Name: Moumita
Bio: Moumita is lead writer and Chief Editor of Techcubetalk. She has work experience for more than 7 years in the Technology research domain.
Posts by Moumita:
Good News for Nintendo Wii owner and Netflix subscriber
January 14th, 2010
Good News for Nintendo Wii owner and Netflix subscriber. Finally Netflix is providing their popular instant movie streaming service to the Nintendo Wii console which is the fastest selling home console in the US market till date. Netflix has declared in their official website. This feature will be available to the Nintendo Wii owner this Spring.
Earlier Netflix’s silverlight based streaming service is only available to the Xbox 360 and PS3 systems. So with this feature Netflix can see their service to the more than 3 million Nintendo Wii users in US. So the owner needs to reserve a free disc on Netflix site which will automatically arrive at free of cost by postal mail like the way Netflix DVD arrives. Users can not only watch streaming movies but they can browse the Wii Shop channel and Nintendo chanel for popular games also.
Link to reserve the free disc at Netflix .
[Via Mashable]
Discover and share new places to Twitter followers through TwitSpot
December 24th, 2009
If you are a very frequent traveler and also enjoy Twitter on the go then TwitSpot can help you to share your favorite places to your friends in Twitter. It helps you to Tweet anything related to your travel experiences. The service uses the Twitter API and Google map API and helps you to share the spots in the map to your twitter followers. That means your follower gets the opportunity to see some interesting places which you have visited or discovered. Using TwitSpot you can share a new restaurant you have found which offers delicious foods or a new cafe. Not necessarily in US but you can share any place in the world to your followers.
To use this service you don’t need to have a new account with them rather you can use your existing twitter account to login to the service and tweet on your travel experience. Once you have shared your favorite place, TwitSpot takes care of sharing this to your friends and followers in twitter account as well as to world through their site.
The site is very fast to load and it loads the map in the home page. Interesting places are getting highlighted in a small popup window. The latest sharing are displayed into the left panel window and no refreshing is required. the design of the site is very good with web 2.0 design and table less. The graphics and color used are very smoothing and looks very neat and clean. The Alexa rank is not much high only 11,266,020 till writing this review but hopefully it will be increased as this site is very newly launched and there is not much traffic yet.
Right now, for each place you spot through TwitSpot you are rewarded 10 points and if your friend likes this place you again gain 1 point more but if your friend dislikes it you lose 1 point. Though at present TwiSpot has not decided how you are going to redeem your earned points but we hope they have some good plans for their members.
Top 5 most beautiful premium but free wordpress theme
December 9th, 20091. Creative by Nature: I would recommend this premium but completely free wordpress theme to every webmaster who wants to showcase his/her designs or photographies or arts. As the name suggests this theme is for creative person. Creative by Nature is a kind of portfolio theme designed by CSSMayo.com and it has been released especially for the readers of Smashing Magazine. It has everything like maple leaves to jeans to pencil to coins as well as broken cookies and note that can be found in an artist’s desk. This is beautifully integrated with the theme. This theme is released under GPL license.
2. Travelogue: This is another free but premium like wordpress theme designed especially for the travel related blogs. It supports Wordpress 2.7 as well as 2.8 as well as it has widgetized Sidebar and JCarousel script to show the featured posts. Social bookmarking is inbuilt in this theme.
3. Zen Gins: The creator of this template tried to put some nature elements like woods, bamboo etc. The designer has shown his creativity with good use of the graphics in the banner with all green leaves and bamboos on the wooden desk. This is a magazine style theme with features like automatic thumbnails, nested comments and adsense ready vertical banner. The Twitter is very visible and in built.
Demo | Download
4. Paper Wall: Paper Wall WordPress Theme is an colorful high quality premium yet free theme. It is designed
by Adrian Lazariuc from Indeziner.com exclusively for Smashing Magazine and its readers. The theme is
highly appreciated because of its unique and colorful design. It can be customized to use in magazine website also.
5. IsoTherm News Magazine: IsoTherm is a news publishing magazine style theme with some unique featuirs like
image panel filled with recent posts, Popular posts in current browsing category , Integrated Image Caption,
Embeded AdSense Support, Child Pages Ready, Child Categories Ready and Wodpress 2.8 support.
Top 5 JQuery scripts to spice up your website or design
December 8th, 2009Top 5 JQuery scripts to spice up your website or design:
1. jcarousel - Think about this scenario, you have an e-commerce site and for each product you have multiple photos
which you want to show to the buyer, how you will do that?
