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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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Moneycontrol needs to control the number of Ads !

February 21, 2008

Moneycontrol.com which boasts itself as an end-to-end business and financial portal is a perfect example of showing how you can screw up a web site by putting too many ads. When you first type in the URL in the browser, you have a full page Ad with the link to “continue to Moneycontrol“. Once you [...]

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Airtel 8Mbps in Action

November 29, 2007

In my last post, I had mentioned about the new 8Mbps plan being introduced by Airtel. I opted for the 1299 (4GB download limit) plan and the same got activated yesterday. Activation would have been happened much earlier if I wasn’t on the commercial segment ! To activate the 1299 plan, I had to rollback [...]

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Airtel introduces 8mpbs

November 24, 2007

Airtel has now introduced 8mpbs plans in India. Airtel happens to be the first operator offering this speed for resedential segment. Even though the news of this plan has been doing rounds from the past few weeks, nothing was put up on the official web site till now. Here is the list of plans available [...]

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Amazon Kindle

November 21, 2007

Anybody buying this ? More information on Kindle here !

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New Printer – HP C6188

November 18, 2007

Just got myself a new printer : HP Photosmart C6188 By the way its not just a printer, its also a copier,scanner and a fax machine !  The scanner and copier is definitely of some use; not sure how extensively I would use the fax feature, but I did manage to get it up and [...]

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PayPal – New Look and new features

November 1, 2007

PayPal, the e-commerce site which allows payments and money transfers to be made through the Internet has got a  new look and also has added some new features which might be of interest for users in India. For one, PayPal has introduced new hosted payment buttons. Specific buttons receiving the refresh include: Buy Now, Pay [...]

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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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