Like many other big brand worldwide ( Pepsi , Godrej and others) Bharati  Airtel has come up with its new logo.

New Airtel Logo

While the new logo’s cool quotient may be debated, one thing that is cool for sure is the new Airtel’s signature tune composed by the maestro A. R. Rehman. If you have seen the Airtel’s signature tune commercial “Street Dancer”  you already know what I am talking about. If you haven’t seen this commercial , you can watch it here

New Airtel Commercial | Watch for Harihar Das performance and A.R. Rehman's composition

If you want to download this new Airtel Signature tune , you can download it here.

The dancer in the commercial is “Indis’s got talent” fame Harihar Das . This guy is phenomenal, when I saw his performance for the first time, I was speechless…

Harihar Das | Performing in India's got talent

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With the release of Apple iPhone 4 on 24th June this year, other manufacturers are yet again finding themselves looking for an iPhone 4 killer. The most promising of the lot being Motorola’s Droid X. Droid X is getting rave reviews from all major technology websites (including Engadget).

Motorola Droid X vs Apple iPhone 4

We should not be comparing Motorola droid x with iPhone 4, rather this new Android phone from Motorola is worthy replacement for HTC EVO 4G. But as both Apple iPhone 4 and Motorola Droid X are super smart phones we can still compare it for buyers who are not very mobile OS specific.

Motorola Droid X has camera which opens when you slid open the phone

The very first thing we should compare is the price, so let us see what you can expect for your money.

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Reserch In Motion has announced its new tab Playbook which will be available in US market in Q1 2010. Company’s CEO Jim Balsillie has given us a clue about the expected price of Playbooks. While making the live demonstration of PlayBook at Adobe MAX, he was heard saying “Very competitively priced” and “under $500”. If this figure is to be believed, this will make other tabs prices spiral down.

New Blackberry PlayBook  is sleek and has killer looks

While announcing the Blackberry Playbook, co-CEO Mike Lazardis talked about features Playbook will be shipped with.Here are few excerpts about blackberry PlayBook at Adobe MAX.

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BlackBerry PlayBook

Dell Streak

Apple Ipad

Samsung Galaxy Tab

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Recently Google gave its users another useful feature in its Google Documents. Now you can convert your images and pdf documents into searchable text. Procedure to convert images/pdf into documents using Google docs is very easy; all you need to do is to select the option “Convert text from PDF or images files to Google Docs documents”

While uploading your documents in Google Docs ,you have an option of converting it into asearchable text.

Once Google is done with converting the format to Google Docs, you get a searchable text from your images and PDFs.When you try to open the converted document Google will give you a message like

“This document contains text automatically extracted from a PDF or image file. Formatting may have been lost and not all text may have been recognized. “ (And true to its warning, at most of the times I did lose my original formatting while testing this feature.)

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This cant possible get any better…and this is what exactly I was looking for. A way to send that 28 MB video file to my friend over internet. I didn’t want to open an account in Youtube and upload the file which would be a waste of time ,  and it would have left  my friends just watching that video online and there would be been no option to save the video and watch it offline and share it further.

iSendr.com  is just wonderful , a free file sharing service which lets you share your large files without installing any fancy application and without any requirement of registering anywhere.

iSendr has a very simple interface

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Apple 1 Advertisement (January 1977)

Marco Boglione , an Italian collector, bought the first Apple 1 device during a Christie’s auction in London.

It Is estimated that less than 30 Apple 1 computers are still present, making it a rare collector’s item. 

Marco  Boglione’s brother was present on behalf his brother , who cleared the bid with a staggering 

£133,250 ($210,000) , making this auction the highest paid ever for a personal computer. This Apple 1 was accompanied with a letter signed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak

Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak  with Apple Computer

In 1976 Stephen Gary "Woz" Wozniak and Steve Jobs created the first apple computer code named Apple I in a small garage. They never had any big plans for this first Apple, which was way ahead of its time, but just to impress the local electronic enthusiasts group Homebrew Computer Club and they had never thought that Apple will become what it is now !!!

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For those who are joining this party late , this is already a party in full swing.PS3 got hacked , patched by Sony , then hacked again. This all started sometime back  around April this year  and by our own genius -George Hotz (also known as Geohot ) ,the same person who gave us blackra1n  the jailbreak for iphones/ipod touch ….

“thats a pretty secure system … Took 5 weeks, 3 in Boston, 2 here, very simple hardware cleverly applied, and some not so simple software.”  - George Hotz

George Hotz 

Yes that’s true …once an invincible system…Playstation3 is now modchipped...and is playing all the homebrew softwares and all the games you backed up on your external hard disks (Check out my next blog on how to take game backups in Playstation3 ).

Latest Playstation 3 comes with firmware v 3.5

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