You need to have a separate gallery page for doing this. But one problem here, the page will be little slow because it will try to load all the photos you’ll put in the gallery page. Also, user might not click the page to see the photos also. So, what is the solution then? You can use the carousel technology to provide a slideshow of your photos in one page and jcarousel will help you in this situation. Check the nice examples of how many different possibilities can ba designed using jcarousel:
http://sorgalla.com/projects/jcarousel/#Examples
2. ThickBox- ThickBox is developed with jQuery which is a replacement of old browser modal dialog box. When it is
it is invoked it creates a shadow layer on top of the browser window and displays the content (say image or form)
on the same page. The advantage of ThickBox is you can show a single image, multiple images, inline content, iframed
content, or content served through AJAX on the same page and user is not required to go another page.
http://jquery.com/demo/thickbox/
3. Table Sorter- Now user can sort table data on any column of the table but for this there is no page load or any
server call using ajax etc. In client side simple way you can provide various functionality to the user to sort.
http://motherrussia.polyester.se/jquery-plugins/tablesorter/
4.Field validation- If you dislike loading a page to validate what user has entered then you can use the power of this
script. This simple to use validation script displays error message to the user in real time. Very light weight and
abosolutely easy to use. Just add the path of the script to webpage and attach it to the form’s “onsubmit” event.
http://tetlaw.id.au/view/javascript/really-easy-field-validation
5. Tabulations - This jQuery script creates multiple tabs on a single page just like what recent browsers are doing.
This is very useful when you have lots of forms to fill up by the user and then instead of submitting the long form
in a single page (know what, I have seen after user has finished filling up the form he has got seesion time out
message and and at the same time he has lost all the data, isn’t it called bad user experience, huh?) you can break
the form in multiple segments and when user moves from one tab to another tab you can actually save the data through
Ajax in the database so that at the end he doesn’t lose any data.
Also you can show multiple pages of documentation in these tabular pages as well so user can browse each page but
he is not required to leave the page.
http://www.stilbuero.de/jquery/tabs_3/
Popular Real Time document editor Etherpad has been acquired by Google
December 5th, 2009It is confirmed today that Google Ic. has acquired the company AppJet Inc. who is behind the popular real time document editor called Etherpad.
Etherpad today has confirmed the news on their official blog at http://etherpad.com/ep/blog/posts/google-acquires-appjet . As per them the company is no longer accepting new registration and no public pads can be created. The service will continue to operate till March 2010 for the existing users. As per TechCrunch, Google pays eight figure acquisition price to AppJet. The team behind Etherpad will join the google Wave team. We at TechCuBeTalk would suggest the existing users to check the official blog of Etherpad on how you can export and take backup of your existing data.
New High Speed USB flash drive JetFlash 600 released from Transcend
December 3rd, 2009
Transcend has released a new range of high speed USB Flash drive called JetFlash 600. As per Transcend the new USB drive has the capacity ranging from 4GB to 16 GB. They stand apart from the other USB drives in terms of speed of data transition.
This has been achieved using the high speed dual channel technology which stores or transfers or does the read/write in speed of 18 MB/sec to 32 MB/sec. The design of the flash drive is also very attractive with curve shape at ends and glossy black finish. The initial prices of the flash drives are €11.38 (4GB), €18.99 (8GB), €34.99 (16GB) and €99.90 (32GB).
Send parcel to friends through Twitter
November 25th, 2009
Can you imagine sending parcel or gift to your friends through Twitter without knowing his/her Mailing address? Yes this is true and this has been made possible by the web company SendSocial. It allows you to send parcel to your Twitter friends if you know the recipient’s Twitter Id or email address. So here the recipient doesn’t need to disclose his/her personal details or info to anyone.
How the web application works?
Well, SendSocial sends a notification to the recipient that you want to send some gift to him/her. If the person agrees to accept the SendSocial takes the address details from them to process by sending them a form to fill up. The data is stored in encrypted format in SendSocial’s database.
Now sender is notified and is asked to confirm the pickup address and the payments for the processing. Once this is complete, sender gets an address-less label to stick to the package and this package is collected by myHermes, the partner of sendSocial and is delivered in 3-5 working days. So is not is good that the sender’s and recipient’s address and personal details still remain private whereas you can deliver any gift to your online friend easily.
So a good way to start sending Thanks giving and Christmas gifts to your friends…
Review of Samsung Memoir The upcoming exclusive release from T-Mobile USA
February 12th, 2009
Recently T-Mobile has announced that they are going to release Samsung Memoir a complete touch screen mobile with built in 8 megapixel high quality camera in the US market. As they claimed this highest quality imaging and multimedia phone will be available exclusively on T-Mobile and no other service provider.
The cell phone which has the candybar type of look supports 8MP camera with 16X digital zoom, Xenon flash and five shooting modes. So as a user of this mobile you are going to enjoy supreme quality snaps and exceptional videos on your vacation or on the road. This cameraphone has a built in photo widget which allows the user to post photos captured by Memoir to their online photo sharing network like flickr or Photobucket or Snapfish etc. Since the phone will use the T-Mobile’s high speed 3G network so sharing photos or multimedia clips are very easy and painless.
