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SeeqPod, an online ‘playable search engine’ where users search for artists or songs and can play them on the site has planned to launch a new Windows Mobile App that will enable users to search for music and play the media on the device. Users will be able to search Wikipedia articles and news on upcoming songs by all artistes.
This bloody thing’s gonna have Bluetooth as well………
Awesome or what?
We’ll see…
The blogger at http://momgadget.com/ has sold their blog for a reported $ 95,000 to an undisclosed buyer. The blog that was sold however was also undisclosed in accordance with a clause in the sales agreement. CritiSite understands that this wind-fall arrived at a time of need and financial crisis. Proving one-again the rising value of blogs, this sale gives us all a look into how valuable our blogs maybe or may become. CritiSite wishes them all the best for a bright future of blogging.
Us over at CyberTrix have decided to move on from mobile and tchno news and tips to a more varied approach to help you find your place on the net. We’ll start with th re-name…..CritiSite sounded good to us since we hope to review a lot of the new Internet and Web 2.0 technology thats been popping up lately, stuff from blogs to sites, technologies to apps, etc. Let’s see what happens!
Enjoy!
Microsoft will ship Windows 7 sometime in or near Jan. 2010,
according to a letter company senior vice president Bill Veghte sent to
Microsoft customers Tuesday.
The letter, sent to enterprise and business customers, will eventually be publicly posted on Microsoft’s Web site.
In
the letter sent to “Windows Customers” and titled “An Update on the
Windows Roadmap,” Veghte said “our plan is to deliver Windows 7
approximately three years after the January 2007 general availability
launch date of Windows Vista.”
Vista has been slowly gaining steam, but is still drawing fire from critics who say it has not lived up to promises.
Veghte
went further in addressing customer concerns over application
compatibility, which had been a problem shortly after Vista’s release.
“You’ve
also let us know you don’t want to face the kinds of incompatibility
challenges with the next version of Windows you might have experienced
early with Windows Vista. As a result, our approach with Windows 7 is
to build off the same core architecture as Windows Vista so the
investments you and our partners have made in Windows Vista will
continue to pay off with Windows 7. Our goal is to ensure the migration
process from Windows Vista to Windows 7 is straightforward.”
-TweakXP
Finally firefox 3 is out…. there was some problem earlier due to too
much traffic so some of you couldn’t download it. And still some of us
cant download it. But here it is finally!!!
use any of the below links to get Mozilla Firefox and set the world record
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/
http://laotzu.acc.umu.se/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.0/win32/en-US/Firefox%20Setup%203.0.exe
http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-3.0&os=win?=en-US
For localized versions check below link
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html
-dotNETwizard.net
With Apple’s iPhone price drop, announced today, you pay significantly
less money up front at the time of purchase: The 8GB iPhone will sell
for $199, just one-third the price that the 4GB iPhone sold for at
launch a year ago. The 16GB model will sell for $299.
Those prices put Apple’s smart phone into the reach of more consumers
than ever before. Only four handsets on our current Top 10 smart phones
chart–Palm’s Centro ($100 with a Sprint contract, $200 with an
AT&T contract), T-Mobile’s Shadow ($200 with contract) and Dash
($150 with contract), and RIM’s BlackBerry Pearl ($150 with a T-Mobile
contract)–cost less than the least expensive iPhone. And the iPhone
3G, with its integrated audio and video player, Web browsing, and GPS,
offers far more versatility than any of those competing phones
2. 3G Browsing Speed
One of the biggest drawbacks of using a mobile phone for Web activities
is the lag time. Much as point-and-shoot digital cameras frustrate
their users with seemingly interminable shutter lag, cell phone users
roll their eyes at how long it can take for a Web page to load.
The first-gen iPhone notably omitted 3G wireless in favor of the more
widely available–and significantly slower–EDGE connectivity. A year
later, 3G seems even more necessary than before, as Web pages grow more
graphically intensive.
Now that a 3G-capable iPhone has been unveiled, it’s hard to imagine
going back to not having 3G. According to Apple, Web pages will load up
to 2.8 times faster. That’s a compelling argument: I’ve waited for what
felt like hours for a PC World Shopping price-comparison page to load
on my old EDGE-based Treo when I’ve been shopping in a store, for
example. I’d much rather get the information I want sooner, rather than
twiddling my thumbs and reaching for a cup of coffee.
Unfortunately, 3G wireless service on AT&T has one catch: AT&T
Wireless’s service plans for the iPhone 3G will follow the company’s
standard pricing structure, which means that you’ll be paying for
whatever pricing plan you choose plus AT&T’s unlimited 3G data
services ($30 a month for personal use, $45 a month for business use).
