Author: Chirag

  • And now, Piracy on the cloud

    It had to happen. TechCrunch reports about this new service from Turkey called Put.io that practically invites the pirates around the world by making their job much more convenient. It’s an online storage service that collects files from Rapidshare, Torrents, RSS feeds and plain vanilla sources into your 50 GB space. It also allows you…

  • Google Wave for the Tarantino fan [NSFW]

    Have you ever been asked what Google Wave is? It’s hard to explain. Really, really hard. What you should do from now on is to show people this “Pulp Fiction adapted for Google Wave” video. It helped me. It helped Gizmodo’s John Herrman. I am sure it’ll help any Tarantino fan 🙂 [via Gizmodo] Still…

  • Photoshop now on your iPhone

    The iPhone (and iPod Touch ofcourse) truly have become a major computing platform. Everyone these days seems to be launching the iPhone version of their popular dekstop/mobile apps. The latest one to join the bandwagon is Adobe. They’ve launched a limited sorta edition (obviously) of Photoshop for the iPhone. It’s called Photoshop.com for mobile (what’s…

  • Do not upgrade your unlocked iPhone to 3.1.2

    Although it’s been in news the whole day, do NOT upgrade your iPhone to 3.1.2 if it’s unlocked and you want it to stay that way. It’s clear from the warning below that the release by GeoHot called Blackra1n will only jailbreak your iPhone on OS 3.1.2. WARNING: Even though the GeoHot jailbreak supports 3.1.2…

  • Piano Stairs to keep you healthy

    People hate to take the stairs. Some people hate it so much that they will take an elevator to go down a single floor! Clearly good health is under-rated. Some guys in Sweden created these Piano stairs to lure such people into taking stairs by making it more fun. Apparently, it worked too. 66% more…

  • iPods at lowest prices in India [Deals]

    A friend just informed me that eBay is having amazing discounts on iPods this week. So if you are looking to buy/gift one this Diwali, you should definitely check them out. Since the friend has been pestering me to find him a deal on iPod Touch for almost a month now, I can assure you…

  • And the world’s best company is … Nintendo?

    Yeah, that’s right. According to a strange list of best companies picked by A. T. Kearney for BusinessWeek, Nintendo is the #1 company in the world. Apparently, the basis of the list is sales figures in 2008 and international sales percentage. To qualify a company needs to have sales > $10 billion with atleast 25%…

  • Another reason to stop using Hotmail

    I don’t know anyone who has used Hotmail in years. But if you are still amongst the few who use it, here is Reason #461 not to do so. Neowin reports that some anonymous user posted details, including passwords, of thousands of users accounts with @hotmail.com, @msn.com and @live.com. Ars Technica says the list included…

  • Review: Wisen Up [iPhone Apps]

    When Apple says, “There’s an app for just about anything”, they really mean it. Consider Wisen Up, an app best described as a collection of facts, trivia, myths and quizzes about medical science and human body. Now what use could this be to anyone? Well, it’s a pretty cheap way to pass time when you…