Kiran Upadhyay

Whenever you are looking to buy something and aren’t willing to pay that much, where would you turn to? For me, it’s eBay. Most eBay users would start looking for items by visiting eBay.com and entering a keyword search. That’s fine, and all, but I’m here today to show you some alternative methods to starting your eBay search — just to give you some options. Some even outperform eBay smart search and other site features. Here we go. eBay Desktop The official eBay Desktop is an Adobe AIR app which mirrors all the searching, tracking, and bidding functionality of the site, plus filtering features, search history, and my favorite part, real-time updates . It’s refreshing to no longer need refreshing. Enter a keyword and watch the search results update by themselves. Lastminute Auction One of my favorite eBay tools is the Lastminute Auction search. Auctions featured here all have current prices under $1 (not including shipping), and all have less than an hour to go. Register to ...

Have you ever wanted to watch a longer video clip or documentary, only to suffer frequent pauses in playback? Me too. What I prefer to do is download the video and then watch it non-stop on my computer. If the file is local, there’s no lag and no annoying blips. It used to be that there were only a few video file formats and they were easily download by right-clicking and saving them. Now there is the Flash Video format (FLV), Windows Media Video (WMV), MPEG-4, QuickTime and many more. Let’s take a look at the tool I would recommend, personally. DownloadHelper This is the application I use. It plugs in to Firefox, so it’s always there in my toolbar, right when I need it. Any site I’ve been on, where there is video content, I’ve always been able to download it. Download and Install DownloadHelper Point your browser at the DownloadHelper site. Once you are there, look for the Add to Firefox button and click right there. After clicking on the button, you’ll see the Software Instal...

Touchscreen and slide-out QWERTY keyboards bearing smartphones are the 'in-thing' of mobile market. A tough competition lies amongst the mobile operating system residing in the new handsets. Evolving Mobile Internet is a strong factor driving more touchscreen and QWERTY smartphones being launched at affordable rates. Acer Tempo F900 Of all new Acer smartphones, the Tempo F900 is an easy-to-use touch screen phone built for avid mobile browsing aficionados. Featuring Acer Shell v2.0 interface, this smartphone runs Windows Mobile 6.1 operating system. The 3.8-inch WVGA TFT LCD screen is just 0.1 inch larger than the screen of new Samsung Omnia II. However, it should be noted that Omnia II has AMOLED touchscreen with resistive feedback. Tempo F900 comes with Internet Explorer 6 (Mobile) along with a number of other applications. Along with quad-band GSM/GPRS support, this phone also has WiFi (802.11 b/g). Network: HSDPA-Category 8/ HSUPA Category 5 ( 2100/1900/850 Mhz) GSM/EDGE-Qua...

Apple has released the new iPhone 3G S which claims to be the fastest and most feature rich iPhone yet. The new iPhone 3G S is twice as fast as iPhone 3G, has got a longer battery life, a 3 megapixel autofocus camera, easy video recording and hands free voice control. Compare the iPhone 3G S and iPhone 3G and see what has changed. iphone-3gsiPhone 3G S is powered by iPhone OS 3.0 mobile operating system and has now built in over 100 most requested features like Cut, Copy and Paste, MMS, Spotlight Search, landscape keyboard etc. iPhone 3G S uses OpenGL ES 2.0 standard for high-quality 3D graphics, while supporting 7.2 Mbps HSDPA for faster networking speeds. Simply “tap to focus” and the new autofocus 3MP camera adjusts focus, exposure, color and contrast for the best possible image and also includes an automatic macro focus for extra close up shots. Now record high-quality video clips and edit them right on your iPhone 3G S by simply trimming the start and stop points. The voice cont...