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Year: 2007 (page 2 of 3)

My P1i

November 11, 2007 / / 2 Comments

As I had written earlier I recently bought a new Sony Ericsson P1i. Its a cool phone (though it burnt a hole in my pocket.) The Symbian UIQ OS is good, I haven’t had any problems with it freezing or anything.

I like its software – the calendar, email app, etc. However, I do wish the alarm would have a longer snooze function! The current 5 mins is a little too short for my liking. I’ve been playing around with Wi-Fi and GPRS both. I like Gmail’s little app which I have downloaded. I’ve also got quite used to the keyboard and can tap out a short email/SMS pretty quickly.

The camera’s decent too, but after having used my Nikon dSLR for so long it feels really slow…

I’ve been looking around for some cool little apps for the phone but haven’t found anything interesting yet. Any suggestions?

Marketing Google style – new Gmail, OpenSocial and OHA

November 5, 2007 / / 0 Comments

I’ve seen or heard of very little Google marketing (the only thing that comes to mind is a hoarding they put up for job seekers…)

But if we see today Google seems to have one of the best known brands on the Internet. And I think there are some really clever marketing ppl behind this. I’m really coming around to the view that Google’s slow roll-outs of Gmail and its newer versions and invitation-only betas to new products are all smart marketing tactics to create buzz around these things. Further, I refuse to believe that Google has no hand to play in all the speculation that happens around their upcoming launches.

Take for example the two most recent releases – OpenSocial and the Android/OHA mobile phone OS. I must have read hundreds of blog posts (on what else but Google Reader 🙂 ) about these 2 over the last couple of months. Should I really believe that this is all speculation and is not being fuelled by Google? I find it a little too hard to believe that.

Gmail was the first “big” launch that I remember from Google. I can still remember searching all across the Net for an invite to Gmail till I finally got one. The amount of buzz that was generated then was awesome and I think Google has successfully re-created that around OpenSocial and Android/OHA.

But whatever you say I like the things these guys are building. And if you missed the update that is being rolled out across Gmail accounts now, look out for my next post. My wife’s Gmail has been updated to the new version and as a result I spend more time in her mailbox than mine 😉

My blog’s now mobile ready!

November 4, 2007 / / 0 Comments

Posted by mobile phone:
We finally changed our two year old mobile phones. I bought a sony p1i and s an htc s710.

I’ve taken this opportunity to make my blog mobile ready and this post is coming from my phone!

The Great Hargeisa Goat Bubble

October 26, 2007 / / 0 Comments

With the Sensex scaling new heights today and India’s real estate in a boom, someone forwarded an email today. It contained this absolutely hilarious story about markets and bubbles. Some excerpts:

“I eked a meagre living, exploiting a fundamental structural discrepancy in the price of Goats.” He looked me in the eye.

“So crucial to the economy were goats now, and so fatal to our people any collapse in the goat market, that the UN appointed a Unicef Official with Special Responsibility For Goats. Around him swiftly sprung up a bureaucracy. A well-meaning man, his attempts to stabilise the goat market were well-intentioned. However, this intervention by the authorities was, as ever, late and ineffectual, indeed, counterproductive. Reassured that the UN wouldn’t let the market collapse, prices soared higher. It had become a one-way bet.

Takeoffs were being delayed while the bodies were removed from the runways, which lowered the number of flights and thus the potential revenues generated for all. This was solved by bringing in an electronic Goat Accident and Compensatory System to replace the cumbersome physical system. Now, instead of herding your one, then two, then four, then eight, then 16 goats on to the runway each afternoon, each of which then needed to go through the labourious process of being hit by a landing aircraft’s undercarriage, wingtip or propeller, you simply input your goat numbers into the GACS.

A must read: The Great Hargeisa Goat Bubble

PassPack.com

October 24, 2007 / / 1 Comment

Found this interesting site today. It lets you store your passwords online and then you can log on automatically to your sites right from the password manager. Since its online you can (obviously) access it anywhere and they’ll also walk you through how to safeguard your passwords on other, esp. public and shared, computers.

Setting up the account and storing the passwords takes a little while and isn’t very intuitive, but definitely not confusing. Once you’re all set up its a breeze to log on to your accounts.

Check it out at PassPack.com

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