Just in time for me - Safari for Windows
I use Google Reader for all my RSS feeds but was getting a little bored of the seeing same interface everyday. I looked around on the net to see if someone had made a custom stylesheet for that and I was not disappointed. Hicksdesign has a cool theme and I grabbed it immediately. I have fallen in love with it and find it much cleaner compared to what Google has.
Well that led me to another search. I user IE7 at home and Firefox at work. (I guess most people do the other way around ) IE7 does not support applying a custom style for a particular website. You can go to the Accessibility options to fix a single stylesheet for all the websites you visit but they cannot be customized for each site. So I was thinking maybe I should install Firefox at home for just this one feature…see how far as a user I am willing to go to use the product I immediately fell in love with. It’s just that the memory hogging of Firefox pisses me off.
Apple to my rescue!!!…they just release Beta 3 of Safari for Windows. So I will try that out tonight and lets see how things go. Joel complained about it being terribly slow but later on posted an update that maybe it was just the first few times when he launched Safari. Jeff complains about the font rendering in Safari… lets hope they find a way to fix it at least for Windows.
Update: A Mac user says “Safari sucks”…should I still give it a try???
The Encyclopedia of Life: A Noble Mission
Biologist E.O. Wilson is a genius. Period. Sometimes referred to as Darwin’s natural heir, he is a world reknown biologist, a Harvard professor for 4 decades and someone who discovered hundreds of new species. Lately he won the 2007 TED prize. In his talk there he talks about his vision of an Encyclopedia of Life. Its a beautiful idea to use the entire planet to help catalog the entire planet.
There are millions of species we have discovered over so many years but there still so many out there we don’t know about. The idea of EOL is to as all of us travel around the world and explore the planet and find new things, we can contribute to EOL via photos, links, text, maps etc…. That way we will have an extensive catalog which a single scientific or research community could not setup all by itself.
A noble mission indeed and something I hope we can all contribute to.
Formula 1 has the Fastest Cars — NOT ANY MORE
Top Gear does what no Formula 1 Car has ever done. It takes Bugatti Veyron to a smashing 253 mph i.e. 407 kmh at the Volkswagen Track in Germany. The Concord of Cars has arrived!!
Links that caught my attention today
Don Norman just posted the Table of Contents of his upcoming book : The Design of Future Things.
Autoblog posted some really cool photos from the Peugot Design Contest 2007.
For the Windows/Mac enthusiasts…Robert McLaws reports of Gates and Jobs appearing together at the D5 Conference.
Steve Pavlina talks about the Law of Attraction and the No.1 mistake people make in using it.
Lifehacker points to The Simple Dollar for some good pointers on what you can do right to help your career.
If you love great ads!!
I have always loved ads… ofcourse if done well. And some companies know just the right way to capture your attention, highlight their product and then make you feel…”wow..now thats the way to talk about this product”.
Check out Honda’s ads…we have all see the Honda Accord ad but thats only one of the many creative ads that honda came up with. However, Cog was one of those ads you would want to watch again and again 
Then check out Sony…the Bravia Ads (Balls and Paint) are also one of a kind. We have always known sony for it’s picture quality and color but this time sony really talks about its color well…like no other.
Dove talked about beauty like no one has….for the first time someone acknowledged that our perception of beauty is distorted and manipulated. I love this ad of theirs as it really brings out the behind the scenes in a way which is so obvious yet so hidden from our minds.
Finally… check out businessweek for the most memorable ads of 2006.
Microsoft IPOD
There is a lot of discussion about Zune and IPOD. On Youtube I found this interesting video by someone who shows that if Microsoft made IPOD, how would the packaging look like. Remember, Apple is known not just for the IPOD but also for the lovely packaging it comes in.
Got a personal domain
Happy to have a website of my own
Got the Lunarpages basic plan. Going forward will be posting on this site only. Added a lot of links from my google reader list onto the right sidebar.
I like wordpress. It is way more powerful than blogger where I had my earlier blogs. Have installed a few plugins for wordpress and some don’t seem to work. Will spend some more time on it otherwise m good with how this looks right now