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Dr. S. S. Aiyar - My Scientist Grandfather

Biography of my Grandfather who was a Scientist. His Experience and his Materials.

Ideas of SAN

This is like the Ideas of delabs. Here the focus is on the Internet and Computing. The Ideas of SAN Index.
Impertinence Personified

The Bird on the Right is a Young Kingfisher from Oregon. It was a mascot for my earlier blog called Terahertz later Open feedback.

The Name of the Mascot is "Impertinence Personified"

Many  firms and individuals have used quite a few of my ideas in my pages and 'Ideas of delabs' and some Web Gadgets. Even big firms like Apple and Samsung, indirectly, as my resource is a free Idea and inspiration source.

I do not get any credit, some of these people may even patent my ideas, IP and inspirations, i only wish they remain Open Designs free for all firms and designers.

Order Processing for Small Biz

posted May 14, 2012 7:32 PM by Anantha Narayan   [ updated May 17, 2012 2:38 AM ]

A Small Restaurant who is taking orders by web or phone for home delivery or table booking can find this a easy to configure automated solution. 

An Android tablet with the Chef, Smartphones with each Waiter. A low power, low cost Nettop with each Order Booking/Support Person. Even the customer can browse online and see the Progress of his Menu. 

A Trello board is some product or project that is under continuous development, though a board can have a variety of uses and mean different things. Boards are made up of multiple lists. 

Generally, lists on the left are the start of a workflow and lists on right are the end. Lists contain cards. Cards represent the basic unit of a board, for instance: a new feature, a bug, a story lead, a legal case, a client, research for a paper, a potential employee, or a customer support issue. 


See a Public Trello Board i have made. First visit Trello and Login if you want to comment on my Board. 

Mood Avatars for Google Plus

posted Apr 18, 2012 9:54 PM by Anantha Narayan   [ updated Apr 18, 2012 10:03 PM ]

This adds a fun element and can make the threads look more lively, but has no productive use.

When we make a post or comment on google plus, you can also set the mood, like they use Smileys in SMS. This makes your avatar of that post/comment have a mood like a smile/frown or anger.

Training -

The Interactive training over webcam creates the mood avatar set, say 12 moods. This can then be integrated with the GUI. There can also be a Auto setting for the lazy ones, The default being manual.

Auto Mood Detector -

This is the best part, The detector figures the mood, either it uses the webcam or the contents of the comment/post/link text. Then it changes the post/profile avatar or both.

Mood Avatars for Google Plus - Ideas of SAN
Manual Mood Set

The users can upload their own pictures or animations or even SVG. This configures the twelve Moods, the default can be a Standard Smiley Icon set, if they like it that way. 

Using Online Advertising Effectively

posted Oct 31, 2011 9:16 PM by Anantha Narayan

If you Advertise using Google AdWords, Then note these points. - Ananth

  • Attractive and Easy to Understand Ads work well.
  • Use the Search Keywords of your Customers, think.
  • Focus on the Language, Region and Content Areas.
  • Make Ads Interesting, not just the name of Firm.
  • Image, Video and Flash ads can Present Products.
  • Use Google Analytics to Study and Improve.
  • Draw in the Customers with something new or free.

Make Apps Applets and Services Green

posted Oct 31, 2011 9:14 PM by Anantha Narayan

Less CPU, Less RAM, Less Size, Less Load on Client, Less Load on server means Faster Solutions and services. They also mean Green as low power consumption and longer lasting Electronics.

Not all apps can be green, but as green as Possible is good for you the creator, green for the user and a minimal Carbon Footprint.

Some Apps and Applets or Widgets take more CPU and Memory Resources, Here is a gadget made to demonstrate it Aquatic Animations. When the Screen shows entire Aquarium, CPU Loads use FreeMeter to study. The 1 GHz computers are also affected. We cannot assume all have state of the art machines and browsers. The Latest Desktop Programs also just Choke the Machines.

The CPU is being made faster and multicore and the OS Makers again overload the Architecture by luxurious resource hungry Systems. This has been happening since 286, but most pronounced now. The OS can be developed without making it Beefy and Heavy. The CPU cant keep getting faster. It needs to be Energy Efficient and the OS Slim and Sensible.

The only solution is to move to Handhelds and Webapps to end this Runaway OS Design Process.

Conclusion -

The computing capability requirement for a future user is enormous, The data and databases unmanageable. Neither can he carry a Supercomputer in his Knapsack, nor can he afford to keep it in his home. He would either way not use it to full capacity.

He can carry or keep on his desktop a Light Weight Affordable Viewer alone. Hence "Move the Computation Online".

The User of the future will say "Just gimme an Ajax". He will pay for the Results. Not a Supercomputer.

Webmaster Basics

posted Oct 30, 2011 8:06 PM by Anantha Narayan

I am putting back some of my old posts (~1999) after review and corrections. Excuse Spelling, Grammar and Content mistakes.

