Mac Book Air launched in India

February 14, 2008 by 1 Comment

Apple has launched it’s new product Mac Book Air in India. In next two weeks, the product will be available in all Apple Stores across country.

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Mac Book Air measures at 0.76 inches thickness as it’s front line feature. Well that feature comes with some sacrifice too. There will be no Optical Drive ! This optical drive comes at an additional cost of 5500 Rs which cannot be used with any other PCs or Laptops.

The Technical Specifications are as follows…

Screen Size : 13.3 inches (LED Backlit)

Processor : Intel Core 2 Duo

Hard disk : 4200rpm (slow) – 80 GB  – [ 64 GB Solid State Drive is Optional ]

Ethernet, Firewire, Media Card Slots – MISSING !

USB Drive : Just 1

Battery : Not Replaceable (like in iPod) 

Expected Price : 96,100 Rs.

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Receive your Phone calls on iPod

May 16, 2007 by Leave a comment

Think about this; you are in the world of music on your iPod and you get an urgent call. In most of the cases, you would definitely miss that call. How about if your iPod start receiving phone calls for you and display caller ID on iPod itself?

MYBLU enables you to address this exactly the way you want your iPod wanted to be.

MYBLU connects via your iPod and converts your iPod in to phone call receiver cum FM Radio too. Well it doesn’t require any batteries too.

The features are as follows

  • Receive and make calls on your iPod.
  • Plug ‘n’ Play with most Bluetooth enabled mobile phones.
  • Caller number ID displayed on the iPod screen.
  • Automatically pauses and resumes music durring incomming calls.
  • 15 preset and auto scan FM Radio.
  • Last 9 numbers redial from your iPod.
  • Voice dial when paired with supported Bluetooth phones.
  • Use your own headphones.
  • No need for batteries.

    • This cool gadget was priced at around 4450 Rs in India.

    If you are interested you can directly buy this gadget right from manufacturer.

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    Caller ID on your Watch – Fossil Bluetooth Watch

    April 21, 2007 by 2 Comments

    This is one great feature I always wish to have in my watch. Nothing but to check who is calling on my mobile right from my wrist watch, so that I don’t have to pick my mobile phone from pocket.

    Fossil has introduced a watch which can pick the Caller ID information right from your Bluetooth enabled mobile phone.

    This watch is compatible with most of the Sony Ericsson blue tooth enabled mobile phones and Symbion based phones.

    The Compatibility is as follows…

    • Sony Ericsson Bluetooth enabled mobile phones (K610, K610im, K618, K790, K800, W710, W850, Z610, Z710, P990, W950, and M600)
    • Series 60 phones using Symbian OS version 7, 8, and 8.1 (coming soon)…
    • More details here

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    Tracking multiple Time Zones from System Tray

    March 13, 2007 by 1 Comment

    Many times we struggle to track multiple timezones across globe, especially when there are lot of other side effects attached to that tracking such as Day Light Savings adjustments etc. But tracking multiple time zones has become an important part in almost all the people who work with business across globe.

    First thing you need to learn is the jargon of time zones…

    EST, EDT US Eastern Time New York
    CST, CDT US Central Time Chicago
    MST, MDT US Mountain Time Denver
    PST, PDT US Pacific Time Los Angeles
    BST British Summer Time London
    CET, CEST Central Europe Time Paris
    EET, EEST Eastern Europe Time Athens
    IST Indian Standard Time Hyderabad

    Now….There are multiple ways you can track time across globe…

    01. The Web Way..

    There are many cool web sites, where you can choose and track your time effectively. These web sites will take care of syncing with world time accurately for you including day light savings.

     can show you a list of all important cities and time at that particular instance of your visit. Alternatively you can a cool meeting planner too.

    World Time Zone Map shows you a map of important places around globe along with current time.

    GChart (what a weird name…) provides you a fantastic way to check the time of any location on earth using a mash-up built on google maps.

