If you are mad about the things that look good, then, Motorola’s first luxury phone, the Aura, is specially made for you.
But the question is-do you want a phone that look like a Rolls Royce, is priced like one, but work like the Maruti Suzuki 800? All that dough you cough up for this goes for a display that supports 16 million colours and a 300dpi resolution, a stainless steel casing with textured pattern, a 1.62-carat sapphire crystal lens and some more bling. Coming to features that really matter, the Aura has an internal memory of just 2GB with on slot for external card, a meager 2 MP camera, a speaker phone that refuses to be loud, a really cool menu template but inside a very small, but inside a very small, but funky, circular screen! Check out the list below and see what is its real worth according to you…
Tagged at RS 1,11,492
Loaded With
* Messaging – MMS, SMS, Email (POP3/IMAP embedded)1, Open Source
* Audio – AAC, AAC+, AAC+ Enhanced, MIDI, MP3, WAV, WMA v10, WMA v9
* Video – Capture/Playback, Capture/Playback/Streaming1, H.263, H.264, MPEG4
* Camera – 2 MP, Fixed Focus
* On Board Memory – 2GB user available memory2
* Connectivity – Stereo Bluetooth3 Class 1, Version 2.0 plus EDR and A2DP, USB 2.0 Hi-Speed
* Browser – Open Source
* Bands/Modes – GSM 850/900/1800/1900, EDGE Class 12, GPRS Class 12
* Weight – 141.00 g
* Dimensions – 47.60 x 96.87 x 18.55mm
* Display – 1.55” in diameter, 480 pixel diameter, LCD round
* Battery – 810 mAh typical, 780 mAH minimum
* Standby Time – Up to approximately 400 hours
* Talk Time – Up to approximately 7.3 hours
I have become a real fan of this set , but lets see how you will vote for it …
I have often seen my friends being worried about mathematics and thinking that it is something to be afraid of . Some of them are slow at solving problems, others do not understand the language of questions, some say calculations are very long and time consuming… i too used to be an active participant of such discussions untill the last week.
Now, I have started preparing for my math exams now and have started doing what i should do… looking for quick tricks to solve the problems so that i am able to score good marks both in my exams and in enterance exam as well.
While surfing on net and diving in certain well reputed sites i got to know that calculations are not that much scary, rather they are more fun than study…. i am no more afraid of maths as a subject here are some quick tricks to finish up your fear as well.. Good Luck my friends :-)
Pros : The Apple iPod Shuffle is very light and very small in size. It has a VoiceOver cues and can efficiently support podcasts and audiobooks. After the invisible MP3 player, the 3rd Generation iPod Shuffle is the next recommendation.
The Third generation ipod Shuffle also has a Flash memory installed in it (4GB), it supports digital audio standards like AIFF, Audible, MP3, AAC, Apple Lossless.
Cons: The microscopic design of 3rd Generation iPod Shuffle is very boring and unconventional, short battery life is a big concern, one has to operate the device using a pill-size remote control on the headset cord. Moreover the unconventional, and kinky controls and very few features bring down this new Shuffle iPod. Like other iPod versions, there is no FM radio or screen, thus it is a complete Digital Audio Player.
Apple’s third generation iPod Shuffle MP3 player, available in the market for $79. The tiny player is embedded with a new feature ‘VoiceOver’ which talks to you in a sweet robotic voice helping you by telling the name of song and its singer and thus reducing the stress of reading the names. It also informs the battery status when required.
One thing which makes it unfortable to use is the new control panel situated at the ear-piece rather on the main body.
Though the miniature iPod Shuffle wont be able to meet everyone’s requirements but will satisfy the people looking for an extremely sleek, light weighed and almost invisible MP3 player.
Design /Structure
You have a first glance on it, and I can bet that you won’t ask, “What it is?” The 3rd Gene iPod Shuffle is too small, even smaller and thinner than a small thumb-drive and thus go unnoticed unless it has an earpiece attached to it. Measuring 0.7 inch by 1.8 inches by 0.3 inch, this tiny and metal enclosed player is no bigger than your thumb nail, having no sign of a button or something.
The thing which is to be hated the most is that, the iPod functions are controlled from a tiny remote situated at the cable, below the right ear plug. The panel has 3 keys, two the handle the volume and the central key for various functions like forwarding ( pressing twice), pausing( pressing once), rewinding (pressing thrice) etc.
