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30+ Awesome Free New Year Wallpapers

rpsingh — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 03:01:04 +0000

2010 is coming shortly and everyone looks forward to the beginning of a successful year ahead. Here are 30+ inspiring wallpapers for your desktop to dress it up with the color of 2010.

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13 Best Sites For Downloading Free Legal MP3 music

rpsingh — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 03:30:42 +0000

Music resides in every heart of the world and every heart loves free music and if it is legal to download too, you can’t ask for more. Here are the 13 best sites on the internet to download free and legal music.

1. Jamendo

Jamendo allows users to download songs from various artists that are absolutely free and legal. The users can listen, share and download music in a easy way. You can also publish your own music and can earn money by building your fan base. There are about 700,000 active members with 28000 published albums.

2. MP3.COM

MP3.com is the most comprehensive archive for free music downloads. It is so popular that it also attracts some of the big performers. On MP3.com the users can find new talent and artists can promote their own music. Free MP3 downloads are available from thousands of artists.

3. SoundClick

SoundClick appears to be adding over 40,000 songs each month. This portal also claims to offer over 1 million free tracks. There’s certainly a goodly selection of free mp3 and WMA tracks available for download and streaming in a wide range of genres.

4. Amazon

Amazon is little known for providing free MP3 music but it does have some really nice songs in its store. You have to hunt around the site to grab the goodies on offer. You need to be US citizen and to have a US Amazon account in order to download the songs. This is the music resource for US citizens only.

5. FreeKidsMusic

FreeKidsMusic is a dedicated website for children’s music. This is a great place for finding free music for kids. The site offers no guarantee for the time that a particular song will be available. It also has a traditional music category in which the songs are sorted alphabetically.

6. Epitonic

Great selection of stuff from all sorts of predominantly modern genres. Be sure to check out all the similar artist selections and streams. The site can help you explore new genres with short audio guided tours.

7. Last.Fm

Last.fm offers some great free songs to download including songs from Jaydiohead, Peter Björn and John, The Thermals, White Lies, John Lennon & Yoko Ono. There are about 250 tracks to download on last.fm. Basides these free songs the site also gives you recommendations based on your music taste.

8. 7Digital

7Digital offers free MP3 songs from categories such as Rock, reggae, Hip-Hop, Various and Audiobooks. The Free songs are updated weekly so you get to hear all the latest music you want. It has a very clean looking interface as well.

9. GarageBand

At GarageBand you can listen and download tracks belonging to various genres such as Folk, hip hop, Alternative pop, punk, rock, rap etc. It features track of the week, top songs and sponsered songs.

10. FreeMusicArchive

FMA has a big library of some really nice songs. And as they say its not only free its good music. At FMA, you can browse the songs by curator, by genre, recently added highlights or most interesting highlights.

11. PureVolume

PureVolume is a website for the discovery and promotion of new music and emerging artists. Each artist has a profile that typically contains basic info, updates, photos, shows and music for streaming. Artists have the option of making each of their songs available for free download. Listeners and fans can also create profiles to interact with artists and each other, as well as track and share music they like.

12 Archive.org – Live Music

Archive.org has a huge collection of downloadable concerts. It has some massive sized file downloads (SHN), although some streaming/downloadable mp3 too. The concerts have been categorized alphabetically in the form of a Etree live concert download service with explicit permission from the bands involved.

13. Spinner MP3

Spinner.com has a MP3 of the Day category under which you can find free MP3 songs to download. The songs are updated frequently so you get to listen all the latest stuff. It has currently around 850 tracks to download, certainly not a huge collection but the songs are really cool.

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Sony Ericsson W995 – Price and Features

rpsingh — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 13:37:25 +0000

Sony Ericsson W995 is a feature packed slider phone with a a nice sturdy look. Sony Ericsson’s music-oriented Walkman series and photography-centred Cybershot series have been drawing closer for a while now, as the camera phone’s music player has improved and the music player’s camera has got steadily better. The W995 offers a multimedia feature that delivers optimized video playback paired with excellent audio.

Main Features of Sony Ericsson W995

2.6 inches screen with a 240 x 360 resolution
8.1 MP, 3264×2448 pixels, autofocus, LED flash, Geo-tagging, face detection, image stabilizer
Wi-Fi 802.11, 3G with HSPDA 7.2 Mbps, Bluetooth with A2DP
118 MB Internal Storage and 8GB Memory Stick M2 included
GPS with A-GPS support and wayfinder navigator
Walkman 4.0 player, Shake control, MP3/AAC/MP4 player.
3.5 mm audio jack, Stereo FM radio with RDS.
Available colors – Progressive Black, Cosmic Silver, Energetic Red

Price : The Sony Ericsson W995 is available in India around Rs 21000 ($451)

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Samsung Corby Plus B3410 – Price and Features

rpsingh — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 13:59:28 +0000

Samsung Corby Plus is a slider phone from Samsung with full QWERTY keypad and touchscreen. CorbyPlus is a special name for the Indian customers, it is known just as B3410 in other counteries. It has been designed especially for the messaging on the move with a quick access to social networks such as Facebook and twitter and other email and messaging services.

