Features of Ubislate 7 Plus:

• Android 2.3
• Cortex A8, 700 Mhz Process with HD Video Co Processor
• 256 MB RAM
• Storage: (Internal) 2GB Flash / (External) 2GB to 32GB Supported
• Peripherals: 2 Standard USB Ports (Ver. 2.0)
• Audio Out: 3.5mm jack
• Display and Resolution: 7″ Display with 800×480 pixels
• Supported Document Formats: All Version Office Document formats and many more
• High Quality Video Streaming & HD Quality Video Playback
• Input Devices: Resistive Touch Screen
• Connectivity with GPRS & WiFi IEEE 802.11 a/b/g
• Battery: Upto 180 minutes of battery, AC adaptor 200.240 volts

Don’t even think about the quality just go and order it. All the slots closed for January and February but again the pre-booking has been opened for the month of March. Your wait is worth it and you can book it right away here at their official website. http://www.ubislate.com/prebook.html . i don’t know how long the pre-booking lasts !

Optional accessory “keyboard case” can turn this tablet into a laptop which is yet to hit the stores.

Jailbreaking is just a process of removing the restrictions posed on a device.  Just consider entering a country without a visa. Each and every app developed for ios device should go for a process of approval by Apple before they are listed in itunes. So inorder to enable more functionality and to install custom applications, we involve in the process of jailbreaking our devices. Usually a custom community Cydia is available for ios which acts as a platform for apps market for jailbreak devices. I came across some of the custom apps and have to adhere their functions and how useful they are.  My favourite one was the bluetooth dialup  network for ipod touch which enables me to use my ipod touch with 3g facility by bridging it with my blackberry.

The misconception with the users is that the current iOS 5 upgrade sends a signal to Apple saying that your iphone was jailbreaked and should ban this user from any support or warranty. This does not work that way, if you ask me i would tell it was just a rumor ! Atleast not now ! I have to agree that apple is trying to strengthen its device with a lot of security fixes. Jailbreak can be possible because of the security exploits and holes in the current software version but for every update Apple is trying to fix it up, we end up with a good jailbreaking tool

So my advice is if you really want to use some extra apps and try more out of your device, jailbreak your device but don’t forget to take a backup before you do it. But don’t forget just in case if you want to send your device for a warranty you need to restore it with the original firmware !

It was yesterday that when i was looking for people selling second hand Enfield bikes i came across this simple and clean site called Sahipasand . At first i had no intent to browse through it as i thought it was just another random site with bot generated listing. But i tried my luck and found some reliable listing especially in my place Pondicherry.

To my surprise i can find more than 250 products alone in my city (Pondicherry) in different categories. This added to my interests and i began to explore some of the listings as well as features of the site.I thought it is a good idea to share a site like this to my readers. Sahipasand (right choice in Hindi) is a free classified site, where you can buy and sell anything for free. Yes you are right i could say its indian version of Craigslist !

One of the reasons why this site stands unique is that it has no ads; they don’t charge you for anything.  You dont have to pay for listing your ad or for contacting a seller. It’s completely free and you don’t even need to register. The site acts as a middleman to connect you to the seller/buyer free or charge

SahiPasand.com is owned by SCM Ventures which is under Schibsted ASA and its subsidiary Schibsted Classified Media (SCM).  SCM is currently the biggest online classified advertising company in Europe. The site looks elegant and simple so does the usability. With Sahipasand you can sell almost anything because they provide a wide range of categories to choose from like in ebay. They also have separate sections for selling cars, real estate and posting jobs . From the start the major thing i am obsessed about this site is its ease of use. You can simply narrow down your search and find what you are looking for!

Every listing is thoroughly checked and verified by the team and then it’s approved for listing. For example check this product listing where i ended up searching Enfield in Pondicherry. I can directly contact the buyer without any brokerage charges. Currently there are 45252 ads online which is good for a startup site.

Just browse through the site to experience yourself.

You can check  his portfolios in his site Rafimmedia.com. He has designed a Gandhi Jayanthi Featured Theme Calendar Wallpaper for this month which is available in many resolutions to fit your desktop including the iphone. Thanks to Rafimmedia. Feedback about the design is appreciated and would encourage Rafi to design more wallpapers.

