With all these new features, I guess it’ll be much harder for people to learn Photoshop. For upgrade freaks like me, counting day to release day.

From Multitouch Barcelona, comes “Guten Touch” designed for the Red Bull Music Academy. Guten Touch is an interactive installation that involves people into a natural relationship with technology. Human interaction as its meant to be.

Guten tag! Happy interaction.

From IDEO, an organization that I admire, comes a free innovation guide for NGOs and Social Enterprises. An open source toolkit that uses human-centered design to inspire new solutions to difficult challenges. Hear – Create – Deliver.

Click on image to download, get inspired and learn.

Hoarding designed for a rockband, vector elements used. Done using Illustrator CS3. Get the Source Illustrator CS3 file from the link below.

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Long overdue post. I ran my first 5k marathon 31st May 2009. I know 5km is not long for some people, but it’s a big achievement for people like me. I’ve been walking than gradually mixing with running since Feb 2009, some 4km for 5 days a week. So I was excited, when the Sunfeast Bangalore Marathon was announced. I was part of Nike Run Club regular running club at Kanteerava Stadium every Saturday. And thanks to coach Beedu Sir all for the advice and helping us reach the goal. Thanks Nike, still couldn’t believe all was for free, and YES for interested folks Nike Run Club starts again from 13 July, 6:15am every Saturday, Kanteerava Stadium, Bangalore.

30 May 2009. Last day of training. Former 100m world record holder Maurice Greene. And 1982 London marathon winner’s Hugh Jones.

Another wallpaper I designed for a rockband, This one goes for the fire and steel sort of look. If you like it you can download the source Photoshop file.

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Quince is a rich UX patterns, sometimes called UI patterns, explorer. You can sort by User Tasks, Tag or Wireframes. Please note, you’ll require to install Silverlight for your browser.

This is a wallpaper I designed for a rockband, I’d used various brushes and methods. the theme is atmospheric and little abstract. If you like it you can download the source Photoshop file.

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An computer-animated clip features Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel racing on track, as they bring to life the biggest rule changes in the history of Formula One.

Photo: ekosystem

My little family monthly grocery shopping is becoming more of an obsession for me rather than a ritual. I look forward to it every month and we normally do it the first weekend of the month. Considering Bangalore traffic & parking pain, we normally go in the morning off-peak period. And while my wife drags the shopping cart, I’m off to the top floor electronics department.

While DSLR is one in my radar, another piece of technology are the mini-laptop or the newly christened “Netbooks”. Tracking the evolution, first I heard about XO1 OLPC and I’m not sure if it actually benefited the poor & unprivileged children as intended. I’ve never touched one and it never looked serious enough. But I guess the form factor caught the fancy of many.

The first incarnation of Asus Eee PC powered with Celeron M with few Gig of SSD storage, came in later 2007 much later after OLPC, I guess the major brands were scared to test new territories. And till that time, people still couldn’t figure a perfect bracket to categorize this new avatar of laptop. hmm.. mini-laptop, ultra-portable laptop… I tried one of these machine during one of my shopping trips and at 8 inch, 800×640px screen, it was better than surfing the net using a cellphone. The user installed Win XP version was dragging though.

I heard about new player MSi Wind, never touched one, but when I saw the new Acer Aspire One, 9inch (1024×600px screen), Atom powered, 160 Gb HDD, 1 Gb RAM, with pre-installed Win XP OS phew… that’s pushing the limit to reach me, the consumer :)

Smaller than a tabloid, lighter than a hardcover. You can call this the paperback version of the laptop. We can’t call it Netbook, since tech company PSION claiming it owns the trademark of the term.

While Acer One doesn’t have bluetooth, some of the latest entree from Lenovo, DELL, HP comes bundled with bluetooth, while most config remains the same. And yes all devoid of a DVD drive. The latest entrant is the Sony VAIO P, costing an exorbitant estimated street price of Rs 50,000, while most netbook is around Rs 20,000 to Rs 25,000.

Did you know: Psion Teklogix, a UK company, on 23 Dec 2008 reportedly claimed trademark rights to their discontinued product name ‘Netbook’.