How to block someone in Facebook Chat

For guys who are ignorant about how to block someone in Facebook Chat, without blocking the person's access to your profile, read down this informative post.

1. Go to Account menu on right top -> Edit Friends -> All Connections

2. Create a new List. Give it an intuitive name like 'Blocked in Chat' or 'Chat Blocked' or anything else...

3. Now add the people to this list, who you wish to block in chat.

4. Go open the Facebook Chat icon in bottom right. Now just click the green dot against the list 'Blocked in Chat'. This way you appear offline to only those people you don't want to chat with. Note that you appear online to other people.

5. People blocked in chat can still have access to your profile, without feeling offended.

Wine - 2007 Rosemount Shiraz

Check out the bottle of 2007 Rosemount Australian Shiraz from Astor Wines & Spirits.

The wine description by the retailer is as follows :
"Smooth yet spicy, sophisticated but earthy, this bright new wine has all the characteristics you'd expect from Rosemount--and at a great price too! Enjoy it with simple, flavorful meat, chicken or pasta dishes".

399 Lafayette St
(between 4th St & Astor Pl)
New York, NY 10003
(212) 674-7500

www.astorwines.com 

 

 

Tunatic:"Shazam" for PC and Mac

Ever wondered if there was any program for PC or Mac like the iPhone's Shazam app. Well there is indeed one such software. Check out the Tunatic program, with which you can identify and tag unknown songs.

Avenged Sevenfold Drummer Dead

The rising drummer of Avenged Sevenfold, James Owen Sullivan died today, presumably due to natural causes. Nicknamed Jimmy 'The Rev', he was 28.

Selected Discography:

2001 - Sounding the Seventh Trumpet
2003 - Waking the Fallen
2005 - City of Evil
2007 - Avenged Sevenfold
2008 - Diamonds in the Rough   

Get 25GB Storage FREE!

There's a way to get 25GB storage space - Free, Absolutely Free! With the launch of Microsoft's SkyDrive™ Explorer, you can store your files on their servers. Download SkyDrive Explorer here. After installation, you can see a new icon in My Computer. Login to the SkyDrive™ using your Windows Live ID.

• Change share mode and content type of the folders
• Copy folders and files into SkyDrive™
• Files greater than 50MB support
• Open files directly from SkyDrive™
• Move files and folders within storage

Kensington Slimblade SuperDeal

Amazon is selling Kensington Slimblade Media Mouse (Dark Wine) for just 19.35. Thats a 68% Discount off the 59.99 retail price. Its a fantastic thin slim mouse, a perfect alternative to the Apple's Mighty Mouse. Check it out here.

Product Features

* Unique Scroll Ball provides easy and intuitive 360-degree scrolling.
* Multifunction navigation pad allows you to control your digital media from anywhere in the room.
* Navigation pad on the media controller includes: volume control, track control, play and pause.
* Battery indicator light is green then changes to red as the battery level is getting low.
* Mouse goes into sleep mode when your notebook does to prevent power drain.

Grindstone 2 Download

Wake up slackers! Stop wasting your time and use it for some productive purpose by keeping track of your time. Grindstone 2 is a free Windows based time tracking solution. A smart new way to use your time efficiently. You can download it here.

Create new tasks, start the timer. Finish the task, stop the timer. This can help you maintain an accurate time-sheet of your work. As soon as I started using this tool on my laptop, I started using my time more productively. I sue this tool in combination with the "To-Do" app of my iPod. One good feature is the Reports tool which helps you see a breakdown of the total time recorded at the end of the week/month. Just be honest to yourself while recording the times, to get an accurate report. For managers, it can be a great small tool (size - 4.3Megs) to manage your project. Additionally, you can export the task list into an XML file.

India 3G Spectrum Auction

The acution date for India's 3G spectrum has been postponed from the scheduled date of 14 January 2009. Earlier it was to be held on 7 December'09 and was rescheduled. Well, it has once again been postponed due to uncertainty over the available spectrum and number of slots. The govt. will offer spectrum in 4 slots, with a pan price of Rs. 3500 crore ($720 mn).

Check out the region wise available spectrum:

iPhone Unplugged

Read the fine in-depth specific details on how AT&T makes a profit with Apple's iPhone.

The typical iPhone components and their prices are as follows:

• 16 GB flash memory from Toshiba - $24
• Display module from Balda AG - $19.25
• Touch screen assembly from Sharp - $16
• Application processor from Samsung - $14.46
• Baseband from Infineon - $13
• Camera from Altus-Tech - $9.55
• SDRAM from Samsung - $8.50
• Bluetooth from Samsung - $5.95
• Memory MCP from Numonyx - $3.65
  
• RF Tranceiver from Infineon - $2.80
• GPS Receiver from Infineon - $2.25
  
• Triband Antenna from Murata - $1.35
• Power IC Function from Infineon - $1.25
  
• Audio Codec from Cirrus Logic - $1.15
• Manufacturing Costs - $6.50
• Other Parts - $48

The total built-up cost comes to about $179. While the advertised price is $199 with AT&T's 2-yr contract. AT&T pays Apple subsidies over the sale of each phone.

So basically the $199 phone costs AT&T an estimated $550. To cover the subsidy, it increased the data plan rate to 30 bucks a month from the earlier 20.

Over years, the real winner from the sale of iPhones will be AT&T. It enjoys the exclusivity with iPhone, with a guaranteed continuous stream of revenue.

Microsoft-Murdoch-Google Analysis

Presenting the "Big Fight" between Microsoft and Google. Rupert Murdoch was in news recently when he decided that the News Corp websites would not allowed to be indexed by Google. Apparently the move was pushed and secretly backed by Microsoft's Steve Ballmer. Lets analyse this step.

• With this move, News Corp and its websites limit the exposure to internet users, by not being indexed by Google and rather showing up on Bing.

•  News Corp would earn some quick short term cash from Microsoft as per the deal. This allows the media giant to quickly compensate for lagging internet ads+subscription revenue.

• On the other hand, Microsoft will improve its PR with media firms. This deal is very much an implicit signal to publishers, media firms etc.
  

• According to Google, the news items account for a very small percentage of the total searches all around the world.

• It is perceived that Google doesn't like copyrights much. This deal may have some impact in Google's ambitions to scan all books and information to be made available to people.

• All in all, the winner of this deal seems to be Rupert Murdoch.