WWDC

Again its that time of the year !! Ya.. Apple's conference WWDC is just round the corner. And Needless to say, the rumor mills have been going on since long. Some very ludicrous, but some screens released seem to be very authentic.

The most probable updates for iPhone will be a magnetometer, increased RAM, better camera with autofocus which are almost certain. Back-lit Apple logo is bit difficult to digest, possibly just a rumor people pulled out of nowhere. There might be a possibility for a front facing camera, but this issue is still up in the air. The pic below is seemingly the most legit one till now. If this is the new iPhone ( the name is ?? ), it is definitely a sumptuous treat with a bigger screen i suppose. And it is much slimmer than the previous ones. Slim is IN afterall.

Apart from new iPhone, Snow Leopard will also be debuted. Am pretty excited about that as well. Bcuz unlike Windows, Apple generally make a giant leap with a new OS. Leopard was just smashing. Lets wait for the Snow Leopard to unleash its paws.

That was the Apple round-up.. Coming to another Electronic Expo, the E3..

Its a gaming expo which is held every year. Three years ago, I still remember people just went crazy when they saw the concept of Nintendo Wii.. But now it looks like Microsoft has some even more bad ass shit which will make your Wii's ( yes yours !! ) pack its bags and never come back.

The new talk of the town is Microsoft's Project Natal.. It is simply jaw dropping stuff I tell you. There is no price tags or date of launch as yet, but pretty damn sure every gamer out there is counting the days.. It is the next level gaming.. No controllers, no joysticks, no nun chucks, it is all about you. You are the character, just that you are out of the screen.

Just see it to believe it..

It is such a giant step towards next gen gaming which will attract the non gamers community as well. The best thing about the video is the capability of the xbox 360 camera to distinguish between your body from the other things in the room. It also understands voice commands. Its still not complete, lot of work to be done on it, but the initial looks of it just mouth watering.

Lets wait n watch for the grand slam Monday at the WWDC.. !!

Dusshera

I didn't plan to chip in back to back posts, but one thing led to another and it was worth every effort of mine to come back on my blog.

Neways, Happy Dusshera !! N Dusshera infact is supposed to be very eventful thing in India. I was very much part of this " event " myself back in the days. Back in the days, I no, sounds a bit stereotype ( isn't it ? ). Back in the days, ya !! back when i was uhh, i certainly cannot say " when i was much shorter " but ya, what i can say is," when i was a bit fat ". Few years ago, even i used to jump of my feet honestly, with a idea of going to a dussehra mela. With friends to catch up, play hide seek, or buy a gada or teer kamaan, n lets be honest, the focal reason was that i got legit free time to play with NO STUDIESS ...!! I was as happy as uncle Scruge was when swimming in his treasure chest.

Now, times have changed. Things like watching a ravan full of crackers dont actually seem to fill in the amount of joy ( or i shud say any ) it used to. I was just pushed over to go along with my parents who didn't actually had this planned earlier. It was my mum who wanted to go to fill in for the festive void on a festival. Though i just went there for hardly 10 min n just stood there reminiscing the days when i was the one who dragged my mum dad to go there tried to figure out gods knows what i got excited about back then.

And, honestly, nothing has changed. It's been like 7-8 yrs since i went to any mela of this sort, but really, nothing has changed a bit. Only i guess, people with more luxuries don't prefer to go and this mela thing has become an middle class afair. But as i said, nothing has changed. The people still have that, excitement in their eyes, just to get a glimpse of what they have been watching it from the day they came to know who are Ram and Ramvan. Its something very reflexive i shud say of our people. Like if you push a man into a chocolate store, no matter what his age is, he's sure in for a nice time.

Its that kinds i mean. Hundreds or i should say thousands lined up just to get a peek , of whats happening there. Well, if there's nothing happening, still they'll wrestle for the place anyways :-) .

I'll be honest myself, if i see a ravan burning, it just leaves you happy ( Even if you deny the fact !! ). Reason which i don't even know. I didn't see the ravan burning today, but i no that feeling which has long been indebted to our brain's cache memory. And its something which we'll continue to do i think. Its not that we really want to have a look, but the whole scene of Ram ji firing an arrow and making ravan burn, leaves something in you which is more perplexed than this word itself .

Well, not for those who were not a fan of Ramayan or didn't play with gada's in childhood. Shame on you !!

Ok, coming back to the topic which i havnt discussed in the past weeks. yea, iPhone !!

Got this funny list which was given a heading

Things which make your iPhone a Whore !! ( seriously, how do you come up with this.. awesome !!)

n ya even non iPhone owners might find it pretty funny. go thru..

