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What I think About Nokia N82

noreply@blogger.com (Arjun) — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 06:00:00 +0000

Thanks to WOM World for their swift response and providing me this awesome opportunity of experiencing Nokia N82. As soon as I received this phone, the first thought that struck my mind was, the appearance of the keypad was not so comfortable to use. However, the keypad appearance doesn’t bother me much as I was keener to comprehend its features. But after using it for a week I didn’t find any problem with the keypad.

Due to the busy schedule I had, there was no time for me to go through the features instantaneously. So on the 10^th day when my shift changed then I was able to spare some time for it.

Nokia has speedily modernized its software updating the feature to Sync BOOKMARK THE ITEMS which was not equipped with this feature during its initial release of Nokia N82.

I. FEATURES THAT IMPRESSED ME MORE FROM NOKIA N82 ARE:

Camera:

Nokia N82 has an excellent camera with 5 megapixels with a bright flash and Carl Zeiss lens which enables the user to capture the images as real one. Even if the surroundings are dark the images get captured brightly, than those that are captured via N95. In Nokia N82 the camera lens is protected by a cover which is not found in N95 8GB phone.

Music Player:

Nokia N82 is so feasible that I can even use that with my Nokia HS – 62 earphones that has 3.5 mm earphone jack, to enjoy the superb quality of music.

Battery Life:

Battery back up of Nokia N82 is far superior to that of Nokia N95, as it comes for more than 24 hrs whereas N95 battery back up, comes only for about 12 hrs.

A GPS:

As Nokia N82 is not a sliding phone as that of N95, where N95 needs to be kept open to get located via A GPS, but the same is not with Nokia N82. Nokia N82 connects immediately compared to N95.

Connections:

Nokia N82 has earphone jack on the top of the phone and the charging pin & micro USB connectivity available on left side of the phone. I think it is good enough that it will be hassle-free as the earphone jack is on the top, because this will enable everyone to listen to the music without adjusting its position and even when we are walking by the road side. But this is not the same with N95 as it has the earphone jack on the right side of the phone.

The most startling feature in Nokia N82 was TV OUT, where I could connect it to Television just like I did with N95.

Lastly I think that Nokia N82 can attract people with its Camera, Battery Back up and Music quality, which will compel everyone to buy it.

Even though N95 has got similar features , people who cannot afford to buy that can go for Nokia N82 because “WE GET THE SAME FEATURED PHONE AT A FAR LESSER PRICE WITH A GOOD CAMERA THAT GIVES EXCELLENT PICTURE QUALITY , LONG LASTING BATTERY LIFE AND SUPERB MUSIC QUALITY”

Nokia N78 Fusion Challenge In India

noreply@blogger.com (Arjun) — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:15:00 +0000

Nokia Fusion Challenge is now in India,
The Fusions challenge teams can register across the following cities :
Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Pune, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad and Chennai
Note : Users should only register from the city they wish to participate in the Fusions Challenge.
Check out the Fusion Challenge blog here.

The challenge dates are as follows

Cities	Race	Dates
Delhi & Mumbai	1st & 2nd	9th August
Bangalore & Pune	3rd & 4th	10th August
Kolkata & Chennai	5th & 6th	16th August
Hyderabad & Ahmedabad	7th & 8th	17th August

Registration closes : 27th July

Picasa Updated for S60 Mobiles

noreply@blogger.com (Arjun) — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 03:34:00 +0000

Google has updated Picasa for S60 devices, Similar to iPhone Version.

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noreply@blogger.com (Arjun) — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:36:00 +0000

Get iPhone Google Reader view for any S60 3rd device

noreply@blogger.com (Arjun) — Tue, 13 May 2008 03:59:00 +0000

I love Google Reader, Its everything I want at one place. But when I am on a move I browse thru my Mobile(Nokia N95) and I don't feel it has a friendly view. When I browsed Reader in iPhone the layout was great & I was waiting for Google to Update the layout of Reader for all the mobile devices. And today i found something interesting at nokiaaddict.com . Its the url of the iPhone Google Reader (http://www.google.com/reader/i/ )

Google Talk, Labs Edition

noreply@blogger.com (Arjun) — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:26:00 +0000

There's a new flavor of Google Talk: the Labs edition, a desktop client that looks very similar to the Google Talk gadget and has most of its features. The application doesn't support voice chat or file transfer, it's still Windows-only, but it has some new features: it lets you launch Google Calendar and Orkut, while including notifications for Google Calendar events and Orkut scraps. The new Google Talk uses WebKit to render some parts of the interface.

