IndiMIX ‘06 is an online event that is going to take place on 9th november at National Centre for the Performing Arts, Mumbai. The special host for this event is Mandira Bedi, who anchors the show and engages the participants in special contests by which you can win thousand of real cool prizes from Microsoft.

This event welcomes every individual who indulges in web business, web developing and design.
You can learn and explore how future Microsoft products and Microsoft’s new consumer services strategy help your business. A session for Web developers, designers and business professionals.

It is testimony to the promise of effective Web experiences; it is the point of inflexion; it is the demonstration of the genesis of creativity and innovation; it is The Next Web Now. — IndiMIX ’06

Some of the speakers who are going to take part in this event are Steve Ballmer (CEO of Microsoft), Anil Kumble (Indian Cricketer & Director, StumpVision (P) Ltd). So buddies if you are of Mumbai or willing to attend the Mumbai event, you can register here and for non-mumbai residents you can either watch the event online by live webcast and for residents of Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Delhi, Kolkata you can watch online by visiting your nearest Virtual Townhalls. To view the townhalls near your city please click here.

Register for Event | Live Webcast | Virtual Townhall.

Wibree wirelessly connects mobile devices and pc’s to small size devices, such as watches, wireless, keyboards, toys and sports sensors.

What is Wibree ?
Wibree is a radio technology that operates within a short range (10 meters / 30 feet) based around low-cost transceiver microchips in each device. This technology is designed for ultra low power consumption (button cell battery) with power consumption as its key design requirement.

Relationship of Wibree an Bluetooth:
The main relationship of Wibree to Bluetooth is that it can be interoperabile with Bluetooth by Dual-mode implementation which will greatly extend the functionality of Bluetooth. Although Wibree can be used as an alternative to Bluetooth but Wibree’s power consumption will reduce as data transfer increases.

Technical Specifications:
Wibree technology complements close range communication with Bluetooth like performance within 0-10 m range and data rate of 1 Mbps. It is optimized for extremly low power, small size and low cost. Wibree enables or extends Bluetooth’s capability to connect new range of small devices.

Recently Nokia has introduced Wibree has their open Industry local connectivity initiative.

The technology will be made broadly available to the industry through an open and preferably existing forum enabling wide adoption of the technology.

from the Wibree Press Room.

Are you planning to buy a cellphone and addicted to brand name of Sony Ericsson ? Then go for W830i ! Sony Ericsson W830i is a triband phone that has triple face according to which it can be used as mobile phone, Walkman® and Digital Camera.

W830i - a phone that touches your senses

Although all phones do have this feature but when it comes to walkman its Sony that rocks no matter if you are an i-pod fan. Considering the specifications of this phone it has a 512Mb Memory Stick PRO Duo™ with the Walkman® player 2.0.

With this phone, you can download music, videos etc from its PlayNow™ service which Sony has expanded recently. The another bit of this phone is its Music recognition technology by which it allows you to track a song by TrackID™.

Coming to the third face of the phone, the built-in digital camera in this phone has 2.0 megapixel with 4x Zoom. This phone is compatible for connectivity with EDGE, GPRS, WAP, Java, Bluetooth and USB. This is an Upcoming model for Sony India and i will update this blog post if its launched.

P.S: I like the colour theme of this phone coz it matches my blog and website perfectly..

After re-designing my blog header with a little mix of masala, i asked my friend Thilak to suggest its design. As we were talking about some tech issues he directed me to a site called QuilliPad which is brother was working with. After visiting the site, the first thing i discovered is that “Typing Indian Language text” has never been this easier”.

QuilliPad of Tachyon Technologies is a web-based site that displays any text entered in language based English to your desired language. Currently it allows you to type in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam. The interface and usability is very friendly. Currently this site is compatible with Internet Explorer 6.0 and above but it works fine in Firefox too.

Generally the usual Cable line we use now are based on analogue technology wherein a cable operator receives all the channels and connects every home via lengthy cables. Digital Satellite Television receive all the channels beamed via satellite directly at your home in digital quality picture and sound. They are different from DTH or Current Satellite. Tata and Star together has started this service in India with the help of the INSAT 4A, an Indian satellite.

In India Tata Sky a brand name of Tata has launched the First Digital Satellite Televison. All you need is a Satellite TV receiver and a DTH Set top Box.

