Did you buy the iPhone 3G? My recent post here on Blog goes with the Wired Survey of 2600 users of iPhone who revealed network weaknesses. The blame game go on and I guess Apple is quite on a hype with the launch. I hear, India is a place where Apple had a big bang Advertising to sell the product which earlier, it never had to work so desperate over it.
Anyways, it's hard time to hate the iPhone when we know of the coolest Applications we can get. Here's Ten coolest Applications from Forbes and Ten cool Games you can enjoy on your iPhone 3G.

Well, are you a Connexion Junkie? How well you respond to your connexions or how long you drool over on the iPhone? Are you so addicted that you can have a carpal tunnel syndrome? Do the ring keep buzzing in your mind even when it don't ring? And does your mind and driving synchronize while you iPhone talk while u drive? Give yourself the points you deserve and check on the loopholes. Enjoy!

- ilaxi

According to UNIDO International Yearbook of Industrial Statistics 2008, India ranks 12th in the list of world's Top 15 Automakers, which is led by Japan followed by the US and Germany. Other countries making in the list are Mexico, France, Korea, UK, Canada, Spain, Iran, Sweden, Brazil, Italy and Indonesia.

It seems, in the leading developing countries category, India ranks fourth. India also figures world's top 15 Producers of Chemicals and chemical products, electrical machinery and apparatus, basic metals like iron and steel, non ferrous metals, coke, refined petroleum products nuclear fuel, cement, lime and plastic, etc. As China captures the top position, India ranks top 15 in the Textile Producers in the world.

So, there we go! Thanks to the modern technology, we keep getting smaller cars and you can say, Tata Nano coming soon with the rest in like Zen, i10, sparks, santro and there, thanks to the modern economics, we keep getting bigger and bigger EMIs.

- ilaxi

How to say 'Hi'

How often we find in a situation when we fumble to say 'Hi'. All are not the same as for someone like me, it's a quick smile and quick 'Hi' but than I never keep a continuity and my Hi soon ends up to a 'bye'. Well, as Forbes points out in it's picture Moves : It's only one syllable--"hi"--but it can be the hardest to get out. It's human nature to feel nervous when initiating contact with someone new. Fear and doubt swirl. We focus on the embarrassment and the rejection rather than the opportunity of a new business partner, sales prospect or friend.

Here are eight tips for getting past the sticking point and making the first move.
1. Make eye contact
2. Picture someone familiar
3. Listen first, speak later
4. Share a common experience
5. Be generous
6. Focus on them
7. Practice, practice
8. Have reasonable expectations
(In Pictures : Eight tips for making the first move)

Well, the main rule in Business is staying tuned - Believe in yourself and your dreams, be kind, sincere, generous and helpful to people - They reciprocate back to you. Be good and you're treated good. However, remember, Goodness pays but than check in here to follow your weakness as Niceness mistakes you make sometimes bounce back to hurt you.

Find the review of this book here. Enjoy.

- ilaxi

Too Nice for Your Own Good : How to Stop Making 9 Self-Sabotaging Mistakes by Duke Robinson



Read the review of this book.