My New Laptop

Disclaimer: The following article is based on my personal opinion, and it highlights my own experience, views, and observations. It is not sponsored or endorsed by any commercial organization. I’m not a representative for HP computers, nor do I sell laptops. I was contemplating on buying a new laptop…

Internet Explorer 7 is out

Internet Explorer 7 [http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.mspx?mg_ID=10010] is out! A bid to catchup with Firefox in terms of web browser security, but IE7 falls short [http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/6486/53/] just after a day since launch.…

Nokia Shorts 2006

I wrote about mobile short films [https://www.nilkanth.com/archives/2005/08/04/mobile-movies/] in brief last year. This year, the Nokia Shorts 2006 [http://www.nokiashorts.com/finalists/] competition (15 second mobile handset-shot films) has announced the finalists of the Handset category. The shorts are also now screening…

Palm Treo 680

Since I’ve been using the Palm Treo 600 [https://www.nilkanth.com/archives/2006/09/27/moblogging-soon/] for a while now and loving this “retro smartphone”, I thought I’d mention that Palm has announced an all new Treo 680 smartphone [http://www.palminfocenter.com/news/9035/palm-announces-the-treo-680/] (after…

Yahoo RSS-to-Mail

Yahoo has launched a RSS to Email [http://alerts.yahoo.com/main.php?view=blogs] delivery service for mobile notification. More info … [http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/1008706.html]…

Gmail MP3 Player

Looks like Gmail [http://www.gmail.com] now has an integrated MP3 player! It enables users to listen to audio attachments in a streaming mode without downloading the whole file. Ubercool!…

Save electricity by hoarding it

In the May 2006 issue of Fortune Small Business, there was this great article [http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fsb/fsb_archive/2006/05/01/8376209/index.htm] on how, inspired by TiVo [http://www.tivo.com/], one company decided to create a device (GridPoint Protect [http://www.gridpoint.com/…

MappedUp

MappedUp (fullscreen) [http://www.mappedup.com/fullscreen/] is an awesome News-Map!…