1. You’re a member of an iPhone forum --- Hell ya i'm

2. You posted more than 500 posts in this forum -- Not really, but nearing 100 u can say

3. At home or the office, you’ve moved photo frames of your loved ones to make space for your iPhone dock/charger

4. You know what BSD Subsystem is -- plsss, dumb ass question

5. You say the word “iPhone” more than 20 times a day -- make that 100 times day really

6. You’re googling “porn for iPhone” -- Nah, am no more a school kid.

7. You tuck your iPhone in at night -- I wud hav honestly, but swim a lot on bed, so its a risk

8. You think the iPhone could save lives if used properly -- Ppl actually will laugh at this, but someday it'll prove to am sure.

9. You have a nickname for your iPhone -- Heyyy, havnt thought of this really.. shud keep one soon, ( ideas appreciated )
10. Your gf is not allowed to use your iPhone -- I don't have one, but she won't be. Thats for sure..

11. You don’t talk to people who own a BlackBerry -- Nahh..

12. The Verizon Voyager’s ad makes you laugh -- Uhhh ??

13. You would buy an iPhone even if it was $1000-- Not really,

14. You take your iPhone out naked in hopes of meeting another iPhone mate -- Everyday !!

Been Around

I've upgraded myself this week, ya, i got the iPhone, Finally ! N the word is just .. you know it, WOW. I really don't want to revamp 'my part' into an iPhone blog ( what it seems from the previous 4-5 posts ). But yeah, somehow it makes itself worth writing for time n time again. It is more than just a phone honestly which makes it so special. N iPhone owners will agree with me. Ok yeah, even ipod touch one's too ;-) happy ?? 

n so what if doesn't have a bluetooth, ? It still is sexy !! :-)  [ I had some real bashing up for this bluetooth issue in the party last night :-(   damn... ]

ok, here's n there's from the week(s)-

Delhi Bomb blasts 

I had my tickets booked for sunday shatabdi and was comfortably watching the most awaited match of the season ( football ) till now. Liverpool vs Manu, there cannot be a bigger match than this honestly. N boy liv whooped manu's ass. I cud have danced on roads that day. 

Ya, I was that happy !! 

n while watching the match (as news was the least i was cared about that time), my friend called in n gave me the news of bombings in Delhi n i was like , what the .. I cudn't believe honestly that time that something of that sort had actually happened. Not bcuz i was going there the day after, its just was soo off-guard. Its something very implausible to be honest. Suddenly out of no where these ppl wake up one day to set bombs n spread chaos. Its still an unanswerable ques that what's the purpose behind all this .? What are they getting out of it ? Well, if terrorizing muse is they want to spread, they just broke a bone landing from the first step.

Not that ppl will fall apart. Well, nobody will infact. N i don't blame nebody for this honestly if you ask me. Police force ? nah. there are so many ppl in our country that ,even police from every part of the world also can't stop nething of this sort. People ? again nah..

I no we can sit at our homes, some like me, write , some discuss on phones for somedays, n a week gone , n all washed up. All forgotten, n the next thing we'll be doing is planning which movie to go n where to eat. N for a week, news channels have something to jabber about. n you just can't help it. They keep on repeating the same damn thing over n over again. But neways for few days, there is a relief in newspapers from all the lesbian stories of Lindsay Lohan or maybe some new effort by Britney spears who's trying to keep herself in the news somehow, or possibly a rakhi sawant news of her proposing to Salman Khan ( i mean what the hell ?) . 

Its not that i or nebody expects himself to do nething about it. N pls don't come up with your comments that suggest a solution to it or ne bullshit you want to point at. Its just wat i think for which we can't do a damn about. If you can, don't waste time writing a sleazy comment, go do it.

 The next morning, was like just another day at the New Delhi railway station. No chaos watsoever, well there was the usual kind from the auto waala's n taxi waala's. but nothing which stopped ( us ) people to get up next morning n go to work. It never will become a impeding force really !! I no kerosene n gun powder come cheap and it aint a big deal to make bombs now, specially when its few clicks away, its just that who ever wants to prove a point, be a man to do it the way it shud be proved !!  Killing people like this is like killing people in an open field with a sniper. 

Ya, its that easy ..!!

iPhone, which took all away

Neways, i reached home safely from station to bua's house and certainly no denying the fact that, iPhone just made me forget every thing in the world for that hour. Unlocking iPhone, my very own iPhone, gave a unparalleled feeling. This was my 3rd iPhone unlocked with totally different procedures every time. 

