iPhone 4 is a 4th generation of iPhone and a successor to the iPhone 3GS. The gizmo is said to hit the US Market on 24^th June, 2010 at a price of $199 USD for the 16GB (white) model and $299 USD for 32GB (black) model. You can purchase this gadget from Apple Store. At present, AT & T holds the exclusive rights. Though it will be also available as SIM-Free in some countries. Even before its launch, 600,000 units are already pre-ordered. This shows that people are really dying to try their hand on the new incarnation of the iPhone.

Features of iPhone 4 –

• Physical Dimension – 110 * 59 * 9.3 (mm); the new industrial design makes it the slimmest phone in the world.

• The core technology is chipped in-between two glossy panels of aluminosilicate glass. It is chemically manipulated for our needs – It is 20 times stiffer and 30 times harder than plastic, claims to be scratch resistant and ultra durable. The new iPhone 4 respects Mother Nature and the panels used are completely recyclable.

• The primary structure is built using Stainless Steel and the build quality is really impressive. The components are tightly packed maintaining structural rigidity but it is not heavy at all- It weighs 136.08 gram. The side buttons are classic in look and contains both the antennas for transmission and reception.

• Apple A4 Processor – The name speaks for itself. It is an efficient mobile processor which is capable of multi-tasking. Multi-tasking refers to running various applications (including third party applications) and instantaneously switching between them without consuming much from battery Multi-tasking is done with the help of 512Mb of RAM. A Micro-SIM is used for storing the data. A bigger battery comes with a promise of 7 hours of talk time, 6 hours of 3G browsing, 10 hours of Wi-Fi browsing, and 300 hours of standby.

• Retina Display – The screen is truly magnificent. It is next to impossible to locate the pixels. The screen is full of life. It would be difficult to get your eyes off the screen. The screen size is 960 by 264 with LCD display. With such a large screen to work on, the APPLE team provided an extra feature of ‘Multi-Touch’. Multi-touch is basically a technique of transmitting information in an innovative way. It registers a set of ‘hand gestures’ and thus executes corresponding actions linked with it.

• Dual-Side Camera – It comes with a high quality 5.0 Mega Pixel camera with built-in LED flash. Even in low-light conditions, it yields great images. It has a VGA camera in the front and a 5.0 Mp camera at the rear panel. The rear camera records High-Definition video in 720p @ 30frames/sec. Optical Zoom of 5x can come in handy for many users. The videos can be edited by introducing themes and transitions. The dual camera supports the ‘FaceTime’, which is basically an integrated video conferencing tool which connects two or more iPhone 4 models via WI-FI network.

• Audacity – It comes with 2 Mic- systems. The main mic is located at the bottom and the auxiliary mic is given next to the headphone jack. Dual-Mic suppresses the noise and enhances better communication.

• Gyroscope – It is a digital compass. What’s new in this gyroscope is that it provides precise accuracy of 3-axis coordinates. Accelerometer – This device helps in detecting acceleration, shake, vibration shock, or fall by detecting linear acceleration along one of three axes (X, Y and Z). Together they enable the user to determine how fast and far the object can reach with accuracy.

We can create folders and organize applications for fast access with ease. iPhone 4 will be a style statement for those who believe in flaunting technology with style.

Stay Digified !!
Nitish Jha

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This list will help advertisers to choose the publisher based on their interest and can also scale on the websites performance.

For each site on the list, you’ll be able to see:

• The site category
• Unique Visitors (users)
• Page Views
• Whether the site has ads

However, as a privacy policy the list does not include sites which have private content.

Stay Digified !!
Sachin Khosla

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Earlier this year Nokia announced OVI maps free for life and it brought smile to many Nokia users. But for users like me who had purchased Nokia long before and had handsets like Nokia E71 were little put off.

But today Nokia announced free navigation for Nokia E71 and Nokia E66. That is going to bring joy to many Nokia users.  To get start using free navigation follow the steps below :

1. Download the new Ovi Maps application from nokia.com/maps to your PC
2. Install the application using Ovi Suite to your device
3. Go to applications folder and start using Ovi Maps

Enjoy navigating your city !!

