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Microsoft Surface gets Apple-d!

Posted by Karan Israni On January 24, 2012 ADD COMMENTS
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Remember Microsoft's multi-touch table called 'Surface' unveiled at CES 2010? Yep the same 'Surface' whose 2nd rendition at CES 2011 was even more awesome. While CES 2012 was aloof of a 3rd attempt from Microsoft on 'Surface', designer Adam Bentor has carved out something quite amazing, alleged as Apple's own Surface and aptly named iDesk. [ Read More ]

Meet Evi - the poor man's Siri (video)

Posted by Karan Israni On January 24, 2012 ADD COMMENTS

We've all been waiting for that one b*tch who could give Siri a run for her money ever since Apple launched the iPhone 4S late last year. While we've seen plenty of lookalikes, not only on iOS but alleged 'Siri for Android' and 'Siri for Windows Phone', we think the hot and sexy non-existent personal assistant, [ Read More ]

I was googling about some awesome navigation style for my website and finally i came across one navigation style which stole my heart away. It was just awesome especially for me as I am an Apple fan. It was a Mac OSX dock like navigation system. When you hover over an icon(Tab) it magnifies  just like [ Read More ]

Top 3 Weather Apps for Android

Posted by Karan Israni On January 23, 2012 ADD COMMENTS
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Android Market is becoming more and more popular nowadays, and after games the most popular apps are perhaps the weather apps, since they’re both useful and amusing. There are many, many weather apps designed for Android, and sometimes it’s really hard to choose only one. I’ve tried a number of such apps on my good [ Read More ]

A lot of times you might be wanting to link a particular word to a specific location on the webpage.The guide below will help you do exactly the same. 1.Select the word you would like to link to. 2.Create an anchor link like : <A NAME="Text">Text</A> Here both the "text" are to be replaced by [ Read More ]

A5-Pwned

It is finally here! An untethered jailbreak solution for those on Apple's new A5 chip, more specifically iPhone 4S and iPad 2 users, is finally out now and is called Absinthe A5. The tool is available to us as a result of combined efforts from the Chronic Dev Team, Pod2g and iPhone Dev Team, and [ Read More ]

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Just a couple of days ago Apple reinvented and redefined the textbook with iBooks 2 and now Apple plans to launch a Apple store in India.Currently it is not 100% sure but Apple is in talks to launch a store in India.Currently Apple sells its products via resellers like iStore,Maple,iMagine and others.Apple wanted to build a [ Read More ]

Samsung's ploy of promoting its products at the expense of arch-rivals Apple continued today with the release of their latest TV commercial titled "Samsunged" which revolves around the iPhone's lack of in-built turn-by-turn navigation system. The commercial, beginning in familiar Samsung style by mocking people waiting in line to get an iPhone who are then [ Read More ]

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The US Senate and House has postponed voting on the anti-piracy bills known as PIPA (Senate) and SOPA (House) after some overwhelming opposition from all corners of the world protesting against the said bills. Not so long ago, many major companies including Facebook, Google, Twitter and the likes came out in the open to show their disapproval of PIPA and [ Read More ]

We are done and dusted with Apple's education-centered event in NYC held several hours ago where they "reinvented textbooks" and the way students go about their studies, releasing three new apps in the process - "iBooks 2" and "iTunes U" for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, and "iBooks Author" for the Mac. While there [ Read More ]

Eastman Kodak Co., the company that had given us the first digital camera and was the pioneer of photography has today filed for bankruptcy with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan amid much sorrow and tears. The company, known for its beautiful exploits in the past, had failed to keep up with the trends and was [ Read More ]

Apple reinvents textbooks with iBooks 2

Posted by Karan Israni On January 19, 2012 1 COMMENT
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As expected, Apple's "education announcement" in today's event gave us - and certainly several students - something to cheer about with the introduction of a new category in the iBookstore called "textbooks". And this, in fact, is iBooks 2! With iBooks 2 you can display books with videos as well as other interactive content, though [ Read More ]