Ok, pulling myself from the iPhone topic, me n my cousins had a wonderful time around. Eating obv. Well, after loosing 6 kgs, n eating a proper ( or shud i say shit ) diet for so long, wait how many, 2 months maybe , i just let go of myself ( for this week ) No strings attached. I was on a eating spree really and boy i had a mouthful. From Pizza ( which has to be one thing i come running back all the time ) to chaat paapadi, to chole bhature to bhel puri to what not. The list is endless ! We 3 foodie's just had a go at it. 

Warning 

Speaking of which, i should chip in a warning as well here

We ( bua n all ) went for a movie,Last Liar. N pls honestly, i don't want to be too critical, but just DON'T WATCH THAT MOVIE. It might be a personal opinion as some might say, but i really don't think its even worth watching even ( with a general opinion ) if you are free and have absolutely nothing in this world to do. Just sit back n enjoy the cold weather. No need to go. It has to be the shittest movie i've ever seen in my life. We fortunately ( ya ! i wished we missed the whole ) the first 10 min of the movie, in the interval, i went up to some guy ( only 15 people in the hall ) to ask abt the first 10 min, n wat he said , - " Sorry, i can't explain ".

Ya it was that bad !!

Hadron Collidor

Ya, i shud have written it before, it just slipped out of my mind. The multibillion Hadron collider will explore the tiniest of particles and come closer than ever to re-enacting the big bang ( or taking it back from the start ? ;-) ). Well its the theory that created universe. This collider will push the protons to nearing speed of light, 11,000 times a second. Now thats fast ! N there has been lot of talk of the formation of black holes by this which is the rarest of possibilities. But mind you, if that had happened, we wudnt even had had a second to actually realize the fact that we went thru something. 

But as i said, news channels really wait for something to jump on. A bandwagon which they can roll over to nowhere. With all the dramatic visuals and shitty catch lines about ending the life on earth, there was this girl who committed suicide listening n worrying abt the day of the so called Doom. I honestly have no idea what went through her mind, cuz drinking pesticide n dying is much more painful than being simply vaporized. 

N ya, it was that Vague !!

iWorld

It has been very calm 2 or i shud say 3 weeks which just whooshed by after the iPhone release day. Not that i have not been doing anything productive, but not much to document really or any funny incident which i came across. 

And the world just can't seem to do anything without donning an " i " in-front of everything. Recently a company launched an iFridge. Now that its obv what am coming to next, its actually makes you wonder how on earth will these things co-exist ? Apparently its called Gorenje Fridge. iGorenje is an application with which you can control the fridge with your ipod or iphone just by docking over the panel infront.

 

But hey, the story doesn't end here, the i(Things) are just packing the heat. The iGerenje application is not only for a fridge, but also ( one of the easiest faults in GMAT-SC ) for other house hold things - washing machine, stove or a microwave for that matter. Well lets hope iPhone applications are bug-free so that our ice creams don't get messed up. Now honestly, didnt it give you " What the .... " feeling.. ?

Ok, changing the the successor of " i ", ehh, which doesnt have a name as yet. It's type of an add-on kit for cars with BMW signaling out as the frontrunner. The german auto-makers will be providing multi-level connectivity with the Apple devices in an upcoming versions of 7-series sedan. There's not much news related to this but who knows, maybe they could come out with innovative things ( like- engine meters or something watever is beyond the normal brains, Yadav, this is where you can showboat your IQ ;-)  ) and specially something to talk about for days. ;-). 

Ok busting loose, its undeniable that iPhone probably is the foremost gadget which has seemingly endless potential to come up with things beyond imaginations ( of ours obv ) or in simple words, which could send other mobiles on a graveyard shift. And its somewhat shallow when people say, iPhone is not worth for the price tag its coming with, and even to an extent that, people ( i've read ) even consider its lacking video recording capability a reason for not buying it. Maybe they just havn't seen the pace and the tenacity with which its touching our lives.

And, recently, Apple filed a patent -Solar cells for portable devices. The new generation ( i mean in some years ) of portable devices, such as laptops and iPhones will be powered by the sun with solar cells all over the surface n even beneath the screen. So, not long when we'll have to find a better reason ( better than the lame no battery one ) for keeping the talks short. 

oh n ya, i'll be writing the first ever HANDS-ON for the iPhone next week. but, ofcourse controlling fridges and BMW's is the least i've planned for its homecoming. I'm buying the 1st gen iPhone since i didn't want to spend freaking 31k's on an iPhone which might be upgraded in an year or so. Its something very implicit, the feeling of having an iPhone, not a Guilty pleasure  mind you !! ( buying the old one ). 

