Globonomics!

Source: http://in.blackberry.com/

It’s been a quickfire 1 year for my BlackBerry. It seems like it was just yesterday that I went in for this purchase after my iPhone 3G fiasco.

My BlackBerry has served me well. Yes, it has not only increased my workload to span weekends (I always seem to be in touch with activities at work even while commuting to/from work) but also had other such advantages.

In addition to these social advantages, it has greatly improved my productivity proving it’s not just a gadget bought for pure frills:

Most critical: You can obviously make/receive calls that are of good audible quality and speakerphone is equally good. Voice quality is also good and depends on the AirTel signal. Read the rest of this entry »

Image courtesy: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/aug/23/apple-tablet-steve-jobs-touchscreen

Is this really coming? There has been a lot of press generated around this prospective device for the last few months and especially in last few days when IDC came out with it’s predictions for 2010. Read the rest of this entry »

Source: http://www.apple.com/safari/

Source: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/personal.html

Source: http://www.google.com/chrome?platform=mac&hl=en

I am a religious user of FireFox for my MacBook browsing based activities. Read the rest of this entry »

Windows 7

Image courtesy: http://blogs.ft.com/techblog/files/2009/10/windows7.jpg

It’s early days in my usage of Windows 7 Ultimate but it’s way better than anything I have seen with my last 2.5 years of Vista Ultimate usage.

Let’s come back to some basic items that I feel have improved. Read the rest of this entry »

Buy Original Microsoft software

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Source: http://www.amazon.com/

amazon.com released a major software update to the kindle2 which I installed on my kindle2 today.
This one will help my kindle2 do the following below but the one I liked most is this:
- Support PDF’s natively without all those hassles of sending emails to @kindle.com etc. – this is a big plus. I can now read all my e-books which are PDF’s as well on my kindle2! So far, this was a feature available only on the kindle DX. Read the rest of this entry »

http://ecofin.wordpress.com/2008/12/25/usps-track-and-confirm-my-experience-with-them/

But was dissapointed with the service of USPS yet again. They took almost 1-month to deliver this case and their ‘track and confirm’ on which I had blogged an year ago on the same issue still does not give a proper indication of the package movement. I know USPS is under losses etc. and they are trying strategies to work out something but this is really poor service delivery. Their packages get delivered by India Post in India and it does not matter whether it is Express mail International or Priority Mail International their service is not meeting my expectations. They also charged duty on this.

Time truly flies! It’s 1 year since I migrated to a Mac from a PC and it’s been a well deserving switch! Apple has since introduced some revolutionary new products in the form of it’s iPhone 3G-S, the new iPod range with video, the new range of Macbook Whites with the unibody enclosure and a new lineup on the iMac’s for the holiday season, and of course, the return of the iconic Steve Jobs! Windows 7 is yet to launch here in India for me to move my desktop – a DELL Vostro – from Vista Ultimate to it’s successor – Windows 7 Ultimate.

Coincidentally, last week, Fortune magazine named Steve Jobs as the CEO of the decade!

http://money.cnn.com/2009/11/04/technology/steve_jobs_ceo_decade.fortune/index.htm

My Patagonia kindle2 case arrived today from amazon.com and must say it was quick and efficient – it took 4-days for it to reach me from the USA. I am impressed by the DHL service. My Blackberry Bold case which was shipped by USPS a week before this has still not reached me and even their status tracker using the infamous “track and confirm” is pretty average and does not reflect it’s current status.

Here is a picture of my Patagonia cover for my kindle2 and it’s cute and fits my kindle that sits snugly inside this case.

My kindle2 Patagonia case

How cool is this? I came across this on some blog and decided to check it out. It works – flawlessly! The first word I searched for on my kindle was, well, you guessed it, “kindle”! The web browser functionality of the kindle is still disabled as it’s not enabled for International editions of the kindle anyway – this is a known point.

Meanwhile I had some issues downloading a book and called amazon.com kindle support and they immediately reversed the charges on that book because it showed the wireless download status on their systems as “pending” as well. For some reason the book just did not download despite all my tries! Read the rest of this entry »