Krish Raghav - Livemint.com
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Member since 08-04-2008
Last visited 09-14-2009
Timezone 5.00 GMT
Occupation Staff Writer
Birthday
01-07-1987
(22 years old)
Total Posts 20
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  • Monday, September 14, 2009
    Posted at 5:46:00 PM
    Sportspeople love secret, special moves. Saqlain Mushtaq had the Doosra . Douglas Marillier had the Marillier Shot . Maradona and Zinedine Zidane had that trademark 360 spin dribble called the ' Marseille Turn '. My friend from Class 6 claimed he had a secret table tennis move called the Toofani Smash . Boxer Vijender Singh has his own ace up his sleeve. At a press conference today on the team's performance at the AIBA World Championships (where the man won a bronze medal), I asked Vijender, dressed in a green t-shirt and jeans with.
  • Saturday, September 05, 2009
    Posted at 10:05:00 AM
    Indian auction house Saffronart has launched a mobile phone application that allows one to remotely bid on art auctions, good network coverage allowing. Key features include bidding, with a colour coded indicator letting them know if they're in the lead, catalogue viewing (size, surface, and medium....with images!), auction progress updates (with info on current bid amounts and histories) and a database search feature (by lot number, artist or designer name). In short, it's a pretty full-fledged application for mobile auctions.It works on.
  • Thursday, September 03, 2009
    Posted at 6:43:00 PM
    The current record for 'Longest time spent playing Grand Theft Auto IV' (and yes, such a record does exist) is held by one Jim Patton, who played the game for 28 hours straight . Tomorrow, 26-year Mumbaikar Chirantan Patnaik plans to one up the man , setting his sights on 30 continuous hours of GTA IV. 30 hours, ladies and gentlemen. Here's hoping he settles down with a good strategy guide , concentrates on all the distractions in Liberty City, and doesn't complete the main storyline before time. To top off all this oozing geekiness.
  • Thursday, August 27, 2009
    Posted at 10:43:00 AM
    Shadow Complex is a new action/adventure title for the Xbox360 Live Arcade, a game that attempts to combine fast-paced side scrolling a la Metroid or Castlevania with crisp 2.5d visuals. That combination, of course, is an incredibly enticing one, and Shadow Complex has garnered quite a bit of critical acclaim for its gameplay and mechanics, with an average score of 89/100 on aggregator Metacritic . So far, so normal. The game however, is based on the fiction of science fiction author Orson Scott Card , who is a known campaigner against gay rights.
  • Wednesday, August 12, 2009
    Posted at 3:22:00 PM
    A Texas Judge has issued an injunction against Microsoft - ordering the software giant to stop all sales of Microsoft Word , that piece of software we spend most of our working time staring at. The point of contention seems to be an alleged patent violation held by i4i , a Toronto-based document management firm. i4i claims that it holds a patent for the editing of "custom XML, " and the judgement prohibits Microsoft from "selling or importing to the United States any Microsoft Word products" that have this capability . Microsoft.
  • Sunday, August 09, 2009
    Posted at 11:27:00 AM
    Remember that little list of games you were planning to finally play sometime this year? Games like Starcraft II , or Splinter Cell: Conviction , which have been in development since the Paleolithic, and have seen a veritable blitzkrieg of trailers, promos and PR since e3? Well, fiddlesticks. The vagaries of annual results and the deadening thud of recession on an apparently recession-proof industry is taking its toll on companies, who are now tightening their release calendars and saving their aces by removing them from the ‘crowded’ 2009 to the.
  • Wednesday, August 05, 2009
    Posted at 1:21:00 PM
    Bejan Daruwalla's Ganeshaspeaks is quite possibly the most comprehensive astrology resource on the Internet, or indeed anywhere. No gemstone is left unturned on the site, and no prediction left unpredicted. But the most fascinating part of the site is also the most overlooked: the little tab on the side thats says ' Blogs .' That's right, ladies and gentlemen, GaneshaSpeaks is home to no less than 8 blogs, which offer predictions on broad items of national interest ( The Nano will take off, but very slowly, says Ganesha ), people.