Individual users will see their iPhone bill jump by $10.
3. Greater International Support
From a multilingual keyboard that you can change out on the fly to a
user-removable SIM card (a SIM-card ejector comes with the iPhone 3G),
new features in this model make it much more viable for international
use. Whether you need to access the Web while overseas, or you want to
swap out your SIM card (presumably, after an unspecified period of
time, AT&T will let its customers unlock the phone for
international use, as the company has allowed with its more standard
phones), this model is better than the original.
4. Applications Galore
Based on what I saw at the WWDC Keynote, Apple’s approach to
application development may pay off in spades. Developing applications
appears simple, limited only by the constraints of developers’
imaginations. Distributing the software through iTunes is
genius–turning to a single repository to procure content is far easier
than scouring the Web for random Symbian, Palm, Windows Mobile, or
BlackBerry apps you may want to download.
I see tremendous potential for useful–and downright fun–applications
to come out of the development process now that the iPhone software
developer’s kit is available. The potential for future apps, coupled
with the iPhone’s existing programs–its iPod video and audio
capabilities, its photo album, its easy e-mail, its Google Maps and
YouTube apps–makes the iPhone 3G a unique offering in the mobile arena.
5. iPhone: Still at the Head of the Class
A funny thing happened in the past year: For all the hoopla, for all
the assertions that the iPhone was a game-changer, the truth is, not
much has changed in the landscape of the cell phone universe in the
past year. It’s almost as if Apple is so far ahead in its innovation
and thinking that it has a seemingly insurmountable lead over its
competitors, and is in a realm of its own as a result.
The reality is, none of the so-called iPhone killers have come close to
challenging the iPhone’s media handling and ease of use. That could
change in the coming months as more cell phone vendors introduce
updates to their lines (RIM, for example, is rumored to be working on a
touch-screen interface, though its next flagship model, the BlackBerry
Bold, does not have a touch screen). In the meantime, however, Apple
will just be building on its solid head start.
Admittedly, not everyone will want–or need–to buy an iPhone 3G. For
one thing, the much-anticipated iPhone 2.0 software upgrade that will
enable the App Store for downloading applications, announced earlier
this year, will be free to all first-generation-iPhone owners.
Furthermore, some people may want to hold out for a more substantial
hardware upgrade, such as additional storage, a better camera, or other
heretofore unimagined hardware bonuses.
I may queue up for an iPhone 3G. Or I may be patient and wait for the
next big thing–which for me would be inclusion of features like 32GB
of memory.
Firefox 3 Release Candidate 3 is available in more than 45 languages as
a public preview release intended for developer testing and community
feedback. It includes new features as well as dramatic improvements to
performance, memory usage and speed.
With the announcement of the new iPhone, we figure there will be some
new interest in this bit of software that’s been around for a while: Do
you have a computer without one of those newfangled infrared spots and
a remote control? Do you still want to be able to change tracks on
iTunes or pause a movie from across the room? As long as you have an
iPod or an iPod Touch laying around, Signal
is the app for you. Its interface is almost indistinguishable from the
regular iTunes player on those devices, which makes it a breeze to use.
Here’s how it works: download Signal and open it up, then input
the IP address it gives you into your iPhone or iPod. Boom! You can
access all your iTunes media from your device. Signal lets you change
speakers, adjust volume, turn on shuffle or repeat, and pretty much
anything else you could do from within iTunes.
There’s a full
demo, so you might want to try it out before you shell out 25 bones,
but here are a couple of things to consider:. If you’re going to buy a
standard remote anyway (like the Apple Remote, for example), remember
that Signal will work with your iPhone or iTouch from anywhere your
network reaches, so you can use it to shoot around walls. Also consider
that Signal has both Mac and Windows versions, where some other remotes
only work with one platform.
We’ve seen some early USB 3.0 gear here and there,
but it looks like the successor to everyone’s favorite serial bus is
off to a rocky start, with AMD and NVIDIA claiming that Intel is
withholding crucial specifications necessary to develop an open host
controller. Although Intel apparently already has working silicon, it’s
not willing to share — so AMD and NVIDIA are working on a competing
spec that will be introduced alongside Intel’s. The first meeting of
the alternate spec group is scheduled for next week, according to
sources, but there could be problems with this diverging roadmap down
the line: sources close to Intel say that the only reason the specs
haven’t been released is that they’re not done, and that Intel doesn’t
want incompatible chipsets based on different versions of the spec out
there. Sure, sure, but we’re certain both sides are playing a little
fast and loose with reality here — good thing all these fools have
until 2010 to get this sorted.
-Engadget
