A container for all my views with excerpts from technology, travel, films, books, kannada, friends and other interests. I am Thejesh GN, friends call me Thej.
I am a happy SublimeText customer. I am really happy with it. It’s an awesome text editor with great community and plugins. But it’s not a FOSS. I was always in look out for a simple but extendable, customizable, super fast text editor. Recently when I picked up Lua to learn I chanced...
This would be my third sensor in the city. You already know about the first two. This one is part of much bigger community called Sense Your City. As part of Sense your City, 100 people in 7 cities across the world will build and install the sensors. These sensors will measure air...
We just added one weather station to my house. So I have now two weather stations running in two different parts of Bangalore. This time we used one by Yuktix, A Bangalore based start-up. It has much better sensors compared to my NetAtmo. I will share more details about the same in couple...
I got to know about Pebble when it became a super hit on Kickstarter. I don’t think I was on kickstarter then. It looked great on the paper but then investing $99 without knowing the outcome seemed like an expensive affair for me. But then I have followed them ever since. They have got really positive news since the beginning. Now I know why!
Karnataka MobileOne service was launched by The Government of Karnataka recently. According to them around 4500 services are available on it. Thats a lot of services to put into a mobile app. I didnt find any detailed reviews online and hence I explored the application myself. All my tests were done on android...
I have been using SQLite as a format to distribute open data for a while. I also use it to share private data. I do encrypt before sending the private data. Its mostly by putting the sqlite file inside an encrypted container (GPG, TrueCrypt or 7zip encrypted archive). It works as a simple...
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Thejesh GN (ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ.ಎನ್) "Thej" is an Independent Technologist, Hacker, Maker, Traveler, Blogger, InfoActivist, Open data and Open internet enthusiast from Bangalore, India. He loves experimenting with all things life and hence some times he is called hacker and other times duct tape. You can read more about him here. Email [ i @ thejeshgn dot com]. PGP/GPG Keys are here.
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