Our band Sonic Flare performing live one of our original “Still”. I wrote the lyrics based on a riff composed by Neeraj.

Great plug in for Firefox, to switch between different version of Flash players. A must tool for any web developer.

I face some initial hiccup but after a while its smooth sailing. Sometime, it takes a little while when changing Flash player versions. And it normally work after restarting the browser. So please use it at your own discretion.

Download Switcher here

Whipped up a super fast flash animation for the 7th Anniversary of E-Pao! Thanks for keeping Manipur online.

Have a great New Year 2007 everyone !
View it here

The CS3 icons released. If you ask my opinion, I like the earlier version… ohh I’ll miss Venus. http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2006
/12/the_other_cs3_icons.html

Just in case, if you’re wondering what I’m blabbering about. Adobe is getting ready for a Spring ‘07 release of the CS3 Suite. Yup, that includes our sweet Photoshop. You can tryout the Beta version here.
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/photoshopcs3/

Jeff Han a research scientist for New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, for the first time publicly — his intuitive, “interface-free,” touch-driven computer screen, which can be manipulated intuitively with the fingertips, and responds to varying levels of pressure.

Jeff Han on TED Talks

http://ted.com/tedtalks/tedtalksplayer.cfm?key=j_han&flashEnabled=1

Wow… what a year… 2006 surely flies fast. And I even got some mail saying that people indeed enjoy my blog. Looking back the year, one of the remarkable things to happen is my lovely wife. And while I keep off the blog, some of the stuff that are suffering are my portfolio site, my band site and of course my photography. I guess 2007 I’ll be regular.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New year.

Raiders of the Lost Ark, the first of the Indiana Jones trilogy, one of my favorite movie of all time. I like Indiana Jones mostly because, he’s not perfect, makes whole lots of mistakes though at the end he beats up all the baddies :)

The movie had quite a fan following allover the world, but some fans go that extra miles.

Three kids from Mississippi, 1982, created a shot-to-shot remake of the movie. twenty-one years later, their fan film creation has become an underground hit receiving attention from media elites such as CNN, Vanity Fair and even a nod from Steven Spielberg himself.

And now, in February of 2004, it was announced that producer Scott Rudin (Addams Family, School of Rock) purchased the rights to the untitled life story of the three Mississippi kids who remade Raiders of the Lost Ark over the course of 7 years. The film will chronicle the childhood adventures of Chris Strompolos, Eric Zala and Jayson Lamb on their ultimate quest to remake the greatest film in cinema history.

http://www.theindyexperience.com/raiders_adaptation/raiders_adaptation_main.php

http://www.bbcworld.com/content/talkingmovies_archive_18_2005.asp?pageid=665&co_pageid=6

Now apart from this adaptation, watch out for Indy 4, with Harrison Ford coming soon 2007 ;)

Finally our band site is up & running. I would like to thank our drummer Vinay (Raghavan) for the constant pestering and making my life a living hell for the past one week. But then, I got another site up & running, and I’m really proud of it. So putting it in a better way – Thank you Rags for making the site possible :)

I’ve been playing with these guys since my engineering days in Tumkur. Dumb was the first song that I wrote in my final year in college. Its a nice feeling to look back how Neeraj, Jonks & me start perfecting Dumb with a few chords I’d composed, hmm D-G-Am. Then the 9th & some dim chords thrown in by Neeraj and I forgot the actual chords progression I composed :)

It’s impossible not to shine,
You’re the mirror to your soul

People ask me whats thats. It’s from our new song No Heroes, which I wrote. And it’s the title of our upcoming album.

Check our music at http://www.sonicflare.in

Its that time of the year again. Theres nothing that beats a festive season.

“Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer… Who’d have ever guessed that product consumption, popular entertainment, and spirituality would mix so harmoniously?”

- Bill Watterson
(creator of Calvin & Hobbes)

Merry Christmas.

When I first started out my career as a web/graphics designer, i started with designing for 800×600 screen resolution. And with bigger monitor replacing the smaller screens, wow it was bigger and better.

After attending the Studio 8 launch seminar, earlier this week, and its cool new features for mobile interactivty. And the non-standard screen sizes of handsets. And with mobiles phone, nowadays, doing everything, not to forget the rapid mobile technology evolving every second. I felt left behind. I even want my MTV on my cell phone :)

Heres a little link I found useful as an intro to web-on-mobile trend.
http://www.w3.org/TR/mobile-bp-scope/