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Category Archives: Product Review

Times of India Alive App – Review

02-Mar-13

Today I came across an interesting app, Alive app from Times Of India. A very nice concept to engage smartphone users to interactive content. But this app is from TimesMobile, not Times Internet Limited. Whatever, lets go and try it out. I quickly opened web-browser on my Android 4.1 tablet and jumped to aliveapp.in. Install. [...]

Review of LG – 32LS4600 (and 42ls4600)

09-Aug-12

Rating – 4.5 out of 5. Superb connectivity options and Full HD, do you need anything more? One of the greatest thing about LG-32LS4600 is Edge LED. Means it’s super slim, and knocking on the surface does not bring distortion (like Samsung TVs) and acts as a protector.

Showcase of Indian Academic Websites

10-Apr-10

Web is ubiquitous. An institute’s website is the first impression an applicant has. However, Indian institutes are not gearing up for this changing scenario. Indian academics’ websites are far beyond the quality of US colleges and universities. I understand, in India institutes have other major problems to deal with and building a website comes at [...]

Need for Storage! 1TB

12-Jan-10

Remember the days of 4GB of disk space? That was just 10 years back… Our demand for space is kicking each day and I have seen all for 4, 40, 160, 1000. So, what all we want to store? Primarily *media, *songs, *photos and a few (i mean very very few) data files. If I [...]

Google अनुवाद

25-Jun-09

Read this: जेना एक अर्थ वेब रूपरेखा जावा में लागू है. यह आप की दुकान करने के लिए / क्वेरी / अनुमान RDF / RDSF / उल्लू triples की अनुमति देता है. जेना एक triples RDF () में से सेट में मॉडल कहा जाता है या मॉडल वस्तु के भीतर जमा. डिफ़ॉल्ट द्वारा जेना में [...]

Create Polaroid Like Photo Effect Online

20-Feb-09

Polaroid-It goes online now… It’s a free tool for creating Polaroid look-a-like images instantly and that also right from you browser. All it takes is to pick a photo and clicking ‘Create’ button Here is what it supports: Add caption to your photo Match the background. This gives stunning effect right into your photo album. [...]

Fun with Yahoo Media Player!

08-Feb-09

A quick way to insert music in your site: Create hyper-links for few MP3 files Insert following script code to your page <script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://mediaplayer.yahoo.com/js”></script> You are done! Yahoo! Media Player will be loaded and it will make all media links clickable Here are few of my favorite tracks. Use the play button to listen. [...]

Sony Ericsson W660i: Features (Review)

04-May-08

Two days back I bought W660i, a Walkman series mobile phone from Sony Ericsson. It features 2 MP Camera, Walkman 2.0, FM Radio, 512 MB card, Bluetooth, Video Call, Email/RSS, USB mass storage, Flight mode, Synchronization services, Stylish, and all these in less than INR 9K. In addition to those common features, this phone features [...]

Foxit – PDF Reader

18-Mar-07

Q: How many times in a day you wait for Adobe Acrobat Reader to load? A: Almost 2-5 items a day, as I’m an avid Internet user. Let me list down where Acrobat Reader sucks: The Adobe Reader 8 installer a massive 20.8MB setup to download and time consuming setup. Version 5 was roughly fast [...]

Review: mama_pendse

13-Sep-06

Well, it easy (as an Software Proffessional) to think about the ability of an AI chat-robot. Here is a simple chat that I had with “Mama_Pendse“: Ankit Jain: hi Ankit Jain: u there ? mama_pendse: Hi Ankit Jain, How are you today ? mama_pendse: Thanks for the information. mama_pendse: I can tell climate in any [...]