Apple ipad 2- engineering student affordable..

Apple products are generally like diamonds to most engineering or similar age group k students.... thats "NOT AFFORDABLE",,...
But after the launch of apple ipad 2 it seems so much really affordable to everyone...
Its cheaper than a good laptop for a middle class student who would  spend around 30,000 on his laptop...(mostly cse though)...But its not a lappy
It is a gadget...cannot replac a lappy but then who doesnt want a super gadget at that price!!!
I personally am not a big fan of apple products due to their high price and availability of same features on different reliable brands of far low prices...
But this one....phew!!! the ultimate gadget everyone would love to have!!!!
Felt it so good and so mesmerizing due to mostly the cost and ofcourse the awesome features at that cost...its just "27000" thats less than a good lappy buddies!!
All features are available here
The  features that hooked my attention are
1.The 10 hour battery life..
2.The multi touch feature
3.Awesome camera and a smart cover that i've been waitin for
4.ios4- World's most advanced mobile operating system

The super fast graphics are the most attractive part to gamers..Also faster graphics help applications perform better.

Coming to the camera part ,It has two cameras...one in front and other in the back...Though they look tiny they make a big deal.!!
It’s HD, so whatever you shoot is a mini-masterpiece. And you can take wacky snapshots in Photo Booth. It’s the most fun a face can have. ;-)

Display- its 9.7 inches of high resolution for images videos and anything and everythin that yuo wanna see..
LED backlighting makes everything you see remarkably crisp, vivid, and bright. Even in places with low light, like an airplane. And there’s no wrong way to hold iPad. It’s designed to show off everything in portrait and landscape,
The 3g services add as up like the topping on a pizza...thats the main part... But unfortunately they are to be subscribed seperately!!! Whats that now???
Yeay~!!! When you get do so many goods there should be atleast few draawbacks(nazar naa lagjaaye!!!)


Remaining all features are basic features which you can expect in an apple product..
Finally SteveJobs caught the idea in wind to increase apple sales -"Less cost more features" mantra to awesome increase in sales amoung indian youth!!!

Facebook piggybacking on twitter??

Yesterday i made many tweets and tweet replies to people of a recent blog post of mine. Within 2 hours i had more than 200 hits but when i go to referring sites under stats, i find that facebook is on top at 10 and seesmic has 1, twitter 4 and twitlonger 2. I used twitlonger for longer tweets and was using seesmic client on my android.

It let me thinking that what is happening. Then i saw what's happening: when you use the twitter app on fb or any other twitter app, it pulls your tweets to fb. Due to lower server loads compared to twitter, fb is becoming a top referrer. May be twitter doesn't if u tweet same link to multiple people?  But it was interesting to observe this.

Bollywood music piracy & Google music India

Sometime back Google launched an online Bollywood music service called Google Music India. On opening the site, I was curious about the licensing issues etc being from a background where I had read about software and music industry patents, DRM, etc. I asked Glyn Moody, the famous tech blogger and journalist, and he told me about such things existing in China. In fact I'm writing this article inspired by him.


It was almost 2 months back. Then I found that Google had partnered with saavn.com, an Indian site providing legal streaming music( Google won't do illegal business obviously! ). Now though, it has 2 more partners:  in.com & Saregama, a music company that dominated the market earlier under the mane HMV(His Master's Voice). Now Google music India also provides Telugu music, in addition to Hindi music.



I am yet confused about the license issues and treaties it has with the music industry, but yeah, having streaming music free will only drive up album sales as they don't get to download it, still get to "sample it". You like it and then buy it, much like what bookshops provide.


On the other hand you have some piracy sites, the most popular being Songs.pk. In Pakistan, due to certain anti-Indian sentiments, you have a host of piracy sites catering to Bollywood audience. Another reason is the oppressive regime in Pakistan that doesn't let all movies be released etc, that leads them to pirate it. Songs.pk and similar sites surprisingly draw ads from even famous Indian potential advertisers like Amity University. The funniest part is that sites like apniISP.com get ads from distributors of the movies whose content they are pirating( most probably due to advertising distributors' agencies): look at the screenshot here--

Screen shot-- notice the ad by EROS for its new movie Challo Dilli

Only time will tell what dominates, but definitely Google made the plunge at just the right time, as now the bandwidth is appreciable good in India and has a good per capita internet usage.

