Bought a car, Nissan Sentra few weeks back. Hope to explore lot of places in Arizona and the West ..

Gmail Priority Inbox

I was seeing a small link in red called "New Priority Inbox _beta" from yesterday. Today I clicked it... it said, Failed to activate Priority Inbox.

After couple of tries it got activated. So, What is it ??

This new feature if it works really as advertised will be really an awesome feature for most of us. Simply to put up, it just prioritizes the mails for us. But how ? Just it does it by watching our read/sent mails and also it gives us an option to mark a mail as Important/ Unimportant.

And also there is a new mailbox view which categorize the mails as : 

1. Important and Unread  or
   
2. Starred  or
   
3. Everything Else
   

I have subscribed to lot of newsletters starting from Techrepublic to DotNetSlackers and etc. And now Im not reading all of them or at-least not all the issues. So the quantity of the mail, then mails from Dell, HP, etc are just filling my mailbox. I dont want to unsubscribe those and also I dont want to label and archive them. I want it in my inbox. And also, sometimes, there is a possibility of missing a mail from some person due to the number of these kind of mails. So, the better way is prioritizing it. Thats what its all about !!

New Priority Inbox didnt read my old mails and its not showing any proper Important and Unread messages. May be it need sometime to loop through mails etc.. Hope it works as expected.

Came to Phoenix, Arizona last month 31st . Working with a credit card giant.  For people who dont know, Arizona is a dry and hot place. Yes, its really hot even at 10pm :-(  Its located in the South Western side of the continent. Phoenix is the hottest city in the whole USA. . .

Yes, I will miss the skyscrapers, snow, busy streets in the East coast. But I have access to lot of National Parks from here in the West.

I live in Scottsdale(Phoenix Metropolitan Area), which is a big town near Phoenix. And office is around 2 miles from my flat. Have a lot to blog about, hope I will get back :)

Canon EOS 7D

Bought a new Canon EOS 7D !!
More updates here : http://clicks.kiruthik.com/  or http://flickr.com/kiruthik

Didn't blog for a long time, haven't read anything,  watching all the movies on the day one, always chewing like a cow, annoying my cousin sister Durgaa, and for no reason pressurizing my bike . . .

Awful right ?   I'm doing all these for the past 100+ days !! Neither working nor doing anything useful, but am not feeling bad about it :D  

I'm getting into a new role with a new client. So for the past 2 months, the crazy initial stage, client specific trainings, setups, raising requests, new team, etc are my work. And before that it was end of a project and was free for nearly a month !!

Telecommuting in which I'm very good at :D is what my work is all about. Lets see how long its goes like this !!

Slate PC

In the CES keynote Steve Ballmer explained the HP slate tablet are "more powerful than a phone and almost as powerful as a PC. Perfect for reading, surfing the web and taking entertainment on the go," Ballmer showed the HP tablet running Amazon's Kindle software and played a video on it. Microsoft adopted the name slate computer to distinguish it from the pen-and-screen dealy introduced by Bill Gates in 2001. However, its not the real name for the tablet PC. Lets wait for the Slate!!

Update : 07 Apr 2010 - HP Slate info - leaked !!

http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/hp-slate-to-cost-549-have-1-6ghz-atom-z530-5-hour-battery/

Happy New Year 2010

A long distance STD Call to one state to the other was around Rs 50 per minute. Likewise 500 Hours of TCP/IP internet connection (56Kbps max speed dial up based) was around Rs 10,000/- This was the situation in 1997/8, when I was doing 11th class, in  Namakkal, a town in TamilNadu, where there wasnt a internet dialup server, so I have to do a STD call to connect to the internet.

Today, due to high volume and usage, voice & data bandwidth are becoming dead cheap! When compared to the US, UK or Australia, we enjoy the "cheapest" rates, which is also due to the "high population".

In the West, lot of companies landline (wired phone), gives option like Pay flat for the call, ie., 10 cents/pennies per call, regardless of the duration of the call.. And in some cases, you can see, free outgoing from landline to landline. This was there for nearly a decade.

Oflate here in India,  when the new GSM Cellular providers came into the market, especially TATA DOCOMO brought Pay per second PLAN, which is now catching up very hotly. And parallely, we have got Pay per call, which is around Rs 3 per ten minutes, or Re 1 per three minutes (for Local/STD / while in Roaming) which is also catching up!.

Likewise the broadband connection is hitting the cheapest rate, like 20GB download a month is around Rs 750 etc Possibility of the rates to go down, as usage per Sq.Km is still getting dense (thanks to the indian population!!)

I still remember the days I liked to download few hundred MB,and it was pathetic!! Now, I love these rates,speed, and its just a throw away price.
Also, the technology has reached and reaching all the levels of people!!
But, when are we going to reach a saturation level ? Its soon, probably in few years..like the US/UK.

Canon EOS 1000D DSLR

After spending nearly 3.5 yrs with my Canon Powershot A610, I ended up buying a Canon EOS 1000D last month. As I always like to think of Canon/Nikon for camera, this time I considered Nikon D60, Nikon D3000 , Canon EOS 450D and Canon EOS 1000D. Later, I decided to go in for a cheapest one as its my first DSLR, then I narrowed down to Canon EOS 1000D and Nikon D3000, and later I picked Canon EOS 1000D.

 

The reviews of Canon EOS 1000D from some good camera reviewing sites are listed down.

My favorite site : DPReview 

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