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Moon mistaken for a UFO

Police in Wales were called to investigate a mysterious flying saucer, only to discover it was the moon.

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Latest Mobile Phone Rates In India (03-05-2008)

All prices are with bill and warranty (unless mentioned otherwise) as of date mentioned below. This thread is updated periodically to reflect the latest up-to-date pricings.

All prices are in Rupees, 1k = Rs. 1,000

Prices Updated on 03/05/2008

Apple

iPhone 8GB-22k (w/o bill)
iPhone 16GB-26k (w/o bill)

Nokia

1200-1.3k
1208-1.6k
3110c-4.6k
3500c-5.4k
5310 XM-8.8k
5610 XM-11.8k
5700-11.2k
6120 Classic-9.7k (w/o bill)
6233-7k
6300-8.7k
6500 Classic-11k
6500 Slide-13k
7500 PRISM-9.2k
7900 PRISM-17k
8800 Sapphire Arte-60k
E50-8.4k
E51-11.2k
E61i-15k
E62-9.2k
E65-Rs.14k
E90-34k
N70-9.3k
N70 ME-10k
N72-7.3k
N73 ME-13k
N73-11.2k
N76-14k
N77-15.3k
N81 8GB-16k
N81-14.1k
N82-19.3k
N91 8gb-11.9k
N95 (8 GB)-Rs.28k
N95-20k

Sony Ericsson

K550i-6.8k
K660i-9.8k
K750i-7.2k (with BT headset)
K770i-12k
K790i-10.6k
K810i-11k
K850i-18.5k
P1i-18k
S500i-9.7k
T650i-16.6k
W580i-9k
W610i-8.7k
W700i-8.1k
W710i-8.8k
W810i-8.6k
W880i-13k
W890i-13.8k
W910-14k
W950i-11k (w/o bill)
W960i-25k

Motorola

MING A1200-9.8k
RAZR2 (2gb)-14.6k
RAZR2 (2gb+S9)-16.4k
RAZR2 (S9)-14.8k
RAZR2-12.4k
RAZR MAXX-14k
ROKR E6-9.8k (1gb)
Rokr E6-12k (2GB+S9)

Samsung

D900i-10.9k
E840-8.2k
F300-13.3k
G600-15.8k
G800-18.2k
U600-11.6k
i450-12.8k

LG

KF600- 14.3k
Viewty-19k

Bluetooth Headsets

SE HBH-DS200-3k
SE HBH-DS970-3.2k
Motorola S9-3.7k

Earphone:
Creative EP-630-Rs.850

Source: thinkdigit.com

REVIEW Of Laptop With nVidia 8800M GTX

Finally, a mobile graphics card that can actually play decent games! TrustedReviews has reviewed a Clevo made Rock notebook, which is powered by an 8800M GTX - the new mobile graphics card from nVidia which is based on the 8800 GT. They've tested it on Crysis and a number of other games and results are pretty good, shame about the price though!

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Google OpenSocial Now Live!

We’ve been waiting all day for Google’s OpenSocial site to start working, and it has finally happened.The site contains the official OpenSocial API documents, developers blog, featured community gadgets, and featured videos.

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The Next Version of Gmail Will Be even Faster

At the Analyst Day event from October 24, Google didn't announce a lot of things, but it revealed what we can expect from a new version of Gmail that will launch soon:

* prefetching messages. When you load a page that contains a list of messages, Gmail will fetch them in advance so that when you need them, they'll be available instantly. Google said that Gmail will have a completely new JavaScript architecture that will bring a much better performance.

* a new contact manager that will be shared with other Google apps (Google Docs, Google Calendar etc.)

* integrating features from other Google products (an example of an existing feature was the "Open as a Google Document" links placed next to Microsoft Office attachments).

Source: Google Operating System

Google India Launches Text Messaging Service in India

Google India, launched the beta version of its short messaging service (SMS) for mobile users in India for accessing information on the move without an Internet-enabled phone or a computer.

The company said in a statement that through the service (GoogleT search), users could get business listings, movie show timings and more by sending a text message to 54664 from their mobile phones.

Read More: Tech2.com

Six Ways to Catch Your Favorite TV Shows

With the fall television schedule in full swing, many of us are back in the habit of plopping down in front of the tube at night to catch the latest installment of our favorite show when it's scheduled to air. That means clearing your schedule to watch the show and then sitting in front of the TV for a whole hour just for 43 minutes' worth of programming. That doesn't seem very productive, does it? Luckily, this viewing season there are more ways than ever to catch the latest episodes of your best-loved shows without becoming a slave to the prime-time television schedule. So forget the fall lineup as you know it, because this year you're going to watch TV on your terms....

