Guys,

This is only for the people who are having Iphone.Now you can unlock your iphone and enjoy the great feature of internet tethering from your iphone unlimited data plan.But one thing you need to make sure is your iphone Fimwire is on 05.11.07 and if your software version of the iphone is 3.1.2.Because the phone gets locked once you update to the version 3.1.3.

You can unloack your iphone with just simple steps.you can get an application called the blackran1 in the google and download it and connect your iphone to itunes and eject it and run the blackran1 application and it will ask you to makeran1 and click on that and once you click on that your iphone will be going through recovery mode and your iphone will reboot and leave the Iphone and make the process complete and once the iphone reboots you see the blackran1 application on your screen and click it and istall cydia and ultrasnow and now your iphone is unlocked and you can use the internet tethering and also put another sim card and use it.

I have unlocked my iphone and enjoyed for some period.i said some period becuase the moment i updated my iphone to the newer version 3.1.3 my iphone got locked and i dont see the internet tethering option.I need to wait some more time for getting an application that unlocks 3.1.1 for free,i can unlock now also but i need to pay $25.

Now a days I am not getting computer when I need it  and was thinking to buy laptop for last 6 months. In the mean time I bought Acer laptop for India for $300 and my 5 year old Dell is not charging any more. Finally ended up again two.  Chandini bought Sony laptop during Thanksgiving,  but I have given to friend as he came from India and again left with tow. Today I got Gateway laptop for $499 and Chadnini Planning to go India and again will left with two. Now I have to look another laptop for Chandini, probably for me because she will take this one If I don’t buy sooner.

This is Laptop was unexpected buy, because of deal and thanks Satish.  On Sunday I when I am ordering tried to buy through Bing and I didn’t see and ordered one. After 1 hour I saw Best buy in Bing and ordered another one  didn’t cancel because first one waiting for confirmation of orders. Finally Tuesday I got confirmation for store pickup for both the orders.  Today evening I went to pickup and there was only one for store pickup and I was there for one hour and they couldn’t find. Finally they asked me to find another laptop with that price. Then I demanded for same configuration Laptop and found one which is $630, they asked me to share 50% of extra money, I said NO. They agreed to take care of 100%, but found that it  doesn’t have blue-ray. Then I said NO. They said they can’t offer any more and asked me to contact Best Buy.com as I bought it there.  As I offered Gabe that Laptop, I tried to bargain to get decent one, but  that store doesn’t have comparable Laptops in around that price.

Now I am writing this post on this Gateway  Laptop.  I didn’t like the material of Laptop and also mouse pad. Key board buttons are soft and good. I don’t see that speed with that good configuration. One more interesting thing is that it has labeled as i3 but it has i5 processor.  I liked Sony Laptop better than this Gateway even though Sony configuration is not comparable and lower end. I feel this is worth for that money but not great deal. Finally Sorry Gabe.

2010 Australian Open Tennis final was played last Sunday and Britain’s Andy Murray and Switzerland’s Roger Federer played against each other for the championship.   Until that point, Roger Federer had 15 Grand Slam titles and Andy Murray was yet to win his first Grand Slam.  Earlier, 2 had met at United States Open 2008 final where Roger Federer won the championship.   While Andy Murray is known for his defensive skills Roger Federer’s aggression is well known.  Before Sunday’s match, both of them had played 10 times against each other. Andy Murray had won 6 and Federer prevailing in 4 matches. Interestingly, Federer had won last two of their meetings.  During pre-match press interviews, Federer played mind games about how he has the edge over Andy Murray. He tried to over ride the fact that Andy Murray had beaten him several times by saying that he was not at his best when Murray won matches against him.