With this changed panel the person has to bear the risk of losing the control of the iPod if he loses the cable.
Though the cable can be replaced by a new one from any registered Apple store, for a cost of $28. The metal body enclosing the hardware is said to be eco friendly and highly recycalable.
New Features
The 3rd Generation Shuffle has added few new features to it, one of them is the addition of Voice Over which announces the name of the audiotrack and singer of the selected song. The VoiceOver facility is very useful but can be turned off using Apple’s iTunes software, if someone does not like the robotic voice of VoiceOver.
The next new feature which adores this new 3rd generation iPod Shuffle is its ability to sync and navigate in midst of the multiple playlists, audio podcasts and the audiobooks. This is also done using the VoiceOver feature, press the central key for more than 3secs and the robotic voice will then dictate the name of the various playlists in the iPod, and leave the central key and re-click it if you want to play the selected/announced playlist. Use the volume controllers to skip the playlists, if you have many playlists.
Battery
Shuffle has a 4 inch USB adapter accompanying it. The iPod gives a backup of around 10 hours after getting fully charged ( approx in 2 hrs 45 mins).
Not happy to tell
The 3rd Generation Shuffle has many shortcomings, including the unconventional features and controls, unimpressive design. Even though the voice and structure quality is better than the previous versions (Nano and Classic). The removal of control panel from the main body is a major drawback for the product, the usability of this cable embedded control panel is questioned by many.
The lilliput player with better interaction, light and slim design, and easy navigation was unable to overshadow its shortcomings.
The vodafone Zoozoo advertisements, specially prepared for the DLF IPL 20-20 matches, are a big hit and have attracted thousands of followers on many sites including those of Facebook, Orkut etc. The amazing fact about the Zoozoo characters is that, they are not animated but are real humans, wearing some specially prepared skin-tight costume have a paper or rubber smile. The artists playing the Zoozoo are specially chosen to be of small height and lean structure. Here are some of the msot famous Zoozoo videos, vote them accordingly:
Are you confused about how to put in more specific keywords in your post in order fetch a higher rank in Google search results ??
No need to worry any further cause the Google has added a new feature called ‘Wonder Wheel’, which can be used as an excellent Keyword Suggestions Tool. Google’s Wonder Wheel is easy to use and effective in giving accurate keyword suggestions.
To use this tool, first go to the Google Search Engine and search for any term, lets take ‘Keywords’, on the result page, click a link- ‘Show Options’ present on the upper left hand side. Now a long list of activities, which can be performed to get the desired search results is listed on the left. Move down the list and click on ‘Wonder Wheel’. This will generate a wheel like structure, with searched term in the centre and keyword suggestions at the ends of the branches.
For instance, you want to have to know the Most Searched Keywords related to the word ‘seo’, then just search the term in Google’s Search Engine and follow the procedure above. You will see a result like the one given below.
Note: This feature too, like many other services of Google is country specific and experimental, therefore this feature is available in Google.com search engine and not in Google.co.in. Thus, search the terms in Google.com only.
Today, the online culture is booming day by day and almost all the countries are providing extending their support to grow Blogging as a profession or hobby, in their nations. But, yet there are many countries which have enforced strict laws to restrict or finish this online culture and are thus, termed as the ‘Worst Countries For Blogging’ by a US-based ‘Committee to Protect Journalists’. These oppressors are listed below:
1. Vietnam: The government in the nation created a separate department to monitor the internet activities. Bloggers here have tried hard to fill the gap in independent news, left by the state-controlled media. The bloggers here are facing a lot of difficulties are unable to change the traditional enforcement on media.
2. Iran: the atrocities on the Bloggers by the State, is evident from the news that a month ago a young blogger died in prison. The authorities here regularly harass and detain Bloggers who critically write about the political or religious figures in the nation.
3. Burma: Bloggers inside Burma proved invaluable in passing out the information during the 2007 uprisings, leading to ruling military junta blocking the internet completely for a particular period.
4. Syria : The government uses filtering methods to block politically sensitive sites. Also the internet café owners were ordered to report on customers.
5. China : The country is witnessing the most comprehensive online rules . The government relies on service providers to filter searches, block critical websites, delete objectionable content and monitor e-mail traffic.
6. Cuba : The internet in the country is dominated by the political body, only the government officials and the people in the Communist Party can use Web. The rebellious bloggers are imprisoned. At present 21 bloggers are behind the bars.
