Steve Jobs at WWDC 2008 announced the new iPhone 3G, combined with all the revolutionary features of iPhone with 3G networking, built-in GPS, and iPhone 2.0 software that supports Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync and runs hundreds of third party applications built with the iPhone SDK.
iPhone 3G comes in two models:

• 8GB costing $199
• 16GB costing $299

So whats new with the iPhone 3G, well iPhone 3G the next version from Apple have worked out on improving a bunch of stuff, its more thinner, solid metal buttons, gorgeious display, camera, flush headphone jacks and improved audio. The Battery life has been improved to 300 hours of standby with a 2G talk-time of 10 hours (prviously it was 5hr). (more…)

Ever wondered how to fix your corrupt zip files? Well it usually happens when you transfer zipped files, download them or sometime leave them for a long time to return to see that “Ops they have gone corrupt”.What really happens is that some portion of the files do go corrupt while some portion is recoverable though you cannot recover or open it as when you try, it simply displays a message the file has gone corrupt.

So today we have zip repair, a free ware software that will repair you corrupted zipped files. The edge is if it cannot repair it, it will extract what it can. Usually what happens is zip tools check archives for integrity & If the CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check) values of the original files of an archive don’t match the extracted ones, the standard tools won’t extract them. So at that point Zip Repair gets handy it tries to repair corrupt zip file. All you have to do is provide it the location and the zip Repair will show a list of files from you zip archive that can be repaired and extracted.

Its a real life saver in terms of data when you don’t want to loose all of it and still can get some of it. The software is a free ware so you can easily download from here and for further information you can take a look at there website.

Download Zip Repair

As the globe is turning into a single marketplace regional clocks and keeping an eye on the time in different locations has become an important habit. What if you are working on a project where your designer is in Paris your programmers are in Germany & your Marketing team is in India with completely opposite timezones and remembering he no of hours of difference is quite difficult. So to solve this problem there are two way a Google way or the Firefox way.

Google has been a great help in that regard and i have been using it for a while, with google you can check the current time of any location around the globe by just typing location of the city or country in the Google search bar e.g. ( time : Paris ) and the result page will come up with the exact time of that location.

Another option for global time check could be with the help of Firefox Plugin, though if you want to keep a very strict eye on the clocks around different regions you can simply install FoxClocks , which lets you keep an eye on clocks around the world by putting up small clocks in your statusbar. You can set you own time formats, color code different clocks move them to toolbar or switch icons for it. FoxClock also comes packed with Zone Picker tree to browse virtually the world’s time zone by country / region or city.

Check out more on FoxClocks or download it

ooVoo 500 minutes free
Ever wondered where and how to make free calls to USA on land line, well as we previously covered ooVoo who gave away 150 minutes of free calls to USA / Canada is now offering 500 minutes of free calling. You don’t need a credit card nor you need to pay anything, just download there IM ooVoo install, sign up and start making the calls. We have been testing there ooVoo calling facility and no doubt its service is pretty good, the voice quality is superb.

ooVoo is the next evolution in online communication — a remarkably easy way to have a face-to-face video chat with friends, family or colleagues, no matter where they are in the world.

http://www.oovoo.com/

Apple Launched MacBook Pro Review
The macBook Pro model features the latest Intel Core 2 duo processor running upto 2.6Ghx with a 6MB of L2 cache.  The latest processor launched by intel on that performance is  t9500, t9300 , t8300 .

With addition to the processor Apple also updated the graphic processors to the latest NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT with 512MB of video memory. Apart from the specs update apple has also introduced the multi touch gesture previously released in MacBook Air. You can pinch, swipe, or rotate by simply moving your fingers.

How much it costs ?

• 15″  - 2.4Ghz = $1 999.0
• 15″ - 2.5Ghz = $2499.00
• 17″ - 2.5Ghz = $2799.00

Should you buy a MacBook Pro  or MacBook Air
MacBook Air is the worlds thinnest Notebook, we agree, its light and is very sleek one of the innovation that attracted allot was it had a multi touch gesture and was total wireless i.e. no ROM etc.  The MacBook Air the worlds thinnest PC is a 1.6Ghz or 1.8Ghz processor with a 13″ screen and costs around $1799.00 to $3098.00 means its slow, its just wireless and its way to expensive and buying it for the sake of its sleekness is ……………………..

