A hundred years ago when Dhundiraj Govind Phalke organised the first public screening of his film Raja Harishchandra, the publicity posters didn't have any images on them, but that changed soon after. A film's publicity poster also became an extension of the creativity expressed on celluloid and able artists highlighted those selected images from the movie that could draw the audiences to inside the dark theatres for more than two-hours...
06:25 AM, May 03, 2013
In India, cinema isn't just a passion. It is an obsession. We have perhaps inherited this acute addiction from the man who started it all, 99 years ago - the Father of Indian Cinema Dhundiraj Govind Phalke (1870-1944). Dadasaheb Phalke as we better know him as, held the first show of Raja Harishchandra what is widely considered to be the first Indian feature film at Bombay's Olympia Picture Palace on...
06:20 AM, May 03, 2013
Back in 1973 Motorola was very categorical in rejecting the assumption that mobile phones cold replace landlines. ...
04:59 PM, Apr 03, 2013
The new Advanced Facebookers program is being currently tested amongst a small group of users in New Zealand. ...
12:01 AM, Apr 01, 2013
Exactly seven years ago, on March 21, 2006, Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter, posted the first ever tweet. ...
05:42 PM, Mar 21, 2013
The face of an Indian woman with a little red bindi on her forehead holds centrestage in the International Women's Day doodle. ...
05:53 PM, Mar 07, 2013
Today (January 12, 2013) is the 150th birth anniversary of one of India's most revered philosophers and religious leaders. One of the landmarks of Swami ...
01:47 PM, Jan 12, 2013
Protest against the Kudankulam nuclear power plant is growing. One of the fears highlighted by the protesters is the threat of seismological activity on the nuclear power plant.Most of India falls in the moderate risk to very high risk seismic zones and so do a majority of India's nuclear reactors. The map below plots India's nuclear power plants on a seismic map. ...
01:24 PM, Sep 13, 2012
New Delhi: The story of the battle of the browsers reads like an edge-of-the-seat thriller. The beginnings of the browser wars were murky with many shots taken below the belt. It was a David vs Goliath battle and Goliath, after an initial setback was winning. Netscape put up a brave fight, but could not withstand the might of the Microsoft Corporation. Then in the second round came Mozilla Firefox, which...
06:35 PM, Sep 05, 2012
Many Windows versions ago, I discovered that the mouse settings could also be modified for left-handed users. Otherwise the world in its rightful righteousness ignored ...
04:58 PM, Aug 13, 2012
New Delhi: Seventy five years after her disappearance and 115 years following her birth, Google is honouring the pioneering American aviator (and author) Amelia Earhart. The aviation heroine's end still remains an enigma. The doodle on Amelia Earhart's 115th birth anniversary shows her climbing up her Lockheed Vega 5B monoplane, Earhart's yellow scarf fluttering in the wind. The Google letters take the place of the original registration number of the...
12:01 AM, Jul 23, 2012
He was arguably Hindi cinema's first superstar who evoked a kind of fan frenzy never witnessed before. Rajesh Khanna died at 69 on Wednesday at his Mumbai residence leaving behind a string of superhit films that were often characterised by their timeless music. He acted in over 150 films and as a tribute to Kaka, we have put together a Rajesh Khanna mosaic made up of 1500 images from different...
05:46 PM, Jul 18, 2012
New Delhi: Twitter is making a number of changes to its service. It has launched new apps for Android and iPhone, enhanced search, improved notifications, introduced expanded tweets and also got a new logo. Amidst this flurry of additions and improvements one long running Twitter feature has suddenly gone missing - the embeddable widgets. Twitter is now redirecting users from its widgets pages to its logo and brand page. While...
07:58 PM, Jul 11, 2012
New Delhi: That dream of being able to seamlessly play any kind of media file on your Android smartphone is now many steps closer to fruition. The long awaited and after more than a year of development the official VLC app for Android has finally made its maiden appearance on Google Play. But the VLC app for Android developed by the VLC Mobile Team is still in an unstable beta...
06:10 AM, Jul 03, 2012
Budget Android phones may have been selling well, but the Android experience on these low-powered devices isn't something I can recommend. The good news is that Android on a budget is now on the verge of change with the entry of power-packed sub-Rs 10,000 devices such as the Spice Stellar Mi-425. I was eagerly waiting to get my hands on the new Stellar range of Spice phones because they promised...
06:20 PM, Jun 22, 2012
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