I love listening to music or podcasts all the time. So I have speakers literally in every room in my home, many of them Bluetooth speakers. Of late I realized that the Bluetooth speakers were not being used as much as we used to. And the reason was simple. Bluetooth is a hassle. You need to […]
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Xiaomi Konjac AI translator
Do you Love to travel, but are not sure about being able to communicate in the language of the country you’re in, maybe this gadget will help solve that problem. This is Xiaomi’s new gadget, called the Konjac AI Translator and is quite an interesting one. The device can translate up to 14 commonly […]
The most popular OS nobody knows
The Most Popular OS Nobody Knows If you asked a non-techie which PC operating systems they were familiar with, most will mention either Windows or Mac OS. Similarly on the mobile side of things, people know Android or iOS. In this post, I want to discuss the so called underdog in this race. I am, […]
Dyson V8 Absolute+ Review
Do you feel your Vacuum is not powerful enough, and the wire is such a hassle as it tethers you to a wall. It needn’t anymore, let’s check this out. If you needed an excuse to start cleaning your rooms, maybe get one of these, the Dyson V8 Cordless Vacuum Cleaner. This is the absolute […]
Back to BASICs
This post is about the computer language that got me started with programming. It’s name was BASIC (an acronym that stood for Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code). This was a very simple language that was designed to get novices programming with minimum effort. If you could list out the steps involved in doing a particular […]
The summer of Spectrum
In the summer of 1987, me and my brother were at our Grandma’s place in Chennai for our vacation. This year ended up being quite different from all the previous years because it gave us our first encounter with a computer. This summer experience planted the seeds of our interest in computing which continues to […]
Samsung Gear S3 Frontier- Review
Most people would say smartwatches are not the in thing anymore, but looking at how apple still has it’s wearable, this didn’t stop samsung from making its own premium wearable. The Gear S3 is available in two models, the Frontier and the Classic. I’ll be reviewing the Frontier edition, which is a big watch, and […]
The Smartphone Toolkit
The Smartphone Toolkit Our smartphones are…incredibly smart. But they have been with us for years now and so it’s a little difficult to be wowed by them anymore. We take these pocket supercomputers for granted – and just whine when they take that extra second to magically summon information (or kitten videos) from the […]
Measure anywhere…mostly
The latest duelling ground between Apple and Google is in the realms of Augmented Reality. Apple with its ARKit is ahead of Google’s ARCore at the moment (did both companies have a secret meeting and decide to forego the space after ‘AR’?) evidenced by their demonstrations during this year and last year’s Apple World Wide […]
HP Envy
I wanted a thin and light laptop, something i can carry around easily and can be stuffed into a backpack. There’s quite a big lot of options for thin and light laptops, so choosing one is really a huge undertaking. A few Rs 500 or 1000 up or down changes the configuration of the laptop […]