With new versions Microsoft is also introducing new packaging for the much awaited vista and office 2007. Packaging is very nice and looks convenient to keep dvd protected but is also reminds me of the corn flakes packaging
The Saint B is an MP3 player concept out of Russia. It is a player inspired by the original Christian Symbol, The Cross. The player charges via a usb and has an earphone plug placed around the armpits of the cross.
But the big question is can anyone wear the sacred cross.??
Here is another of the star wars products from the Mimoco , this time it is Chewbacca USB. It is second in series of the characters first one was the Darth Vader’s USB. The Flash Drive is available in 1GB, 2GB, and 4GB capacities and comes bundled with exclusive Star Wars content.
The product will be officially releases in Jan –07 and prices range between $ 80 to $170. Pre order can be done now.
Firefox has released add-ons for the latest version 2.0 . There are lot of new additions like blue organizer (I reviewed it earlier) , yoono, jajah. The one I found out most interesting was Cooliris .
I clicked on settings in my blogger account and the page popped out
It enables us to do fast browsing as now there is no need to click on any link and go to that particular page using cooliris lets you to simply set the mouse on the link and see the content immediately. In short it reduces back buttons clicks and dead links visits. It works on IE, Firefox and safari browsers.
Today i checked my orkut account after 4-5 days and found out a new addition to it, Join Now option which directs to another page in which one can create an profile without invitation . This will probably lead to increase in the number of users from different countries, presently Brazilians dominates in making accounts on orkut india is far behind. This will also help in increasing the google's adds revenues .
If you have forgotten to charge your phone and you are on the move and have to arrange some important meetings and is waiting for your girl friend’s call. Motorola P790 will solve your problem; it fits in the mini usb port of your Motorola phone and gives you two full charges. Later on you can charge the device with the help of its adaptor. Price is not yet decided and it will be launched in November.
The slider of this cell phone is made from ivory. It is heavily priced at over $20,000 dollars and only six such cell phones are made and these are only available in china. Spending power of Asians rising !!!
Google has launched the literacy project in association with the Litcam and Unseco. It is a resource for anyone interested in reading and education. Google has just bundled six of its existing applications namely
Book Search Use Google Book Search to find books about literacy, reading promotion, and education.
Scholar In scholar one can search for literacy-related content across many disciplines and sources like theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.
Video See what the literary organizations are doing and one can also upload his/her videos
Map It can be used to locate literary organizations
Blogger One can share his/her knowledge by starting a blog, or browse through the existing blogs on education.
Groups Discover forums on literacy projects and ideas, or start your own debate in groups like book club, child literacy and many others.
U2 lead singer bono and show host Oprah Winfrey unveiled the ‘iPod nano red’, which is another product in the red product team. The 4GB capacity iPod priced at $199, $10 from each sale will go the product red charity which will be used to help women and children in Africa whose life is blighted by the curse of HIV/AIDS epidemic. Other companies that have so far stepped up with PRODUCT RED offerings include the Gap, American Express, Armani, Converse, and Motorola.
So now those guys who are planning to buy iPod buy a red one for the noble cause.
After the grand success of pre-orders of the PS3’s sony has just begun airing commercials for the PS3’s in north America with first one being titled = ‘The Wait’. Last week around 30,000 to 57,000 PS3’s we pre-ordered. PS3 is expected to cost around $612-$734
FreeTubeallows us to watch live TV. It has about 200 channels categorized in various sections like sports, news, business news and so on. My net speed is not that fast so I am not able to watch fully live but there is very little lag in the sound so at least one can hear the sound. I checked the cnn-ibn channel sound was pretty clear and picture was lagging.
Here is one screen shot, it is showing streaming place blank here..
Yes you are reading correctly it is 64GB sixty four… giga bytes flash drive by BUSLink. But it is very costly 64GB priced at $5000, I don’t know who will buy that because we can have two awesome laptops at the same price.Apparently they've also got a 32GB (not shown) and 16GB drive for $1,500.
There is one more manufacturer of the jumbo size drives Kanguru. This one is cheaper priced at around $2800.
Till now I had heard about the camera phone having 3.2MP only but was shocked to see a 10MP Samsung camera SCH-B600. The phone looks like a digital camera on one side and phone on other side.
Phone Features are:
10MP
3x optical zoom 5x digital zoom
auto focus and flash
manual focus
burst mode
TV input jack to connect straight to TV
MP3 player
Bluetooth
And many other features
The phone is available in korea only for 900,000 won or Rs 41,000 approximately
Microsoft has just released the commercial of their Xbox HD-DVD titled "B Boys" to be releases soon, It’s another step toward the ongoing war between HD DVD and blue ray.
But the big question is will the XBOX able to survive the onslaught of PS3 and Nintendo to be launched this November?
Google has just launched Google Docs application which is just integration of writely and Google spreadsheets. The new site now shows all the spreadsheets documents and writely documents in a single list. This is another shot towards the Microsoft’s cash cow office and towards other online office suites competitors like zoho.
I will review it later but will write about the one feature that I tested on it that is converting your email, word or any others documents to pdf format online using the Google docs.
On logging to the Google docs you will get a unique id where you can email your documents. One can also upload the documents using the upload feature.
After sending the mail you will receive a email from the Google server which would contain a link to the document.
Open the document and use save as pdf, word or other options to save your documents.
I don’t see it’s extensive use in a country like India where net access is still very less compared to population, slowly these application particularly web 2.0 will be used extensively here.
