Monthly Archives: October 2009

Get Notified When your Favorite Music Artist Releases a New CD

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Keeping track of all your artist releases on a regular basis is almost impossible and tracking their newest work is a matter of chance.

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Ultimately you could be missing out on some great music. So, What is the solution ? Here comes the Blyper – Never miss releases by your favourite artists again.

Blyper will notify you when your favorite music artist releases a new CD or single.This site has been titled as “The Music Notifier“.

All you need to do is -

1. Just simply mention your favorite artist and hit enter

2. You’ll be listed with their recent albums.

3. You can also download the albums at Itunes Store / Amazon Store.

4. Finally click the Get Notified Option.

When you need to be notified about your favorite artist, You first need to register at Blyper

 

Simple registration with email id and password. Then you’ll be asked how often you want to be notified? and What kind of updates like Albums, Singles, Compilations, Live releases etc, etc ..

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Complete all the steps and You’re done!! Never worry about missing releases anymore and Always sure your music collection is complete.

Conveniently buy the albums from a shop near you :-)

Breaking : The New Magic Mouse From Apple with Multi-Touch Capabilities, Bluetooth and 4 month battery

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If you ask me, i have always been impressed a bit by Apple, especially with Mac OS and it’s interface. Well, this time to it’s Well done for Apple. Sometime back there was a legal fuss about Apple’s Might Mouse being registered earlier by some other company because of which apple was forced to chuck the name “Mighty Mouse”.

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Well, thats not the end of the story. There comes a new Mouse, called Magic Mouse form Apple. Features?

  • Bluetooth
  • MultiTouch Gesture Support
  • It’s Just got one Button
  • Wireless 
  • It’s got a Four Month Battery Life (Good!)

It’s Got a hard acrylic surface on top of the mouse which is a improved from its predecessor Might Mouse, a lot.  It’s Priced at  $69 and is available from today. The Scroll Wheel has also been kicked off with this version!Picture 9

Few Problems user could face is that, those who have been using trackpad on their macbooks, the mouse is a bit different from it. Well, it uses a single finger movement to scroll down and not two, like the trackpad. Also one bad news is that, it has not got the Pinch to Zoom kind of action :( We, Miss it though.  Magic  Mouse Requires you to have Mac OS X v10.5.8 (Snow Leopard). Picture 10

Few of the Multi-Touch Gestures include clicking anywhere on the MultiTouch Surface, and to zoom you need to hold down control key on your keyboard and move your hand in upward direction on the mouse, Two Finger Swipe to go back and front in your safari history or view photos in iPhoto.

The Press Release out there after Break.

Apple Introduces Magic Mouse-The World’s First Multi-Touch Mouse 

CUPERTINO, California-October 20, 2009-
Apple® today introduced the new wireless Magic Mouse, the first mouse to use Apple’s revolutionary Multi-Touch™ technology. Pioneered on iPhone®, iPod touch® and Mac® notebook trackpads, Multi-Touch allows customers to navigate using intuitive finger gestures. Instead of mechanical buttons, scroll wheels or scroll balls, the entire top of the Magic Mouse is a seamless Multi-Touch surface. Magic Mouse comes standard with the new iMac® and will be available as a Mac accessory at just $69. “Apple is the Multi-Touch leader, pioneering the use of this innovative technology in iPhone, iPod touch and Mac notebook trackpads,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “Apple’s Multi-Touch technology allows us to offer an easy to use mouse in a simple and elegant design.” Magic Mouse features a seamless touch-sensitive enclosure that allows it to be a single or multi-button mouse with advanced gesture support. Using intuitive gestures, users can easily scroll through long documents, pan across large images or swipe to move forward or backward through a collection of web pages or photos. Magic Mouse works for left or right handed users and multi-button or gesture commands can be easily configured from within System Preferences. The Magic Mouse laser tracking engine provides a smooth, consistent experience across more surfaces than a traditional optical tracking system. Magic Mouse uses Bluetooth wireless capabilities to create a clean, cable-free desk top and its secure wireless connection works from up to 10 meters away. To extend battery performance, Magic Mouse includes an advanced power management system that works with Mac OS® X to automatically switch to low power modes during periods of inactivity. The wireless Magic Mouse is powered by two AA batteries which are included. 

Pricing & Availability Magic Mouse comes standard with the new iMac and is available at the end of October through the Apple Store® (www.apple.com), at Apple’s retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers for a suggested retail price of $69 (US). 

