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Apple iPad Reviews: The Critics Weigh In

Mar 12th, 2010 | By Ali Hassan | Category: Ali Hassan

Now that the mania of Apple’s iPad (such a bad name) announcement has begun to calm and people are checking bank accounts instead of RSS feeds for more information, big-name critics are pulling out their swords and taking swings at Apple’s latest creation. The overall reaction has been, in a word, underwhelming. What was hotly anticipated has [...]



Nokia Internet Radio

Mar 12th, 2010 | By Ali Hassan | Category: Ali Hassan

Released from Nokia’s Beta Labs last week, as Nokia World 2007 opened, was Nokia’s Internet Radio. On the face of it, this is a simple application, but as with most things, sometimes the simple things are the best.

Broadband users, for a long time, have taken for granted the ability to listen to radio stations from [...]



Nokia Ovi Store launch blows the doors off the mobile industry

Mar 12th, 2010 | By Ali Hassan | Category: Ali Hassan

At about 9am this morning, the virtual equivalent of the panic button was echoing throughout the Nokia Ovi Store network operations centre.

After a successful soft launch in Australia over the weekend, the press releases went out. The wires began to buzz. Twitter feeds began to chirp. Ovi store was live! Never mind that it’s a [...]



Skype app at Nokia’s Ovi store

Mar 12th, 2010 | By Ali Hassan | Category: Ali Hassan

Now users of Symbian phones can make calls, free of cost via their 3G data connections and Wi-Fi, thanks to the free Skype for Symbian application made available in Nokia’s Ovi store.

A beta version of the Skype application has been available from December for S60 3rd Edition devices, inclusive of the N95 &96 handsets. Nokia [...]



Reasons Why You Should Never Buy an Apple iPhone 3GS

Mar 11th, 2010 | By Ali Hassan | Category: Ali Hassan

This article will attempt to show you how you would be better off buying one of the other smartphones that are currently sold at the same price as the Apple iPhone 3GS or at even lower prices than the iPhone.
Inability to Multitask: It is almost impossible to believe that the “smartphone” touted as the “hottest [...]



Fring adds Skype video support on S60, threatens to make front cams useful

Mar 11th, 2010 | By Ali Hassan | Category: Ali Hassan

Considering the proliferation of 3G, WiFi, in-home broadband, and front-facing cameras on phones, you’d think that there’d be far more obvious ways to bridge video calls between phones and PCs — but alas, it’s virtually impossible, particularly in the States where carriers have a complete aversion to the topic. Enter Fring — one of the mobile [...]



Stay on top of your email

Mar 11th, 2010 | By Ali Hassan | Category: Ali Hassan

By this time you must be knowing about Xobni, if you are a user of Beta version of Microsoft Outlook 2010. Well, for those find the term unfamiliar, I want to give a brief description of Xobni. Xobni is a plugin for Outlook 2010.
The Outlook plugin makes searching your inbox and finding information about your contacts fast [...]



Music & talk meets the streets

Mar 11th, 2010 | By Ali Hassan | Category: Ali Hassan

I don’t know about you but many times I use my phone as my MP3 player if I want to travel light, our phones today have become much more than just phones, they’re complete multi-media devices as well.

The Jabra BT 3030 is a bluetooth  headset yes, but it’s also a stereo headset so you can [...]



MailBigFile.com: The best way to send large file attachments

Mar 11th, 2010 | By Ali Hassan | Category: Ali Hassan

What can you use the application for?
Mailbigfile is a utility for sending very large files that would be otherwise too cumbersome to be sent as an e-mail attachment.

What is the history and popularity of the application?
Large files sent through e-mail take a long time to process and can be an unwelcome surprise in [...]



Enhanced computer navigation with Launchy

Mar 11th, 2010 | By Ali Hassan | Category: Ali Hassan

Launchy is an open source Windows and Linux program that helps you to launch the program you need without browsing through your Start Menu or looking for a shortcut on your desktop.

I was a little bit reluctant at first. I thought that I didn’t need a program to launch other programs. After trying Launchy I [...]



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