These nice wooden usb’s are made by the Netherlands based company Oooms. The sticks stand out against the natural techie environment of computers and offices. The sticks are picked from the woods and are manually selected on their natural beauty, professionally handmade into unique and personal USB memory sticks. Available in 250mb, 512mb and 1Gb sizes, costs between 45 to 70 Euros.
Hearing about the most expensive trailer raises the expectation bar to a new level, but there was nothing in it with special focus on the scenes on bond with the VAIO. Just like other trailers lost of gadgets were shown but Aston martin was missed by me. I feel they are also counting the cost of scenes directly taken from the movie in the commercial otherwise very few scenes are shot specially for the trailer.
I also felt watching the trailer that bond could have thrown the sony batteries to kill the enemies as the batteries are already blasting in the whole world
Rumors are afloat in the market regarding the talks between google and you-tube regarding the google acquiring the latter. The WSJ has in fact reported that the talks are underway and are in the early stages. The price tag reported by the journal is $1.b billion. Hitwise has posted some interesting traffic stats and discussion on Google Video vs YouTube.
Another rumor afloat in the market is intel eating the nvidia in order to compete with the AMD who has recently acquired ATI. ATI technologies is a world leader in the design and manufacture of innovative 3D graphics.With AMD + ATI and expected INTEL + nVIDIA the war has started for market dominance. Time will tell the reality...
If you want to see your or other’s pics showcased in famous museum of the world, you just need a digital picture and upload it on Mueseumr. It is a Flickr tool where we pass the URL of the Flickr picture of your account or any other photo on the web, choose the museum style and created will be an gallery picture with visitors admiring it.
I have chosen the mehsana water park trip for my gallery as it is one of the best pic of my college days
Here comes a future series laptop, having dual screen. The Asus W5Fe is first one having main internal screen and external one built into the top of the lid. The external display could be used to read emails, check calendars, and similar tasks without having to boot up the machine. The system is powered by a Vista-only technology known as Windows Sideshow, which allows for the activities mentioned above. It can supposedly run for "hundreds of hours without draining your notebook battery". Prices has not yet been announced
Slideshare is a new service that lets user upload and share their presentations. These presentations can be seen as videos are seen in You Tube. So now there is no need to store them in laptops or usb’s and carry them while giving presentations and also there is no need to email the slides to the listener just upload them on slideshare.
Users for this application are endless. Professors can upload their lecture slides on slideshare and let students access them so there is no need for sharing them on network
One cool thing is that the files are stored in their server named after bollywood divas like aish, bipasha, dia and Celina.
There are few limitations presentation size is limited to 20mb. One can’t edit the slides after uploading them.
Good features are user can put the slides on their blog. Each slide has its own permanent URL for reference. Tags and comments can be added to uploaded presentations.
Here is my presentation which i uploaded on slideshare.
This is the new iPod rival. Will it be able to alter iPod market only time will tell? Presently it is only available in Japan and Toshiba will make it available in other markets soon.
Here is comparison between ipod and gigabeat fromI4U
Key Aspect
Apple iPod 20GB
Toshiba Gigabeat G20
Comment
Size
101.6x15.7x67mm
76.5mm x 12.7mm x 89.5mm
in Volume terms: iPod takes 106cm3 and the G20 takes 86.9cm3, that means the G20 has 20cm3 less volume.
Weight
159g
138g
G20 is lighter by 21g.
HD
20GB
20GB
Pretty sure both use the same Toshiba 1.8" HD
Interface
USB 2.0 / Firewire
USB 2.0
equal footing here, besides the G20 is only supporting Windows PCs.
Design
white Apple Look
Japanese Electronics Style
Different looks but both attractive
Formats
MP3, Wav, aiff
WMA, MP3, Wav
iPod cannot play Windows Media Files
Screen Size
2"
1.8"
iPod has a bit bigger display.
DRM
AAC
n/a
iPod uses its own DRM system that works with iTunes. Toshiba seems to have no support yet for Microsoft's DRM.
Battery Life
8 hours
11 hours
The Toshiba goes 3 hours longer!
Remote Control
yes
yes
Docking Station
yes
yes
Price
$399.00
$599.00
The Gigabeat is only available in Japan. When Toshiba releases the Gigabeat in the US, it will most likely match the price. The Japanese street price is around $450.
Here comes a smart firefox, flock extension that help people manage their bookmarks. Unlike unremarkable bookmarks, Blueorganizer determines and preserves the semantics of real-world things like movies, wine or electronic gadgets. With this unique approach, Blueorganizer is able to create a context-sensitive, personalized Web experience for every user. It was an instant hit in the Demo fall-06.
In short it basically personalizes user’s browsers.Unlike bookmark this site blueorganiser user bluemark this site option.
Features:
Blueorganiser reorganize our things. Few categories are already defined like movies, electronics, books and many more. Select a movie title or a book title and bluemark the movie or particular book entering other details like rating of the movie/book, you own it or want it option and tagging it also. Personalizing Bookmarks: Choose your favorite sites to discover related information.
Auto Bluemark:One can add an option of auto blue marking the site if user visits it for given number of times.
Finding Things: Using filter option and search option one can quickly find its bookmarks
Using bookmarks: One can instantly find related information about a particular bookmark in other sites
Sharing Information: Users can share their bookmarks if they all are using blueorganizer.
Using bluebadges one can display a slide show or a filmstrip of your bluemarks on your home page, your blog, Google Desktop or MySpace page
The blueorganizer is giving us a glimpse of powerful Semantic Web technologies to come. Chris Shipley, Executive Producer, DEMOconferences
Googlism finds out what Google thinks about you or the term you enter in it. I searched my name and found out:
