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Hey, guys. Although I am sure there are hundreds of them out there, they are ridiculously difficult to find. Can you guys recommend some great science and nature documentaries (preferably in high definition)? The ones I have so far are: Arctic Tale Crash Science: Airplanes Deep Blue...

Hello. I’m Aayush Arya, a resident of New Delhi, and I have a brand new unopened MacBook Pro that I’m offering for Rs. 1,50,000. It is the new unibody model that was released in early February this year and has the standard one-year warranty from May 2009 to May 2010 that can further be...

Hello. I’m situated in New Delhi and want to buy one of them fancy 3G modems for my MacBook Pro. I hear MTNL offers the best service out here but just want to make sure that it’s the right choice to make. Will MTNL’s 3G service work with a Mac? What are the effective download and upload...

Data Summary Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results 6.9 Million iPhones Sold Mac Sales Reach All-Time High CUPERTINO, California—October 21, 2008—Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2008 fourth quarter ended September 27, 2008. The Company posted revenue of $7.9...

about our delhi struggle We are Dave and Jenny. We live in India, which is not like where we used to live. This blog won’t tell you what we did on such-and-such day. Instead, we’re blogging to showcase the fun and insanity of living in India, to help the people back home share what we...

Apple MacBook Pro 17-inch Brand new screen & logicboard. 1+ year warranty left. Starting bid: Rs. 81,636 It’s a 17-inch MacBook Pro with a brand new logic board, display, casing, speakers, keyboard, SuperDrive, MagSafe power cord and battery (because they have all been replaced within...

Hello! :) First, some statistics: There are more than ten dedicated Mac users (some are even referred to as fanboys) on this forum and definitely a lot of iPod users. We even have a few iPhone users, even though it isn’t officially available in India yet. The Apple thread, which was started...

Hello! :) This has already been discussed in the Apple thread but since it’s huge news, I thought I should post about it in a more public setting. Until the end of August, Apple is running a program offering a steep discount of 12% on its MacBook and MacBook Pro lines. If you’re a...

Windows Could Use a Rush of Fresh Air By RANDALL STROSS Published: June 29, 2008 MICROSOFT Windows has put on a lot of weight over the years. Illustration by The New York Times Beginning as a thin veneer for older software code, it has become an obese monolith built on an ancient...

Why Pixar Is the Apple of Hollywood Steve Jobs let the animators at his other little company do what they do best with WALL*E: use breakthrough technology to bring a great idea to life, but don’t let it out of the lab until it’s perfect. Sound familiar? Inside the world’s top animation studio...

Why I Still Use Windows Despite the Peer Pressure There are over a dozen people working at our fair Gizmodo, but as a Windows user, I'm in a definite minority. I still rock XP, and I'm pretty happy with that. Why haven't I switched to Macs? Plenty of reasons, not least of which being that...

Hello! :) Most of you know that I write for Macworld’s sister site MacUser. What you don’t know is that I’m also the Editorial Director (yeah, fancy title, I know :p) for an Indian Apple related website set to launch within a few days/weeks. I’m working on a huge entry for it, hoping to...

Hello! :) I need to buy the Plantronics Discovery 925 Bluetooth headset. Can someone please tell me where in India can I do so? Thank you!

Apple Previews Mac OS X Snow Leopard to Developers SAN FRANCISCO—June 9, 2008—Apple® today previewed Mac OS® X Snow Leopard, which builds on the incredible success of OS X Leopard and is the next major version of the world’s most advanced operating system. Rather than focusing primarily...

WWDC: MobileMe - “Exchange for the rest of us” Posted on Jun. 9, ’08, 11:49 AM PT by Dan Pourhadi Confirming the rumors, Steve Jobs today announced MobileMe—a new service for managing and syncing data online and across machines that replaces Apple’s .Mac service. All your information...

Disney and Pixar: The Power of the Prenup Photo illustration by The New York Times Pixar, co-founded by Steve Jobs, left, and Disney, run by Robert A. Iger, have a Hollywood marriage that works. Starring in their newest animated film is a robot named Wall-E. By BROOKS BARNES...

Hello! :) One of my friends, an American, is looking for a good web-host for his website. He needs around 1GB or more of storage space, at least, and a hefty monthly bandwidth. He’d be willing to spend around $50/year (maybe a little more). Which one should I recommend to him? He wants a...

The end of the world Why Apple doomsayers are full of hooey by John Moltz, Macworld.com | May 20, 2008 10:06 pm Apparently some of you think that Apple’s about to go out of business; that its very existence is threatened; that fire, plague, and pestilence lie just around the corner for our...

iPhone 3G Launch Date Confirmed We all suspected it, but now it is confirmed: someone very, very close to the 3G iPhone launch has told me that Apple will announce their new model at the WWDC Keynote on June 9th. The second-generation iPhone will be available worldwide right after the...

Hello! :) I bought a 40-day-old Labrador Retriever yesterday. This is my first pet ever and I'm therefore not very experienced in this department. If any experienced dog owner has any tips to share, please enlighten me. What sort of things should comprise a vegetarian diet, for example...