Ritesh on Jul 10th, 2011Panacea – Augmented Reality Contacts Management and Location Service
Panacea was the first android application that I helped envision and build. The obnoxious sounding name stems from the fact that we were trying to solve a lot of problems using the application. The team comprised of Navneet, Manohar and Nikhil and I. Here is what the application does. “Panace is an Augmented Reality application [...]
Ritesh on Aug 7th, 2009Whats common between Free online ads and Open source
Disclaimer: I am not an Open Source hater. In fact, I am quite the opposite. I believe that for a innovative software marketplace to exist, there must be an equal mix of open and closed source softwares. This also borders on a project that I did on multiagent systems. There are claims that Open Source [...]
Ritesh on Apr 13th, 2009Limitations and Challenges in Cloud Computing for Applications
I was supposed to be involved in a discussion about cloud computing at Cloudcamp Bangalore, but due to other commitments, I could not attend the event. I had a small writeup about the limitations and challenges in Application clouds. Here is the full text of it. Cloud Computing is a way of providing dynamically scalable [...]
Ritesh on Mar 27th, 2009Moffe – My own friendfeed emulator.
I started using friendfeed recently and have been using ff to post links and other interesting artifacts I find on the net. The ease with which I can post links from ff not only increased my posts on ff, and indirectly on twitter, but also the frustration of my friends. Now instead of going directly [...]
Ritesh on Aug 6th, 2008More Y! – Search for the widescreen
Don’t you hate it that your favorite search engine cannot realize that you are using a widescreen or a theatrical display and still shows you ten measly results ? Well, I do and I sat down yesterday to fix it. The result is More Y! – a widescreen optimized search. Wait, before you make any [...]

