Last month I moved to Singapore. I am still with Philips Design and now will be working from the Singapore office as Art Director for Interaction Design.

This was just a quick update I will post more about life in Singapore soon.

Interaction08 was a great success. It was so well organized. Great content, Great hosts, Great location and aboveall Great people. I am sure I would attend next year as well

So, here is what I presented at the conference:
download pdf

I will be speaking at the IxDA Interacation-08. On 10th Feb 2008, I will be speaking on the topic " New Interaction Model for a Modular Personal Infotainment System".

The event is organised by IxDA and will be held at Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), Savannah, USA.

If anyone of you are visiting the event, let me know and we can plan to meet.

Released the latest wordpress 2.3 compliant theme "Squared".

Read more on the Squared page.

Download favourite post plugin here.

After upgrading to WP 2.3, I realised that the noteworthy plugin is no longer compatible with 2.3 due to the new taxonomy tables.

Since I desperately wanted to use this plugin, I modified noteworthy plugin to make it work with WP 2.3.

Hope you will find it useful. Do let me know if you are faced with any installation issues.

Do read the "readme" file for instructions.

After a few days of dedicated effort, I have been able to publish a stable version of Flash-Blog.

The latest release takes care of most of the major bugs and a lot of other smaller bugs too.

Now:
1. Wordpress 2.0 is fully supported.
2. The comments are working.
3. Search is working.
4. category links and Archives also working.

To do:
One major problem so far has been the Dynamic text field in Flash. The formatting is a big issuue.
Another bug still unresolved is the one about which I blogged some time back. You can read about it here.

Download the latest release here.

Do check out and if you happen to test the flash-blog, drop in your comments or feedback.

Today I am releasing a wordpress plugin which allows you to add microformat compliant resume to your wordpress blogs.

This version of the plugin is 100% compliant to hresume format.

This plugin uses NO extra DIV's or HTML tags to format the view of the resume in the browser.

You can see the plugin in action here.

Every formatting is done using style sheet, hence keeping the resume code untouched.

Installation:

1. Download the .zip file, Unzip and upload the wp-resume folder to your wordpress 'plugins' directory.
2. Activate the plugin.
3. Go to, 'Options tab.' Here you will see a subtab called 'Configure Resume'. Click that to edit the contents of your resume.
4. Create a new page, give it some title and add this code in the body of the page: <!--myresume-->

Thats it, now you should be able to view your resume on this newly created 'Page'.

Will like to get some views on this.

Update: August 7th 2006
Latest fixes

1. Added an admin feature to select 'US' or 'Other' address format.
2. Resolved a IE bug. (there was some layout issue).

Thanks everyone for testing it and sending in your feedbacks. Keep them coming :).

Download here: Microformat Resume Plugin.

I have recently started using GMAIL as my pop-mail spam filter and its working great so far.

I used to check my pop-mails through web based system. I decided to centralise all of this and just use GMAIL. I feel GMAIL has a better SPAM filtering logic, and secondly I wanted to centralise all my emails.

The way I went about is, for my pop-mail, I went to the "C-Panel" and added a filter to sent all mails to 'something@mydomain.com' (an existing email adderss) to 'test@mydomain.com' (a non existing email address)

Then I created a "FORWARDER" to send all email coming to 'test@mydomain.com' to 'my_gmail_address@gmail.com'

Now, in my GMAIL account, I created a "LABEL" to identify these emails and added a "FILTER" such that all email where "TO: contains something@mydomain.com" should be 'applied the newly created label' and should 'skip inbox'.

This works like a charm for me.

1. I check all my emails at one place.
2. Storage capacity is not a problem as emails stay only in GMAIL box. Even if you own a 5MB webspace, no need to worry
3. Even if your domain expires (for those lazy people like me), you still retain all your old emails.
4. Take advantage of Googles Spam Filter.
5. Probably many more advantages I havent figured out yet...

Most often in print media, one sees multi column layouts where the text overflows from one column to another.

In flash, there is no way of connecting two dynamic text fields such that when you reach the end of the first column, the text automatically overflows to another columns (this is a very common feature in most of the print publishing softwares.)

I recently came across a situation where I had to display such multi column text which overflows to another text field.

I figured out a quick sollution, not sure if its the best way to do it.

Heres what I did:

Step-1:
Create a vertical column of Dynamic text field, give it instance name 'myTXT'

Step-1:
Create another vertical column of Dynamic text field to the right side of the first one and name it 'myTXT1'

Step-3:
Dynamically load large piece of text in the first column 'myTXT' (for this example I am hard coding the text here):

Step-4:
Copy the same text to the other column like this:

In most cases, the right side column will not be filled completely with text, it will be the residue of the first column.
If the lines of text in second column are less then the total lines it can accomodate, the split will not be correct.

To overcome this, lets add some extra breaks in the second column:

Step-5:
Last step is to move the scroll position of the second column text:

Thats it, you should be ready to enjoy!!

Download 2 column example
Download 3 column example

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Update : 22 Jun' 2006
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The above code works fine when the content in the first column is surely going to overflow to the second column.

BUT, when the content in the first column is less, you get two columns with same content in both of them.
Now thats not what we would like, right?

So, here is a slight modification to the code posted earlier.

To avoid situation like the one mentioned above, we will do one check. That is, we will populate the second column only when the first columns overflows.

If lately you have been playing the Da Vinci Code Quest on Google, you must be answering some questions at the end of each puzzle.

I recently came across a situation where a right answer was not accepted strangely.

After I completed a "Symbol" puzzle, it asked me this question:

"How much is 2905 didot points in Inches?"

When I typed in "42.9999727", it said "Sorry, wrong answer"
hint: Try searching Google for "2905 didot points to inches" and see the result.

When I typed "43", it accepted

Why????