Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 Review: So Close To Greatness

Short Version Months ago, deep in the heart of Barcelona’s Fira Montjuic exhibition center, I played with Samsung’s 10.1-inch Galaxy Note tablet for the first time. Booth attendants were quick to note that the units thousands of other geeks and I were playing with weren’t quite final, but that didn’t stop me from offering up some kind words for the tablet in training. Now, nearly six months after that beautiful day in Spain,...

Read More

Samsung’s Black Galaxy S III Said To Launch In October With 64GB Of Storage

Samsung’s Galaxy S III is a pretty lust-worthy gadget to begin with, but the Korean electronics giant just won’t leave well enough alone. First they put together a model that managed to combine both an LTE radio and an Exynos quad-core chipset, a combination that unfortunately hasn’t trickled out of the country yet. Now it seems that U.K. phone retailer Clove has the skinny on yet another hardware revision. The folks atPhandroid spotted a landing page for Clove created for that handsome new black GSIII that’s been spotted...

Read More

How to Block Useless Websites from your Google Search Results

Do you see spam or useless websites in your Google search results? Here are some tips to help you permanently block such websites from showing up in your Google results. Google has been getting better at identifying and removing spam websites from their search results pages but sometimes not-so-useful sites do manage to slip through the Google filters. What can you do to prevent such sites from appearing in your Google results? Approach #1:...

Read More

A Useful Site for Train Travellers in Delhi

A little-known Indian Railways website provides the platform numbers of various trains travelling to or out of Delhi stations in real time. The Delhi division of Indian Railways maintains a one-page website that offers the current status of trains arriving or departing from the Old Delhi, New Delhi and Hazrat Nizamuddin railways stations. The charts update automatically and is an attempt to bring the live on-station charts online. What is...

Read More

Tips for Buying Domains through Google Apps

You can buy Internet domains through Google Apps but some TLDs like .org or country codes like .in are not available in the free edition of Google Apps. When you buy a web domain through Google Docs, you get personalized email addresses (like me@mydomain.com instead of me@gmail.com) plus you can setup a quick website on Google Sites without having to pay for web hosting. The domains are registered privately meaning others cannot see your contact...

Read More

YouTube Offers a Choice – Watch One Long Ad or Multiple Short Ads

YouTube offers advertisers an option to display video ads (they call them Instream Ads) in the beginning of a video (pre-roll), after the video (post-roll) or even during the video (mid-roll). The longer videos, like the full-length movies on YouTube, can have multiple instream ads embedded in one video. YouTube is also testing a slightly different style of advertising where the viewer has the option to choose the type of invideo advertising. The...

Read More

What it takes to be a Facebook India Ambassador

Convince your friends and family members to use Facebook on their mobile phones and you could be promoted as an Ambassador of Facebook India. Facebook has introduced a new Ambassador program in India to promote the usage of Facebook on mobile phones in the country. The requirements are simple and everyone can participate. You are supposed to convince your friends to install the Facebook app on their mobile phones. Once the app is...

Read More

Dictation – Speech Recognition in the Browser

You can use Google Chrome as a free voice recognition software to write longer emails and documents without even installing anything on your Windows or Mac computer. Ever noticed that microphone icon on some web pages? The newer versions of Google Chrome include an impressive speech recognition engine that even works offline but with one limitation – the feature is only available to text input fields (like the Google search box)...

Read More

Desktop Wallpaper Website Syncs with Dropbox

A new website offers beautiful wallpapers for your Windows or Mac desktop and you can also sync your favorite backgrounds with Dropbox. Bored of your desktop wallpaper? Check out Desktoppr, an online gallery of high quality backgrounds for your widescreen desktop. The site has an extensive collection of wallpapers and registered users can even upload their own images to the public gallery. Save Wallpapers Directly to Dropbox While you...

Read More

Outlook Imports Email Addresses from Facebook, Offers No Takeout

You can easily import Facebook email addresses, birthdays and phone numbers into the your Outlook address book but there’s no takeout option. The new Outlook.com web mail service from Microsoft makes it super easy for you to import contact details from Facebook and LinkedIn into your address book. It imports birthdays, addresses, phone numbers (from LinkedIn) and also the email addresses of your Facebook friends. If you haven’t had a chance...

Read More