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My Desktop 9

Reporter smacks man with shovel to demonstrate shock absorbing material!

Repeatedly smacks man in the head and kneecaps with a shovel!

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22 Ways to Make Your Car More Fuel Efficient

It is the nightmare that faces almost every person every week. Filling up your personal car with gas prices on the rise. The cost of running your car has become not only a key economic indicator, but a real-world drain on your resources. Who hasn’t stood at the bowser and watched a good proportion of the weekly pocket money disappear into the tank?

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25 Signs You Have Grown Up

My two favorites...

#1 Your houseplants are alive, and you can’t smoke any of them and

#5 You hear your favorite song in an elevator.

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My Desktop 8

Operating System: Windows Xp Sp2

Desktop Details:

Icons: Tango Patcher 2600 7.08.1

Visual Style: Human for Windows

Applications: Opera with Dapper Retouched Skin, Winamp with Fuuh - Ubuntu Skin

WINDOWS TIP # 22: Speed up Firefox without reinstalling!

If Firefox has a flaw to get bummed about, it's that it slows down your machine after a few hours of steady computing. Digital Inspiration has a workaround for this that does not include any sort of restart reinstalling:

Start Firefox and export your bookmarks as a file on your hard-drive (we'll need them later).

Type firefox.exe - P in the Run box of Windows.

Click the Create Profile button without making any modifications to your existing profile (which is normally called "default")

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The Greatest Prank Call Ever

WINDOWS TIP # 21: Open Last Closed Tab in browser

In Firefox, you can easily retrieve it by pressing Ctrl+Shift+T

In Opera, recover last Closed Tab by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Z

In Internet Explorer, there's no inbuilt feature to restore closed tabs but there's a free add-in called IE7 Open Last Closed Tab that makes your IE 7 behave just like Firefox or Opera. After installing the add-on, just press Alt+X to recover closed tabs.

Source: Digital Inspiration

Also read: Block ads in IE7 | IE7 Move the menu bar above the address bar | Speed up Internet Explorer

Demonoid Shut Down by the CRIA?

Demonoid.com, one of the most popular BitTorrent trackers has allegedly been taken offline by the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA). Both the tracker and the website have been unresponsive for nearly 24 hours.

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Update: Correct Demonoid Information

Update (29/09/07): Demonoid tracker back online?

Update (1/10/07): Demonoid Returns, Forced to Block Canadian Traffic By the CRIA (via neowin.net)

Critical Excel 2007 bug cripples users

What is 850 x 77.1 ? a calculator will tell you it's 65535, but a critical flaw in Microsoft's Excel 2007 causes it return 100000 as the answer to this, and any other calculation for which the result is 65535.

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"Conversation" application launched at Nokia Beta Labs

Beloved beta users,

Let me introduce the latest gem of Nokia Beta Labs: Conversation, a neat little messaging app that allows you to follow your conversations, organized by individual contacts. In short, the app provides the long-awaited threaded SMS functionality for S60

Read more: Tommi's Nokia Beta Labs blog

WINDOWS TIP # 20: Create Custom Flash Drive Icons

You can easily make your USB flash drive show up in Windows with a custom icon. Here is how to do it.

To make your USB flash drive show up in Windows with a custom icon follow these steps:

First find an .ico file you want to use.

Next, name your your .ico file autorun.ico and put it in the root of your drive.

Then create a text file with notepad called autorun.inf in the root of the drive and put this inside it:

[autorun]
icon=autorun.ico

(You can actually name the icon anything you want as long as you put the correct filename in the autorun.inf file).

Now, whenever you plug it into a Windows machine, it will show your custom icon!

Source: tech-recipes

WinFlip: Flip3d for Windows XP!

Finally, a nice, small efficient bit of software to enable the infamous Flip3d effect in earlier versions of windows. It's from Japan, so uses the LZH archive format. 7-Zip will open it and extract it if you have problems.

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Tourism in India

Earlier this year, I had to make a presentation on Tourism in India. So I thought I would post it on my blog.

There are a total of 12 slides. . .I have used as little text as possible

McLaren hit with Formula 1 constuctors' ban

McLaren have been stripped of their points in the 2007 Formula One constructors championship after the outcome of the 'spygate' row.

The team was also hit with a record $100m fine but drivers Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso will be allowed to keep their points.

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My Desktop 7

Current desktop screenshot - windows xp of course!!

Vista Transformation Pack 7.0

Applications:

TrueTransparency (changes the windows border adding png support and so true transparency)

Winamp skin : Inter-Pol.info AMP

Windows Live Photo Gallery Beta

WinFlip - Vista like Flip Effect

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