7. Saudi Arabia : The sites tackling political, social or religious issues and other sensitive issues, are completely blocked in the kingdom. The blocked site count has reached around 4,00,000.
Do you want to save your precious time by taking screenshots of multiple websites at a time? ‘Grab Them All‘, is a firefox add-on which is a sure-shot way to grab screenshots of multiple sites in a single go. You have to just follow the link and install the add-on on your Mozilla browser.
When completely installed, go to: View > Toolbar > Customize; a browser appears where you have to drag and drop the ‘Grab Them All’ add-on icon. Save the changes and move out of the browser.
Create a txt file outside the browser adding list the names of websites to be shot.
Again go back to the browser and click, Tools > Grab Them All; and then a small box appears (like the one shown below). Here click the button to load the txt file having the list of URLs and then, choose a destination directory where you want to save the screenshots.
Click on Run and all the screenshots are taken with in seconds.
If you are patiently looking for a mobile device which can substitute your laptops, help you handle your business, be comparatively cost efficient and all this without sacrificing the looks. No doubt, your patient will end as soon as you go through the Nokia E75, which recently found its way in the Indian market as well.
Design
This new sleek, heavy and grippy cell phone might make you it’s fan or at least an appreciator. The phone though gives a solid feeling, it’s rounded edges enhance the phone’s grip, so that your near ones does not snatch it from
The phone is not as broad as the previously launched Nokia E71 and thus adds further gripping advantage. The most interesting thing is that this E product has two keypads, one alphanumerical and another one is the QWERTY keyboard. The QWERTY keyboard slides out smoothly from the left side of the phone. Though, the phone is slim enough to hide the inner slidable keypad.
The stainless steel battery cover, a 3.2 Mega Pixel Camera and a small speaker helps it maintain its elegant style and also looks expensive form its back as well.
The phone has smooth volume and camera buttons at its right side are easy to operate and can be well sensed on touching. The left side of the phone has a Micro USB port and a memory cart socket.
The bottom of the phone has a charging socket.
The main keypad is a bit congested with the keys being too close to one other and at times irritates the user as he keeps pressing the wrong key every time. But, the irritated person can easily switch to the QWERTY keyboard and can take up a good advantage of the dual keypad. The QWERTY keyboard is really easy to operate and really added an extra star to the E75′s personality.
The QWERTY keypad is very handy and adroit. The keys are well designed and are much broader than the previous E products. The QWERTY is really a part which will help you stick to the phone for hours, its my personal experience that once you are into the habit of using the QWERTY, you will always use it and will forget the usual keypad.
Alongside the phone has a 2.4 inches screen (QVGA) and is really good for those with weak eye sight as the brightness offered is really good. The pictures appear very clean and clear on the screen. In simple words the screen of the E75 provides an unmatched picture display and clarity.
The E75 has an fm radio, an internet radio and a real player. The phone does not have such a good music player, but it is good enough to listen at times. I am very angry at this fact that the Nokia phones which are designed for the enterprises does not have a good multimedia support. Now, is there some one who will tell that which encyclopedia says that a good businessmen does not listen to loud and clear music.
Lets leave my personal anguish aside and I must tell you that along with this the phone also has a video center, music store, voice and video recording, pod casting and along with this it also holds some good, unexpected games. (N Gage support).
Overall the E75 will be a good choice both for the executives as well as the high-end employs. The phone holds many new features and can be explored a lot more.
Today, Nokia officially announced the launch of its latest E75 in India, successor to the famous E71. The previously launched E71 is amongst the most famous E series devices. The new E75 has a alphanumeric keyboard along with a QWERTYkeyboard. Tagged at around INR 23,999/-
The phone is best suited for the entrepreneurs and business executives, as it holds a good capability of setting up easy email clients. The QWERTY keyboard too makes it a hardcore executive class phone.
Supporting around 16 email accounts which include the Gmail, Yahoomail, In.com, Rediffmail,Hotmail etc. and also the user can easily flip from the personal account to a professional one, by using a selection at the standby screen.
The phone is thus a complete business class phone.
There are thousands of budding bloggers coming up every day. They want to implement their best efforts and be a successful by the end of the session, but as it is well know that only a few amongst us are able to grab this status. This is because we fail to plan things, though we may put in great efforts but we lose the exact way we are supposed to go, one can be a successful blogger not just by putting in efforts but by placing right efforts in a right direction and at a right time.
