The new iPhone 3G is all set to hit the market for just $199. Since its launch, the price has been depreciating. According to a preliminary analysis by iSuppli Corp., the new Apple iPhone 3G materials and manufacturing cost is $173. The initial retail price of the phone announced by Steve Jobs will be $199. iSuppli has performed a breakdown of the costs using insights from its analysis staff to develop estimates of iPhone content, suppliers, and costs. “The new iPhone is significantly less expensive to produce than the first-generation product, despite major improvements in the product’s functionality and unique usability, due to the addition of 3G communications,” said Dr. Jagdish Rebello, director and principal analyst for iSuppli.

In India, Vodafone and Airtel are already taking pre-orders to cash on the hype but the real thing is India doesn’t yet have a 3G network and so it will just be a phone to flaunt about in India.

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Journeys can be a lot fun especially on Indian trains. On my recent traverse from my place - Visakhapatnam to Hyderabad, I was having my own doubts about my co-travellers as my previous traverse from Bangalore to Visakhapatnam was one you wish you never took. My co-travellers never stopped talking about — "The Art of Living"?????. From one Swami to another Guruji, their talk lasted right through the night. Even when somebody switched off the ‘light’, one lady started about the ‘divine-light’ of a particular Guruji :~!

The previous journey has been a delight. I met ‘Sidhu’ - the cute kid in the photo which I snapped using my Macbook. From various species of fish in the Bay of Bengal (Visakhapatnam has a beautiful beach) to the recent Mars Lander to Madonna and ghosts - he talked about everything and I - had a journey to remember. We had a heated debate whether a sword is better than an arrow to kill a person (We actually watched the movie Gladiator and that is how it all started). I debated on the arrow side and he - on the sword-side;). Sad, time flew quick and I, at the end of the journey was left with his number (Yes, he has a mobile already!) .

PS: May be Ektha Kapoor - the Telesoap queen of Indian Television should send her writers on long train journeys if she doesn’t have stories for her TV shows rather than using a poor girl’s (Aarushi’s) tragedy. She is bound to get loads of family-masala stuff. 

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CAPTCHA’s are a nightmare for anyone. Not that I am colorblind. Everyone would have encountered while signing up for a new account on a website or forum. But the “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart” are truly bad. I was going through Vysnu’s blog and came across this  post about the worst CAPTCHA he ever encountered.What about the one below from John Willis list of top 10 worst CAPTCHA’s ever? Read Willis post for the worst top-10 CAPTCHAs.

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Firefox 3 might be raining records and might have a plethora of new features and may have plugged the memory leaks but the ‘awesome bar’ which Mozilla calls its address bar in its new Firefox 3 browser might be annoying for some users. Here’s how to get back your old Firefox 2 address bar sans the annoyance.

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I seriously don’t know how it works or which crazy mind came up with this idea but if you want to help the poor and poverty struck people anywhere in the world this is by far the easiest way to do so. This is how it works: "You play a easy 2 second game on Freerice.com for free and everytime you play, the site donates 20 grains of rice through the UN World Food Program to help end hunger. I just donated 3000 grains of rice and I am still playing. After this, I thought this is a great way to help.

Please spread this word across your blog posts and email. Sure a great way to help them.

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