Monthly Archives: June 2008

Expected Price of Airtel and Vodafone iPhone in India

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I’ve been bringing my readers constant updates about Airtel and the Apple iPhone 3G. Why not let me deliver those updates to you via email? It’s free, and zero spam/advertising. You’ve got nothing to lose.

The blogosphere has been buzzing with news about the iPhone’s India launch. People have been hugely anticipating the pricing of the iPhone in India. Here’s what the Economic Times has to say.

Apple iPhoneWe know that the iPhone will be priced at $199 in the USA, but what many of us do not know is that this is a subsidised price that Apple and AT&T have worked out. Going by market researcher iSuppli, each iPhone has been subsidised to the extent of $300! This subsidised rate is made up through higher call and SMS rates.

What that means for us is that we may not be seeing Airtel and Vodafone’s iPhone priced at Rs. 8000, not with SMS and call rates in India being one of the cheapest in the world (with plans to decrease even further). The price may instead be at around Rs. 21,000.

So would you be willing to pay 21,000 bucks for the new 8GB iPhone 3G when it hits Indian shores?

Book Your Airtel iPhone 3G

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I’ve been bringing my readers constant updates about Airtel and the Apple iPhone 3G. Why not let me deliver those updates to you via email? It’s free, and zero spam/advertising. You’ve got nothing to lose.

Airtel’s Customer Care may have no clue about the Apple iPhone 3G, but Airtel has updated their website with a link to book the iPhone.

Airtel iPhone 3G

I’ll be dropping by the Airtel showroom near my place most likely tomorrow and ask them a few questions. Let’s see how this goes. The prospect of having the new Apple iPhone with Airtel (along with 3G of course ;) ) has completely taken over my mind.

Quite Fed Up

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..of this new theme. It’s good, but the overdose of colour is getting on my nerves. Expect a change any time soon.

I’ve also taken up Preshit‘s advice on keeping the site, the blog and the tumblelog all looking the same. That’ll take time though!

I wanted to make a surprise change, but I just CANNOT keep my anxiety controlled. So here’s a sneak preview:

new theme

“Honesty is the best image.” — Tom Wilson.

Edit: People who know my IP address and/or personal server address, please stay out! :-P

Feedly – The Best Web-Based Feed Reader for Firefox?

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After having made my shift from RSSOwl to Google Reader, I was going through my feeds when an article on Webware caught my attention. It was about Feedly – the newest addition to the already existing hundreds of web-based RSS feed readers.

So what’s unique about Feedly? For starters, it works only with Firefox and is installed as an addon.

Feedly screenshot - The best web based feed reader

Feedly integrates social-networking with your RSS feeds. For example, if you liked an article from your feed, you could easily share it with your friends over at Twitter. You could even add your Facebook account into it.

Easily tweet an article from Feedly

Feedly conveniently imported all my subscriptions (and even my name!) from Google Reader. All I had to do was give it the thumbs up, and it did the rest. The one thing Feedly lacks, which I got used to with Google Reader, was the feature of automatically marking a feed as read when you scrolled past it. Then again, Google Reader never functioned well with my scroll wheel. So I’m not complaining.

There is another setback though, advertisements. I can’t stand them, and Feedly has containers ready to serve ads when the owner of the feed decides he wants to. I’m not too sure how to block them, but for now there are none since the service is quite new.

Brothers In Arms: Earned In Blood Mobile Game

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This has got to be one of the best mobile games I’ve played. It’s quite short, but the graphics and the game play will surely keep you hooked.

Brothers In Arms: Earned In Blood

Compatibility: S60 n70, n72, etc.
Size: 1.10 MB
Download: Brothers In Arms: Earned In Blood S60 N70 N72 (right click, Save As..)

My Swanky Windows Desktop

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Subbu and myself were constantly exchanging talks on IM about that _perfect_ theme for Windows. A couple of days later, I think I found my perfect theme (although he still wants something non-Ubuntu-ish).

Here’s how my Windows XP looks like:

Ubuntu Human Windows XP

What I used:

Other than the fact that I’m obviously running on Windows XP Service Pack 2, I used:

What you need to do:

Everything else after downloading the required software is fairly simple. Extract the theme files to C:\Windows\Resources\Themes\ and change the theme via desktop Properties -> Appearance. Install Object Dock and set it up to your liking.

To get the taskbar at the top, just right-click on it, uncheck the Lock the Taskbar option, and then drag the taskbar to the top of your screen. Lock it again if you like.

You could further make your Windows look like Ubuntu by using the Human Firefox 2.0.4 theme, Tango Patcher icons (edit: my Avast AV detected it as a virus), and the Human Opera 9 theme by charraoalegria. If you want to take it even further, go get Ubuntu and run it just like we all do. :|

However, the music directory in the background is not available for download, atleast by me. :P

“How my achievements mock me!” – William Shakespeare