Stay Digified !!
Sachin Khosla

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Now, for all those who cannot leave their play stations alone at home, for those who hate taking their hands off their game, here it is- the Micromax G4 Gamolution or the Gaming Revolution. This phone gives an all new gaming experience. It does not need controls to play games like other mobiles. It is a gaming console in itself. Its motion sensors have been compared to Nintendo’s Wii. What more can one ask for? Also, it comes with a CD of four motion controlled games and game manuals. Take a breath all you gaming freaks, that’s not all.

The G4 offers more:

• Dual band GSM phone
• Dimensions 112*49.6*12.8mm
• 2.4 inch display
• Bluetooth
• A music player supporting multiple formats
• A Wap browser with a maximum speed of 14.4 kbps
• Expandable memory up to 4 GB
• 2 MP camera
• The camera can function as a web camera when connected to a PC
• Video player
• Li-ion 850 mAh
• FM Radio

Apart from these, it offers up to 5 hours talk time and 8 days stand by time. This phone has everything one can ask for, and more. The main attraction being the wireless motion controller like Wii. This is enough for all the hands which never stop playing. It is almost like carrying your Wii along. Is there anything better than this?

The newest addition to the mobile world, G4 has been given a good start. The ongoing IPL (Indian Premier League) in India, has been chosen by the G4 makers. Advertisements can be seen during the commercial breaks. The ambassador is Akshay Kumar making it all the more interesting.

Now the most unbelievable part the price . The G4 will be available in INDIA at Dealer price of 4750 INR so its market price will range from 5000 to 5500.

But, the only drawback is that the Motion Controller is the only main feature and hence, will only be in favor of the Gaming freaks. I suggest all others should definitely not miss out on G4 and its Revolution!

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Google Dashboard is answer to such requirement. It provides you a launchpad from where you can see all the Google services which you are using. It also provides the related data to that service. For example I did not know i have 1974 contacts in my Google Contacts, I had subscribed to 6 Google Alerts, and I have joined 5 sites on Google Friend Connect. All the data right at one place and what else, you can administer the respective accounts and make the relevant changes.

The best part of Google Dashboard is that it re-arranges the services according to an intelligent algorithm which records your usage. The data stored is only the usage data which is recorded when you are logged in .

To see your dashboard you have to visit http://google.com/dashboard . It will ask you to sign-in with your Google account credentials. Once signed in you can access all your data at one central location. You can delete services from there, can change their settings and do a lot more. So go ahead and checkout your Google Dashboard now.

Stay Digified !!
Sachin Khosla

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My Yahoo meme page is http://meme.yahoo.com/realin/ and I tried to dissect it for the visitors of Digimantra.

How is it Different than twitter ?

There are lot of differences between twitter and Yahoo meme. Twitter on its homepage only allows you to post text in the form of tweets. On the other hand Yahoo Meme, allows you to post different type of content like text, pictures, video and even music. So that breaks the limit to rely on third-party APIs to post images and other stuff as a part of micro-blogging.

Yahoo meme does not seem to have character limit for posting your text that is unlike twitter which has a character limit of 140 chars. This possibly gave rise to many URL shortening services in the internet today.

Yahoo meme has a Dog as its brand icon instead of a twitter bird - irony ?

Look & Feel

Yahoo meme is still in the alpha version, but from the very first experience it worked without any error messages or crashes – impressive ? The user interface is very neat and looks pretty rigid. When I tried to view the source of the dashboard page, I could find the traces of JQuery code, instead of YUI, that is pretty strange though.  However, the Ajax works pretty nice and is decent enough to work seamlessly, its probably because there are few users on the server who are sending requests.

Other than this it comes with few built-in themes which are already present in your settings area. Currently they provide 6 themes all in total and no custom theme support as if now, remember its alpha version. The switching of themes is instant in comparison to twitter theme switching interface.

How do I get invited ?

Yes you guessed it right that Yahoo meme is invite only and I have 10 invites left with me. So if you need Yahoo meme’s instant invite leave a comment here. Please do not type your email address in the comment (to prevent spam), just fill in the email address in the Mail address field. I will definitely send you the invite, if I am left with any.

