Saranjith S

Name: Saranjith

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Panoramic Shots Of Our Campus

March 25th, 2011

These photos were taken using Samsung Galaxy Tab.

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Panoramic Shot of the College Building

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Panoramic Shot of the College Interior

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Giving It A Retro Touch

February 3rd, 2011

Giving it a retro touch

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Manage Your WordPress Blog Using WordPress For Nokia App.

November 11th, 2010

Good news!!! WordPress has released their official app for Nokia. WordPress for Nokia can be downloaded from the OVI Store. This app allows the user to Create/Delete posts, pages, or simply manage comments using their mobile phone. This application is compatible with S60 Devices and also Maemo powered Nokia Devices(N900).

WordPress For Nokia also has an inbuilt blog statistics analyzer, which makes it possible for the user to manage the site traffic and also analyze how their blog is performing. The blog visits can be tracked and counted. WordPress for Nokia provides an option for the users to add pictures and videos to their blog quickly and easily. This feature may experience some technical difficulties at the moment. But it seems that the developers are trying to get things right. A better version can be expected soon. Refer to this forum for more information(http://dev.nokia.wordpress.org/).

You can even manage your account on Amritaayanam using this application, as it is powered by WordPress!

Some screenshots

Editing a post

Editing a Page

Analyze The Blog Statistics

Compatible Devices: N8-00, C7-00, C6-01, X6-00, C6-00, N97, 5800 XpressMusic etc.

Download it from Ovi Store: WordPress For Nokia
Happy Blogging!!

(Images Courtesy: http://nokia.wordpress.org/)

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Mafia Car

October 21st, 2010

Mafia Car: Miniature Photography

Photo was taken on Sony Cybershot DSC W210. An extra light source was provided with an emergency lamp, covered with white paper.

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Alloy Wheels

October 20th, 2010

Alloy Wheels: Miniature Photography

Photo taken on Sony Cybershot DSC W210, in Macro Mode.

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Standing Tall

September 30th, 2010

A view of Amritapuri Flats on a cloudy evening.
More can be found at my photoblog: Perspective

Standing Tall

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Steve Jobs At Email War With College Journalism Student

September 21st, 2010

Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs, the CEO of Apple INC, is popularly known for replying to random emails coming to his personal Apple email address (sjobs@apple.com). Recently, Chelsea Kate Isaacs ,a college journalism student from Long Island emailed him about a problem she had with Apple’s PR department. Jobs’ response? “Leave us alone.” Seems ironic doesn’t it? Lets dig more into what had actually happened between the two.

The Reason:

Long Island University senior Chelsea Kate Isaacs, 22, emailed Jobs Thursday with a complaint: Her journalism professor had assigned her a story on a new initiative at her college to buy iPads for all incoming students. She wanted to get a quote from Apple about the use of iPads in academic settings. But when she repeatedly called Apple’s PR department, leaving six voice messages, they never got back to her. I would like to say Dell in this case, is far better! You give them one call and you’ll be receiving replies from at least 3 salespersons. All you have to do is CHOOSE!

The War Begins

Steve n Isaacs

“My friend just jokingly suggested I email Steve Jobs,” Isaacs says. “I wrote him a long email not expecting that he would get back to me”. Isaacs wasn’t expecting a response.

The lengthy email she had sent was more of a symbolic vent: Isaacs explained her situation, expressing frustration that Apple, which markets itself heavily to college students, refused to help her in completing her assignment. She wrote:

Mr. Jobs, I humbly ask why Apple is so wonderfully attentive to the needs of students, whether it be with the latest, greatest invention or the company’s helpful customer service line, and yet, ironically, the Media Relations Department fails to answer any of my questions which are, as I have repeatedly told them, essential to my academic performance.

