2010 will be the Year of Tech. Let’s have a quick look at what’s coming our way in Tech — bigger Better Stronger. Internet: Worldwide Speed upgrades will up trend, average speed of internet worldwide will rise by 20% and become cheaper. Web applications would grow in number and capability. Mobile Internet usage will increase by 25-35%. Browsers: Internet browsers see four super powers: Firefox 4 vs. Chrome 5, vs. Opera 10.5 and Read further »

Taranfx wishes you a great year ahead, with Great Tech influencing your life more than ever. We would Like to Thank all our Visitors for their endless support during 2009, we would like to continue the growing trend. We’re now PageRank 4 with daily views >11k. During 2010 expect us to grow bringing in the latest in Tech, faster than ever. We now feature around 1k articles. We’ll open up guest posts and will encourage more open approach to news, Guides, Tips N Tricks on Apple, iPhone, Read further »

Is Google doing it all intentionally? Serial sequence of rumors of which all look real. After leaking pics, videos, Hardware specs, launch date, comes the price too. Update: Nexus One now official, comes to Verizon, Vodafone in Spring 2010 Google will sell unlocked Nexus one for $530, and that Google will sell it by Read further »

Reverse engineering is becomes a necessity every now and then. When it comes to java decompilation, there are several available in the wild that do it pretty well but the problem: Most of them are either paid or non-gui based with little IDE integration. Till recently, I was using DJ decompiler, which is just a GUI on top of the jad command line utility. But here comes a new Java decompiler which might kick off others from the competition: JD. Available both as native client (exe) and Eclipse plugin. I tried both of them, and I must admit, it’s pretty neat. The native client has no dependencies decompiles Java classes out of the box with inbuilt Type searches, browsing much like eclipse Read further »

After all those leaked pics and videos, and detailed hardware specs of the Nexus one, we now see google announcing a Press event for Android on 5th Jan, 2010. Update: Watch the Live video here. The date is same as predicted previously. Here’s the event details: Nexus one’s launch is not official since Google is not saying much about the event except for “ Read further »

We’ve compiled a comprehensive list of Top 12 Games that were most popular and hence most Pirated in the year 2009. The ranking is based on number of downloads over BitTorrent. 12. Dirt 2: The game brings great set of graphics for that off road racing packed with lots of tracks, game deserves love from racing fans. Only disappointing thing was it’s rank in piracy. Do people like to pay for this game more than getting it for free? I don’t know. 11. Borderlands: The game presents  a different kind of cartoon-ish characters that seemed to fascinated a few. Personally, I’ve no love for this game, I couldn’t play any longer than 15 minutes despite my Read further »

Intel has recently unveiled plans for it’s next generation graphics for Netbooks: PineTrail. Nvidia already has a strong contender: Nvidia Ion. So which one is better? Intel claims that Nvidia Ion is overkill for Netbooks battery. But practically, Intel’s Pine Trail Atom n450 chips are pretty bad in almost everything. Their power management is not as good as Nvidia’s and when it comes to performance, there’s no comparison. Ion can play  Read further »

If you wish to install Snow Leopard on a Windows box under VMWare Workstation 7, here’s a quick guide. Pre-requisites: VMWare Workstation 7. Get it here Custom Package (VMWare image .vmdk, darwin_snow.iso, Vmware sound card drivers) Download here Snow Leopard Retail DVD. UPDATE: Install Snow Leopard on VirtualBox Need to install Snow Leopard Natively? Read further »