looking around I got a refurbished Netgear WNDR3300 dual-radio 802.11a/b/g/n wireless router from www.newegg.com for about $30.

The stock firmware on the router is mediocre…

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Back from hiatus

By Sayan, on July 31st, 2010

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I am back thanks to the WordPress for android app… To celebrate here are a few pictures I took with my new phone…

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Leave it as it is…

By Sayan, on October 2nd, 2009

Leave it as it is. You cannot improve it. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it….
President Theodore ‘Teddy’ Roosevelt commenting on seeing the Grand Canyon
Read more about the US National Parks and President Teddy Roosevelt at http://www.nps.gov and  http://blogs.nashualibrary.org/reference/2009/09/leave_it_as_it_is_1.html

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India vs. USA: A visual comparison

By Sayan, on September 27th, 2009

Mint.com (now owned by Intuit) has put an interesting set of easy to understand visual comparisons of India vs. USA. Here are the charts / graphs

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TED goes to India

By Sayan, on September 27th, 2009

Just found out that TED is organizing a TED India conference (November 4-7, 2009) in Mysore at the Infosys campus. Check it out here

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TED | Michael Pritchard’s water filter turns filthy water drinkable

By Sayan, on August 9th, 2009

Turn any water into drinking water… $20 billion can provide safe drinking water for the entire world… this would an ideal stimulus plan…. healthier people can improve their own lives and contribute to their and society’s development

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Star-Trek Traction beam discovered

By Sayan, on July 15th, 2009

The traction beam cannot lift your car or boat but it can move really really small objects. Here is the blurb from the article in ScienceDaily:
A team of Yale University researchers has discovered a “repulsive” light force that can be used to control components on silicon microchips, meaning future nanodevices could be controlled by light [...]

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Rainforests may pump winds worldwide

By Sayan, on April 2nd, 2009

The NewScientist has an article titled Rainforests may pump winds worldwide, which may shake up the climate and environmental skeptics. It seems large forests are the heart, lungs and kidneys of our living planet. Large forests may be responsible for pumping moisture laden air across continents helping rainfall far inland…
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Happy Birthday! The Gasoline-Electric Hybrid Car is 100 Years Old

By Sayan, on March 4th, 2009

Treehugger has a great article on the hybrid car technology turning 100. Actually about a 100 years ago there were more electric or hybrid cars than pure gasoline / petrol driven cars.
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Google Calendar and contact syncing for iPhone and Windows Mobile devices

By Sayan, on February 9th, 2009

Google just announced a new service for pushing Gmail contacts and Google Calendar updates to mobile devices. This is neat!

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