According to Facebook:

“You’ll find a personal and social experience the moment you arrive on our select partner sites — Docs.com, Pandora, and Yelp. We’re working closely with these partners so you can quickly connect with your friends and see relevant content on their sites. These sites personalize your experience using your public Facebook information. When you arrive on these sites, you’ll see a notification from Facebook at the top of the page.
You can easily opt-out of experiencing this on these sites by “No Thanks” on the blue Facebook notification on the top of partner sites.”

To disable this feature, go to Account > Privacy Settings > Applications and Websites > Instant Personalization and uncheck “Allow”.

(Thanks Arun Pattnaik)

(Thanks Harish)

Most Twitter apps download all my tweets when the application starts, which turns out to be very expensive (and sometimes unnecessary) when I am connected on GPRS and all I wanna do is post a simple update to my followers. The same goes for Twitter’s own mobile site too.

You may find http://twtr.im useful incase you have come across a similar situation. twtr.im‘s homepage is only about 1 KB in size and posting a tweet would add another couple of KB’s to your bill. In short, it’s simple, fast and dirt cheap.

The app works on all GPRS enabled mobile phones.

1. As someone who owns both an iPhone and a Macbook, I wonder why I would want to carry a third “something in between” device with me.

2. The only possible reason i may want to use the iPad is to play App Store games on a larger screen. But why did this need arise in the first place? Because those games aren’t available on a Mac! Seriously people, if Apple really cared, they wouldn’t make you buy new hardware to play the same old games.

3. I’ve never used a Kindle and still don’t get the point of lugging around a dedicated e-book reader. There is a practical limit to the number of devices I can carry with me when I am travelling – and an iPhone + laptop should suffice most of the time. Hence, the iPad being projected as a “Kindle killer” may not be such a big deal afterall.

4. If the iPad screen is similar to a Macbook, why not read your e-books on your laptop instead? The iPad screen, no matter how good still cannot beat Amazon’s e-ink technology.

5. The iPad seems too big (and possibly fragile) to carry around all the time. Does the package include a casing?

6. A full fledged browsing device and no Flash? What were you thinking Apple?

7. Still no support of running multiple apps simultaneously. No way I’m going to close my browser each time I want to copy some text into my text editor.

8. (BONUS) The iPad is a silly name – Sounds like a feminine hygiene product to me!

Hoping all the Apple Tablet rumors come true.

1. Attero

2. Ecoreco

3. E-Parisaraa (Thanks Ambuj)

Like most Indian households, even my house is filled with tons of old and obsolete gadgets which I no longer use.

But, Indians typically refuse to let go of anything unless they’re paid for it. Even if it means that it’ll continue to lie around their house for ages. Yes, they did pay a hefty sum for it when it was the hottest thing around. But giving it to the local kabari wallah, who has no idea what to do with it except weighing it in kilos and giving you a few pennies in exchange, is not the correct way to dispose it.

Considering the rapid innovation and ever decreasing “shelf life” of electronics, it’s time we also take responsibility of correctly disposing what we owned.

Obviously this data is not real-time, but still provides a relatively accurate representation in terms of the average growth.

Do you think you can keep pace?

1. Gadget Guru, on NDTV Profit, hosted by one of my favorite TV hosts – Rajiv Makhni

2. Tech Guru, on CNBC Awaaz hosted by Ankit

3. Cell Guru, on NDTV India (with re-runs on NDTV 24×7 and NDTV Profit)

4. Sony Style TV Magazine, on AXN hosted by Oli Pettigrew. Partially dedicated to Sony’s innovations but still a must-watch.

5. Tech Mantra, on IBN 7

6. Tech Toys, on CNBC 18

7. Click, on BBC World News

If you watch any other TV shows which deserve a mention here, please add them as a comment.