Author: Dushyant Shrikhande

Dushyant is a technophile. He's an android aficionado, and loves playing videogames. He loves writing and hopes to be a tech journalist. (Seriously, he dreams of getting review units.) See him rant and occasionally tweet about tech here.

Mechanical keyboards have been mostly an enthusiast product, up until now. These days however, it’s a growing trend among gamers, writers, bloggers, programmers and people who tend to heavily use their keyboards. Mechanical keyboards in general have been known to reduce fatigue, and while most consumers don’t really pay attention to what sort of keyboard they buy, there are many who absolutely swear by them.  The only major gripe among customers though, is the price- all the benefits provided by these keyboards come at a premium, and a steep one at that. Dedicated gaming keyboards can retail anywhere upwards of…

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A look at the some not so popular yet absolutely compelling indie games you can (and must) play. There has been a lot of activity in the world of gaming recently- gaming expos, product launches and game announcements and releases. The past few months have seen a number of marquee titles being released, and in this barrage of the much touted and heavily marketed “AAA titles” there are some indie games that have flown under the radar of mainstream popularity, that are truly compelling and really make use of games as a medium to convey a solid message, unlike the…

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The internet – none of us can live without it. However, we are living with some pretty terrible net connectivity. How terrible? Well, a recent study by Akamai, a content delivery network which manages an internet content delivery system used by hundreds of major websites across the world, India ranks 114th in the world as far as connection speeds go, with the net average connection speed of the nation standing at a measly 0.9 Mbps. To put that into perspective, the global average connection speed is 12.5 Mbps. Only four other countries in the world – Libya, Nigeria, Nepal and…

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