An Indian Book Search Engine: Iglooo.in
While US has got great online book stores like Amazon Books, buying a book online and getting a good deal is still a headache in India. I recently came across a decent online Indian Book search engine called Iglooo.in. After using it, I really felt that I got good deals in books than I used to get by manually searching every store. It doesn’t support many book stores for now but, it has got potential. It’s something I want to see grow into something big. Kudos to the Iglooo team.
Upgraded my iPhone 3G to OS 3.1
After yesterday’s release of the new PwnageTool 3.13, I decided that I should upgrade my iPhone to the new OS 3.1. The problem was, this method of jailbreak doesn’t yet support Windows. For patching of OS 3.1 firmware, the Leopard Hackintosh (Actually, a Hackintosh VM) came in handy. Moved the patched firmware to windows and flashed it using iTunes in traditional way.
The upgrade took about 5 minutes as usual and voila!! I now have OS 3.1 with all my settings and apps restored by iTunes. I had to install the sim unlock (ultrasn0w) and other jailbreak apps again. But, that’s fine I guess.
Regarding the major features, home screen customization from iTunes is neat. Makes it easier to organize the app icons. App Genius suggestions are okay. Can’t really test Safari’s newest fraud protection and anti-phishing filter but, it’s supposed to be good. I have to monitor it for couple of days for any improvements in battery life.
Update: Battery life hasn’t gone worse, if not improved. I found Anti-phishing filter in safari quite irritating as pages seem to load slower when it is on. App Genius is not what I expected it to be. It does’t always give satisfactory results.
Google Wave: First impressions
Today, I saw a news story on Engadget informing that Google Wave beta started and invites were sent to 100,000 users. I was disappointed to know that I was not one of them. As it turns out, I am. I just got my Google Wave invitation.
First impressions: neat and user friendly. I’ll ‘collaborate’ with some of my friends and post my opinions.
Update [October 3, 2009]: After sending out invites to my friends and colleagues, it seems they still haven’t received it. According to the note on the invite page – “Invitations will not be sent immediately. We have a lot of stamps to lick.”. Well, we understand it Google but, how many days will it take to “lick a lot of stamps”, huh??
Update [October 9, 2009]: Google finally sent out invites that I sent a few days back. I still have some invites left. Let me know if you want one.