Some Advantages of Using Tata Sky

• Digital or DVD Quality Picture and Sound
• Parental Control
• On-Demand Movies
• Search and Scan Banner
• Favourite Channels
• No Distortion or Interruption

To know more about their Services you can visit  TataSky Website or contact thier call center below:
From MTNL/BSNL lines: 1-901-425-6633
From other lines: Western India: 020 - 6600 6633
Northern India: 0172 - 6600 6633
Southern & Eastern India: 040 - 6600 6633

Sometimes things gonna mess up in our computer, generally everyone backs up important files as CD / DVD or even store them in Computer, but i dont believe in this tatics. My only backup is Internet and i regurarly backup all my files in internet. You can ask me whats the benefit in doing so .. yes some of the benefits in online file storage are

• Retrive it whenever you want
• No loss or maintainence of Data
• Recover it wherever you want
• Share the data with others

The above are some of the resons why i store my data online, ok now come to the part you can ask me where you can store your data and i assure you that i will help you to allocate a maximum of 1Gb Space for storing your Valuable Data. Yeah and they are free. Some of the sites which i recommend gives you 1Gb Free Storage to save your valuable files, photos, movies, videos etc.

MOZY:

Mozy is a free remote backup utility that will automatically backsup all the files you represent and allows you to store upto 2GB of files. You need to install a tool from thier site which will occasionally backsup your computer and if your computer messes up it recovers your important files from their server.

BOX:

Box is a free online storage site by which you can access important files in any computer, share photos and big files, Sync and Backup folders. They give you 1Gb Free space to store your files.

E-snips:

E-snips also gives a storage limit of 1Gb and lets you upload and share anything you want. You can even control who shares it and how they use it.

It was on thursday when i was in bangalore, i had a fight with my friend sagar regrading an argument on expansion of a brand named KFC which we saw in Bangalore Forum. I am a Peta member and i know KFC is Kentucky Fried Chicken but my friend argued its Kennedy Fried Chicken since he is a Bangalore Native and a regular vistor of the forum.

He added postive tags to his argument with reasons like native of bangalore and also told me that his friends too said him once that KFC is kennedy fried chicken, but in my inner thought i seem like correct because i remember having a free promotional sticker from peta on KFC. But since the Arguement is favouring him, atlast we decided to find the answer by refering Internet. I navigated to Wikepedia website and entered KFC. The First Result appeared is Kentucky Fried Chicken and i won.. Wikepedia is the best encyclopedia i experienced ever. By using Wikepedia you can find the company logo, founder, expansions easily and clearly.

below are the some of the Expansions i found using Wikepedia

• FCUK - French Connection in United Kingdom
• JVC - Victor Company of Japan
• BMW - Bayerische Motoren Werke
• CII - Confederation of Indian Industry
• HSBC - Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation

Srinivasan, one of my friend was researching with unicode supported applications. Many of us were not aware of Unicode (a Encoding technique with 64 bits of Character sets) that are native in some of our OS. Generally most of us are using Windows XP, in which the support for unicode is much wider. According to Srinivasan, one can use thier own languages in any unicode supported applications. Some of Unicode supported applications are Gtalk, Msn Messenger etc.

He used Tamil a south indian language as default language for instant messaging. We are never aware of this great feature by which we can use Instant messengers like gtalk, msn for communicating in our own language. He has written a detailed tutorial on how to use tamil in unicode supported languages in his blog. His tricks works well for Tamil Language only.

For other Languages, you can go to Tavultesoft Keyman and select your language keyboard but for installing this keyboards you need keyman console. After installing both of them, you can use your regional languages in any unicode supported applications. I just tried using hindi in gtalk and it works fine………..

Have you ever wonder that your computer might be vulnerable to hackers and virus, or do you know that open ports in your computer can exploit all information ? Well although you use Anti-Virus software, it is recommend to use a Firewall inaddition to the Anti-Virus. Some Av’s come with in-built Firewall but some use an external firewall, but what makes us to think is whether your firewall actually works ? or what does it do ?

There is an answer for all your questions, Go ahead and test your computer or firewall in free firewall test sites. Actually these sites scan your computer ports and let you know if any of the ports or open or if your firewall really blocks the unwanted incoming traffic or not. They try to send packets of information to your computer.
Some of the sites listed below will allow you to scan your computer for any open ports or if your computer firewall is working well. The sites listed below are my favones where i usually test if my firewall works and insure that all my ports are in stealth mode.

• Shields UP! - Internet Vulnerability Profiling
• HackerWatch - Test your Firewall
• AuditmyPc - Firewall and Port Scanner

Comment your Test Results here so that we can know how safe your computer is.

One of a blog says that the user has tried to Create a label but the name of the label was denied. He used “voicemail” as label name but google denied the request as invalid.

There is no Doubt that google is already offering voice over ip in its Gtalk and in the Future google will enable users to save voicemails like yahoo did. It wont be more surprising that the Competition on Voip Biz is Very big so i think providers will do thier best to enable features.

Lets wait for this feature from google…..

[update] Google Released the new version of Google Talk….

Download Google Talk here. Now You can use voicemail and filetransfer.