Monday, June 30, 2008 by V V S
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The next time you think of going somewhere, check out the live traffic before you actually take your step out 
. Yeah this is true now in Bangalore where the traffic chaos still continues irrespective of the changing governments and the false promises of infrastructure development.
Leaving the political scenario behind if we come to the point of discussion, recently BTIS [Bangalore Transport Information System] has come up with a new technological advancement in association with the Traffic police where live traffic is monitored at major important junctions with the use of live traffic cameras. These cameras provide the live traffic to a centralized unit called as the ‘Traffic Monitoring Cell/Unit‘. BTIS has put up these information on the website for general public where in you can check the live traffic situation before you actually move out.
A sample image of the main page showing the traffic status is as shown below:
The traffic situation at most of the places are displayed based on their intensity in and around Bangalore with selected live camera locations.
You can also select a live camera to view the live images getting delivered to your desktop.
Sample images of one of my favorite locations which I’m most interested is as shown below (Check the time difference and the impact 
)
These are the locations where the live traffic information is currently available on the website:
Also recently CNBC TV18 in its show called ‘Up South‘ featured about IT Professionals lending their helping hands acting as traffic cops during their free time in weekends. They say that it is a very small step towards a traffic jam free Bangalore roads.
So hit BTIS first before you actually hit out on the roads. Have a trouble free ride the next time
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Thursday, June 19, 2008 by V V S
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I was very much interested in trying out the new Firefox 3. The installation went well and I was ok with my normal operations until when I came to know that some of my add-ons like Clipmarks and del.icio.us which I added to my previous installations didn’t show up. When I went to (Tools->Add-ons->Extensions) Firefox and verified, all these add-ons are not compatible with Firefox 3.
When I searched through Firefox add-ons website, I found out these links.
Clipmarks upgrade for Firefox 3
del.icio.us upgrade for Firefox 3
So the upgrades for most of the add-ons are being developed and released from time to time. So don’t forget to visit this section.
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008 by V V S
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There is one more addition to the long list of best quality mobile phones from Sony Ericsson.
Today it revealed its Cyber-shot slider mobile phone model C905 a.k.a Shiho (the codename which was used to address this phone prior naming it as C905) today. This is an advanced camera phone with a 8.1 mega pixel camera with xenon flash and photo flash for photos and videos.
Features:
- 8.1 mega pixel camera
- Auto focus
- Face recognition
- A new feature called Smart Contrast
- Image stabilization
- BestPic
- Red-eye reduction
- 2GB Memory Stick micro
- 2.4-inch QVGA display (made of scratch-resistant mineral glass)
- In built Wi-Fi
- Latest Bluetooth connections
- USB 2.0 data transfers
- Sync with Exchange ActiveSync
- Built-in GPS receiver
- A-GPS (to enhance performance) function
- Camera images Geo-tagging
- TV Out to share your photos on a TV set.
- Battery life - 380 hours of standby or 9 hours of talk time on GSM networks, or 360 hours of standby or 4 hours of talk time on 3G networks.
- Support for EDGE 850/900/1800/1900/GPRS/GSM/HSDPA 2100/UMTS.
- Colors available - Copper Gold, Ice Silver & Night Black.
The availability of phone is likely in October 2008. Unfortunately no details about the price has yet been released
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008 by V V S
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There was this very active rumor and speculation about Apple’s new 3G iPhone being released in Mid 2008. Now it has come true .
Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled a new iPhone at the Worldwide Developers Conference at San Francisco on 9th June, 2008 that includes features designed to make the device more business-friendly.
Apple claims it to be twice as fast but at half the price of its original version of the iPhone. The new 3G iPhone is priced @ $199 for an 8GB version and $299 for a 16GB version.
Features:
Display
- 3.5-inch (diagonal) widescreen Multi-Touch display
- 480-by-320-pixel resolution at 163 ppi
- Support for display of multiple languages and characters simultaneously
Color
- 8GB model: Black
- 16GB model: Black or white
Size and weight
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Height: 4.5 inches (115.5 mm)
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Width: 2.4 inches (62.1 mm)
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Depth: 0.48 inch (12.3 mm)
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Weight: 4.7 ounces (133 grams)
Feature & Image Courtesy: Apple.com
3G iPhone might be available in the US around mid July.
