I got my Google Wave preview account too early I think. I have only 2 friends and we hardly come online at the same time, so I couldn’t try it out properly. If anyone of you has a Google Wave account, please add me as your friend and lets play around with the wave a bit.
Please don’t ask me for any invites as I never got any invites to send. And all those who got, half of those invites actually never reached the intended recipients. Lets wave
Word Target is available on iPhone now. The game is simple, addicting and a lot of fun to play. You are given 6 letters and you can make as many 3-6 letter words as possible using these letters. You are given 3 minutes to begin with. More words you make, more you score and you get additional time as well.
Video Review
ScreenshotsClick here to download!
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On Sesame street’s 40th birthday Google celebrates it like anything. To see Google’s enthusiasm and excitement, please visit this link and download high-resolution images featuring Google logo and Sesame street characters.
Nokia has started shipping its much awaited Nokia N900 mobile computer. Nokia N900 is unique in many different ways and the most important reasons is its Maemo 5 software. The estimated retail price of Nokia N900 will be around 500 Euro. I must say this launch is just in time for the Christmas!
Google continues to reflect the cost drop in storage prices and they have dropped their storage costs. Most of the users already enjoy huge Gmail inbox and other services like Picasa photo albums. Google has slashed their prices again and you can get 20GB of storage for only $5 per year. That’s cheap! Isn’t it? You have an option of selecting different storage sizes from 20 GB to 16 TB.
So if you are running out of Gmail space or your Picasa account is full, simply follow this link and buy more storage.
BlackBerry app world is RIM’s official application store. Since its launch, this store has been gaining more and more popularity. Initially app world was available in a very few countries including USA and UK. Later more countries have been added. Today, RIM has announced support for app world in a few more countries. The newly added countries include:
Moreover, RIM also announces that several more countries will be added to the supported countries list soon. The upcoming supported countries list is as follows:
This is also interesting to note that vendors will not be able to sell there apps in these countries. Only free apps will be listed to users in these countries. RIM is working to make payment processing available in these countries and paid applications will start showing up in the app-world users of these countries once the payment processing mechanism is in place.
I was expecting Pakistan to be one of the country in at least the up-coming countries list but unfortunately that has not been the case. Do you think the number of BlackBerry users or their purchase power is less than that of BlackBerry users in Honduras or Bolivia?
I just started Microsoft Excel and it has recovered a file that was originally created back in year 1601. Yeah, no kidding. The date is January 01, 1601. Following is the screenshot. Any comments?
Earlier today a post on Gizmodo steared me to a link that claimed to be a download site for much anticipated Google Chrome OS’s beta download site. In anticipation, I reported that in my earlier post as well. Quite interestingly, the site was not a google product site but was hosted on sites.google.com. I still gave it serious shot and tried downloading it. Second thing I felt strange about was, the download was available in both iso as well as vmx format that allows you to run the OS on a vmplayer. Last but not least, the download tool was a third party torrent tool that quickly downloaded the 560 MB OS for me.
I preferred a VM download so that I can boot it right on top of my existing OS. Then I went back to the download site to read the other information on that page, but by that time the site had already been removed by Google for the obvious violation of terms of service. Then I tried to hit Gizmodo but their link was dead too by that time. What I ended up was with a VM that is still running on my VM player and looks for sure like a modified linux OS that has a chrome browser and other google tools installed on it.
I’m not sure if the real Chrome OS will look like this but everything on this copy of OS works for real. I’m posting some of the screenshots here.
Here are the screenshots:
Good news friends and fellows. Google’s much awaited Chrome OS that is targetted for Netbooks is available in its early Beta now. Version 0.4.223 is available for download from Google’s site. You can either download a virtual machine or download an ISO that you can burn to a disk. Please note that if you download an ISO, you’ll have to install it on the PC and it will not run as a live disk (the way Ubuntu or other Linux flavors do).
I’m downloading the OS right now. Will post you more info as soon as I have the OS running.
So far it has been a smooth download. The download page launches a java based applet that works as a torrent client and connects to several sites to quickly download the OS. The size of the VM file is 560 megabyte. Happy downloading.
Chrome OS 0.4.223 download link
Updates******
After downloading, installing and running the OS, I figured out that IT IS A FAKE CHROME OS
Nokia has just posted their Q3 results for 2009. No big surprises there. Most of the figures have not changed much as compared to the last quarter or even last year but overall the trend is negative. The biggest change is a 21% drop in sales of Nokia-Siemens networks as compared to the last year. Actually Nokia has taken a goodwill impairment charge of $1.36 billion on Nokia Siemens Networks.
You can see the detailed results here http://www.nokia.com/press/press-releases/showpressrelease?newsid=1347757