Rajib's Blog

Audiophiles beware. Careless production and mastering processes are resulting in audio-cds that feature terrible audio.

.IN domain registrar NET 4 India is not only expensive but has policies and customer care that will cause you to lose money. Avoid like plague.

Content producers and distributors tend to punish the genuine customer in their bid to control piracy. The pirate and his fans remain dis-affected.

The Local Cable TV Provider has arbitrarily switched off channels from being broadcast and called it their ‘condolence’ gesture. This a good reason for me to switch to Satellite Television.

419 Scams are nothing new, at-least not to techies. However there are scores of people across the planet who continue to fall for these scammers who are primarily based out of Africa.
Why do people fall for such schemes? Lack of common sense is obviously the reason. Greed is another. Take a look at this SMS [...]

The new Sony P Series is by no means an innovative product. Years before the newly launched Sony Vaio VGN P15G , Sony developed and sold the Picturebook series Vaio VAIO PCG-C1XS laptop.
Unfortunately, the trend of Netbooks hadn’t caught on then. Much like the consumer demand for gas guzzling cars in 50’s in USA, the [...]

Reliance Infocomm’s latest stunt has fallen on it’s face and become the gaffe of the year. Ok, maybe gaffe of the month.
It activated ‘Ring-Back-Tone (RBT)’ for all customers without any prior intimation/permission. To my discerning musical ears, a nondescript song being played at 2.4 kbps-mono over a 1mm speaker is probably worse than Chinese water [...]

Take the talent shows – so much in vogue in India.
First you invite the industry pundits to join the panel of judges. You make them do the sweaty work of scraping the dirt, trying to find raw gemstones. And when they have fairly narrowed the selection based on their years of experience, you completely [...]