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  • Magic Trackpad: Why should notebooks have all the fun?

    Floppy disks, trackballs, serial ports, dial-up modems… All gone. Now it’s time to kill the mouse. Apple unveiled the new Magic Trackpad. Essentially, it’s a larger version of the trackpads that ship with each MacBook and MacBook Pro. But it’s a stand-alone product, meant to be used with desktop computers. It uses the same Multi-Touch…

  • Happy Sys Admin Appreciation Day!

    Friday, July 30, 2010 (Last Friday of July) is the System Administrator Appreciation Day. Yes, today marks the 11th annual celebration of systems administrators everywhere. It’s a day when you should stop and appreciate the people that keep those servers running and those backups fresh, not shake your fist at them for your poor 99.9%…

  • How to Turn Your Android Phone into a Fully-Automated Superphone

    What if your phone automatically went silent when you step into the movie theatre? Texted your significant other when you finished your long commute? Or automatically turned down the volume when a particularly loud friend called? It can; here’s how. Android application Tasker gives you total rules-based automation for your Android phone. It’s not free,…

  • Facebook is a Stupid Idiot (Video)!!

    Can’t wait to share this video – “Facebook is a Stupid Idiot” Farmville fans! Ha..ha..

  • Windows Phone 7: Microsoft confirms hardware partners

    Microsoft has confirmed the hardware partners that will be launching Windows Phone 7 handsets Greg Sullivan, senior product manager for Microsoft, told that he could expect handsets from Dell, Asus, LG, HTC, and Samsung at the launch later this year. It confirms certain former rumors. We always thought Dell would be launching a Windows Phone…

  • Facebook Hits 500 Million Members Milestone !

    Image by Carlo Nicora via Flickr The founder and CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg has made it official !! As of today morning, the largest social networking site is now 500 million members strong and growing!!   “As of this morning, 500 million people all around the world are actively using Facebook to stay connected…

  • Dell launches its own browser ‘Secure Browser’

    Dell has released its own browser based on the Firefox platform, called the Dell KACE Secure Browser. The Secure Browser uses virtualization technology to provide a safer web experience to users and organizations. When using the Secure Browser any changes or malicious files inadvertently downloaded from the Internet are contained within the secure browser, keeping…

  • Every Smartphone has a cellular antenna and can lose signal strength!

    After iPhone 4 reception issues and free cases chronicle – so called ‘Antennagate’, Apple posted an article in its website. It says every smartphone has a cellular antenna and can lose signal strength if you hold it in a certain way. It compared iPhone 4 alongside other smartphones – BlackBerry Bold 9700, HTC Droid Eris,…

  • iPhone 4 Antenna Song

    This now-famous iPhone 4 Antenna Song was played before Steve Jobs took the stage to address the ‘reception issues’ at the iPhone 4 Press Conference. Lyrics of the song, followed by the video: “there’s an awful lot of hoopla around the iphone 4 anttenna when you grip it with the death grip and you’re call…

  • How to hide status updates from certain people in Facebook

    The other night, when I started roaming in and around outskirts of the City of Pearls, I updated my status on Facebook – ‘At Shabad, Charminar…2.15 am…having dinner in ‘Chowki’ style! Jagne ki raat’ via text message. When we reached home in the early morning at around 4.30 am – one of my friends who…

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