Features of Samsung Corby Plus

2.6 inch sceen with a 240 x 320 resolution
2MP camera with 4X digital zoom
20MB internal memory, expandable upto 8GB with a microSD card
Quad Band GSM, GPRS/WAP/EDGE, Bluetooth v2.1
FM Radio with recording capability
Music player and web browser

Price : The Samsung Corby Plus is priced in India at Rs 8100($175).

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Nokia 5530 Xpress Music and Nokia 5230 in India – Price and Features

rpsingh — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 07:06:46 +0000

Nokia has unveiled two touchscreen phones the Nokia 5530 Xpress Music and Nokia 5230. The Nokia 5530 is built on the same platform as the Nokia 5800, but it has been upgraded to customize 20 contacts instead of only 4 in the Nokia 5800. The Nokia 5530 will have a stainless steel frame finish. The other touchscreen device, Nokia 5230 is a 3G compatible mobile phone.

The main features of Nokia 5530 are

Symbian OS v9.4, Series 60 rel. 5
27 hours of music playback
2.9 inch screen with 360 x 640 resolution.
70 MB storage, 128 MB SDRAM, 4GB MicroSD card included & expandable upto 16 GB
Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, Bluetooth with A2DP
3.2 MP Camera with autofocus and LED flash

Price : The Nokia 5530 will be priced in India at Rs 14000($300)

The main features of Nokia 5230 are

Symbian OS v9.4, Series 60 rel. 5
3.2 inch screen with 360 x 640 resolution
Bluetooth with A2DP, 3G but no Wi-Fi and v2.0 microUSB
2 MP Camera with maximum 1600 x 1200 resolution
70 MB Storage, expandable to 16 GB
GPS wih A-GPS support and Nokia Maps 2.0 touch

Price : The Nokia 5230 will be priced in India at Rs 9500 ($205)

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Nokia 7230 Price, Features And Launch Date

rpsingh — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 14:08:27 +0000

Nokia 7230 is a 3G slider phone with stunning looks. It comes with two colors graphite and hot pink. The design and metallic finish of Nokia 7230 make it appear similar to those Nokia Eseries phones. Special attention has been given to the social networking and messaging with the help of integrated shortcuts.

The main features of Nokia 7230 are

2.4 inch TFT display with a 320 x 240 pixel resolution
3.2 megapixel camera with a dedicated key for quick launch
a 2GB microSD card included
GPRS, Bluetooth, 3G
audio messaging , music player and web browser.

The Nokia 7230 is expected to be launched in the first quarter of 2010 and its estimated price is around Rs 7000 ($150).

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21 Beautiful High Quality Christmas Wallpapers

rpsingh — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 05:40:01 +0000

Dress up your Desktop with the color of Christmas. Here are some really nice and beautiful wallpapers for the Christmas Season.

Samsung Beat M3510 – Price And Specs

rpsingh — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 10:02:15 +0000

Samsung beat M3510 is a music centric phone based on the Samsung DNSe Sound Engine that guarantees a more accurate and natural reproduction of sound. It has 2.0 inch screen and has 16M colors with a resolution of 240 x 320. It has upto 19.5 hrs of music playback and has a 3.5 mm headphone jack.

The main features of Samsung Beat M3510 are :

Motion Play shake control and Dedicated music keys
Stereo FM radio with RDS; broadcast recording
Internal Memory 40 MB, 1 GB MicroSD card included & expandable upto 4 GB
2 MP Camera with a maximum 1600 x 1200 resolution
MP3/e-AAC+/WMA player for audio & MP4/3GP player for video
Document viewer, Mobile Tracker and Accelerometer sensor.

The Samsung Beat M3510 is priced in India at Rs 5800 i.e around $125. It is a good low end phone for music lovers.

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Backup Your Gmail, Facebook, Twitter Accounts With Backupify

rpsingh — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 03:40:40 +0000

It is always a good idea to backup your important and useful data so that in case of a disaster you can recover it from the backups. Backupify is a new kind of application that allows a user to backup his cloud data i.e Gmail, Facebook, Twitter etc. Backupify can be useful when one of your online accounts get hacked and you lose all your uploaded photos, videos and more.

Backupify is a freeware apllication and it currently allows backup for these online services – Twitter, Wordpress, Delicious, Gmail, Facebook, Zoho, Flickr, Photobucket, Google Docs. The backups are needed to be setup only once, after that it will automatically perform the backups.

This service is free for a limited time (Until 31 Jan) and after that you might have to give some extra bucks to register.

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Sony Ericsson Elm And Hazel – Price And Features

rpsingh — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:29:55 +0000

Sony Ericsson announced the two new phones based on Sony Ericsson Greenheart strategy. The SonyEricsson Hazel is a slider phone while the Elm is a candybar phone. These phones have been especially designed to cut the carbon emission and to protect the environment. Both these phones come with a 5 MP camera and offer a nice voice quality.

Both these phones offer an easy access to the popular social networking sites featuring a widget manager.Users can go online and collect song information with technologies like SensMe and Track ID.

Main Features of Sony Ericsson Elm & Hazel

Quality voice – noise shield, clear voice and intelligent volume adaptation
5 mega pixel auto focus camera
LED flash, face and smile detection
WiFi, 3G, EDGE, GPRS, Bluetooth with A2DP, GPS
Front camera For Hazel not available in Elm
Internal memory 280 MB and expandable to 8GB

The price for SE Elm in India will be around Rs 17000 ($350) and SE Hazel will be around Rs 19000($400).

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