Nokia n97 review, not even stand near iPhone

Nokia n97 launched user review
Last week i previwed the most hyped Nokia n97 with great eagerness. But my eagerness came to halt even after using it two minutes. n97 is just new wrapper on existing 5800 eXpress music phone with a physical keyboard, processor speed increased a bit from 369 Mhz to 434 MHz. Same 128mb Ram. n97 is very sluggish like 5800.
User Interface is not smooth at all and not that much clear. It is stated as iPhone killer, but seriously it will be insult of iPhone to compare to that. I am not obsessed with the iphone, but salute the innovation. A physical keyboard inclusion is good, but not worth to buy this $700 device. if you really want to possess a Nokia smartphone of current benchmarks. wait for the company to release some worthy device.

Suggestion : Do not BUY......... Palm - PRE is good option.

Ratings:
User Interface : **
Innovation : *
Speed : **
N/W Strength : ****

Other Phones in this category that you can consider, top to bottom priority wise..

Iphone 3GS OR Palm-Pre (multi backgroundn apps)
Iphone 3G
Black berry Storm 2 (Yet to launch)
Samsung Omnia-2 (Yet to launch )

HTC and other windows phones still have miles to go before they come to comparison.

Search mails, attachment, contact at blazing speed in Ms Outlook using Xobni

In the job almost everybody is using Microsoft outlook client for the mails. But searching mails is very painful and if you want to search for a attachment you will struck you head in the wall. But don't worry Xobni(reverse of INBOX) is here.

XOBNI is an free plugin to the Microsoft Outlook. It index the mails, attachments,
address in so nicely format that you will love it. When you select an contact, it shows all conversation, files-exchanged, related contacts. You can search content of your mails at blazing speed, yes i know Outlook search and indexing sucks. But this plugin will make your life very easy.

As on top of screen shot you can put any string and xobni will search all the mails very quickly.

Even you can browse the contact information from various social networking sites and skype.

Suppose you need to search a attachement from a particular contact. In normal search it is really difficult. using Xobni you just need to select the contact all the attachment till date from that particular contact will be displayed in the lower section of the xobni window. you can watch it , save it and using that attachment directly open the original mail.

for very detailed information. see URL: http://www.xobni.com/learnmore/

BookMyShow(online movie ticket booking site) issues.

BookMyShow (A network 18 Venture) is a popular and user Friendly site & i guess one of mostly used after PVR or equivalent. In past i booked many tickets when there was offer of free tickets :)
But technically its weak site. I found many glitches on the site.
Bug 1:
Tickets are available there But user see no ticket available.
With bug1 company can loose potential customer to other sites.

you can create situation where sites will have tickets, but users will see no tickets.

e.g Suppose Gold category has A-1 to A10, B1-B10,

1.Customer A comes to site at 1:00 he want to books 10 tickets and he select the tickets, the website now will not allow others to book those 10 tickets up to 12-15 min irrespectively whether he make the transaction or not.
he marks b1-b10 for booking.

2. Another customer B comes to site @ 1:05 and try to book the tickets for the same movie, same hall. he also want to book 10 tickets. He check that b1-b10 are not available but a1-a10 are available.

3. customer C come to the site @ 1:07 and try to book 5 tickets. he gets the msg that tickets are not available.

now customer though the tickets are not available. now he got two choices.
Either go to another booking site
Check another hall.
The same situation may be with other halls.

so he could spoil his plan to see the movie. so its loss for three entities.

Customer
BookMyshow.
Hall owner.

by chance if customer see tickets are available on other sites. What will be reputation of the site.

So with a little script anybody can show every user that tickets are not available for whole day. A small script or macro will do that.

Bug 2:
Even though bookmyshow allows you to book non-consecutive tickets when consecutive are available.
But when site does not have consecutive, it will not allow to book,Even the no of tickets are available. But site show a message that "tickets are not available please call the particular no. Customer may or may not call. So again tickets are available but customer is unable to book.

Other online movie ticket booking web sites:

Kyazoonga.com (Movies, Cricket, Events)
pvrcinemas.com(Delhi NCR, Bengalooru,Hyderabad)