Month: February 2010

Nokia 2730 Classic 3G: The Cheapest Nokia 3G Phone

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Nokia has revamped it’s low cost mobile model Nokia 2730 Classic with adding 3G to it.With this, Nokia 2730 Classic 3G becomes the cheapest Nokia 3G model mobile phone available in the market.Nokia just re-launched this version in India.

Check out Nokia 2730 Classic Pictures and Specifications:

nokia-2730-classic

The price of Nokia 2730 Classic in India is Rs. 4499 INR and in UK it’s £89.00

Specifications:

Size 109.6 x 46.9 x 14.4 mm
Weight 87.7 g (with battery)
Display -Size: 2.0″-Resolution: 320 x 240 pixel (QVGA)

-Up to 262,144 colours
Input Numeric keypad
Memory 30 MB internal dynamic memory
microSD memory card slot with hot swap, max. 2 GB
Operating system Series 40
Talk time – GSM 3 h 50 min
– WCDMA 3 h 30 min (Ectel)
Standby Time – GSM 340 h
– WCDMA 430 h (Ectel)
Camera
 -2 megapixel camera-4x digital zoom
Connectivity Bluetooth 2.0MicroUSB connector, USB 2.0

3.5 mm Nokia AV connector
Colours – Black
– Dark Magenta

Just review the above features and you can easily conclude that this may be the cheapest phone in the market with good features like an 2MP cam, 3G, Music player etc.That too at 4,500 INR, it’s worth the deal if you are looking to buy a phone in the range Rs. 4,000 to 5,000 INR.BTW, it costs  Rs. 2000 more than the non-3G version of the same model Nokia 2730 Classic.

Google To Experiment Fiber Network For Providing High Speed Internet In US

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Google Turns ISP

Google has revealed its plans to setup and test ultra high speed broadband networks in one or more trial locations across the United States.

Google’s fiber-to-the-home connection could offer ultra high speed data transfer up to 1Gbps, 100 times faster than the average access speeds that the Americans currently have.

Initially the service would be offered on a test basis at a competitive price to 50,000 to 500,000 people across the US.

Google will keep collecting responses from various communities over this project till March 26, 2010 and will announce the implementation details of this fiber networking project.

google logo smallgoogle fiber house

Google has listed the following three things as their goals that they are aiming through this project:

  • Next generation apps: Enabling developers to develop bandwidth-intensive killer apps
  • New deployment techniques: Testing new ways to build fiber networks
  • Openness and choice : Operating an “open access” network and let the users have the choice of multiple service providers

I’m jealous of the lucky US people who manage to get Google fiber-to-the-home connection.When India is still struggling with the implementation of 3G services to offer Mbps speeds, Google is thinking of Gbps :(.

[To keep up with 3G rollout in India here’s the latest info: Well, TRAI is considering 4G as well, good news]

What are you planning to doo with a 1Gbps internet connection at home? leave comments..

No Google Buzz Yet? Check How It Works Even Before It Comes To You

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Google Buzz has just been announced and it’s only available to few unlucky [:)] fellows initially.But if you are curious to know more about it or to use it before you could really get it into your Gmail, well there is a way for you, folks.

Trick here is although Google buzz is not available for all users at present, Google buzz layer by default has been activated to all the users.That means when you log in using your iPhone to Google Buzz page, you can actually see the Buzz layer where you can post updates and read updates from your followers and find more people to follow.So we are now going to spoof our User Agent to be as ‘iPhone’ so that we can see the Google Buzz mobile features in our big desktop screen.

STEPS:

Step 1: Go get a copy of Apple Safari browser and install it on your PC.

Step 2: Open Safari, open Settings by clicking on the ‘gear’ icon on the right most corner of the window and click preferences.

Preferences in Apple Safari

Step 3: Preferences window will be opened up.Go the ‘Advacned’ tab in the window and check “Show Develop menu in menu bar” option.Click ok and close the Preferences window.