Also 3G iPhone may be launched in India by 
and 
(previously known as Hutch) in and around January 2009.
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008 by V V S
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redBus one of the prominent online bus ticket booking service has launched an exciting offer in collaboration with Visa for their credit and debit cards.
On offer is a:
- 10% discount on Visa Platinum / Signature cards, and
- 5% discount on Visa Gold / Silver cards, only on transactions of Rs. 1000 or more
This discount is applicable on tickets booked online and is valid till September 30, 2008! There is no limit to the number of times you can avail this discount either!
Availing this offer is hassle-free. When you enter your card details on the payment page, you will be charged the discounted ticket amount.
redBus Advantage
- Home delivery service of bus tickets @ Rs. 25 in major cities
- Book bus tickets online, over the phone or over the mobile
- Book bus tickets online with over 250 bus travel operators
- Book bus tickets online for over 3600 routes across India
- Return bus tickets reservation
- Cancel your bus tickets online
So make good use of the discount in this skyrocketing bus fares from the private bus booking services .
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Wednesday, June 4, 2008 by V V S
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From tomorrow, our travel expenses would creep up. I guess people should start bike-pooling similar to car-pooling to reduce expenses. This would also reduce the traffic on roads .
Finally the long wait is over, today the cabinet has approved the price hike in petrol and diesel.
From midnight today the prices of petrol and diesel would be hiked by Rs. 5 and Rs. 3 respectively from its current price accordingly throughout India. Also the price of LPG gas cylinder has been hiked by Rs. 50 per cylinder. I doubt if common man can go for a gas cylinder with these prices .
Also customs duty on crude will be made nil from 5%. Customs duty on HSD and petrol will be reduced from 7.5% to 2.5%. Customs duty on other petroleum products will be reduced from 10% to 5%. Finally, excise duty on HSD and petrol will be reduced by Re 1 per litre each. So, Re 1 on petrol and Re 1 on diesel. I guess this has curbed the present hike to such levels. If not otherwise, the expectations were around a price hike of Rs. 10 per litre for petrol and Rs. 5 per litre for diesel which would be even more worse.
May be its right time to invest on hybrid vehicles or hybrid electric vehicles which should be made affordable through immense research and development. This not only reduces our dependency on global oil prices, but also do some good to our environment keeping it green.
For people who are interested in hybrid cars here are some links which you can go through for more information.
Hybrid Cars
Hybrid Car Blog
How hybrid cars work?
Hope in the future, Green and Clean environment is affordable.
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Thursday, May 29, 2008 by V V S
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Airlift - Airport Transfer Services for Bangloreans . Cheapest and luxurious travel alternative to the new Airport. Classy way of travel to the jazzy new airport
Airlift has started an Airport Transfer Service for people of Bangalore. Since the New airport is far from the city and people feel (actually it is ) that Airport Transfers will become very expensive for the Passengers, there is a definite problem to commute to and from the New Airport.
Airlift is introducing services to make airport Transfers less expensive (affordable) and still provide the required luxury while serving customers. Airlift picks up the customers from the Airlift pickup points and drop them to the airport and vice versa bring them to the city from the airport.
Why Airlift:
- Airlift will be 6 seat air conditioned Toyota Innova.
- Individual Bucket seats for all 5 passengers.
- Airlift will have a LCD screen on each passenger seat for personalized entertainment system, these screens will show 5 channels with different contents.
- Airlift has ample overhead covered and secured luggage space.
- Airlift will be Wi-Fi enabled for passengers to browse the Internet on the screens and as well as with their laptops.
- Airlift will be driven by Auto (not the three wheeler auto-rickshaw ) Pilots who will be in uniform and well trained to communicate and present themselves to the customers.
- Airlift will also be tracked by GPS system to ensure efficient on time services and tracking every vehicle to make sure of complete security of passengers.
- Airlift is being designed to provide complete comfort and help the passenger to use their commuting time productively.
