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Kindle, I like you the old way

30 Sep

This week Amazon launched 3 new varieties of the Kindle. So now, besides the Kindle Keyboard there is also the Kindle, Kindle Touch and Kindle Fire. I haven’t done a product test, but I have been a Kindle Keyboard 3G for just about a year now and here is my take from what I see [...]

Two months with the Blackberry Curve 8520

9 May

It’s too late to write a review on Blackberry Curve 8520. So, this post intends to share my experience of using the Blackberry for a couple of weeks during my stay in Kenya. I’ve been a satisfied user of Nokia phones for more than 6-7 years now. I also used the iMate Jam for about [...]

Kindle – the ebook reading experience

21 Dec

If there is something wonderful about Christmas it’s the massive discounts and special deals. So the awesome offer at Amazon for their Latest Generation Kindle was not missed and my wife made sure she got me one to end the year on a high note. It’s been about a week that I have spent tweaking [...]

5 super tools which power my office PC

6 Jul

It’s often seen that people spend too much time doing the most basic computing operations. Here is a list of some of my favourite tools which power my PC at work. Launchy Always a problem finding the right file? Look no further. Launchy has been the most useful piece of software to get me directly [...]

A week with the MacBook Pro

8 May

After an almost 2 year contemplation of taking the leap, last month I bit into the Apple. Using the latest edition 13″MacBook Pro for about a week now. This is not intended to be a review, there are better experts out there who will tell you more about it. I am only going to share [...]

Dad’s Sony Walkman

2 Jul

Yesterday I read that the Sony Walkman completed 30 years. Got digging into my cupboard to search for the model which my dad had purchased around that time. Dad says he bought this walkman in April 1979 from Dubai, and supposedly this was the first model to hit the market there. So it’s a proud [...]

Use your iPod to run a photo show on TV

2 Jun

You’ve got a zillion songs in there, a weekend full load of movies. But how about gettting your ipod to do some photo shows for your dear ones to see the latest holiday photos on that big TV in your living room. This article at Apple’s website, will help you just do that bit. And [...]

Monday Mumble: Can localised SMS marketing work?

10 Nov

Bluetooth proximity marketing is something which I have enjoyed experiencing on every instance. However the technology has limitations due to it’s short range and the fact that users need to have their Bluetooth activated and also devices set to “discoverable” mode. So going back to something I read a few years back about mobile towers [...]

Lessons from Digital Media Panel Discussion

20 Oct

After a really long time I signed myself into attending a seminar which was not related to my job. I attended the panel discussion on Digital Media at IIT Powai, organised by WATBlog. I must commend them for the efforts put in organising a bus from Andheri to the venue in the wake of the [...]

Clean up a corrupted .NET installation

9 Feb

If your PC experiences trouble with a .NET framework I figured it’s kind of difficult to solve it by a simple Uninstall/Install. So I had to search really hard for a solution which helped me get the .NET programs working once again. This should be the kind of error message you should get if you [...]