    02. The Desktop Way..

    If you are traveling with out Internet facility, you would want a cool, nifty desktop utility to track the time across globe..Isn’t it?

    mstime

    Microsoft Time Zone utility provides you a way to track 5 time zones at a time right from your desktop’s system tray as shown below. This download is only available for Genuine Windows Owners. The size of the download is below 800 kb and installs smoothly. It allows you to track up to 5 cities at any time. I will update this post if I find a better tool to track time zones.

    Note : Windows Vista comes with a gadget which you can use to track multiple time zones. You don’t have to install any additional software.

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    Robotic Dragon Fly is now takes off for customers

    February 9, 2007 by Leave a comment

    via : RobotsRule.com

    Calling all gadget lovers…grab your Dragon Fly, before the stocks are over at RadioShack 🙂

    Now you can order the famous RC Dragon Fly (CES fame) (built by WowWee, the cool Robot puppet makers) from Radio Shack’s website for just 50$.

    Features at a Glance

    • Flies about 10 minutes per 15 minute charge  (Requires 6 AA batteries)
    • Selectable bands: 27MHz or 49MHz
    • Control distance: 30 feet

    I am super excited about this and cant wait to grab one.

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    Hum your tune and search for the song…

    February 7, 2007 by 1 Comment

    I used to have a dream to have a gadget in hand (which I had recently discussed with one of my friends) where I can hum a bit from my favorite music. I want my little gadget to search the local on demand FM station database for that bit and get the streaming music back to my device. Everything in less than 10 seconds. Isn’t is a cool idea ? 🙂 But I had to convince myself that the Speech Recognition technology is still in labs of many universities, giant organizations like MSR labs and It is still not very mature enough to normalize millions of voices & accents around this world in to a standard voice protocol. That’s a bitter fact 😦

    Today I accidentally found this cool site which does a smart search for music by taking your voice input (humming bit) and will get back to you with the song you wanted to listen 🙂 …It’s a true WoW stuff. Click the below image to enjoy this.

    Search music by Voice

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    Amazon.com has published the Best Of 2006 List.

    December 29, 2006 by Leave a comment

    Now it’s amazon’s turn after PCMag to reveal what lied beneath thier customer’s heart. You can find the list here..

    Amazon.com Best of 2006 List

    Some of the interesting rankings…

    XBox 360 has got a berth in “Most Popular Gift Products”

    Best Selling DVD : Pirates of Caribbean – Dead Man’s Chest

    Best Selling Electronics : Apple iPods (what else?)

    Nintendo Wii has secured a place in Most Wished-For Products.

    Microsoft Flight Simulator X Deluxe has got it’s berth in Most Popular Gift Products.

    [Via CrunchGear]

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    Converting YouTube Videos to Zune Videos

    December 22, 2006 by 30 Comments

    Well, I got a White Zune (accidentally, in a raffle :-)). I was quite impressed with this gadget (I am a “Believe_me_I_never_used_iPod” type guy..) in my first looks. The interface was very cool with nice zoom out/in effects of background wallpaper.

    I quicky synced it with my local music store from my laptop. The experience of music and quality was awesome. But…I was shocked to see not all of my videos can be played directly by this player. Even the WMV yes, wmv files too. I thought, I can simply download all On-Demand technical webcasts to my zune and enjoy. But none of them are compatible with my shiny zune. smile_sad

    Then I looked at YouTube for videos. YouTube delivers videos as flash content. But I figured out a way to enjoy these YouTube videos on my Zune (100% free of cost solution). Here is the way I followed…

    01. Rip the video from YouTube

    YouTube uses flash media to display videos. This is called FLV content. To download the video as FLV content, I used YouTube Video Downloader. Once you install, start this application. It will start in your system tray. Right click on the icon and click on “New Download…”

    Copy the YouTube Video page URL as shown below…

    Use the default folder and name your video in “Rename” box, if you want to give it a different name. Otherwise the tool will pick the name from Video title itself.

    Copy the FLV file in to a folder, where you can play with tools.

