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150th Post

Sucharith Menon — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:05:02 +0000

It’s been about 9 months that we’ve been around and hopefully been able to contribute to the blogosphere.

Keep reading and do let us your thoughts, criticisms and good words!

Youtube goes widescreen

Sucharith Menon — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:48:57 +0000

I’ve read about this on an article on Digg and Google has confirmed that YouTube is now expanding their width to 960 pixels which would help in better quality and most importantly will also play your normal 4:3 aspect ratio properly as well. The change is now happening and you will surely see this over the next few days.

Announcement : YouTube Blog

Gmail introduces themes in GMail

Sucharith Menon — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000

After numerous extensions released by Firefox, GreaseMonkey and the likes of others, Google has officially stated that they would be introducing 30 odd themes effective today. The themes can be selected from the Themes tab under Settings page.

These themes would be available in the next couple of says and do log in to customize your GMail with no plugins. My favorite theme as of now is the ASCII theme which looks like a Terminal and am waiting to log in with the same. Check it out soon.

Source: GMail Blog

Asus releases “Fastest Business PDA Phone”

Sucharith Menon — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:14:09 +0000

Asus “claims” to have developed the World’s fastest PDA Phone. This PDA is officially taken of wrap and this model features a Marvell TavorP 800 MHz Processor and claims to have amazing 3G Transfer Speeds.

Specifications after the jump

Here are the P565 Specification (as per press release)

Networks: HSDPA 3.6Mbps, UMTS 2100, EDGE/GPRS/GSM 900/1800/1900, Class 10
Operating System: Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional
Display: 2.8? TFT, 65K-color Touchscreen, VGA (480 x 640 pixels)
Processor: Marvell TavorP 800 MHz
Memory: 256 MB Flash + 128 MB DDR SDRAM
Memory Expandability: microSDHC card slot
Connectivity: WLAN 802.11b+g , USB v1.1(FS), Bluetooth 2.0+EDR
Cameras: 3MP with Auto Focus (Main)/300 K Pixel for Video Telephony (sub)
Video Recording/Playback: MPEG4 (QVGA) 24fps recording/MPEG4 video at QVGA 30fps (or H.263 at QCIF 30fps) playback
Key Business Applications: Word (editor), Excel (editor), PowerPoint (viewer), Windows® Live, MSN, Voice Commander* and Push Email (Exchange Server)
Additional Applications: Anytime Launcher, ASUS Today, EziMusic, EziPhoto, Business Card Recognition and PDF viewer
WAP Browser: HTTP / WAP 1.2.1/2.0
Audio: MP3, WMA, 3GP, AAC, and AAC+
Standby Time: 250-300 hrs with 3G (around 200-250 hrs with 2G)
Talk Time: 3 hrs with 3G (around 4 hrs with 2G)
Dimensions: 102 mm x 60.5 mm x 16 mm
Weighs about 120 g (with battery)

Looks pretty impressive. Lets wait till the review are done and hopefully the claim could be true!

Official Announcement : Here

Video Chat Introduced In Google Talk

Sucharith Menon — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:22:42 +0000

Google Talk now offer video Chat with easy to use, seamless experience and high-quality audio and video. This new introduction only needs a plugin which has to be installed. Just restart your browsers and click on “Start Video Chat” and start the video chat.

Here’s a video demonstration

Source: GMail Blog

HP expands Netbook series with the Mini 1000

Sucharith Menon — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 06:49:04 +0000

The HP Mini 1000 Netbook is another addition to the growing list of manufacturers competing in the Ultra Portable space.

The HP Mini comes with nearly a full size keyboard and comes with the following specs:-

Intel Atom N270 CPU
RAM options of 512 MB / 1 GB
Intel GMA 950 On board video
2 USB Ports
8.9-inch Brightview or 10.2-inch diagonal Brightview widescreen Infinity display with1024 x 600 resolution
Inbuilt WiFi
8 GB / 16 GB SSD or 60GB (4200
RPM) PATA hard drive
3-cell
lithium polymer Battery
OS : Windows XP / Linux
Weighs 2.23lbs

The base configuration for the Mini 100 starts at 399.99$.

For more information on the Mini 1000’s and to pre order visit here

Worlds Best Presentations

Sucharith Menon — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 13:23:52 +0000

photo credit: Francis Storr

The following presentations are the winners of the Slidshare’s best presentations contest. You will love them!

Winner

THIRST

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: design crisis)

Second Place

Foot Notes

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: design inspirational)

Third Place

Zimbabwe in Crisis

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: social refugee)

I hope you loved it! Visit Slideshare for more…

Firefox 3.0.3 released to fix bugs

Sucharith Menon — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 10:12:04 +0000

photo credit: Lordcolus

To reduce the risk of security attacks, Mozilla has now asked their users to update to the latest Firefox version 3.0.3 just after 3 days from the release of their previous version. The 3.0.2 had a bug which prevented users from accessing some saved passwords or creating new ones.

It is recommended that hit the ”Check for Updates” from the Help menu of your copy of Firefox 3 to get this latest version.

Aurora – The next Gen Concept Browser

Sucharith Menon — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:26:56 +0000

The aurora is part of the launch of Mozilla Labs’ browser concept series, an ongoing initiative to encourage designers and developers to contribute their own visions of the future of the browser and the Web.

Aurora (Part 1) from Adaptive Path on Vimeo.

In Part 2 of Aurora, the browser goes mobile on a handheld touchscreen device.

Aurora (Part 2) from Adaptive Path on Vimeo.

Truly amazing! Hope to see it soon

Blurb: Create your own book

Sucharith Menon — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:19:34 +0000

Have you ever thought of creating your own book and have it printed ? If yes, Blurb would for sure help you in having your content printed as a book. Blurb, Not only helps you to order a print from home / office but also helps you with a bookmaking software that you can download and create your dream book with your Portfolio / Business Presentation / Brochures / whatever.

So all you have to do is create and order. Its as simple as it gets…

Here’s another sample just for ya

I wish Blurb all the very best ahead… Great concept guys!