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Pixel Quiz: July 2015

Vidit BhargavaQ1. Y works out what’s in an image by analysing layers until they finally decide on what it shows. The first images from Y’s project X, shown in June, reveal a horrific display of monsters and tentacles and a capability to insert random noise on a black

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Apple Music : First Impressions

Music Streaming services have existed for sometime now. These services gained immense popularity after the introduction of Mobile App Platforms, the idea of listening to any song at any time for a nominal cost is extremely convenient to a lot of people. To me though, the idea has always been

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Impressions: Recent Alternative Pricing Tiers on AppStore

Vidit Bhargava This week there were minor tweaking’s in the AppStore Alternative Pricing Tier, introducing lower prices for App Stores in some countries including India. The two new pricing tiers for India are pretty interesting. Basically, Apps can now be sold at Rs. 10 and Rs. 30, apart from

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Using DuckDuckGo

Vidit Bhargava At this point it seems crazy to think someone will start a new search engine. Google after all is doing a great job at search. But here we are, looking at a search engine, that claims to be different and in many ways better than Google, the unchallenged

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Introduction to Podcasts

What are Podcasts? For the last three years, I’ve been using a rather uncommon method of getting weekly news and gathering information that I’d otherwise be reading. I’ve been listening to Podcasts, and They are so good that I’m having a hard

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Designing with Accessibility

Vidit Bhargava Credit: Apple Inc. Accessibility features are extremely helpful for the disabled. These features enable them to use the devices that they love, without letting their disability to get in the way but they are equally important to those who are perfectly abled. A lot of times these features

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Selecting the right MacBook

Vidit BhargavaWe’re back to three MacBook’s this year. After a long hiatus, Apple’s finally moved back to it’s three tier series for the MacBook lineup, with the introduction of a 12-inch laptop. But which one’s the right MacBook for ‘your’ use case? Here’s a

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This is why Hamburger Menus aren’t the best way to do Navigation. You don’t know where you are, where else you can go or What will you find once you reach there. They only save a little bit of space.

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Designing LookUp for the Apple Watch

Vidit Bhargava About an year ago, my brother and me released a dictionary app for the iPhone: LookUp. LookUp is a modern day dictionary, it provides more than just meanings with an easy to use and elegant interface. There are instances where an image is a better definition than just

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Understanding Apple Music

Vidit Bhargava On Monday 8th June 2015, in their usual ‘One More Thing’ tradition, Apple announced “Apple Music”. A music streaming service to keep up with the times and provide more than just a ‘Music’ app to store purchased music. While I am someone who prefers to buy music rather

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One of the main reasons I keep the Clear Reminders app empty on my iPhone is just to be able to read such amazing quotes, with a swipe on my screen. I haven’t tried QuoteBook yet, but given how frequently I like reading these, I might give it a

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Watch Apps: Automation

This is in relation to a previously published preview on Apple Watch: I had previously said that there were some kind of apps that were just meant for the Apple Watch. I missed a big and emerging category, Automation. It’ll be interesting to have small Automator Watch Apps

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30% is not Bullshit

30% is not Bullshit Apple charges 30% for the payment system it provides so it’s not completely bullshit. For the 30% you give to Apple, you don’t need to setup any payment gateway to charge your customers, you don’t need to get their Credit Card information, Apple

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The New Samsung Ad: I was actually thinking of writing a long post on Samsung’s new flagship phone but then I realized I’ve already written a lot about the Galaxy S6, some months back, in a post titled “Thoughts on the iPhone 6” 😉 Is this new video a

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About Tesla Powerwall

It’ll be interesting to see how the powerwall roles out globally. Developing countries could benefit from subsidies from Solar Panels along with a Powerwall. This could be very disruptive. I’ve never really liked Electricity lines. They’re ugly. I’d make people buy one for just improving the

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Thoughts on Xiaomi Mi 4i

Every product has a reason to be, a story of sorts which it needs to execute, When the iPhone launched it was a ‘Smartphone that doesn’t Suck’, to execute that it got three things right: Phone, Internet Communication and iPod. The Amazon FirePhone had a reason to exist too,

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Apple Watch Preview

Vidit BhargavaApple Watch is a gadget of convenience. It’s more about Want than Need. It’s about using a needle instead of the sword, when needed. The entire purpose of putting things on your wrist is so you can stop scooping out your phone more often. To apply the

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Pixel Quiz April 2015

Q1. The website X is known to advertise mainly through Podcasts, launched in 2003 by Anthony Casalena. X is a SaaS based Content Management System comprising of a website builder, blogging platform and a hosting service. X’s 2015 Super Bowl ad titled, “The Power of Om” featured Jeff Bridges.

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Understanding Airtel Zero and Internet.org

Vidit Bhargava“Everyone should have the access to the internet. Internet’s a necessity, those who don’t have the money to get online, should get it for free!”, Ah! Noble ideas. Alas, the current execution is so flawed that it creates segments inside the Internet. Currently to get on

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Thoughts on the MacBook

Vidit BhargavaWith the re-introduction of the MacBook, Apple’s once again offering its users three different laptops to pick from. The MacBook, MacBook Air and MacBook Pro. All three of them serve a different purpose, though. Use CasesThe Three Different Versions of MacBook represent three different use cases.The

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Save The Internet.

This video explains Net Neutrality very well. Simply Put: A Law to support Net Neutrality will make sure that that telecom providers (e.g. Airtel) don’t provide ‘privilege’ access (As in, some websites loading faster / some websites being available for free, while to access others a fee being charged)

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The iPod has a second life and It's called Apple Watch

Vidit BhargavaBeing a day scholar, I’ve been travelling to my college in the Delhi Metro every morning for about six months now and one of the devices that’s become a significant companion is an iPod Shuffle. Yes, despite the fact that I have a phone that’s capable

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Pixel Quiz: December 2014

Q1. In 1987, Thomas Knoll, a student at the University of Michigan began writing a pro- gram on his Macintosh Plus to display gray- scale images on a monochrome display. This program, called Display, caught the atten- tion of his brother John Knoll, who recom- mended Thomas turn it into

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Person of the Year: Nick Woodman

At a time where the world is moviing towards mobile camera photography, It comes as a surprise that GoPro’s standalone professional video cameras helped it file the most successful tech IPO in the last 20 years. This year, the 12 year old startup, went more social with its videos.

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Pixel Quiz October 2014

Q1. X was originally the design of Jon Gar- ber, who wanted to call it the ‘Mac-camera’, but was vetoed by Connectix’s marketing department which saw the possibility of it one day becoming a cross-platform product. We’re talking about the world’s first _____. Q2. The X name was