Entries from March 2009

March 16, 2009

iPhone and cut-copy-paste

iPhone 3.0 is finally going to have a feature which we all have been waiting for – the ‘cut-copy-paste’! I never understood what took this long time for Apple to embed this feature to the iPhone? But anyway, it seems we the iPhone users have something to cheer about. This feature was currently available via [...]

March 12, 2009

Talking iPod shuffle

Apple finally rolled out it’s talking iPod shuffle. This is smaller than its predecessor – it talks to the user of what song it is playing in 14 different languages!
This tiny (smaller than an AA battery) iPod will cost you $79 and can hold 1000 songs – this is twice the number than the predecessor. [...]

March 10, 2009

Zain Veerjee stumbles on…nuts!

Zain Verjee talks about Northwest Airlines and it’s penis…I mean peanuts policy. Watch and enjoy!

March 10, 2009

The Financial Blame Game

Who do you blame for the financial crisis? How did giants like Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch & Co. and Lehman Brothers crashed in matter months? Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac bailed out; AIG, GM, Chrysler need money and more money. 28 banks [1] have failed so far in 2009; millions of homes have been foreclosed; debt [...]

March 9, 2009

Apple Netbook coming soon?

DigiTimes reports that Taiwan-based Quanta Computer will build a new netbook computer for Apple. A netbook (a portmanteau of Internet and notebook) is a class of laptop computer designed for wireless communication and access to the Internet. Netbooks “rely heavily on the Internet for remote access to web-based applications” (Wikipedia)
The plan is to ship the [...]

March 9, 2009

Religious Decline?

Recently came across an article today that showed a fragment of the U.S. population don’t believe in religion.
The Roman Catholic population has been shifting out of the Northeast to the Southwest.
Here are some numbers -
15% of people said “they had no religion”. Vermont claiming to be the highest at 34%.
36% adult self-identified Catholics (down from [...]

March 8, 2009

Economy is NOT bad…for Annette Yeomans

Former bookkeeper Annette Yeomans, 51 embezzled $9.9 million – she bought 400 pairs of shoes, that she kept in a room-sized closet decorated with a crystal chandelier and a plasma television, authorities claim.
Here is the breakup -at least $240,000 on 400 pairs of shoes, $300,000 on designer clothing and 160 purses valued at [...]

March 7, 2009

Twitter – an unecessary tool?

Twitter is the worst tool which has got publicity from people who have nothing better to do! I am tired of hearing about “Twitter” – especially on CNN. I get off from work around 3:45pm and while driving home I listen to CNN Radio on Sirius-XM. I tune the radio to catch Wolf Blitzer but [...]

March 7, 2009

Option to remove Internet Explorer from Windows 7!

It is finally happening! Windows 7 will allow users to “remove” IE 8 and Media Player. This is a feature is made available today on the beta version of Windows 7 which was released last month.
According to AeroXperince blog, a site for Windows developers “There is a catch: For now, this only seems to wipe [...]

March 7, 2009

Jon Stewart rips Rick Santelli and CNBC

On March 4, 2009 11pm CNBC went into hiding…somewhere because Jon Stewart choose to embed element of truth to his comedy on the Daily Show. He unleashed a brutal assault on CNBC and its “elite” financial newscasters.
Jon Stewart is funny. I enjoy watching his shows. Sometimes he is extremely funny. He was at his best [...]