A practical cell phone that is specially designed for senior citizens

Just what the doctor ordered! A practical cell phone that is specially designed for senior citizens! Lots of what you need, and nothing you don't! . Tired of those small phones with dial buttons so small that unless you have pencil fingers you can't make a call? Not exactly user friendly for people with arthritis, rheumatism, or poor eyesight right? In contrast, the old age pensioners phone has jumbo sized keys which make calling a breeze! 

Mobile telecom profits may dip due to stringent norms: COAI

Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) Wednesday indicated that profits of mobile telecom industry may shrink further on account of strict subscriber verification norms and levy of charges on erection of cell towers by the state governments. Lack of infrastructure facilities in rural areas coupled with stringent norms of customer verification before providing services is a deterrent for mobile penetration in most parts of the country, COIA Director-General Rajan S. Mathews said.

How to Make a Virus to Test your Antivirus ?

If you are active in the anti-virus research field, then you will regularly receive requests for virus samples. Some requests are easy to deal with: they come from fellow-researchers whom you know well, and whom you trust. Using strong encryption, you can send them what they have asked for by almost any medium (including across the Internet) without any real risk. 

Facebook Apps Downloaded Over 100 Million Times From GetJar’s App Store

Seven months after reaching the 50 million download mark, Facebook’s mobile applications have been downloaded by more than 100 million people on GetJar, the vendor and carrier neutral, platform-agnostic app store, the latter company says.

Introducing HP’s DreamScreen Tablet but is it a dream?

What the DreamScreen can do is wirelessly display content from another computer in your home or from the internet.

Yes you can listen to music, watch videos and view pics but I can already do all that.

It has to stay plugged into a socket at all times as there are no batteries so I can’t exactly pick it up and carry it from room to room with me.

Google's next big idea … an online fashion revolution

Carey Mulligan and Kelly Osbourne are among celebrities ecruited  to Google's new shopping website boutiques.com. It is the behemoth virtual shopping centre to end all shopping centres – and it's open 24 hours a day. This month, just in time for the Christmas rush, internet commerce is sashaying forward with two new ventures infashion that could change the way women – and the occasional man – buy their clothes online.

Versace's Rs. 4.25 lakh mobile phone makes India debut

As global luxury brands continue to rush to tap the Indian market, Italian fashion house Versace's high-end mobile phones today entered into the country with a price tag of up to Rs. 4.25 lakh.

Versace's exclusive Indian franchisee, Delhi-based Blues Clothing Company (BCC), said the phones will be sold at eight points of sales in metros at 'Versace Boutique' and 'Versace Collection' stores.

Now, vending machine that suggests drinks based on your age, gender!

Want to get a drink that goes well with your age and gender? Well, you can do it now as Japanese scientists have developed a new vending machine that uses facial recognition to recommend drinks based on a customer's age and gender. 

Is it Raining Now in your City?

Want to know if it’s raining in any particular city of the world?

Locate all the Big Emails in your Gmail Account

What would you do if your Gmail Inbox is reaching its storage limit and you urgently need to free up some space else all your incoming email messages will be returned to the sender?

Choosing Different Passwords for Different Websites

You don’t want to use the same password with all your online accounts but it is also impossible for you to remember so many different passwords. What do you do then?

Watch Videos on your PC without any Interruption

When watching web videos or DVD movies on your computer, your video playback may be interrupted in many different ways. For instance, the screen saver can activate itself or the computer screen may enter sleep mode if you don’t touch the mouse or the keyboard for a long period (because you are busy watching the video). 

21% Users Eat while Watching Videos on YouTube

The IAB (Interactive Advertising Bureau) has released a new study that provides some very interesting insights on how are people using Facebook and YouTube and why?

Is that Windows Process Legitimate or a Virus?

Start the Windows Task Manager at any point of time and you’ll find that dozens of processes are running in your system. Some of these process names are obvious – if there’s iexplore.exe in the list, you have Internet Explorer open on your desktop – but other processes like csrss.exe or dwm.exe will often make no sense to most of us.

Using Creative Commons Images from Flickr

Flickr is an excellent place to find images that are available under a Creative Commons License. You may embed these images on your own website as long as your intended use meets the conditions specified in the license* and that you give proper attribution to the original author.

This Movie Was Shot Using a Mobile Phone

This is impressive. The Commuter, a short HD film starring Dev Patel (of Slumdog Millionaire fame) and Pamela Anderson, was shot entirely on the Nokia N8 mobile phone.

Create a Slideshow of Websites with BridgeURL

BridgeURL is an interesting new service that makes it easy for you to package multiple web pages as a slideshow. To give you an example, here’s a slideshow of my favorite search related websites.

Prevent Search Engines from Indexing your Sitemaps

XML Sitemaps are plain text files that help you inform Google about every single web page, image and video file that is available on your site. For instance, if there’s a page on your site that may be hard to discover because none of the other pages /sites are linking to it, Google can possibly reach it through the Sitemaps file.

SnagIt for Mac is here! [Giveaway]

SnagIt, the powerful screen capture program for Windows, is now also available on Mac.

Like the popular Windows version, SnagIt on Mac sports the useful all-in-one capture mode that lets you grab lengthy web pages, windows, or any custom region on the screen using the same hotkey (see some screenshots).

Now Watch Movie Trailers on YouTube

Am not sure if this is something new but YouTube has a special page atyoutube.com/trailers where you can watch movie trailers of many upcoming releases as well as movies that are already running in 

Browse the Web with your Email Address

Web2PDF is an extremely useful web based service that lets you browse the web using your email address.

Compose a new email message, type the URL of any web page in the body of that message and send it to submit@web2pdfconvert.com. The service will then fetch the corresponding web page on its own servers and will send it back it you as a PDF attachment – all this takes no more than a few seconds.

Find Websites that are Copying your Content

Copyscape is one of the more popular plagiarism detection tools that helps you identify other web sites that may have copied your content without permission.

Simply enter your web address and Copyscape will try to find other pages on the web that have either lifted your content verbatim or have modified it slightly to make it look original.

Free-up Some Disk Space on your Computer

If the hard-disk of your Windows computer is running out of space, here’s something that you may do to instantly recover a few gigabytes of free space, if not more. This tip should work on both Windows 7 and Vista machines.

Facebook Places Launched in India

Facebook Places, a Foursquare like service that lets you broadcast your current location to your other Facebook friends, may have just gone live in India.

The service has been available since day one to all employees of Facebook who are based in India but looks like they are now slowly rolling it out to external users as well.

Movie Scenes turned into Animated GIFs

Animated GIF images may remind you of those cluttered and distracting homepages of theGeocities era but take a peek at this impressive tumblr blog and it might forever change the way you think of GIFs.

The site features a brilliant collection of GIF animations created using frames of classic movie scenes that play in an endless loop. Here are some examples: