You show love towards your loved ones by giving them gifts.

But in this new generation, old gifting ideas such as chocolates, sweets and flowers doesn’t appeal as much as a gift which is trendy and is the most sought after gadgets of the 21^st century- “iPOD”

Whether it’s the young generation, children or matured adults, anyone who is remotely interested in music, is mad about iPODs. Everyone you know wants to own an ipod.

iPOD is one of the worlds most popular music and video player and is packed with lots of amazing features. It has got exceptional music management, best sound quality, and lots of storage capacity. Its streamlined design is most sexy and appealing, and it comes in vibrant colors also.

So if all these reasons are enough for you to gift an ipod to your loved ones, you can check out various models of iPOD like ipod nano which is small enough to be tagged in your t-shirt’s sleeve, the new ipod touch which literally brings music play to your fingers because of its touch screen, you can stick with the best old white ipod classic, or the ipod shuffle which is without screen. Surely one of these will be the perfect thing you would like to gift.

So definitely go ahead and give a gift that someone would be waiting for.

Recently, in the bucket full of features, the loyal users of gmail got a new feature, which they had in every other mail account, but were missing in Gmail. Now gmail can be personally customized with around 30 themes, many of them similar to their orkut counterparts.

Today morning, i logged into my gmail account, and found a new notification about themes. My first reaction was “Now that’s what was missing”. I instantly clicked on the link and browsed all the themes. Many of them were ported from orkut itself, where Google introduced themes earlier.
You can theme your gmail accont through settings-> themes tab.

While most of the themes are appealing, i found “DESK” the right one for me and applied it immediately. Now my gmail inbox appears more tempting for communication. Many people won’t believe now i am checking my inbox every two minutes !, and it’s hard to take my eyes away from my INBOX.

So, who all have not yet experienced it, login immediately and indulge into it.

You are in the US and you want to search for a friend, a colleague, relative or someone you are really desperate to know about, then Reverse Phone Search is the right place where you can get the authentic details.

What exactly is Reverse phone search?

With a reverse phone lookup you can find all the details about anyone, by their phone number.
You just have to provide the area code, the seven digit number, and then the service searches for an exact match from its database, and provide you all the details about the owner of the number.

Many of such free reverse phone lookup services are available on the internet, but as with most of the free services, the results are neither guaranteed nor accurate. But with NATIONWIDE Phone Lookup, the results are guaranteed. The service is totally risk-free, i.e. no results no charge.

The site offers a clean, clutter free interface. As soon as you go to the site, the phone number search box is on the right side, from where you can start you searches instantly. The site provides you with high speed, accurate and instant search results.

Overall a good service, worth a try.

After hours of wait for the Apple iPhone 3G, Airtel and Vodafone have decided to release the phone on August 22, a day before my birthday by the way. But what about the 3G part? Most applications on the iPhone work only if there is 3G available. In India, we need more visionary people.

Most probably, Vodafone will have an upper hand due to its global tie-up with Apple. As to the prices, people are still playing the guessing game. On the pre-registering days of the iPhone with Vodafone, it was slated to be of $199 and $299.

But why the hype? Simple, its touch sensitive screen is the best of there is in the cellphone world. Its sleek looks and lots of other features contribute to this.

Now where’s my birthday present?

Never knew anything wierder. Sony Playstation 3 seems to be a hub for all the softwares out there, whatever it may be. mopx0 has managed to install a Windows Vista OS on the Sony Playstation 3. Although the entire process is useless in the way that it takes 24 hours to install.

After the 24 hour install, it takes about 25 minutes for the Vista to boot. But still the system is damn slow, so think before you do something. You can also install windows xp on the Playstation 3 which is slightly faster.

Look at the video for more information.

Via PS3Scene

It has been 7 years since Windows XP was launched. During its lifetime it got many upgrades including 3 Service Pack releases (Service Pack 3 being the latest). The Service Pack added many new and useful features so as to increase the life shell of Windows XP.

After the release of Windows Vista many Windows Users wanted to shift to Windows Vista but could not because of the high system requirements of Vista. Soon after the release of Windows Vista many transformation packs were launched, which transformed the looks of Windows XP to Windows Vista giving the users of XP the feel that they were using Windows Vista.

Even though these Transformation packs were not able to provide the performance of Vista but they managed to copy the looks of Vista pretty well. These transformation packs were able to copy all the eye candies of Vista except one – the Start menu of Vista. There were many themes which copied the look of the taskbar of Windows Vista, but failed to provide the same functionality. Being a Vista user myself, I can easily say that I really miss the Vista Start bar in Windows XP.

So today Techunknown.com presents to you Windows Vista start menu for Windows XP!

Download it: http://vistastartmenu.com

As you can see from the above image, Vistastart menu provides functionality similar or better than Windows Vista start menu can provide.
The search box is similar to Vista’s start menu and it even saves your last search. When you search for any file/application via the search box given, the search begins instantly but it is little slow compared to Windows Vista Start Menu but not that slow to irritate you. When you search for a file/application via the search bar and you type the full name of the application for example “paint”, the application also shows applications or files with similar name like Printers etc.

As you can see from the image, it even shows system files and folder. Also unlike Start menu in Vista and XP where you have to click on “Programs” to show you all the installed programs which you have in your PC, VistaStart Menu opens the “Program” group or slide by default thus saving you one mouse click when you open an application from the “Programs” menu.
There is also a quick start group where you can put in all the applications which you access frequently. All the applications present in the start menu have a shortcut, if you would have seen the previous images properly you would notice that there is a small straight line passing through the applications menu after certain intervals. These straight lines divide the “Program” menu into certain groups. The first group has “A” assigned as its shortcut so if you will press “A” you will be automatically taken to the first group and then all the applications in the first group will have a number assigned to them, pressing that number either launches that application or takes you to the sub group of the application. These shortcuts work only when you use the “Windows” key to access the start menu and not when you used the mouse to access the start menu.

You can also move the Start Menu to another location! Yes you read it right to another location! You can even resize the start menu. Amazing isn’t it. To move the Start Menu all you got to do is hover your mouse near the “Get Pro Version” and then just drag the start menu to the location you want it to.

Now from the next time whenever you open Start Menu it will open from the same position where you had placed it earlier.

The Bad Side-

After the good side comes the bad side. Sometimes whenever I used to click on the start menu, VistaStartMenu just did not pop-up. I had to click multiple times before it used to pop out. Also as I said earlier, searching via the Search Box is a bit slow compared to Windows Vista Start Menu. Also just for the information of its users or the user who are going to download it, it eats up 11Mb RAM usually with the max going to 20Mb.

Conclusion-

In the end I would like to conclude that Windows XP users who can’t shift to Vista because of its high system requirements should download VistaStartMenu immediately but for Vista users I would say if you can cope up with the slow searching time and the extra “11Mb RAM” I will say it’s worth it.

TechUnknown Rating – Very Good

Pro’s – Finally an alternative to Vista Start Menu, and for XP users finally a Vista style Start Menu

Con’s – Slow in searching via search box, Sometimes the Menu just does not pop-up even after clicking the Start Button multiple times

iResQ, a recent startup offers to buy your iPhone whether its broken or in a working condition. Why? Simple, the usable parts of your iPhone will be refurbished and used again while the others will be recycled properly. iResQ already specialises in repairing and maintaining of Apple products.

Just use this form to complete your request and mention the complaint and other details. iResQ will then contact you about your request and quote a reasonable price.

“This buyback program serves a twofold purpose,” says Brian Buffington, iResQ’s general manager. “We get to relieve consumers of their unwanted iPhones and prevent hazardous waste from entering landfills by recycling rechargeable batteries.”

That certainly sums it up. Save the world from the nasty hazardous waste. In a way, you help the environment whether you like it or not.

iResQ

I was browsing though a website when i saw this Google ad about exclusive discounts for technical students on Apple Notebooks in India.
Now this is an irresistible offer for technology enthusiasts like me. I clicked on the ad and was redirected to this website: http://macforstudents.netbiz.in/

To get the details of the offer, i had to fill in a simple contact form with details of my institution. Took me hardly 1 minute. After that i got a mail with the complete details of the offer, which can be seen in this screenshot:

But for those who want to avail this offer, hurry up as the offer is till 30th august only.

Customizing taskbar and Start Menu in Windows is very easy and comes in very handy, to make your PC look and work in the way you want.

To change these properties click on the Start button and then in the menu that pops up, choose properties.

Now in the window that comes there are two tabs for Taskbar and Start menu. By default Start tab is selected.

There are two display styles for Start menu. The new XP style Start menu and the Classic Start menu. You can choose anyone and further customize its features, look and feel by clicking on the Customize button next to it.

Next comes the Taskbar tab

From here you can choose and customize the appearance of the taskbar like: lock, auto-hide, quick launch, clock and inactive icons tec.

Select all the features that you like and click Apply then click OK. It is as simple as that.

Netshare from Nullriver is is a boon for many who are mobile whether they want to or not. If you people have already downloaded Netshare for $10 from the Apple Stores and are frustrated that you couldn’t figure out what the app was all about, well then seriously you need this tutorial.

Please note that this tutorial will not work on Mozilla Firefox 3. For better results, better use safari (obviously Apple friendly). Head over here for the tutorial.

Download Netshare

UPDATE: It seems some users cant see the download page for this app on the Apple Store. I do not know whats the problem, but will come out with a solution soon.