Google APIs New APIs from Google I am testing out a speech recognition using Dragon Dictate :-) Google has released some wonderful Apis this month. The two Apis that Google is released are the Vision API [https://cloud.google.
Movies Room (2015) - Movie Saw Room (2015) during the week albeit in parts on the iPad. Deeply touching movie and left me with an eerie feeling. Particularly, because of a real life Fritzl case incident that had
Movies The Intern (2015) - Movie Saw The Intern (2015) today. Loved it! Never would have guessed that I would enjoy this one so much! Starting a new job can be a difficult challenge, especially if you're
Hacks Creating a bootable USB stick from an iso file on Mac OSX I wanted to load ReactOS [https://www.reactos.org/] on an old laptop of mine. Steps followed to create the bootable USB stick hdiutil convert -format UDRW -o /Users/santoshsrinivas/Downloads/ReactOS-0.4.
Movies Equilibrium (2002) - Movie Watched Equilibrium (2002) on Friday. Action movie that I enjoyed. Actually, the plot was just ok but then I suffer from a Christian Bale bias! So go watch! :-) In a Fascist future
Music More fun with Music - Introducing Kodi! I spent a lot of time this Saturday getting my music collection ready. It was quite an experience! I'll first layout the notable highlights of the experience that I somehow seemed
Charts Visualizing rural and underserved counties in the US The CFPB recently published their list of rural and underserved counties in the US for 2016. Unfortunately, the data is in a PDF (terrible open data format), and we need to extract the
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