Wanna brighten up your Christmas with a new iPod shuffle and that too for free? Yes I am not joking. You can win 15 Apple iPod Shuffles from December 2nd through December 15th. So effectively you can win 14 iPod Shuffles if you are lucky! Dentek, a popular dental product company which produces everything from dental picks to whitening products, has announced a contest in which they will conduct this lucky win award.

Christmas is just about here and I know you must be travelling to a lot of places and will inevitably try out some cool restaurants in the locale. So where to go and how good it will be remains the question. I understand and that is why I have chosen this particular app, Zagat for all ya foodies. You can browse up-to 40,000 restaurants, nightspots, hotels & shops in your neighborhood and around the globe. Not only that. Zagat helps you in giving a review of that particular hotel too. So that you can get an idea about how good a food you are gonna get.

Microsoft had long announced beta version of the second service pack for Windows Vista and Server 2008 will be out in the market. But in the late October, we didn't see anything like that excepting some private distributions. Now Microsoft is finally coming public with it from tomorrow. The releases will be distributed via TechNet. According to them, this service pack won't hold any significant difference to the other but some really needed bug fixes. It will concentrate upon two things mainly.

From the desktop to the laptop and now to your pocket, the Nokia N97 is the most powerful, multi-sensory mobile computer in existence Jonas Geust, Vice President, heading Nokia Nseries. True. You can only say whoa! and you can only feel out of place after knowing about Nokia N97, the latest touchscreen mobile phone from Nokia. My first reaction after seeing the mobile phone was, what will the self proclaimed, unnecessarily sophisticated, limited featured Apple iPhone will do? I wonder if iPhone users are thinking of dumping iPhone in the garbage box and opt for Nokia N97 nextyear. If not, lemme tell you why you should. Read the complete review of Nokia N97 and why is it 13 times better than iPhone from gadgetophilia.com

GSmartControl is a graphical user interface for smartctl (from Smartmontools package), which is a tool for querying and controlling SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) data on modern hard disk drives. It allows you to inspect the drive's SMART data to determine its health, as well as run various tests on it. What is SMART Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology, or SMART, is a monitoring system for hard drives to detect and report various indicators of reliability, in the hope of anticipating failures. It is implemented inside the drives SMART provides several ways of monitoring hard drive health. It may provide information about general health, various drive attributes (for example, number of unreadable sectors), error logs, and so on. It may also provide ways to instruct the drive to run various self-tests, which may report valuable information. It may even automatically scan the disk surface in when the drive is idle, and repair the defects, reallocating the data to more safe areas.