It certainly is lifting me up on the waves of ravishing romance :-) 

Don't buy the tease, I mean it ;-) 

'The wait' till eternity !!

The title is somewhat misleading i no, ( or maybe not ? ). The long awaited phone or I shud say, paragon ( not the chappals ) of hi-tech gadgets was out on 22nd aug in India. And i don't know whether its a very " inn "thing to line up outside the stores for something very anticipated or is it  just me who's being humble and hiding my anxiety ?? but i honestly heard people lined up in delhi for the iPhone.

That said, airtel quoted a nearing-catastrophic price really, and even engadget.com people felt the after shocks of the tremors in India. Well, honestly , i don't blame the mobile carriers for such roof shooting prices. In US also, its coming for 599 $ without contract, n if people in india don't sell it for more than 30k's, then i guess, the business-way cud have turned around. People wud start selling iphones from india to US.. ;-) I've read on many sites, people not happy with the price ( neither am  I , to be honest ) and want the iphone to be below 25k's. How is that possible without a contract.. And, for the some ( who just flowing in the iPhone 3G wave, ) really need to wake up n realize the fact that its NOT for 199 $ ONLY !!. So many people have come up n advised me to get it from US n saying " ohh iphone is  cheap there, only for 9000,," n this has happened so many times that i honestly have started thanking them for the advice.

Neways, on the down side, I can't accurately describe how much disappointed i was at first about the price. cuz coughing up 34k's for an iPhone seems more of a luxury than a slick move, but as my reptile friend says (which he claims to have invented ) " Passion commands premium " . 

which, i fully agree.

So i'll wait for the right time and when the gush of emotions really cross the threshold barrier, I'll be holding one that day..  !! 

Driving test..

Last week can be tagged " lively " considering the events. Not just for me, globally I mean.. !!

Solar eclipse, iPhone release date announced for India, and my driving test.. Yes my driving test for license..

I got my learner's license back in April but due to misfortunes and my own efforts kept delaying things. But finally the day , date, time everything clicked for once n I was finally up for my driving test. First the time of the test was at 11:00 in the morning, but it got stretched to 2 ( for god knows obv reasons ). The govt officials really don't give a crocodile's ass for keeping others on wait.

Reaching the pt. where the test was going to be, i suddenly saw people peeping into some paper, cramming something. I went up to see and oh oh !!  Traffic signs ... Yikes !!  I just didn't see that one coming, not in my wildest of dreams. Honestly. Not that I am not aware of traffic sign boards or nething, but there are whole chunk of them , n specially Indianized ones which gave me a scare. Some were really confusing i tell you, and something similar i could sense was happening .. The long lost feeling of collg days  ! They just flashed back i tell you. Really, the whole scene, people crowding in, to sneak and read from the piece of paper, even if it doesnt make any kind of sense. It was just as if we rolled back the days, friends standing outside E-F block, to take a quiz or exam. For quiz i guess, we were more involved in making formations :-) Okay, lets not get into that. 

Coming back to the test..

After 2 also, RTO officer was no where to be seen and the ever growing tension on people's faces was somewhat giving me a shiver too. Cuz, if you dont get atleast 3 out of 5 right, "Next time " is what you hear before you can even press down the clutch for the 1st gear.

RTO came at around 3 and i no how i passed that 1 hr cramming those road signs, this was something which took me off-guard honestly. I never expected Indian driving test to be with such deeper and intricate detailed stuff. I thought it would be just a simple drive zig zac or back or watever kind of thing. 

As the test started, the officer asked ques , not the road signs, just normal situation given questions. They were okay but some girls just stumped miserably in the questionnaire round. One guy was told to come back next time bcuz he had BECKHAM written on his bike's number plate :-). And what was more funnier was, the officer asked, who's Beckham ?? I no, some of you will point fingers at me that '- oh cumon, ' its not that everybody knows Beckham ' . I totally agree but still you no, i cud have dropped my jaws honestly when he asked - who's beckham. I mean Beckham has to be one of THE most famous footballers on the planet. And as it turned out, the officer didn't ask ne ques n told me to reverse uphill. Thats it. Nailed it !! It was one of a kind experience i must say. Experience which reminded of my viva's in collg :-).

N ya, the Solar eclipse which recently took place was a mob mover really. People didn't step out of the house during the eclipse, didn't turn up to the gym. I mean damn !! Even i was ordered though, not to look at the sun directly. But neways, in India i don't think nebody saw the actual moon earth n sun lining-up thing. But certainly these dude in the video were the luckiest of all i guess to have witnessed a solar eclipse from a plane.

ok, iPhone !! 

