iPhone 4 : Hands on! (Exclusive Indian Review)

Posted on September 23, 2010 by Monik

Here we have the big daddy of em’ all, iPhone 4! By the way, we’re in India so we’re sorry if we arrived late on the scene.

Design

The first and foremost visible change in iPhone 4, the curved back has been flattened.

The back is glass, shiny and neatly done. Top left, 5 Megapixel camera accompanied with LED Flash. The Apple logo is glittering, and so does the whole back.

Moving to the sides, a metal finish and the two volume buttons finally detach each other (unlike previous versions) and two round dot buttons on left with the silent switch. On the opposite side, its equipped with a Microsim slot which took us quite some technical skills to have the crafty sim ready and executed. Bottom side, USB port and speakers like 3GS and the top is also similar to it.

What’s new is the FaceTime Camera (the clarity is obviously less compared to the one at back) but is capable enough for a quick neat conversation. Its located near the speaker spot on top front. The screen forms the front of the box like structure and the home button is below it as usual. BTW the screen is edge to edge with the side borders.

Features

Includes everything from iPhone 3GS and has additional stuff which we will cover now.

FaceTime! Video conferencing from iPhone 4 to another iPhone 4 or iPod Touch 4th generation.
Multitasking with iOS 4 and folder creation for segregating apps.
Photos (with LED Flash) and HD video Recording with a gorgeous 5 Megapixel camera.
Speed. Obviously.
Battery life has improved atleast about 50% (compared to our previous usage with 3GS)
Free iPhone Case!

What I like

The new version is good to look at, the back looks glossy and elite. Retina Display is just awesome. It appears as a matt finish on the screen itself. Overall, iPhone’s game. The camera quality and the LED flash could alter your opinion of ”not-buying” this piece of technology.

What I hate

Personally, the design sucks. Except the glass finish at the back I prefer the earlier curved back versions. The earlier volume control buttons were better than these separate two metal blocks. Pricing is quite a bit heavy on your pockets if you don’t wish to spend about Rs 36,000+.

Thanks Krish, for helping us discover iPhone 4. You Rock!

Now don’t walk and talk, walk and type on your iPhone!

Posted on January 2, 2010 by Monik

Remember those idiotic Idea Cellular ads asking you to walk and talk so that you loose your excess weight and stay fit? Well here’s a iPhone app which allows you to type when your walking.

If you’ve got two eyes (mostly, you have) then probably when your typing on your phone while walking you might have ended up banging your head with the other people, walls and specially light posts because your eyes just focus on the phone. No more.

Enter Walk n Type. This is a iPhone application available at the app store for $0.99. The basic feature of the app is that whenever your typing anything on you iPhone it will display whats in front of you by using the camera present on the phone’s front end.

This works with everything, Tweetdeck, Safari and all apps that support Copy-Paste.

This App is a must for those secret lady admirers, she will never know you were watching here and not typing!

Via TheNextWeb

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

Posted on October 20, 2009 by Monik

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”.

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!

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).

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.

Google Wave : Review And user guide for Dummies and Invite Giveaway too! (updated)

Posted on October 12, 2009 by Monik

For all those thinking, Google Wave is a killer for FaceBook and Twitter, it surely is but only if you understand. Well, let me tell you the story from Beginning.

I have a good Friend, Binoy. His Gtalk status said *****@googlewave.com. I asked him was he on Google wave? He said yes! Oh great, then what? I asked him if we could do the honor of inviting me and he did agree. He nominated me. I waited for a day, no response. 2 Days, nothing. 3, Nothing, and the finally on 5th day here i have. Perhaps Google does take a lot of time licking those stamps.

Anyways, on the fifth day i got this mail.

Google Wave Invite Mail

I was pretty excited, to check it out after all people were ready to pay upto $150 for it! So, dumping off my English Homework i went on to try Google wave.

So there it goes. When i log in i See -

Google Wave home Page

This first thought to my mind. WTF? Well, it’s damn complicated to understand. When, i showed it to my younger brother, he said he could solve a rubix cube in less time then Understanding Google Wave and it’s not just me. But reading some guides and check out Google Wave’s help center i found out things to get my self going.

Then first thing i did, was tweeted and tweeted asking if anyone too, was on Google wave. You can read some of my tweets, on my twitter profile while they were still hot!

Tweeting for Wave

After that i’ve got atleast 2 friends add me There we go. First thing i did was started a wave. To Start a wave you need to click on new wave.