“With the 8-megapixel Samsung Memoir, T-Mobile customers can capture and share little slices of life in all their vibrant brilliance” said Denny Marie Post, chief marketing officer, T-Mobile USA. “With the ability to share photos at your fingertips, the Memoir helps make those connections more meaningful by their immediacy.”
as we have heard from external sources that Samsung memoir has QWERTY keypad and multiple messaging capabilities like text or multimedia messaging and email. So with memoir you are always connected with your peers no matter where you are. This cameraphone also has built in GPS navigation and is complete with a music and video player. Also it supports Bluetooth technology to connect to any Bluetooth enabled mobile easily.
All the specifications are given below:
Advanced Responsive Touch Screen
Quick Access Customizable Widgets
Real Web Browsing (web2goSM)
Supports POP3 Emails
Full QWERTY Touchpad
8.0 Megapixel Digital Camera
Multiple Messaging Options (Text Messaging, Picture Messaging, Video Messaging, Email, IM)
Bluetooth® Wireless Technology
Organizer: Alarm, Calculator, Calendar, Converter, Memo, Task List, Timer, Stop Watch, RSS Reader
Advanced Speech Recognition
Voice Memo
72-Note Polyphonic Ringtones
Volume Up/Down Keys
Vibrate Mode
Phonebook holds up to 1,000 entries
TTY (M3) capable
Graphic Format Support (BMP, PNG, BCI, JPEG,GIF, PMD)
Audio Format Support (MP3, AAC/AAC+, MPEG4, WAV, MIDI)
Video Format Support (MPEG4, H.263, H.264, WMV)
MegaTones and HiFi Ringers
myFaves® Capable
EDGE High-speed Data
GPRS
USB Interface
Games
Music Player (MP3)
Wallpaper
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS:
GSM 850, 900, 1800, 1900; UMTS Band IV, Band I
Dimensions: 4.17” x 2.11” x 0.55 ” (standard battery)
Weight: 4.4 ounces (standard battery)
Display: 240 x 400 Pixels, 262K TFT (Touch-Sensitive 1.61” x 2.64” LCD Display)
Operating System: Proprietary
Talk Time: Up to 5.5 hours (standard battery)
Standby Time: Up to 300 hours (standard battery)
Hearing Aid Compatibility = M3
Ectaco iTRAVL reviews
January 29th, 2009
You are planning a trip to China and you are excited about the tour but you are wondering how to communicate in the local market. Even you are in a situation that you would need some road direction in a new country in Asia and the local person couldn’t understand enlgish then what would you do?
Well, thanks to the Ectaco iTRAVL, a new award-winning travel device(Innovation Award 2008 from the Consumer Electronics Association), a traveller can instantly access all the resources that are really needed while travelling. This small but useful device comes pre-loaded with very powerful speech recognition system that understands and instantly translates any word or phrases from English to Chinese, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and vice-versa. It has 5,195,000 multilingual translating dictionary entries and 63,000 travel related phrases. The speech recognition system is so powerful that it can understand any native voice and respond quickly. So with this small device you will feel at home when you are in a different non elglish speaking country.
Not only this feature, iTRAVL is loaded with detail maps and destination addresses so that any important places can be found quickly and easily. Fodor’s Travel Guide and CIA World Factbook can instantly provide information on hotels, restaurants, tourist spots, bus service, car rental etc. in a click.
The sleek handheld device can be operated hands free and it has a built in MP3 player that lets you enjoy favourite musics on the road. Also the built in exchange rate calculator helps you to get the most value of your money by providing best current rate. In addition the world clock shows the real time in any time zone from the virtual map. So this cool device has all the features above our expection.
New Launch Garmin nuvi 885T GPS
January 22nd, 2009
When it comes to use satellite navigational system, Garmin always
stays ahead of others with its alltime innovative and user friendly
nuvi series of GPS systems. Recently at CES 2009 Garmin announced a
new addition to their popular nuvi series – the Garmin nuvi 885T. The
device features a sleek 4.3 inch true color touchscreen display having
resolution 480×272 pixels. It comes preloaded with maps of the USA,
Canada and Puerto Rico.
The device has Garmin’s HotFix feature which can automatically
calculate and store satellite information for faster sattelite
prediction of routes and this helps the drivers to know in advance the
speed limits for highways and inter states.
The new addition also features enhanced MSN Direct services which
helps users with much needed travel information like traffic updates,
flight status, Doppler radar, gas prices, news and business
headlines.Three months of free MSN Direct service is included from the
date of purchase, after that owner can subscribe for 49.95 USD a year
or one time charge of 129.95 USD.
The device can be integrated with bluetooth compatible cell phones for
hands free calling. The inbuilt FM wireless transmitter can transmit
all kind of audios to the vehicle’s stereo and the USB 2.0
connectivity also helps to download media(music, photos) to the
device for later use.It also has front firing speakers and removable
lithium-ion battery.The entire system is available at 800USD, a light
version is also available nuvi 885 which doesn’t have the MSN Direct
services and so costs only 700USD.