    Note : A product tutorial is available with the developer of this tool here…

    02. Convert FLV files to MPEG-4 Video (MP4)

    To convert FLV files to MP4, I used a tool called “Super”. This is a true Super tool which can convert so many formarts of video to any type of video.

    Download SUPER

    Once you install SUPER, start it. You will see interface as follows…

    Configure this tool as follows (One time job)

    Select the Output Container : mp4 (MPEG-4)

    Select the Output Video Codec : MPEG-4

    Select the Output Audio Codec : AAC

    Video Scale Size : Leave this as NoChange (Maintains aspect ratio)

    Leave everything else as defaults.

    Now drag and drop the FLV files in to the space shown in the above picture by Arrow mark.

    Once you drop the files, the button “Encode (Active Job-List Files) will be activated. Click on it. Leave the tool until its job is done.

    Once the tool is done with job, You can find all the MP4 files copied to destination folder you mentioned in SUPER tool. (Right click in the file list and select “Specify Destination Folder” where you can select a destination folder).

    03. Sync the MP4 files to Zune

    Copy all these MP4 files to your My Documents/My Videos directory (where Zune checks for videos).

    Connect your Zune and start the Zune software. You can see the converted videos in the Zune software. Simple drag them in to Sync list of Zune Player and Click on “Start Sync”

    Thats it ! You are done.Now you can enjoy the YouTube videos on your Zune..:-)

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    Buy a Zune via Google for $20 less

    December 19, 2006 by 1 Comment

    Buy.com is selling Microsoft Zunes on thier website for a cool price $239.00 (atleast $10 compared to other merchants like staple and best buy. Wait…that’s not only the cool part of it.

    You buy it using Google Checkout and get $20 more discount. Wow..You can get the player for $219.00 effectively. 🙂

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    A mid air poiting device from Microsoft Research

    December 15, 2006 by Leave a comment

    Microsoft Research (MSR) has revealed a new mid air pointing device called “Soap”. Soap looks almost like a soap and feels too :-). This pointing device does not require a surface to identify user moves. Thus you can use this pointing devide in the air.

    [via Linux Devices] Soap, contains two main elements: a “lentil shaped” core, and an elastic hull that encloses the core.

    The core, made from two plastic hand sanitizer bottles, contains the functional elements of a wireless optical mouse with the sensor pointing outwards, according to the team. The hull (see illustration, below), made from a sock, encloses the core, which can move free inside the hull.

    Watch this cool demo of “Soap”.

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    Stumble at Videos now

    December 14, 2006 by 2 Comments

    User favourites sharing service StumbleUpon has launched the new venture mashup called “StumpleVideo“. This is a smart service which does’nt host even a single video, but certainly decides which video suits your taste.

    If you have’nt heard of Stumble Upon till now, you better go and install thier famous Stumble Toolbar and enjoy the most favourite web sites of the Internet world.

    Stumble Video does a collective information gathering and polling on various Videos (Google and Youtube etc) to provide top ranked videos all the time to the customer.

    All the videos are sorted in to categories called “Channels”. This makes StumbleVideo as a mini TV online to watch cool videos in one go with out searching for them. Very neat except the color they have chosen for website….I hardly can see anything on my screen. 😦

    More coverage @ Techmeme, TailRank

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    A mouse that floats (literally)!

    November 21, 2006 by Leave a comment

    Here comes the world’s first friction less mouse. This is really a craziest gadgest I have ever seen till now. This mouse uses electro maganetic field to float on the surface and makes it a best mouse for Gaming.

    Besides this feature, It has 6000 DPI optical engine with a aluminium metalized surface.

    Go get one for you 🙂

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    OmniDrive is here for you !

    November 10, 2006 by 3 Comments

    I am awaiting this moment since long. I have enrolled myself for a beta, but never happend to get an invitation till now. Today OmniDrive opened the doors for public and I am now happy 🙂

    OmniDrive is nothing but an Online drive to store your files of any type. Initially every account holder would get a 1 GB free space allocated. The best advantage of Omnidrive is the windows explorer extension. You can use OmniDrive right with in your Windows explorer just like any other drive. Xdrive also supports this kind of feature.