To Isaacs wonder, she got a reply from Jobs. (Isaacs assures us these emails are “100% real, authentic and unchanged.” A couple of technically-savvy people who looked over the email headers said they look legit.) About half an hour later he sent her this curt response:

Our goals do not include helping you get a good grade. Sorry

There! Isaacs found his reply unprofessional to a greater extent. According to her, Steve Jobs, even though he made Apple and all, lacks professionalism in some areas. Irritated with this, Isaacs responded

I never said that your goal should be to “help me get a good grade.” Rather, I politely asked why your media relations team does not respond to emails, which consequently, decreases my chances of getting a good grade. But, forget about my individual situation; what about common courtesy, in general —- if you get a message from a client or customer, as an employee, isn’t it your job to return the call? That’s what I always thought. But I guess that’s not one of your goals.

As a reply to this, Steve Jobs said,

Nope. We have over 300 million users and we can’t respond to their requests unless they involve a problem of some kind. Sorry.

It seems like Steve Jobs was doing the scoring part of the game!

The Final Stage: Coup de grâce

As an Apple customer, Isaacs felt as if she was being ridiculed! So she decided to send him another mail.

She wrote:

You’re absolutely right, and I do meet your criteria for being a customer who deserves a response:

1. I AM one of your 300 million users.

2. I DO have a problem; I need answers that only Apple Media Relations can answer.

Now, can they kindly respond to my request (my polite and friendly voice can be heard in the first 5 or 10 messages in their inbox). Please, I am on deadline

At around 6:27pm, Pacific Standard Time, Steve Jobs delivered his Coup de grâce a.k.a Final Deathblow in a single line email.

Please leave us alone.

Stone Cold Steve

Cold one.. ain’t it? :-/

“Under no circumstances should a person who runs a company speak to a customer that way,” she said. “I’m just enraged and I want people to know this was done.”

Joking aside, this is especially hilarious for anyone who covers tech, because its known that Apple’s PR team usually doesn’t respond to professional media outlets – so the thought of them responding to a student might puts a toothy grin on every tech savvy journalists’s face!

But look at the brighter side. Isaacs, you got a reply from the legend himself!

Fix it yourself

For those who really wanna read the whole email thread, see below.

The entire thread between Chelsea Kate Isaacs and Steve Jobs

(Read from the bottom up)

From: Steve Jobs

To: XXXX@my.liu.edu

Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 18:27:36 -0700

Subject: Re: Mr. Jobs – Student Journalist Concerned about Apple’sMediaRelations Dept.

Please leave us alone.

Sent from my iPhone

On Sep 16, 2010, at 5:32 PM, XXXX@my.liu.edu wrote:

> You’re absolutely right, and I do meet your criteria for being a customer who deserves a response:

>

> 1. I AM one of your 300 million users.

> 2. I DO have a problem; I need answers that only Apple Media Relations can answer.

>

> Now, can they kindly respond to my request (my polite and friendly voice can be heard in the first 5 or 10 messages in their inbox). Please, I am on deadline.

>

> I appreciate your help.

>

>

> Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile

>

> ——-Original Message——-

> From: Steve Jobs

> Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 17:10:12

> To: XXXX@my.liu.edu

> Subject: Re: Mr. Jobs – Student Journalist Concerned about Apple’s

> MediaRelations Dept.

>

> Nope. We have over 300 million users and we can’t respond to their requests unless they involve a problem of some kind. Sorry.

>

> Sent from my iPhone

>

> On Sep 16, 2010, at 4:37 PM, XXXX@my.liu.edu wrote:

>

>> Thank you for your reply. I never said that your goal should be to “help me get a good grade.” Rather, I politely asked why your media relations team does not respond to emails, which consequently, decreases my chances of getting a good grade. But, forget about my individual situation; what about common courtesy, in general —- if you get a message from a client or customer, as an employee, isn’t it your job to return the call? That’s what I always thought. But I guess that’s not one of your goals. Yes, you do have a creative approach, indeed.

>> Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile

>>

>> ——-Original Message——-

>> From: Steve Jobs

>> Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:19:13

>> To: XXXX@my.liu.edu

>> Subject: Re: Mr. Jobs – Student Journalist Concerned about Apple’s Media

>> Relations Dept.

>>

>> Our goals do not include helping you get a good grade. Sorry.

