A nifty new plugin from Mozilla will forever change the way you browse the web.

(Composing emails was never so much fun).

Download the alpha from http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/08/introducing-ubiquity/

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This is one interesting/silly (depends how you see it) game for the iPhone/iPod Touch.

The objective us to keep the cows from drowning using a little, red raft when they take their leaps of death.

The game has a certain level of predictability and there is a definite pattern in the jump sequences when there are more than one cows jumping across the river. It’s just that the raft, which can be moved using a finger markedly lags behind the finger movement resulting in the poor cows’ untimely demise.

A fun game nonetheless — if you’re not easily annoyed by the constant mooing :). Here’s a screenshot of my highest score so far.

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I was disappointed with the Wordpress app for the iPhone (it works alright…but not on blogs with the older WP version).

This post is to check if Posterous really delivers what it promises. :)

A random pic from my photo album is uploaded for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy!!

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Update: It works like a charm :)…the mobile blogger inside of me is very, very delighted

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To import contacts from the SIM on your old phone, simply insert that into the very cool iPhone 3G then tap Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Import SIM Contacts give it some time and you’re done!

It took me a while to find this. Hope it doesn’t take you long :)

Powerset gives you the ability to search (Wikipedia articles) in plain English. Neat! (They might be looking into localizing the search in some other languages, as well…but that’s just my guess).

I queried What is Objective-C and found that it inspired Sleep (Simple Language for Environment Extension Purposes) among other things.

I like the way the data is presented. Although it might be misinterpreted as illustrated in the screen shot below. Take it with a grain of salt, y’all!

My favorite ICL ad so far…yenn-jaaai!!!

I have been tracking the latest H1-B news lately and I found the transcript of Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates’ testimony before the members of the Congress on March, 12 at Capitol Hill.

In a separate blog post, I came across the transcript of the (mis-matched) dialog that took place after Gates’ testimony between him and Dana Rohrabacher, a California congressman who likes to think that global warming was caused by “dinosaur flatulence”.

Rohrabacher: If we bring in more people from the outside, realizing that we’re bringing the most talented people from other countries, will it not hurt those countries? And will it also not depress the wages in our own country that people like yourself would have to pay your employees in order to get quality people or in order to train people within our own society?

Gates: No, no. These top people are going to be hired. It’s just a question of what country they do their work in.

Rohrabacher: I’m really not talking about top people here. You know … there’s a lot of other people in society rather than just the top people. It’s the B and C students that fight for our country and kept it free so that people like yourself would have the opportunity that you’ve had. Those people, whether or not they get displaced by the top people from another country is not our goal. Our goal isn’t to replace the job of the B students with A students from India, because those B students deserve to have good jobs and high-paying jobs.

Gates: That’s right, and what I’ve said here is that when we bring in these world-class engineers, we create jobs around them. … The B and C students are the ones who get those jobs around these top engineers. And if these top engineers are forced to work, say, in India, we will hire the B and C students from India to work around them.

Rohrabacher: But according to BusinessWeek, almost 150,000 computer programmers have lost their job in this country since the year 2000. Now, my reading of all of this is that there are plenty of people out there to hire but people want to have the top quality people from India and China and elsewhere, and they’re willing to have these 150,000 American computer programmers just go unemployed.

Gates: Actually, BusinessWeek doesn’t do surveys. I think you’re referring to a quote in BusinessWeek from an Urban Institute study …

Rohrabacher: That’s what I said, according to BusinessWeek, yeah.

Gates: It’s not according to BusinessWeek. There was a study that a group at Urban Institute did that was deeply flawed in terms of how it defined what an engineer is. When we say that these jobs are going begging, we’re in business every day. We’re not kidding about it. These jobs are going begging, and the result is that in a competitive economy …

Rohrabacher: You’d have to raise wages.

Gates: No, wages are — 

Rohrabacher: If a job’s going begging, you raise wages, now in a — 

Gates: No, it’s not an issue of raising wages. These jobs are very, very, very high-paying jobs. And we are hiring as many of these people as we can.

Rohrabacher: Well, let me give you one example — 

Thankfully, nobody had to endure Rohrabacher’s example because at that point, committee chairman Bart Gordon (D-Tennessee) announced that Rohrabacher’s time was up.

Would your jaw drop in utter amazement when I say that the Google founder Sergey Brin’s wife is busy “bringing personalized medicine to the public” by helping them “read and understand their DNA”?

All this comes at a price, of course (and a rather steep one I might add). A little startup called 23andMe co-founded by Anne Wojciki (wo-JES-ki) unravels the mystery of your ancestry for a cool $999.00 so that you can know all that is to know (and maybe more) about yourself.

Another one of those Web 2.0 marvels!

The Indian Cricket League is ready to fire on all cylinders with the first T20 game scheduled for November 30 with the Chandigarh Lions battling the Delhi Jets.

The four other teams in the series, which concludes on December 16, include the Mumbai Champs, the Hyderabad Heroes, the Chennai Superstars and the Kolkata Tigers.

Its a great start. And I believe that as the number of teams grow, the ICL will (should) adopt a weekly game format like the major leagues in the US.

I ask anyone going to India in the next few months to bring me a Mumbai Champs and Chandigarh Lions t-shirt…cool prints, methinks…

A lot of you might have already gotten the 4-1-1 on the shiny, new 45nm Intel processor called (*tune in the Jeopardy music*)…Penryn!

Here’s a video for those of us who don’t speak geek.

For more on how the teeny processor got its name check out this blog.