The year 2010 has created much hype as world's leading companies have their own products lined up for release.

Apple's iPad

The first that top's the list is iPad - tablet pc from Apple. Used for bowsing the web, mailing, watching movies, listening to music, reading e-books and what not, iPad is set to release on April 3, 2010. With its high-resolution, 9.7-inch LED-backlit IPS(in-plane switching) display, multi-touch screen, 10 hours battery life, Wireless and 3G technology that supports data speeds up to 7.2 Mbps it has become the hot topic of the techie world.

Though it's been said that Google may also develop its own Tablet pc , iPad is sure to sweep off the market. But one thing that has to be taken into consideration is that, there isn't any official information about multitasking. Which means, iPad may not support multitasking like its iPhone.

Windows Phone 7 Series

The much awaited Microsoft's new software for smart phones, Windows Phone 7 series will be available this year, but not until the holidays.

The software is designed from scratch and is totally different from the ones that are already available making it one of its biggest advantage. As stated by Microsoft, it is a "clean break" with the past and won't run any applications written for older versions of Microsoft's phone software.

It has already become famous among gamers for its Xbox Live feature!!

With its refreshingly new user interface and exciting new features, will it become the iPhone killer??

Google Chromium OS

How will it be, if we are able to work on our system the moment we switch it on without waiting for it to boot up? Well, Google has answered it with its new Chrome OS.

Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that is being desinged for people who spend most of their time on internet. Though official release date has not yet been announced, google has said that it will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010.

Everything here is web based. It mainly deals with web applications rather than desktop applications. Speed and Security are the two major features. Chrome being already popular among users for its multitasking, has created a lot expectations.

To know what Google Chrome OS is, watch it here.

The Indian Premier League 2010 the cricket extravaganza, the greatest cricketing tournament is all set to rock the cricketing fans from next week. Though it is one of the Cricket’s most spectacular events, it has received strong criticism right from its launch. Most of its ideas have been ripped off from other sporting major sporting events from other countries the strategic time outs, franchisees, Player auction and home away matches etc. With more and more money into the Cricketing event, it has become such that it is cricket match in between commercials and not the vice versa these days. We keep seeing the Promos and the Ads of IPL every now and then. Some Promos and Ads have been very creative that we get highly impressed. However at a later point we come to know that it has been a rip off of another promo of another sporting event from another country it leaves a bad taste with us and gives us a sense of irritation whenever we see the promo next time. The promo of IPL 2008 “The cricket ka karmayudh” was a huge hit when it was launched. However after few days we came to know that it’s a Rip off of the Promo of an American baseball team (The Yankees). Watch this video.

You can't go seek love .It will never stay.It should happen.It should blow us.
Change our life upside down.It happened to me.These are the lines at the start of the movie.When most of the movies are about seeking love and making woman fall in love with man, this for sure is different.Its about what happens naturally, spontaneously.The starting is classic with hero's definition of love and about his ladylove and about his love for her and you get to see a beautiful church in God's own country in a beautiful angle with Aaoromale's starting guitar sequence filling up your ears.You feel so good and sit back relaxed in your seat smiling to yourself.

The story is simple.He finds the women of his dreams walking in the street and its love at first sight.He loves her.She loves him.Girls parents disagree.Love and Religion are the villains to them.Girl tries to convince her parents.But in vain.One moment she wants to be with him, when he is far away in Goa.Another moment when he is right at her doorstep she wants him to leave her forever.Such is she-Jessie.Confusing.But he ,Karthick is mad about her and knows not what to do.Only to find out later that she got married to someone abroad.He starts making a movie about her and when goes abroad for the shooting we are under the impression that she is not married and that they(karthick&Jessie) get married.Only to find out later that that's how his movie(the one he makes about her) ends and we see him sitting and watching it in the theater with her - the married woman, who comes on his invite to see the movie.They part ways , she asking him to find a girl and fall in love again , to move one and he smiles at her and walks back saying to himself that one cannot seek love.It should happen and we are back to those lines with which the movie began.

