Animesh Kumar {itsAnimesh}
I'm an IT professional from New Delhi, India. Currently for the most part I work as a Technical Consultant developing Open Source ICT solutions for social and societal inclusion. I'm also pursing PG in Management. Below are the latest updates from a some social networks I subscribe to.
Assorted Gyaan:
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Tweetin On A Jet Plane!!!
Its a tribute to the dedicated pilots at Northwest Airlines… ;) Came across this video yesterday and it made me laugh. It’s in reference to the pilots fired from their jobs couple of weeks back for using their laptop computers in the cockpit and overshooting their landing target by 150 miles. :D
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Pirates Board Apple’s Macbook!!!
ARRRG APPLE PIRATES AHEAD!!! ;) If i had a MacBook i would definitely buy these crossbones… :) Available at ETSY.
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Apple Launches iTunes Preview!!!
Apple has quietly launched iTunes Preview, a feature that shows what music is available on iTunes from the convenience of your Web browser. It lets anyone browse through the entire iTunes catalog’s worth of music, info, and user reviews for any region You can access iTunes Preview in one of two ways, either through iTunes …
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Coming Soon : Abu Dhabi’s Ferrari World!!!
A Ferrari theme park you say? Is this not a dream come to for a Ferrari lover or general car enthusiast? The all Ferrari themed park, named Ferrari World, will be set up in Abu Dhabi will be set to get Ferrari fans hearts racing by 2010 :D. It is meant to emulate the experience …
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Big Companies keen to partner India’s Unique ID project!!!
It appears that IT giants Yahoo, Microsoft and Cisco are keen to help power the technology for India’s Unique Identification project. What is the Unique ID project? A project in which every Indian citizen would have one unique identification number(similar to a U.S. social security number) that will identify him/her. It would not just help …
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Facebook iPhone App Developer Quits!!!
Joe Hewitt is the individual behind the massively popular Facebook mobile app on the Apple iPhone platform. He tweeted yesterday that he’s done with the project: Time for me to try something new. I’ve handed the Facebook iPhone app off to another engineer, and I’m onto a new project. Hewitt has stated that he decided …
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Steve Jobs – “CEO of the Decade”!!!
In 1976, Steve Jobs and Stephen Wozniak, with funding from multimillionaire A.C. “Mike” Markkula, founded Apple. Then in 1985, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was forced out of his own company after he and then-CEO John Sculley began to fight over the direction of Apple. Then Jobs founded another computer company, NeXT Computer. In 1986, Jobs …
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Pictures of the Day!!!
I have been following the Wall Street Journal’s pictures of the day blog for only a couple of days, and I really wish I had known about it sooner. It’s just AWESOME!!! :D Click here for the Wall Street Journal’s pictures of the day
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Moving from wordpress.com blog to paid hosting!!!
I had a blog at wordpress.com but since it is free software, was very limited to what I wanted to do with it. So I moved to a paid hosting. The free blog was animeshkmr.wordpress.com. Initially i had bought a domain (itsanimesh.com) and had mapped it to my original wordpress blog. I searched a lot …
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Indian Elections 2009!!!
Every Indian should be proud to be a part of the biggest democratic drill in the world. There are 543 seats that were contested across the length and breadth of the country. There were 828,804 polling stations that were activated for the 714 million voters out of which about 57% cast their ballot. The total …