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How to Search Files on Rapidshare

As we all know Rapidshare which is the best File sharing site in the world wide web providing a vast variety of  downloads like

  • E-books
  • movies
  • Audio Files
  • RAR, ZIP, TAR files are available for download

It makes it very difficult to search the files trough google which is a complex affair.

Under given are some of the Search Engines specially made to search files in Rapidshare with such a huge Database having a search engine of its own would make it very helpful for Rapidshare users, anyways till that arrives if ever it does, these Search engines are good enough to help you find that file you need:

Sony Unveils Music Unlimited

Sony unveils Music Unlimited which is a new wy to manage music and listen to music.

It is basically seen as a iTunes competitor.

It’s based solely around streaming titles from Sony’s servers rather than physically purchasing individual files, which can be a costly affair.

Music Unlimited joins the already available video-on-demand service of Sony’s Qriocity service, which now sports a two-part tagline: “Music that follows you. Instant blockbuster movies.”

(Interestingly mSpot has been using the tagline “music that follows you” since launching last June.)

Apple Keynote Sep 1 2010

The following were released today by Steve Jobs on Sep 1 2010

Lineup of iPods:

  • iPod Shuffle – hasn’t changed much
  • iPod Nano – All touch, multi touch, and the size of a match box with a clip
  • iPod Touch- Front camera, Retina Display, back camera with HD video recording, thinner than never before and many more

iOS 4.2

Apple TV – With rates and sizes slashed to almost 1/4 th the previous

iTunes 10- this revamped version of the old iTunes which is coming with a new logo has also got a all new music social networking application inbuilt called the “Ping”

Call Customer Care and Get charged

Gone are the days when we would be calling the customer care of our respective operators and not be charged for getting our doubts and problems cleared.

All this is happening because of the down to earth call rates due to the intense competition which has made the call rates to come down to as low as 1Ps/ Pulse.

This Drastic decrease in call rates has had the Telecom providers in a fix as the revenue is plummeting very drastically in a very short time.

Indian Telecom Providers

Indian Telecom Industry is the fastest growing in the World with a massive increase in population and the ever decreasing call rates from the network providers is what helped Indian Telecom Industry to get to the No. 2 position.

There are estimated to be 500 million mobile phones in India by the end of 2010, so this shows that there is going to be a drastic increase in new users,, so this has waged a war in the Mobile indusrty. With the likes of Docomo shocking the industry with 1Ps/sec all the network providers have had to decrease the call rates to be in the competition.

Apple iPad Specifications and Price

Apple and Steve Jobs have released the much awaited Apple Tablet which is named Apple “iPad” there were a lot of speculations and gusses about the design of the device. But eventually it was out on 27th Jan 2010.

Steve Jobs unveiled it by his own hands.

The Apple iPad has the following Specifications:

Dimensions:

  • Height – 9.56 inches (242.8 mm)
  • Width – 7.47 inches (189.7 mm)
  • Depth – 0.5 inch (13.4 mm)
  • Weight – 1.5 pounds (.68 kg) Wi-Fi model, 1.6 pounds (.73 kg) Wi-Fi + 3G mode
  • Screen: 9.7-inch LCD screen

iPad is iFail

The much anticipated  iPad was supposed to be the biggest release by Apple in the beginning of 2010, Everyone was stuck to the computers on 27 and it was finally “Released” from the hands of Steve himself.

There was a lot of Expectations form the device, but it let us down very badly. Lets see where the iPad went horribly wrong.

No Multi Tasking:

How to get imei number

Imei number is the most important number to get your lost phone back.

IMEI number-The International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI)

The chennai police has implemented a easy method to trace your lost mobile phones with the help of just your imei number and that too just by sitting at home. You can see the method click here

This number can be used to recover Stolen Mobiles by tracing the mobile via a complex system of GPRS and internet.

How to get the imei number:
There are 2 ways to find your imei number:

1)

Palm Pre Web OS 1.3.5 releasing today

The Palm is going to release its updated WebOS 1.3.5 today i.e on 28th Dec 2009. This is some good news for the Palm pre owners who can get their Palm Pre’s updated and wnjoy the following features:

  • Improvement in battery life optimization when in marginal coverage areas.
  • QCELP capability fix to allow play and audio of video sent via MMS.
  • Launch Google Maps or Sprint Nav when tapping an address from contacts.
  • Customers can nowdownload over 2G connections if necessary.

Nokia Dual Sim Phones in 2010

Nokia which was the sole leader in the Mobile phone market, has been having some hard time lately with the Dual sim phones and the rapid increase in the models released by some competitors like Samsung who are going all out to snatch the mobile market from Nokia.

Nokia is going to release its Dual sim Phones in the second quarter of 2010.


Samsung, LG, Motorolla the  internationally accredited brands have forayed into the Dual sim market, and been quite successful. And there is also some stiff competition from the local makers like Spice , Acer, Intex, Airfone and Karbonn.