March 2008

Upgraded to WordPress 2.5

March 30, 2008

WordPress, the publishing platform used for this site just got upgraded to version 2.5. As usual I used the Dreamhost “one click upgrade” and the upgrade to 2.5 was done within minutes. (I love this feature in Dreamhost ) However it took more than a few minutes to actually get the site going after the [...]

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iPhone in India – Breaking, Activating and Unlocking

March 29, 2008

A 16 GB iPhone just made its way to my home today all the way from an US store. Even though I had “experienced” iPhone by reading about it and by seeing tons of videos on YouTube, using it live was a totally different experience. iPhone is an amazing, astounding, remarkable, wonderful, incredible, marvelous product [...]

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Online Banking in India

March 23, 2008

Online Banking has really caught up in India and you rarely see a bank not providing online access to your bank account. However the quality of user experience varies across banks and the same can be said about the security. ING Vysya Bank, the Indian arm of ING is one example of a crappy online [...]

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Acer – Updating BIOS

March 22, 2008

The BIOS on my Acer 1694 laptop was 3 years old and I did manage to find an updated version of the same on the Acer support web site. However ever after trying for about say 10 times, I couldn’t upgrade the BIOS from Windows Vista. The upgrade from Vista always ended with a blue [...]

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Windows Vista SP1 released

March 19, 2008

Ah.. the day I have been waiting for ! Windows Vista SP1 has been finally released via windows update today ! I upgraded to Vista last year and there were a few issues bugging me including the file copy to external drives, WiFi connectivity, Printer Connectivity etc. Few of the issues were addressed by patches [...]

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eBay Desktop

March 11, 2008

eBay Desktop, the free alternative to eBay web portal is a very good application to showcase the power of Adobe AIR. I totally fell in love with the user interface; easy to use and very fast. One reason I prefer FeedDemon over Google reader is the pace at which I can navigate between the feeds [...]

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Google Calendar

March 7, 2008

When Google Calendar was launched in 2006, I didn’t find anything unique except the “Quick Add” feature. I might not have spent too much time exploring the powerful features of Google calendar then, but I am sure that most of them would agree that there was no single compelling feature in Google Calendar. At that [...]

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Microsoft’s World Wide Telescope

March 3, 2008

The demonstration of WorldWide Telescope made Scoble cry and in his follow up post he did explain as to what made him cry.  I didn’t cry (not to prove that I am stronger than Scoble ) , but was definitely impressed after seeing the following video. (Note: It’s a lengthy video and the streaming isn’t [...]

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