Santosh Srinivas

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Music

Spotify Premium for free on your android phone

I bought my wife a new phone and started tinkering with the old phone. So to get started, I decided to load her phone up with Spotify Premium. I am a iPhone loyalist,

Charts

Bullet Graphs using R

I came across this library for creating Bullet graphs using R. Installation of the package is straightforward: library(devtools) install_github(c('rstudio/htmltools', 'ramnathv/htmlwidgets', 'sipemu/d3Dashboard&

Hacks

Show the last played song on my page

So, I think its high time I get to putting few of ideas I had related to my music into action. I have recently resumed scrobbling all the music I listen to last.

Apps

Best Alternative to Mailbox is Spark

Now that Mailbox is finally out, I spent sometime searching for alternatives. I tried out quite a few apps (free and purchased) and think that Spark by Readdle is the best app out

Movies

Predestination (2015) - Movie

Saw Predestination thanks to a Quora recommendation. Honestly, I couldn't get my head around the movie plot although I loved it. Now, I am reading this to get an idea of

Analytics

Data Science courses on the internet

I've seen a ton of data science courses that keep coming up on the internet. Here is a post to refer to when I decide to spend some time to learn

Movies

Joy (2015) - Movie

Finally, watched Joy. Easy movie. Nice! A story of a family across four generations, centered on the girl who becomes the woman (Jennifer Lawrence) who founds a business dynasty and becomes a matriarch

Movies

Fitoor (2016) - Movie

Watched Fitoor. It was okish. Noor (Mohammed Abrar) a thirteen-year-old Kashmiri boy from a poor family, meets and becomes deeply infatuated with Firdaus (Tunisha Sharma), the daughter of a rich elite family in

Movies

Like Sunday, Like Rain (2014) - Movie

Equipped with my new fibrenet, iPad and Sennheiser HD 518 - Audio Headphones, I've managed to watched more movies this weekend. Surrounded by wealth and living with abundant resources in Manhattan,

Movies

Burnt (2015) - Movie

Last weekend, I saw Burnt (2015) - IMDb and honestly I liked it! Adam Jones (Bradley Cooper) was once a top chef in Paris until drugs and alcohol led to a meltdown that

Trading

Manic February for SMAC valutions

This month seems to be giving a very tough time to valuation of various "new age" companies / SMAC (Social, Mobile and Cloud) companies. Is this the harbinger of a tectonic shift

Tools

Adminer - A single file database management tool

I've shifted to Adminer [https://github.com/vrana/adminer] from the wildly popular phpMyAdmin [https://www.phpmyadmin.net/]. For importing an existing database export, as mentioned here [http://sourceforge.net/p/

Hackathon

Getting started for a hackathon with Bluemix

This weekend I planned to show up at the Swiss Re Hackathon. I hope to learn something new and god willing create something interesting! I've loved the traditional IBM Watson stuff

Music

Saving songs from Spotify

Here is a quick video on how to save songs from Spotify using Audio Hijack Pro. More on this later! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > NOTE: Saving songs from spotify is illegal! This video is only

Fitness

Fitness Stats using Garmin Forerunner on Ubuntu 15.10

I resurrected my Gamin Forerunner from my hardware archives and started using it on my workouts. Now, I plan to use the data from my Garmin Forerunner to plot interesting stats. To my

Fitness

Getting Garmin Forerunner 305 data on Mac OSX

I recently dug up my old Garmin Forerunner 305 (purchased back in 2008! woo hoo!). Apart from trying to maintain my fitness level (thoughts that usually happen in January! :-)), I also wanted

Movies

Movie - The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz

Finally watched The Internet's Own Boy - The Story of Aaron Swartz. Strange that I watched it so late, while I stayed up late night to read lot of his writing

Fun

As you sow, so shall you reap!

Came across this funny future gif on GIPHY. Hilarious! :-)

Movies

Weekend Movies - The Big Short

Finally done with The Big Short. Great movie! Got to read the book now!

Movies

More Weekend Movies

Got some more time to watch movies on new year's eve :-) Watched Sicario! Enjoyed this one!

Movies

Weekend - Movies

With family away, got time to catch up over some cool movies. * Star Wars - The Force Awakens - Recommended! * Criminal Activities (2015) - Recommended! * Steve Jobs (2015) - Average! * Focus - Average!

Fun

Resize videos to a mobile friendly size and save bandwidth!

My daughter recorded a birthday wishes video for my sister. Actually recorded two videos .. that I stitched together using this procedure. The video ended up being 65MB given the high resolution and size!

Visualization

Population Distribution of Hispanics by Age in the US

I was recently reading on the increasing role being played by Hispanics in the US Real Estate market. The report titled Housing Demand: Demographics And The Numbers Behind The Coming Multi-million Increase In

Design

Beautiful Signs, Facades and Boards Mockups from MBV

Got some amazing signs, facades and boards from MBV. Discover a lot more on Creative Market. The quality of his work just amazes me!

Dropbox

Good bye Mailbox!

So Mailbox is finally shutting down! Dropbox bought it for 100Mn! [http://www.wired.com/2015/12/dropbox-kills-carousel-and-mailbox-as-it-turns-toward-businesses/] just 2 years back in 2013! This sucks! So here is my final adieu to

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