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Wordpress 2.5 widget management

The admin panel went through a major revamp in Wordpress 2.5. While most of the changes are welcome, IMHO, I think they made a mess of the widget management system. Gone is the ease of the drag and dropĀ  widget changing on the fly. Lets say if you want to move a widget from sidebar […]

HDR Photography with your N95 or N82

HDR photography has become a popular hobby and craze among many digital photography enthusiasts in the recent times. It is not that you need a high end Digital SLR to shoot these kind of pictures. Mobile phones with high quality cameras like the Nokia N95/N82 can help in creating some amazing HDR photographs. TheNokiaBlog has […]

Acer to acquire E-TEN

E-TEN, one of the little known Windows Mobile manufacturers, is going to be acquired by Acer. This is great news as E-TEN’s handsets will now get global exposure. In case you didn’t know, E-TEN makes some of the best Windows Mobile phones in the planet. IMHO, their E-TEN X800 is the best smart phone in […]

Browser Wars are back…

…but this time, it is in the mobile world. Web browsing on mobile devices always had its challenges. Smaller screen size and lower processing power meant limited browsing experience on the handset. Technologies like WAP came and went without much enthusiasm from end users. The reason for the failures are simple: Users expect the same […]

The Kindle Effect: Amazon drops e-Book downloads

For people living outside the United States, the best way to buy recently launched books is Digital downloads options provided by many online book vendors. Most of the time, Amazon used to launch the digital editions along with the paperback or hardcover editions. With the introduction of Kindle, Amazon’s e-Book reader, Amazon has dropped […]

ASUS EeePC vs Everex Cloudbook

Suddenly, the world is full of Ultraportable laptops with Open Source operating systems. First, the ASUS Eee PC took the UMPC market by storm. Now there are new choices coming in like the Everex Cloudbook. Here is a comparison of the Eee PC with the Everex Cloudbook. I will expand this post as new affordable […]

Online Electronics and Computer Retailers in India

According to statistics, Internet usage in India doubles every month. But the growth of e-commerce in the country is not that encouraging. For a nation with a population of more than one billion, a handful of online shops is all that we know of. Here are some of those that I found.
This is a ‘living’ […]

Howto: Configure Gmail IMAP on Nokia N95

Though Gmail provides a nice J2ME client for accessing email on your mobile device, some of you may prefer to use the IMAP interface, speed being one of the reason. Here is how I configured Gmail IMPAP on my Nokia N95. This may apply for other S60 v3 devices like N80, N73, N82, N93 etc., […]

NewsGator Go is now free!

As you may have noticed, NewsGator has made all their previously paid products free! This includes the mobile version of the NewsGator, NetNewsWire and FeedDemon. If you are looking for an RSS reader for your mobile, you can get NewsGator Go, which is available for Windows Mobile, Blackberry and Java enabled mobile phones.
A nice feature […]

Imitate other Operating Systems with Windows XP!

Because of its highly themable nature, it is pretty easy to make Windows XP look like other operating systems. The most popular XP transformation pack is flyakite, which makes your poor old XP installation look like Mac OS X. With the following themes, it is easy to make windows look like Ubuntu, Amiga, OS […]