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Archive for 2008
We on ma credit card!
In: Personal
19 Sep 2008It is not Photoshopped. This is an actual credit card that I have from ICICI bank. ICICI bank had come up with this offer where offered an add on credit card to existing card holders where you can chose any background for the credit card. 100% customized card – and you can see which picture [...]
iPhone in India, is it for you?
In: India|Technology
22 Aug 2008Indian bloggers can’t have enough of the iPhone! Every blog that I’ve been reading regularly is talking about it and crying fowl over its pricing. iPhone is priced at 31K and 36K for 8Gb and 16Gb versions respectively. Apparently iPhone costs the most in India. People have been asking who’s going to buy it? iPhone [...]
Bigg Boss season 2 – a casting coup
18 Aug 2008Season 2 of the reality show Bigg Boss went on air yesterday (17 Aug 08) on Colors. 14 participants were revealed and it was a sort of casting coup on the part of the channel. Unlike season 1 which was dominated by film, tv and fashion world celebrities this season has a mix of quite [...]
Michael Phelps an individual manages to win 8 gold medals in a single Olympic and India a country of a Billion plus people manages to win just one and that too after a long hiatus of 20 years. I read a post by Arun Prabhudesai on his blog Track.in about the wild celebrations on Bindra [...]
I keep getting this mailer from HDFC Bank about opting for e-statements and saving paper thus saving trees. I get a paper statement of my account every quarter and for my company’s account every month. This particular letter with the headline “There’s a substitute for paper, there’s none for the trees” is invariably sent with [...]
Firefox 3 is out – downlaod now!
In: Technology|Web 2.0
18 Jun 2008Just saw that Firefox 3 is out. I tried to access Mozilla.com and firefox.com but it seems down because of the heavy traffic. I managed to download it from Downlaod.com. Download Firefox 3. The installation was fast, it checked my existing add-ons for compatibility and downloaded the updated versions of ones that were not compatible. [...]
Trip down memory lane – all Windows starup screens and startups sounds
In: History|Technology
14 Jun 2008Just came across this video that shows startup screens and startups sounds of all the versions of Windows till date. My first tryst with Windows was on Windows 95, my first computer had Windows 98 Plus and then I kept graduating from one version to the other. Have used them all at some stage except [...]
Review of Compaq Presario V3749AU
In: Personal|Technology
9 Jun 2008As I mentioned in one of the earlier posts, I was comparing two notebooks and I decided to go for Compaq Presario V3749AU. It’s been a couple of days since I am using this new notebook of mine and here’s a little review of its performance so far. Standard specifications: Processor: AMD Turion 64 X2 [...]
Google has a new favicon
In: Miscellaneous
4 Jun 2008I just noticed Google has started using a new Favicon. It’s a lower case g in blue colour. I liked the old one more. It was a capital G with all of Google’s colours. More about the old favicon. I ran a search on Google and saw people are already writing about it. Google Favicons [...]
I installed Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise on a computer today and then tried to install D-Link DWL G122 USB WiFi adapter with the drivers that came with the adapter. It didn’t work. Searching for a driver on D-Link’s site turned futile because D-Link has since discontinued the product. Some search on Google and I [...]
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- Jason Webb: I hope Entrepreneurship is about doing something you like to do that fills a need or satisfies a wan [...]
- Lalit: I got this one a few times too ... [...]
- manish: I fully agree with the comments above. This is most stupid phone that I ever used nokia. [...]
- ROY JOSEPH: I fully agree with the comments above. This is most stupid phone that I ever used. I regret v [...]
- Pedro: Hello, I just received an email just the same! I also thought to the same way you did. Thanks for yo [...]
