The below article from EFY gives a very good idea on the rapid growth of e-commerce in India. If anyone has anything to sell at all, one of the best places to sell would undoubtedly be ONLINE.
E-commerce is on an all-time high in India. Gujarat is one of the largest sourcing hubs for loose diamonds, apparel, furnishings and handicrafts.
E-commerce is enjoying a money-train ride in India. Indian sellers are seeing tremendous success with products such as jewellery, apparel, collectibles, furnishings and musical instruments. eBay India sellers sell an article of clothing or accessory globally every 6 minutes while 9 pieces of jewellery sell every hour. A home furnishing item sells every 10 minutes while a coin or a stamp sells every 15 minutes. Interestingly, 14 musical instruments sell globally every day. Ambareesh Murty, director of marketplace development, eBay India, shared this during an event aimed at evangelising e-commerce to residents of Ahmedabad.
Read more here…
India Sells An Item Every 72 Seconds on eBay.
Maxthon Browser
This is one of my favorite browsers. It’s really cool. Maxthon is a browser which has an IE engine and a prettier face. I find this to be very useful. As it has IE engine, the behavior is mostly like IE except that it had loads of useful features.
I belong to the group of people who have multiple windows open most of the time. So, my favorite feature of Maxthon is its ability to save all the open tabs when you close the browser. Ex: If you are used to keep gmail, yahoomail, bookmarks, your blog etc always open, that means you keep multiple windows/tabs open. Isnt it difficult to open all the tabs everytime you login? With Maxthon, you can avoid that. You open Maxthon and it opens all the windows/tabs that were open last. Not only this, it offers many shortcuts – shortcuts for utilities like paint, regedit etc. It offers auto refresh for a tab. If you need a particular tab to keep refreshing every few minutes (so that it doesn’t log out after the session expires), you can set that too. These are few of the good features of Maxthon.
Maxthon is definitely worth giving a try. You can download it from http://www.maxthon.com/
Interactive Panorama in Flash
Blitz was asked by NBC to build a reusable interactive Panorama to show off NBC’s studio sets. Blitz did it with Flash and Papervision 3D.
Check the panorama and more details in their site - http://labs.blitzagency.com/?p=388
Human pixels form real time huge animation
Human pixels do an “animation” which is really amazing. The sync is perfect.
Computer generated choreography, perfect synchronization and custom designed costumes that can reveal a variety of colours are combined to get an unbelievable beautiful performance.
DVD Video – How to
I had some movies in my hdd (hard disk) and thought of burning it onto a DVD. Instead of just burning it, I thought of creating a video DVD itself. That’s when I realized the process is not simple and quick.
I followed the article – How to make a video DVD and the article is actually simple and easy to follow. I chose the best quality encoding and it took around 6-7 hours for the encoding to complete. To sum up, first you would need the right software like FAVC to create the right DVD video files and then software like Nero to burn them on to the DVD.
Bluetooth A2DP
For Bluetooth to work fine in any phone or any device depends on the profile. A Bluetooth profile is a wireless interface specification between devices that use Bluetooth-based communication. Only if the device is compatible with certain Bluetooth profiles, will it be able to work fine.
For a Bluetooth handsfree to work fine, generally there would be a handsfree profile. But to stream audio from the phone to the Bluetooth handsfree, you need to have the Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP). It is this profile that defines how audio can be streamed from one device to an other over a Bluetooth connection.
I found this particular site where it lists all A2DP compatible phones.
Finally, when I tried the bluetooth set with my N70, what I found was that we can answer calls, listen to music as well - music which is stored in the phone, but not the FM Radio. So, if I am right, we can use bluetooth set to answer calls and listen music with most of the phones, but only few sets support A2DP for FM Radio. Any comments appreciated.
CON - Windows
In a Windows PC, it is not possible to create a Folder called "CON" anywhere. The email fwd that I received also says that this was found by an Indian and also that none from the Microsoft team were able to give an answer to this. Strange it is.
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Well, finally I did get an explanation for this and thats again thro an email fwd.
Try creating folder with any of the following names: CON, PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9 It won't allow you to do so.
The reason:
General rules for creating names for directories (and files) on the Windows platform include the following: Do not use device names, such as aux, con, lpt1, and prn, as file names or directory names. The following reserved words cannot be used as the name of a file: CON, PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9. Also, reserved words followed by an extension—for example, NUL.tx7—are invalid file names.
If you want to create a folder by CON, then use the following steps: In the command line prompt, try this out u will get con directory - md \\.\\c:\con
To delete that folder, try this out - rd \\.\\c:\con
Portable Softwares
Keep changing your computers quite often? Love to customize your desktop and looking out for options to take your softwares anywhere you go? How would it be to carry your messenger with you, go to any machine with an internet connection and use ur own messenger which is in your USB drive, chat and come out without leaving a trace in the host computer. Same thing with your browser. Carry your own browser with bookmarks, browse in any machine and then come back without leaving a trace of your history, passwords etc.
This is now possible with "Portable softwares". You have messengers, antivirus softwares and even photo editing softwares like Photoshop etc. available in portable version. All you need is your USB drive / removable drive and then you can take them along with you wherever you go. No need of installing them at all. Open them, use them and close them – sounds like a Hero Honda slogan. But it’s that easy.
It has reached stages where you have a portable applications suite which you can install to your USB Drive and then access it wherever you connect the drive. So you have a whole load of portable applications and something like a control panel for that. Ain't that cool?
U3 is one such company providing smart drives. Check that out. When U3 is speaking more of smart drives (makes you feel as if you got to buy a smart drive and ur USB is just a normal drive), portableapps.com has an application that you can just install in ur USB or removable drive. Check these out and make the best use of ur USB drives.
Suggestion: Make sure you go for 2GB or higher USB drives when buying one so that you have some space for these portable softwares.
Nokia N95 vs. iPhone
Stumbled upon this blog written by Jonathen and found it to be interesting as we can see the war between N95 and iPhone heating up everywhere. It sure gives an insight about both the phones and the best part is that the blog is unbiased.
Though I haven’t tried iPhone or N95 yet, I have heard of iPhone having some issues with its battery replacement. You have to contact Apple and Apple would do it for you. It may even take up to 3 days for it. This may not be an issue in western continents. But considering India, I think this would definitely create frustration. Of course, we still have to wait for iPhone to be released in India and then check how it would be. IPhone doest not yet have a FM radio.
Black
For my first post, I thought of writing why I chose “Black” as the main color of the site. Other than black being one of my favorite colors, it also saves energy. Yes, you heard it right. A monitor needs more power or energy to display white (or light) colors than to display black (or dark) colors.
Google being the most popular site, it was said that a black Google could save 750 megawatt-hours an year.
Below are some of the search engines using Google and are in black color.
http://www.blackle.com/
http://black-google.blogspot.com/
Go ahead, start using them and start saving energy. Some small bit that we can contribute.
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