At the same time you can always get invited directly from yahoo meme. All you have to do is just visit their homepage and leave your email address there. They will send you invite depending upon the request pipeline.

What’s there for the developers ?

Yahoo Meme, has not launched any sort of API for the developers. So think this is the only point where Meme is lagging behind twitter. But as its in alpha version, may be they are planning to launch it when they reach near stability. But whenever it is going to be launched, it will definitely rock the scene.

If you need to know latest about Yahoo meme, you can follow /thememe to know more or at-least view its updates.To know more about Yahoo meme, visit its about page.

Hope you like what Yahoo is building for you. Go and meme about it.

Stay Digified !!
Sachin Khosla

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However wp.me is different than the other URL shortening services in the following ways :

• WP.me is the only two-letter .me domain in the world.
• Every blog and post on WordPress.com has a WP.me URL now.
• These are all exposed in the <head> using rel=shortlink.
• It doesn’t work for any URL in the world, just WP.com-hosted ones.
• The links are permanent, they will work as long as WordPress.com is around.
• WP.me is spam-free, because we are constantly monitoring and removing spam from WP.com.

WordPress people decide to launch this after tr.im declared that they are going to shutdown by end of this year, but at the last moment they got saved. But if that was supposed to get true then all URLs which are bookmarked or being used with tr.im will go 404. That means, you can never reach to the actual pages behind those short URLs. As a result this has shaken the credebility of many URL shortening services. If wordpresss has its own URL shortening service that means you can trust the one and cannot expect it to cease in the near future.

WordPress also supports this service for the self-hosted wordpress installs provided you have installed and activated their inhouse plugin called Stats plugin.

How can you use it?

There is now a “Get Shortlink” button next to your permalink when you edit or write a post, and when you click it you’ll get a popup with the beautiful link already highlighted for your copy and pasting pleasure.

If you’re logged in you can also get the shortlink for any page on WordPress.com, there’s a link under the “Blog Info” menu in your admin bar.

Stay Digified !!
Sachin Khosla

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Bhuvan is a major step taken in terms of development over the Internet by India. Bhuvan a Sanskrit word which literally means Earth in english is a geoportal which provides virtual images of entire India over the internet. Yes, currently Bhuvan is able to show images only from India and gradually ISRO is planning to cover the entire earth. It is a project started by government of India and is much similar to Google maps ,Wikimapia etc.

Just like other applications, Bhuvan lets your discover India through images by the means of which you can discover the real India and its regional information. It provides various modes to access, from societal images to interactive 3D environment. Its main aim is to provide a feel of inside India. You can fly around India with the help of Bhuvan and explore the various parts of India and its culture, society through Societal applications.

To experience Bhuvan, you will have to register first. After getting registered and login, you will have to download the Bhuvan plugin which makes it possible to use Bhuvan in your browser. The download link might probably be hard to find due to same color of the text and links, so click here to download bhuvan plugin. You need to have DirectX and .Net framework installed in your system, which should be by default in your system.

The images provided by Bhuvan are not real time, they are images combined with virtual mapping. These images are the ones taken in the last 3 years. Currently you are not allowed to add your location information to its database instead you can just browse the different locations in India. It only supports Windows platform and hence Linux, Mac users will have to wait for sometime, until they launch something more generic which supports all platforms or is platform independent.

You will be able to see the following data on Bhuvan

• Satellite imagery (LISS III , LISS IV along with metadata and  Multi- temporal Data from OCM & AWiFS)
• Value added information (NADAMS – National Agricultural Drought Monitoring System), Output of flood studies for certain areas,
• Thematic information  (Wastelands, Soils, watershed,water resources related maps)
• Base layers ( administrative boundaries, transport layers, water bodies, etc)
• Census information
• Metadata

In my opinion, this project should have been made open source and they could have asked people to contribute. That way the development goes faster, the bugs get filed and fixed more fast. But its matter of choice that they are keeping it close ended, but it will be good if the development doesn’t cease in the middle of something and they can complete what they have quoted. Good luck to ISRO and its team.

