Notes Online sales of luxury goods could triple to €70 billion by 2025. A latest research report [http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/consumer_and_retail/is_luxury_ecommerce_nearing_its_tipping_point] from McKinsey thinks that Online Luxury Sales maybe near its tipping point. They expect
Property Tax Paying Property Tax Online in Bangalore The BBMP seems to be fairly well digitised. As a new comer (?) to Bangalore, I had initially faced some difficulty in finding my property id #. So here are some tips to help you
Fun Happy Halloween - 2015 One of the good things of being a father of 2 year old is that you need to become social and participate! So that the weekend plan! I've got to dress
Ubuntu Solving the maximum file size error on Ghost + NGINX I ran into an error when uploading a awesome Mesmerising Waterfall - Picture in a post today. The error stated something on the lines of: The image you uploaded was larger than the
Picture Mesmerising Waterfall - Picture Straight out of my Facebook feed thanks to 1000 Places to See Before You Die
Startups Research - Online Trends for Real Estate Mortgages Here are couple of notes from a National Mortgage News on Consumer-Direct Lenders and Mortgage Innovation [http://www.nationalmortgagenews.com/news/origination/no-longer-a-niche-consumer-direct-lenders-lead-mortgage-innovation-1064448-1.html] > And with some estimates indicating that more than
Hacks Switch back to Upstart after upgrading to Ubuntu 15.04 (Livid) I just upgraded my Digital Ocean Ubuntu 14.x droplet to Ubuntu 15.04 (Livid). The previous version was outdated and apparently the support was discontinued. As a result, I was running into
Trading Shorting overvalued stocks Today's daily dispatch from Casey Research shared few perspectives on the market crash that started with the Shanghai sellout. For the uninitiated on the topic, China’s stock market sank 8.
Hacks Converting a docx document to PDF For a new web application that I am working on, I needed to convert a docx document to PDF. Pandoc [https://github.com/jgm/pandoc] seems to be the most preferred option to
Hacks Creating an animated gif from the terminal Animated gifs are a great way to quickly demonstrate small tasks on the screen. Videos are an overkill and making quality gifs is often quite a pain. I often use LICEcap to created
Electron Download videos from YouTube For this weekend trip, I needed to download a few videos to keep my daughter occupied in the car. Videos can easily be downloaded using KeepVid [http://keepvid.com/] but I wanted to
Hacks Lazy Sunday Morning So here I am in Chennai to make a trip to the US Visa office. What good is a trip without a tiny hack! Here is where I stayed and where I enjoyed
R-Project How Much do you Need to Earn to Afford a Modest Apartment in Your State? Continuing with the theme of plotting Choropleths, here is an interesting problem I encountered. The details are below, but the end product is to develop a static visualization as shown here ... Out Of
R-Project Plotting Geocoded points on the US Map I recently had to plot a set of geocoded points on the US Map. The ease with which we can create maps using custom data that can be transformed using GeoCoding APIs is
Startups Social Network + Marketplace => Market Network TechCrunch today featured an evolving business model in its article titled From Social Networks To Market Networks | TechCrunch [http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/27/from-social-to-market-networks/]. The model is quite compelling and addresses the
R-Project Displaying a Sector Return Performance Chart using R and Licorice I learned an interesting way to plot a Likert scale from my feed of R-bloggers that referenced some pretty cool recent work done by Bart to plot Likert-like data. I was looking for
Fitness Total Abs - A free 30 day abs program I recently discovered a great resources on all things fitness called Darebee - Fitness Made Easy [http://darebee.com/]. Also used (?) to be called Neila Rey [http://neilarey.com/] !(?). Here is a great
Startup Resources Starting up overseas? Here are few friendly options Ever entered the idea of starting up overseas but too lazy to look and compare between the options available? Here is an interesting compilation of immigrant friendly countries for startups compiled by Migreat
Hackathon EasyPay - Online Aadhaar Hackathon - Submission Demonstration A self explanatory demonstration of the application is at EasyPay. Please use the Google Chrome! :-) Introduction The Aadhaar number is a fantastic project that aims at giving every person in India
Mac Fixing the flicker problem on HDMI monitor This is possibly a dumb hack! I have no idea why it works as of now! So I have this cool Dell S2440L monitor that looks cool. A flat panel of glass, minimalistic
Marketing A DEVELOPER’S GUIDE TO APP MARKETING A good collection of tips for marketing your app from Paddle [https://www.paddle.com/]. The free e-book covers a broad spectrum of things to keep in mind and tools that can be
Tips Get **xy on your Mac I often have a tough time getting over my addiction to common Unix commands on my MacBook. No longer! Rudix! [http://rudix.org/] provides a collection of pre-built Unix software delivered as packages