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Over the past two months, I’ve been using my mobile phone (a Nokia N73 Music Edition) more than my laptop to access the web. Consequently, I’ve been using a few mobile apps extensively. This post is a description of what mobile applications I use everyday, and how they’ve enabled a mobile lifestyle. Read more

Xobni is an Outlook plugin that has proven remarkably useful in managing managing bloated inboxes. It’s generated its fair share of buzz lately, and most users seem to love it. Apart from a clutch of very well-implemented features, what it is about Xobni that make it such a inherently popular tool?

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There is a market for start-ups that provide only an interface for existing email. For people who are willing to pay for (cheap) storage of their email and for bandwidth. Users will be able to migrate from and to such services without needing to copy huge amounts of email to their new email provider.

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So my Thinkpad’s hard disk (a standard Hitachi 2.5″ 4200 RPM 80GB HDD) died Saturday evening. It began making ghastly noises all of a sudden, signaling imminent mechanical failure. I shut down the computer immediately, and on restarting, a BSOD informed me my boot volume was un-mountable.

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So I moved from Outlook to Mozilla Thunderbird this weekend. Though I’d been looking for an Outlook replacement for a while, the Nokia Synchronizer app (which I use heavily) worked only with Outlook, so that kept me from moving.

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Heard of the lemon and plum theory? No? Hold on, I’ll explain using the classic “used car” model from Economics 101.

Consider a market for used cars where half of the sellers have “bad” used cars on offer (let’s call them lemons), with the rest being plums. (You know you’re back in college when you begin sentences with ‘consider a…”!) The “bad” sellers are willing to let their lemons go for Rs. 1000, and the “good” plums are being offered for Rs. 2000. Now, the buyers in the market know that half of the cars on sale are lemons, but there’s no way of telling which one. The price they’d be willing to pay, then, would be the weighted average of lemons and plums:

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It’s official - Gmail’s conversation view is the best way to manage lots of email. Evidence? Well, the internal mailing list that IIM Kozhikode students set up has seen well over a thousand messages in the past three weeks. Almost all those who chose to receive this deluge of email in their Yahoo! webmail inboxes have been unable to deal with the traffic, and have either simply lost track of content and have given up reading it, or have been unable to locate the information they need. On the other hand, those of us with Gmail accounts have had little or no trouble. Although my Gmail inbox has gone up from roughly 2200 email conversations to 3100 conversations in these 3 weeks, I never felt as if I couldn’t manage to read content as it came in, or re-visit the content that I wanted to.

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