I don't find too many reasons why someone would switch from the full-featured client to the Labs edition: group chats, smilies, tabs, while the missing features are more important. A better decisions would have been to integrate these new features in the desktop client, instead of releasing a separate application. Now we have four different flavors of Google Talk: the original client, Gmail Chat, the gadget and the Labs edition.

Thanks to Google Operating System Blog

Google Releases Native Search client for Symbian

noreply@blogger.com (Arjun) — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:30:00 +0000

JoikuSpot turns Nokia Smartphones to WLAN HotSpots

noreply@blogger.com (Arjun) — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:35:00 +0000

JoikuSpot is a free mobile software solution that turns Nokia Smartphones to WLAN HotSpots.

JoikuSpot software is installed directly to the phone. When switched on, laptops and ipods can establish instant and fast wireless internet connection via smartphone's JoikuSpot access point using phone's own 3G internet connection.

Multiple devices can connect to JoikuSpot in parallel and seamlessly share the same 3G internet connection. JoikuSpot acts thus as an internet gateway to external WLAN devices.

JoikuSpot Light is in BETA phase, and has not been fully tested against all possible device combinations. JoikuSpot has been successfully tested with phones listed in the download section.

Please make sure that you have the latest firmware on the phone. You can easily update it with Nokia Software Updater.

Known issues:

-JoikuSpot might also work with E60 with new hardware version. With older hardware the JoikuSpot is created, but for unknown reason the connection to internet is disconnected after 10 seconds. If you manage to successfully use JoikuSpot with E60, please let us know. Please also deliver your hardware version, you can get it with *#0000#

-JoikuSpot has been tested successfully with several laptops: Fujitsu-Siemens, Apple Macbook, Dell, HP and new IBM models seem to work well. With older IBM laptops (at least T40P) the connection is not working. The reason behind is the WLAN chipset that the older IBM series is using.

Also check out Joikuspot.com for additional documents downloads (e.g. whitepaper with loads of use cases for JoikuSpot)

Supported devices:
Nokia N95 8GB Americas
Nokia N95 8GB
Nokia N95
Nokia N93i
Nokia N91
Nokia N82
Nokia N80
Nokia E90
Nokia E70
Nokia E61i
Nokia E61
Nokia E51

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n-gage First Access

noreply@blogger.com (Arjun) — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:12:00 +0000

n-gage First Access in my Nokia N95 8GB

Nokia N95 v20.0.015 Firmware Changelog!

noreply@blogger.com (Arjun) — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 05:51:00 +0000

Frank Mehta from over at the Symbian-Freak Forums has posted this amazingly detailed changelog as he sees it on the N95 after updating.

The major additions apart from the ones listed here are:

- Video Ringtones!

- Faster Gallery

- Much Faster Bootup Time

However, one bone of contention seems to be the camera. The speed has increased but the quality gone down?! Today being my Birthday this was the best present from Nokia but the camera part scares me! Sahil Mohanty from the N95 Community on Orkut also has similar thoughts about the camera quality taking a hit!

Here’s the Log:

1. New icon structure with addition of the N-Gage application and one free demo of fifa which can be played 10 times.
2. Search app has its own place in the active standby
3. Phone is much faster to operate and the real difference is seen in the boot time!(see it to believe it!)
4. Multimedia menu still the same but does not pop up on opening the slider in the opposite direction.
5. Free memory between 22-30 mb during normal usage.
6. Camera has NEW auto focus sound
7. Viewfinder grid added in the camera menu
8. VIDEO ringtones. Native support for video ringtones finally added.
9. Radio has a new icon.
10. Music player has a new icon for podcasts, alongwith a new Visualization called Circles, and also new buttons on the Screen for the audio controls.
11. Gallery opens really quick and (i think) it has a new animation in flipping pictures.
12. New real player.
13. Same old flash lite 2.0, no youtube support.
14. Maps app revised but not gone out on the road to see how soon it locks.
15. Browser has slight changes.
16. Keypress bug GONE!
17. No out of memory messages yet.
18. Wi Fi somewhat cleverer in detecting connections around!
19. New menu added in videos, SET AS TONE
20. Fast switching between landscape and portrait mode.
21. DRASTIC decline in picture quality. I feel so.. Please report on it!
22. Using the VGA Video calling camera, the camera sound (2) does not play properly (sorry for listing the stupidest of things, but these come to mind)
23. Faster opening of Music Player.
24. Showing of Videos in the ringtones to choose for profiles, and the video playback on receiving the call is GOOD and quick but does not play in fullscreen in landscape mode.
25. New version of quickoffice.
26. Same old barcode reader and zip applications.
27. New icon for Radio and segregation of similar items in the Media Folder.
28. Addition of Utilities folder.
29. Better handling of calls, and no TALKBACK(echo) heard in speaker, as heard before, sometimes.

