What is WebMailCompose? It’s a Firefox extension and it can be found here. What does it do? Tell me how may times you have faced the following situation: You are reading an interesting article and now you want to share it with your friends, so you need to open another browser window (or tab) or go…
I got a new thing to play with yesterday. I bought a new cell phone. Audiovox SMT 5600. It has all the bells and whistles that you get on a regular cell phone. But this phone is more than that. It’s a smart phone. That means I can use it as a PDA. And it comes…
Gmail is really wonderful. The interface is excellent! Gmail has completely changed the way webmail works. It relies heavily on javascript and loads extremely fast. The concept of labels takes a while to understand but once you get used to it, it really simplifies the whole webmail experience. However I don’t like everything about Gmail. The…
I bought a new GPS Receiver (NAVMAN 4410) to use with my iPAQ 2215 PDA. This is an exciting device. It’s very small and can easiliy fit on the palm of my hand. It came with various mounting options and navigation software SmartST. No wires required: Both iPAQ and GPS receiver are equipped with a Bluetooth wireless…
Yesterday I received my bluetooth wireless headset. This is a cool device. It weighs only 25 grams and fits nicely over the ear. Setup was very simple. I was able to ‘pair’ this device with my Bluetooth enabled cell phone (Nokia 6820) in less than 2 minutes.This headset is from Logitech (Logitech Mobile Freedom Headset).…
We’re in Arlington, VA today. This place is about 7 miles from downtown Washington, DC. Yesterday we saw Washington, DC. It was July 4th celebration time. So many places were closed. But we were able to see all the usual places. Took a photo in front of the White House. Saw Washington Monument and the…
July 1st, 2005, 10:00pm PST. We reached Portland airport to find out that there was a thunderstorm in New York area and because of the cascading effect of delayed flights our flight is going to be 2 hours late! So in effect we have reached here 4 hours early now! and have nothing else to do! Oh…
Transition to Gentoo has been very smooth without any major issues. I like Gentoo. It is designed with developers and system admins in mind. The community is very much like Debian. If you patiently ask sensible questions on their IRC channel (freenode.net #gentoo) or post questions to their mailing list people answer them. After compiling…
I have been using VOIP phone in my house for more than 2 months now. There have been no issues yet. I’m using the service from Lingo. This is very nice. I get all the great features of normal phone including Caller-ID, Call-Waiting, Simultaneous Ring, Call forwarding, Voice Mail and many more which can only be…
I don’t know somehow even though I’m a gadget guy I have never even had as much as curiosity to look at the iPod… let alone put it on my wish list…. Right now there two items at the top of my wishlist: Canon EOS 1Ds Mark II This is an awsome piece of equipment.A 16MP…