by jaganath on January 10, 2008
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 of NewsGator products is their ability to sync with the server. Because of this, any feed you read will be marked so in all other NewsGator products you use. This was one reason I always used a web based feed reader. Native feed readers are much faster and responsive on mobile devices.
You can download NewsGator clients for mobile devices from here.
by admin on January 10, 2008
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 9 etc., Here are some of my favorites:
Clearlooks for XP
Imitates the clearlooks default theme of Gnome very well on your XP box! Makes your XP look like Ubuntu. Requires a patched
Amiga OS 4
Nice skin which emulates the look of Amiga OS 4 on Windows XP.
Vista
Yep. If you haven’t upgraded to Microsoft’s latest and greatest operating system, you can get a nearly identical theme with this transformation pack. Replaces almost every element of the desktop. Don’t miss this one!
by admin on January 10, 2008
TATA unveiled the one lakh car today and it met many people’s, including yours truly’s expectations. Instead of a toy car, TATA showed a very practical vehicle which will help many Indian families to upgrade from two wheelers. The reaction to this car has been mixed. As I wrote earlier, many people were worried about the consequences of introducing this car on Indian roads: Further congestions on the already jammed Indian streets, the questionable safety aspects of the car and the resultant increase in fuel prices. Tata has answered many of these questions convincingly.
I am writing this post mainly for the friends from western countries who question the need for such a car. Most questions are directed towards the safety aspects of it. What one should understand is that this car is for a family like the one below, who cannot afford to buy a four wheeler. As far as they are concerned, the TATA Nano is much much safer than driving on their two wheeler. The Nano is priced at Rs. One Lakh (US$ 2500), which is a very affordable price point for most Indian middle class families.
The traffic on Indian cities move at a pretty slow 25 mph most of the time, because of which fatal accidents are very low in number. The Nano has passed several crash tests, which should address the safety aspects very well.
Once again, kudos to TATA for achieving something which was dismissed as impossible by competitors.
Scooter Photo from http://nh80.eximie.net.
