Just Tech 2.0.

Google continues to maintain its innovation in News Search, one of the most popular activity of netizens. Google has added a new functionality of searching news by location.

For instance, if you are searching on what's the buzz about Shilpa Shetty in London, you can query in Google news as Shilpa Shetty location:London to fetch only results relevant to that location. You will get soem results. You can test the same by changing the location to location:Redmond and there will be no matching documents in the search results page.

You can just Google about any Hot News Topic like the US Elections and get Local Perspective by using the Location: operator. Google for sure is changing the way we produce and consume media.

The World's Largest Software Company Microsoft went on a Rampage by releasing an anti-piracy tool especially targeted at Chinese market where the PC /Laptop screen would be turned black if the user has installed a pirated copy.

China has the largest number of Internet users in the World and the market is growing really fast with rampant piracy and little effort from the Chinese government to curb the same. Some hardcore pro-China lawyers complained against Microsoft for invasion of privacy without any substance. Microsoft has argued with its own battery of lawyers that it has not violated any Chinese laws.

Microsoft is also offering steep discounts in China to convert pirated Windows and Office software into legal copies, but the company has had little success yet. If you are a Software Developer / Company, then beware before you enter China because they are known for pirating even Routers :-)

The DVD Rental Business which mushroomed in India in the past 18 months has a new story to tell. Most customers rent Hollywood Movies on DVD media than Bollywood movies, according to Reliance Entertainment's BigFlix. The myth when these companies started to operate was Hindi / Desi regional movies would fare better but it isn't happening.

Bollywood movies have widespread release as well as the quality of the content is not good for repeated viewing. [Our Desi directors like Ramu must get out of the poor Blackmagic mood and develop some real good content] While in case of Hollywood movies, BigFlix observed that viewers have seen the same movie on DVD more than once.

BigFlix has been operational for over a year now and has really big plans in the home entertainment space including tying up with set-top box manufacturers to make their movies downloadable via Cable or DTH and play the same in DRM environment.

Apple Inc today unveiled an all new MacBook - Air + Pro family that redefines notebook design. The new MacBook and 15-inch MacBook Pro both have a precision unibody enclosure crafted from a single block of aluminum, resulting in thinner, more durable and incredibly beautiful designs. Below Angeline (Product Head) with the new MacBook Pro at the launch in Mumbai's Taj President.
Apple also unveiled the LED Cinema Display featuring a stunning 24-inch LED-backlit widescreen display with built-in iSight video camera, mic and speakers in an elegant, thin aluminum and glass enclosure.

Pricing of Apple MacBook - Air + Pro + Cinema Display in India:
The new 13-inch full featured aluminum MacBook weighing just 2.04 kg is an incredibly compact and durable notebook starting at just Rs.79,700. Older 13-inch white MacBook costs Rs 61,800

MacBook Air 17 inch, measuring only 0.4 cm at its thinnest point, 1.94 cm at its maximum height and weighing just 1.36 kg is priced at Rs 1,07,000. Will Ship from November.

The powerful new 15-inch MacBook Pro at only 2.41 cm thin and weighing just 2.49 kg offers ultimate performance and extensive expansion features in a remarkably portable design. Starting at Rs.1,19,600.

The new LED Cinema Display will be available in November through Apple Authorized Resellers for a maximum retail price of Rs. 60,900.

You can BUY from any of the following Apple resellers in India.

Labels: Apple-LCD-Cinema-Price, MacBook-Pricing-India

Have you been searching and Googling to get an unique name for your brand, company etc ? Or are you trying to build your vocabulary and can't recollect the word that you learnt last week which is on he tip of your tongue ? Or are you one of those crazy Word freak ? Here is a fantastic tool for you guys to play with - Tip of My Tongue.

This tool lets you find Words with various combinations - Starts With, Ends With, Contains etc. - Best suited for finding Domain names. Say, you can enter Ends With "in" and starts with "a" to "z" and find all the catchy domain names.

You can use the tool to Unscramble the Words. Tip of My Tongue additionally functions as a limited Thesaurus. Its FREE to use :-)

Are you a Geek with Gigs of Music on your PC and always wanted to listen to it on your Smart Mobile Phone on the move ? Didiom lets you precisely do the something very similar to what Shoutcast server did for remote playing of licensed music.

What you have to do is download Didiom Desktop Application and configure the same [select folders containing music] The next step for you is to install the Didiom client on your cell phone and authenticate yourself. As long as both the cell and PC are connected to the internet, you can browse and listen to any songs stored on your PC directly on your mobile. You can watch the live demo here.



This Software reminds me of WinAmp Shoutcast which I used during my Grad School days. Stream my favorite songs for the day from server and listen to the stream from School Labs :-)

Have you ever landed yourself into a situation where you have to convert the PDF document ? Adolix PDF converter is a great product that can help you open existing PDF files [even encrypted], merge or split the document into one or several pieces depending on your requirement. You can also change page order, delete pages, rotate pages etc.

You can add your own encryption for unprotected documents and password protect the same. The best thing is, it lets you convert all the PDFC documents even if you don't have Administrative rights on the PC running Windows XP / Vista etc.

Adolix software costs $49.99 and is given away for free if you download and install within the next 23 hours.

There is bad news for you, if you are using one of those cheap quality handsets manufactured in China without International Mobile Equipment Identity - IMEI Number. The Government of India under the National Security Act has instructed all the Telecom Service Providers in India to block calls to / from China manufactured handsets without the IMEI Number.

Recent Terr0rist attacks were carried out using these Chinese handsets, said the investigating agency. There are approximately more than 16 million such handsets in India and the ban will spell a boom for Nokia, Sony-Ericsson, Motorola and other cell phone vendors. With festive season around the corner, the time of BAN couldn't have been better :-)

If you thought, Yahoo was the second most popular search engine on the Web [w.r.t search queries] then you are wrong about it. According to latest data released by comScore, its YouTube. Yes!!! That Video Site has beaten the Yahoo network for getting the second largest number of search queries.

According to comScore, in August-08, YouTube received 2.564 bn search queries while Yahoo network got 2.427 bn. Google stand alone received 7.59 bn search queries. As usual, the Redmond Giant Microsoft was the biggest loser and struggled to stay over a billion queries - 1.02 bn.

Now I am beginning to wonder what will be the fate of Video sharing sites in India that copied the business model of YouTube :-)

Google is leaving no stone unturned to cash in on the mobile boom in India. SMS which constitutes the bulk of mobile value added services market is now being embraced by Google. The company has launched SMS Channel, where you can form groups and go for FREE Group Messaging.

For instance, if you are a stock market analyst and send out hourly SMS updats to your clients, you can ask your client to subscribe to the same and with click of Mouse, you can send FREE unlimited messages. The messages were delivered within 15 seconds, really appricable.

Also, if you publish unique content / blog, the title of your post will be sent as an SMS to your readers [RSS to SMS for FREE]. When we tested the RSS to SMS, we found a Lag of 60 Minutes.

Their are thousands of channels from News to Jokes to Hacking tips which can be sent using Google SMS Channels.

Labels: BLog-to-SMS, Google-SMS-Channel-India, RSS-to-SMS

You have a beautiful snap of yours but there is an unwanted object and you somehow need this thing off the photo, then here is InPaint which will automatically do the job for you without knowing complex Adobe Photoshop.

InPaint lets you choose and delete sections of an image and the best part of this software is it automatically looks for surrounding pixels and fills the deleted section to preserve uniformity and you are all set to share that beautiful snap with your loved ones.

InPaint is a $40 worth software which is available for FREE, if you download and install within the next 23 hours.