How about Pricing:
A Normal City Cab from or to the Airport will cost us about Rs. 750 to Rs. 1000 one way. Airlift has been priced at Rs. 300 one way and moreover to and from return journey for the airport will be Rs. 450 per person which is nearly 70% savings on the travel, which is not the otherwise vis-à-vis a regular City Cab.
How to avail the service:
Book Tickets online here. through Credit or Debit Card. Pickup the Prepaid Coupons in any of the Retail Stores and call 9845047788 to make a booking or use the same on the webseite
How to contact:
SMS AIRLIFT to 54545. Support team will be ready to get in touch with you ASAP.
24/7 call center number 98450 47788.
Make use of this excellent facility to avail a worry free, safe, luxurious and efficient travel to airport. May you have a “Bon Voyage“
Finally, please do remember that this is purely based on personal informational knowledge so please add up your experiences in the form of comments to this post which will aid other people to evaluate this facility.
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Thursday, May 8, 2008 by V V S
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YouTube the 5th most popular video sharing website which was first started in February, 2005
has now launched an Indian version of YouTube India just for the Indian users.
YouTube India will host videos which would be of primary interest to the Indian viewers.
The videos hosted on this website will have an Indian perspective to it i.e., it will be according to
the likes and preferences of the Indian viewers.
The partners for this launch are Zoom Channel, the UTV Group and the Rajshri Group. Hope it catches the Indian market soon.
Welcome to YouTube India
The famous “Making chai in India“
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Wednesday, May 7, 2008 by V V S
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Xobni (pronounced as Zob-nee) is the Outlook plug-in that saves you time finding email conversations, contacts and attachments. This has been first introduced to me by one of my colleagues saying its much more easier to find emails and attachments sent to our inbox. Xobni was first released as an invite-only Beta version. Luckily I got an invite from my colleague for such a very good tool for managing emails.
Now Xobni is available public for downloads. Xobni can be downloaded from here.
You might wonder how the name Xobni is given to this tool. If you reverse the word Inbox from the last letter to the first, you will get Xobni (Inbox -> Xobni)
This is how your outlook will be transformed after installing Xobni.
After a quick install, you’ll see the new Xobni toolbar appear in Outlook - and suddenly information will become much easier to find. When a new email arrives, the sender’s full communication history appears in the Xobni sidebar, including past conversations, attachments and contact details. Xobni also includes a blazing fast email search tool. The search tool is fast in the sense that it provides you with the results even as you finish typing which is one of the most liked feature by me. Other features which I like include, the attachments list sent by a particular user. You don’t even have to search for the mails with the attachments. All the attachments sent by a particular user will be separated and listed in order so that you can pick the one you needed instantaneously.
Other features also include email analytics which analyses your email usage and displays graphs, charts and ranks of people whom you are in touch with. Threaded conversations which provide a continuous conversation thread with a particular person. Automatic Phone number extraction from emails without you doing much. Xobni scans through the email text automatically and gets you the phone number of the person. While this feature gives you almost perfect results with some minor variations if at all any. One more interesting feature is the personal assistant which allows you to fix an appointment schedule or a meeting schedule by automatically selecting the free slots from your calendar.
Download it and experience the power of managed emails at your finger tips.
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Friday, April 11, 2008 by V V S
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Nikon has released some cool new camera models under its existing variant “CoolPix“.
Three new models P80, S52, S52c where P80 is released in April and the S series would be released in May.
P80 is a 10.1 mega pixel camera with an LCD display of 2.7” (diagonally), internal memory of approx. 50MB, optical zoom of 18x while the S series are 9 mega pixel models with an LCD display of 3″ (diagonally), internal memory of approx. 38MB, optical zoom of 3x.
P80 has an all-new feature called as “Sports Continuous Mode” which allows continuous shoot of about 30 consecutive pictures with 4, 6 or 13 fps depending on resolution.
S52 uses an USB to transfer files where as S52c uses a built-in Wi-Fi connection and sends images via e-mail. Also S52c supports Nikon’s online service called as “My Picturetown” with 2 GB online photo storage and photo sharing service. It also supports Flickr. These also uses an image processing technique of Nikon called as “Expeed“, which reduces noise in images.
Approximate price tags are available for P80 as US $399.95, S52 as US $249.95 and S52c as US $299.95.
P80
S52
S52c
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