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JBL reference 510
Posted on 15. Mar, 2008 by Krishnan.
Its green. It is fluorescent and phosphorescent. It glows in the light and in the dark. It is viscous. It flows, though slowly. Any thing that comes into direct contact with it glows.
At times when I’ve been really down, I’ve felt it flow into me. From my walkman, through the leads, through the wires and through my head phones, into my ears, making me glow. But it flowed slowly. The walkman seemed to be a weak pump. And for years it remained that way, oozing out slowly from a source of music.
Some times it would spill out of my ears and I always had trouble getting the right sealing at my ear to prevent the green stuff from leaking out. Years ago, I had a headphone that was glued into a position that best fit my head so that no one would change my best fit position.
But all that changed today.
The wires became pipes. The slow flowing thick liquid became thin and came down with force. It wasn’t glowing that brightly either. It did not fill me slowly, but it poured all into me and overflowed.
It was a different experience today.
To me, my new JBL reference 510 changed the way music sounded.
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HP iPAQ 610 business messenger
Posted on 07. Sep, 2007 by Krishnan.
This is the news I’ve been waiting for.
http://www.brightcove.com/title.jsp?title=1173338163
HP iPAQ 610 ships this month or next. Hopefully it should be in India by the last quarter. It is one super gizmo which is a mini-computer with windows mobile 6, can run office, push email, a mobile phone, a camera, a PDA with a touch screen and – hold your breath - a GPS all in one tiny bundle less than 150 grams.
No wonder Apple dropped the i-Phone prices.
The specs are here and the phone retails at US$600
Now the question is, if I get to lay my hands on it. Buying this makes even more sense to me – because this can tether with my laptop, which is also HP, to give wireless internet access at every location where there is phone coverage.
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Dell Axim X5
Posted on 20. Aug, 2007 by Krishnan.
I picked up a used Axim X5 from Houston’s craigslist.
- 400 MHz Intel XScale Processor
- 64 MB of RAM
- 48 MB ROM
- 3.5″ 65,000 color display
- Integrated CompactFlash Type II and Secure Digital/MultiMediaCard slots
- Built-in microphone
- Speaker
- Stereo headphone connector
- Stylus
- Sync cradle
- AC Adapter
- 1440 mAh Lithium-Ion battery
This is just to get familiarised with the PPC platform. Its been reset to factory defaults. I’ve had it for over 5 hours now and strangely, I havent still installed a single software. This didnt come with any software 
The manuals are available at http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/aximx5/en/index.htm
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