Archive for July, 2008

AT&T Will Offer Free Wireless For iPhone Users

AT&T is going to offer free WiFi to all iPhone users. There is 17.000 AT&T hotspots that are providing nationwide such as restaurants, airports, university’s, bookstores and more. Friend of mine this morning tried at one of the AT&T locations and said it is not working “yet”.
You can read more about it on AT&T [...]

Plurk Scheduled Maintenance

Every morning first thing I do is open Plurk well this time to my suprise Plurk have scheduled maintenance and lets hope they are adding API which many developers are waiting for.

Twitter testing a new design

A number of Twitter users have encountered a new Twitter design.

So what’s new:

Tabs are now to the right of the screen
You can see the number of direct messages you have
Time stamps and “from” stamp are in italics
Latest tweet has been pushed under the “message box
Reply and Favorite shortcuts now appear as you hover over a [...]

Free Ipod Touch 2.0 Upgrade Download Links

Just want to remind you last week I wrote post about Ipod Touch 2.0 upgrade where you can get the download file for free . Just in case you did miss that post here are the links again. Ipod Touch 2.0 and Iphone upgrade is the best thing that ever happen at Apple!
(Mirror 1) Download [...]

Control over your Gmail contacts

One of the most annoying feature in Gmail is the auto contact adder. Gmail adds everyone who you email as your contact. This is just totally ridiculous.
So finally Google has realized that clearly everyone don’t want everyone who they email as a contact. So now there are two types of contacts. #1 - “My Contacts” [...]

Cool new tab switching feature in Firefox 3.1

Press Ctrl + Tab (or Shift + Ctrl + Tab) and you are presented with thumbnails and titles of your opened tabs with the most recently visited ones first so you can more easily  determine which tab you want to go. Hold Ctrl pressed and keep pressing Tab to see the thumbnails smoothly scroll to [...]

Speckly Torrent Search Engine Update

Just want to say that I had small email chat going back and forth with Ken (Kenneth) the Co-Founder of Spenkly Torrent Search site. Well in conclusion of our talk,Ken said Speckly has no plans to show ads at any time soon , their philosophy is to keep things relevant familiar and easy to [...]

Live Mesh Tech is Open by Microsoft

Microsoft just open up Live Tech Mesh.
In their words:
Live Mesh is now openly available to anyone in the U.S.
The Live Mesh team is pleased to announce that anyone in the U.S. can now use Live Mesh just by signing in to www.mesh.com with a valid Windows Live ID. No sign up needed to participate!
Find out [...]

Brazilian Blog TechGuru unlocked the Iphone 3G

Brazilian Blog TechGuru unlocked the Iphone 3G with same trick that the first Iphone was unlocked at first place. To spice things up he was using SIM adapter which tricks Iphone 3g to thing its on allowed network. But then I asked my fellow Plurkers would they buy unlocked Iphone 3g for let say 600-700$? [...]

GTA (Grand Theft Auto) Hits Nintendo DS With Chinatown Wars

It is confirmed by Rockstar Games that GTA will be available on the Nintendo DS called Chinatown Wars. Best part, you can play Grand Theft Auto for over 14 hours straight on Nintendo DS. Here are few articles which will explain more about it:
RockstarGames
Market Watch

Register Dot Me .Me Domain Name

Tomorrow Jul 17th you can start registering .ME domain names they are pricey ($24 per year) and requires 2 year registration. Few of my domain friends which I sometimes hate said “there is no value” in dot ME domains unless you register sex.me porn.me which are already taken. I pre-registered my name yesterday and final [...]

Search for Torrents Faster With Speckly

If you are torrent person Speckly is something you want to try out. The Pirate Bay might be the most visited and most popular torrent search engine but in the long run I think Speckly is going to be on same road of popularity.
Speckly is fast, searches other torrent sites like Mininova, The Pirate Bay, [...]

Leo Laporte Rules With Iphone Talk

Reading my email that I got from Stickam and noticed text about Leo Laporte. I know Leo for many years now and listen to his shows pretty much every week because it’s just interesting to interact with all tech people and listen Leo at the same time.
Back to that email:
Leo Laporte successfully completed his [...]

Looking For 3 letter Domain Names

This might not be the tech news but more help that I would like to ask from my visitors and readers. For past month I just want to have one 3 letter domain name which I could use as email system. I just can’t afford to buy it from domainers( people that re-sell domains) because [...]

I knew It Was Coming! Apple Suing Psystar

Few months ago bunch of blogs wrote about fake PC with pre installed OS X made by Psystar, turns out that company is scam . And I was just waiting to see Apple going after them. Thing is gizmodo and techcrunch were trying to find out the address of the owner but each time turned [...]

Interesting Tech Blog Posts Today.

Just wanted to show few blog posts that are very interested today. You know you should maybe switch from your daily blog reading and read some other tech blogs instead.

The Wonderful Awful Browser
iPhone 3G Screens “Warmer” by Design;Yellow…
Mozilla insists Firefox 3.1 won’t hit bum note for developers
IPhone: The New Personal Computer
How I got into [...]

Xbox 360 with 60gb Hard Drive

Image via Wikipedia
Yep Microsoft looks like building new Xbox 360 with 60gb hard drive. Apparently email leaked “as usual” to retailers about month ago, and now it’s official!
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