I love my macbook although its a bit slow and has a small screen ..

its so cool coz its light on my back when i carry it around .. not 4+ kilos like my old HP Pavillion

Battery lasts for 4-5 hrs .. Brightness of the screen has a direct impact on battery life .

I have converted it into a desktop by connecting a apple wired keyboard and logitech wireless mouse ..

the best par is the 24 inch dell monitor ..

For all of you who want a mac desktop which can be carried around easily , this is a good solution ..

macmini is cool and cheaper but its useless without a display.

There is often a misconception that Mac is just about usability and Graphics but the command line in mac is very similar to linux ..

I just love it

you can work on any linux web server over SSH ..

Putty sux big time compared to the mac commandline

I am really excited that Forum Nokia is sponsoring the Mobile Monday (MoMo) event in Chennai.

The event is going to be held at Gandhi Nagar Club on Saturday Feb 16, 2-5 pm

So all you mobile folks in Chennai better don’t miss the action.

checkout the momochennai site .. if you are too lazy .. heres the direct link to the register page.

I want to buy a laptop and Dell XPS M1330 seems to be a model which has almost everything IM looking for.

Core2 Duo 1.66 Ghz
160 GB Hard Disk
2GB 667 MHz RAM
8X DVD Writer
13 inch screen

3-4 hours of battery life - upto 6hours on a 9 cell battery

Price is about 55k rupees .. purchasing it on EMI might help..

Worth Buying ..

And the weight of this lappy is about 2kilos or less .. so should be really easy to carry around

The drop in hardware prices is something really strange. Today I picked up a 2gb pendrive for 600 rupees which is almost 30 paise per MB..

No wonder no one uses CDs these days

I recollect that the last time i bought a pen drive was in end of 2006 and the price i paid for a 1GB drive was about 1100 rupees.

Now i got double the space for half the price.. The funniest part is whether the folks selling such stuff are making any profit ??

Android is the latest mobile development platform from Google

I have been trying to get my hands on the SDK since the launch

I managed to do a simple hello world inside the SDK

There lot to learn and explore .But whos got the time ??

The Android Platform looks impressive. For a person who is a novice in the Java side of things – Android was really fast to setup and use.

Links

Download Android SDK

You also need the Eclipse IDE

Bala tried this as soon as the SDK was released

Lets take a look at the Indian mobile internet scene

GPRS charges are high but still cheap compared to other markets

Admob who just completed serving 10 billion ads has released a report which shows really big numbers from India.

Also Russell Beattie told me that Mowser get major traffic from India.

I feel i made a mistake by choosing the Nokia E61i. The so called Enterprise phone does not give 1 damn warning when deleting all contacts when uninstalling the Blackberry connect software. The cost - lost all my contacts and calendar entries on the phone.

Luckily I have an old backup of my 6630 to give me some peace.

The phone does not come pre-installed with blackberry connect. You have to manually initiate the setup. I did it and paid the price for it.

But not 1 warning anywhere. I m afraid Nokia loosing its trustworthiness !

Its almost been 2 years with my Nokia 6630, So I decided to go for a upgrade this time.

Nokia E61i is a phone which meets most of my requirements which are as follows

plenty of connectivity options - Wi-fi,Bluetooth,IR, GPRS , EDGE , 3G ( which is not coming to India anytime soon )

Sad points

But on the whole , I am happy to have got this phone . Much better than the 6630 on many lines.After all its only a day old.

Head over to FoneArena for the specs : Nokia E61i

NDTV wanted to do a feature on Mobile Blogging.So they contacted me through Kiruba.

The reporter and the crew came to my place on Wednesday evening after I was back from work.

I spoke about Mobile Blogging , MoMo Chennai and other related stuff.

Really excited about it

The story is up on Ndtv’s website

Hope the video will be up soon as well.

UPDATE : The Title for the program is World of Mobile Blogging

But as of 11:40 A.M IST the title I see in the bottom scroller is Blog with your Phone

The next telecast is at 12:45 PM IST

UPDATE :

Video

I wanted to get a phone without a Camera and also with Wi-fi

Only two comes came to my mind - Nokia N80 and Nokia E60 

I love the E60 form factor. But the sad part is that the phone is not available atleast in Chennai.

But Nokia E65 and E61i look interesting.

E65 is a fat slider with a Cam. E61i has a Cam but is slimmer.