Category Archives: Technology

Everything about the Internet, computers, gadgets, social networking, digital photography, smartphone apps, and the like

Bengaluru on Friday: Issue 8

Open publication – Free publishing – More bangalore   Here is the new tabloid brought out by me. Do read, comment and suggest ways to better it. There’s always room for improvement. Happy reading!

Bengaluru on Friday: Issue No 7

Open publication – Free publishing – More bangalore   Read this new tabloid launched by me in Bangalore. And leave your comments. The more brickbats and suggestions, the better. So we can improve the product. Happy reading!

Blend it like Beckham

Blender manufacturers are resorting to all sorts of zany viral campaigns to make their products stick. One in the news these days is a series developed to make people sit up and take notice. Not so much for the visuals, but the idea of it all. Can marbles, wood, golf balls and even a McDonald’s

Songify your life

Songify is a smart app at the app store that turns you into a singer. Just speak into your iPhone or iPod touch and set one of three music styles and you are good to go. The app turns you into a pop and rap singer. With six more paid options, you could have a

Facebook gets email and video calling

Now you can also mail yourname@facebook.com. Yes, that’s the new feature of Facebook besides video calling. However, you can’t do group video calls yet. But that’s something you can do with Google+ (right now available only to a limited audience). But more on that in a future post. The email feature is great, because sometimes,

Nettigritty’s customer service is laudable

When one of my friends suggested the Bangalore-based Nettigritty.com as an efficient website hosting provider, I opted for it without raising my brows. And I haven’t regretted it since 2007. The best happened only today. My friend had set me up on the self-hosted WordPress platform. When I was having trouble trying to manually update

Nokia app for The Diary of Z

For many years, you have been following this blog online and through RSS feeds straight to your inbox. Since, the world is increasingly turning mobile, it was about time this blog and its sister blogs (bollywoodviews.com & astrofreak.com) were available on your smartphones. Now, the app titled ‘The Diary of Z’ is available under the

Gmail full? There’s a solution

If your gmail inbox is full or close to exceeding it’s free 7.5GB storage, there’s help. You can either upgrade to 20GB for as little as $5 or better still, save on that as well with findbigmail.com. Yes, this is the best service i stumbled upon just the other day. I already have an expanded

Twitterfeed is your social networking Jeeves

Twitterfeed.com works like Jeeves. If you are an active blogger. Have multiple blogs, but want all of them to become tweets and facebook wall messages, this is it. Just register online and authenticate by logging into your twitter and facebook accounts, and you are set. Every time, you upload a new blog post, the headline

Nokia app: You can make your own for free

While it’s expensive and time-consuming to make an iphone app, it’s very easy for Nokia’s Ovi store. All you have to do is visit ovi.nokia.com and click on the button that says something like ‘Make your own app’. And you are set to go. With easy steps on uploading and cropping icon, company logo and

Free iPhone app for greeting cards

My photography is in use on some of the greeting cards used in the new iPhone/iPod Touch app called Greet. Produced by an Indian company, you can be part of the celebrations. Greet is available for 99 cents at the Apple iTunes store: The Free lite version is available HERE If you want to get

3G generation

My 5-month old daughter belongs to the 3G era. And her initiation has already begun. Staying at her grand parents home 320 kms from Bangalore where I stay, she is on a video call every other day. And she’s quite familiar with the iPod Touch screen. In fact, she stares at any bright thing. So