Akshay Jain

OK, so I am studying Marxism in my class these days and frankly my intellectual capabilities fail to “digest” what this great philosophical work means. It is apparently an attempt to study and formulate a general behavior of societies and humans and their interactions with each other.

Now, I hardly care what that theory means (except for the fact that it should not come in my examinations).

I was browsing through the net and found this comic strip on one of the blogs. Somehow unable to comprehend Marx, I think that given my limited knowledge this is what he meant when he was deriving his theory.

(This is in no way what he meant. This is what I perceive that he meant )

(Image courtesy: TechCrunch.com)

So, one day after Scrabulous had been taken down by Scrable Inc. due to copyright infringement, the popular Facebook application is back with a bang.

The new Wordscraper game is designed completely differently in order to keep it really different from Scrable and even the rules have been twisted so that there are no copyright problems with the Scrable folks. Clearly it was a pre-planned move by the Indian brothers to launch Wordscraper Facebook application in the case of such a contigency.

Now the question arises whether the official Scrable (which will soon launch the Scrable app themselves) will be more popular or this twisted, brand-new brother of Scrabulous?

Lets see how this battle turns out?

The Apple Itunes 7.7.1 version was just released and I downloaded it. I tried really hard to look for the change log which would have told me what is new in this version, but I was unable to find any. Therefore, I would assume that this is just another “general” update which contains minor bugfixes.

Here are some observations that I make about it:

1. The number of application updates is not being correctly reported even in this version.
2. There is some problem with the thumbnails. Photo syncing with Iphone does not show the complete pictures. It just shows a boundary and no photo within. I think this could be a minor bugfix which we can expect to be resolved pretty soon.
3. The speed of the full backup / sync is still taking a long time atleast on my Ipod which makes this new upgrade practically a waste for me. I would have loved to stay at the previous version only.

Warning Before Upgrade:
If you have in any way engaged into the illegal / semi-legal (whateva) way of swapping apps then you should NOT upgrade to the latest version till further reports come in. The apple DRM was cracked recently in case you do not know.

Enjoy!