Archive for June, 2008

A short guide to backing-up and playing your DVD movie collection on the Mac

Monday, June 30th, 2008

For the sake of simplicity, I’ll make two assumptions here.
1.) You have a movie DVD which is region free or whose region matches with the region of your drive. Most Macs come with Matsushita DVD drives that use RPC-2 protection. RPC-2 physically restricts access to key areas of the disc if there is a mismatch [...]

Airtel CEO: No subsidy on iPhone in India

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

According to this report in yesterday’s Economic Times, Bharti Airtel CEO confirmed to the ET that there is “no question of subsidising the handset in India”.
Full quote below:
Vodafone and Airtel are unwilling to talk about the price they will offer the iPhone at, but Bharti Airtel CEO Manoj Kohli told TOI there is no question [...]

Anyone needs Toluu invites?

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

If anyone needs Toluu invites, please leave your name and email in the comments section.
We have a few invites we can give away.

What is Toluu?
Toluu is a utility that makes it easy to discover the feeds your friends read and find your new favorite feed. You import your feeds and then your friends can [...]

Great deal on iPod Nano

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

Most authorized iPod Resellers in Bangalore (and let us know in the comments if this is true in other cities as well) are offering a Levi Strauss Signature voucher worth Rs. 1500 with the purchase of iPod Nano (Gen 2 aka “Fatty”). My only grudge (rather my Wife’s) is that they tend not to have [...]

Get SMS delivery notification on your iPhone

Friday, June 27th, 2008

For all iPhone users who miss SMS delivery notification, here is a simple trick to make it work on your iPhone.
Just enter these special characters before your message and you will get notification as soon as it gets delivered.
Vodafone/Hutch: *N#
Airtel: !
BSNL CellOne Networks: *N#
So for example, if you are on Vodafone, your message should look [...]