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Archive for March 14, 2010
Happy Pi day
Mar 14th
We geeks and mathematics around the world celebrate March 14th as Pi day.
=3.1415926535… Today is also the birthday of Albert Einstein. (14 March 1879) We celebrate Pi minute also, which occurs on March 14 at 1:59pm.
The logic behind Pi minute is truncated to seven decimal places – 3.1415926 that is March 14, 1:59:26pm is Pi minute. (I published this post on 1:59pm)
Pi day was founded by Larry Shaw who is a now-retired physicist at the Exploratorium and he still helps out with the celebrations.
Ok. Wait a minute. How exactly do we celebrate Pi day? … By eating pie and talking about in geek terms. You can also purchase Pi stuff like T-shirts, clocks, mini pi buttons, Pi mugs for your geek friends or yourself.
Happy Pi Day!!!
Browser inside Evernote app
Mar 14th
Evernote is a popular note taking service and it has a symbian client which unfortunately has been in beta for months.
It works just ok, some of the features are missing but the basic stuff is there – you can make a new note, tag them, edit them, sync them etc.
Yesterday I clipped a webpage to read it later, and while I was reading it on evernote app, I clicked on one of the link and was surprised when it displayed the website right inside the app.
I was able to click on the links and go to other sites and even comment on blog posts. There is no address bar so you cannot go to website of your choice or go back or download stuff etc.
But the fact that you can surf a full blown website right inside the app is pretty impressive.