    TechCrunch praises OmniDrive as “Online Storage Perfection“.

    What are you waiting for? Dont waste time reading this stupid blog…go grab an account with OmniDrive :-).

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    Wired : Zune could become a serious threat to the iPod

    November 8, 2006 by Leave a comment

    Wired magazine’s blog has got hands on Zune atlast. Well, it was not very extensive review of the music player, but clears some of the stories webbed around Zune.

    Read more about the story at

    Hands-On with the Microsoft Zune (New Details Emerge)

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    How to take professional looking photos ?

    October 26, 2006 by 2 Comments

    With out a professional camera and a professional ? You must have seen some amazing effect in most of the professional photographer’s snaps. I used to wonder many times, how could I get that kind of effect and used to think I must buy a EOS/SLR camera for that along with cool lens and filters. I tried some of the tricks at my CoolClicks photoblog too.

    Today I happend to read this cool tutorial on How to create Professional looking photos with out a professional. Very interesting one. There are many tips for photographers as well.

    Read more here at Taking Professional Looking Photos Without a Professional

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    Indic support in Yahoo Messenger

    October 20, 2006 by 2 Comments

    Yahoo messenger has announced that it will be supporting Indic languages in thier new Yahoo messenger with Voice. Yahoo has come up with various plugins to support tabbed chatting and chatting in Indic languages like Hindi, Telugu, Marathi and Tamil. You can see how telugu plugin works in Yahoo messenger as shown below.

    yahoojoha

    You can download the Indic chat plugin “Jhol” from here.

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    Pick your SongBird to play the music

    October 16, 2006 by 1 Comment

    Get Songbird

    Songbird, a cool Open source & Cross platform desktop music player software is out to play all the music you wanted now. Songbirdnest has released the RC3 of Songbird 0.2 Just now.

    You can download the Songbird 0.2 RC3 here. and check the cool features too.

    Some of the coolest feature i liked are…

    Build Custom mixes….now you can become a DJ of your own room…

    Play the web …Treats webpages as playlists

    Super Slim Mini-Mode…Hide your player up to whatever size…

    Watch this screencast to learn more about this cool little bird…

    You know one thing? – It was build on the same platform as Fire Fox. smile_nerd

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    Next generation Fuel cells

    October 2, 2006 by 1 Comment

     

    These cute USB enabled cells can be charged fully by plugging in to any USB port available for 5 hours. Very creative ! Currently these fuel cells are available in UK for £12.00. Sized in AA, these Ni-MH batteries are 1.2 V, 1300 mAh powered.

    Read more at USBCell

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    Windows Live Writer and extended life…

    September 3, 2006 by 1 Comment

    Everyone loves plugins, and I am no different at all. I love most of the plugins when they come for free of cost and make my life more cooler. As of now I am eagerly hunting for few plugins for 2 different applications. Windows Live Writer is one of the most wanted.

    Today I found a great source for WLW plugins. wlwplugins.com lists out all available plugins for WLW with proper description and instructions to use them. A cool web site for a cool little app 🙂

    So far my favourite plugins are…

    01. Windows Live Writer from System Tray
    02. Insert Image from Flickr
    03. Insert Multiple tags

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    India is now 360’ed :-)

    June 9, 2006 by 1 Comment

    Microsoft today had announced the plans for XBOX 360 for Indian Market. Log on to www.indiaxbox.com.
    Pre-order Pack

    "Speaking at the launch, Ravi Venkatesan, Chairman, Microsoft India said“ We are extremely excited about the India launch of Xbox which hasundoubtedly been the most eagerly awaited consumer product. Also thislaunch underlines the strong India commitment that we have as a companyfor ensuring that our customers in India have access to the latest andbest-of-breed technology solutions that enhance their overall PCexperience.”

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