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Google Calendar

Posted by: awestriker on: June 29, 2007

Here is another great web-based product from Google. Its Google Calendar, to track all your events.Login to Google with you Google Id(same what you use for Gmail or Orkut etc), Set the events, and forget it.
Pic: Google Calendar
The Event Reminders help you keep track of important events. You can choose to be notified by email, [...]

Yesterday’s Idea: Today Reality.

Posted by: awestriker on: June 26, 2007

An idea, an invention yesterday. A reality, a major commercial hit today.
From the archives. Flat TV.
According to this old Popular Mechanics article, flat screen televisions have been around since 1958 — or at least the technology. Designed mainly for military use, it just never caught on due to patents/licensing issues.
The picture tube, only 2-5/8 inches [...]

Evolution of Apple

Posted by: awestriker on: June 26, 2007

Evolution of Apple Form Factor from 1976 through 2007.

Bond is in Town: Ambiguous Hutch Campaign

Posted by: awestriker on: June 26, 2007

Was just strolling with my friend, in my locality. When we do, we talk about ideas to make money, mostly something creative. We talk about business and all that is new and happening online, surveys etc.He just came up with a intuition about the “Bond in Town” advertisement and billboards related to it which were [...]

Spam Voulme by ISP’s

Posted by: awestriker on: June 23, 2007

I was just going through the Estimated Spam Volume by ISP in the whole world @ Trend Micro.
Fig: Spam Traffic on ISP’s
Verizon Internet service tops the list.Surprisingly Airtel(Bharti) tops among Indian ISP’s at No.16(keeps changing due to dynamic in nature) and following it is government owned BSNL(NIB) at No 21.

iPhone – Creator calls.

Posted by: awestriker on: June 23, 2007

Lot written, lot YouTube videos, lot spoken, lot gossiped, lot hyped.But no one shows it better than the creator itself.
Pic: iPhone Guided Tour
Watch it online. Download the high-quality version. Do as you like it.Check the Apple iPhone guided tour on Apple HERE.

India(ya)Rocks

Posted by: awestriker on: June 21, 2007

Indyarocks is a new social network in its private beta now. It’s a niche social site for Indians around the world, and offers all of the basics you’ll find on MySpace and Facebook. The “Graffiti Wall” feature is seemingly modeled after Facebook’s Wall, and the free SMS integration is no different than receiving a [...]

HR Initiatives in few companies

Posted by: awestriker on: June 20, 2007

HR (Human Resource) which every company should come up with, for feel-good-factor for employees and yes it helps in retaining them too:
Google(Bangalore+Hyderabad) – 20%Time which lets employees to devote one day in a 5 day work schedule, in whatever ideas they can transform into something useful, mostly software, for the netizens. Orkut, Adsense, Google Suggest [...]

The Algae Powered Fuel Cell

Posted by: awestriker on: June 20, 2007

With India’s growing vehicular traffic(thanks to rising salaries) you must be looking for a clean fuel that grows anywhere, needs only sunlight and water,and could produce enough oil to free India, from its petroleum addiction and reduce the ranks in the most polluting nations? It’s not ethanol you’re after.Its the green,slippery, slimy algae—yes, algae—into cleanburningbiodiesel.
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Life in a Intel Metro

Posted by: awestriker on: June 20, 2007

If a competition was held yesterday to pick out the best looking notebook with the top of the line components, Apple’s MacBook Pro would undoubtedly have won hands down. But that was yesterday, and in the fast paced world of technology, that is a very long time.
When Intel asked designers to build a better laptop, [...]


 

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