C3: COMPUTERS. COMMUNICATIONS. CONSUMER ELECTRONICS – A Sri Lankan Gadget Magazine……

I read about C3: Computers. Communications. Consumer electronics in the Sunday Times last week and since it had the word Computers on it’s cover and is published by a Sri Lankan company I thought I’d give it a try. After a quick run to Vijitha Yapa and back I settled down for some long awaited tit-bits on the e-world!

It’s published by C3 Labs (Pvt) Ltd and edited by Fahim Farook.

The Layout

The GRI, (General Reader Interface) is nice with clear headlines and big fonts and easy recognizability. The normal font is small but compact and neat and fun to read with the pages planned and placed well.

The Content

The content is divided into three basics sections; Computers, communications and consumer electronics, while the areas that cover them are features, that form the first part of the magazine with current news, tips and tricks etc;.

The reviews section, hence it’s name, carries reviews on the latest hardware and gadgetry to hit the cyber waves recently. It also carries reviews on the new Vista of Windows and the Office 2007 package. It also has a few articles by contributing writers on various topics, but they should bring in more local writers in to the team……….

WHY?

It’s a first-timer, it’s in English, it’s local, not a bad price………

WHY NOT?

Can’t think of anything to say against it in such a short period of circulation……..

The good and the bad of Facebook

Okay here goes…I’ve been meaning to write somethun about the facebook revolution but just couldn’t find the time. Now that the exams are approaching I can’t wait to do something else other than study:):)

Intro

Facebook was created by Mark Zuckerberg, a Harvard grad student wo had to dropout of College to run facebook. Allegations of him stealing source code given to him by the creators of ConnectU have sprung up and handled by the American courts.

Anyway………..facebook calls itself a social utility, a platform where you can connect and keep in touch with friends from your school, country, region, network or workplace.

The good…………..

You can do many fun things at facebook as well, thanks to it’s Facebook Platform, where norma, day-to-day users can create their own web applications for other users like them, apps like FunWall, CounterStrike, Love Football (Soccer) and many more enhance the user experience at facebook.

The bad………………..

Well including all that was said upstairs, you might think that facebook is a totally awesome site that you could have as your home on the internet……………., but (there’s always a but, isn’t there!?) facebook reserves the right to provide your personal information to third parties:(

Among this single bad, the apps I told you about earlier………..we……..llll they kinda need a lot of maintenance, a lot of server errors, error messages and upgrading is taken, and sometimes valuable information is lost.

Concusion……………….

Well to tell you the truth, I’m a ‘facebooker’ as we call it, and enjoy the fb experience as much as I can, xcept for those pesky error messages!……………….

But I tell you, join it, see it, feel it, and get the hell out of there if you don’t digg it!