iPod touch

iPod another variant. This time its something similar to that of iPhone. The packaging is nice - USB cable for data transfers and charging, typical Apple's earbuds and plastic stand. But still touch is heavy for any portable music player due to its steel back. The new feature includes viewing videos and tunes without disconnecting your device from the computer. Synching anything still requires iTunes. Video play back is really good - almost of equal quality to a PSP. But the default ear plugs are crap as usual, they should be changed immediately. Battery life is good with solid 8 hours of play back with nominal use of touch screen and other facilities. As a whole, this is a great PMP with good quality of sound and video play back. But it is slightly costlier. My rating for this one is 4 out of 5. Enjoy the music!!

ASUS M530w

This is another entry level PDA phone but can be considered as a tough competitor for Nokia E61. It lacks the touch screen feature that is found in most of the PDAs but it has the customary QWERTY keypad. The keys are well spaced and easy to navigate. This phone runs on Windows 6 and has all standard features of the mobile OS. There is no ASUS launcher application pre-installed here. You get clear clearVue viewer for Word, Excel, PDF and other documents.
The camera and the multimedia features are moderate. There is nothing remarkable to state here. All the entry level phones will have these facilities. It supports and mp3 and video playback. It has a 2 mega pixel camera at its disposal. There are a lot of connectivity options like 3G, WiFi, GPRS and Bluetooth. But the battery life takes a toll while using these facilities. Th3 signal reception is moderate but the voice clarity is poor. Overall it gets 3.8 out of 5 in the rating scale.

Blogsvertise - Blogging made interesting

Blogsvertise is a boon for bloggers in several ways. It helps us improving the blog popularity. This is done in an easy and simple manner so that you are benefited in promoting your own blog! Confused with the contradictory statements? Here is the explanation for these things. For Blogsvertise your blog should be more than 60 days old with some quality posts. This is the minimum criteria for your blog to get approval. You can sign up and get started by submitting your blog for review.
Blogsvertise assigns you tasks based on your blog's quality. By writing for the famous advertisers, your blog's popularity will be increased to manifolds. You have to write the assigned tasks within five days of your acceptance. You will be paid within a month of writing the review. From the advertiser's point of view, they will get a lot of popularity by getting quality reviews.
If you are an advertiser, you can sign-up to get quality reviews for your finest product. You choose from the quality bloggers who have signed up in this network. so it is like a mutually benefiting thing for both advertiser and the bloggers. So are you ready to use this opportunity? Then visit this site and register yourself in the appropriate category immediately!!!

Mobile TV

After the number portability, its time for Mobile TV in India. Government announced that with the help of extra spectrum and EDGE technologies, one will be able to watch Television programmes in their mobile handsets, later this year. Bids are being invited from different service providers and will be processed soon. With this technology one can watch - live or pretelecasted TV shows by requesting to their respective service providers. So even if you are not at home, you wont miss the day's important moments or normal television shows. Nokia is the only manufacturer of phones with EDGE technology. After this announcement, we may soon see mobiles with a smarter EDGE in the market by other manufacturers too.

Google gets into research

Google will soon launch its research wing that stores world's scientific data. The site http://research.google.com is an open source scientific data that is dubbed as Palimpsest. The datas stored will be accessible by both professional scientists and the common man. The project is set to be show caused at the science Foo Camp - a science fair at Google later this August. But soon they dismissed the deadline and announced that they will launch this sooner. The company will use data visualization technology from Trendalyzer to transfer huge amount of data to the end user. This site will also offer youtube like style for commenting and annotating features, which will allow quicker sorting of information. This will allow massive data sets like images of Hubble telescope accessible to public.

Microsoft drops supprt again

The new arrivals like Microsoft office 2003, service Pack 3, MS has decided to drop the support for older versions of the file formats - word 4.x for Windows and 5.x for Mac. If you have any older documents that date way back to 1992 or older, then you will not be able to read it after this update. After from that it also removes compatibility for older spread sheets like Coreldraw, Lotus and Quattro. The reason given by MS is that these formats are less secure. So do some backup work or else do not update.

Excel under attack

Security firm Secunia - has rated a problem in Microsoft Excel as 'Extremely critical'. As you would have expected it can be exploited by men with malicious minds to compromise a system. It is something that is connected with file handling in Excel, but the exact specification is still unknown. The vulnerability can be exploited if the attacker creates a special excel file that has malfunctioning header information. Successful exploitation leads to arbitrary code running in the victim's computer. As of now there is no specific solution to this problem. Please do not open mails containing Excel files, unless you know the sender and have spoken to him regarding the file.