Chigi's Personal Web BlogChigi's Personal Web BlogThis is Chirag a.k.a. Chigi's personal web blog. Its all geek for me, so you will find all the computers and technology related stuff on my blog. I only post the interesting stuff on my blog, not the usual ones that you can find on any geeks blog. So Articles
Faster, Vista, Faster!
2007-10-14 15:02:00 One of my favorite features in Windows Vista is one I don’t think Microsoft is emphasizing enough: ReadyBoost. It lets you use a flash drive to speed up Vista, and it does so noticeably. I’d love to see Microsoft selling retail copies of Vista packaged with a 1- or 2-gigabyte flash drive. Unfortunately, the company seems ... More About: Aster
Linux inspired by Vista
2007-10-13 16:30:00 I had always heard complaints about Windows Vista from people who had never actually used it before. From their responses I couldn’t even think of something Linux would ever do. I guess the Linux programmers loved Vista so much that they decided to make Linux a rip off of it called Vixta. Like all Linux distributives ... More About: Inspired
The 2500$ Car - Could it be any better than this?
2007-10-13 16:05:00 Tata Motors India had announced Rupees One Lac Car ($2500 car) a couple of years back for ‘aam aadmi‘ (term used to describe a common man in India). Now we got excited about this and Googled up for the same. Take a look at the best prototype we could have imagined for a $2500 car. More About: Technology
Get the iPhone in India now
2007-10-13 10:57:00 Although Apple said that they are going to launch the iPhone in Asia in about 2008, but i guess its so good that some people in India can’t ressist buying it or selling it. Here is a website called iPhone Nirvana where they are selling unlocked iPhones specially in India that work on the GSM ... More About: Iphone
Smart Indians at Microsoft
2007-10-13 10:51:00 Bill Gates organized an enormous session to recruit a new Chairman for Microsoft Europe. 5000 candidates assembled in a large room. One candidate is Arun Mhatre an Indian (Mumbai) guy. Bill Gates thanked all the candidates for coming and asking those who do not know JAVA program to leave.2000 people leave the room. Arun says to ... More About: Indians , Smart
How Company Policies are established
2007-10-13 10:44:00 In this experiment they put eight monkeys in a room. In the middle of the room is a ladder, leading to a bunch of bananas hanging from a hook on the ceiling. Each time a monkey tries to climb the ladder, all the monkeys are sprayed with ice water, which makes them miserable. Soon enough, ... More About: Company , General , Policies
Why never question a drunk
2007-10-12 16:25:00 A woman was shopping at her local supermarket where she selected: a half-gallon of 2% milk, a carton of eggs, a quart of orange juice, a head of romaine lettuce, a 2 lb. can of coffee and a 1 lb. package of bacon. As she was unloading her items on the conveyor belt to check out, a drunk standing behind her watched ... More About: Funny , Question , Drunk
10 Google Video Documentaries You Have To Watch
2007-10-10 12:39:00 I love Google Video because they have so many great documentaries free to watch. Here are my favorite 10. Some are sad, some are wacky, but they are all very informative and entertaining. 1. Dangerous Knowledge In this one-off documentary, David Malone looks at four brilliant mathematicians - Georg Cantor, Ludwig Boltzmann, Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing ... More About: Watch , Google Video , Documentaries
Round two for Microsoft Zune
2007-10-07 11:31:00 Microsoft has unveiled the second generation of Zune digital music players and will offer consumers 1 million unprotected songs on its online music store. Microsoft announced on Tuesday that it will offer three new models of the Zune in November, including two equipped with flash memory. The 4GB and 8GB versions are iPod ... More About: Microsoft , Round , Microsoft Zune
iPod Sets Man?s Pants on Fire
2007-10-07 11:25:00 ATLANTA — The new iPod Nano is hot. But one Douglasville man said his old Nano got even hotter — hot enough to burst into flames.”So I look down and I see flames coming up to my chest,” said Danny Williams.Williams said the burn hole from the pocket of his pants marks the spot ... More About: Apple , Ipod , Pants , Sets , Fire
The 10 Sins of Windows Vista (?)