Magic Mouse requires Mac OS X Leopard® version 10.5.8 or later. Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Today, Apple continues to lead the industry in innovation with its award-winning computers, OS X operating system and iLife and professional applications. Apple is also spearheading the digital media revolution with its iPod portable music and video players and iTunes online store, and has entered the mobile phone market with its revolutionary iPhone.

Adobe Reader Lite : Blaze Fast Version of Adobe Reader

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So, for the majority of us, we like to use none other than Adobe Reader for opening our .pdf files for going through the e-books, referring to the foreign University registration form or going through the inter-college band blast FAQs, naming a few. But the common problems for most of us have been the size and slow speed of the application that can be real hazards at times.

I have been adviced by friends to use ‘Foxit’ reader in place of Adobe, and I was surprised enough to find that software to be as compatible for opening all sorts of .pdf extensions with equal ease alike Adobe Reader. But somehow I could not compel or rather convince myself to uninstall my Adobe Reader and use the ‘Foxit’ one instead. I had always this feeling that maybe I will not be paying hard for my choice and trust on Adobe, and will not have to regret to neglect the ‘Foxit’.

And now, I found out this application called ‘Adobe Reader Lite’, which Adobe has come up with after the introduction of ‘Lite’ versions seemingly being a trend among the Technology giants. After Nero Lite in the application software scenario and Facebook Lite in the social media scenario, Adobe came up with its Adobe Reader Lite.

This application primarily is based on Adobe Reader 8, and is said to be its ‘Blaze Fast version’. The resulting fast speed is supposedly due to the removal of the several plugins that made it slow enough.

Also these given features have been checked:
1.License agreement pop-ups
2.Autorun and desktop shortcuts
3.Unnecessary plug-ins
4.Removes all auto update features and AcroRd32Info.exe with no errors in the event log

These steps can be significant enough to keep the regular users, who use to avoid hussles of loading bigger applications and waiting for it to get activated and flock to ‘Foxit Reader’ instead.

Get your copy of Adobe Reader Lite http://www.majorgeeks.com/Adobe_Reader_Lite_d5915.html

If Matrix was programmed on Windows Xp [Video]

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People have always made fun of Windows, even if they use it (True in most indian cases). There’s this video that shows what would be the situation of Matrix if it was programmed on Windows Xp.

Hey, try “ALT + DEL + ENT”.. And if the guy slows down, who’s to blame? BitTorrent.. Well, Unfreeze. UnFreeze! This happens at times with Windows.

Must Watch Video!  Video after Break.

Now Google will Pay on flight Wifi bill for Virgin America Passengers

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Wifi on board is always a good idea, i mean wasting so many hours in flight doing nothing, would be surely not be good usage of time but most of these services come with a price tag, and will you be willing to pay for it?

If no, then Google will be paying up all the WiFi bills for Passengers on Virgin America from November 10, 2009, to January 15, 2010. Why? Frankly speaking i don’t think so Google will benefit even a bit from it.

Well, Google is known by everyone, i mean everyone who uses the internet and if they are targeting the people traveling through virgin america, they surely would have used Google’s services atleast once. But, i mean people do like those who give out freebies, i mean if you pay my restaurant bill i’ll surely be grateful to you and same is the case here.

But really, how does it matter you if Google is benefitted or not? You’ve got free WiFi! Hurray!

Going Google : Over 60% companies of Fortune 100 have gone Google

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Picture 3Google’s New Ad Campaign, Going Google has been launched as a move to give their competitors real fear, especially Microsoft, and this time also, they are targeting large scale companies to shift from their current infrastructure to Google. Well, thats what Going Google is.

Today, one ad just caught my eye. It said,

Over 60% of the U.S State governments have gone Google

This clears it up that Google wants to make up new user base by displaying of their current and at times this trick is successful and to support this the Ad Landing page has been very well optimized for customers, which is likely to attract real time leads.

Here’s some text from the page, which i found was simple, but could do wonders for Google.

Each day, thousands of companies, including the world’s top brands switch to Google’s enterprise solutions — Google Apps, Postini Services, or the Google Search Appliance. Google helps take the hassle out of managing IT solutions, letting you save time and cut costs.

First off all, by showing the fact that many companies switch to Google daily does increase the customers faith in the brand,. Next, talking about cutting costs also goes very well with the current situation of recession.

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Well done Google!

