Archive for October, 2009

Google Insights: “Lady Gaga Costume” Tops the Charts for Halloween Costumes Queries!

Google just published a list of most popular searches related to our favorite holiday, Halloween. This lists is based on the information from Google insights.
The post carries several lists based on US, UK & Canada. There’s also a list for most Movie related queries, Dog related queries, Vampire and Kid related queries.
Following list shows the [...]


Halloween Gadgets: Let’s Get Some Horror to Work!

Let’s all become spooky and spread the fear around us tonight. Here are a few things you can use to halloweenize the stuff around you.

Ghost Mouse
The Ghost Mouse works with Windows and Mac and offers the regular mouse technology and one thing it does other mouse do not, it adds a touch of [...]


Download iTunes Update 9.0.2 : Refines Apple TV 3.0, Stops Palm Pre iTunes Syncing, Again!

Seems like Apple is very much obsessed these days in doing favors to its products by releasing frequent updates. By favors, we mean customer support through software updates. Well, this week they have rolled an iTunes update.  Let’s brief it over.
iTunes update comes as another cold blow to Palm Pre owners. The update is intended [...]


iSkin: Buy an iPhone or a BlackBerry Case and Get a Bluetooth EarPiece Free!

iSkin just announced a deal which offers a free Bluetooth Earpiece with an iPhone or a Blackberry case. The deal is valid on 29th of October, between 3PM to 6PM EST Only. So hurry and click here to get this deal now!
The offer is valid on iSkin solo, Solo FX, Revo, Revo2, Fuze for iPhone [...]


Dear HP, You are NOT Doing us any Favors. With Love –Abbas #HPFail

I generally keep away from badmouthing companies and their products or the support system because there is no company/product/support which does not have a bad day, but this was different.
I recently got an HP laptop (my bad!) thinking why should I wait until Windows 7 is released when laptops that are currently [...]


Ericsson’s Spider PC Concept Should Be The Halloween Gift For 2020, Doesn’t Scare Us!

Ericsson has just revealed it’s newest concept PC and guess what? It does not actually look like a PC from any angle you could possibly try. It’s neither a netbook nor a notebook or a tablet PC in appearance. Any Guesses on what it should be like?
It is christened the Ericsson Spider PC Concept. Why? [...]


New Orkut Coming Soon – Take a Listen to Shashi and Poppy, the “Orkut-crazy Googlers”!

While Shashi and Poppy might spend a lot of time approving or rejecting friends requests with the launch of “New Orkut” community, Orkut expects to bring back users who’ve switched/switching to services like Facebook or Twitter with the upcoming launch.
Recent stats from Alexa show Orkut is not doing as well as it [...]


Amazon PayPhrase aims at Making CheckOut Simpler and Secure!

Quite a few companies including Google, ebay and others have tried to shorten the steps involved in shopping/checking out as short and simple as possible.
Today Amazon launched a new service as part of Amazon Payments which makes checking out a little more easier and secure.
Amazon introduced something called Amazon Payphrase which [...]


Verizon Droid vs iPhone vs Palm Pre? Which One Would You Buy?

With blogosphere buzzing with Verizon Wireless Droid’s launch today, comparing the new with the best is simply irresistible.
If you are one of the new buyers confused about which of the smartphones to go for, worry not, Billshrink is here to help you out with it.
The following chart shows the total ownership cost of [...]


WordPress Plugin Compatibility Beta – With WordPress Things Only Get Better!

One of the main reasons I do not upgrade to the latest version of the WordPress is because of the fear that few of my plugins might not work.
For this I have a dummy TNerd setup where I install the latest version and mirror TNerd on it to see if all [...]