Archive for December, 2006

Amazon.com has published the Best Of 2006 List.

Now it’s amazon’s turn after PCMag to reveal what lied beneath thier customer’s heart. You can find the list here..
Amazon.com Best of 2006 List
Some of the interesting rankings…
XBox 360 has got a berth in “Most Popular Gift Products”
Best Selling DVD : Pirates of Caribbean - Dead Man’s Chest
Best Selling Electronics : Apple iPods (what [...]


DivShare, Share the files the way you wanted

Finally I found this cool online drive which gives me unlimited storage to upload my files, albums at a super fast speed with no expiration set for any file.
DivShare, a new web 2.0 application is online now to offer you a high quality online storage and sharing platform. The user interface was very cool and [...]


Get Vista style Start menu on Windows XP

Who doesn’t like the cool Windows Vista Start menu? I am very much addicted to my vista Start menu these days, and almost forgotten the old pal “Windows + R”  keystroke. But how can we get this cool feature on Windows XP, the most favourite operating system for many users.
To address this demand, some cool [...]


The Best Apps of 2006 Index

Believe it or not !, the year 2006 is an “Applications Year” for me. Lots of innovation poured in to small but nifty tools, and enterprise level applications too. Everyone would agree that Web 2.0 revolution has got it’s footmark on this too. Lots of web based applications started beating the traditional desktop applications. This [...]


Converting YouTube Videos to Zune Videos

Well, I got a White Zune (accidentally, in a raffle :-)). I was quite impressed with this gadget (I am a “Believe_me_I_never_used_iPod” type guy..) in my first looks. The interface was very cool with nice zoom out/in effects of background wallpaper.
I quicky synced it with my local music store from my laptop. The experience of [...]


Buy a Zune via Google for $20 less

Buy.com is selling Microsoft Zunes on thier website for a cool price $239.00 (atleast $10 compared to other merchants like staple and best buy. Wait…that’s not only the cool part of it.
You buy it using Google Checkout and get $20 more discount. Wow..You can get the player for $219.00 effectively.

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Digg’s UX was now Improved (a LOT!)

Digg.com has got a major revamp in UI and UX (User eXperience).The first thing you would observe is the “Cleaner” interface of the website. The stories area was now moved to left hand side and makes the web site more readable and cleaner.
Some of the changes that made digg.com made looks cleaner..(more at Kevin’s Blog).
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New Looks : Microsoft.com

Microsoft.com has got a new look for holiday season. Check it out.

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BarCamp 3, Hyderabad, INDIA

BarCamp3 is all set to rock for tommorow @ Infosys campus, Hyderabad. The theme will be Consumer/Enterprise Software Oppertunities Around Web 2.0 Communities. The last BarCamp was hosted by Microsoft India at thier campus. If you want to know more on BarCamp, you should read this Wiki Page
Kickoff, Ramesh, Pramati, http://jroller.com/page/rameshl
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Visual Studio 2005 SP1 is now available for Download

The much awaited VS 2005 service pack 1 was now pushed to Microsoft public downloads site. If you dont know what the heck is VS 2005, just skip this post :-), Otherwise VS 2005 is a flagship enterprise application development platform from Microsoft. VS 2005 SP1 has got around 70 enhancements including…
 
New processor support (e.g., [...]