Breaking : Mozilla (Firefox?) app for iPhone to come up within few weeks

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ff_on_iphoneAre you bored with Safari on your iPhone? Want a Change? Perhaps new broswer or new features?? In  the coming weeks, you might be able to get your hands on the Mozilla (Maybe Firefox) app for iPhone!

Om Malik when interviewing the CEO of Mozilla found out that, a iPhone app for Mozilla may be on it’s way to the App store soon!

Another interesting aspect of it would be the weave feature. It’s like typing the URL in the address bar and getting all the browser history from all the devices and if this is not enough, you can save your browser preferences on Mozilla’s server so that you can access them form any device easily.

When Om asked them about this feature being integrated with the iPhone app, they remained silent but you see, silence answers lots of questions ;)

But what will happen, if Apple just decides to not, approve the app? Everything’s crushed :( and history would be repeating itself just like what happened with Google Voice, but yeah it did come up back with a Online version of the app though.

Also : Do read the comment by Sebastien below which clears out many things.

Update : There is some confusion, as to if the app is a browser or not. Currently we cannot confirm, anything, but will keep you posted as soon as we receive information.

[Via GigaOm]

Vodafone : The Worst Mobile Service Provider that just sucks

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vodafoneVodafone is the worst Cellphone service provider i have ever dealt with. 

You might have heard about the Caller Tune Stuff? Yes, the one where the caller gets to listen the song when he calls the other person. Here’s what happened with me Today.

About 2 hours back i received a Text Message with the Following Contents,

As Per your Request Caller Tune has been activated on your Vodafone mobile phone. Rs. 30 will be deducted as monthly rental. To deactivate send CT to 144 (Toll Free)

What the hell? I never ever called them up or sent any message to put up any caller tune. When i was thinking about this i got another message which made to go haywire, really. Just read it.

“Pardesia Mr Natwarlal’ has been set as your Caller Tune for 90 Days for all Caller. To Search for more caller tunes sms song/movie name to 55655 (free)

Now let me rip it apart. 

  1. Never did i Ask for any of their kind services.
  2. Instead of deducting Rs. 30 they deducted a hell lot of money, and now my Balance is around -35 bucks. So i don’t think cutting off Rs 74 was a good idea.
  3. It says, canceling the Caller Tune is Toll free. First of all the song, Natwarlal watever is so sick. I wanted to cancel it off, which i can’t because my service is bared, and as far as i read it did mention somewhere it was Toll Free, Correct?
  4. Not just 30 Days, but the caller tune has been set for 90 days so for 3 months, people will make fun of. Good.
  5. When i call up Vodafone Customer Care, first off i get some Machine telling me “You Service is Bared…. bla bla..” After several attempts i am able to make it up to some guy, who asks me to call in the morning.
  6. What Piece of shit is this exactly? I can’t Call anyone. When people call me they get to hear some 1995 song? 

I need to say, Vodafone service just sucks. Well, this post is not just for me but for so many people who are facing the problem but can’t have a say. Not just 1 person, if we calculate even if they do such things to 1000 people they make good money out of it. This is just so sick.

And not this one problem. Drop calls are the biggest problems too. I wonder how much money they make by such things. 

My Message to Vodafone - 

If Your Listening, you probably know how much your service sucks. If it goes this way users will get fed up of your services soon. Your Service sucks.

Anyone else having such experiences? Share it in the comment to make your voice heard.

Note : I’ll Keep you guys updated on what’s happening with this matter.

5 Places where you Should not keep your iPhone : Funny Pics!

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I rarely do picture posts, but since i have started improving in my photographic skills (Maybe), there i come with a post which will surely bring a smile on your Face.

Generally People keep iPhones/Ipod Touches in their Pockets, Correct? But I’ll tell you 5 places where you should not keep you iPod Touch/ iPhone even by mistake!

BTW to save bandwidth and to maintain picture quality, i have uploaded them onto Flickr ;) You can share them freely anywhere but please, do give me credit or else, you’ll have to suffer. Kidding

Test Photograph ;)

Test Photograph ;)

Whose Butt is that?

Whose Butt is that?

 

Thats Cow Dung i.e Cow Shit

That's Cow Dung i.e Cow Shit

Wait, is that where i keep my Hair Comb?

Wait, is that where i keep my Hair Comb?

Wait, Is the iPhone Still Stinking?

Wait, Is the iPhone Still Stinking?

What Happens if i switch on my Fan?

What Happens if i switch on my Fan?

Thanks to My friend Gamanjeet for giving this idea, though i didn’t put down.