Cuil - will it beat google?

Ex employees of Google Inc, have started the a search engine called CUIL claiming it to be the biggest!
Cuil means knowledge in Irish. Well there we go, knowledge aquired by working in Google hehehehe.
My first impression is looks neat, and they have added drill down feature ( which is nothing but search by category). Well that did not immpress me much. I still rate search me more than Cuil, but will have to wait and see who performs better on the long run. But Google is still the king for me

Search Me.. what way to search the web

Type in what you wann search, you get small icons on the bottom... click on them.. WOW you get a bigger page will all the pages loaded!!!! scroll along..select which page you were looking for. Now this is what I call good visual experiance.

It is like iPhone of search pages!!!! URL is http://www.searchme.com/ lets search the web :)

iPhone crazy world!!!

I was reading through some blogs.. guess what I found?
A site deticated for requesting Apple for features on iPhone...
http://www.iphonefeatures.org/

World is really going crazy for this baby :)

I could not control my laugh looking at this. This shows how crazy people can be ;)

My HP Pavilion TX 2170

Few months back, I got myself a tablet. I choose this one because i cannot afford any other tablets in the Market.
But after using it for 2-3 months now, I really love the performace of this machine. With 3GB of RAM, even thought it is Vista; this baby works well. Even when running Microsoft Virtual machine..which i use to run XP. The performance is awesome. Let me list down the pros and cons as I usually prefer :)
Pros:
a) Cost to features.
b) Camera, finger print scanner, DVD burner, etc. for 1000 USD.
c) Weight
d) Double battery :)
e) Remote is cool... I can do most of the stuff like watching movies, images..playing music. Cool to show off ;)


Cons:
a) Built quality is questionable...especially battery holding clips etc.
b) I am facing problems with finger prints... :(
c) No in built TV tuner card..one has shell out more to get external TV tuner.
d) Screen is not so great when out doors.

Well thats all for now... I will post more about it sooon.

RIM's (Blackberry) answer to iPhone

Wow!!!! What an answer from RIM. Go BlackBerry go!!!!!
Rumor's suggest this as Blackberry Thunder!, and it also been rumoured to have multitouch, screen made of glass! and losts of other goodies :)
Click on the image to read more.

The Dark Tide

I have been reading lot of novels, best pal on business trips :)
Recently finished reading, The Dark Tide from Andrew Gross. Man what a read it was, really chilling and Thrilling, a bit of comedy, love, suspense, things on finacial speculation and speculators... you name it. This book has got it!!
Initial chapters go a little slow and at times it feels dry. But towards the end, man I could not sleep, really wanted to read more and get to the end. I would defently recommend this has a excelent read and rate it 9 out of 10.

Touch Diamond... What a Phone.

Wow!!! What a phone. HTC's real gem. Comes in 2 varients, Pro which has a sliding qwety key board!!!. But will add in thickness of course. I will prefer the plain HTC Touch Diamond, no pro for me.
After really looking at this gem closely, following are pros and cons,
pros
1) 3G
2) deticated 3d card!!
3) Awesome Screen
4) Touch flow 3d interface, which is getting better with each release from HTC.
5) 4GB drive!
6) Good battery life.

Cons
a) only 3.2 Mpix camera, but a lot better than 3g iPhone and yeah supports video. Shame on you Apple.
b) No deticated audio jack. Same port used for audio, charging and USB interface to PC!. Latter 2 is good, one can charge using a usb. But I cannot connect my Bose head phones to the phone :(
c) Still feel 528 Mhz processor is slow for the device.
d) Price in India 27k man. Where no 3g networks yet :(. TRAI wake up, whole of Sri lanka is on 3g network.

iPhone 3g... Apple is a good learner?

Looks like Apple did learn from there earlier iPhone ( 1st gen as termed in Apple's language ) Following are the things that apple did correct :
a) Battery is no longer soldered to the circuit :)
b) Touch screen glass is not gluded now, which will be easy to replace.
c) Microsoft Exchange support, Blackberry watch out.
d) GPS - There is glith here, only works with google maps. Sad, but have to wait for any softwares to be released in the App store.
e) 3G ofcourse :)

Things Apple did not learn:
a) Ask any gadget lover, would like to forward SMS's at times. Apple do something about it. Please do add this in 2.1 firmwire
b) There was lot of problems in activations again.
c) 3g ok, where is the front facing cam? 3g only for web use :(
d) Please use a different material on the back of iPhone. Finger prints and smudges will make the iPhone owners cry!
e) Where is A2DP? Motorola L7 has it man.
f) Safari Browser. Whaaaaaaat is this a browser? can't even open links in new tab. Use Gtalk and it needs to be open always!! Google can't we it App Store as a new App?
g) Initial view from users, Battery life is not as good as Apple promised..hmmmm. Apple now its your turn..blame it on 3g :)