I am obsessed to “Indian Ocean” music

It all started from their “Black Friday” album. Ohh what jazzy background score. The one Chase number from black Friday is amazing. So after getting grooved into Black Friday album, had planned to listen to some of their other Albums, Kandisa and Jhini…. Music of these albums were better and very catchy. True mixture of Jazz, rock and classical, every song starts with a slow pace and ends with high note. The voice of guitar, drum beats and not to forget the Tabla and Dholak mixture will make you go mad.

Simply irresistible….. music of theirs grow on and on as you listen every time.

Check out their official website http://www.indianoceanmusic.com

“Lekin” Film Album - Extraordinary music

I still remember this film album had come at around 90s and we (our family) loved the album so much that our Audio Cassette got spoilt and we bought it again. We even bought a CD after some 5 years of its release. Such was the album songs of it… simply extraordinary music. Even still I hear that in my mobile.

The trio of Mangeshkar’s created magic in that album. True usage of Hindustani classical music touch with a tadka of folk and a bit ghazaly touch. Hridaynath, Lata and Asha produced their life in all the songs. If anyone gets a chance download it and listen.

Checklist for a better intranet portal

How many times have you abused your intranet ? How many times do you feel that the intranet would have been much more better than the existing ? Thats what I also feel after looking at out company portal. People generally don't take intranets seriously because they think why waste money and resources on internal portal. But as the employee increases the need of putting up robust intranet is must. Here is Checklist to a better intranet

• List out all the tasks done by users
• Try grouping each task and give title to each group
• Prepare a rough sitemap after you group each items
• Separate task (links) and information (content)
• Prioritize each groups based on its high usage and criticality
• Place all the groups and Information in a paper and give it a structure
• Once the structure is ready, copy the same and make a draft design (wireframe)
• Take one group and try to make a flow of each task (start to end).You will end up finishing navigation for one task
• Try the same with other groups.
• Collate all and make a detailed draft and run the same in sequence, show it to some of the users and take feedback from them and see how well you can improve.
• After that you jump to creative design, converting the wireframes to design (Now you don’t have to worry about what will come here and there because you have your structure ready and you just have to concentrate on visual design)
• Finally after you complete the design process, concentrate on HTMLising
  Make CSS based layout so that your layout will be flexible to change.
  Try coming up reusable HTML templates, so that you don’t have to rework on the new modules or pages.
• Finally don’t forget to make a STYLE guide and SITEMAP of the entire portal