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My name is Ramkumar Shankar and I love Sweden, my iPhone (but possibly considering the switch to Android), guitar, linux, open source, football, metal, and general geekery among other things...and in no particular order (except for Sweden at the top of the list). I also use some of that knowledge to pay my bills as a technology consultant.

This is my tumblelog, where I post original content as well as some of the good stuff I find around the net.

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"Apple has been able to generate over $75 million in revenue in one day on a product that 99.9% of purchasers haven’t touched or for that matter, even seen in person."

An estimated 120,000 iPads sold on the first day

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"I’ve been using a Nexus One Android phone for the last few weeks, and Carr’s quote summarizes the fundamental difference between Android and iPhone OS. On the iPhone, once you’re in an app, everything happens on-screen, with touch. Everything. You go outside the screen to the home button to leave the app or the sleep button to turn off the device. On Android, many things happens on screen with touch, but many other things don’t, and you’re often leaving the screen for the hardware Back, Menu, and Home buttons, and text selection and editing requires the use of the fiddly trackball. An Android gadget never disappears."

John Gruber, on comments from New York Times’s David Carr on the iPad

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"I need to talk to you about computers. I’ve been on a veritable roller-coaster of “how I feel” about the iPad announcement, and trying not to write about it until I had at least an inkling of what was at the root of that."

stevenf.com

Read it. It’s awesome.

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There are many issues you could have with the iPad. No multitasking, still no Flash. No camera, no GPS. They all fall away the minute you use it. I cannot emphasise enough this point: “Hold your judgment until you’ve spent five minutes with it”. No YouTube film, no promotional video, no keynote address, no list of features can even hint at the extraordinary feeling you get from actually using and interacting with one of these magical objects.

Such a refreshing read. And that’s not because he really seems to love the iPad, but simply because it’s an honest candid take on Apple’s new product.

iPad About [Stephen Fry]

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"RT @mikema: People… get over the iPad name… you’ll just have to start calling your hygiene products something else."

Snaggy

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Ironic Sans: They Don't Make Computer Manuals Like They Used To

Hilarious excerpts from an old-school Acer computer manual.

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Free time? Really? I disagree. What do you think? ;)

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I need to talk to you about computers. I’ve been on a veritable roller-coaster of “how I feel” about the iPad announcement, and trying not to write...

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“For years we’ve all held to the belief that computing had to be made simpler for the ‘average person’. I find it difficult to come to any conclusion...”

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Loosely organized initial thoughts on the iPad

A lot of writers and journalists are expressing disappointment in the iPad because it didn’t live up...

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I’ll take a quiet life.

- ‘No Surprises’ by Radiohead

Dead butterflies really break my heart. They live so lightly - they flit from plant to...

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“When someone you love dies, you don’t lose them all at once. You lose them in pieces over time, like how the mail stops coming.”

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