Nishant Verma

What do you do when you a think of a product idea? Or your next big idea? Probably you Google ! The very moment you find something similar, it brings down all the energy and enthusiasm in you and finally you give up on that idea without giving any thought to it ! I have spoken to numerous people about this and they feel exactly the same. But somehow I am not convinced with this. When any idea comes to your mind, you actually craft a ecosystem around that idea. You think of a business plan and start thinking of who your target customers would be and why they would want to use your idea/app/product. You actually know why your idea is going to be the next big idea. You also think of who your users will be, what could be the top 3 features of your product. Basically there is lot of thinking from your side which is gone into it, which convinces your logical mind why it's gonna be a great idea. What if you do Google and you find something similar? Don't let it go ! What mak...

While tweeting I noticed that even though I have marked the tweets with "#in" tag to selectively push it to LinkedIn , but it doesn't go through. So I thought let me download the " hootsuite " app for Mac OS. On the download page I noticed that there is something called Fluid, which lets you run the web app as an independent desktop application. I liked this idea. Next thing I did was download the app and tried and creating an app for Hootsuite itself, it worked fine. You might want to download the icon of the app you are trying to mimic. It's simple, very straight forward and easy to use. By the way, I noticed this app "Fluid" because the "Download Now" link on Hootsuite webpage showed me 404 (due to my intermittent network problem; Thank you Airtel for such a wonderful timing !). 

Recently I have switched from "simple" Windows to "Smart" Mac, so I had to do all those basic set up of my typical test automation env which I had on Win7.  This post will detail about installing TestNG and Android plug-in into Eclipse and get started with your test. Steps to install TestNG: 1. Click Help -> Install New Software. 2. Paste this URL http://beust.com/eclipse  in the "Work with" edit box and click on "Add" button. 3. In the ‘Name’ column we can see "TestNG" -> Select this and click "Next" button. 4.  Click on "Next" and click on the radio button "I accept the terms of the license agreement". 5. Click on "Finish". 6. Click on "Next" button. Once the above steps are done, this will install the TestNG plug-in for Eclipse and it will start for restart of Eclipse. Just restart the Eclipse. You should be good. To instal...

Navigate to this website:  http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1644212 You will find an attachment  Flipboard.apk Download that on your android device Install it , thats all. You should be able to surf Flipboard. I got it working on my Kindle Fire tablet. This is how it looks.

This post is basically the review of a new website - KoolKart . KoolKart will sound interesting to folks who make online purchases. There are couple of sites which do the same, so the idea is not unique. Uniqueness should be in the implementation. When you visit the Koolkart website: The first impression you get is- it’s just another online retail site, which it is not . Koolkart is not a online retailer, so you don’t need a big panel on your left which shows you to “Log in”. Why would I want to log in just to see which retailer is giving me the cheapest rate. Also from a user point of view, he/she need not make 3-4 clicks to reach that page. Basically I am coming from – whether you want to make Google like stuff where you don’t stay on home page for more than 3 seconds or you want to make Yahoo like stuff which wants you to stay on it’s website. The first half of the page is almost of no-use to me. Being a first time user, I don’t know if i will be coming back. So I...

How do we claim "What we know" ? Knowing - Is it something that we have heard of ? Or Is it something which we have read about and almost forgotten it so I have just a little (almost no idea) idea about that? Or is it something which we know almost everything about?  Most of the time what we actually know is a fraction of our perceived notion of "knowing". This is described as illusion of explanatory depth . So what happens is we generally form a circle around things and claim that we "know" it. This prevents us from actually knowing it and let us remain in that "complacency" that we know it. So what I have learnt over a period of time is "admit frankly what you don't know", it will help you extend your knowledge.  Next time when someone brings up some topic which you claim to know but actually don't know then make a entry in your learning diary about that word. When you reach home/office, search it on web or talk ...

I bought Kindle Fire Tablet almost 3 months back and still there is no support from Amazon to install apps on the tablet if you are outside US. I figured out a way to get apps installed on Kindle Fire.  Neither you need to point to any parallel app store nor you need to root your kindle fire. Let me give you some simple steps in which you can install apps: Turn ON "Allow Installation of applications" Open Web and navigate to http://www.4shared.com Search for 4shared.apk file ( .apk file are installers for Android based devices ) Download the file and install it Once 4shared is installed, search for anything like "Facebook for Android" and look for .apk file Once found download the file and install it. There would be some .apk file which might not run properly, you may want to look for some other file and install it. I tried for apps like 4Shared , Nimbuzz , Facebook , Twitter , Skype , VLC , File Explorer and it worked perfectly fine. You can definit...