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Meizu M8 Mini One Becomes Blacker and Cheaper

October 31st, 2007

Still I’m thinking if our favorite Iphone clone, the Meizu M8, will ever make it to the stores. Apparently the M8 again undergoes a face lift not for being more iPhone but for doing the opposite. No shiny, metallic edges neither the rear iPod charcoal shading, even the screen has fattened from 3.3″ to 3.4″ .

Meizu M8 Mini One Becomes Blacker and Cheaper

The M8 sporting a black plastic bezel making it look more like an iPod Touch now. Still scheduled for the December release, a slightly revised price list to start the holiday season at $265 (4GB), $320 (8GB) and $400 (16GB). Sure the prices ain’t cheap but still you don’t have to bear a 2 or 3 year contract with some lousy cellphone operator.

Pranjal

Yahoo Messenger 9 for Windows in the Spotlight

October 31st, 2007

Yesterday Yahoo launched the beta version of the Yahoo Messenger 9. Most noticeably you would see apart from the eye candy the new client houses lots of improvement then its older brother.

The coolest feature that i have encounter is that you don’t have to now leave your chat conversation window to watch videos from sites like Youtube, yahoo videos. Also inside the chat window you could preview images and maps.

Yahoo Messenger 9 for Windows in the Spotlight

Pranjal

New 40GB PS3 to feature 65nm chips , less power consumption

October 30th, 2007

Atlast Sony confirms the new 40GB Playstation 3. The new PS3 isn’t just a toned down version of the previous editions. Thou the hard disk have been cut down to 40GB, Sony decided its time for the newer 65nm version of the Cell processor and the RSX.

New 40GB PS3 to feature 65nm chips , less power consumption

The new processor would run much cooler and quieter, plus reduction of power consumption to around 135 Watts down from 200 Watts. Other changes include the new motherboard. At the same time, Sony installs the revised Heat Pipe, which now seems less massive. To save the system time integrates Sony also is a button battery on the motherboard. Finally PS3 will be cheap enough for a poor guy like me.

Pranjal

How to enable “Pin to Start Menu” for folders in XP and Vista

October 29th, 2007

You’d know that most of the shortcuts and programs when right clicked shows the “Pin to Start menu” context. However this isn’t possible for the folders. Most of the visitors of my blog are die-hard music, games etc fans and they would access these folders frequently, which usually leads to making shortcuts on the desktop, leading to more clutter on the already crowded desktop. Wouldn’t a simple option to pin the folder to the start menu come handy. Here are the steps which works both on Windows Xp and Vista.

How to enable “Pin to Start Menu” for folders in XP and Vista

“Pin to start menu” is not available for folder by default

Pranjal

Rumor: Rogers Canada getting iPhone this December

October 29th, 2007

Rumor mills suggest iPhone might come to Canada this winter. If things pan out as shown in the Roger’s ad below iPhone for Canada will come on December 7th just about correct time for the holiday season. The pre-orders if the ad is legit will start on November 20th and will cost you $499.99 CAD plus a 3-year contract.

Rumor: Rogers Canada getting iPhone this December

Sounds like sooner rather then later fellow Canadians will atlast taste the Jesus phone. You might actually get the iPhone this year instead of the expected 2008 release.

Via BGR

Pranjal

Running multiple instances of Yahoo Messenger and Google talk

October 28th, 2007

I’m a avid instant messaging fan, be it yahoo messenger or google talk. Also i have multiple ids of gmail and yahoo for either personal and professional reasons. But you can’t run all ids at once on a single computer. Either you use different browsers to run the web versions of gtalk or yahoo web messenger or signin and signout using different ids. Another solution is using meebo. But most of these tips doesn’t gives you complete control over the functionalities. Lets try some full proof solution.

Pranjal

Cool and Useful Windows XP Tricks

October 28th, 2007

Ever wonder how to improve Windows XP… there are lots of ways to improve productivity, performance and other hidden things. Here are some useful tips that will help you work a tad faster.

Enabling NumLock on by Default

This hack will let you enable NumLocks by default for each user:

1. Start Regedit
2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Keyboard\InitialKeyboardIndicators
3. Change the value from 0 to 2
4. Turn Numlock on manually
5. Log off and back on again.
6. For all users, make the same change to HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Keyboard\InitialKeyboardIndicators

Changing the Internet Explorer Title

Pranjal

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