I wanted to transfer $2000 to India and thought of using TransferWise. I’ve been a Xoom user for a very long time and it worked well. Though I love Xoom’s near instant money transfers to India, I’m a bit disappointed by their exchange rates. When I compared US Dollar to Rupee exchange rates, TransferWise is […]
One of the favourite hangouts for my kids and family in Seattle is Woodland Park Zoo. We plan a full day to spend there whenever we visit and every moment of it is experienced to the fullest by my family members exploring animals and birds in the zoo. After visiting couple of times in a […]
Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, has been reading very interesting book since the beginning of this year. With my recent interest in reading books, I started following the books he is reading. There are few websites that track the books read by Mark, but I found it is time consuming to figure availability of […]
Today I completed reading the book 4 Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss. It’s a good read and I gained good knowledge by the time I turned the last page of the book. Though I’m not considering to cut my working hours to 4 hours in a week and live like a king as encouraged by […]
Last week I got an excellent used iPhone 5 for $130 and I was in need of an AT&T GoPhone Starter Kit to activate the iPhone. Without sim card we can’t activate an iPhone which means you can’t use the iPhone. After couple of hours of googling online finally I got free AT&T GoPhone Starter kit […]
Google never misses to show its doodle love for big occasions. To mark Mother’s Day celebration today, Google is showing a very special animation of several kinds of mothers(animal and human) protecting their cute little ones. If you haven’t seen the animation yet, check it out at www.google.com Google doodler Olivia Huynh said Happy Mother’s Day […]
I’m like many of those who want to learn and practice meditation but could not find time. Though many meditation courses are offered around the neighbourhood where I live, finding 2 to 3 hours time required(get ready, drive, meditate & return home) to attend those classes is always hard. Other priorities like taking care of weekend chores at […]
Most of us love using Google Chrome browser but not its privacy invading features. The most annoying feature is its new tab page that shows thumbnails of frequently visited websites. I use Chrome at work as well as at home and always find it annoying to see all websites I browse on leisure popping up […]
Kaggle.com hosts a lot of interesting machine learning problems online and thousands of its members compete to solve them for a bounty. Problems hosted on Kaggle has varying complexity to accomodate newbies to rock star developers – few problems are good enough for newbies to learn basics of machine learning and few of them challenge […]
Quantum Computing is the next promising big thing to happen in computer science and its going to revolutionize the way we solve problem using computers. To explain the concepts of Quantum Computing to common man, Microsoft released a nice video which gives brief introduction to the concepts, explains the benefits and the work being carried […]