  • Wednesday, August 05, 2009
    Posted at 12:17:00 PM
    The pitch black room. The single white glow of a computer screen. Most of us are familiar with the droop-eyed persistence of working through the night on a tight deadline, and the way the sunlight next morning seems to pierce a little too brightly. Most monitors today, especially some new laptop screens, are way more bright than they need to be, and starting into them hours at a stretch in an otherwise pitch black environment is obviously not good for the eyes. Fortunately, there's a solution. F.lux is a nifty little 500kb app (that resides.
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  • Wednesday, July 22, 2009
    Posted at 9:22:00 AM
    Watching this , one wonders why no one thought of it before: the stunningly psychedelic special effects of erstwhile mythological TV serials, mashed with stunning psychedelic rock. The internet, of course, leaves no meme possibility unturned, and Vinayak Razdan, who blogs at At the Edge , has taken up the mantle of filling this important online void. After Ramayana Vs. Led Zeppelin (also featured on BoingBoing ), ladies and Gentlemen, Krishna discovers Kula Shaker : Go Watch. Now.
  • Tuesday, July 21, 2009
    Posted at 4:36:00 PM
    Only two distinct vestiges of my childhood pop culture education seem to have survived into the Web era. The first, rather disturbingly, is the business of Arranged Matrimony : moving with almost seamless ease from the pervasive classified ads of yore to the swanky, spiffy websites of today. The second, surprisingly, is children's magazines. Late last year, the venerable Chandamama redesigned their website , adding an archive that let you read, free of cost and free of interruptions, a voluminous selection of their back issues: some dating back.
  • Tuesday, July 07, 2009
    Posted at 7:37:00 AM
    One of gaming's most beloved series' returns this week, prompting, as per usual in this line of work, both squees of gleeful joy and horrified screams of 'Leave it alone!' Monkey Island is sacred in a way few games are: a shining beacon of hilarious writing, clever puzzle design and visionary use of limited hardware that remains, nearly 2 decades later, one of the best scripts ever committed to a videogame. But while the first two games (released in 1990 and 1991) were masterpieces, coming from the genius hivemind that was Lucasarts.
  • Thursday, June 18, 2009
    Posted at 4:56:00 PM
    So another E3 has come and gone. The yearly extravaganza of fancier explosions, prettier graphics, and sequels reaching fairly ridiculous numbers (Final Fantasy XIV, anyone?). The necessary dose of violence and guns and muscle-flexing machismo to tide over the rabid gaming press for another year. Same old, same old, yeah? Well, wrong. See, something odd happened this year at E3. A Little known, tiny game basked in the aura of a sudden, unexpected spotlight, and buoyed by the viral power of the Internet, won accolades upon accolades, beating out.
  • Monday, February 09, 2009
    Posted at 11:11:00 AM
    The Internet just levelled up. You know how, randomly, you can seem to jump from reading about, say, the Bombing of Dresden in World War II to discovering Vybz Kartel , a popular Jamaican dancehall deejay, just by clicking on random links between Wikipedia pages? Enter Wiki Paths , a firefox addon for Greasemonkey , that takes this common internet phenomenon and converts it into a simple, but devastatingly fun little browser game. Developed in under 48 hours at a recent Global Game Jam , Wiki Paths exemplifies the sort of indie brilliance you get.
  • Tuesday, January 13, 2009
    Posted at 11:41:00 AM
    History has been made today, if buzz on the Internet is to be believed. American journalist Jeff Jarvis , writing for the Guardian, writes that the L.A.Times, the much beleagured paper seeing cuts in circulation, a strained buyout , and criticism in the wake of layoffs , now earns enough through online ad revenue to cover it's 'entire editorial payroll - print and online.' Jarvis cites an 'email' and Russ Stanton, the editor of the paper, as the source for this information, which apparently, and rather boisterously, says: 'Given.
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