2007-10-02 14:56:00 Found this article while stumbling thorough some articles on the web and this is what I found: The 10 Sins of Windows Vista 1. Microsoft Vista Is too expensive . With prices starting from £179.99 to £289.99 on Amazon for 289.99 you could buy a brand new Laptop from Tesco <It might be too expensive but ... More About: Windows Vista
30 Year Continuous Power Laptop Battery
2007-10-02 00:23:00 Your next laptop could have a continuous power battery that lasts for 30 years without a single recharge thanks to work being funded by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory. The breakthrough betavoltaic power cells are constructed from semiconductors and use radioisotopes as the energy source. As the radioactive material decays it emits beta particles ... More About: Hardware , Technology , Power , Laptop , Battery
Seven Wonders of the Tech World
2007-09-30 06:01:00 The nearest computer to North pole: Webcam #1 USA National oceanography and meteorology government have placed computer very near to North pole to North from Norway. It is placed on iron platform that is placed on in the Arctic Ocean drifting peace of ice and every 14 days it sends 2048 x 1536 pixels photos ... More About: Technology , World , Tech , Wonders , Seven Wonders
USB 3.0 hopefully showing up next year
2007-09-30 05:57:00 Intel and others plan to release a new version of the ubiquitous Universal Serial Bus technology in the first half of 2008, a revamp the chipmaker said will make data transfer rates more than 10 times as fast by adding fiber-optic links alongside the traditional copper wires.Intel is working fellow USB 3.0 Promoters Group members ... More About: Technology , Year
20 Things You Didn?t Know About?Leonardo da Vinci
2007-09-27 16:31:00 1 Leonardo was the love child of Caterina, a peasant, and Ser Piero, a lawyer and landlord. He was home schooled and lacked a formal education in Greek and Latin. 2 He was an accomplished lyre player. When he was first presented at the Milanese court, it was as a musician, not an artist or inventor. 3 ... More About: Personal , Leonardo da Vinci , Things , Da Vinci
13 Things Every Internet User should know
2007-09-24 16:27:00 1. Bill Gates is not giving you $1000, and Disney is not giving you a free vacation, no one is giving away cases of free M & M’s, the GAP is not giving away clothing. There is no baby food company issuing class-action checks. MTV will ... More About: Personal , Internet , User , Things
$100 Laptop to sell in public
2007-09-24 16:23:00 Computer enthusiasts in the developed world will soon be able to get their hands on the so-called ... More About: Technology , Laptop , Public , Sell
Global Web Statistics
2007-09-23 13:39:00 Check these latest web stats from W3Counter.com taken from the last 34,032,783 unique visits to 5,790 websites. If we look at the statistics of the web browser section we see how fast Firefox has been rising in the list whereas in the column of Operating Systems more than 80% of the users still stick ... More About: Internet , Global , Statistics , Web Statistics
Insane Suspension
2007-09-23 10:43:00 When most people hear the word ?Bose?, they think audio. But if what I?ve seen in this video is any clue to the future of the company, and the word, when you hear the word Bose?you?ll think BAD ASS! Check out what Bose has in store for us in the automotive suspension field. This video might not ... More About: Cars , Insane , Suspension
Space Shuttle Plume Shadow Points to Moon
2007-09-23 10:32:00 image credit: Pat McCracken This picture of an SS Atlantis launch in early 2001 is unedited. A combination of the time of day (sunset) and there being a full moon (meaning it?s directly opposite the sun on the horizon) set the stage for this cosmic synchronicity. More About: Space , Moon , Shadow , Points , Space Shuttle
Google & Hindi
2007-09-22 18:05:00 Google Transliterate For all the Indians who don’t have time to install a Hindi Language pack on their computer, here is Google’s another awesome tool out of their labs where you can write Hindi Devanagari script online with spell check inbuilt it. So check it out- CLICK HERE More About: Google , Googl
Create Online Digital Library with Google Book Search
2007-09-22 08:38:00 Google has a lot of online services which do not seem to have any practical use in the start but eventually Google rolls out some brilliant upgrades that really make the service worth a try. Google Book Search is another so-called Google service which did not meet high fame until now but recently Google has ... More About: Google , Library , Online
Windows Vista vs. Windows XP ? Definitely Vista!
2007-09-18 15:27:00 As far as Microsoft is concerned there is only one choice possible in terms of desktop clients. But Windows Vista is also the clear option over Windows XP when it comes down to the Redmond company’s preferred operating system for mobile PCs. One of the most important aspects of large scale deployments of operating systems is ... More About: Windows Vista , Windows Xp
Top Ten Numbers 14328972341243
2007-09-18 15:20:00 In the tradition of David Letterman, Sesame Street, and bloggers all over the globe, Mendeaux proudly presents: The Top Ten Number s of All Time Number 10? Ten. 10 makes the list because it is actually the first number with more than one digit. However, it doesn?t appear higher on this list because it is the basis for ... More About: S 14
AMD also enters the quad-core CPU market
2007-09-14 16:25:00 In what?s shaping up as a two-week burst of fast and furious chip news, Intel this week released its new quad-core Xeon 7300 server CPU, codenamed ?Tigerton,? adding some competitive spice to this Monday?s highly anticipated launch of ?Barcelona,? Advanced Micro Device?s first entry in the quad-core server chip market. And as if that?s not ... More About: Hardware , Market , Core , Quad-core , Quad
Skype 3.2 Beta
2007-09-09 15:07:00 Wow… I’ve gotta say. This new Skype is amazing in terms of what it’s got packed under the hood. The new CoDec that Skype has implemented, their own SVOPC CoDec is amazing. I’ve tested it with a friend and it really impresses me. Not that I’m the only one saying this either.. others are equally ... More About: Software , Beta
New iPods in the market!
2007-09-08 17:10:00 Apple on September 5th announced a whole new series of some of the best iPods ever ‘as Jobs always says’ which are already in the market all over the world. Most of it was renovating the old iPod models but they introduced a whole new name in the iPod series i.e. the iPod Touch. iPod ... More About: Apple , Market , Ipods , The Mark
Why friends are important?
2007-09-08 09:22:00 a Now you realize what friends are for? More About: Friends , General , Import
World of Warcraft
2007-09-08 09:16:00 This is just so true! Click on the image to get a larger view. To my friends and those people who play WOW. More About: Funny , World , Warcraft , World of Warcraft
First Person Shooters [FPS] - A look at the best retail quality, free FPS g
More articles from this author:2007-09-06 12:55:00 America´s Army: Special Forces V2.8.1 First-person 3D game where you enter into virtual service to the United States. Size: 2.1GB OS: Windows, Linux, MacOS America?s Army is one of the five most popular PC action games played online. It provides players with the most authentic military experience available, from exploring the development of Soldiers in individual and collective training ... More About: Games , Free , Retail , Person , First Person 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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