1.Is my blog my hobby or a profession?
This is the most important question a budding blogger must ask himself before putting in his greatest efforts into his blog. The time you should give your blog depends on whether your blog is a career for you or its just a hobby? confused people most land up giving up their blogging, due to the continuous imbalance in the amount of work and time they put-in and the amount of success they fetch by their efforts. Less success is more than enough to force you give up your blogging.
So, to avoid such a shameful loss, one must be clear about the way he/she thinks about blogging. If it is a hobby then one should plan and give less time to blogging and work slowly. For the other who consider blogging as a business or a job, they should be giving their complete time and attention to their blog and should be ready to learn from their mistakes, cause until or unless you start learning you can not be the best in your niche.
2.Am i ready to help people? OR Am just here to make money?
Helping does not mean to personally spread out your support to your readers. It means that you should feel happy and eager to provide your readers with something which they can not fetch easily on Internet. Answering to the comment and queries by readers can also fetch you good name and success. Keeping a money minded personality seldom helps anyone, neither the readers nor the blogger, are happy at what they get. It is fact that ‘Your notes or writings reflect your thinking’.
So, try to avoid this blunder by shaping your mind to be helpful and serve your readers a good content. if at a step, you are able to please your readers, then you will realise that success lies on the next step only.
3.Am i a copycat or a genuine writer?
Being a copycat is the biggest mistake made by the budding bloggers,as they are unaware that a copied content does not only brings visitors, but it also brings a bad name and a lot of trouble (copy writes violation) to you and your blog. One must avoid copying as much as possible. Write four articles a week instead of copy-pasting 40 articles. Genuine content adds a reputation with your blog’s name and to yours as well. Genuine content helps fetch regular readers and a higher search engine ranking.
What is copying? Most of us often get confused with this question. Copying means that your are copying the entire content of some other person and are just making a slight changes in the format of writing, else everything is same.
How to avoid copying? You should start writing on your own, take the basic structure by reading few articles, add some extra points and do not see the source article while writing. this will help you be genuine and protect your identity while writing. but do remember to add some new and innovative ideas and illustrations to your work. 4.Do i know the copy-writes?
I was expecting this questions from most you. Copy-writes are the legal rules and regulations formulated by the government to protect the genuine writer from getting exploited due to copying of his original work. Different sites have different rules, so before starting your journey as a blogger you should know the general copy-write laws, so that you do not land up losing your blog due to this, cause a single complaint to the Google about your blog copying someone else’s content will be fatal to your blog as Google will blacklist your blog and after some time almost all the major search engines will also stop listing your blog. So be precocious!!!
5.Am I promoting my blog or trying any SEO for it?
Just posting articles on your blog and waiting for a good response, is like a dream for a new blog. For a good number of readers you will have to publish your blog for quite a good time. You can do so by telling your friends to visit your blog regularly of by sending them updates and asking them to spread it out to their friends also. You may also use social networking sites like Orkut, Facebook or any other social bookmarking site like Digg, Stumble Upon etc.
6.Am i regularly analyzing my blog’s performance?
After asking these questions if you think that you are into the blogging and you know your directions and the basic things to avoid, then you shall start promoting your knowledge and skills by analyzing your blog regularly, such as the unique visitor a particular article is getting, which are the weakest articles and why are they so?, how to include more variable and valuable stuff regularly to maintain the interest of the regular visitors and rank higher in your niche. if you liked my article then do subscribe for my RSS feeds.
Google has always been the simplest, efficient andthe most trusted search engine. It seems as if we can not define internet without including Google in the definition. But even after this there are many of us who do not know that there are other Google Applications also, which are very useful to tackle our daily chores.
THE TOP FIVE GOOGLE APPLICATIONS WE MUST DOWNLOAD, before anyone tag us a dumb fellow:
1. GTalk is a one of the most efficient instant messaging and Voice Over Protocol. Apart from this the simplicity which it carries, makes it stand amongs the best in its niche. Gtalk has numerous features:
Offline messages
Voice mailing and chatting
Server-to-server communication (only the Google enabled servers)
Works with the Gmail i.e. no need to download Gtalk, can be used when using Gmail, as there is a chat area.
