Author: Swaroop

  • Beware of Income Tax Refund Claim Phishing Emails

    I’ve just got a phishing email claiming that I’ve got a lot of money in tax refund and I should click on the link for them to process it. Damn, Google – Why couldn’t you filter out this spam? It landed right in the inbox. Here’s the email content. Dear Valued Taxpayer, We have reviewed…

  • The Motorola Android Tablet – Teaser [Video]

    We’ve long been reading that Motorola is going to come out with the next Android 3.0 "Tablet-Ready" OS. Today they’ve released a trailer to keep the hype up. As seen in the last few frames, This is the "Honey Comb" tablet a.k.a loved by the bees. The tablet is scheduled to be announced at CES…

  • BookMyShow now available for the iOS devices

    We’ve long cribbed that movie booking was not easy from mobile devices. BookMyShow answers our cries by releasing an iOS version of the application. Here’s a quick look at what all the application provides. The iOS application allows you to select from a list of movies only at the moment, but booking for plays, sport…

  • Facebook’s next-gen messaging system. Is it really next-gen?

    As much hyped, Facebook announced and showed how they believe next generation would want their social communication. So here’s our take on what it is and if we’d really use it. The features were inline with what we’ve predicted before the event. Here are some of the cool things it brings to Facebook ‘revamped’ messaging’…

  • Announcements Galore – iTunes, Facebook Mail. What to expect

    If you’ve not heard till now. There are two big announcements today and tomorrow. The first exciting one’s by Apple about iTunes and is supposed to be big. The main thing that’s likely to be announced improve iTunes is A cloud based iTunes – you can stream your audio and video whenever and wherever you…

  • How to boost your iPhone speaker volume

    Do you love your iPhone, but occasionally worry that it doesn’t match up to your friend’s phone speaker volume? If you do, then here is a non-jailbreak approach that will help you listen to your iPhone ringing or watch movies or catch internet radio the way its intended to be.

  • Use Facebook places in India

    If you hate Facebook for not launching “Places” in India and other countries (except US, UK, Japan), then join the club. Although this article primarily explains its usage on iPhone(s), the same approach should work when Facebook releases Places for other mobile platforms such as Android, Blackberry – Your VPN Configuration would change. So, You…

  • Wish list for the Google ‘new’ Social network

    As you know that Google needs (read – wants to) get a comeback to its original domination in the ‘Social Network’ industry. Google CEO Eric Schmidt  hinted that it may not be a complete social network, but there will be a “social layer” in its existing services (probably better integration). Why we believe Google can…

  • How to manage your online presence

    With the ever growing social websites and gaming portals – a part of our personal life has gone to the cloud, some of it public. This post is targeted for people who’re new to the online world – i.e believing that there is a something on the internet apart from reading emails. So why manage…

  • The HTML5 Gmail Game

    Today’s modern browsers have been built to comply HTML5 standards which are Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari 5 in no specific order. Although, well “advertised” as the modern browser, IE8 fails miserably in the ACID3 test (but that’s a story for another day) GMail – One of Google’s most prosperous products & the front runner…