MacRuby seems like a really cool way to get into OSX development. It’s v4 now and hotcocoa especially seems vastly improved.
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MobME’s been featured in today’s Hindu national paper.
So I’m right now doing something interesting. Ever since Hulu first blasted me with a “This video is only available in hillbilly USA” notice, I’ve been meaning to evade that. The answer is of course obvious – there’s only one way a website knows where you are from and that’s via your IP. So, fake your IP.
The easiest and a free way is a privacy proxy like Tor. However, speed seriously sucks thereafter and downloading videos is a distant dream. I ended up using one of my old ivacy accounts and connecting to it via the neat integrated VPN support in the Mac. Ivacy has a fake my IP address origin option and voila, free videos. Hulu, like Youtube, buffers pretty well in the background too. (Update Hulu only buffers 5 minutes at a time. Major PIA)
The intro to Clojure videos here are really good. Of course, nothing beats the Pragmatic book yet. A Peepcode screencast is rumoured to be in the works though – am waiting for that.
Today, just for fun, I tried finding out the places I know in Google Earth. It’s remarkably easy because unlike the last time I tried, the resolution has increased a lot. The map overlay helps too but it’s easy enough finding it through the satellite imagery. One problem is that most of Kerala is heavily wooded and the greenery obscures a lot of detail.
So this is the MobME office. The hexagon shaped building & the water tower is hard to miss from above.
And this is where we stay – Tata Green Acres, Kochi. The bright blue water in the picture is our swimming pool 
And this is where my house is in Trivandrum – I really can’t find the exact spot because of all those woods.
The new Panoramio integration is really cool btw – lots of photos everywhere I travel. (rediscovered via @google at Twitter. So do follow)
This is cool and I’d seriously buy one. Just $99!
IPhoto ’09′s face tagging is really cool. It automatically outlines faces in photos and once I correctly tag a few, it magically guesses the rest!
This is a bit corny, but I end up using the Book of Answers a bit nowadays. I bought it initially as a gift but then somehow never ended up giving it away. The idea is simple, just ask a question and then open the book. I think it tickles my reading genie and my romantic. There’s something weirdly comforting about holding that book in your hands and thinking that it’s got all the answers.
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