VC’s Techie CockTail

Here is a Joke on a “Enthusiastic SalesMan” & a moral which should come in handy for all techies (courtesy of a forwarded mail from my friend )

A new vacuum cleaner salesman knocked on the door on the
first house of the street. A tall lady answered the door.

Before she could speak, the enthusiastic salesman barged
into the living room and opened a big black plastic bag and poured all the
cow droppings onto the carpet.

” Madam, if I could not clean this up with the use of this new powerful
vacuum cleaner, I will EAT all this s…!” exclaimed the eager salesman.

“Do you need chilli sauce or ketchup with that?” asked the lady.

The bewildered salesman asked, ” Why, madam?”

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“There’s no electricity in the house…” said the lady.

MORAL: Gather all resources before working on any project…!! !

written by Vignesh \\ tags: Fun Junkies

This week, I was able to spend some time with my friend’s laptop a Compaq Presario V3777TU . Nowadays the “Value for Money” of laptops has been HOT in India with all major brands competing in the price range between 32000/- to 37000/- bucks but if you can stretch it a bit you can even have a Sony VAIO starting at 40,000 bucks. Before my thoughts on the Compaq laptop here is the specs at a glance,

• Intel Core Duo 1.73 GHz processor (Oops …didn’t note the processor number)
• 2 GB DDR2 RAM
• 14.1″ WXGA Display
• 120GB HD
• DVD Burner
• WLAN, Bluetooth, 5 in 1 Card Reader, USB, Firewire ports
• Windows Vista Basic

As my current notebook is the Lenovo Y410, I will compare it with this compaq in certain areas. First & foremost the finish of the laptop is sleek & stylish with a black glossy look with a wavelike pattern at the top of the lid. The finish is more appealing than my Ideapad but the hinge and overall solidity is better in my Ideapad. The keypad area is finished with a black matte look and sufficiently spaced but according to my friend the Y410 was bit better for typing. The 14.1″ WXGA screen was bright with good color reproduction.

The Core Duo processor was OK for all the mundane office work like e-mailing, word & spreadsheet processing and lightweight multimedia functions. The 1.3 megapixel webcamera was good with the bundled Cyberlink You Cam software pity that my Y410 doesn’t have a preloaded software for using the webcam. Even though the Y410 is supposed to have sub-woofers & all (honestly i haven’t tried it yet), the JBL speakers of the compaq was louder.

Connectivity shouldn’t be a problem as I’ve mentioned the various options available in the specs column. The DVD burner should suffice for reading / writing CD’s and DVD’s. I didn’t have enough time to test its battery strength, but at a price of 38,000 bucks (by the way 2000 bucks costlier than Iphone’s official price in India) it is worth a buy for people looking at a basic laptop with enough power to do all their regular PC stuff.

written by Vignesh \\ tags: Laptop

I don’t know how far statistically Indians do online shopping and whether they get any fantastic deals to back them up, but still there are plenty of online stores to compare prices and see whether any offers are available,

• MobileNxt : This is the newest site I’ve come across, some interesting deals
• Univercell : Maybe the biggest franchise in south India, updated prices so can be on the money on price drops.
• WaveTel Mobiles : A Chennai based retailer with various brands of mobilephones and some mp3 players, laptops too.
• SriVasavi Mobiles: Another chennai based retailer with some good deals.
• Indiaplaza : A large online retailer with some good deals for mobile phones

written by Vignesh \\ tags: Mobile Phone

Its been more than 1 year when I shifted my blog from Blogger to Wordpress, my initial attraction being purely professional reasons since wordpress had a lot of demand in the market and also to have more technical control of the workings of the blog. After some initial hassles and some bugs midway while upgrading wordpress the ride has been smooth so far. Here are some plug-ins which I found to be useful,

• Wordpress Automatic Upgrade - According to me a god send, to avoid your upgrading blues
• Wassup - Track your visitors
• Feedsmith - Automatically redirects your feeds to feedburner feeds
• cForms - Create forms to enable visitors contact you from your blog
• Akismet - To aviod the ever increasing problem of spam in your comments
• AddThis - A social bookmarking widget to help visitors spread your blog

That’s all in this post, in time i will come back with some more plug-ins and themes to “spice up” your blog further.

written by Vignesh \\ tags: blog, wordpress