Anand’s Blog

Vanessa Tan has this link to a wonderful new experiment in User Interface Design promising click-free navigation.
The Institute for Interactive Research is apparently trying to study the “change in the behaviour of navigation” and whether the missing click has any “influence on our perception of the interface.”
The website has three new buttons for you to [...]

By the way, if you haven’t yet observed, Blogger word verification is still disabled here on the comments. You are all too precious to be bothered.

My friend remarked about living on Earth Beta. Apparently every software that he was using at the moment was Beta: Be it the Messenger1 or Messenger2, or the latest Visual Studio Beta 2.
As if that was not enough, I came across this MSN Homepage Beta http://beta.msn.com First look and you’ll get the feeling that you’ve [...]

Google talk : Another uncool product from Google’s stable. The first was Sidebar. If you remember the Google Webaccelerator, then, add that too.
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Awesome sound quality.
Runs even on an obsolete machine (mine
a clean and neat interface
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No timestamping of messages. No logging
No “Appear Offline” like Yahoo!’s stealth
Too simple. The world likes it nifty!

No Text colours,
No [...]

Just so you know. Your MSN Favorites are now roaming.
PS: Be sure you’re logged in to your Passport before you hit the URL.

The 71 year old Maharajah is on an image rebuilding flight course. In its continuous quest of a contemporary look, Air India today decided to do away with the hyphen from “Air-India”.
According to an official:
“The dropping of the hyphen means AI moves up in the alphabetical list of airlines and will be displayed much [...]

From an article in New York Times:
Google executives say they plan to unveil on Wednesday a “communications tool” that is potentially a clear step beyond the company’s search-related business focus.
While executives would not disclose what the new software tool might be, Google has long been expected to introduce an instant messaging service to compete with [...]

I am reading Bourne Identity, almost a couple of years after watching the movie. And it leaves me hugely angry at the movie adaptation, what I’d only call as a gross injustice to the brilliant and gripping spy novel by Robert Ludlum.
The movie is, in itself, quite thrilling from the beginning to the end. But [...]

I happened to visit DD India’s news website http://www.ddinews.com today for the first time. What struck me immediately was the resemblance it had to the BBC News website.
Here are a couple of screenshots to judge for yourself.

Screenshot: ddinews.com | Homepage

Screenshot: BBC NEWS | WORLD

t e s t p o s t/gibberish
Twice in an year we are confronted with the beginning of new semesters and somehow every time it throws open a can of nutty university policies that I am hardly aware of; the consequence of which results in mine being involved with troubles galore.
Of other things, everyone [...]