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sorry about disappearing

Jun 8th

….. Where I’ve been.

I’m really sorry for not updating GeekTech for the past two weeks. I’ve been on vacation and didn’t have access to a good connection/computer. Of course I had my N97 but it also died last week and I was totally out of contact with anyone. No twitter, no facebook, no music, no movies (yes, I like watching movies on the N97), no games, no messaging, no push email, no nothing.

I got back day before yesterday and thing are somewhat settling down. I gave the N97 to a the service centre guy and will receive it back only after 15 days.

For the time being I’ve put my sim in my old N70. The experience isn’t good.

Anyway. Will start blogging this week.

Cheers everyone.

Book Review – A Century Turns by William J. Bennett

Apr 29th

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I agreed to review this book cause it was the only book available at BookSneeze at the moment and I needed something to read, I was looking for fiction, but had to do with this one …. and frankly I’m actually glad that I read this book. Here is a very short review.

You want to brush up your American history, pick up this book. This book is not just American history, it talks about it’s future too. Subjects such as politics, pop culture, economics, technology, war and religion have also been touched.

He has curiously remained neutral throughout the book, even at place where I thought he would not be. J. Bennett is analysing American history in this book and this book is not objective as the first two volumes. His personal comments are in footnotes and they are very interesting – don’t miss them.

This book is also a reminder of how much has changed in the past 20 years -

Twenty years ago in our political and popular culture, there was no Fox News Channel; there was no Tonight Show with Jay Leno, no American Idol, no Jonas Brothers, no Taylor Swift, no Hannah Montana.

The tone of the book is very interesting –

Twenty years is a long time. Twenty years ago, if you had asked someone to “e-mail me” or said, “check out my website (or blog),” or began a phrase with “www” or asked if an article was “available online” or tried to tell someone what was on your “iPod playlist,” you would have received a blank stare. “Amazon” was known simply as a forest in South America, “blackberry” was a fruit, and “Google” meant nothing.

This short review is already longer than I meant it to be. American students, and people interested in American history will benefit most from this book.

This book is a complimentary copy provided to me by Thomas Nelson Publishers from BookSneeze for review purpose.

More info about the book here.

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E72 – The E series Flagship

Mar 21st

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This is the second part of my two part Nokia E72 review. You can read the first part here. And you can find the N97 vs. E72 camera test results here.

In this review I’m talking only about the things that really impressed me. I won’t be talking about contacts, alarm, message reader or music player etc. cause they are pretty much similar in every high end Nokia device.

After switching on the phone, first thing that impressed me is the speed of the device and the memory available in C drive; both are more that N97. The speed is because of the 600Mhz processor under the hood. The 250MB memory in the C drive ensures that even if you install every app and game in C, you won’t run out of memory.
Active Standby Screen – The active standby screen is very convenient and gives you the information and notifications in a quick way. It allows me to set-up 14 different kind of notifications: email boxes, voice mail, calendar, to-do, music player, FM radio, chat, WLAN scanning, search and shortcuts to the apps I use most frequently. Mode switcher is another impressive feature. It allows you to have two different phone set-up each customised with it’s own theme, wallpaper and application shortcuts and lets you switch between them with just a click.

Nokia Messaging – I’m impressed by Nokia messaging in E72, it is tightly integrated into the firmware and works really well. The customization options are great to make the mailbox really personal. The only thing that’s bugging me is the lack of the threads, I’ve gotten too much used to Google Gmail and threads do make things simpler and faster. Nokia messaging is evolving very fast so I expect it will have this feature soon.

GPS and Ovi Maps – E72 has a built-in GPS receiver along with A-GPS. Ovi maps with free navigation is available via SW Update which will give you free voice guided navigation forever. The GPS chip of E72 is very powerful, I got a lock from cold start in about 10 seconds with A-GPS on which is awesome. N97 takes more time to get a lock.

Goodies -

Facebook is pre-installed and it works great, it is similar to the one in N97.
I was quite excited about multi-scanner but it was not so accurate in scanning text.
WiPresenter is simple and a very useful app.
The World Traveler app combines both eye-candy and functionality. It has weather forecasts, world clock, currency converter, flights info and even a 3D globe – very useful.
E72 has full versions of both PDF reader and QuickOffice. Newer versions are available for free so I suggest you download and install them.