Idea Generator

We often fall short of ideas. Majorly when we are looking for them. Remember one of those brainstorming sessions. How many ideas did you generate 10? 9? 15? But what if you want more of them. And whacky ones. There are lot of methods and formal skills to generate ideas. But the tool I am going to show will just lay enough foundation for new ideas and get you going with the whackiest idea in the world to play with.

IdeaGenerator
The tool works by combining three random noun and/or verbs creating a name of something which is out of the box. You can scroll through one word with single click or have some random creation by clicking on shuffle button.
Try it. It's real fun

Image make over

Have been thinking of giving a different look to my blog since long. So for next few days please bear the changes (eye popping) that my blog undergoes. And this is not going to be just ornamental changes. I'll keep visual design and color harmony strictly in my mind.

The contrast

Miss South Carolina speech


An Indian boy selling peacock feather fans on road without any formal education



Look at the contrast.
Or should I say the capability.
Well there has been so much discussions on the speech of Miss South Carolina's speech, her hesitation and nervousness on stage, but atleast it should be grammatically correct. And look at that boy's confidence.
Disclaimer: In no way I intend to hurt the feelings of people of different countries. Just that I wanted to bring to notice the contrast that exists in developed and developing countries. They should however not be taken as representative of the whole country.
note : I found boy's video on Silent Ideas posted by Maulik

Cheap softwares

Well don't raise your ears here.
By cheap I mean cheap on computer resources. Today softwares are studded with extra features and information other than it's main functionality.
Take for example mp3 player software. The main function is to play the music. But software make other information/features available and make them CPU and memory expensive, consuming more runtime resources like RAM and CPU.

• Different type of views for the list of songs-artist, genre, album -why the hell do we need to see songs in different ways. we just want to listen. show them in the most easy way and that's it.
  
• equalizer. that's fine for music composer. Apart from presets how many of the music listeners do actually use this feature.
  
• themes- customization/ornamentalization of the player is ok to certain extent. but why would a listener bother to change each and every button of the player?
• visualization. apart from parties while doing some other work will a listener bother to being a viewer too?? No need to have flowers running all over your computer screen and consume important resources while you have more important things to do.

So in a nutshell I was looking for some mp3 player which will just let me listen songs and be very delicate on my CPU and RAM.
And I found "sheep's billy".

Billy is a lightweighted no nonsense audio player that allows you to quickly play an entire directory of MP3 files. Though it doesn't support all the file formats, it is very quick and prompt.
Get Billy here >>

Also take a look at other application the guy who call himself "sheep" has developed. All feather light applications. Well this has motivated me to build something like this myself.
Adobe AIR. You can build widgets which are very lightweight.
Hope to post it soon.