Mozilla Campus Representative

It all started when I was helping a friend in her class demonstration on network intrusion (i.e. hacking). In discussing things , somehow we came to topic of firefox addons and voila, she didn't know what they were even though she had been using firefox for more than a year. Later that day, I asked few other non-geeky fellows if they know about firefox addons, they were clueless like anything. I realised that though people have started using better browsers like firefox,chrome , they are unaware of the difference or why they should switch from IE. They are unaware of the plethora of things one can tweak to make his browsing experience from OK to AWESOME...or can increase the ease in browsing things or organising stuff like bookmarks..

So, I decided to join the Mozilla Campus Rep program to spread the news about firefox and mozilla in my campus and make people aware of the fact that how much their surfing experince can be enhanced.

It's a new path to light, away from the shadows of ignorance which I have decided to tread, lets see how well it goes.

keeping fingers crossed, ;)

Pratik Anand
Mozilla Campus Rep
MIT Manipal

A month full of Busy schedule

This month came and passed within an eye wink..Before I could settle down well, exams were up again..
Well....blame may be given on my very busy schedule during these days...Techtatva09, our college annual techfest was to be held and I was organiser of one of the events as well as in Creative Designer team of it...So big time tension. Moreover, I was working with few of seniors to build the prototype of the new MIT website which was presented infront of the Director, board members and the company official who has made the previous one (And it was a great success :)). Later started working with ISTE, now am a member of its working committee :). Quite soon, somebody from edboard saw my artworks in TT09 and just a day later I got a call from EdBoard asking if I am interested in joining it.. Well I did, an interview was held for taking up the edbaord designers.So, I applied for the post of Digital Designer. We were given a 2 poems and asked to design something on its theme ,also to explain it .We did and my design was declared the best :) , I was the first one to get selected. So, finally I am in the Editorial Board of the college..

This is how this month passed and it changed a lot of things for me (made me a busy man ;))

PS: Have included a pic of the design for the edboard

Currently me and Kartik Mandaville are now making its new EdBoard website : MagMIT ...will be posting the link as soon as it gets over
Let's see what remaining months have in stock.

Portable Apps: the digital extreme of new era

These days our life is becoming more and more digital. We are now living in a gadget-oriented world where day-to-day stuffs are impossible without gadgets. In earlier times, people used to have one computer or one more at the office.Now, even pen drives and cell phones have started acting like portable computers.

Sometimes, it becomes difficult to manage things around. Say, you are carrying your pdf document to your office. Now ,on reaching there you realised that your office computer is not having acrobat reader and you are not even authorized to install anythings(even if you have then also it will be a cumbersome task to install each and every app like media players)

So , here comes a new wave of achievement, with PORTABLEApps you can carry your softwares portably without any need of installation of any kind. Just install PortableApps in your pen drive or iPOD and get oyur softwares on the go.


Go check it out yourself.
Portable Apps