Mercedes-Benz Classes Explained

Author : aalaap      Blog : Aalaaplog      Date : 5/30/2013 11:40:52 AM

'Have you ever wondered what all those letters in Mercedes-Benz car names really stand for?'

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Apple killed my iPhone

Author : aalaap      Blog : Aalaaplog      Date : 3/21/2013 12:44:30 PM

'Apple released iOS 6.1.3 yesterday. It killed my iPhone 4S. Just about a week ago, my iPhone’s screen started acting up – the lowest row stopped responding to touch, and the one above it would send touch events to the row above it, so if I try to tap the number, keyboard or return keys, [...]'

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Real Racing 3: Great looking, but boring

Author : aalaap      Blog : Aalaaplog      Date : 3/1/2013 9:21:56 AM

'The highly anticipated racing simulation game for iOS and Android is finally out worldwide. I’ve been playing the NZ version for a few weeks and this is what I’ve got to say about it… The graphics are stunning. I’ve played it mostly on a retina iPad and iPhone 4S and it looks spectacular in practically [...]'

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10 Reasons to Stay Away from BlackBerry 10

Author : aalaap      Blog : Aalaaplog      Date : 2/25/2013 3:55:59 PM

'I like my BlackBerry Bold for certain reasons – amazing battery life and  a functional keyboards with lots of shortcuts being some of the few – but the new BlackBerry 10-based handsets simply don’t seem promising. Even more so that they’ve announced that the flagship Z10 will sell for a whoptacular Rs. 43,490. Here is [...]'

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Apple TV

Author : aalaap      Blog : Aalaaplog      Date : 1/10/2013 10:57:34 AM

'I’ve been wanting to do this for a while, so I finally got myself an Apple TV. However, I found and got a good deal on an old, first-gen model – just around Rs. 5,000. Why first gen over the latest third gen, you ask? 1st gen Pros: Built in HDD. I got one with [...]'

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HFR 48FPS

Author : aalaap      Blog : Aalaaplog      Date : 1/2/2013 3:10:12 PM

'I watched The Hobbit today. I wanted to see what the whole 48FPS HFR (High Frame Rate) fuss was all about. Since it’s shot at double the frame rate of regular movies, the video playback is extremely fluid and smooth, especially when the camera is panning across large environments such as mountains and the valley. [...]'

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iPad mini Review

Author : aalaap      Blog : Aalaaplog      Date : 12/19/2012 5:33:04 AM

'Light, compact and very convenient, but the non-Retina screen makes text and some other things look like shit.'

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Is there such a thing as the ‘mobile web’ anymore?

Author : aalaap      Blog : Aalaaplog      Date : 11/2/2012 3:56:14 AM

'We’ve come a long way since designing websites for specific browsers and building WAP sites for mobile devices. Since phones have been getting smarter and more powerful, mobile websites have begun to look a lot better. But that was true only a few years ago. Fast forward to today. You’ve probably got as many cores [...]'

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Disney Buys Lucasfilm, New ‘Star Wars’ Coming in 2015

Author : aalaap      Blog : Aalaaplog      Date : 10/31/2012 2:59:25 AM

'Disney Buys Lucasfilm, New ‘Star Wars’ Coming in 2015 [Mashable]'

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Windows 8 = Windows Hate

Author : aalaap      Blog : Aalaaplog      Date : 10/27/2012 1:40:05 PM

'What the fuck is Windows 8? Is it a desktop OS? Is it a tablet OS? Is it both? Or is it neither?'

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Steve Jobs is Dead

Author : aalaap      Blog : Aalaaplog      Date : 10/24/2012 1:27:28 PM

'No, this isn't a news post from October 2011. Steve Jobs may have passed away back in 2011, but it wasn't until today, in October 2012, that his death is finally evident.'

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Quickest way to get the YouTube video id from a URL in PHP

Author : aalaap      Blog : Aalaaplog      Date : 9/11/2012 10:53:52 AM

'I’ve written some custom plugins for WordPress which needed to extract the video id from a YouTube URL, so people could paste in any YouTube link in any format (short, long, whatever) and the code would still work. For this, I went through a lot of code snippets that perform various kinds of RegEx and [...]'

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HP Spectre One is Innovative

Author : aalaap      Blog : Aalaaplog      Date : 9/10/2012 10:14:47 AM

'HP Spectre One is certainly innovative: An Apple iMac-style display placed on a stand made to like an Apple MacBook Air, paired up with an input combo exactly like an Apple Wireless Keyboard and Apple Magic Trackpad combo. Keep up the great work, HP!'

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Installing Facebook Apps Privately

Author : aalaap      Blog : Aalaaplog      Date : 5/23/2012 9:12:33 AM

'Most apps you add on Facebook will announce their presence to everyone or, at the very least, want access to your profile data for some reason. If you don’t want any of this to happen, you’ll just have to live without adding the app, right? Wrong. Most mobile apps come with a list of permissions [...]'

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Bookmarks: CSS3 Goodness

Author : aalaap      Blog : Aalaaplog      Date : 4/6/2012 8:20:56 AM

'I’ve been working on some HTML 5 and CSS3 layouts lately and I realized I spent more time covering all vendor prefixes in the stylesheets than working on the actual aesthetics or UX. That just won’t do. If libraries like jQuery can abstract out all the complex JavaScript and make it cross-browser, why can’t we [...]'

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Scrabble Typography Limited Edition

Author : aalaap      Blog : Aalaaplog      Date : 3/22/2012 11:00:03 AM

'Also known as the Kidnapper Edition.'

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The New iPad Review

Author : aalaap      Blog : Aalaaplog      Date : 3/19/2012 2:31:41 PM

'Dude, it’s the new iPad. It’s better than the iPad 2 because it has an even better screen. Get in the fucking line.'

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Android fragmentation summarized

Author : aalaap      Blog : Aalaaplog      Date : 2/8/2012 8:43:55 AM

'Read this post over at Bloomberg BusinessWeek talking about how Android fragmentation is easing, according to Localytics. TL and almost DR, but this is what I managed to extract: 73% run Gingerbread 23% run Froyo 61% have 4-4.3″ screens 62% have 800×480 resolution 6% have 960×540 resolution Android tablets – I don’t give a fuck [...]'

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Samsung Omnia W vs. Nokia Lumia 710

Author : aalaap      Blog : Aalaaplog      Date : 2/1/2012 11:18:32 AM

'The mid-range mobile phone bunch has new additions – the Samsung Omnia W I8350 and the Nokia Lumia 710. Initially, both of them were priced around the Rs. 20,000 mark, but they’ve now dropped to very interesting price points around Rs. 16,000. I keep getting asked which one of these is better. While the two [...]'

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Stop #StopSOPA

Author : aalaap      Blog : Aalaaplog      Date : 1/18/2012 8:06:32 AM

'Wikipedia has ‘blacked out’ to support the anti-SOPA campaign thing. Sure, I support it too, but if you still want to see Wikipedia, use this bookmarklet. It should work fine with Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Drag the link below to your bookmarks bar and click on it everytime you’re on blacked out Wikipedia page: [...]'

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