On the other hand the multi touch features one of the only usefull feature in MacBook Air is not available in the new MacBook Pro. The pro is packed with really fast processor, supper fast and supper powerful then the MacBook Air and costs $1 999.0 for a 13″ display as compared to  MacBook Air starting at $1799.00 so for an added $100 you can get a MacBook Pro definitely not the worlds thinnest Notebook but the worlds fastest Notebook.

Apple just doubled the space in its iPhone and iPod.

iPhone is a revolutionary new mobile phone that allows you to make a call by simply tapping a name or number in your address book, a favorites list, or a call log. It also automatically syncs all your contacts from a Windows PC, Mac, or Internet service. And it lets you select and listen to voicemail messages in whatever order you want — just like email. iPhone is available in an 8GB model for $399 and a new 16GB model for $499

Source: Apple

Apple’s iPhone is ranked #3 in smart phone market world wide and have a worldwide share of6.5% which is huge in terms as iPhone is only available in USA & UK only. Apple’s products have really picked up pace and in the first quarter of 2008 apple made a net profit of $1.58 billion .

iPod Video would be more fun if you could connect it with the TV, so far to connect it directly to the TV there are two great way one is the cheap way out and the other is a kool gadget by Tekkeon.

1- NavDock ND 2000
NavDock™ Home Media Center with On-TV Navigation for iPod lets you navigate your iPod through an on-TV menu to play videos, photos and music on a connected television. NavDock browses directly through your iPod menus, so finding and playing music and videos is easy. And you can use the 16-button remote to adjust or mute volume, shuffle, repeat or skip songs, and fast forward or rewind through music or videos. The remote offers a five-way navigation pad and quick keys that jump directly to the videos, photos, music or settings menus.

With NavDock, you have complete control. You can change the language, the menu color scheme to fit your mood, or the navigation speed to fit your taste. You can even access the equalizer or display the lyrics or album art that appears next to your songs in the Now Playing screen in motion as your personalized screensaver.

Source: NavDock ND 2000

Connect iPod  With TV using a  simple cable.
You can also simply connect your iPod using an A/V Cable. Most probably if you have a camcorder you already have that cable if not then you can buy it from ebay for $1.99.
Connect the cables set your iPod for TV output and you are ready to use your iPod with the TV.

Garmin the GPS maker surprised the cellphone industry by stepping into smart phone market. They annouced to directly compete with iPhone with there version of iPhone called Nuvifone . Completely controlled by a 3.5-inch touchscreen interface, the device centers around GPS unit with a navigation, a Google apps allowed to search local business check traffic and view nearby weather.

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Ever wondered how annoying it is when you are in the middle of a meting and someone’s cell phone just rang, for 100 times you have asked the people to switch off there cell phone in the meting which means switching off not putting in a silent mode but still there is beep.

So here comes a kool product to take control of other peoples cell phone’s, the device known as “Portable Cellphone Jammer” costs around $166.00. It blocks GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 MHz frequency cell phone signals with a distance of 5-10 meters. Switch on the jammer and there goes the cellphone signal.

Probably this device should be made a standard at :

• Examination Halls
• Hospitals
• Board Rooms
• Hallways of Hotels

Although it should be kept very expensive and some how unauthorized sale should be controlled else it can be use other way around by the terrorists as well.

Buy your cell phone jammer from this link

With the iPhone initially and then iPod touch, the touch screen systems are becoming more and more common. The apple’s new innovation Mac Air’s mouse pad is its self a multi touch screen. But how does this all stuff work. Touch screen is not a new phenomina introduced by Apple rather, Apple computers just specialized and refined the technology to greater level and placed it direcly in the consumers hands, though as far as i remeber Microsoft was yet another company who had build the touch screen with there product Surface but the mistake they made they never made it for regular consumers. “Greed Kills” rather build it for corporations and once after launch we never heard about it as far as i see the Product build by Microsoft was more complex then iPhone but still it wasn’t for average joe.

Ever wondered how the the touch screen works, its quite interesting how the simple and unique the technology is.

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