Interacting with the registered Orkut users without opening Orkut
File sharing
Supported by almost all the mobile phones
2. Google Earth is a virtual globe like program which provides pictures, maps and 3D illustrations of the geographical features all over the earth. It is of utmost importance and provides many optional ways to explore the mother earth.
Street Viewing
Exploring the ocean beds using Google Ocean.
Exploring the past records of a selected place
The latest versions figures separate globe of other planet, especially Mars, resolution being very high.
The list though goes on and on, actual benefits can be availed only on using this application.
3. Google Picasa is amongst the most convenient software for editing the digital photos (printable and storable), features are simple to use and work perfectly fine and above all I could memorize all the terms and function names with in one hour of use. That’s great na !!
The features include:
File Importing and Tracking
A Search Bar to search through the picassa.ini files
Slide show view
Face recognition
The Picasa web albums to organize the photographs date-wise, so as not to misplace or have difficulty in recollecting them.
Image sending across the internet using Hellow feature of Picasa Web Albums
4. Google SketchUp is a 3D modeling program specially targeting the technical sections i.e. the high end architects, engineers, game developers etc. It is somewhat similar to CAD (3D program). It has an integrated Google earth option, we can see things with our own point of view, it supports almost all formats including the Ruby script as well. It is a well designed program to target people in technical fields.
5. Google Desktop is search software specially designed to target the Mac, Linux and Microsoft windows. The design of the program appears to be very attractive and cool, and is available in a number of colors. It can perform numerous tasks, some of the most significant tasks it can handle are:
File indexing (data from emails, MS Office docs, messenger etc)
Side Bar having several options; Email, Scratch Pad, Photos, Google Talk etc
Finding relevant results
Holding many more mini-gadgets, Google Desktop is a very useful feature to have on our systems.
So, get down and download these Applications and explore them till their roots, I am sure they will soon become your basic necessities.
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Saving more and more time has always been my top priority and I am sure it’s yours too. But if you too are like me, a time saver, then the ‘Cooliris Inc’ has a tool to help us out. The Cooliris Inc launched Cooloris Series containing features which add manifold speed and efficiency to our image searching, video searching, online movie watching and playing music videos and many more features. Let us discover the product now
What is Cooliris?
It’s like Google image search. But, apart form the Google’s simplicity it inherits almost all its features and many more. These features thus make this well illuminated, a cinematic and speedy way to explore the web. This digital product takes us to a big 3D Screen, which produces a cinematic effect with its black color and well illuminated background. Moreover, we can use this page to be browse through pictures, videos and many more with in seconds. I will tell you how it works in the third section.
How to search through Cooliris?
On downloading this freeware and installing it, it gets embedded in the respected browsers and can be seen as a green colored icon on upper right hand side.
One way of searching through this is by first visiting the sites supported by Cooliris and then clicking on the icon to explore through the website content.
Second way is by using the built-in search of Cooliris and searching Google Images, Youtube, Hulu, Flickr and many more supported site with in seconds. The result are breath taking and beyond our expectation.
Using the marvelous ‘Discover’ Option
Cooliris provides us with a Discover Option which makes Cooliris a complete search engine in all sense. Through discover we can catch hold of the latest international and nation news from sites such as CNN, BBC,ESPN, REUTERS etc, watch television episodes, music videos and many more.
But, friend my favorite is ‘Full-Length’ Movie watching from sites like Hulu. It’s really amazing to find such a common and fastest hub for all my likings!! But I hate the fact that it only features movies from US only.
How efficient and fast is Cooliris?
Cooliris is an ideal choice for a person surfing net and has a shortage of time. This really increases the surfing speed by almost 60 percent. The Cooliris saves all our time which we spend waiting for loading of the next page on any other search engine or website. According to me it is very effective specially for searching images. It’s a real Time-Saver.
How to Sign Up and Add Favourites?
It is very easy to signup as a Cooliris user. Click on the ‘Login’ icon in the extreme left corner, a login box appears , there click the sign up option and register yourself as a Cooliris user. We can addour favourites at our personal wall and also send or receive messages.
Mobile Users
Cooliris is now available for iphone 1.2 as well. With almost all default functions, this same Cooliris product is available for mobile (iphone) users also.
Versions:
Until now it has only two versions, Cooliris 1.9 and Cooliris 1.10 (latest)
Supported Sites
Cooliris supports hundreds of sites. The list is too huge to be evaluated here but for some of the top sites supported by Cooliris software visit http://www.cooliris.com/product/?p=supported
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