07.01.13

Product Idea — Dropbox Reloaded

Posted in Blogroll, News, Product Ideas, Random Thoughts, Tech at 10:39 pm by Liv

I just had this thought just now and I thought I have to start writing down these “product ideas” — which are just random ideas of small improvements for various products that come to my mind every now and then — as otherwise nothing will happen. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t expect that simply writing these ideas down will trigger a whole revolution in the products and companies I’m talking about, but if these reach the eyes and the ears of some people who thought of the same improvement to a product, then perhaps we can build some critical mass and get these add-ons to the products we love — or would like to love. After all, people pay good money to get the pulse on how their products and ideas perform “out there”, so why not take the initiative and give it to them, when we feel they could do with a bit of help?

With that in mind, I’ve started this new Category on my blog labelled Product Ideas — where I will be throwing anything from ideas of products (listen up all you Silicon Valley entrepreneurs wannabe who are still searching for that breakthrough idea! ) to (what I perceive to be) useful addendums to existing products. Feel free to (re)tweet these, facebook them, or forward them to the people in charge of these products (if you know them) — or just discard them right away as madness; my theory still stands about if you don’t voice these you will never get heard…

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24.09.12

Shuttle Endeavor Californian Flyby — 21/Sep/2012

Posted in Blogroll, Fun Time, News, Photos, Tech at 10:33 pm by Liv

By sheer act of random I was one of the lucky ones to actually see Endeavor today flying over Mountain View. And I’ve realised once again in attempting to take photos of it that my BlackBerry is pretty rubbish at taking photos

As such I will try to provide 2 versions for each of the photos here — one being the original and the second one highlighting where the shuttle is; pretty old fashion, I know, I know, but at least you can zoom in and see the damn thing otherwise you might not spot it in the original photos (And yes, I am getting off the BlackBerry pretty soon And no, I’m not going for an iPhone 5…yet :p )

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29.10.11

J2ME StopWatch Application

Posted in Blogroll, Tech at 1:49 pm by Liv

This is another resurrect from my old website — again, it seems people are visiting my site looking for this (old) J2ME application. Please be aware that I haven’t updated this application in ages — it was known to run last time I checked, but that was a while back. I suspect as such it’s still working, but even if it isn’t, perhaps it has still some good points. If not, well, at least I’m no longer showing a 404 to people (desperately) looking for this application. So here it is below, the original post, together with the downloadable(s).

This application is currently at version 1.1.0 — last update 14/Aug/2006.

A couple of years ago when I got my Nokia 6600 mobile, I was initially over the moon with the facilities the phone was oferring and also the fact that it was programmable in Java (J2ME). Like all the other enthusiasts (read geeks ) of the J2ME platform I found myself soon writing all sorts of useless mobile applications that I would then try on my mobile. Soon though I discovered that my mobile was missing one utility that I did occasionally need — a stopwatch! So having realized that, I started writing this application which I still use on my Nokia from time to time.

I heard that the new models (Nokia N-series) do actually include such a tool, but I cannot confirm it yet as in the meanwhile I switched to a Sony Ericsson mobile and kind of postponed the idea of trying the N-series Nokia’s for later on. (As you probably are aware, the Sony Ericsson mobiles have such a stopwatch utility built-in.) Even if they do have such an utility, you might still want a stopwatch that’s customizable (see below) or maybe you just want an alternative to the standard ones — either way, feel free to use (and adapt) this application to your liking.

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26.10.10

Why I Think Technology Is Overrated

Posted in Blogroll, Random Thoughts, Tech at 10:29 am by Liv

You might find the opening title of this post shocking – even more so as I’m involved with technology on a daily basis! – and while it is true that I have chosen a very striking title for it to grab your attention hopefully by the end of it you might agree with some of the points made here.

You know the old joke about the millionaire who decides to get married – he goes to an exclusive dating agency and gets to meet 3 women: a blonde, a brunette and a redhead. He asks all of them the same question: “I have 100 million ponds in the bank – if we get married what would you do with it?“. The blonde says “My darling, I would spend it all on you as I would dedicate my entire life to make you happy!“. The brunette says “I would put half of them aside for when we grow old together so we can have a worry free retirement, and the other half I’d spend it on cruises around the world with you my love!“. Finally the redhead says she’d invest part of it to make more money, put part of it in a trust fund for the kids and spend part of it on a comfortable life together. Who do you reckon has the millionaire chosen to be his wife? And the joke goes: the one with the big tits!

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27.08.10

Underground blogger

Posted in Random Thoughts at 8:32 pm by Liv

Ok so I’m on the tube just finished my previous blog post and sent it (ok had to wait till I had some signal bit that’s a minor detail) and as I look around I see these 3 chicks (call them “girls” for no better term :p) looking at me. In fact they’ve been kind of staring at me for a while – and while initially I thought it could only be my irresistible good looks unfortunately I came to realise its not that : they give me dirty looks I’m pretty sure because of my frantic typing on my BlackBerry! Look girls I’m not showing off ok, if you look closer you would see that I’m using a BlackBerry Storm – that’s no longer a trendy phone as its over a year old! And I’m not an idiot to just pretend I’m sending texts when there is no coverage since we’re underground. I’m not flirting with some “hot babe” nor am I showing off my (antique) phone – I’m simply an underground blogger And I’m just putting together my next blog post.

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