Now for some of my thoughts:

If you have updated and restored a previous backup and got the old menu icons back then just install this file to get the new menu back!

The new firmware is also available for these Indian Product Codes:

0548299: India Apac 2
0548298: India Apac 2

Apparently YouTube support was pulled off last minute by Nokia. Now Steve is hinting at something big:

“Nope, YouTube playing is as before. But watch this space - this time next week you’ll have seen S60 smartphones able to access any clip on YouTube… You mark my words!”

My focus is on ‘S60 smartphones’ so this will be something across all phones not just the N95. Can’t wait! Just wish he said something more! Was this why the new firmware was stripped?? And can someone please comment on the camera quality?

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noreply@blogger.com (Arjun) — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 13:49:00 +0000

Google Calendar notifications via SMS add Airtel

noreply@blogger.com (Arjun) — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 06:47:00 +0000

Now get alerts to your mobile from Google calendar services, Add your mobile number to your Google calendar and add a event and get reminder to your mobile from Google. This service was only available to Hutch subscribers, now its also supports Airtel. Enjoy............

How To Access Blocked Web Sites

noreply@blogger.com (Arjun) — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 18:32:00 +0000

Proxy websites allows us to bypass our current ISP’s IP and connect to targeted website with a different IP; thus hiding our actual origin from detectable. Internet users use proxy websites for various reasons, some to access websites potentially blocked by their colleges or workplace, some use it to test their scripts. I frequently used them to test geo-location ads or to check if DNS are properly propagated when I adjust their settings.

I’ve decided to bring this entry back from archive to front page after receiving tones of emails asking for alternative proxies. Instead of the previous 2 proxy websites, here’s my personal collection on proxy websites. Full list after jump.

90+ Proxy Websites To Access Blocked Websites

http://www.hidemyass.com
http://www.anonymizer.com
http://www.wujie.net
http://www.ultrareach.net
http://surfshield.net
http://www.guardster.com/subscription/proxy_free.php
http://anonymouse.ws/anonwww.html
http://www.browser-x.com
http://www.spysurfing.com
http://www.xerohour.org/hideme
http://www.proxyz.be
http://www.sc0rian.com/prox
https://www.proxify.us
http://kproxy.com/index.jsp
http://www.brawl-hall.com/pages/proxy.php
http://www.proxify.net
http://proxy.computersteroids.com/index0.php
http://www.unipeak.com
http://flyproxy.com
http://alienproxy.com
http://proxify.com/
http://www.unfilter.net
http://www.proxymouse.com
http://www.surfonym.com/cgi-bin/nph-proxy
http://www.superproxy.be/browse.pl
http://www.websiteguru.com/mrnewguy
http://www.letsproxy.com
http://www.fsurf.com
http://indianproxy.com
http://www.letmeby.com
http://Boredatschool.net
http://www.ibypass.org
http://www.ipzap.com/
https://proxify.biz
http://kproxy.com/index.jsp
http://www.attackcensorship.com/attack-censorship.html
http://mrnewguy.com
http://www.evilsprouts.co.uk/defilter
http://www.proxify.info
http://www.torify.com
http://www.switchproxy.com
http://www.proxifree.com
http://www.secure-tunnel.com/
http://www.proxify.cn
http://www.arnit.net/utilities/webproxy/new
http://www.proxify.co.uk
http://www.betaproxy.com
http://www.proxify.org
http://www.proxychoice.com
http://www.proxysnail.com
http://www.anonypost.com
http://www.thestrongestlinks.com
http://www.hujiko.com
http://www.anonproxy.info
http://www.peoplesproxy.com
http://www.freeproxy.us
http://www.proxyweb.net
http://www.nopath.com
http://urlencoded.com
http://www.pole.ws
http://www.browseany.com
http://www.spiderproxy.com
http://www.clickcop.com
http://www.sneakysurf.com
http://www.mywebtunnel.com
http://www.thewebtunnel.com
http://www.3proxy.com
http://www.yourfreeproxy.com
http://www.proxy7.com
http://www.fireprox.com
http://www.stupidcensorship.com
http://www.letsproxy.com
http://www.sneak2.com
http://www.cecid.com
http://www.freeproxy.ca
http://www.ibypass.org
http://www.goproxing.com
http://www.projectbypass.com/
http://www.ipsecret.com
http://www.nomorelimits.net
http://www.proxify.de
http://www.bywhat.com
http://www.snoopblocker.com
http://www.anonymizer.ru
http://www.proxyking.net/
http://www.perlproxy.com
http://www.proxylord.com
http://tntproxy.com
http://satanproxy.com
http://zombieinvasion.info
http://demonproxy.com
http://www.myfreeproxy.com
http://www.gezcem.com/nph-proxy.pl.old
http://mpleger.de
http://www.the-cloak.com/login.html