Adding a New wave

Then select the participants of the wave, whom you want to get the wave in their inbox. Here’s a screen shot of what it looks like.

Adding Participants for Google Wave

Once You put have a wave, next what happens when you get a reply in your inbox. Here’s a view of the Inbox.

Google Wave Inbox

Well, all that is what the wave is about, but lets check out the actual wave. So i had convinced one of my friend, Binoy to help me out with that. So, few things i found out. Chatting is real time. Like if your using Google Talk or Yahoo Messenger you can’t ever find what the person has typed untill he pushes enter but in Google Wave as soon as he types i can see it without the actual need to hit enter. So I can measure anyone’s typing speed to or how many typo’s anyone makes.

Real-Time Chat

Now going next to thing is Google Search on the Go. And not just searching the web but searching Images, Videos, Books (Under-Construction) and More. And after searching not only you can view the results, but add them to your wave too. Screenshot for that too? Ok.

Google Search on Wave

Adding Youtube Videos and Image in Your wave

Well, i should have mentioned this earlier but i am mentioning it now. How does it matter? Well I’ll give you a view of the Text Editor which will help you make your text look more attractive and sexy. Well, not just that you can upload your attachments too over there, just click on the paper-clip icon and then upload it and share it on your wave!

Rich Text Editor

Other Important part of wave are those three little icons sitting on the left of your wave editor box.

Important Wave Tools

Let me go one by one. The “G” icon is for Google Search which i mentioned Earlier. Then come’s the Jigsaw puzzle like icon which on clicking allows you to add any third party, Gadget to your wave. Then is a icon with those three rectangles of different colors. Those are one’s for posting a Poll. Just type your question and add the Poll which will have options, Yes, No or Maybe.

Polls on Google Wave

And along with that the last icon, you can add maps also, which you can share via your wave.

Final Rating : 7/10

Did it live to it’s hype? Not Exactly but It’s worth trying once. If any one wanting invite’s, just drop me a request in the comments and why should u get it and i might be able to nominate 7 deserving commenters. Good Luck!

Update : There is a Invite (Not Nomination, this one will give you a account immediately) up for giveaway too. To get it just post it in the comments, why you need it along with your Email id so that i can give it to you instantly. Regarding the Results, it will be out in next 4 hours. Cheers!

Schoolr : The Perfect Student Information resource

Posted on October 5, 2009 by Monik

Finding Information for Projects, is very hectic for Students like me. Where will i find the map of the India at the time of 1910 for my history projects. Where are the Gold Mines in India? Gr….. It is very boring and indeed very difficult when, you probably don’t know all the search tactics. At that time Schoolr come’s in Handy.

Schoolr is the perfect information engine for any student who wishes to complete his project as fast as possible. It Contains Google Search, Image Search, Wikipedia, Dictionary, Therasus, Acronym and the most talked about Wolfram too. So it is a complete mashup of all these and provides you the ultimate search experience.

Really, opening new windows to go to Google, Wikipedia and Wolfram everytime is very hectic. So now, just get on to Schoolr and then simply forget everything but what your query is. And then in one go, get what you want!

Apart form Just search, it also provides a unit convertor (very useful for my Physics Numericals) to easily switch from S.I units to C.G.S units… keeping it simple, helps you convert area, width, length, etc..

Another nice feature you might not want to miss is the Translator. The Inbuilt Translator translates the Text from the Text Box to your preferred language and is help ful especially, when you’ve got to study some unknown language, for me e.g French.

Complete Compilation of all the features needed by A Student are present all in one place. And their Tagline Suggests,

If You Like it tell a friend. If Not, clear the history and we’ll never speak of it again.

FaceYourManga – Your virtual alter-ego!

Posted on August 13, 2009 by bastab

Days are gone people would have simply liked to upload their own pictures in the ‘avatar’ of websites during registering,or get compelled to use the retarded artificial avatars pre-loaded there.With the advent of ‘FaceYourManga’ things work in different ways.This website gives you the power to make up your own avatars and even edit on pre-loaded ones,in case you don’t like it(which is the genereal case).

Once you are on the website,click ‘FaceYourManga’ option to create your own avatar,working according to the steps they ask you to follow.You also get to show the previously done stuffs in ‘Your Faces’.

The best thing being you can use them as your avatars in almost all online instant messenger platforms,namely Live Messenger®, Skype®, and many more.

So get going and enjoy your virtual appearance!!

Etiole

Dream Tech. Live Tech.

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