There have hardly been an eye candy gadget like iPhone in recent times. The extreme user-friendliness coupled with its sleek and stylish looks have helped iPhone to reach the pinnacle of popularity. iPhone apps have been a great addition and a pillar to iPhone's overwhelming craze. Considering that, we thought of exploring apps for a specific group of people, the graphic designers. There is a designer in each one of us. So even if you are not a pro, you can still try your hands on them.

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Sony VAIO, mini is perhaps the most talked about notebook of the town. Sony has left no stone unturned to promote it like a darling as well as making it as fashionable as it can get. While most of the young gals these days have a fetish for Sony Vaio mini, we thought of giving it a shot and come up with our own results. Intel Z520 Atom CPU with 1.3 GHz clock rate, 2 GB RAM and 60 GB Hard disk with 4200 rpm makes it a powerful stud along with an eye candy look. After Asus' eE PC's supreme success, Sony's Vaio mini is in true sense a netbook that offers quality. So the question is, should you go for it considering the high price tag or is it not worthy enough? Gadgetophilia tried exploring all of that from its neutral best.

In this review you will find:

• Features ans Specs
• Dimension and Color
• Connectivity
• Input Device
• Display
• Battery Life
• Functionality
• Limitations
• Conclusion

Read: Sony VAIO Mini Laptop Review

After getting through two hands on reviews, namely Hands On Review of Seagate Momentus 5400.6 and Hands on Review of 1 TB Seagate Barracuda 7200.12, we were sent a Seagate FreeAgent Go Portable Hard disc (320 GB). We unboxed it and did a thorough review testing it in different conditions and scrutinized it under more than one software. The whole story with images are here.

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Review: Mini monitor can be a useful desktop annex

ATLANTA — When you're surfing the Web, editing photos, listening to MP3s and tweeting, it's easy to run out of real estate on your computer display. If only you had a little extra screen — like a digital kid brother — that could show an auxiliary program like a Twitter application. Now you do. All hail the mini monitor.

These diminutive displays are quite helpful with everyday computing tasks but take up less desk space than a full-sized monitor you might use as a second screen. And you don't need a special slot in your PC to connect the miniature displays. A basic USB connection handles it.

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We had reviewed n-Gage: Brother in Arms and n-Gage: One earlier when Nokia gave us a Nokia N81 for n-Gage reviewing purpose. This time around its Age of Empires III and you sure don't need an introduction for this one. Age of Empires has been one of the most acclaimed and popular strategy games over the years in video games industry. So to put it in mobile gaming was an obvious choice for Nokia. Let's see how this first real time strategy game faired to our first impression.

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WASHINGTON - Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories, US, have constructed a carbon nanotube device that can detect the colours of the rainbow, by identifying the entire visible spectrum of light, a feat that could soon allow scientists to probe single molecule transformations.

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Subversion is a highly popular version control system used worldwide. It succeeds CVS and aims to rectify its shortcomings. Subversion, like any other version control system, is used to maintain current and historical revisions of files such as source code, web pages, and documentation.

Hosted Subversion Service allows you to host your subversion server and data on a remote server which you can access securely (must-have feature) over the internet. Most hosted subversion service has a minimal free plan followed by a paid subscription.

We have previously posted comprehensive review of hosted subversion services. Today we will talk about the advantages and disadvantages of hosted subversion services in details.

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Softbank sinks into loss on Internet service

TOKYO — Softbank Corp., Japan's third-biggest mobile carrier, said Thursday that it sank into a loss in the fiscal fourth quarter on one-time costs, including launching a superfast Internet service.

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After having an exciting news of $10 laptops shaping up in India, last month we had an embarrassing disclosure of a device that was anything but a laptop.  For Rs. 500 you would have got a 2GB of storage memory, WiFi connectivity, Ethernet port(s) and USB connectivity and without a screen. It was a sophisticated pen drive of some sort which no body was interested to buy. Anyway, now it seems Indian Govt. has finally realized that its not possible to make a laptop at that cost and chose to embrace OLPC instead. Though the lack of foresight is quite evident as It was MHRD of India that banished the thoughts of OLPC. Being an Indian I can not but think of being ridiculed by the whole world of a failed project, a complete sense of misjudgment and then going back to the point zero again. The good thing? OLPC, the wonderful effort will get a big financial boost as well as recognition which they need at this time.

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WASHINGTON - With major companies in the Silicon Valley suffering the biggest slump since the dot-com bust, some firms are eyeing India and China to recover from the effects of a global economic meltdown.

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