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Last day at Adobe
Today was my last day at Adobe.
I was reading Steve Wozniak’s interview in which he says how he thought he was never going to leave HP:
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Picnik: online photo editor
Recently I’ve discovered a couple of useful Flex-based online apps. The first one is Picnik, an online photo editor. It’s good for basic image processing-cropping, resizing, colour adjustment, red-eye reduction, etc.
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2007: the year of OpenID?
Chris Messina has been making posts about OpenID, and I also read similar reports on O'Reilly Radar. Is 2007 going to be the year of OpenID?
I hope so. I've always found it funny how anyone can be impersonated so easily on the internet, be it email or blogs. Imagine when Bill Gates leaves a comment on a blog: who's going to believe it's him?
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Moving a motorbike
Bhai log. Have you ever moved a two-wheeler from one city to another? How do you go about it?
In my case, the cities are Bangalore (from) and Mumbai (to). The distance between the two cities is approx. 1,000 kilometres, so riding is ruled out.
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Sindhi scripts
My “mother tongue”, Sindhi, is supposed to have been written in more than eight different scripts-including Devanagari! This comes as a surprise to me. My family always wrote it in the Arabic script. I suspect there are very few Sindhis out there who write using Devanagari, let alone some of the other ancient scripts.
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Expose-like window navigation in Flex
What's the point in buying a Mac if you're not going to copy some of its cool features?
In my spare time, I've been working on an implementation of Expose-like window navigation in Flex 2. It's nowhere near complete, but I got so desperate to write about it that I've uploaded a quick demo here (SWF).
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