Its a wonderful musical till the first half.The scenes are pretty intense between them.Music adds to the intensity with which we feel ourselves in those scenes.In short,fills your senses.The second half is so round about and gives you an impression of watching a story which doesn't know how to end.The twist at the end cant be called as one.The dialogues are not strong enough to say the feel which the movie creates.They are repetitive and annoying at times.The camera is awesome and music blends with the scenes.Aaoromale keeps ringing in your ears after you leave the movie hall.Ganesh who comes as karthick's friend makes you laugh all the time.His dialogue delivery is too good.

Its a story of whats feeling and being in love all about.The heights and levels it can take you.The love which strikes you hard , you get drenched in it, lost into it taking it in you and it becomes a part of you.A natural reaction.It talks to the one, in you,makes you chase your dreams ,strengthens your will , such that you feel like you can change the whole world.Anything and everything is possible in love.That's what you feel when he talks to her(unga appa va erundhalum parthukalam).That's what you feel when she says she will cum to him wherever he is .Such is the confidence love gives.It should happen and persist.We will realize we can bring heaven to Earth.

Gone are the days when we used 128MB of RAM, 2 GB of HDD and 14" CRT monitors and boasted to our friends that we have a High End System. Thanks to Microsoft they somehow or the other kept us updating the hardware with its every release of Operating Systems ( From Win 95 till Win 7). Microsoft with its every release of OS gave huge importance to User Interface(they even named an OS after that user e'XP'erience), they kept improving it so much, that even performance of the system was given the second priority. Microsoft also kept updating the user Interface of the utilities provided along with the OS like the Microsoft Office 95 to 2003 to 2007, Microsoft Internet Explorer etc. The only stagnant program with microsoft has been its much loved program "The Microsoft Paint" which never received any attention from the developers however In 2010 techfest they announced and showed a prototype of a Project named “Gustav” a realistic painting-system prototype.

An awesome video showing how people in South India prepare Parotta(the national food) one guy making the Parotta and throwing it off and another guy catches it to deep fry to make the delicious Parotta. Amazing hand eye coordination ;) Very Impressive.

Google Buzz, Google Talk, Google Mail, Google News, Google Maps, Google Search, Google Android, Google Nexus One, yes truly Google has become a character in our life. As always Google is coming up with interesting, simple and innovative products. There are some interesting products which I happen to come across in the Google Labs (a website for Google products that aren’t quite ready for the big screen yet) like Google Fast Flip, Google Image Swirl, Froogle, Product Search, Patent Search and Similar Images Feature. Try them you can definitely benefit out of them .

Google Fast Flip:

Ever wondered flipping through news articles in web like we do in magazines or newspaper? , Google has answered with a nice product named “Google Fast Flip”. Google Fast Flip is an application which allows users to search for news article and presents them in a nice flip through pages. The users can customize the topics and the publishers. Also there is a mobile version which is released which works currently in iPhone and Android Phones.

Google Image Swirl:

Most of us would have got irritated with the way the image search engine behaves. We would be trying to download an apple (fruit) image, When we give “Apple” in the search keyword we would be getting Apple Inc images and logos instead of the actual fruit image. Google has launched a product called Image Swirl. Images which have similar visual and semantic similarity are grouped into sets called “Swirls”. Google’s Image Swirl is Google’s answer to Microsoft’s Bing Visual Search. J

Google Product Search:

Formerly named as “Froogle” is a price comparison product launched by Google. It uses Google’s search technology to search for products and compares the products and directly points to where one can buy that product from. The search results are completely unbiased and Google ranks results based on only the relevance of the search terms. Sellers can include their products using Google Base or by visiting the information for sellers page.

Google Patents Search:

If you are planning to build an iPad Killer, before starting off with the actual implementation check once if someone else has already obtained a patent for your idea using the Google Patent Search. A search engine which indexes around 7 million patents which were on paper. OCR has been performed to make them searchable. J Google is trying to improve the indexes as some of the IBM patents were not found in the search results. If you are really planning for iPad killer ;), worth double checking with some other resources as well.

Google Similar Images:

What if you are specifically looking for a picture of Tajmahal from a very specific angle, its near impossible to give search keywords in the Google images and find out the specific image we are looking for. In this case Google s Similar images product helps us. Give Tajmahal in the Google Images Keyword and on the results click on the similar images link to refine the search. Recently this similar Images product got graduated to Google Images. Kudos Similar Images Team!! J It is yet another awesome feature to the already massive Google Image Search Engine.