Twitter Updates for 2010-01-22

• Still not comfortable with #Twitter 's Retweet. That's coz I myself tend to skip retweets which show's other's avatar on the client #
• Internet Explorer #IE patch against flaw which led to the Google attack. For all Windows flavors http://short.to/14ayp #Aurora #
• Lol RT @Shailee_2212 What is Rajnikanth's Gmail ID ……. Gmail@Rajnikanth.com (for @shekharg) #
• @vinodunny I feel honoured #
• RT @hoccer RT @fmblog: #android app #hoccer can now throw #mp3! check out hoccer.com #

Twitter Updates for 2009-12-28

• @EugeniaLoli guess u have tried Twidgit Lite, available via #Android market? #
• @EugeniaLoli Ref: simple Twitter widget. Guess u have tried Twidgit Lite, available via #Android market? #
• @singhinder ref ur Nexus One blog post: it has a 1 GHz processor not 1 MHz! #
• RT @drupal RT @ethank: Economist switches to Drupal: sees 20 – 30M page views and 3 – 4M unique visitors/month http://bit.ly/5zePZ8 #
• RT @androinica Anyone know Google press/media relation person who will actually return your calls/email? Finding the Holy Grail was easier. #
• @juhib Women can't park?? http://tinyurl.com/ybf894q . Maybe http://tinyurl.com/ye4m33r #
• Chrome AD on Google search http://tinyurl.com/y87nl68 Is this new? I remember seeing it atleast cpl of weeks back, when using IE8 on Win7 #
• #Bing ringtone 1 – is now my #Android phone's ringtone for calls http://tinyurl.com/m97pys #
• You may be overwhelmed with so many details now that you have … More for Leo http://twittascope.com/twittascope/?sign=5 #
• Looking for a MP3! door bell for the new house … #
• 3 Idiots: I'm on my way, with yet another idiot @bineshkutty #movies #

An Apple in my life

Yesterday I bought my first ever Apple hardware – iPod Shuffle Silver, 1 GB, about Rs. 2,700/-

iPod Shuffle (Silver)

My first Apple software product was Quicktime (when I desperately wanted to play .mov files) followed by iTunes  which was for testing the Podcast feed on a Website which I was involved in. Read the rest of this entry »

Microsoft launched a ringtone for Indians

Following is the link to the MP3 file of the ringtone:

condom-a-cappella

I must admit that the post title is just meant to be catchy. The ringtone was launched, day before, by a campaign funded by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Bill Gates is ex CEO and founder of Microsoft. That’s the one and only connection with Microsoft

http://www.condomcondom.org/ is the website of this campaign. The ringtone can be downloaded from this site too.

The website is meant for Indian masses and aims to create awareness about HIV and AIDS, But note that the website is Flash based and slow to download. Most people in India use slow (slower than broadband) Internet connections, many are on dialups and Flash is not installed by default. Could have been a normal, fast loading, HTML site.

Nevertheless the ringtone idea seems to be a killer idea to spread awareness and kill the condom taboo. The mobile penetration is ever increasing in India. People esp. youngsters always want to do something new with their mobile – which includes setting up an interesting new ringtone.