Your Mobile phone will replace your cash and credit cards!! [NFC 101]

This is what you will be able to do with your mobile phone by 2013-2014:

• Very soon, rather than swiping your credit card, just wave your phone at a payment terminal when you shop.
• Use your mobile for paying your train / bus pass, while shopping or any place where you use your credit and debit card.
• Your mobile phone would act as credit or debit card, a subway pass and perhaps, even a movie ticket.
• Business owners can use this Near Field Communication technology (called as NFC) for reading tags for inventory management.
• When you meet your friend and want some information from his phone simply activate NFC feature and transfer loads of information in matter of minutes.
• NFC lets mobile device owners wave a phone over a short-range wireless receiver or tap the device to make a purchase.

NFC: A Primer

NFC is a newer wireless mobile technology that allows devices to communicate with each other over short distances.  These devices can be 2 mobile phones, a mobile phone and payment terminal or rather they can be any two devices where NFC chip is installed. Data transfer between the devices occurs through one of two means: either a short wave or, as is more common, a touch or tap.

NFC : Use Cases

Near frequency communication is used in three modes, each mode has different use cases
1. Card emulation: the NFC device behaves like an existing contactless card
Example use case: Mobile ticketing: Mobile Phone Boarding Pass.
2. Reader mode: the NFC device is active and reads a passive RFID tag, for example for interactive advertising.
Example use case: Debit/credit payment card. Smart poster: the device used to read RFID tags on outdoor billboards.
3. P2P mode: two NFC devices communicating together and exchanging information.
Example use case: Alternative to Bluetooth pairing, just bring 2 mobile near to each other.

NFC: When is it coming?

• The practice is widespread in Japan and has gained momentum in Europe, but adoption in the U.S. has been slow moving but steadily catching pace.
• MasterCard’s PayPass already uses NFC and any cell phone that has NFC can use MasterCard PayPass.

Current Status of NFC Implementation

- Samsung S5230 NFC,
- Google Nexus
- Nokia C7-00
-  Jim Balsillie, co-CEO of RIM, confirmed the company’s plans to include NFC in its devices at the Mobile World Congress in February 2011.
- 2012 Olympics in London will be the first major event where mobile payment systems using NFC will be used for ticketing purposes.
- 53% of smartphones by 2015 would be NFC enabled and this technology would be more secure than physical debit/credit cards.

Mobile technology is going to get more exciting!

· Your mobile phone is going to a get more valuable because it would be used as alternative to cash and any type of cards along with chatting and SMSing your friends.
· The power of mobile computing is going to re-define the way we do things today and improve them superbly.
Get ready to be a part of this rapid transformation by mobile technology in our routine business eco-system!

Dummies guide to opening blocked sites [tested at NIT Agartala]

First how to open TOR website, if its blocked..

now installing tor

Microsoft tag reader for smartphones

I was reading the India Today dated 25 May and found found something cool. They were offering free photos from the movie dum maaro dum. But then urls can we used by anyone. So the used a "tag". To use it we had to download a tag reader from www.gettag.mobi
On opening it redirected me to the android market to app Microsoft tag reader. It was surprisingly fast in reading Code (tag). On my lower end Samsung galaxy pop i have not been able to use barcode readers to read barcodes or qr codes. But this app was cool. The app asked me if i wanted to complete action using default stock browser or opera mini. On opera mini it redirected me to a Microsoft site then to a India Today url..
But if someone shares link on fb or twitter ??? ;-) :-P lol

ANDROID MOBILES FOR LESS THAN 10K

Fly Mobile To Launch Four Android Phones in India
First it was Micromax and now it is Fly. It seems phone manufacturers are warming up to the idea of android phone priced below 15k Rupees..They may have taken some inspiration from Samsung, LG, HTC and Acer, all of who have launched android based smartphones in the same segment .Huawei too launched an android based low cost model, called the Ideos, in February earlier this year.
The segment of phone which is below 10K Rupees is particularly interesting as it has around 80% of all phones available in India. And as phone manufacturers clearly see India as a volumes market, this is where phone manufacturers can make a real impact on their growth.

UK based company Fly, has announced its plans to foray into the Indian android phone market with 4 new phones slated for release. The phones will be priced between 7k and 10k Rupees. What is interesting here is that Fly promises to put emphasis on the video and media capabilities of the phone (all of these phones will have 5 MP camera and will run on Android 2.2).

Considering that 3G services are currently being rolled out in the country and will be complete nearing the end of the year, this strategy of releasing these phones in the third quarter of the year will definitely prove advantageous. Fly is also looking at launching its India centric app store that it plans to roll out later this year.

Looking at the gusto with which phone manufacturers are looking at low cost android phones, it wouldn’t be surprising if you see more phone makers enter into the most lucrative mobile sector in the world. Android has created a stir in high end smartphone market and there’s no reason why it can’t do the same in the low end sector.