2007

GMail now supports IMAP

October 25, 2007

GMail, the most popular (and my favorite) Email service from Google has added IMAP support in addition to the existing POP3 support. One of the advantages of IMAP is that you can sync your mail from multiple clients. With POP3, even if you read a mail from one client, it isn’t reflected on the other [...]

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Live photo Gallery can now upload to Flickr

October 24, 2007

Live photo gallery was one of the recent applications which got added to my favorite application list. In my previous post on Live Photo Gallery I had wished that the application provided integration with Flickr. The Photo gallery team headed by Michael Palermiti has heard to this wish and the latest update of Live photo [...]

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Upgraded to Windows Vista

October 20, 2007

I have been tracking and trying out Vista since the Beta days and have written a lot of posts on the same. Windows Vista Beta 2 Windows Vista logs into India Planning to upgrade to Windows Vista ? Acer – Upgrade to Vista Planning to upgrade to Vista ? From the past few months I [...]

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Unlocking HTC Touch

October 15, 2007

When I bought the HTC Touch Smartphone I was never told by the reseller that it was locked onto Airtel Network in India. Only after seeing some of the comments left on my earlier post, I realized that it was a SIM locked phone. Recently when I traveled to Beijing, I felt the pain of [...]

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Back again !

October 13, 2007

Its been almost 3 weeks since I have put up any post on my weblog and this 20 day silence also has eclipsed my previous record of 10 days . And hopefully I wouldn’t be setting new records of this kind in the future. Most of my time in the last 20 days was spent [...]

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SPB Mobile Shell

September 24, 2007

SPB Mobile shell is an extension for the boring default user interface of a Windows Mobile powered Pocket PC phone. Key feature include: Phone style menu Weather forecasts  Photo speed dial World time Launcher Big dynamic tabs on Today Color based themes Smart contact search The SPM Menu based navigation loads faster and you can [...]

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ZAR – Data Recovery Software

September 23, 2007

Contrary to what most people think, deletion of file on windows does not mean permanent loss of the data. When the file is deleted, its not “shredded” Instead, the table of contents that points out the location of the file is erased. To put in more simpler words, the attribute of the space used by [...]

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Windows Live Photo Gallery

September 19, 2007

Along with Windows Live Writer Beta 3 there were a bunch of other tools released as part of the Windows Live Suite. It included Windows Messenger Mail Photo Gallery Toolbar OneCare I have been using the Photo Gallery application from the past one week and looks like I have fallen for one more product from [...]

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Windows Live Writer Beta 3

September 10, 2007

Windows Live Writer Beta 3 was released a few days back and this is one tool from Microsoft that deserves a lot of praise. It definitely simplifies the task of writing posts for your blog. Beta 3 has the following new features:     Insert videos using new ‘Insert Video’ dialog Upload images to Picasaweb [...]

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Indiatimes Mail !

September 9, 2007

Check out this ad for the new “futuristic”, “user friendly” email from Indiatimes After seeing this ad and many other marketing campaigns on print from Indiatimes, I was tempted to checkout what was “futuristic” in this E-Mail service. After reading the “Features” page (which had so many typographical errors) and after seeing the pathetic login [...]

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