A Keyboard with no Marks

I have been using computers since years and have developed a good typing speed on the QWERTY keyboard (~100wpm) without even looking at it (I’m not looking at it even at the very moment – in fact, I haven’t looked at it while writing the whole blog post). Then I thought of the idea of… Continue reading A Keyboard with no Marks

Hello, the World of Android!

I have finally bought an Android phone – Samsung Galaxy Nexus, was thinking to buy one since long. And here it is! 😉

Discover I in News!

I recently announced the inception of the Discover I foundation, an initiative by my friends and me to help underprivileged children who are good at co-curricular activities to polish their skills and showcase their talent. I’m proud to tell that Discover I has been featured in India’s leading daily Times of India (15 March 2012 Gurgaon edition –… Continue reading Discover I in News!

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Google Code-in, Take Two

Hello fellows! Another year, another season of Google Code-in. 😉 I’m yet again excited to announce that I’ve secured a position in the grand prize winners! (official announcement) I contributed to LimeSurvey, VideoLAN & OpenIntents over the period of 2 months this time.

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Making a Simple OCR Android App using Tesseract

Recognizing text using your Android phone. Not exactly the end result of this blog post, but what you could achieve.

This post tells you how you can easily make an Android application to extract the text from the image being captured by the camera of your Android phone! We’ll be using a fork of Tesseract Android Tools by Robert Theis called Tess Two. They are based on the Tesseract OCR Engine (mainly maintained by Google)… Continue reading Making a Simple OCR Android App using Tesseract

SiriHome

I was recently reading Steve Jobs’s biography by Walter Isaacson and I read that he had a music system in his whole house, and also used it as a microphone, to hear family’s discussions until his father discovered that and made him stop doing it. Now. You would have made the rest of the post… Continue reading SiriHome

Sixteen

I’ve travelled around the Sun 16 times now. This particular revolution saw me starting my first YouTube channel, working hard on Discover I, and speaking at a WordCamp.

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Announcing Discover I Foundation

I’m proud to announce a new organisation named Discover I, which helps in bringing out the hidden talent among the underprivileged children to the real world. Like the Facebook page to show your support. 😉

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