Black Friday sale is on pretty soon folks.. Apple store UK is down!! Looking at the Australian Apple store showing signs of sale to be not much, but anyways hoping for a decent sale here in UK!! I have a long list, Mac mini, iPhone or iPod touch, magic mouse, probably any good pair of ear phones at cheep price.
Keeping my fingers crossed!
This is the first book I read from Jeffery Deaver. Honestly it is just amazing novel, twists in the story were really nice. One who reads a lot of fiction novels usually can predict what is going to happen next, but this book is at a different level all together!
The story goes something like this- “ A spring night in a small town in Wisconsin. A call to 911 from a remote lake side home is cut short, a phone glitch or something serious? Deputy Brynn goes there to check it out and stumbles onto the murder scene! Before she can call for backup she finds herself the next potential victim. In the process of saving her own life, she loses her phone, gun and her car! And she flees into the dense woods with the only survivor of the crime scene.
Can she survive the night and escape from the bad guys, save her self and save a life?” well to find out get the book and read it!
Narration is pretty good, but the only thing i felt bad is the ending could have been more exciting! Even though entire book is exciting i feel last few chapters were predictable and boring. Still a worth read. I would rate this book a 8 of 10.
Has anybody noticed, there is no Beta word around Google Mail logo’s!! now.
I guess Google has moved them out of Beta!! Hurray, but does it mean anything to end users like u and me? will have to wait and watch what is the Google’s strategy behind it. Until then enjoy your free email ;)
Don’t look twice is the follow up novel from the bestselling author of The Dark Tide and Blue Zone. Being a co-author with James Paterson for several bestselling novels, one can clearly see the influence of his guru ;)
Lets cut the crap and talk about the story itself. A drive by shootout in a posh suburb of Greenwich and an innocent person standing by is killed. Everybody thinks he was just at the wrong place at the wrong time. Detective Ty and her daughter narrowly escape this shoot out. Initially Ty thinks that bullet was meant for him!!
Ty digs a little deeper and soon realizes that it is lot more than just a drive by shootout. Okay now to find out more go get urself the book and read it. It is a worth read.
But if one has not read the dark tide or the blue zone.. then go get your hands on those first! Don’t look twice is not as impressive as the blue zone. I would personally rate this book at 7 out of 10.
Well guess what, Google has just added drag & drop of email like all other free email providers in the web. But just hold on a sec.. Gmail does not have folders right? hmmmm.. So why not drag & drop email into labels!! That’s what Google has thought of :)
And it works the other way too! Just drag the label and drop it onto the email you wanna mark with the label.. Walla.
I don’t know what Google folks eat for breakfast.. every time they come up with some brilliant ideas! Kudos Google.
This app has been around for some time on Nokia’s beta labs… I just installed it on my 5800 and it is awesome.
Browsing images with stunning 3D effects… it has face detection as well and with few nice little gestures for zoom and scrolling.
It is a simple and really nice app to have. I like this app and feel it is way better than the default gallery app on the phone which sucks!
I wish Nokia makes this there default app in future.
Follow the link for more information
I was reading my fav blog engadget. I came across this awesome concept phone…. Just beyond words!
Yes it is true, Apple is waiting for the downloads to hit a billion! I guess there will be a big ad campaign after that ;)
Apple is giving away $10k worth of goodies as well for it!!! Follow the link for more details.
Sun Direct has recently launched the first HD service in India!.
Follow the link for more info.. but sure it is expensive ;)
Microsoft is pulling out the main stream support for Windows XP professional this Thursday!
To get support one has to get into extended support agreement with Microsoft, of course it will include some fees ;)
Follow the link for more information.
Google has launched an election centre dedicated to the upcoming elections in India!!
Just select your Constituency and Google Election centre gives out a lot of information including who won the last election, the debates he/she was involved in and surprisingly it also shows how many question he/she asked in those debates!!!
Google just amazes me every time! Go Google Go.
I was just reading my friends blog, Guess what google has added a new feature in gmail to send emails in many Indian languages!!!!
Go to the settings page to enable this feature, once enabled you will see a “ಅ” or “अ” icon( based on which language you have chosen in the settings page) on the compose mail. Select that and just start typing phonetically! and gmail automatically translates it to your chosen language!!!
Say if I type Raghavendra it converts to “ರಾಘವೇಂದ್ರ”!! There is also a correction option to fine tune the translation!
Google just keeps impressing me, Go Google Go!
I updated my phone today with the latest firmware. Following were the noticeable changes
a) Performance is much better now, especially the touch response and gallery.
b) Geotagging is finally there on the camera!
c) New Dictionary app added with support to multiple languages.
d) camera feels a lot better.
e) New App.Update app added, which is used to update individual nokia applications outside of firmware updates!!!.. It had been first added in N85 and N79 finally made it to 5800 as well.
and lot more tiny little bug fixes. But I have noticed few issues one mainly in update is if there is a sim lock code then the phone does not switch on after the update!!!
One more issue is after this update, I could not install any app, even apps from nokia site get certificate expired error. Well got to figure that out.
It has been around for almost a year now. Always wanted to get one of this because of its portability, very handy when travelling.
Finally got my hands on one :) at a mall in Luxembourg!
It is really great and simple. Performance is just fine, but most important it is comfy :)
Controversy over the height of the diffuser of Brawn GP, Toyota and Williams cars!!!
Stewards of the Australian race have thrown out the protest, but now the decision will be made after the race by FIA’s court of appeal. hmmm. I thought there will not penalty on drivers or constructors after the race is over, well there we go.. what a great start for the season.
Well that's what makes F1 exciting isn't it?
Read the following link for more info
Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 is finally out! Well it was out from long time but as a beta, but now the beta is gone ;)
I am using the new explorer 8 from 2 days, seems to be quite stable and for the first time it is not as hungry for memory as explorer has been for years. Which is good. I did compare the memory usage for Google chrome, Firefox and the new explorer 8.. guess what explorer 8 was the least in memory usage so far!!!
Overall the experience has been excellent. I do suggest this but as everyone know security will be an issue since it has already been hacked! So in the browser war so far chrome is the only one not yet hacked!!!!!
After a long discussion between FIA and FOTA, the recently announced most wins points system is scrapped for the good the F1!.
I welcome the decision, this will keep the excitement on till the last race :).
Just a week to go for the first race of 2009!! cant wait for it….
I have a joined Fernbach Software S.A in London, United Kingdom!
Check out the link for further information on the company!
I am writing this blog using Windows Live Writer. After a long time I have seen something nice as this from Microsoft! It is really nice and amazing way to blog!
Windows live writer is a blogging tool, which supports a whole range of blogging stuff from blogger.com to wordpress!
It supports sharing photos from Live photos and flicker! and it has pluggin’s to generate tiny url and post it on twitter as well!!!!
I really like this tool. Will be using it from now on!