                Usually, Andy Murray plays a waiting game. He does not take risks and wins majority of points by his serve and opponent’s errors.  This usually works in low profile tournaments and in early rounds in Grand Slam tournaments. But he does not change his style during later stages of Grand Slams. While this style helps him win against low profile players, it may not work in a major semi-final or a final. On Sunday final, Andy Murray tried his defensive style in first two sets and Federer won them easily. He tried aggression in 3^rd set and it was very close. But it looked like it was too late.

Last Friday our family went to The Palace Theater in Albany to watch “Sesame Street Live: When Elmo Grows Up”. This was a show featuring the most popular and recognizable muppets in Sesame Street, like Bert and Ernie, Big Bird, Cookie Monster, Oscar the Grouch, Grover, and of course Elmo. Over the last decade or so, Elmo has sort of dominated the Sesame Street landscape by virtue of being the most popular among pre-school kids; thus the subtitle “When Elmo Grows Up”.

This wasn’t always the case. First of all, Sesame Street is a relatively old show–it celebrated its 40th anniversary recently. Elmo wasn’t introduced until 1979, after kids my generation have already outgrown Sesame Street and so have never been acquainted with the red muppet until we finally met him (up close and personal) as parents. And so watching kids go ga-ga over Elmo, while our own favorites growing up–Bert & Ernie, Cookie Monster, Grover–are relegated to the background, I can’t help but feel a Sesame Street generation gap.

Some parents my age actually are not that fond of Elmo. Their biggest complaint is that because Elmo refers to himself in the third person (”Elmo wants to know, don’t you?”), their kids have picked up on it and are now speaking in the third person. I can certainly see how frustrating/irritating that can be as a parent. After teaching your child how to properly speak and formulate sentences, here comes a muppet that ruins everything just from 30 minutes of exposure.

Well, good thing our son hasn’t picked up on the habit yet. Later maybe, but if he does, that’s it with watching Elmo

Most of the times, we look at the car as product. In other way, car can be seen as the extension of the personality of the person who owns the car. This brings the emotional angle to the design of the car, which is much different the the mechanical aspect of the car.

People working on car design consider the car as sculpture , which gets perfected through many trial and errors. The designer tries to discover different part of his own personality while designing the new car.

The  design team goes through several designs before finalizing the design for any car model.  Each design is owned by a bunch of designers. Every artist loves their creation. The same happens with car designers. It is difficult for the design team lead to trash the ideas of his design team members in the process of capturing the best design for the new car model.

Engineers are supposed to implement the designs. Designers and engineers need to be on the same page for implementing the car manufacturing process. Once the car designer offloads his design to the engineers, its the job of the engineers to come up with the solution to  blend the design to sustain the engineering forces.

Entertainment book is one of the topics, which I selected for this week. The reason why I selected is, because some people are not aware of it, when they hear about it they might have a plenty of questions like.

What is entertainment book? Why we need entertainment book? Is it necessary to a buy an entertainment book?
Entertainment book contains a lot of deals and coupons, which includes restaurants, movies, shopping, car service, travel, attractions, furniture’s for home and lot of free coupons like free movie ticket on our birthday etc.

All the coupons in entertainment book covers only cities within the state for example, if we buy in Albany, it covers only cities within the New York state. We can use this entertainment saving coupons either by entertainment savings card (in order to use the card, we need to register through online)or printing the coupon through online or cut the coupon in entertainment book.

This is first time I’ve purchased the Entertainment book for this year. I felt coupons in this entertainment book are very much useful because all the coupons in this entertainment book are valid from December 1st 2009 through November 31st 2010. This Entertainment book is very much useful to me because I bought this book for 20$ and saved 50$ up to now.