It was honestly a patient wait from my side with few bumps of emotions ( recently ),  But nehow, the thing i have been wanting to hold the day it launched is finally here. Airtel confirmed the launch date of iPhone 3g. 22nd Aug. Nobody has any clues abt the price tag its coming with. 20k to 25k's shud be worth a Flutter. Nething more than that will seriously ( as i said earlier ) price out my emotions.

iPhone saga .... continues

Down with viral, Dark Knight's already on its 6th roll now since the opening bagging # 3 ranking on the imdb top 250, missed gym , no classes. What else could possibly go wrong ? 

Batman begin's reboot -The Dark Knight is really making my weekend a big trauma. It seems like a "Joker's "s ticking time bomb making you watch every second's hand move and saying silently :- " Why so serious.... ". ( ohh no subject in the sentence, do i give a shit ? nop ) i just cant wait to watch the movie and specially what adds to misery already people calling me n telling, go n watch the movie.. !! 

The other upsetter of this weekend was the bizarre end to an excitement filled build up ( was the sentence parallel ? ) for an iPhone .. Ya.. am surprised to say this actually , but i got so roped into buying THE most talked about gadget in the world probably from the past few weeks. After so much sleepless nights ( for cd ) , the plan didn't work out. And maybe i didn't mention,our madness took us an extra mile on the road of insanity to buy the old 2G iPhone for 17k's. But i guess the jolt was an eye-opener for me on the shop and made me realize that i had the power to conquer over ( idiomatic ) my emotions and wait for 3G another couple of months ( did this sound like Bruce wayne ? ).

But now i've taken the pledge that the only phone i will ever change from my sliding sensation Samsung U600 (which was worth every single rupee) will be iPhone 3G. 

Ehh.. Lets hope it doesn't price out my emotions when its released in India.

Its rumored to be released on 9th of sept or maybe sometime around. So people, its time to 

, Suit Uppppppp !! 

∞∞   APPENDED  ∞∞

I just cudnt hold myself honestly after watching the video. The cutest video i have ever seen. just watch the whole clip. It'll show you the extent to which tech has touched us. When a 22 month kid can play nintendo wii, what do you call it ?  wait for a min.....

 Next Gen.. 

iPhone 3G

Listening to live audio feed of WWDC yesterday with lazy ass CD and ever excited ajgar, it was myriad of emotions really listening to the whole conference. Why myriad ? I'll tell u later.

 

But, finally its here !! After whole lot of rumors and leaked-filled wait, Apple really wraps it off with the new iPhone in the block, 

and yes , its loaded with 3G and GPS and many more applications. Plastic back, thinner edges, flush headphones and 2.0 firmware ( which is another mountain to climb for unlockers ), makes it even a more sumptuous treat. 

 

There are loads of new flaunts in the iPhone 3G, but what actually takes the center stage is the price for the iPhones, 199$ ( Yes nokia, samsung, its time you open a restaurant ). Well, 199$ is for 8 Gb and 299$ for 16 Gb which comes in another option of White ( shiny ). Though am pretty fed up of scratching erasers on my Macbook but am still up for another challenge of a white iPhone. Hell yeah i'm !!

Ok the let down is that the release date of 3G iPhone is 11th July. Which leaves us ( me n CD ) with no option to get it from US. Damn !!

And, for the aluminum back owners, its time to get rid of that sucker !! ( Sorry snake )

EBA(b)Y

After a traumatic result in the champions league final which nearly gave me a foot in mouth, i moved on, and the Euro's ( 7th June) coming down the pike, have thankfully lifted the invisible pressure off the liverpool fans.

ok, St . to my title of this post. I just stumbled upon something which will really make you smile with an awe lurking behind that smirk, not bcuz its out of this earth, but the idea of .. ok cut the crap..The thing is, a German couple offered a baby on ebay !!  Now how innovative is that aye ? Though the people insist that it was a joke of god knows what kind, but they nearly bowled everyone over.

Ohh n ya, the price was 1 euro ! damn thats dirt cheap. You wont even get an umbrella for 1 euro.. It was a definite steal really  !!

And ya, the rumor mill has started again and no prizes for guessing. The new iPhone 3G's news has been flowing in and due to the "No stock" iPhones at present with the shops and even on apple's site, the launch becomes a much more awaited thing in this WWDC on 9th June.

And this time, i'll be unlocking mine fshao !!