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There is a major concern over storing our valuable data in cloud when compared to storing it in our disks. Yes, its the privacy and security issue. When it comes to critical data like bank details, confidential documents, personal images, proofs.. we need a place where data can be secure, private as well as invulnerable to any means of risks and vandalism. My quest for a service online which overcomes my concern landed me in a different discussion. I seeked my cousin’s advice who is a product manager at Trend Micro. He told me about this trend called Underground Data centers. Its like Old wartime bunkers, caves, mountains turned down into a secure place for establishing Data centers.

When i was exploring about companies that have underground datacenters i came forward with this service called Mount10 (former name Swiss fort Knox) which stores all your date inside the Swiss Alps Mountain. Yeah i am not kidding..!! Mount 10 consists of two independent underground data centers inside the Swiss Alps which are being operated for storing, archiving and securing physical as well as electronic assets. The facilities are equipped with the latest technologies, physically separated by 10km and connected internally as well as with the Internet by a high performance network.

Why we should you go for Underground Data Centers ?

These type of Underground Datacenters are resistant against any known civil, terroristic and military threat including electro magnetic pulse and also offers protection against environmental disasters such as earth quakes, floods, landslides and large-scale fires. They are usually addressed as Zero Risk Infrastructure.

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Mount10,  an automated Backup Service (Underground Datacenter ):

The folks at Mount10 had given me a 4GB Free Account for Lifetime Period for testing their servers. With the help of Mount10 Client i can automatically backup and sync in realtime. Mount10 allows you to select an account name, with password and encryption key. This encryption key is the most important part, without which u cannot access your account and it is highly impossible to recover the key. Also you dont have to worry about your confidential and critical data being stored at their servers and being intercepted by someone since Mount10 uses 448-bit encryption technology the highest internet banking standards.

Some highlighted features of Mount10 Includes

• Underground “zero-risk” infrastructure and protection against nuclear, biological or chemical attacks including Full EMP (electro magnetic pulse) protection.
• 24h surveillance, ensured by a civil and military concept
• 448-bit encryption for storage
• Fully automatic backup via the Internet
• Data history with search functionality
• Dual Internet Providers
• Independent supervision
• Nominal Rates for Storage
• Data vaulting to SWISS FORT KNOX
• Manageable Client for All versions of Operating Systems

To know more about their features and service plans, i recommend visiting their site here.

You don’t really have to be a professional photographer to bring that effect into your images because the folks at Rollip.com have developed a new site that gives any digital photo a new look and feel by offering filters ranging from 70′s vintage to more modern ones.

They offer 40 various filters as far now and will be adding more filters in the future.. Rollip.com is free for smaller images but they do offer additional high-quality processing which some photographers can use for their professional work.

I’ve tried a couple of filters and really satisfied with the output results. Just check my image below where i opted for a movie effect and how the orginal image transformed into a frame from a movie.

And the Good news is Rollip.com offering 15 pro accounts to readers of this blog on a first come first serve basis. This pro account contains 30 credits which you can use for processing high quality images of yours. If you are interested to try Rollip then
signup using the link below.
Signup | Rollip.com

Jatech has come up with a unique way of opening your car doors.  To be precise, you dont need to open one at all.  The doors will just retract down with the press of a button.

Some of its Advantages are

1. Less Parking and Garage space.
2. Less supervision before getting down and getting in.
3. Moving doors will stop and reverse if foreign object detected.

Watch the video for more detail!

A  project known as AIDA (Affective, Intelligent Driving Agent), a collaborative initiative between MIT and AUDI is a personal driving assistant and an intelligent navigation system.   AIDA is not a traditional navigation system that just predicts the best route between two points, its an intelligent system which sets goals for the driver and helps to achieve it.

I would appreciate if you could watch the above video for understanding the system clearly. An another innovation in Technology…

The best part of AIDA is the personalization which includes analyzing driver behavior, frequently used routes, predicting real time events in the city that would interfere the route, collecting city traffic data as well has maps with incorporated information like business area, shopping area, workplace, night club etc.

Google Code search is a powerful open-source code search launched in October 2006.  It gives you the public source code and the class definitions of almost many languages and web script technologies.

Though it is a beta version, has been optimized well and gives accurate results.  Take any programming language keyword and type it as a search keyword, It instantly gives you the necessary commands and descriptions with external links and class definitions.