Now that Australian Open Grand Slam tennis tournament is on, I got reminded of those moments when we used watch tennis in India when I was a teenager. At that time, the most popular grand slam tennis tournaments were French Open and Wimbledon open. Because the matches played in Europe during day time were aired live in evening in India because of the time lag. The evening being a popular time slot, tennis coverage gained popularity.  When we watched tennis, there were at least 5- 6 people including cousins.  Not all of us were following one player.  We used to have arguments, discussions and celebrations during tennis matches. There was this guy Becker who was called boom Becker for his style.  Then there was Steffi Graph, Jim Courier, Stefan Edberg and many more.  Then in 90s, I watched Pete Sampras dominating Wimbledon finals. He did not loose even a single Wimbledon final which I watched. His technique, serve and volley were impeccable. During the course of the match he stayed very composed. I don’t remember him loosing his temperament any time. He was a true champion. While Sampras dominated Wimbledon, Jim Courier and Andre Agassi came good in Australian open and French open grand slam tennis tournaments.

Much waiting apple tablet PC finally released today, it named as iPad. It has 1024 x 768. resolution, 91/2 inches screen, feels like bigger size iPhone, runs on iPhone OS 3.2, no camera and priced ranging from $499 to $829 depending on the capacity and with optional 3G.

Cool features of this is browse web, read and compose email, view and share Photos, watch Video, listen to Music, play Games and read ebooks.

It is between smart phone and laptop. All the above things can be done on smart phones and of course on Laptop too. It is like Net Book and has better performance. Here I can consider iPhone, Palm Pre, Motorola Droid and Nexus one are smart phones when compare with iPad.

Laptop: It is bulky to carry but you can do every thing

Smart Phone: With this we can do all the things iPad can do except eBook reading.  No extra gadget to carry and very handy, Of course it is not comfortable as iPad/Laptop/Net Book

Net Book: It is handy compare to Laptop when traveling for pleasure. But the performance is not great when browsing.

iPad: It is handy compare to Laptop when traveling for pleasure and performance is amazing. I feel main draw backs are no multi tasking, no camera and no video conference. Plus points are eBook reading and amazing experience and excellent performance. Various capacities available are 16GB($499), $32GB($599), 64GB($699), with 3G it costs $130 more for each of the above model.

Conclusion: It is good to have,  if you have fashion and looking for amazing experience or rich.

Today, being January 25th, should have been a typical winter day. By “typical”, I mean it should have been maybe in the 20s or 30s throughout the day, maybe even snowing. However, Mother Nature threw us a curveball and gave us a 55-degree day in the heart of winter. It felt like spring, and with all the rain, it reminded me of Manila.

Rains are a big part of life in Manila. Growing up in the Philippines, you learn to live with rainy weather at an early age. As kids, we would go outside to play when it rained very hard. I remember me and my brothers would play with mud and create makeshift dams on the side of the roads where the water flowed (the culverts). These were way before the so-called acid rains, of course.

Along with the rains come also the floods. The Philippines being a tropical country gets about 30 typhoons a year. That meant that as a student, you were assured of at least a few days of no classes because of typhoons. It was good if they declared schools closed in the morning, because you wouldn’t have to get up early. But sometimes the storms would hit in the middle of the day and you would already be in school. One time my brother picked me up from school and we had to wade through knee-high water in the streets. You weren’t a full-fledged graduate until you experienced this at least once in your student life.

I think it was 5 years since I had a chat with Gabe about getting in to using a digital assistant. He was kind enough at that time to loan me his Palm M505 pda to try for a week. I was really amazed with the capabilities that this little thing had. From then on I am not alone any more. Though Gabe is no more kind, I have to thank him a million for his help.

Since then, I been using a pda and finally in this smart phone era, Pal Pre. I love this devil which is capable of doing so many things. I use Pre basically for, email (personal & work), games, chat, sms, blogging, notes, calender, facebooking, chat, music, internet radio, tasks, photos and many more. Can you believe that I am posting this from my pre?

My friend’s house in PA is in a very remote place and there is no Sprint signal. I was really really holding my self from coming out of the house in search of signal and finish mails and SMS.

Just because of my Pre, I was able to use facebook app and getting in touch with my very old friends that I lost touch. This friend in PA got in touch after 15 years and it happened just because of my Palm Pre.