Redefining the Kilogram

The SI Unit of weight, a Kilogram is dependent on a physical object. This is inconvenient as the weight of a physical object can change over time. Scientists are working to eliminate this dependancy. This video explains one of the proposed solutions.

Very nice website showing the distance from Earth to Mars in pixels.

6.3 inches. F*** Everything, We’re Doing Five Blades

Solid, native app. Voice guided turn by turn navigation and traffic information, also works in India! Awesome.

Dear Apple, please fix this.

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Tim Cook: “It’s an area of intense interest, I can’t say more than that”. Exciting times.

A fun new app for the iPad.

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Finally you can buy Music and Movies in India. The prices are very attractive too; Rs.12 - Rs.15 for a single, around Rs.100 for an album, but the best deal is iTunes Match: Rs.1200 per year! Now I need to figure out a way to shift from the US store to the Indian store.

I can’t wait for one of these to open in India. It’s crazy that people are so happy to go to one of these stores and spend a lot of money, I don’t think it happens in any other store.

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Crash Course is a YouTube channel by the Vlogbrothers, Hank and John Green. The topics they covered were Biology and World History. The biology series is pretty detailed, and the history series is very informative and fun to watch. The original run ran for 40 weeks and just got over a couple of weeks ago, but they started two new series, Literature and Ecology which will have 12 episodes. Looking forward to watch them.

I love the chiptunes done by Cable Sasser. He did the one for the Coda 2 tour video too.

I listen to a lot of Podcasts and they are great way to pass time if you have a long commute like I do. There are so many great Podcasts out there, especially tech related ones, that it’s hard to keep up, so I would like to post the really good ones so that you don’t miss out on them. I will try to post these roundups on a semi regular basis.

My picks for this week:

• SE Podcast #36 – We Got Hit by a Hurricane: Joel and the guys over at StackExchange joined by special guest Anthony Casalena, CEO and founder of Squarespace ( who by the way, sponsors tons of great tech podcasts! ) discuss how they kept their datacenter alive during Hurricane Sandy.
• CMD+Space #015 - Now The Hard Work Begins, with Dalton Caldwell: Myke interviews Dalton Caldwell, CEO and Founder of App.net. Dalton answers a lot of questions I had about App.net and also gives us a overview and glimpse of its future.
• Debug 1: Loren Brichter of Letterpress: New show by Guy English of Kicking Bear and Rene Ritchie of iMore.com where they interview developers of popular apps. For the inaugural episode, they interview Loren Bricter of Atebits. Loren is the developer of the extremely popular twitter client, Tweetie, which got acquired by Twitter and became the official twitter client on iOS and hit game Letterpress, which launched a couple of weeks ago. I’m looking forward to more great interviews like this one.