By Aditya, on May 19th, 2010%
What factors can trigger the need for a change? I’ve been using a Blackberry 8900 for a year now. Lovely phone. Totally swear by it. Unfortunately, there have been issues syncing it. Earlier, with a Mac I used. And now again, with a Windows 7 computer I have.
To elaborate, the BB Sync doesn’t play well with Outlook in Win7. Some dll and fixmapi stuff I don’t care to learn about. So the question: what next?
Android is appealing. Just need to confirm if it works with Push mail. Can’t live without that now… or maybe (gasp!) Windows mobile? Hm. It’s possible.
HTC HD2… any thoughts?
. . . → Read More: Time for a change?
By Aditya, on April 19th, 2010%
As mentioned previously, I have recently moved home and office. And it wasn’t a pleasant experience. What took the cake, however, is the misinformation from Tikona Digital Networks and the subsequent lack of customer service.
Without getting into details (believe me, I can!), let me just say that stay away from these guys. I was committed a “Wi-Bro” connection for the 20 computers at office. So a tech guy came over on Saturday and installed it. On Monday, when we installed their dialler on all the machines, they wouldn’t log on.
Inquiries with the rather helpless customer care revealed that the router can only connect to 5 machines at a time. Well.
Then the usual routine of me calling up all and sundry I had been in touch with happened. A total of 4 hours was spent talking on the phone. As the situation stands right now, there is still no resolution. Only . . . → Read More: Oh, woe.
By Aditya, on October 22nd, 2009%
And that’s why one feels like upgrading.
. . . → Read More: w00t!
By Aditya, on October 20th, 2009%
I’ve recently upgraded (?) to a Dell Studio 15. And the Windows Live Writer is perhaps the first piece of software that I have always wanted to use.
So I am using it.
And I have to say the 15” screen is quite a positive change. Not to say I’m not missing my Mac already, but I am kicked about the 4GB RAM and 500GB HDD…
Unboxing pics to follow (yes, I know that’s seriously geeky, but so it is!)
. . . → Read More: The Dell
By Aditya, on September 2nd, 2009%
1. Some of the comments in this article may well apply to stores of the chains mentioned in other cities as well, but my experiences are limited to the specific outlets I visited. I don’t aim to generalize my opinions for the entire chain.
2. The disclaimer above is to ensure that none of those big stores sue my a** off!
Now that we’re done with disclaimers (and their disclaimers!), it’s time to tell you the dirty truth about electronics store chains in Pune.
Recently, I have been around looking for an iPod docking station, a laptop, an LCD/Plasma TV and cell phones. I have bought all these items from different stores. That itself begs the question: what are these massive one-stop stores good for?
Yes, the hint is at Croma. As someone who takes his electronics quite seriously, I do expect store salesmen to be well informed. I don’t expect them to know all the minute details, but their suggestions should mean something. And at no store in Pune have I found this. The obvious incentive for them to push a brand/product is the commission they or the store stands to earn. In this regard, Vijay Sales (Sadhu Vaswani Chowk) is perhaps the best of the lot. Continue reading Electronics shopping in Pune
     
By Aditya, on August 27th, 2009%
Dang. Someone’s done a terrific job of screwing over the iPhone. And iPhone fans, don’t get all upset. Have a sense of humor. After all, it is true!
via Crackberry.
. . . → Read More: The iPhone Ad You’ll never see
By Aditya, on January 23rd, 2009%
To many, there is no winner in this contest. Mac wins hands down. And I belong to this group. I am an Apple Fanboy! But ever since Windows 7 Beta (W7B) hit the scene, I’ve been wavering in my loyalty. And it’s not only about the looks that W7B has brought. Which, for the record, are quite slick.
One of biggest problems with Windows was that BSOD. And so far, I’ve seen only one instance of it come up since the Beta was announced about a couple of weeks ago. Not bad!
Continue reading Mac versus Windows
By Aditya, on January 14th, 2009%
Right. So after much looking around, I have settled on my choice for the online photo repository for my photos.
It was a close battle between Flickr and Picasa with of course the option of hosting all the work here itself. But the hosting would have been too costly. And Flickr is getting a little too snobbish (only 3 sets still?).
So Picasa it is. And the clincher was the recently launched Picasa for Mac Desktop Application.
The syncing between the desktop and online spaces is brilliantly seamless. And it syncs. So any edits also get updates. Plus, I can create albums from the desktop app itself and embed photos (like the one here). To be fair, Flickr Uploadr also allowed these, but then it was much slower and not nearly as elaborate at Picasa for Mac.
Add to this the fact that most people I know have a Google ID handy more than a . . . → Read More: Picasa: My online photo storage solution
By Aditya, on January 5th, 2009%
Truer words were ne’er spoken!
TechCrunch once again proves it worthiness!
Being an entrepreneur is also damn hard, for thousands of reasons and then some. I would like to point you to a testimony of that undeniable fact, penned by one of the founders of web startup MakeFive, whose Elevator Pitch video we recently highlighted. Eric Karjaluoto is his name, and his must-read blog post is titled ‘Why your web startup will fail‘. Required reading for aspiring entrepreneurs!
Here’s the gist, summarized in 6 points:
- You won’t have an audience- You’re going to run out of cash- You’ll get frustrated- The emotional rollercoaster will beat you- You’ll get excited about something else- But it won’t be because of the competition
Read the full thing here.
. . . → Read More: This lifestyle chooses you, not the other way around
By Aditya, on November 7th, 2008%
BlackBerry Bold 9000
but then I saw this:
It seems Nokia has got everything covered except for Blackberry Connect support. The company has announced that since they are offering a push email service similar to that of Blackberry Connect, they are now direct competitors and as such, they would no longer offer Blackberry Connect support starting of Nokia E71 and E66.
It’s a really odd decision and it clearly shows that selling their email service to end customers is more important to Nokia than selling their handhelds. While this may sound perfectly reasonable to Nokia marketing department, it might turn out as a deal-breaker to some potential E71 buyers.
And the folks at GSM Arena are right. That’s a deal-breaker. BlackBerry Bold, here I come!
. . . → Read More: I was planning to buy the E71…
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