Passion And Tech

I had a bad taste of someone forcefully pushing the "go online" mantra on me last week. We decided to go for Sakuni last week with a friend's family and decided to check ticket availability online at a movie hall near our house called qcinemas . qcinemas had promptly outsourced on-line booking to bookmyshow.com and when I checked the ticket price, they were charging a whopping 11% service tax for on-line booking. Being closer to the movie hall, I decided to just drive there to book the tickets directly. While waiting in the queue, I checked bookmyshow to confirm that the seats I wanted are indeed available. To my utter horror, the system there did not show those seats as available and when asked, the guy at the counter coolly replied that those are allocated for on-line booking and told me to book online if I really wanted those seats. Since I had travelled all the way, I just bought the available seats from the counter. While I'm a big fan of online p...

With due respect to all my friends with whom I love to keep in touch, of late there's just too much of clutter in the automatic "app" updates I see on my news feed. I want to know if someone has visited Australia and posts pictures, but not from some app that keeps posting apps on their behalf. Same is the case with horoscope, health, cocktail tips.. and the list just goes on. A humble request to all my friends. Please turn off all app notifications so that your friends can see only meaningful posts from you. There are tons of articles on the net on how to do this and I have listed a few below. Use these to either block out unwanted app updates on your news feed and/or block apps from posting on your behalf. Lets keep facebook a place for meaningful, personalized updates How to block all Facebook Applications from your news feed Facebook Tip – Blocking Unwanted Applications on Your Wall Feed