July 3rd, 2008 — RIA
Adobe is teaming up with Google and Yahoo! to improve indexing of dynamic content in rich internet applications made with Flash. This means Google and Yahoo! will be able to crawl your site if you have a Flash/Flex/OpenLaszlo based application that pulls content from database.
Here are some excerpts from the press release.
Adobe is providing optimized Adobe® Flash® Player technology to Google and Yahoo! to enhance search engine indexing of the Flash file format (SWF) and uncover information that is currently undiscoverable by search engines. This will provide more relevant automatic search rankings of the millions of RIAs and other dynamic content that run in Adobe Flash Player. Moving forward, RIA developers and rich Web content producers won’t need to amend existing and future content to make it searchable — they can now be confident it can be found by users around the globe.
Google has already begun to roll out Adobe Flash Player technology incorporated into its search engine.
Yahoo! also expects to deliver improved Web search capabilities for SWF applications in a future update to Yahoo! Search.
This surely is a great development!
July 1st, 2008 — Misc
I got this as an email forward today, and couldn’t resist but post it here! Enjoy!
We thought fuel has become really expensive after the recent price hike. But then we compared it with other common liquids and did some quick calculations, and I felt a little better!!!!!!!.
To know why, see the results below - you’ll be surprised at how outrageous some other prices are!!
- Diesel (regular): Rs.44.08 per litre
- Petrol (speed): Rs.57.68 per litre
- Coca Cola 330 ml can : Rs.20 = Rs.61 per litre
- Dettol antiseptic 100 ml Rs.20 = Rs.200 per litre
- Radiator coolant 500 ml Rs.160 = Rs.320 per litre
- Pantene conditioner 400 ml Rs.165 = Rs.413 per litre
- Medicinal Mouthwash like Listerine 100 ml Rs.45 = Rs. 450 per litre
- Red Bull 150 ml can : Rs.75 = Rs.500 per litre
- Corex cough syrup 100 ml Rs.57 = Rs. 570 per litre
- Evian water 500 ml Rs. 330 = Rs. 660 per litre (Rs. 660 for a litre of WATER!! And the buyers don’t even know the source (Evian spelled backwards is Naive…)
- Kores whiteout 15 ml Rs. 15 = Rs. 1000 per litre
- Cup of coffee at any decent business hotel 100 ml Rs. 50 = Rs. 500 per litre
- Old Spice after shave lotion 100 ml Rs. 175 = Rs. 1750 per litre
- Pure almond oil 25 ml Rs. 68 = Rs. 2720 per litre
And this is the REAL KICKER…
HP DeskJet colour ink cartridge 21 ml Rs.1900 = Rs. 90476 per litre!!!
Now you know why computer printers are so cheap? So they have you hooked for the ink!
So, the next time you’re at the pump, don’t curse anyone - just be glad your car doesn’t run on cough syrup, after shave, coffee, or God forbid, printer ink!
June 23rd, 2008 — Leadership, Recommended Reading, Workshops
First, some introspection!
How was the last month for you? What are your achievements? What are the things you wanted to complete, but did not?
And if you could redo yesterday, how would you work? If you could really relive yesterday, how would you start your day? What all actions would you take? What would you not do?
More than 80% of us would like to be more productive, more expressed and more satisfied if they could relive yesterday. Why did we not live yesterday like that than? It’s not that we couldn’t do it. It’s not a question of ability, it’s a question of going beyond the usual.
You may know that we have a Monthly Review Meeting in Magnet. Different teams meet once a month to review the last month, share the learnings and to create something for the month ahead. We started with these introspective questions this time.
Our habits determine our productivity
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June 21st, 2008 — Personal, Updates
We were thinking about a vacation for time. There were two options - a naturopathy retreat or an adventure trip! The nature’s call won this time and we will be going to Nisargopachar Ashram in Uruli Kanchan (near Pune, Maharashtra, sometimes referred to as urlikanchan) tomorrow morning.
My sister returned from a week’s stay yesterday. Dad is still there, and I and Nikita will join tomorrow. Neha just loved the fresh air, the massages and the peace of the place. Hearing her experience, I think it’s going to be a good break for me too! Hopefully I won’t work too much there!
The place is unique. Famous for its mud baths, strict diets, cleanliness and the heritage of Mahatma Gandhi. Here are some more descriptions and experiences found around the web.
The Nisargopachar ashram is just one of the many indigenous health centers that dot the countryside. A late-century term for it would be ‘health farm’, but unlike its newer cousins, it remains a vestige of a more spartan life with its bare walls, crude flooring and minimal furniture. Founded in 1946 by Mahatma Gandhi-himself a fanatic believer in naturopathy-the Nisargopachar Ashram has kept alive the tradition of simple living and high thinking for more than five decades. More recently, it has given succor to stressed-out urbanites with problems ranging from obesity, arthritis and asthma, to heart diseases and diabetes.
- Outlook Money
Naturopathy believes not only in irradiating the symptoms and treating them but to kill diseases from its roots. For this purpose diet, patience and exercise also is important. The ashram in designed taken into consideration all these factors.
- Aarogya.com
I will writer more once I return!
June 19th, 2008 — Flex & Flash
Working on a project that allows user to change the color of an image using Hue, Saturation and Brightness adjustments from Flex. The same image should then be printed in high resolution from the backend.
The trouble is, when we apply the same HSB variations that Flex used to Photoshop / Gimp / ImageMagick they generate a totally different color output. We want a WYSIWYG color change/printing, so this is not going to work.
The following table shows the output we received!
Not sure what the solution to this is. ImageMagick has come the closest to Flex’s HSB variations, so I am currently trying to figure out something with it.
Any hints?
