‘Personal Technologies’ Archives
Joys of reading on ebookreaders
Recently, a friend remarked that he still sees paperbooks at our home, and asked what do we enjoy using the most to read books—paperbooks, the iPad, the iPod Touch or the Kindle? My answer was the Kindle. I’ve meant to share my joys of using a seemingly [Read More]
Why only Steve Jobs?
These last four days I’ve read some beautiful sentiments expressed for Steve Jobs. I didn’t know Jobs from Adam but I too have felt traumatised at such an early end of a life that was capable of doing so much. Of creating so much beauty through his devices and enabling [Read More]
Typewriter—now only an artefact
This announcement from Mashable that Godrej has formally stopped its manufacturing of typewriters didn’t upset me at all. I’m afraid I never did care for typewriters…whether manual, electric or electronic… I began using a typewriter in the year 1983 while acceding [Read More]
Goodreads: A book-reader’s delight
I’ve known about Goodreads for some 3 years and often marvelled at this book readers’ resource. I was introduced to it by a friend who sent me an invite to join it in 2007—I promptly did that, posted some quick reviews of my reads early on and then sort of stayed off [Read More]
Journey up to the Kindle
I’ve been intending to do a quick post on my experience with a Kindle but as I began writing it, I realized that I needed to remind myself of how ebook-reading started for me…so, bear with me through this nostalgic post and you’d figure a thing or two about how [Read More]
New Blog Theme
After hoping for months that a wonderful WordPress theme would simply fall into my lap and I’d adopt it for my blog, I took charge of the situation three days ago and went on a mission to install all the Magazine themes I could access from my site’s WordPress dashboard. [Read More]