>>

>> Sent from my iPhone

>>

>> On Sep 16, 2010, at 3:22 PM, XXXX@my.liu.edu wrote:

>>

>>> Dear Mr. Jobs,

>>>

>>> As a college student, I can honestly say that Apple has treated me very well; my iPod is basically the lifeline that gets me through the day, and thanks to Apple’s Final Cut Pro, I aced last semester’s video editing project. I was planning to buy a new Apple computer to add to my list of Apple favorites.

>>>

>>> Because I have had such good experiences as a college student using Apple products, I was incredibly surprised to find Apple’s Media Relations Department to be absolutely unresponsive to my questions, which (as I had repeatedly told them in voicemail after voicemail) are vital to my academic grade as a student journalist.

>>>

>>> For my journalism course, I am writing an article about the implementation of an iPad program at my school, the CW Post Campus of Long Island University.

>>>

>>> The completion of this article

>>> is crucial to my grade in the class, and it may potentially get published in our university’s newspaper. I had 3 quick questions regarding iPads, and wanted to obtain answers from the most credible source: Apple’s Media Relations Department.

>>>

>>> I have called countless times throughout the week, leaving short, but detailed, messages which included my contact information and the date of my deadline. Today, I left my 6th message, which stressed the increasingly more urgent nature of the situation. It is now the end of the business day, and I have not received a call back. My deadline is tomorrow.

>>>

>>> Mr. Jobs, I humbly ask why Apple is so wonderfully attentive to the needs of students, whether it be with the latest, greatest invention or the company’s helpful customer service line, and yet, ironically, the Media Relations Department fails to answer any of my questions which are, as I have repeatedly told them, essential to my academic performance.

>>>

>>> For colleges nationwide, Apple is at the forefront of improving the way we function in the academic environment, increasing the efficiency of conducting academic research, as well as sharing and communicating with our college communities.

>>>

>>> With such an emphasis on advancing our education system, why, then, has Apple’s Media Relations team ignored my needs as a student journalist who is just trying to get a good grade?

>>>

>>> In addition to the hypocrisy of ignoring student needs when they represent a company that does so much for our schools, the Media Relations reps are apparently, also failing to responsibly handle the inquiries of professional journalists on deadlines. Unfortunately, for a journalist in the professional world, lacking the answers they need on deadline day won’t just cost them a grade; it could cost them their job.

>>>

>>> Thank you very much for your time and consideration.

>>>

>>> Sincerely,

>>>

>>> Chelsea Kate Isaacs

>>> Senior

>>> CW Post – Long Island University

>>>

>>> Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/09/tweet-of-the-day-3/

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Time Machine

September 18th, 2010

Like my friend Ben Jacob once said, “Agreed.. This thing eats all our time.. :/ Those who made it added only numbers upto 12. “ Time- the main thing we are running short of these days.

Time Machine

Pieces of conversation like “Dude.. did you do the assignment? “, “Dude did u hear about the online test we are gonna have today?” makes me feel uneasy. One or two in the class will manage to cop up with all the hullabaloo going around. Seriously when it comes to my case, even multitasking ain’t helping me out. By the time we have the semester exams, we’ll be all done with these stuffs and when we take a look at the “Time“, we get to realize the fact that somebody had already blew the whistle a lot earlier!

TIME’S UP!!

I hope someone manages to come up with a post on effective time management. (naah.. not really! )

The photo presented here was taken with Sony Cybershot DSC W210.
More can be found at my photo blog: Perspective

I blog at

http://saranspot.blogspot.com

http://clickr.posterous.com

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Amateur Photography

September 17th, 2010

All the photos presented here were taken with Sony Cybershot DSC W210.

More can be found at my photo blog: Perspective.

Calmness:- Idukki Dam As Seen From Cheruthoni Reservoir

Beauty of Palakkad: A Scene from Palakkad-Pollachi Highway

Walk On a Misty Evening- Captured at Azheekkal Beach

The Beauty Of Idukki

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In and Around Vallikavu- Part II

September 15th, 2010

Here’s the second part of the series of photos, that i took while roaming around in Vallikavu. The first part can be found here. All the photos presented here were taken with Sony Cybershot DSC W210.

More can be found at my photo blog: Perspective.