Show Develop Menu in menu bar Apple SafariStep 4:  Navigate to “Develop” menu bar in your Safari broswer and under ‘User Agent’, select Mobile Safari 3.1.2 (iPhone or iPod touch)

User Agent selection in Apple SafariStep 5: Go to the address bar and type buzz.google.com and you’ll see your Google buzz page similar to the one shown below.

google buzz mobile preview

Please note that “Nearby” in Google Buzz doesn’t work here as it works in an GPS enabled phone.

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Google Buzz : Google’s One More Attempt @ Social Media

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I just woke up this morning and was amazed to see lot of tweeple tweeting about ‘Google Buzz’.The most recent Wave is yet to be received well by people, then what’s all this buzz about ‘Google Buzz’, it was my initial thought.

But you know, my big brother Google is crazy always, keeps giving me surprises every now and then and I have had lot of them in the recent past.Launch of Google Chrome, Andriod, Chrome OS, Wave, Nexus One are only some items of the big list.

Google officially announced Google Buzz, a social networking/ sharing tool built right inside the Gmail.So you need not signup for it again like as you do for Orkut.If it’s enabled for you, you’ll find it inside your Gmail, within the Gmail labels section.

Google Buzz Logo

Google Buzz Official website: http://buzz.google.com/

Google buzz features in short:

  • Lets you automatically follow people that you chat or email most
  • Replies to your posts will be delivered to your Gmail inbox with ‘real time comments’ enabled
  • You can connect with other Social sites like Picasa, Flickr, Google Reader, and Twitter.
  • Buzz on your mobile

The most sensible feature according to me is Google buzz on mobile, oh yeah !! I have already checked it out on iPhone and it’s really looks cool on it.If your phone has GPS, then you can’t miss this one as it shows updates from people nearer to you.

How would it help you, anyway?

Consider a situation that you are driving in your car and there’s a big traffic jam just some distance away from you.You can get this info from this updates from people nearby section (What people are saying in the area).

I think we need to explore it well, before coming to any conclusion that it’s another #Fail.As always, this time to, they have added some intro video of Google buzz, go check it out, if you have patience:

BTW, have similar name to one of their services called Yahoo Buzz, but it’s about just content sharing.And more interesting is that Yahoo has a similar service called Yahoo Updates (from last year) about which hardly anyone of us is aware.Google is strategic announcing Buzz just days before the ‘V-Day’ during which we can expect lot of social media/sharing activity from the youth section of the worldwide internet users.

If anyone got access to Buzz in their Gmail, leave a comment here about your experience with it.Did you like it?

Is Your WordPress Internal Files Structure Coming In Google Search? Read On…

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If you are a webmaster or managing a blog, some day or the other you need to sit and dedicate time to optimize your website, and you start it with it editing core internal files and if you are unlucky,  you may end up messing up things without being really aware of what you are doing.

This happened to us yesterday, we were editing some internal files of this blog’s WordPress installation files with an insight to optimize the loading time of our blog.We sat for hours and did edit some files.We could at least do something and slept peacefully with some satisfaction.

Then the next day BANG !! we were astonished to find some of the WordPress internal files that otherwise shouldn’t be publicly visible were all over the Google.That’s the moment we spotted the mess (look at the screenshot below) that happened while editing our site files yesterday and started working to fix them.You understood what the problem was, right? Don’t panic, there are lots of people like us, who are unknowingly keeping their site internal files open (see examples).

Wordpress internal files in Google search

How To Fix This?

Step 1: We tried to understand why this is happening?

Reason: The permission properties of inner files of the site are site to ‘public’ that means anyone can see the internal file structure of your blog/site.

Step 2: Having found out the mistake, the solution is simple (at least as it seems):

Permission properties of these files/directories should be made ‘private’ and indexing of these files should be disabled

Step 3: There are two ways to do disable the indexing of files so that other people can’t see what’s inside your internal directories:

# 1 You can place a index.html file in all the folders which are coming ‘index of..’ structures.

# 2 Edit your .htaccess file to disable private indexing of the folders.

Step 4: While the 1st method is relatively simple one to follow, but it takes time as you need to put index.html files in all the directories that are visible in indexing.

Step 5: The optimal method according to us is editing your .htaccess file to disable indexing of folders.

