Why Apple has a Winner on their Hands with the iPad…
It really is touching the future.. Industry Pundits worldwide are already calling the iPad a big failure. People have gone on to say that the iPhone was one of the last great things we would ever see from the iconic Steve Jobs. The iPad in many ways is something that is radically new than just trying to innovate an existing market that the iPod and iPhone lines have done. The iPad is Apple’s Computer for the rest of us. By the rest of us, I mean the people who aren’t... Read The Rest →
Boxee unveils the Beta, and even the Boxee Box!
Boxee one of my favourite startups at the moment is unveiling its beta version of the popular Boxee software. I’ve been using Boxee for almost an year on my Macbook Pro and needless to say the experience is simply wonderful. With today’s Beta launch Boxee aims to enter newer territories with the launch of a dedicated Boxee Box in partnership with D-Link. What’s more important is a totally revamped and redesigned interface for Boxee, that makes using it even more fun. The UI changes aren’t the only changes though, Boxee... Read The Rest →
Need for Speed : Google Pwns OpenDNS with its own DNS…
Google seems to be getting everywhere. They are there in just about every corner of our online life, and now they have taken a step further by launching Google Public DNS. Google Public DNS aims at making the web faster for you, by using a high speed, public DNS server. Here’s what DNS does in simple words : Say you type in the Wikipedia.org in your browser window. The DNS then converts the URL you typed into machine readable IP address and returns it to you. Only after the actual... Read The Rest →
Is Square the Next Big Thing?
Back in September this year when Twitter founder and inventor Jack Dorsey left the company, to a work on a new project, everyone was skeptical at best when he said “I came back to St. Louis to find the next thing, and I found it.” Obviously we are aware of the Genius of a person that Jack is, so expectations are quite high. Well today he’s revealed this next big thing to world as Square. The idea – let people quickly and easily accept physical credit card payments from their... Read The Rest →
Hack Attack : Preview Google Chrome OS Easily
Google Chrome OS, the Operating System being currently built by Google for people who would like to work in the cloud has been in the wild as public test builds. It wasn’t isn’t that easy to get Google Chrome OS running on your machine keeping in mind the limited hardware support, and the relative complexity to get it installed. However if you still want to try out Google Chrome OS, don’t fret Chrome OS Diet is here. The biggest change is the 300 MB download, a far cry from the... Read The Rest →
#DailyApps Giveaway : Google Wave Invites
Google Wave seems to have been dominating the tech blogosphere headlines for quite some time now. Almost everywhere I go people are talking about how Google Wave is going to be the next big thing on the internet. Am not quite sure if Google Wave is ready for primetime yet, because in my opinion it needs a lot of fixing up to do. At the moment Google Wave is kinda buggy and slow (faster than other web apps of course, considering the high standards Google has set for itself). But... Read The Rest →
Hack Attack : Preview the Next Google UI Before Anyone Else!
Google Search Engine is a constant changing one.. Recently after the successful internal testing of Caffeine, Google has decided to deploy it in the wild starting next year. But these are under the hood changes that most of us may not notice. But over the past few months, Google has also been secretly testing a new UI and look for the Google Search engine, which has essentially not changed much since its inception. Do you want to be one among the secret testers, to have a sneak peak of the... Read The Rest →
The Ultimate Home Media Center- Dell Inspiron Zino HD
For long I’ve considered the Mac Mini from Apple as a candidate for my future Home Media Server. The Mac Mini has always been an iconic device with its neat and minimal design. However with the release of Inspiron Zino HD from Dell, I’ve given up on the Mac Mini unless Apple comes up with a radically better Mac Mini than the existing one in the market. In short the Inspiron Zino HD is a small PC that packs quite a punch in an 8” by 8” square. And the... Read The Rest →
Hack Attack : Secure your Jailbroken iPhone
The beginning of this week, saw the coming of the first ever iPhone worm. The worm out in the wild as iKee (The one that changes the wallpaper to that of Rick Astley – of the rickrolling fame!) is actually a wrapper built around iPhone/Privacy.A that runs silently in the background without ever letting the user know that it is running. What does the worm do? Well it goes after the personal data stored on your iPhone which includes email, contacts, SMS, Calendars, Photos etc. So if you have Jailbreak’ed... Read The Rest →
Bettween Makes @Twitter Conversations a Breeze
As Twitter goes more mainstream than it ever was, I see a lot of people having chat like conversations on Twitter. It’s just so easy, and its inevitable that your one tweet leads of to a very interesting conversation. With Twitter working on its own implementation of ReTweet it is only going to more harder for us to keep track of our conversations in the coming future. Twitter has never really had any easy to manage your conversations and this is where Bettween comes into the scene. Replete with its... Read The Rest →
