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In order to convince you to buy a new digital camera, manufacturers are toeing the more-megapixels-are-better myth. But buyers of compact point & shoot cameras are slowly beginning to realise that buying a camera with higher megapixels does not necessarily improve the image quality. What they still don’t know is that more megapixels may actually spoil the image quality of your pictures!
Posted under Gadgets
Posted by Nikhil Pai on May 25, 2009
When Lifehacker reported that Google has finally removed the annoying “on behalf of” behaviour from Gmail, it did sound too good to be true. But since Google had already informed that a solution was on the way to rectify this annoying problem, we thought that finally Gmail could be truly used as a consolidated inbox. Alas, a couple of day later, Google Guide Sarah brought all Gmail users back to earth by clarifying that the recent removal of sent “on behalf of” was only a bug which will soon return to haunt all Gmail users and that the “solution” is still some time away.
Posted under Email
Posted by Nikhil Pai on April 4, 2009
If you are one of those who keep forgetting birthdays, then you need to take a little tech help from your social network and your smartphone. Social networks such as Facebook and Orkut are great in reminding you about your contacts’ birthdays. But you may not login to your Facebook or Orkut account daily. So a better approach would be to import your contacts’ birthdays into your mobile phone’s calendar.
Posted under Social Networking
Posted by Nikhil Pai on March 11, 2009
ComScore may have announced Yahoo Mail as the current leader in free email services but it also reveals that Gmail is growing at a much faster pace than either Yahoo Mail or Windows Live Hotmail. Not surprising considering the fact that Yahoo has struggled to keep pace with Gmail’s innovations.
Posted under Email
Posted by Nikhil Pai on February 14, 2009
Ever since Google announced that you can start accessing your Gmail offline using Google Gears, some section of the web community has been going gaga over it. I fail to understand what’s the big deal about the new Offline Gmail. It has been there for years…. in a slightly different form though.
Posted under Email
Posted by Nikhil Pai on February 8, 2009
A few years ago, Microsoft decided to come up with its Passport project to provide a proprietary single sign-on for the internet. The idea was to free users from the burden of creating a new username & password for each site they use. While Microsoft Passport failed, the idea caught on and lead to emergence of single sign-on technologies such as OpenID and Facebook Connect.
Posted under Internet, Social Networking
Posted by Nikhil Pai on February 7, 2009
If you are a site owner wanting to be able to update and manage your own websites, a dynamic Content Management System (CMS) is what you should be looking for. CMS is a platform for building websites that allows you to take more control over your own website and without having anything to do with HTML coding. And you can do all this very cheap by eliminating your web developer completely or by reducing your dependence on him.
Posted under Web Development
Posted by Nikhil Pai on January 30, 2009
If you are looking for a free online storage service to store and backup your files online, be extremely careful when choosing one because you never know how long will the service survive. We suggest you choose only Microsoft’s Windows Live SkyDrive as your free storage service.
Posted under Internet
Posted by Nikhil Pai on December 21, 2008
