iPod Touch

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Apple released new generation of iPods on September 1st
I personally love what the new iPod touch has to offer. All the exciting features of an iphone (except the phone) and approximately at half the size and the price

I can't wait to get my hands onto one of them. It's time to visit an apple dealer store !

If only i had the budget to buy one, i wouldn't wait a second to bring it home

Productivity Apps

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With the every increasing demands for productivity, the use of task management applications is on the rise. I personally don't like the task management features that Microsoft Outlook offers. So, i fall into the category of people who look out for third party applications for task management/productivity

In this post, i will talk about a few apps that can serve your need

Things
The best productivity application available as on today is called Things
It is available only for Mac users

But, the application is extremely expensive. 50$ for a task management application?
You gotta be a business executive or MBA student to find value for that investment

TeuxDeux
TeuxDeux is a free online task management tool

It is very simple and easy to use. But, i doesn't have the sophistication that Things offers

TeuxDeux is ideal for people who want to keep their to-do lists simple, don't require sophistication and carry their lists with them ! They have an app for the iphone also

Producteev

Producteev is free like TeuxDeux and offers great sophistication and flexibility like Things

I have been using this from the past one week and i love it. Just create your free account and you will be amazed by the features it offers

Steve Jobs on Branding

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Hear Steve Jobs from one of those early years in Apple.
He talks about the idea behind launch of the branding campaign "Think Different"

Suggestion - Put your headphones on. The audio quality isn't great



This guy is one of my role models and never fails to inspire me !

TiE Session on K-12 Segment - Quotes !

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I recently attended a TiE Session "Unravelling the K-12 Segment - Opportunities and Challenges"
It was a very interesting sessions and broke some myths i had around the education sector
I will be drafting a detailed post soon, with a summary of the entire session

For now, i have listed an thought provoking & entertaining quotes from each of the three panelists

"Lets not start test preparation in the womb. It will not get them into IITs and IIMs"
- Ashish Rajpal, Founder, idiscoveri


"The middle class parent in India is paranoid and has stopped thinking"


"If you pick up a real problem and find atleast 30% solution to it, you will be more successful than people who are chasing a part of the billion dollar market. You will go beyond your wildest dreams of a successful entrepreneur"
Sridharan Rajagopalan, Founder, Eklavya Institute

"We entrepreneurs have a disease - an incredible and crazy optimism. Add to that a layer of hype. The hype begins when the industry potential appears in economic times as a billion dollar market"


"I am still such a sambar eating desi, dollar (USD) doesn't make any sense to me"
Satyanarayanan, Chairman, Career Launcher India

Look forward to a detailed post on the session !

Objectivism

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When was the last time you witnessed some one who had great clarity of thoughts?
Watch a gut wrenching video interview of Ayn Rand that was shot in the 1950s

Feeling Inferior?

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"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent"

Eleanor Roosevelt

Compare book prices in India

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There is a search engine to search books and compare their prices from different online book stores
It is called the India Book Store 

This might be of interest to people who would like to get the best price for their books and want to spend time in decision making

For me, I would directly go to flipkart and order books
They offer good discounts and their service is awesome !
I am undoubtedly a flipkart fan
They blew me away right at the first order !