Disclaimer

Note that not all of them are working perfectly; some of these websites could be offline too. I’m not encouraging you to use this to bypass sites that you are banned from surfing in colleges, work place, etc. Use them with cautions make sure you know what you are doing. I shall not be responsible for any damages or rules and regulation you violate from using these proxies.

10 Ways to Have a Happy Workday

noreply@blogger.com (Arjun) — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 05:30:00 +0000

Everyone wants to have a great work day. You want to go to work, get the job done and head for the horizon with a smile on your face. It’s easy to have a good day at work if you prepare in advance and keep a good running list of how to get through with the most happy day.

Here are the top 10 ways to have a happier workday.

1. Eat breakfast - If you skip breakfast, you won’t be at your best during the morning. You will more likely gorge yourself at lunch and have a sleepy afternoon. So eat something, anything (within reason) so you can ensure a smooth start.

2. Get plenty of sunshine - Sun in the morning signals the body and mind to wake up. So instead of reaching for a big cup of Joe, put on your shoes and go outside.

3. Get Aerobic Exercise - while you are getting your sunlight, use it as an excuse to get a good walk or jog in. Excercise lowers stress, gets your blood moving and wakes you up.
4. Avoid RSS, EMAIL or phone before 10 am. RSS, email and phone demand immediate attention. Whereas your goals and work for the day can easily be brushed to the side. If you can avoid the urgent and uninportant until 10 or 10:30, you’ve got a fighting chance at getting all of the important tasks done.

5. Think positive thoughts not negative - Seems simple, but many people never do it. Instead of looking on the worst side, try to see the bright side. Ask yourself “what is the advantage of this situation?” “how am I benefitting from this? What am I learning?” These are all good questions that you can ask in all negative situations to turn them to the positive.
6. Take breaks - If you push on one task for too long you your work starts to suffer. It’s easy to become tired and frustrated. So every 30 - 45 minutes, take 5. Get up from your desk, stop what you are doing and get your mind off your work for awhile. You’ll find you’ll return with more ideas and renewed energy.

7. Go for a mid-day walk - again, I’m harping on the excercise. Getting a brisk walk in over lunch (even if for only 10 minutes) will get you to feeling better about your afternoon. Where most others are sitting around digesting, you can be energizing.
8. Avoid gossip - One drain on your day is gossip. It may seem fun and exciting to learn some juicy tidbit about your officemate or boss. But good gossip is always negative talk. Negative talk starts the pendulum swinging toward negativity.

9. List your top 5-7 objectives for the day and break the list down to 3 - It’s good to get in the habit of making lists, it’s bad to make long lists. If you’ve got more than 5 items on your list, break it down to the top 3 things (you can always go back and edit in another task or two). But with a list of 20 things, how can you not be overwhelmed? 3 is a managable, magical number. Break your list down to 3. Anybody can do just three things right?

10. Be slow to react to other people’s “urgent” requests. When someone else asks you for help, to do a project or to meet some other urgent need, practice saying “what’s your deadline on this? or when do you need this done?” THen schedule that day. Most people when asked one of those questions realize it’s not as urgent and will set a future date. That way, you can go back to working on one of your top 3 activities.

Rock Your Google Calendar in 18 Ways

noreply@blogger.com (Arjun) — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 05:33:00 +0000

Google Calendar doesn’t get much love or attention these days. Some users are wondering if Google’s forgotten about it. Still, it’s a pretty cool web app, especially if you learn the ins and outs and use it collaboratively with colleagues, friends, or family.

If you’ve been using it since it was introduced last year, you may know how to do many of these things. Maybe you even have your own tips and tricks for making it really rock. If so, share them in the comments.