A simple Print command gives you all the possible options from Java, C, Python and also shell script to name a few. Different technology users would now be able to get instant help without going through particular websites or links.

Steps:

1. Open Google code search using the link http://www.google.com/codesearch
2. Type any keyword or function name and it will give you the entire list for different languages.

Interesting thing is that Google stores a cached copy of all source code and gives you the dump of it.

Checkout what happens when some guys used the blackberry strom to control the real F1 car. Yeah, it’s True.. By using the phone’s built-in accelerometer for turning the phone like a steering wheel control of car’s direction. They tested it with a toy car and after uploading their video, a msg pinged from McLaren Mercedes Team to adopted the same system for controlling  Lewis Hamilton’s actual F1 car. .

Good news is that Flickr mates celebrating their 4th birthday of their site on 15th of this March. As a part of their celebration they are hosting an event called Pin-up, a photo exhibit in which 5000 photos of Flickr users will be pinned up on walls and exhibited publically to their visitors.

How to get your photo submitted?

Join the Flickr Turns 4 group and add any single best shot of your collection to their pool. Based on the community guidelines, with deep review your photo might get selected to be one of 5000 prints on that event. Flickr is allocating a temporary space to display all this 5000 selected photos which are printed in 5×7 inch size. The exhibit will take place in San Francisco, California on March 15, 2008 and the last date for submission of your photo is March 12th. It also invites members visiting in person as an opportunity of exercising their curatorial skills.

Hope your photo is listed one out of 5000 prints! I submitted my Taj mahal shot for this event.

Electronic Arts, one of biggest DON of Gaming world has released a new version of Need for Speed series called PRO STREET. Actually it’s not a sequential to NFS preceding version of Carbon or Most Wanted but a complete new version of street racing. Pro Street is nothing but Professional Street racing. Letting racers like me lol… out of problem pro street is no more illegal like the Most wanted it’s about an opportunity of letting street racers into PROFESSIONAL TRACKS.

Bet you this version of NFS is completely different comparing their old version with real professional tracks, and realistic environment. Other gaming sites report a five star rating for the graphics. IGI reports Pro Street is all about 100 percent about performance and the culture of street racing. Although the complete trinity has never changed i.e becoming the King of Streets by participating in several events including Drift, Drag, Circuit, Speed trap etc. Customization of cars is much deeper in this version which directly allows you to test your cars performance which impacts your car due to their autosculpt technology.

Have a look at the official commercial of Need for Speed pro street below:

EA already shipped Pro street this nov 14 for different gaming platforms like PS3, Xbox 360, PC, PS2, Wii and PSP. It will be available in India during the mid of December, but already the pirated version of PROSTREET for pc is swinging in torrents.

Links: NFS Pro Street | Electronic Arts.

Microsoft announced the availability of free digital subscription to their premium magazine MSDN and Dr.Dobb’s. The usual subscription for MSDN would be $60 and Dr.Dobbs comes around $30 is now offered for free. A $90 value.

At least now we would be able to read the digital edition free of cost from our desk. Thanks to Microsoft for their regular notifications. Lets have an overview about the magazine inside’s

MSDN:
MSDN annual subscription basically costs $60 for the digital edition. MSDN Magazine is the publication to read for up-to-the-minute, comprehensive coverage of Microsoft development technologies especially .Net, ASP and other web developments. It also contains solutions to real-world problems including valuable learning content on Microsoft development technologies.
To View a sample of this magazine click here.

Dr.Dobbs:
With a 30 years experience, this magazine has evolved to be a worth one especially for software development. Also this magazine contains essential tools for professional software developers and architects with up to date technology information. Before this annual subscription for this magazine seem to be $30 but now its digital edition is free.

To view a sample of this magazine click here.

All you need to get the free subscription is simply a Microsoft passport account. After all it’s free!

Links: Register Here | Microsoft.

So Nokia along with Matsushita came forward to replace all the batteries that have been manufactured between December 2005 and November 2006. This replacement is only available for Nokia branded batteries codenamed BL-5c.

To check if your battery is of BL-5c branded please open up your battery and check for “Nokia” and “BL-5C” which are printed on the front of the battery.

