Tech Mania

Don’t know how it happened, but over the last few days have let myself get sucked into one of these tech  craze phases where I end up spending insane amount of time cleaning up all my tech-ware. It all started with changing the dull looking Office 2003 for my Vaio. As soon as my German shipment arrived, I started meddling with other softwares on my old Vaio . Further, on a whim upgraded to Vista which disabled a few of my beloved softwares.

I couldn’t find the vista driver for my cpen scanner which is heartbreaking. Tried it running on my mac - windows fusion, but no luck. So bit down about it. Further my old version of Dragon naturally speaking isn’t compatible with Vista. But I was planning to replace with the newer .10 version anyway. Some issues with Palm sync. Plus, the Epson printer is simply not willing to scan anything. The digital voice recorder is fine, thanks to the thoughtful Sony who have released the new upgraded Software. No worries with Nokia N95.

And  Vista, though, after a few initial, natural, hiccups is running smoothly; I quite like the user interface. It looks like a Microsoft apology for Leopard, but still it is a million times better than XP which was like- oh don’t ask me –  hanging around with a girl friend who turned out to be dull?

On the positive side of all the meddling have found the great art envi  iphone application at apple store.  Has about thousands of famous paintings, all of  which can be accessed by a tap of the thumb on your iphone. Quite brilliant. What more you can zoom in on  the details without losing resolution too. Shall write in detail some other time. I tell you - iphone is the first step towards dream gadget which would include - phone with instapush applications, mini-laptop, sat nav, Personal digital assistant, ereader, DecentCamera, Dictaphone, electronic Dictionary, external hard-drive and a music player. I can just see it happening.

Also, discovered the new notebook software which is a personal organiser for mac. I must say it is the closest any software has gotten to capture all the needs of my desk organiser software.  So cheers for that.

Some catching up to do. Like the medals tally and study. Laters.