1. Add holidays, moon phases, sporting events, and other public calendars. Click the “+” button next to “Other Calendars” in the Calendars list on the left-hand side of the page. Select the Browse Calendars tab. You can add the holiday calendar of your choice and also add phases of the moon or a Google Doodles graphical calendar. Are you a devoted sports fan? Search on the name of the team and you’ll be able to add all their scheduled games to your calendar. Couch potatoes can add TV show schedules.

2. Customize your view. You’re not limited to just the view options showing in the tabs along the top of the calendar. You can change the tab “Next 4 Days” to something that works better for you like “Next 2 Weeks” or “Next 3 Weeks” on the Settings page under the General tab. That’s where you can also specify date and time format, what day your week starts, whether to show weekends or not, and show weather for your location. Use keyboard shortcut “x” to move to your custom view. I’m partial to “Next 3 Weeks” because that’s about as far in advance as I’m thinking.

If the standard options for the Custom view still don’t get you the time interval you want, you can always select a custom interval on the mini-calendar on the left-hand side of the page by dragging with your mouse.

3. See where you are right now on your calendar. Here’s a little greasemonkey script that adds a red line for the current time to today’s box. That shows you immediately when you’re coming up on a meeting or other event.

4. Turbocharge your quick add. You probably know you can enter events as free text. Hit the keyboard shortcut “q” or click the “Quick Add” link in the upper right-hand side of the page. Then enter your event: time and title are the bare minimum; GCal will schedule it for today or tomorrow if no date is given. You can invite people by adding on their email addresses, create a recurring event by specifying repeat information, and specify by duration instead of start end time, if that’s more convenient. The Google help page for quick add claims it supports time zones — which would be great for those of us constantly flummoxed by time zone confusion — but that doesn’t seem to work right now.

5. Add events without even being on the GCal page. Elias Torres has developed a GCal Quick Add extension for Firefox. It doesn’t support adding daylong events in Firefox 2 (you get an “invalid date” error), but you can add events with a date and time by hitting + ; and entering the information into the text box.

6. Receive event reminders and other notifications. GCal provides reminders by email, SMS, or pop-ups in the calendar itself. Specify your default reminder type under “Setting” > “Notifications.” To get text message notifications, you’ll need to verify your mobile phone number by specifying it on the Notifications page and then entering the verification code that’s sent to you by GCal. You decide what sort of notifications you receive about events and invitations. Note that event reminders only include those for your primary calendar.

7. Have a daily agenda emailed or text-messaged to you. On “Settings” > “Notifications” you can request that a list of events for the day be emailed to you. Another easy way to access your daily agenda is via SMS. Once you’re set up to access GCal from your mobile phone, just text “day” to short code 48368 (GVENT).

8. Access your calendar while you’re on the road. Text “next” to short code 48368 get your next event or “nday” to get events for the following day. Add events by texting event details, just as in the Quick Add on the web page.

9. Or access your calendar from your IM client. IMified makes it easy. Just add IMified to your buddy list and send a message like “help” to it. It will create an account for you. Add GCal to your IMified accounts by going to the Add/Edit Services link it gives you. Specify your time zone on the Account Settings page. Then when you send a message “M” to IMified you’ll get a menu that includes your calendar. It’s fairly minimal — one menu option for viewing upcoming events and one for adding an event. But when you’re on fire in your IM aggregator, it’s an easy way to check or add to your calendar quickly without going to another app.

10. Learn the keyboard shortcuts. Beyond “q” for quick add and “x” for your custom view, there are a few more keyboard shortcuts you’ll find useful. The keys “n” and “p” navigate forward and backward in whatever view you’re in. Use the escape key to exit from event creation or settings and go back to your default calendar view. See all the keyboard shortcuts here. If you’re a GMail user, you might want to install the GCalQuickTab Firefox add-on. It gives you a “g” and “l” keyboard shortcut to switch back and forth between GMail and GCal. Good idea, but the implementation is unfortunately flawed. Type an “l” into an email message and you’ll be switched to the calendar.

11. Add To Do lists to your calendar. Remember the Milk offers GCal integration — create a Remember the Milk account then tie it into your GCal. You’ll get a checkmark button for each date on your calendar that lets you review tasks that are due and overdue, add new tasks, and mark tasks as complete.

12. Get a bigger view of your calendar. If you’re using your calendar on a small screen, you might want to be able to maximize the calendar part and eliminate the list of calendars, the mini calendar, the search box, and other extraneous stuff. Try the Firefox Full Cal extension. It gives you a keyboard short cut (by default + + C) to go to Google Calendar and toggle between full view and regular view.

