Apple's attitude - antenna problem

http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/24/iphone-4-antenna-issue/

 

http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/apple-responds-over-iphone-4-reception-issues-youre-holding-th/

 

http://i.imgur.com/zAJ0y.jpg

 

 

Only Apple Can get away with this kind of attitude. When do they ever start accepting that sometime even they could be at fault. I cannot imagine any other company getting away with such a kind of thing.

 

Dear Mr. Steve Jobs,

 

You Can’t ask the customer to adjust himself to fit the iPhone, the iPhone has to fit to the customer. Improved looks , body , antenna, resolution..All these are nice. .. But to make calls, Asking customers to hold their iphone “differently” or to buy a case worth $29.99 ? Epic Fail.

Hard Drive Weight Increasing! HELP!!!!! :P

You gotta love this thread:

 

http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vistahardware/thread/3abf6156-47cd-465a-984b-cc016973367e

 

Why , You ask?

 

After running for a while, laptop usually get hot and therefore, sweat might addon to the weight of your laptop.  Make sure you warp it around a towel next time.

Don’t know how many of you folks came across such threads, Please post links to such threads in the comments section.

Rajneeti: Review

 

I watched Rajneeti yesterday and I have to say, it completely sold me. Well many of us know that Politics is all about big business and big money. Rajneeti is a political melodrama about one big family who fight to gain power and supremacy. Though inspired from Mahabharata, you find it difficult to relate some of the characters of the movie to the actual epic story. The entire plot is carried out by some exquisite performances, with the lion share of the acting from Ranbir, Arjun Rampal and Katrina. Brilliant performances by Manoj Bajpai and Ajay devagan. The youngest of the actors Ranbir is at his best. Prakash Jha's Direction is really top notch because to have these many characters and not to loose track at any point with them, is commendable. The movie is quite lengthy with no songs but there hasn’t been a dull or lighter moment. Not to expect much from Katrina, and after her last speech in the movie, I will prefer her watching in the aam ras add than in a serious movie like this. The story is fast paced and has enough twists and turns to keep the viewer entertained. The performances are power-packed. Arjun Rampal is at his best and is looking handsome as well in that crisp-white Kurta Pyjama. 'Rajneeti' succeeds in holding you to the seat for almost 90% of the 2 hours and 50 minutes length of the movie. It should be seen as a serious movie and its been long time since we had such a high voltage bollywood melodrama epic.

Microsoft Kinect – Project Natal

Microsoft Natal Project is now called Kinect. I like the new name, combination of connect and kinetic. Natal enables users to control and interact with the Xbox 360 console without the need to touch a game controller through a natural user interface using gestures, spoken commands or presented objects and images. I liked the dance/rhythm game in the video. The dance and fitness apps look promising.  The soccer/football app has a lot of multi-player potential. I liked what I saw, the games are amazing, great technology, Although the kinect games are not yet to materialize, the concept itself is great. Its just a start, they may have to show how they could integrate Kinect into games like Dead Space with xbox 360. Overall they sold me.

 

WTF Google?

I am sure most of you must have seen the google new Avatar. The traditional white background of Google has changed with a colorful full screen image. If you see the screen, The choice of layout and background image makes half the text on the page nearly impossible to read.

Even the link to turn this off is basically invisible against that background. Adding to the irony, to turn it OFF, I have to sign in..

 

 

I like the way BING do with background images. Hand picked. Not too large. Easy to read text…

 

With success comes the responsibility. WTF GOOGLE, for the love of search, make it stop! If you’re going to copy Bing, at least do it right.

Safari 5 - Mainstream browser with ad blocking

I installed Safari 5 and tried out their new 'Reader' feature. It essentially finds the central text in the page and extracts it out and displays it in a nice reading experience.  It removes all the ads and gives you a nice reading experience with basic features like print, email and zoom. Ads on the web today are garish, consume CPU, get in the way of the user experience and never (in my personal experience) useful.  Ad blockers in the mainstream could act as a forcing function to make webmasters clean up their  act and for the industry to rethink how they try and advertise to consumers. In practice, this has the effect of stripping out all the ads you'd see on a site. This is interesting since this has to be the first mainstream browser with a form of ad-blocking shipping by default. Sure, you have to press a button but the UI for it is prominent (the 'Reader' button is part of the location bar) and this is a short jump away from having this turned on by default.

 

iPhone 4

 

Apple iPhone announced officially today.  You can own it on June 24. iPhone 4 video doesn't work on 3G, only on WiFi. People have been doing video calling on Skype as well as on Nokia phones with BSNL 3G even in India for a long time. My other phone Nokia N85 has a front end camera and video calling functionality from more than a year. 99% of the time that I have WiFi in my own house, and in my house I can use my laptop to skype. Putting a video editor in the phone seems interesting to some but I don’t want to edit things in such a small form factor. The iPhone 4G still doesn't seem to do true multitasking. Only one app is actually run, the others seem to be frozen. Why would I spend for loading my phone with bullet proof glass and steel that is 1000 times stronger than normal steel.

 

Overall, I don’t get what the shock and awe over the new phone is. They have amazing marketing machine for sure.