Internet goes 3-D

Now here's something interesting, How about 3-D websites??? yeah yeah i know there are 3-d websites, but those are like just a single website which might have 3-d functionality... how about a tool which could convert any website on your browser into 3-D?? That would be way cool, it could change the way internet works!!

Just to illustrate.. i quote..
"Browsers can use the tool to turn their social networking pages on sites such as Facebook and MySpace into a virtual apartment, where photographs are displayed on the wall and links to friends are "doors" leading to other apartments. Users can customise their flats by "decorating" with 3D versions of couches from stores such as Ikea or downloading an e-jukebox to play music clips stored on their personal page."

So you go on like.."i'll visit my friends apartment online today..".... "hey check out the new couch i bought for my apartment".... way cool!!

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WiFi Hotspot

Finally!! Broadband! our room is finally a WiFi hotspot!!

The day was terrible, got a Punjab Roadways bus to delhi, after 5 hours of bumps n grinds..we get off at ISBT, walk a long way to McD's... the luggage was killing us!! next time around, i'm travelling light! some feeding done at McD's n we're off again with no idea of where to catch a Faridabad bound bus.. We walk all over inside ISBT, just to get to know that busses for faridabad will be available from across the road.. thank god there was a foot over bridge and god bless sheila dixit for installing escalators on them! so across the road, and we are standing like dumbheads, theres a bus for faridabad 50 mtrs away from us and we dont realise it.. finally we get to board a blueline to badarpur border. Dont even ask about the next 1 and a half hour.. it was terrible, it was exhausting, my luggage bag gave way and i had to carry it in both arms, we walked from badhkal flyover to our place, that must be a good 1 km, and with all the luggage thats saying something!! Thank god for the honda city guy who gave us a lift over the badhkal flyover, or surely we wouldnt have made it!
Completely exhausted and we enter our totally messed up room, dump the luggage and flat on our beds.. then its another hour of bathing, cleaning up n tidying everything in the room (mind you, we did a very good job.. the room looks so clean n fabulous now)... we lie down to rest, just 15 mins and theres an airtel guy on the door!!! We welcome him in and treat him like a demi god!! Finally after all those troubles and calls to the customer care centres!! half an hour of setting up everything and we are good to go!!!!!

This is my very first post through my new airtel wifi connection!! the speed is superb, 256 kbps really means 256 kbps! happy happy!! lappy n broadband, finally a reunioin!!!! after all the troubles throughout the day, the airtel guy put everything right and its a happy ending to the day!!

Lappy Happy Review

DELL XPS M1530.... here is the configuration:-

-Intel Core 2 duo T8100 2.1 GHz, 3 MB Cache
-4GB (2 x 2048) 667MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM
-256 MB Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT
-250 GB SATA Hard Disk
-15.4'' widescreen WXGA+ TFT display

well thats the main config part apart from that loads of other things such as a 2MP cam, Biometric fingerprint reader, DVD+-RW, etc.

DELL makes the XPS look sleek n compact, a thing DELL wasnt famous for with its earlier Lattitude and older Inspiron models. Design asthetics have been given a lot of thought in the XPS series, and the result is fabulous. The top has a nice matte finish with chrome thrown here and there, like the Dell logo, the XPS logo and the opening grip. The silver side trimmings add a dimension to the look. The silver keyboard looks amazing and gives a feel of those alien,futuristic sort of systems, typing is really a pleasure on the keybord, the keys are well spread and provide easy access to most hot key buttons. Just above the keyboard are a few touch sensitive media buttons which are really cool to use and look familiar to the quick launch buttons found in HP notebooks.

Connectivity with Dell is not an issue, there are ports for all kinds of connections, we have USB, HDMI, Firewire, a monitor port, ethernet port, S-Video. In the front there are 2 audio jack ports and a mic plugin. Theres an 8 in 1 memory card reader too in the front and apart from this there is also an Express card reader which doubles up as a storage area for the remote. The placement of the power on and processor in use indicators is not convenient though. They are placed right next to the mic port in the front and one cannot constantly see if the processor is being used at the time.

Coming to performance, man... i tried so hard to give the processor a rough time.. but no luck.... imagine, theres simultaneous data tranfer taking place from a DVD, a pen drive and a Wireless network. But nope, no glitches. All i had heard about Windows Vista being slow and stuff.. nope, not with this configuration atleast. The aero features are nice and smooth and browsing windows is a treat, thanks to the Nvidia graphics card. The screen display is decent and good enough for indoor use but really not meant to be used outdoors, loads of reflections. The viewing angle is decent enough though it could have been better.

The battery performance is average i feel, fully charged it provides you anywhere between 3 to 4 hours depending on what you are doing at the time. The heat management is excellent, and the heat distribution is great.. the unit heats up evenly and the whole unit feels warm rather than just a few localised burning parts. The fingerprint reader is absolutely fabulous and easy to use and provides great features, right from locking the computer to keeping private certain files and folders you dont want others to access. And the next time you visit a website and they ask you to enter your username and password, you just show them the finger!! i mean u swipe your finger, bcoz the reader also links your password with your fingerprints.

Dell provides a host of accesories with the notebook. A bluetooth wireless headset which is really too good! Noise cancelling earphones from creative, a classy case in which the notebook fits in perfectly,embossed with the XPS logo. A well padded spacious backpack. The laptop came with all the connectivity cables one could ever use with the system, All the driver CDs n DVDs, plus an original Windows Vista DVD.
One thing which really impressed me about dell is there customer care service and support staff, i mean the people really know their stuff man, unlike other customer care centres. And they make you feel like you are the supreme authority, you wont ever be doubted about the fault in your system, and they wont make you feel like..."its ur mistake". Plus they guarantee to repair any possible fault in your system by the next working business day, and you dont even have to step out of your house!

Overall, really a nice experience having a dell notebook. And the system performance is excelent i feel, apart from the minor upgradations which should be done, like improving the battery or the display and everything!

Formatted

Finally, today i was able to resurrect my pc... after a long illness.... ranging from virus attacks to partial disk failures to partial windows failure to what not. I had been working through dos for the last 2 weeks! and just clicking for winamp seems like a luxury.. rather than following the usual procedure i had become accustomed to for opening a file or an application.. which was opening the task manager, running cmd prompt from there n following the path where the particular application lies and finally being able to open it!! "alt+tab" had been like a saviour... even now my hand is accustomed to be on alt n tab!!

what would have happened had not there been a man named Bill Gates? I know some would say it would have meant there were no bugs to fix,no patches to install n no security threats to plug! But then, he's responsible for the GUI operating system that we have been taking for granted all the while... just imagine mounting every drive u wanted to use... mounting pen drives every time u connected them.. n that through tedious commands n not just mouse clicks....!! aahhh..... hmmm... coming to another topic.. we've got a new windows to look forward to..

Windows 7, code name Blackcomb or in general sense windows Vienna, due to release in december 2009 or early 2010. so by the time we're done upgrading our systems just to be eligible to install Windows Vista (that is having at least 2 Gigs of ram, a decent processor, a better than average graphics card..et all) we'll be shunned aside as passe.. move over vista ppl.. heres Vienna... i can just imagine the system requirement that Vienna would ask for..say a min of 4GB ram.. atleast a quad core processor, a 2 GB Nvidia graphics card.. n it would be installed through a blu ray disc so a blu ray reader would be required.. plus it would take up 40GB of disk space.... haah!!! maann,... technology is growing exponentially! and i see no end to it!!!!