Going the ROKR way...

Finally decided to buy this one since i am used to a touchscreen marvel called Motorola A780 :) This too, like my A780, runs on LINUX ;)

Lost my beloved Motorola A780 today :(

Today i lost my Motorola A780 while boarding a bus :(

Orkut's look revamped!

India shows thumbs down to M$ open format

India has done a great job by deciding to vote a "NO" to Microsoft's OOXML(Open Office Extensible Mark Up Language) document format against the ODF(Open Document Format) proposed by a lot other companies who believe in openness. This war of formats has been going on for several months now. The voting will be held at the International Standards Organisation (ISO) in Geneva on September 2 and about 123 counties are participating in the vote.

Read more on this here.

Orkut celebrates MTV Youth Icon of the Year contest...

Carnatic Vocal 2nd year results announced!

The results of my Carnatic Vocal exam for 2nd year i took at Bharathiya Vidya Bhavan, Bangalore were announced today and i secured A Grade :)

Orkut celebrates 60th Independence Day of INDIA

60th INDEPENDENCE DAY OF INDIA

Today we celebrate 60 years of Independence in India, the 60th Independence Day...

Happy Independence Day to all the citizens of INDIA living all over the world. I LOVE MY INDIA! JAI HIND!

15th August declared as INDIA DAY in Washington state

Orkut logo and login page revamped!

Apple's form factor (R)Evolution

GMail Woes!

GMail has started turning weird day by day, If you can check say more than a couple of mails per minute, They feel that you are a MACHINE and are ABUSING their system!

aMSN

aMSN is an free open source MSN Messenger clone, featuring:
» Display pictures
» Custom emoticons
» Multi-language support (around 40 languages currently supported)
» Sign in to more than one account at once
» File transfers
» Group support
» Normal, and animated emoticons with sounds
» Chat logs
» Event alarms
» Webcam support
» History in color
» Ability to autoclose the filetransfer window when it is finished
» New plugins log window (Alt-P)
» Plugins compatible with supported languages
» Faster loading skin window
» Skins in chatwindow
» Resizable chatwindow bottom
» When you add a new user, you can define in which group you want to add them
» When a contact change status, the top of the chat window changes color ( green for away, grey for offline, etc.)
» New panel GUI to alert when there's a new aMSN version
» Possibility to download the new release directly by aMSN
» Automatically update language files and plugins from the web
» New gui for deleting users (also possible to block on deletion)
» Possible to add notes for each user (XML)
» Support for MSN Mobile service
» Tabbed windows so you can group conversations using tabs
» Status is displayed inside a frame, so it won't dissapear when you scroll
» Display picture in notification alert (like MSN 7)
» Statistics for history (logging)
» Now possible to choose any state for your login status (before it was only possible to login invisible or online)
» Timestamping

But that's not all! More features can be added to aMSN with plugins, or for the adventurous, completely change the look of aMSN with different skins!


Checkout the product website here.

Carnatic Vocal exam for 2nd year done :)

Today, I finished my Carnatic Vocal practical exam for 2nd year i took at Bharathiya Vidya Bhavan, Bangalore :)

One of my most favorite KANNADA song of all times : prEmada hUgAra

Posters for a Cause : A Blood Donation Camp

I did a couple of posters recently for a blood donation camp... Finally spent some of my creative time for a good cause :)

Carnatic Vocal theory exam for 2nd year done :)

Today, I finished my Carnatic Vocal theory exam for 2nd year i took at Bharathiya Vidya Bhavan, Bangalore :)

Google starts "Event Reminders" on Google Calendar!

Google launched the newly added event notifications feature to "Google Calendar" today! This was one thing missing for a long time and would give Outlook a run for it's Money!

A sample reminder shown 10 minutes in advance!

Fact!

Ready to Browse the Web in 3D???

Folks at SpaceTime have stirred up how you browse the Web by offering a free application that lets you browse in 3D! The idea is pretty simple, rather than to have a 2D layout of your browser with tabs all over the place, SpaceTime breaks the "pages" out like a storyboard in 3D space. It's impractical if you're looking at a single page, but if you're doing a search, it'll stack your search hits in 3D thus making it easier to see them all at once. It'll do the same for your eBay searches, letting you browse through photos of the stuff you want to buy.





Cool eh? check it out here!

Penguins have to still wait since at the moment, this application is available for PCs only.

iPhone fever?

Got iPhone fever? While the only prescription is an actual iPhone, there's a Slide 2 Unlock application for Windows Mobile which should hold you over until the 29th. It is a Windows Mobile start screen application that allows you to swipe your finger/stylus across the screen to unlock the phone, iPhone style. Can be found here!

Apple releases Safari for Windows!

One more nail on the coffin for M$IE...

The Re-nano titanium iPod nano case, priced at a whopping $800!

This is one the coolest case for an iPod i have ever seen!






This is really the way to go about differentiating yourself from the white-bud wearing cattle around you... Easy, slip that skinny slab of flash into the massive FACTRON Re-nano case made of solid Titanium, boy. The ¥99,750 (about $818) case made by Kiwami Studios will be available for your $149 nano starting June 5th.

Apple confirms iPhone launch date...

Just in case you haven't heard the news, Apple finally shouted out the iPhone's release date!

June 29th 2007 is the day when the coolest gadget on the planet hits the shops... I cant wait to get my hands on it!

ThinkFree - The best online office on earth!

Recently had a look at one of the best Online Office Suites i have ever seen! It's called ThinkFree and it's no exaggeration when they claim it to be the best online office on earth!

Lately, Online office automation is being suggested as the next generation paradigm for collaboration between teams from different geographies and there's already a fierce competition between the biggest companies to dominate this domain! Major players being Google with it's Google Docs & Spreadsheets, gOffice, Zoho Office Suite and Azax13 Suite

Azax13 Suite is rated the best among the lot by ComputerWorld in this article.

Lithium Ion motorbike prototype!

Tesla Motors has finally resurrected the electric car in screeching sports car form, it's the turn of the motorbike to get all Lithium Ioned up. While it's not the first electric motorcycle, it is possibly the most rough and ready design: if you can afford the $15,000 odd fee for a custom modification, a team at the Electric Motorsport shop in Oakland will take out the nasty engine in your ride and replace it with an array of Lithium Ion batteries. As a prototype, the company created a fully electric version of the Yamaha R1 which has a top speed of 100MPH, a range of 100 miles, does 0-60 in 3 seconds!

Read more on engadget here or here.

On the world's best cruiser...

On a Royal Enfield Thunderbird...

Intel reveals quad-core laptop chip

Intel has announced that it is looking forward to quad core laptops hitting the scene throughout 2008. Mooly Eden, GM of Intel's mobile platform group, said that we won't see these quad cores in business class laptops for a while, even being honest enough to admit that there aren't enough multi-threaded applications out there to justify it. Read more on engadget.

Amazing Art on dry leaves...