August 2008

Apple iPhone / iPhone 3G hits India

August 21, 2008 17:55 pm by Jal

With all the hype and excitement all over, the much awaited, much drooled over iPhone finally lands up in Indian market. With no two thoughts, the hype is justified. This new phone from Apple, is a revolution in mobile experience. It has been flashing all over the news channels since two days, with all the reporters boasting over its super cool features. And I am going to do the same thing here. Let me tell you, although I am not an Apple freak and Windows being my first love, I am really really getting drooled over this beauty. Although I won’t go into much deeper specs here, I would like to point out some eye catching featutes of the iPhone. Read more…

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Boot Vista 60 seconds faster !

August 9, 2008 23:03 pm by Jal

So you have your own Vista PC or a laptop which indirectly means you most probably have a multi-core CPU. Read further only if you have more than one core in your CPU because everything that follows now is largely based on the number of cores. Windows Vista has gone way notorious when it comes to system requirements and it has been criticized all over as it hogs much of the hardware resources. And when it comes to booting, it really takes up considerable amount of time. To tell a fact, Vista does not actually take the full advantage of the hardware it has been provided. In the booting process, it only uses one core out of your multicore CPU. Now this is something really ridiculous. All thanks to Microsoft!

Anyways, you can tweak around a little bit and make Vista boot faster by making it use all the core during the booting process. Follow the steps below.

1) Start –> Run –> msconfig. This will open the Configuration window.
2) In the Boot tab, click ‘Advanced Options…‘ button.
3) CHECK mark ‘Number of Processors‘ option and select the number of processors you want to use during the booting process.
4) Click OK and click OK again. Restart your system.

You will experience great change in the time taken during the boot process. If you want to check the difference between the booting times before and after this tweak, you can use the Boot Speed utility which can be downloaded here.

Following are my screenshots before and after applying this tweak.

BEFORE:

AFTER:

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Flock – Powerful yet unnoticed Internet browser

August 1, 2008 15:50 pm by Jal

When we think of an internet browser, the first thing that come into our mind is Microsoft Internet Explorer. Too bad. Well, times changed and people migrated to Firefox and then ‘flocked’ around Opera. I think one should now flock around ‘Flock’ – ya that’s the name they gave it. Flock.An internet browser which was hiding since all these years and nobody noticed it.

I was surfing a video-tutorial on YouTube and the person explaining it was using this browser. Don’t ask me about the tutorial because I hardly remember a word from it but yes I thought I should download this cool browser and let me tell you, it was a worth it.

First of all, it does it all. Casual surfing is awesome with the tabbed interface which almost all the browsers have nowadays. Digging more into the features it has many many plugins built-in to it such as its own RSS Reader, a People sidebar, a cool personalization facility ‘My World’ which integrates snippets of Yahoo, Digg, Flickr, YouTube etc. Moreover if you own a blog on Blogger, WordPress,etc. then you can write your posts right within a notepad style text editor built-in to Flock and then publish without a glitch. Adding more to these, Flock has its own photo uploader which which hosts your photos on well known image hosting sites.

Enough me describing it. Have a look for yourself now because seeing… is believing!

Download from Flock website.

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