Samrat Sharma

gamer/geek/dreamer

Namaste

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Archive for July, 2006

Google Talk Swings Back

Friday, July 28th, 2006

Woo-Hoo!
Google isn’t letting the fact that it has less than 1% market share get it down. Tonight they’ve released three significant new features to the product – file transfers, voicemail and music status. Check here for the updates.

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Flickr Friday – Neemrana

Friday, July 28th, 2006

Neemrana Mosaic

Small trip to Neemrana last weekend proved to be a good test for my Motorola V3i. Nobody was carrying a camera, and I would be damned if I left that sorry ass place without pictures! But surprise of surprises, the pictures – at full res – didn’t come out too bad. For a phone [...]

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Happy Birthday, Timmy

Friday, July 28th, 2006

I’m an unrestrained fan of Tim Schafer, and each of the games he has created. The guy who gave the Universe Grim Fandango was born this day on 1967.
How awesome are the games he makes? Deadly awesome.
Happy Birthday to Tim Schafer, my Game Design Swami.

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You guys must be unfaithful

Tuesday, July 25th, 2006

Right here:

Instant Messaging and Trashing Google

Numbers show that nearly a year after launch Google is a distant, distant 4th after MSN, Yahoo and AIM. They hold a pitiful 1% of total instant messaging market share, with 3.4 million unique users in May 2006.

Are you guys freaking kidding me? The lightest [...]

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It’s okay…

Thursday, July 20th, 2006

… if you suck. Good read.
I suck at Super Monkey Ball bowling. It’s a simple game: You aim a little ball with a tiny monkey down a surrealist bowling lane, which floats in outer space. Aim with precision and the monkey sends the pins flying. Put too much English on the ball and it goes [...]

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