Mac Hiccups

Being a windows user for several years, you master all the keyboard shortcuts. Then, when you shift to the fascinating Mac, you become handicap with the keyboard. This is a huge 'hiccup' which I have experianced. It really frustrates you when you really find it hard to copy a web address to notepad or cannot add a browser tab with the keyboard shortcut. Finally, the 'Knowhow' section of 'The Telegraph' came to my rescue with a classic website 'X vs XP' dot com and this had all the keyboard comparisions. Check Keyboard Comparision Table

Cloud Computing

'Get Your Head in the Clouds' is the first phrase i got when I made a google search for the above title. That idiom meant 'Give more attention to your own ideas, instead worrying about how it will execute'. Thats exactly what cloud computing does. It already has a default infrastructure and platform built for you in the internet cloud. You just need to deploy your application in that platform & you application will be available to everyone. I needed a technical specification and the best article I found was here. Cloud Computing Overview

Jeffrey Archer

Jeffrey Archer is in India, yeah the famous novelist. Had the opportunity to see one of his TV interviews out of the blue. Though I do not go near his novels cause they are fat, I do have something to read now .. 'his blog' . Interesting to know that 25% of his commenters on his blog are Indians, i'll be one of them hopefully. Check out Jeffrey Archer's Blog

Open Source Softwares for Mac OS

I have recently bought Apple Mac book (13.3 ") . Its a real piece of sophistication. I always believed that Mac was the Mercedes of the operating system world (Windows being a truck !!). And now after Mac is running on intel motherboard, it's free software support is increasing day by day.
One such link is this. Go to opensourcemac.
Imagine I just downloaded a free office suite for Mac (Neo office) similar to linux open office :) . Anyways I was almost confident of being an all time user of the online Google Docs after I got a trial version of Microsoft office on my Mac.

Designing the Star Schema [ The article I always refer..]

This article has always helped me in crucial times to get back to the basics of Start Schema Design.
I thought of pasting the article but due to the attached pictures, i preferred to paste just the url link. Go to Star Schema Design