Options All –Indexes

Just add the above code in your .htaccess file (edit through notepad) which is your site’s root folder save it and write it back to your root folder.

Options ALL Indexes in htaccess

Step 6: The problem is solved, now open your Wordpres internal files wihtout logging into the site and you’ll notice the 403 error being returned to you.

This solved the problem in our case.I’ve decided to post this because someone who finds themselves in the same situations as we were yesterday would find it useful to some extent at least.

Nokia X6 16 GB Phone Price Announced

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Nokia announced the new touch screen model Nokia X6 in January 2010 with lots of features.Nokia didn’t announce the official price of Nokia X6 when it was released, now Nokia has officially announced the price of 16GB version of Nokia X6 on it’s UK website.Nokia X6 16 GB doesn’t come with music subscriptions as opposed to other versions of the same model.

Have a look at the specifications of Nokia X6 16 GB:

 

 

Nokia X6 16 GB Front side view blackReview Specifications:

Size 111.0 x 51.0 x 13.8 mm
Weight 122 g
Display Size: 3.2"
Up to 16.7 million colours
640 x 360 pixels (nHD)
Input Finger-operated touch screen
Memory 16 GB internal memory
Operating system Symbian OS version 9.4
S60 5th Edition
Talk time – GSM 8 hr 30 min
– WCDMA 6 hrs
Standby Time – GSM 401 h
– WCDMA 420 h
Music playback time (maximum) 35 Hrs
Camera
5.0 megapixel AF camera
(2592 x 1944 pixels)Carl Zeiss optics

4x digital zoom

Autofocus
Dual LED flash
Connectivity 3.5 mm audio jackA-GPS

Bluetooth 2.0 with Enhanced Data Rate

Micro USB connector for USB 2.0 High Speed to PC

MTP (Mobile Transfer Protocol) support
TV out (PAL)

Wi-Fi
Colours Black

White/Pink

Price: Nokia X6 16GB Official price : £299.00

Price in India: Around 22,000 INR- 23,000 INR

Nokia X6 Pictures:

Nokia X6 blue Side View

Photo credit

You may also see the Sony Ericsson Aspen features

See Hidden Folders In Windows 7 Via Folder Options

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If you have just upgraded your operating system from Windows XP to the latest Windows 7 version, you might have some troubles getting used to using the options and features in Windows 7.This is where we thought we could help you and hence we are starting a series of ‘Windows 7’ tips articles.These are compiled from the problems that we have faced when we started using this latest OS from Microsoft.

I’m starting with the correct way to see hidden files and folders in Windows 7.The one that we do in Win XP with a couple of clicks if you are used to it.Classical method to enable hidden folders in Windows is to go to “Folder Options” from the “Tools” menu from the top section of the window.The problem with Win 7 is that you don’t find “Tools” menu in the top section.It’s hidden actually as you can spot in the below pic.

Hidden Tools Menu and Folder Options in Windows 7

Can’t figure it , right?? Well, as I said it’s hidden.To see it, press ALT button.Now you see the hidden menu appearing in the window.Now you can see those “File, Edit, View, Tools, Help” options in the window.

Using ALT button to open menu

Now it’s simple from here on, just go to Tools>> click Folder options, it’ll open Folder options window.

Check show hidden files, folders in Windows 7

Now Go to “View” tab and check the  “Show hidden files, folders, and drives” option.

Also sometimes you may want to see the hidden protected operating system files in your system, to enable this, uncheck “Hide protected operating system files” option.

That’s it, you have now successfully enabled hidden folders and files to show up in your windows.This process will work unless you have some virus running your system in which case your folder options may be disabled.You can refer to this guide on how to handle such a situation.

More Tips: If you have forgotten your Windows 7 Admin password, read this guide to recover or reset windows 7 password.

Watch Super Bowl XLIV Online

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Super Bowl XLIV kick-off just happened yesterday (Feb 07, 2010) and it’s the hottest sporting event happening in Florida.If you are somehow missing the action live, don’t worry we are here to give you the NFL feast live streaming links of the pre-match coverage collection in this post.And we know that people do watch NFL Super Bowl for the mid-break ads (Super Bowl commercials) ads from the big companies.

