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Bill Gates’ retirement plans

9 Jan

My uncle from the US sent me this link and I had a hearty laugh watching the video which Bill Gates showed the audience at CES 2008 show. It’s a small video he created with his office colleagues and some industry experts on his retirement plans. It became more interesting to post it here, when [...]

Things I could change in my i-mate

14 Dec

It’s been more than a year now since I have been using the i-mate JAM. I love this phone and I have been a very "happy satisfied user". But there are certain glitches or features missing which I wish could have been changed. If you assign a particular tune to a contact in your address [...]

Access files & programs quickly

11 Oct

I am sharing two applications which I think can be great tools on the desktop. ObjectDock This is a little hidden bar at the top or bottom of your screen which when triggered gives you a complete menu of application/folder icons to quickly access them without having to bother going to the Start> All Programs [...]

Everybody wants to work at Google

19 Sep

Yes, Google gets 1300 resumes every day. And you can’t be surprised why, with all the lovely perks on offer. Go take a look. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd6BPhJjYL4[/youtube] Also see the Time special: Life in the Googleplex Photo Essay

Beauty of flickr on your computer

24 Jul

If you browse the interesting photos at flickr! you’ll be amazed at some of the most beautiful shots which people capture and share online. It’s amazing I must say. You could spend hours browsing through because there is an update daily. But then who has so much of free time on hand, right? So, I [...]

Employees are getting free iPhones

12 Jul

Last evening I read somewhere on the net that Steve Jobs of Apple gave away 8GB iPhones FREE to all it’s 17,000+ Apple full-time employees. Now you may call it a smart move to increase word of mouth publicity, engage user experience and everything – But a product like the iPhone surely doesn’t need anything [...]

iPhone – I can do with one

6 Jul

We’ve all been hearing about this big one coming in soon. And now it’s here – Apple’s iPhone. It’s crazy how people go hysterical spending hours in the lines to be the first one to lay their hands on such beauties. What’s the psyche: Me first? See all the crazy things fans are up to [...]

Microsoft Office Bus

14 Jun

If you live in one of the major cities of India, you’ll know that most office-goers have a tough time commuting between office and home. Either you get squeezed in public transport or the pain of driving through the traffic wants you to leave the car home and hop into a cab. But here is [...]

floola – an iPod manager

29 May

Thanks to Floola I can now hear songs from my iPod songs on my office PC without having to move them all to my hard disk. Floola is a helpful utility because it makes your songs much more manageable. At home, my sister uses iTunes to transfer songs to the iPod, but then I use [...]

Are you ready for FREE broadband?

26 Apr

Times Of India reports that if the government for once becomes serious about their ambitious plans all Indians will be offered free, high-speed broadband connectivity by 2009, through state-owned telecom service providers BSNL and MTNL. Now that is something so cool, but instead why don’t they go the US way and make the cities of [...]