Archive for January, 2008
From military equipments to mobile phones, GPS has come a long way. As a natural progression, GPS chips are now finding their way into Digital camera’s too! Adding the lat and long data to the EXIF can help in preserving more memories and can also be a fun way to view all your JPEGs laid […]
January 31st, 2008 | Posted in info, mobile, photography | No Comments
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 […]
January 30th, 2008 | Posted in technology | No Comments
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’ […]
January 28th, 2008 | Posted in info, technology, tip | 6 Comments
Could not resist posting this. Try this theme on your N95 8GB. One of the best themes ever created for S60, IMHO. The beat bubble theme matches the N95 8GB’s aesthetics so very nicely. Didn’t look that impressive on a friend’s classic N95.
January 25th, 2008 | Posted in n95, tip | 2 Comments
If you are a GTD fan and purchased a Nokia N95 (or any S60 phone) you may be regretting your purchase now. That is because of the poor PIM implementation on these phones when compared to platforms like Windows Mobile and Palm. One of the main issues is that categories do not sync when you […]
January 23rd, 2008 | Posted in gtd, mobile, n95 | 2 Comments
Here is a really impressive video which shows how can you share media on a N95 8GB onto a Playstation 3 console. In a snap, your N95 8GB becomes a media server to share content with any other UPnP enabled device.
At about 3.00 minutes on the video, you can see the presenter pushing photographs from […]
January 22nd, 2008 | Posted in mobile, n95 | No Comments
Over at Symbian-Guru, dotisisx wrote a detailed write up on 10 things that S60 can learn from WM, based on her experience of using both the platforms. Coming from a similar background, (except that I switched from Windows Mobile to S60) I do have similar sentiments about the Windows Mobile platform.
Because of its excellent Outlook […]
January 21st, 2008 | Posted in mobile, windows | 4 Comments
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., […]
January 18th, 2008 | Posted in mobile, n95, technology | 13 Comments
For a product that has the name TV attached to it, its a shame that it cannot play or record live TV. While Apple is trying to get more users interested in this product by the way of reducing the price and adding features like direct download, the missing tuner card is one factor which […]
January 16th, 2008 | Posted in apple | No Comments
Beginning first week of January every year, everyone and his grandma start predicting about new announcements that his Steveness will make on his keynote address at the MacWorld. This year, the net is abuzz with the AirBook rumors.
Not to be left behind, let me too make my predictions for this year’s MacWorld, which is just […]
January 15th, 2008 | Posted in apple | No Comments