Once it’s confirmed go to this page and follow the step by step instruction to check if your battery is manufactured between the specified dates and comes under replacement.

I recently bought a nokia 6680 (gray market) and checked if my battery comes under replacement policy or not since i don’t have bill or warranty. I proceeded by entering the identification number and the nokia showed up the following message.

Your battery is not among those manufactured by Matsushita between December 2005 and November 2006 and your battery will not be replaced.

Thank god for saving my time to replace my battery and staying phoneless. Make sure to check if your battery comes under their replacement period.

Microsoft India along with Café Coffee day came forward to gift vouchers worth rupees 100. All you have to do is simply fill out this form and complete a slogan,  the best 1000 would get vouchers worth 100 rupees.

 Don’t be lazy to fill out; I guess your slogan won’t be that bad to throw out of 1000 best slogans. Give it a try and win a gift voucher to sip up your favorite

Links:   Get the voucher | Microsoft India.

The best gamers around the world gather from different countries and exchange their talents and compete with other pro gamers. After the successful running of first year of international gaming festival, the world’s largest Cyber gaming event is back in action which is organized by World Cyber games. The event of Asian championship which is going to take place in Singapore will be a cool platform for showing the talents of your gaming skill.

Are you a power gamer? Then register for the event and win exciting prices.  12 countries will take part in this event which is hosted in Singapore.

Animax has come with a promotional offer which gives us a chance to participate and visit the event live in Singapore. You can enter their contest and be a lucky winner. It’s time to celebrate your festival hardcore gamers. Let’s wait and see the final league winners.

One of a rocking member in W series is this W960i which is a Triband phone that comes equipped with powerful 3.5 megapixel camera. This 119g box is a perfect handset to satisfy your multimedia needs. This upcoming phone which supports the usual network of GSM 900, 1800 and 1900 with connectivity options like A2DP and wireless lan (Wifi).

Update: Checkout the video describing the features of this phone.

Touch screen is the input type used in this phone which has a 2.6-inch LCD display. And the other surprising info to share is that about the phone’s internal memory! Guess what it might be? 60 MB? No! It’s unbelievable God damn 8000 Mb which comes around 7.5 GB. Wondering a phone with 7.5 GB internal memory that doesn’t require any memory cards to be used! It’s time to buy this trendy gadget.

Other technical information includes the Symbian OS, 9 hours talktime, 370 hours standby time with included accessories like Battery, charger, USB cable, stereo Bluetooth headset, stereo portable handsfree, protective pouch, spare stylus, Media Manager Pro PC program, PC synchronization program, user guide.

Overview of the phone:

Pros: 8 GB internal memory, 3.5 mp camera, walkman, wifi and touchscreen

Cons: No expandable memory (who cares when we got 8GB)

Please don’t bug me out by asking the price of phone it has not yet been launched in market or available in official Sony store. But we expect Sony to release within few months.

This is one of a type of unrestricted domain which anyone can obtain and use as a second level domain like .com, .net etc. Many sites have been using .info domain but the domain price of this level is unpredictable that it goes on decreasing.

Good news is that now you can buy .info domains for just dollar $0.99 which is not more than 40 rupees in Indian currency. Go-daddy has put up a sale on .info and .biz domains. So if you every thought of buying own domain then this is the best time to catch up as your expense will end up only for 40 rupees (0.99$).

I can provide more information about setting up your free website or blog by using your own domain for startups and no vice users.

Links: Buy .info Domains | GoDaddy.

I just thought of sharing this beautiful website which makes those special moments of your wedding not private anymore. With E-wedding you have the opportunity of creating a personalized free website just to share your wedding with everyone. While analyzing my friend’s wedding site I was wondering how beautiful the design was but then came to know that he used this e-wedding site to generate his own free wedding moments.

Actually E-wedding offer some new features specifically designed for wedding type of sites like beautiful themes in the genre of wedding, custom page name, domains, photo album including ability to share your stories, creating or posting events, multimedia enhancements like background music, audio and video embedding etc.

Visitors can even leave their messages in guest book to share their wishes for the couples. E-wedding says that they have developed sites not for only the weddings that happened but also have categorized to have multiple wedding options like the weddings which are goanna happen.

Links: Create your website | E-wedding.