Friday, November 22, 2013

Five steps to reclaim your digital life over the weekend




Weekend plan for the Technology Manager



1. Read all those posts in Google+, FB, Twitter which you had skipped during the meetings and thought will catch up later with. In case the post is more than 2 days old, anyway they are irrelevant now. (Tips: In G+, you can create a circle with yourself as the only member. If you find some nice article, you can reshare it to that circle for reading it later).

2. Throw out your blackberry - you can live without it (Read the fine print: you can live without your Blackberry, but possibly not without your phone)

3. If you are a pro Photographer, skip this step as anyway you will do something to do with photography. If you are aiming to be a photographer or think yourself as a photographer or you are really an amateur one, click atleast one pic - even if its of a pumpkin. That is the only way to learn photography.

4. Be a little narcissist this week by searching for your name in Google. Check if your name is coming in any unwanted place. If so, take action, claim back your name and reputation.

5. Last but not the least, shut down your laptop once especially if you are on Windows. The memory leaks and the temp files are eating out your productive hours. One shutdown a day keeps the IT admin away.

Saturday, November 9, 2013

The Weekend Adrenalin rush

Not for the weak hearted. Watch out the video to get it going this weekend.
Thanks to +TopGear 




Animation created from YouTube using http://gifsoup.com/, an interesting tool to generate 10 sec gif from your favorite YT video.

http://gifsoup.com/view/4888583/topgear.html

Monday, November 4, 2013

Watch out

With the news & rumors all around about possible hacking of Google & Yahoo data centers, thought of introducing you to my personal assistant - the Wise Owl, who keeps watching us. 
This is made out of painting on wood by local craftsmen from West Bengal, India. Its 4" tall and cost me around 30 INR (50 cents approx.). 
By the way, we are having long weekend here to celebrate Diwali. So its still #HappyWeekend for me. Rest of the world - wait for 5 more days please. :-)


Sunday, November 3, 2013

Happy Diwali 2013



This is a long weekend in India, with majority of its citizens celebrating Diwali, the festival of light. Wish all those who celebrate the festival, a very Happy Diwali and hope a prosperous time ahead. Have a bright and colorful weekend.