13. Share your free/busy information on your blog. If your email is overrun with back-and-forths about scheduling telecons or face-to-face meetings, you might want to let everyone know up front when you’re available. You don’t have to share all your event details; just go to “Settings” > “Calendars”, click on “Share this calendar” for the calendar with the information you want to share, choose “Share only my free / busy information (hide details),” and save.

Then, go back to the calendar page (by clicking on the down arrow next to the calendar name in the calendar list, and choosing “calendar settings”), click on the “HTML” button in the “Calendar Address:” area and click on “Configuration tool” in the dialog box that pops up. You’ll be able to generate HTML for embedding the calendar within a web page.

If you blog on Typepad it’s even easier: just use their GCal widget. If you’re using WordPress, you could try this Google Calendar Widget.

14. Synchronize with your desktop calendar(s). Calgoo, in public beta right now, is a Java-based application for Windows, OS X, and Linux. It handles Google Calendar, iCal on the Mac, and Outlook on the PC, uniting the reigning trifecta of calendaring apps. Read more about it in our review.

15. Add events from GMail. GMail includes some natural language processing that looks for event-related information and if it finds some, it will offer an “Add to calendar” link to the right of the message. Click on the link and you can edit the event information then save. Alternatively, if there’s event information but GMail didn’t catch it, use “Create Event” in the “More actions…” dropdown to launch an event editor popup form, where you can type in event information right as you’re reading it in the email.

16. Display an agenda in GMail. Want to see what your upcoming appointments are when you’re right in GMail? Install the Greasemonkey script Add Calendar Feed to GMail. Now create a Google Bookmark for your Google Calendar feed using your private XML link from the Calendar Settings page and be sure to give it the label GMgcal. Then run the GMail Agenda setup from Firefox (”Tools” > “Greasemonkey” > “User Script Commands…” > “GMail Agenda Setup”). You’ll get a list of upcoming calendar events displayed between your contacts list and labels list on the left-hand side of GMail. Confused? Here are more detailed instructions for setting it up. It’s pretty useful to have a listing of upcoming events in your email.

17. Add a popup agenda with notifier to your Firefox status bar. The Google Calendar Notifier add-on gives you a popup agenda as well as notifications of upcoming events. You can tie the notifications into Growl, if you use that on the Mac, get popup notifications, and be re-notified of pending events.

18. View the weather forecast for your location. Under “Settings” > “General,” enter your location information and choose C or F under “Show weather based on my location.” Unfortunately, it’s only available for U.S. locations right now.

Are you a Google Calendar user? What’s your favorite feature or customization? What features do you wish it had?

noreply@blogger.com (Arjun) — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 12:13:00 +0000

Some Disgusting Facts About Your Mobile Phone

Mobile phone retailer Dial-a-Phone conducted the study taking swabs from everyday objects and analyzing the bacteria found on them. The shocking results found that there's more muck on our mobiles than the average door handle, keyboard, and bottom of a shoe or even a toilet seat.

The study found that without cleaning and disinfecting your mobile phone and keyboard on a regular basis, more bacteria could spread potentially causing illness.

The research confirmed the presence of skin bacteria including staphylococcus aureus on the phone, keyboard, toilet seat and door handle. The shoe in contrast had bacteria from the soil and air.

Joanne Verran, Professor of Microbiology at Manchester Metropolitan University comments: "Mobile phones, like many everyday objects such a telephones and computer keyboards, harbor bacteria. However, being 'mobile', they are stored in bags or pockets, are handled frequently, and held close to the face. In other words, they come into contact with more parts of our body and a wider range of bacteria than toilet seats!"

"The phones contained more skin bacteria than the any other object; this could be due to the fact that this type of bacteria increases in high temperatures and our phones are perfect for breeding these germs as they're kept warm and cozy in our pockets, handbags and brief cases. These bacteria are toxic to humans, and can cause infections if they have the opportunity to enter the body."

A Dial-a-Phone spokesperson comments: "We take our phones everywhere, being in close contact with our mouths, hands and faces their bound to collect all sorts of nasty germs. The images make look scary but our advice to phone users is to ensure they clean them regularly with an antibacterial wipe!"

India could get free 2Mbps broadband internet by 2009

noreply@blogger.com (Arjun) — Sun, 20 May 2007 09:33:00 +0000

Entire cities getting free WiFi used to be quite the sensation, but now the real hotness is in connecting up an entire nation. According to IndiaTimes, the government is proposing that all citizens of India receive complimentary 2Mbps internet by 2009, and the service would be provided by the state-owned BSNL and MTNL.

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