  • Keep information 3 clicks away to improve accessibility, have a search and site map too.
  • Html tables can be sized with % and not by pixels, so that it can resize according to different computers of say 1024*768 and 800*600. use pixels for single columns only or when you put all in a 740px limited page.
  • FTP not working use passive mode for fire walled sites. Use Filezilla.
  • Avoid frames even iframe of dhtml, use the noframes option. Main problem is that visitors cannot get back to your frames site after finding a nice page on the search engine, or keep a link on every framed page to home index.html with '_top'.
  • Webpages should be usable, at 1024*768 and 800*600. viewable by mozilla 1.0+ and IE5+, most used vga settings are 1024*768 high.
  • The KiloByte weight of a single web page with images, flash, js and css could be a max of 100 kb for up to 10,000 views per day, 200 kb for 1000 visitors per day, 500 kb if you have only 10 visitors per day. Due to bandwidth requirement of server and other bottlenecks. A page of 500 kb will cause great frustration to some users at busy times and poor connection. Use >1Mb pages only for Intranet or offline work.
  • Always keep your local website in one folder like 'myweb' all sub folders within that, to a large extent use lower case, 8.3 format like anewpage.htm, .html and .js etc. If you use long file names do not use space in file names or folders, try something like my-best-book.html.
  • Images should be like ../images/cat.gif or pictures/jug.jpg. not like file://d://myweb/images/cat.gif this will not work url should be 'relative' only or 'absolute' like http://www.sun.com/jug.png.

Widen Website Usability - Keep it Simple

posted Oct 30, 2011 8:03 PM by Anantha Narayan

The webpages you make should be verified in all major browsers. The pages, webapps, scripts and applets must work well in Linux, Mac and xp.

Making it very flashy, Animated DHTML navigation, etc. may impress a few but may be a big usability problems for some visitors, search engines also will have trouble indexing your pages. Avoid too much frames and scripts too, use some CSS. DHTML-CSS generation in some Wysiwyg work only in certain browsers and OS - Beware.

  • The Pages must be Viewable by 800*600 and 1024*768 Monitors.
  • The PNG transparency must work for few versions of all above browsers.
  • The Main Pages must load quickly for users of Broadband and Dial-up-Networking.
  • Very Big Jpeg, Pdf, Mpeg, Flash, mp3 or Webapps must load only on Request.
  • A Menu / Toolbar, Breadcrumb, sitemap and a search to Navigate and Return.
  • Appropriate Meta-Tags, Proper title wth not more that 6 or 7 words.
  • An About-Blog-Cell in Main Page to indicate in short what the website is for.
  • An easily Accessible Online email form to contact you easily.
  • A clear indication of who is the webmaster or company behind website.
  • The Font size should not shrink and become unreadable on some browsers.
  • light background preferable with dark 12px font or better.
  • Inform in advance, pages about cookies, activex and java that needs information.
Widen Website Usability - Keep it Simple.

AI Applications to query Search Engines

posted Oct 21, 2011 7:43 PM by Anantha Narayan

AI or artificial intelligence applications could be used to generate the search string to the search engines, this may help simple people get what they want in the internet, without having to rack their grey matter to improve their search results. The strength of a AI application depends on a human built database of knowledge with a capability to learn thru internet or by collaborative computing.

Then i have a small AI - DOS based program made by Greg Leedberg which works pretty well, it is called daisy, i taught it many things for over a year, now it comes up with interesting things, i have never heard about.

(Idea - Oct-05, Posted in Ideas Blog, Revised again - 4 April 2008, Nature - Open Source SAN Gear )

Secure Search - Encrypted Search

posted Oct 21, 2011 7:42 PM by Anantha Narayan   [ updated Nov 13, 2011 8:00 PM ]

When we search and get the results the keywords and results can be monitored in the network. In some cases : examples - a researcher working on a sensitive topic, an inventor gathering data for his next innovation.

When a competing firm or group gets the keywords and results, they will be ahead in getting their products to the Market.

The technology is similar to Enterprise Search, but Secure Search is a search that has all web content with a subscribed access, SSL and encrypted 'like' gui-keywords-results.

Researchers, Companies and Inventors can subscribe and keep ideas and study Secret !

( Idea date :10:11 9-Jul-08, Person : Anantha Narayan, Dedicated to : Google)

Universal Sound and Music Browse Plugin

posted Oct 21, 2011 6:21 AM by Anantha Narayan

Playing various sound formats on the browser is a difficult experience for many. Even just midi and mp3 within browsers is difficult sometimes. Most plugins require big supporting software and frequent updates.

The adobe swf and flv plugin seems to integrate well with all browsers and is small and quick to update-setup. If small and medium mp3 and midi can be converted to swf or flv and played hidden in the webpage it could make integrating of sound in pages easy. So we need a midi to swf converter or a new flash sound only format like FLS, Flash Sound ?

Idea of Anantha Narayan - SAN Gear - 16:30 14-Feb-08

Google Reader in Content Presentation

posted Oct 21, 2011 6:20 AM by Anantha Narayan

Google Reader can be used as a Dynamic Content Presentation tool in Plain html pages. This has to be used in combination with Ajax Api and your Blog's Feed Set to Full. It has an advantage that only browsers with JavaScript enabled can view content. Then Search engines may not be able to index it.

Each site has to have its own Unique API Key, A Key on a top level domain may work on folders and subdomains. This is my learning. Once you make tags in reader make the tags public and use the feed URL of the tags on different pages or sections. Now by just tagging your posts in reader you will present your pages to the visitors. A Small site can be managed without editing any page !. But i am not sure if this can be a CMS idea.

Reader also has a Share with note that can be published with ajax api. By using the Bookmarklet "Note in reader", you can just comment on nice pages on the web. Your note and a Teaser Snippet of that site will be seen on the Ajax page you made. Set Description to full.

( Idea date :11:21 Dec-15 2007, Person : Anantha Narayan, Type : Open Source)

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