Archive for October, 2008
610 posts, 1775 comments – what next?
I’ve been very busy and that’s affected my blogging frequency! From August 2005 till today, I have written 610 posts. There are 1775 comments – most of which are contributed from readers like you.
What next?
What do you think?
What Your Global Neighbours Are Buying?
NYTimes had a great piece recently on what do people spend on. Their data visualization method is superb, and you quickly learn that Americans spend a lot (if you did not already know that)! India is way behind!
How people spend their discretionary income – the cash that goes to clothing, electronics, recreation, household goods, alcohol – depends a lot on where they live. People in Greece spend almost 13 times more money on clothing as they do on electronics. People living in Japan spend more on recreation than they do on clothing, electronics and household goods combined. Americans spend a lot of money on everything.
Check out the visualization here, full article here.
27 Useful AIR apps for Web Developers
WebResourceDepot has posted a collection of 27 AIR applications useful to web designers / developers. There are many apps that solve similar problems, but the list is good. More importantly, it feels nice to see people making useful AIR apps!
The 27 apps are:
- Web Snapshot
- WebKut
- Pixus
- PixelPerfect
- Icon Generator
- Flickr Flipper
- RichFLV – FLV Editor
- Shrink O’Matic
- Em based layouts – Vertical rhythm calculator
- Font Picker
- COLOURlovers Desktop Color Finder
- Kuler Desktop
- Color Browser
- Color Picker
- RegExr Desktop
- Snippely
- SearchCoders Dashboard
- Vertabase Timer
- MiniTask
- Klok
- Doomi
- Timeloc
- Ora Time & Expense
- FEAT (Freelancer’s Estimation Assistance Tool)
- Google Analytics Reporting Suite
- Snippage
- ConceptShare Desktop Uploader
Read the original post to know more about these apps, and also check out comments for some more interesting apps!
Firefox in your country survey
Mozilla is currently running a “Firefox in your country” survey to better understand how users are using Firefox around the world. The survey is available at:
Firefox in your country – Survey
The survey will take just two minutes to complete. But will go a long way in improving Firefox! It revolves around your use of Firefox and how we can get more people use Firefox.
The survey is coming to an end this Friday!! And we need more participation from India. Mozilla Foundation will be using this information to make better decisions in the future about how to grow Firefox and Mozilla in India.
I request you to go ahead and fill it up! Make the world a better place by people getting a better browser!

