I had attended a Seagate event last month where they unfolded their new line of products and a new concept in external drives, GoFlex. GoFlex drives are different from existing external drives in that the drive and the connectors come as separate units, be it firewire, USB2.0 or USB3.0. (You can see a visual representation [...]

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If this blog has been silent for a while, it’s because it came close to oblivion, and was then pulled back from the brink. I’d made up my mind to shut down the blog after I received a renewal notice from my webhosting providers Yahoo further raising charges by another Rs.1000 odd a year. This [...]

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I download apps regularly based on reviews in various sites from lifehacker to freewaregenius. Most of them end up having one drawback or the other and end up being uninstalled equally regularly. The two apps that I have retained are A-PDF  INFO Changer from A-PDF and Mp3tag because both perform an enormously valuable service in [...]

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Having used the Nokia 5800 for over two months no, I thought it’s time for an update to balance out my initial impressions. It’s still a great phone with some good software coming through in bits and pieces. However, the apps fade in comparison to what’s available for the Iphone and in the Android store:-( [...]

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I was all set to blog about Qik, an app that once you download to your mobile, can then be used to to stream video directly from your phone’s camera onto the web when along came furtiv, another useful piece of software that essentially overcomes one of the shortcomings of the 5800(where do they get [...]

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My Nokia 6600, which I’d bought for the princely sum of Rs 8,900 all of three years ago suddenly refused to switch on one morning about three weeks back. Did a survey on the Net for a new phone, was sufficently intrigued by the new touch phones from the Nokia stable (5230 and 5530) to [...]

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One of the things that I have always struggled with is keeping my desktop free of clutter…I am a compulsive downloader and everything I download invariably lands on my desktop. So, at any given point, and particularly  near deadlines, I might have as many as a hundred files on my desktop. Once the deadline passes, [...]

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After all the hype over Cuil being a Google killer, it turned out to be such a damp squib, so the once bitten twice shy syndrome manifested itself and it’s only now that I’ve taken Wolfram Alpha out for a spin. Wolfram is not exactly a Google clone- it calls itself a “computational knowledge engine” [...]

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There are any number of programs, widgets, bookmarklets and add-ons that I install, and almost instantly uninstall because they come up short, one way or the other. It could be that they hog too much resources, or they have a clunky interface or simply end up complicating things. A simple bookmarklet that does none of [...]

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I found an invite to be a beta tester for Wikirank in my mailbox this morning and promptly took it out for a spin. It’s a service similar to Google Trends, showing what people are reading on Wikipedia though it is no way affiliated with Wikipedia. Like Google Trends, it also lets you compare topics [...]

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