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7 Things You Didn’t Know VLC Could Do

Posted by Ashish On 6 May 2011 No Commented

VLC media player is one of the most popular player for  most people. It as got almost all codecs. VLC can do a lot of other things beyond your imagination. Find out how many of these listed below you knew, and how many you did not. I found this post in Orkut OUG community. I [...]

BitDefender USB Immunizer – Protect USB from Autorun Malwares

Posted by Ashish On 6 May 2011 No Commented

Bitdefender USB Immunizer is a freeware utility to immunize USB storage devices or SD cards against infections with autorun-based malware.Autorun based viruses and malwares are one of the most common issues faced by USB pen drives when using on public computers.Protect your USB from those infection with USB Immunizer.This utilty is a very good alternative [...]

Vodafone 3G Prepaid Tariff Plans (for Mobiles and 3G Data Cards)

Posted by Ashish On 21 April 2011 one Commented

Vodafone has officially launched their 3G Tariff Plans in India and most of them are similar to that of leaked Vodafone 3G Plans. However, Vodafone’s 3G Plans are not so impressive because there is no single Unlimited 3G Data Plan and the existing ones are far more expensive than BSNL and DoCoMo.

Ways to check BSNL Broadband (Dataone) internet usage

Posted by Ashish On 19 April 2011 one Commented

BSNL broadband is still the most popular and widely used broadband service in India. BSNL brought the low cost and high speed broadband service in India (Though we are still far slower than other developed countries). Many people use BSNL‘s fixed traffic plans, we need to keep eyes on our usages in these plans. (Though [...]

Mobile Number Portibility – How to & FAQ

Posted by Ashish On 6 February 2011 one Commented

If you are not satisfied with your mobile service operator, then you can change it without changing your phone number. It is now possible to change the mobile operator without changing your number through Mobile Number Portability (MNP) in India from 20th this month. And you also don’t have to pay miuch for this; you [...]

Canon Powershot SX130IS review

Posted by Ashish On 26 December 2010 4 Commented

Yesterday i bought the Canon’s new digital camera, PowerShot SX130IS, great cam wit really great features with a really good price tag! I got it for around 14,000 INR. At first glance the Canon PowerShot SX130IS appears to be a piece of art in itself rather than simply a vehicle to creating art. Its sleek, [...]

Google Launches Site for Teaching Tech to Your Parents

Posted by Ashish On 16 December 2010 No Commented

Ever go home for the holidays and find your parents asking you to help them with “techie tasks” like uploading photos to the Internet? You’re not alone. A bunch of folks over at Google find themselves in this situation nearly every time they visit their families around this time of year. That’s why they’ve launched TeachParentsTech.org, a “tech support [...]

How Much Battery Life Does Sleep Mode Really Drain?

Posted by Ashish On 5 December 2010 No Commented

Every milliwatt of battery power is precious. That’s why some shy away from fast-starting, but seemingly battery-draining, “Sleep” or “Suspend” modes on laptops. We measured the actual drain on MacBooks, Windows laptops, and netbooks to determine when sleep makes sense over shutdown.

It’s Gonna Be an Android World and We’ll Just Live in It

Posted by Ashish On 22 November 2010 No Commented

While it’s been dawning on us for some time that Android is a beast, each day seems to bring new confirmation that the monster shows no signs of letting up. Android mobile ad impressions drew even with iOS for the first time, according to Millennial Media (PDF). The largest independent ad network said Android OS [...]

Twitter “Screwed Up” With Developers, Founder Says

Posted by Ashish On 21 November 2010 No Commented

Like a teenager apologizing to his parents for having a party and breaking the furniture, Twitter co-founder and former CEO Evan Williams admitted today that the company “screwed up” its relationship with third-party developers, and says that happened mostly because the startup didn’t originally plan to become a platform company. Now that it’s actually trying [...]

The Year of Facebook: U.S. Traffic Has Grown by 55% in the Last Year [STATS]

Posted by Ashish On 21 November 2010 2 Commented

Watch out, Google: U.S. traffic to Facebook has risen by a whopping 55% in the last year, according to data sent to us by comScore. In October 2009, Facebook () had 97.37 million unique U.S. visitors. In October 2010 though, the world’s largest network garnered a whopping 151.13 million U.S. uniques. That’s a growth rate [...]

Apple Introduces iAds: “Mobile Ads with Emotion”

Posted by Ashish On 19 November 2010 No Commented

Apple has officially unveiled its new mobile advertising platform, iAds, the “seventh pillar” of the new iPhone OS 4.0. The new iAd platform, which we learned about just two weeks ago, will be built directly into the iPhone OS interface. During today’s iPhone OS 4.0 unveiling event at Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino, CA, Steve Jobs [...]

Apple to Launch iAd in Europe in December

Posted by Ashish On 19 November 2010 No Commented

Apple’s mobile advertising platform iAd is coming to the UK and France in December, as well as Germany in January, the company has announced. iAd is one of the crucial features of iOS 4.0, bringing HTML5-powered interactive ads to Apple’s mobile platform, letting users stay within their current application while engaging with an ad. Tweet

Firefox 4 beta 1 for Android

Posted by Ashish On 15 November 2010 No Commented

If you’ve been riding along with Mozilla through Firefox 4′s Beta period on either Android or Maemo, it’s time for a refresh. Just a few minutes ago, the team pushed out a rather hefty upgrade. Firefox 4 Beta 1 also claims to have enhanced responsiveness and performance. The alpha version had “Electrolysis, which allowed the [...]

Tata DOCOMO 3G tariff plans for post-paid and pre-paid subscribers

Posted by Ashish On 14 November 2010 5 Commented

Tata DOCOMO, the first private telecom operator to launch 3G services in India has finally revealed its 3G tariff details. Presently the services have been launched in 9 circles ( Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra (excluding Mumbai), Gujarat, Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana, Madhya-Pradesh-Chhattisgarh and UP (West) ) and the company is in talks with PSUs BSNL and MTNL [...]

Telecom networks Mobile Number Portability-ready, subscribers can apply from Nov 25

Posted by Ashish On 1 November 2010 one Commented

Ushering in next-generation reform of the telecom sector, mobile subscribers will be able to change service providers while retaining phone numbers from November 25. To begin with, the concept of Mobile Number Portability (MNP), which allows subscribers to change operators while retaining the same number, will be introduced in Haryana. It will be extended to [...]

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