Author: Chirag

  • Volkswagen Norway Lets You Test Drive The Car From A Print Ad [Video]

    Volkswagen in Norway has come up with a print ad that, combined with a mobile phone app, gives you a virtual test drive. They say it’s a virtual test drive but I’d say it’s more of showing off the car’s awesome features. But I must agree that this is an amazing (and really innovative) way to…

  • Amazon UK Offering Free Shipping to India [Conditions Apply, Duh!]

    Amazon.co.uk is offering free Super Saver Delivery to India, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa till 15th of May, 2011. According to them all the items that are eligible to be shipped to these destinations are entitled for free shipping. In other words, this offer applies to Books, Music, DVD and Video.

  • Nokia E7 Available For Pre-Order At 35k [Overpriced Stock Clearance]

    According to my expectations, Nokia’s E7 was supposed to launch in India by Q1-end for 32k INR. It’s coming by Q1 end for sure but to my disappointment, Nokia has priced the device higher than my expectations. The phone is available for pre-order but you have login to the website and pay an advance of 3000…

  • Gingerbread Is Hiding Cute Zombie Art [Easter Eggs FTW]

    Are you one of those few who have an Android phone running Android 2.3 Gingerbread? Here is a cute easter egg that XDA member teknoraver found. Goto Settings->About Phone and scroll down to the bottom of the list. Now tap “Android version” column repeatedly. It may take some time (took me some 50-60 taps) but…

  • Samsung’s Galaxy Pro Android Phone Looks Like A Winner

    Samsung today announced the Galaxy Pro, the latest (and the most interesting) phone in their lineup of Android phones. The Galaxy Pro is a candybar phone with full QWERTY keyboard. The specs make me look like it will be joining the low budget Android lineup. The phone features an 800 MHz processor, 2.8 inch touch…

  • Disney Mobile Opens The Cutest Mobile Phone Store Ever In Japan

    Remember we told you that Disney has a successful mobile phone division in Japan? They even launched a Disney Android smartphone recently. Turns out the business is a-boomin as now they have a opened a physical store in Tokyo!

  • Japanese Professor Invents A Creepy Doll Phone

    This is as creepy as Japanese scientists can get. This creepy doll that looks to me like a hybrid between a foetus and an alien is actually a telepresence device (in other words a futuristic phone). The doll is actually a robot called Elfoid and it transmits voice as well as motion. It uses an…

  • The Best Way To Download YouTube Videos

    I rarely download YouTube videos now. I just bookmark them and hope I’ll watch them later someday. But sometimes the videos get deleted, sometime I lose the links and sometimes I just want to save the videos to my iPod so I can watch it on a flight. In these situations I start looking for…

  • Enable Mac Like Expose for Tabs in Google Chrome

    Ever since I switched to Mac, I find it natural to use Expose for most of the Window management. It’s just faster and more convenient than Alt-Tab/Cmd-Tab when you have more than 3-4 windows open. Sadly, most browsers still primarily rely on the old way for tab-switching.

  • Mirror’s Edge is Still Alive!

    Turns out what we heard before wasn’t entirely true. Mirror’s Edge is still alive!