Techie Blues

iTunes 7.7 has been released. No major changes seen except a new Remote application for iPhone or iPod touch to control iTunes playback from anywhere in your home has been incorporated and App Store has also been incorporated for facilitating downloading applications for iPhone and iPod Touch.

Do you always wanted to know how time it takes for your website/blog to load? Well, then Pingdom has come to solve your problem. It is providing free load time test for web pages. The test includes loading a complete HTML page with all the objects present and displaying the load time of all the objects visually with time bars serially.

Sony Ericsson has released 3 brand new walkman phones (W902, W595 and W302) to coincide with the 3rd birthday of Walkman Phones. Check the detailed review of the phones inside.

Last month, a very critical hole was discovered in the Firefox source code which affected both Firefox 3 and Firefox 2.x.x and the point of concern for all the users was that it could allow a hacker to execute commands remotely on a machine. To combat with this, Mozilla has released a minor update to Firefox 3. i.e. 3.0.1

Are you a Waterbaby and you want a phone that can be used on water. Then Fujitsu’s new offering F706i is exactly what you are looking for. Its completely waterproof and usable up to 6 meters underwater. Other than that it also has almost all the features that a multimedia phone can boast off.

Its official now!!!Firefox 3 has managed to set a Guinness World Record for the “Most Software Downloads in 24 hours”. The final figure is 8,002,530 downloads at present. Congrats Mozilla on this feat.

My certificate to help Firefox set the Guinness World Record for “Most downloaded software in 24 hours”. Despite the delay in availability of the download (I got it around 11pm IST) and the server overload problem that day, it was well worth it to help prove Firefox to be the best browser on the planet.

The co-founder of Microsoft and one of the driving force in the company, Bill Gates spends his last day at the office on Friday. Bill Gates who was famous for his boyish face and nerdy manner epitomized the US software colossus. However Gates, aged 52, will remain the chairman of the Microsoft board

Vodafone has opened up pre-registrations for iPhone 3G in India. All you have to do is send an SMS “IPHONE” to 56789 (Rs 3 per SMS) or book online on Vodafone’s website.

The 3G version of Apple iPhone was officially released on June 10th. Thinking what’s new in this phone? Well the phone is more slimmer and has a glossy black rear casing. Secondary camera on the front is missing considering that this is a 3G Phone.