How to: Call US from India for free using your smartphone

Vonage app lets you call any landline, mobile in US for free (right now).

• Android app
• iOS app

Works on both WiFi and on mobile data. Just perfect.

Call to Vonage numbers will be always free with this app. Given the number of desis with Vonage landlines, its a godsend for a weekend chit-chat with your US friends!

Enjoy!

How to: NTSC tv in india

If you are one of those folks tempted by low TV prices in the US

* it does not work with India cable or terrestrial
* NTSC to PAL convertors work, but have very poor results
* Sun direct HD works and so does Videocon D2H. Pretty much nothing else in the cable/D2H doesn't work.
Now blow away your savings on the capital expense on monthly cable expenses and enjoy!

Learning through teaching

Teaching one's kids is a powerful learning experience in patience and persistence

Snow

Snow is like heroine in a Rajini movie...incredibly pretty, completely useless and mostly annoying!

Internet Explorer 9

IE 9... i.e. Cloud 9

Google instant

Google instant feels like instant coffee. A poor alternative just for the heck of it!

August

I thanked someone who visits rarely for his August presence. He mistook it as an adjective!

iPhone 4

Apple holding iPhone 4 conference on Friday - Gizmodo; They will probably demonstrate how you should be "holding iPhone 4"!:P

Question for Steve Jobs

So you expect us to carry a $500 device to the rest room every morning?

Quip

In a meeting someone said "Don't talk to me when I am interrupting"! Despite the rudeness, just loved the line. :)

Short(end) story

I was about to write a witty line here but the boss swung by my desk and said.... Good Morning! That's where the story ended.

iPad

iPad is one apple gadget that doesn't kindle me!

Junk reading

From reading charming verse in printed books that left my eyes teary, I am down to consuming junk-reads online that leaves my eyes watery.

A consultant's hard disk...

...is half the man!

PS: There is no typo in this post. ;)

Swine Flu

New Yorkers used to "bless you" when you sneezed...now they scorn at you with a look that says "*@#$% you"

Elections

Our elections are about electing the least in-eligible!

American Village

No matter how much Middletown is a wannabe city..masquerading beneath the existence of Walmart, Macy's and the like, its a village that would make Bharathiraja put his hands together and start a movie with his patented "Yen iniya Tamizh makkalae"

TV News

When was the last time something you watched on TV helped you tide over a crisis or something that you watched on Discovery stuck to your cranium?

All middle class professional Madhavans of the world who chide housewives watching Mega-serials - you are no different.

Nobody knows anything

Conversations in the coffee machine used to revolve around

* Sachin's overseas average minus sub-continent vs Rahul Dravid's,
* Effect of flyover construction on traffic congestion or
* occasionally around the girl who filled coffee just before...

It seemed pointless then, but it has sunk to new lows with

* Capital adequacy ratio
* CDOs
* Exports as a percentage of GDP

One wants to scream..guys wash the cups, dry your hands and get back to work.

2008

Some call it annus horribilis...

It would be more appropriate for the world to call annus anus!