Next ring the telephone!

We have seen breakthrough innovations in communication media and technologies. From letters to emails and IM. From books to blogs and Twitter posts. I believe transformation is coming in the way we use our telephone. Convergence of devices, portable numbers, voice mail transcription, SMS integration – it’s all coming. Keep your ears open for: Google […]

Notification Components in Flex

If you are building a Flex application, you may need a way to show messages to the user. The usual way to do this is via Alerts. Alerts can be quite distracting and generally avoidable. Another alternative is to have a status message area (like a status bar) and show messages there. But an even […]

Best Tech Videos on the net

I love watching tech videos over the web (and don’t like those boring slow moving soaps on TV!) Do you? Stumbled upon Best Tech Videos (on the net) today. It aggregates technology videos from around the web. It’s does not look the best, but is a good start when you want to pick up something […]

Yahoo! Stencils – quickly build mockups

Yahoo! Design Patterns Library has a set of “stencils” available to mock up your next great RIA project! The stencils are available in OmniGraffle, Visio, PDF, PNG and SVG formats. So you can use them with Illustrator or Photoshop / Gimp as well. They have included stencils for: Ad Units, Calendars, Carousels, Charts and Tables, […]

How’s it like writing a book?

Do you dream of writing a book? A technical one? Three years ago, I was creating my future plan and writing 6 books was one of the top items in the list. Today, I have two books already in print and have learned a lot on the way. One of the lessons is to get […]