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See how Twitter works

April 13th, 2009 at 5:27 pm » Comments (0)

Last month, a Nielsen.com blog ranked Twitter as the fastest growing site on internet for February 2009. Twitter had a growth of 1382%, whereas Zimbio which is on second place had a growth of 240%, followed by Facebook with a growth of 228%. It is actually one of the first micro-blogging sites on internet. It [...]



The most expensive cell phone in the world

January 16th, 2009 at 1:59 am » Comments (0)

Don’t you think it is really ridiculous product especially in this period of economic recession? Austrian jeweler Peter Aloisson has designed the world’s most expensive phone by decorating the iPhone 3G King’s button with gold and diamonds. The iPhone 3G’s ‘home’ or main operating button is set inside a high quality 6.6 carat solitaire diamond. [...]



Computer mouse is now 40 years old

December 7th, 2008 at 6:44 pm » Comments (1)

This week the mighty computer mouse is celebrating its 40th birthday. Still mouse is one of the most important parts of a desktop PCs. Actually Mouse is a pointing device that functions by detecting two-dimensional motion relative to its supporting surface. Physically, a mouse consists of an object held under one of the user’s hands, [...]



Pownce.com will be Shutting Down

December 2nd, 2008 at 7:23 pm » Comments (1)

You may have heard the name of Pownce. It is a free social networking and micro-blogging site started by Internet entrepreneurs Kevin Rose, Leah Culver, and Daniel Burka. Pownce is centered around sharing messages, files, events, and links with already-established friends. Today I got a a mail from Pownce team. It reads
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A brand new mobile phone for abhisays

November 30th, 2008 at 10:27 am » Comments (4)

Today I have purchased a new mobile phone, Nokia 3110 classic. After searching and analyzing a good number of mobile phones, finally I settle for this model of Nokia. I paid 4500 rupees for this mobile phone. After taking my sunday lunch, I got an idea that let’s leave Motorola L6 and go for a [...]



Nokia launched its first Touch Screen Phone

November 26th, 2008 at 5:35 pm » Comments (0)

This time Nokia has come up with a new Touch Screen mobile phone in India, called Nokia 5800 XpressMusic. Its price will be Rs. 21,839 and will be available in India by January 2009. According to cell phone experts and geeks, this phone has some special features, which challenges Apple Inc’s dominance in the digital [...]



Website Grader report for abhisays

November 9th, 2008 at 5:33 pm » Comments (1)

Today my blog abhisays.com is under top 93k websites of world. I took around 2 years to reach this destination. Now abhisays.com has become a brand name in the internet world. Thanks to millions of visitors of abhisays.com. Still abhisays.com has a long way to go. To improve the ranking and increase the number of [...]



Microsoft to launch Web based Office

October 28th, 2008 at 6:14 pm » Comments (0)

Microsoft has finally announced that it would soon introduce Web-based versions of Office. Now the Microsoft Office users will be able to edit their documents via a Web browser or mobile phone. Microsoft Office is a set of interrelated desktop applications, servers and services like Word, Excel, Access, Front Page etc. collectively referred to as [...]



Twitter has become a new tool for terrorists

October 27th, 2008 at 10:36 am » Comments (0)

According to the latest report by US army, twitter can be used as an useful tool for terrorists. The report presented by the 304th Military Intelligence Battalion and posted to the Federation of American Scientists Web site carefully examines the possible ways terrorists could use the latest mobile and web technologies such as the GPS(Global [...]



Gadget Advisor for PC Hardware, Software and Tech news

October 25th, 2008 at 3:49 pm » Comments (0)

There are many blogs on PC gadgets on internet. I often visit them for my hardware and software related doubts. Recently I happened to visit Gadget Advisor through one social networking website. Gadget Advisor is a new blog completely dedicated to PC hardware, software and tech news. It is growing and becoming established rapidly. The [...]



Future of gaming industry in India

September 21st, 2008 at 4:45 am » Comments (1)

In one of the recent bollywood film Bachna Ae Haseeno, the protagonist Ranbir Kapoor played the role a game developer. From there I got the idea to find more on status of gaming industry in India. Our children and young generation love to play computer and video games. But there are many people who convert [...]



Top 20 most popular free windows softwares

September 14th, 2008 at 5:16 pm » Comments (3)

Wikipedia CEO Jimmy Wales once said on the success of Wikipedia that The best things in the world are free. This statement is valid for internet also. For example, the best search engine Google, the best webmail service, gmail, yahoomail etc, the best online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, the best internet browser, Firefox are all free. Today [...]



What is Ajax?

September 11th, 2008 at 6:37 pm » Comments (0)

Web 2.0 came on internet with many new web technologies. Ajax is perhaps the most important and popular technologies which helped us to build the second version of world wide web. Today I will discuss about Ajax and its implications on an internet application. This is first article in new series called “What is” which [...]



24 hours battery backup with new HP Laptop

September 9th, 2008 at 5:18 pm » Comments (0)

This is a new milestone in mobile computing. HP has announced the launch of a new HP EliteBook 6930p configured with an optional ultra-capacity battery delivered up to 24 hours of battery runtime. However this is only possible if you are using windows xp on your laptop. Its starting price is $ 1199. Ted Clark, [...]



Firefox is better than IE

August 30th, 2008 at 4:38 am » Comments (2)

With Microsoft loosing shares to Firefox, but yet having close to 67% of overall market shares, a question quickly comes up.Which is better? Firefox or IE? Microsoft has been dominant in Web browser space for years, justifying the 67% market share. But since the introduction of Firefox 1.5, Firefox is slowly eating away this margin. [...]



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