Happy Independence Day.

Stay Digified !!
Sachin Khosla

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Well microsoft has launched its beta version for Internet Explorer. IE world’s favorite browser (may not be the one after Firefox) has launched yet another release claiming it to be more secure and more user friendly.

Well do not have much time to review the browser and write more about it, but here is the link from where Internet explorer 8 – beta can be downloaded. Download and enjoy !!

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Numiton says the following about their product nWP as :

Blogging for Java

nWordPress is the Java counterpart of the WordPress project version 2.5.1. It is an easy to install and lightweight blogging engine with a rich administrative interface, nWordPress lets you concentrate on writing quality content.

nWordPress is an open-source project under the GPL license, same as WordPress. It currently provides almost all of the original functionality, with comparable performance.

Under the hood, nWordPress is built on the Spring MVC framework.

I think its a good start for java lovers, because i could not find much of open source ready to use applications in java as much as i can find in PHP. If java is seen as an enterprise language then why java should bother about such a small project like wordpress
This claims that PHP is soon going to enter into enterprise world or almost has done it. Java, you have got competition :p

Cheers !!
Realin !

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Nokia Tube is here ,guys, and now it’s called the 5800 XpressMusic… clever marketing on Nokia’s part because they don’t want to draw direct comparisons to the iPhone and the XpressMusic line is quite popular in the low end, at least in the U.S. It’s music-centric device, says Nokia, and has a 3.2-inch haptic touch-screen, 3.2-megapixel AF camera with dual-LED flash, VGA front camera, A-GPS, HDSPA, up to 16GB of storage via microSD and some loud speakers which were actually quite clear and crisp. We saw the Tube last night and neither of us came away impressed. I thought the accelerometer was quite responsive, but we were sorely disappointed in the Web browser. The menu system was overcrowded and wasn’t simple like the iPhone’s. S60 devices are just a big mess of menus and sub-menus and this was no different. The 5800 will be available in Europe by year’s end for 279 Euro/129 UK Pounds/$227 USD and it comes with a fancy plectrum-style stylus and an 8GB microSD. There are no carriers announced and it may be available from Nokia stores and online next year. This is also Nokia’s Music phone, a service that offers unlimited music downloads for the first year of ownership.

cheers !!

Realin !

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The last update to the Hypertext Markup Language — the lingua franca of the web — was the 4.01 specification completed in September, 1999.

Year 1999 was also the time when browsers went into mutual wars. When IE4 gave birth to IE5 and so on. Netscape finally gave up its stakes and from some debris lying in a corner Mozilla came out with its brilliant browser called Firefox, which straight a way hyped to number second after IE. There on Apple released its Safari and now we are working on google’s chrome. In the browser war we lost Opera somewhere to the handheld devices, but shouldn’t forget Opera is the one who challenges different browser’s like IE for its standards and is the one which empowers the handheld devices like Android and iPhone.

But all this messup only lead to disarray and as a result of this HTML 5 is still under progress or is in drafts only. Consequently this gave rise to another group called WHATWG( Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group) which have there say for HTML 5. This group is different than that of W3C and it includes representatives from Mozilla, the KHTML/WebKit project, Google, Apple, Opera and Microsoft. And although the draft may not be ratified for years, work on HTML 5 continues.

So what does HTML 5 offer? Here’s a rundown of the most exciting advancements in the HTML 5 draft specification today:

• A new, sensible tagging strategy. Instead of bundling all multimedia into object or embed tags, video goes in video tags. Audio goes in audio tags, and so on.
• Localized databases. This feature, when implemented, automatically embeds a local SQL database websites can read and write to, speeding up interactive searching, cacheing and indexing functions, or for offline use of web apps that rely on data requests.
• Rich animations without plug-ins. The canvas element gives the browser the ability to draw vector graphics. This means configurable, automatic graphs and illustrations right in the browser without Flash or Silverlight. Some support for canvas is already in all the latest browsers except for IE.
• Real apps in the browser. APIs for in-browser editing, drag and drop, back button “waypoints,” and other graphical user interface abilities.
• Content presentation tags will be phased out, and CSS will rule.

