I have been blogging and traveling a lot this year...and I have become "more" organized. I would call it a boon that I was able to do both with the help of my sincere "personal assistant" whom I do not pay any fees...

In the year 2001, one of the Chemistry faculty was appreciating the wonders of a cell phone. During early advent of the cellular phone, Motorola had dominated among the other handset manufacturers like Siemens, Alcatel or even Nokia. Those who owned cell phones...

I was looking at some of the photographs on my phone and this one suddenly caught my attention, the Vienna Art & Design at Melbourne during winter '11.  Vienna: Art & Design was held at Melbourne's National Gallery of Victoria covering the art...

Aah! I downloaded apps for my blogger account on iPhone. I can blog at a feather touch even lying down without having to scribble telegram code on a notepad and later, trying to recollect what I was trying to write! Aah! I downloaded...

Two years I own a Vaio lappy. Feels great when people appreciate, "wow!! It looks NeW :D" . Looking at the yesteryear pictures and the one I clicked today, it looks very much NEW indeed. © Manasa. All rights reserved. addthis_url=''; addthis_title=''; addthis_pub='manasa';...

With headphones on my ears, as I listen to a song on iPod which is the ringtone of my mobile phone. At the same time, I search my phone, which is now missing... Oops, where is my phone? I search for a while...

Having experienced frequent shut downs on my laptop which I described earlier, formatting Windows Vista  and installing Windows 7 did not help. I decided to visit a Sony Service station who thoroughly did a root cause analysis and found that the processor fan...

Drafted May 29th '10 If you are thinking I am 50, no I am not! Then what does the title relate to? :) Like I said here, three years ago, how I begun to click owning Canon S3 IS. I pestered my teammates...

It has been a month that my dear laptop with whom I spend wonderful moments of connecting to you all is going on continuous shutdown, forcing me to login Safe mode with networking with minimal features. Initially, I guessed it was a problem...

My laptop is going for continuous shut down. I find the following messages in the Application Log. Current Operating System is Windows Vista. Any pointers to this issue would help. Activation context generation failed for "C:\Windows\Installer\{67E03279-F703-408F-B4BF-46B5FC8D70CD}\WksWP.exe". Dependent Assembly msadctls,processorArchitecture="x86",type="win32",version="1.0.1801.0" could not be found....

If you love blogging, you would admire Sony's new Bloggie camera, too. ;) Sony MHS-CM5 bloggie HD Video Camera 5 mega pixel with 2.4" LCD.  Cost $ 199.99 ;) Sony MHS-PM5 bloggie HD Video Camera 5mp with 4x digital zoom. cost $ 169. I...

Just a couple of months I enjoy listening to music collection my iPod everyday traveling in the bus to office-home, I lost the ear cushions of my Sennheiser headphones. After an endless search to find a spare ear cushion, I learned that Sennheiser service...

After Sony and Amazon launched ebook reader or rather say "eReader": a replacement for paper books; CoolReader also launched eReader. The availability in various colors imitates iPod Nano. Though, all the three eReaders have quoted the same price. $ 250 is quite much...

After exploring all the features like music, movie, games, contacts except podcasts, on my iPod Classic which I own with pride for the past 1.6 years and despite weird experience at Apple Showroom; I have begun to use my iPod extensively day-to-day after...

Drafted: June 9th. I got an opportunity to try the to be launched during Nokia N97 Bloggers Meetup. Axel Myer, Head of Design at Nokia, shared his experiences in designing and embedding many new features unlike the other N series. In the pic...

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Last October, Compy turned five. Being in a state of dilemma to upgrade to a laptop or not, I decided to go for a laptop ditching my earlier desktop. ;) Now, the latter part was to decide the so called brand. Comparing Dell...

An year ago, impressed by the new features of Nokia E-series phones, I bought E-51, after my return from Udupi . While I explored helluva features of the phone and addicted to GPRS just because this phone supported features innumerable, though I missed out...

Being addicted to music, I bought iPod an year ago. This time, I decided to try something new and look what I bought yesterday..! My Ugadi gift. :P A Foldable Stereo Headphones from Sennheiser PX 100 -- Slim, light-weight, foldable, excellent music quality, headband...

Recently, an acquaintance of mine, invited me to join Wordsmith.Org -- : the magic of words. By subscribing to this site, you receive a "word" along with its pronunciation, meaning, etymology, usage and thought for the day. Example:- WORD: lepidopterology PRONUNCIATION: (lep-i-dop-tuh-ROL-uh-jee) MEANING:...