Super Bowl XLIV (Super Bowl 44) online streaming links:

NFL Official Site (Who gives better coverage than National Football League official site itself?)

CBS.com (Columbia Broadcasting System) [Update: Link expired]

BBC Live Coverage (British Broadcasting Corporation: Hmm..of course NFL Super Bowl has fans in the UK too !!)

Nokia 5233 Launched In India

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Nokia today released another touch screen Symbian series 60 music phone Nokia 5233 in India. Nokia 5233 is an affordable touchscreen mobile phone with only 2G and without Wi-Fi which are the only features different from Nokia 5230.

nokia logo

Nokia 5233 has all the other features of 5230 like full touch screen, 3.2 inch display which supports up to 16.7 million colors, 70 MB internal memory and expandable up to 16 GB, up to 33 hrs music playback time, 3.5 mm audio jack, 2 megapixel camera with 3x digital zoom and many more.

Nokia 5233

Check out the main features and specifications below:

Features Description
Touch Screen Responsive touchscreen with tactile feedback, Handwriting recognition
Display Size: 3.2 inch, Up to 16.7 million colours
Camera 2 megapixel camera, 3x digital zoom, JPEG format, CMOS sensor
Video Recording Up to 640 x 480 pixels and up to 30 fps
Music 3.5 mm stereo, file formats: MP3, MP4, AAC, eAAC+, WMA, Nokia Ovi Player, FM radio with RDS
Video Playback Supports MPEG4-SP playback 30fps VGA, MPEG4-AVC playback 30fps QVGA, WMV9 playback 30fps QVGA, MPEG4-SP playback 30 fps nHD
Memory microSD memory up to 16 GB, 70 MB internal dynamic memory
Connectors Micro-USB connector, USB 2.0 high speed, 3.5 mm Nokia AV connector
Messaging MMS, SMS, Email, Nokia Xpress audio messaging
Browsing GPRS/EGPRS/EDGE 177/296 kbps (DL/UL), WCDMA 384/384 kbps (UL/DL)
Software S60, 5th Edition, FOTA (Firmware update Over The Air)
Application OVI Music, Nokia Maps 3.0, Facebook, You Tube,Mobile Dictionary, Document viewer (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and many more
Colors Available White/Red, White/Silver, Black/Dark silver, Changeable colour battery covers

With the emergence of low cost touchscreen phones, Nokia is trying to produce affordable ones. Touchscreen has become the trend and till now Samsung has been leading in this affordable sector. Now Nokia is targeting to capture the market with such products.

The Nokia 5233 launched today in India will be priced at about Rs 7800 (INR)

Striker : First Bollywood Movie To Be Premiered Online

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Striker, the latest Bollywood (Hindi) movie produced by the Indian Film Company in association with Studio 18, becomes the first ever Bollywood movie to have its World Premiere on YouTube.The movie was released on February 5, 2010.

One of the partners in the movie productions, Studio 18 has announced earlier that the movie will have international premiere on YouTube.The movie is made available to all the viewers world-wide except in India, where it’s having theatrical release.The movie is available for free to all the Non-US internet surfers, however US viewers will have to watch it on a rental basis.

The movie, starring Siddarth in the lead role  is available via Studio 18 official YouTube account: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5f-jUpUp8o]

Well, the full movie video in YouTube was taken off from online yesterday after they had experienced some technical glitches but finally managed to get back it online only on the next day (6th Feb 2010).All though the reviews aren’t really good, it’s certainly a thrilling experience to watch the DVD quality version of the  just released movie in YouTube like I did.

Striker movie full online

And the guys in India, I’m sure lot of you guys know the trick to to watch it, right? Anyway its really something new that the producers of the movie has tried and it’s worth appreciable and I’m sure there are lot of movies to follow this.

The movie is released in Indian theaters in Hindi and in Telugu (dubbed version) on Feb 5, 2010.

Studio 18 Official channel:http://www.youtube.com/user/studio18

Now IPL 3 would be the next biggest thing that I’d love to watch LIVE.