“It wasn’t how I wanted to do, but I made it!”

How I did it: After moving to the US life changed a lot and for the first time in my life without a car or motorcycle, I had to use public transport and walk a lot.

Back in India, I tried working out for a few weeks but that didn’t yield any positive results. Now I realize that it’s possible to lose weight without diet control and just by doing routine things in a different way.

Lessons & tips: Make yourself a big favor by leaving the car in the garage and put your legs in action!

It took me 45 days.

It made me

My new friend… a little camera shy… her name is S****u.

Eldar Murtazin, the Editor-in-Chief of Mobile-Review.com posted an open letter today talking about the attack. Here is an excerpt from the letter:

The attackers hope that by crushing Mobile-Review.com, they won’t let our visitors get unbiased information on events in the mobile industry, read independent reviews and share their opinions on forums. In light of the fact that similar attacks can be performed by individuals or small groups of people, we regard this incident as an attempt to impose censorship in the Internet.

When the first attack was unfolding, the Editor-in-Chief of Mobile-Review.com received an anonymous message on his Internet-pager, which read that fans of Apple were behind the attack, as this was a sort of revenge forthe iPhone and the treatment it got over at Mobile-Review.com. Possibly, it is true, however there is a chance that the message was sent in order to put us off the track. It is not a secret that we release “burning”, critical articles that many don’t like.

Murtazin also announced a reward of US$10,000 to any individual or group of individuals who can provide documented information on the mastermind of this attack. You can send all reports to eldar (at) mobile-review (dot) com.

“What do we say,” chuckled a Hutch employee who didn’t want to be named. “If people have the money, let them buy the moon.”

Amit learned last week that the company was going to release ‘VIP’ numbers and applied for one. Then he was told it planned to auction these numbers. The auction was conducted through a phone-conference . The bidding process began on Tuesday morning and ended on Wednesday evening. In the final round, there were five men battling it out for the big-draw number. The results were released on Thursday evening.

Swamped by questions, the 26-year-old ‘VIP’ said he didn’t just dust his pocket out for the money. “I borrowed money from friends and relatives and will repay them soon,” Amit said.

So I coded this little hack which shows a random word and its meaning in the blog sidebar. A new word loads every time you navigate to a different page or refresh the page.

Let me know your views about this. The word is right below the blogroll on the right sidebar.

I wanted to make it more advanced, like showing the word’s definition, synonyms, antonyms etc. but I don’t have time for this now. I will definitely make it feature-rich in the weeks to come.

Apple seems to be trying too hard to promote their iPhone. They have gone as far as reporting false specs about their competitors’ phones.

Today, Apple put up a page on their site with a couple of images comparing the battery life of the preliminary and production iPhone versions. There is another image comparing the specs of iPhone with the Nokia N95, Samsung Blackjack, Blackberry Curve 8300, and Palm Treo 750.

The image shows that the Nokia N95 doesn’t have WiFi but actually it does have WiFi! They say that the source of this information is the respective manufacturer’s websites. But the N95 page on Nokia’s website clearly states the presence of WiFi.

This is not good on Apple’s part to state false information for the sake of promoting their products.

Actually, a deeper iPhone vs N95 comparision reveals some interesting facts. The camera on the N95 is a 5 Megapixel one where as the iPhone’s camera is only 2 Megapixel. N95 has 3G, UMTS and HSPDA which the iPhone doesn’t support.

Then comes the internal GPS receiver on the N95 which the iPhone lacks. N95 also allows users to install a wide range of 3rd party applications and themes which gives the user the power to customize just about everything!

(You should have understood by now, I am a great Nokia fan!)

UPDATE: They seem to have fixed it now. Atleast, Apple is fast enough to correct their mistakes!!

This is great new for all you forum owners and webmasters looking to start a forum out there… RoboticRodeo.com released the first version of their RadiantBoard forum software which marks the beginning of a new era in the world of forum softwares.

The launch of RadiantBoard v1.0 can be considered as the start of the Forums 2.0 phenomenon! The use of AJAX features throughout the forum is pretty impressive and definitely the best in its class.

All the mainstream forum softwares’ interfaces today are based on pretty dated code with very limited use of AJAX and other latest technologies. RadiantBoard is set to change this with the use of unique features like QuickTechnologyâ„¢ which enables accessing all the features in the admin panel without the need for any page loads.

The same technology can be used to stick/unstick, lock/unlock, edit, move, delete threads and add polls to existing threads. QuickTechnologyâ„¢ includes QuickThread and QuickReply features which give a whole new definition to the way we post on forums.

More features unique to RadiantBoard include LiveUpdate, Usercards, Live Version Checking and many more. The Usercards feature is really exciting which can be achived on other forums only with the use of a 3rd party addons.