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The fortune blog says that AT&T is going to sell iPhone for as low as $199.As seen on AT&T store, it says its right now giving it away at $399 for 8GB iPhone and $499 for 16GB iPhone.

There have been lots of posts and responses about AT&T giving away iPhone at $199. Fortune's blog lead to this story everywhere, till now its not been confirmed , as its still not being reflected on the AT&T store. All you people get ready to grab one for yourself !!

Lets wait and see.. 

Have a look at the AT&T online store screenshot(taken by me,just today):

[ AT&T ] [ AT&T Store ]

Google introduces artist themes for iGoogle. Make your iGoogle homepage look cool. Select any of the artist themes for iGoogle.

Check out Google's logo today and its changed. Google has featured a theme by Jeff Koons. 

About the artist : ( from iGoogle page)

American artist Jeff Koons burst onto the international art scene in the 1980s. He creates iconic work such as Michael Jackson and Bubbles, Rabbit, and Puppy. He is exhibited throughout the world. 

Themes totally change the look and feel of the page. It looks more lively. Not that I use iGoogle regularly. I always use classic page of Google, as its clean and elegant, but these themes will certainly make me use iGoogle rather than the classic homepage. Start using iGoogle and you will certainly change from the classic homepage of Google to iGoogle(with lovely artistic themes).

Here are some screenshots :

[ Google Classic ] [ iGoogle ]

Last week Ubuntu released Hardy Heron. Before upgrading I was on Ubuntu 7.10. Last week, there was an update notification to upgrade to 8.04. I have also used Mac4Lin theme with Ubuntu.There is some problem with the latest kernel on Ubuntu, some crashes and Mac4Lin dosen't work nicely on Hardy Heron.

Good thing about the upgrade is , you can still select the old kernel i.e 2.6.22-14 during boot.And for Windows users, Ubuntu 8.04 has Wubi which allows users to install and uninstall Ubuntu like any other Windows OS application.

Below are some screenshots and reviews: 

Some of the sites which reviewed the latest Ubuntu release.

eWeek's review:

Canonical has marshaled the best of what the open-source world has to offer in Ubuntu 8.04, a Linux-based operating system that's capable of mounting a serious challenge to Microsoft Windows on mainstream desktops and notebooks. During my tests of Ubuntu 8.04, both in its final form and in a series of test releases that led up to the official launch April 24, I've been impressed enough with the distribution to award it the eWEEK Labs Analyst's Choice designation.

LifeHacker's review:

If you've flirted with the idea of switching your desktop operating system to Linux but never took the leap, the time is now. This week's release of Hardy Heron, an Ubuntu release that will be supported until 2011, offers a freer, more productive space for work and play than ever before.

 [ Ubuntu ] [ Get Ubuntu ] [ Request Free CD ]

Freewaregenius recommends BitRipper,it converts DVD's to AVIor Mpegin a single click. Thats cool right..Sometimes it gets so muh boring to find different codecs before converting, but this tool does it all. Before using this, I had used to rip using Xilisoft ripper and imtoo dvd ripper. But this one rocks ! So all you guys who want to do a dvd rip could use it.

Some of the coolest features are it converts on the fly, converts any dvd, simple, installer contains codecs.

njoy the software for Free !

[ BitRipper ] [ Download (1.15Mb)]

I han't used Rapidshare for many weeks..(no new mp3's.. just kidding.., I just use for file sharing). Some days back I went to download a video file sent by my friend and to my surprise, the image captcha of Rapidshare had changed, I put in the code thrice, but it didn't work. Then I carefully saw the page and found this.

No premium user. Please enter all letters having a below.

Its really surprising that rapidshare is using such weird type of image captcha..It might drive you crazy for the first time, but next time you probably won't feel that weirdness.

So, rapidshare users should see it more carefully and then put in only the letters which have cat in the letters. Its bit difficult to make out for the first time. 

Below is a screenshot attached. 

Do you want to give your desktop a pinch of Mac OS X? Do you want to change your GNOME desktop from the default look to something like this? Use Mac4Lin to give it the look and feel of Mac OS X (latest being 10.5, Leopard) on *nix GTK based systems.

Make this happen by Using Mac4Lin on your Linux system. I use Ubuntu  and it worked awesome. The only thing I could not get is  the icons at the bottom, apart from that I have got the perfect MAC look for my Ubuntu system. 

Here is a nice tutorial on how to go about on Howtoforge and also the Mac4Lin has nice documentation.

Don't forget to thank the owner. Its an amazing piece of work.

Download all the 3 parts.

[ Download Mac4Lin ]  [ Tutorial on HowtoForge]

While browsing today, I saw that Register.com site is trying out its new look.  Looks like they have tried out embossing styled buttons and images. The use of colors is really nice, the combination of greyish black and green buttons and images makes the site look lively.

People who haven't seen their old site, I have a screenshot of that old site too. It looks so dull and so common. Besides, they have still not changed their site theme, maybe they are experiementing..

But the new look rocks !

Way to go Register.com !

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