Interesting Things

Tata Photon WiFi : Great for your iPad and iPod Touch

The TATA Photon Wi-Fi Router is here. With this, you can now create a portable hotspot anytime, anywhere. It is a device that enables you to share Wi-Fi with up to 5 users/devices simultaneously to access internet.

Speeds Up to 3.1 Mbps (Downlink) and 1.8 Mbps (Uplink) distributed across connected users, its independent of OS. Comes with a portable and rechargeable Li-ion Battery. As of now its available in Hyderabad, Delhi, Bangalore and Mumbai.

The user guide is here

Use your GPS enabled Nokia as external GPS receiver with your Mac

Symarctic ExtGPS allows you to use your phone’s built-in GPS module externally on laptop via Bluetooth. It is mainly targeted for Nokia N95, E90, 6110 Navigator handsets, allowing you to use existing, more sophisticated GIS applications.

Here’s a How-To connecting to Mac OS X Leopard and Tiger

Fruux | just sync, no frills

fruux is a lightweight and convenient system preference pane, that syncs your Address Book, Calendars, Tasks and Bookmarks between different Macs. fruux supports sync conflict resolution which will help you when you changed a record on more than one machine. fruux is currently localized in english, german and french. fruux is still in beta, please backup your data!

System Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5.5 or later

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Remember the Milk on your BlackBerry

Remember the Milk is available on your BlackBerry. 

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Installing MilkSync for BlackBerry

There is a 15 day free trial, which begins the first time you synchronize with MilkSync.Using the browser on your BlackBerry, access the URL below and follow the prompts to download and install MilkSync for BlackBerry.

www.rmilk.com/milksync

Version: 1.0.6 Released: 14 May 2008 You can also download the .zip file



Olympic Apps for your phones

Of course, the first requirement is a working data connection

For your Blackberry:
CNN: To download the icon, visit http://cnnmobile.com/beijing08
NBC: To download the icon, visit http://m.nbcolympics.com
Viigo: Download Viigo from here http://www.getviigo.com/bb 
CBC
: visit http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/blackberry/ for more infoWorldMate Live (gives you currency, weather etc info): http://www.wmlive.com/register3.php?affid=2002all logos  
for the iPhone there’s Lenovo’s free iPhone app. Search for it on the iPhone App store.  
(warning: reviewers write it ONLY covers the american players)

How to take iPhone Screen Grabs

Turns out you can take iPhone screen-grabs by holding Home and tapping the power button. Photos are (logically) sent to the Photos app.!
Get the latest software update if this doesnt work. Haven’t tested it ourselves… 

Google iPhone App

From the official Google Blog

Our first downloadable iPhone application is here. It’s free, and it makes searching faster and easier. It’s never as easy to type on a mobile phone as on a full keyboard and the mobile network is rarely as fast as a desktop connection. So Google Mobile App starts working as soon as you type. Smart features mean you’ll get what you’re looking for in fewer key presses than before. For instance, we’ve added the power of suggest (type “lost in” and one touch completes “lost in translation”) and My Location (type “coffee” and one touch shows cafes right where you are on a map) to help you search.We’ve also brought Google search to your iPhone’s address book to make it easy to contact the people you call or text most often. To learn more and see a video showing the App in action, check out this post on the Google Mobile Blog.U.S. users can get Google Mobile App right now. Tap the App Store icon on your iPhone, or open iTunes, and search for ‘Google Mobile App’. (You need to have the latest iPhone software update to see it.) 

Take Your Office Documents on Your iPhone!

How does it work?
1. Send an email to iPhone@pdfonline.com with document(s) attached.
2. PDF Online receives your email and immediately convert the attachment(s) to PDF.
3. Once the PDF is ready, PDF Online replies your email with the PDF attached. If you send multiple attachments, PDF Online will send back multiple emails.
4. Retrieve your email from your iPhone, laptop, or any other handheld devices.

Easy Listening

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EasyListening : Designed for really simple song transfers between iTunes on Macintosh and a Sony Ericsson mobile phone. Connect your phone with an USB cable. Select a playlist or a couple of songs in iTunes and drag it to EasyListening. Select if you want to copy or synchronize it to the phone. The songs are transferred and you’re done. No more hassle with strange invisible files, terminal hacks or scripts.

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