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The missing iPhone key
A friend just made me realize that the iPhone (and iPod Touch) keyboard does not show a backtick (`) key on it’s keyboard when you are typing into text boxes. I tried every possible thing and no it just wasn’t there. To tease us mortals, it appears automagically in the email keyboard.
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Microsoft wants you to buy gold membership to use facebook and twitter on your Xbox 360 [WTF]
I signed up for the Xbox Live update preview and got accepted. With high hopes, I downloaded the preview update only to find out that the things that can be previewed need me to sign up for a Xbox Live Gold membership! WTF? Apparently, just like the Netflix streaming service, Microsoft is gonna make facebook…
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Michael Dell indirectly reveals bitter truth about Windows 7
At a recently held Silicon Valley dinner, Michael Dell revealed a bitter truth about the upcoming Windows 7 operating system: "I’ve been using Windows 7 for a long time now, and if you get the latest processor technology and Office 2010 with it, you will love your PC again." Does this mean that if I…
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Happy to help? Apparently not
I have to buy a new postpaid connection for my mom. Now I want to go with either Airtel or Vodafone. The decision will depend on whosoever provides cheaper calling cards for ISD. I browsed Airtel’s website and found out the different calling cards option. To be sure, I called up their customer care and…
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Windows 7 RC shutsdown every 2 hours before expiration [WTF]
This happens to be our first Windows 7 post. We kept restraint and avoided reporting how “cool” Win7 looks/is, but we couldn’t resist sharing what Win7 RC has in store. So Windows 7 RC starts to shutdown every two hours after the “doomsday”. And it even alerts the user starting two weeks before this feature…
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It’s spam all over Google Help forums
After the Google Groups, it is also the Google Help forums which is getting spammed now. This screen shot shows some new posts that advertise for “female escorts” in some of the Indian cities with contact info too. Guess, my question (first from the top as shown in the image), would not get any attention…
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Reliance Broadband woes
After using the pathetic services of Reliance Broadband for about 15 days, I shifted to BSNL broadband last month. Since I am kind of an internet addict (who isn’t?), I requested for disconnection of the service only after the BSNL guy came and activated BSNL broadband at my home. Here is a list of issues…
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How not to hold your iPhone
I love Tina Fey and her Liz Lemon in 30 Rock. If you don’t know what am I talking about, you don’t deserve to read this. Anyway of all celebrities in the world, she was the last I expected to do this. In the last episode of 30 Rock she was found holding her iPhone…
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Zune 30GB Y2k8 fiasco
It is being reported that zunes all around the world are sick. The issue? Dec 31st of a leap year. Apparently, if you own a zune, you aren’t allowed go to the last day of a leap year or else it will die. To use it, you will have to use a time machine to…
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Reliance Digital vs. Croma
vs. Please Note: This is an article from Dec 2008. We have been informed that since then, Reliance Digital has had strict measures in place to ensure that such incidents do not occur and that customers are of utmost priority there now. They have also put in a complaint mechanism in place to ensure proper…