But geeks don’t seek this HTML 5 coming in near future, some sites also claim that this standard may delay as long as 2022, i am not sure how real this gonna be

cheers !!

Realin !

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Google Moderator beta launched yesterday, yet another web-application by google. So what is the big deal this time google brought for us ? Well, this is a simple tool that helps groups determine which questions should be asked at all hands meetings, conferences, Q&A sessions, etc. This is mainly to focus quality over quantity, because meetings/conferences etc have very less time and only the relevant questions need to come up. Moderator lets users add questions and vote on the questions of others, so more the votes better the question is and hence more it will be used/asked.

Moderator was built by Taliver Heath as a side project and resides on Google App Engine and he describes the product on the Google App Engine blog.

I designed a tool in my 20% time that would allow anyone attending a tech talk to submit a question, and then give other participants a way to vote on whether or not that question should be asked. This way, the most popular and relevant questions would rise to the top so that the presenter or the moderator of an event could run the discussion more efficiently and in a transparent manner. The tool, which we internally called “Dory” after our favorite question-asking fish in Finding Nemo, quickly grew to other parts of Google including our weekly all-hands company meeting, as well as for our series of talks led by political candidates or distinguished authors.

Cheers !!

Realin !

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So finally much awaited google’s GPhone has been shown in press conference by T-Mobile service in USA. It will be launched on October 22, 2008. The review says its no where near to iPhone by the first look & feel but still it is close to it. Talking about Android Phone or GPhone’s launch in India, well it seems little far away trade. Apple certainly earns its part of bucks selling music through iTunes and its through its app store, and there by google targets the same. Android has a section called App Market. It will be well noticed after its launch on Oct 22. But to sneak peak i have list of few apps which someone published online after manhandling the new G1 at T-Mobile’s press conference in states. Here is a list:

AnyCut—Basically lets you program shortcuts using the keys on the phone. Shouldn’t this be part of the phone’s settings?

BreadCrumbz—lets you make a route on a map using pictures of landmarks to enhance the directions.

Cocktail—Tell it what ingredients you have at hand, it will come up with cocktails you can make. Yum.

Compass—What it sounds like. Great for hiking.

Contacts De-Duper—Don’t you hate it when you have the same contact listed more than once on your phone? This de-dupes them for you.

EcoRio—These guys were featured onstage. They help you reduce your carbon footprint. Looked like a ride share app to me.

Krystle II—A touchy, feely Tomigochi. This app turns your phone into a pet that you need to take care of and stroke, using the touch screen, of course. Gross.

Mandelbrot Map—Uses chaos theory to create maps with an “infinite view.” I should have downloaded this one.

Panoramio—Shows you photos on a map near wheer you are. Already integrated into Google Maps.

Photostream—A Flickr photo browser.

Pocket Seismograph—Was that an earthquake? Now, you can check for yourself.

Quicklist—A to-do list. Everyone needs one of those.

Radar—Shows where you are on a radar-like screen. Meh.

Ringroid—Create a ringtone from any song in your music library. Love it.

ShopSavvy—Also featured onstage. Uses the camera as a bar-code scanner to let you compare prices while shopping in a store.

Text-to-Speech Library—What it sounds like. Turns text into speech through the phone’s speaker.

Video Player—Seems like that should come with the phone too

Translate—Uses Google Translate to turn foreign words into your own language.

Undoubtedly, the launch of Android Phone may certainly effect the price tag of iPhone in india which is currently little more than normal. Airtel & Vodaphone are in no good business with iPhone at the moment and the launch of GPhone will certainly effect the global prices of iPhone, lets see how the indian markets gotta deal with it

Well now actually waiting for the GPhone to hit indian markets, atleast i expect the grey market to hit by feb-2009

cheers !!

Realin !

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Ring your bell as it is only on invite beta basis, fill in your email address and then wait for the invite. The details about this social networking site is still scant but the word is spreading like fire in the forest

Keep updated if you get to know anything about it ..

Cheers !!

Realin !

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