Vinayaka's Blog

• EarthCam - Webcam Network
  
  
  Pretty neat website to view the world from the live webcams
  
  
  (tags: webcam webcams video travel entertainment earth world web cool)
  
  

• Monica Ramos â“ Music at Last.fm
  
  


• Bond â“ Midnight Garden â“ Music at Last.fm
  
  
  I can listen to this song over and over again :)
  I think its best to be heard for driving long distances
  
  
  (tags: music recommendations)
  
  

Soon after I made a post about how I use a Philips shaver for shaving my head, it stopped working. The warranty was 2 years but I had to ship it to them on my own expenses. Since the shaver itself costs 30$ and the shipping costs like 5$, I was thinking if it is worth the effort. Then I called the customer service and the customer care representative promptly took my shipping address and told me that they email me a prepaid shipping slip and that they will send a new unit once I sent them the old one.

I was already happy by this time that I don't have to spend any money to get it fixed. Since I was lil busy with other things I didn't immediately send the old shaver. But 2-3 days later it seems Philips already dispatched a replacement unit which I received today and also I sent the old one today.

I feel really happy when companies take care of their customers like this. It shows them that they care and also gets them free marketing like the one I am doing now with this post (Win-Win)

• John Morris â“ The Elephant Man Theme â“ Music at Last.fm
  
  
  (tags: lastfm movie theme)
  
  

Grand central is a service that tries to give one-phone-number-for-life. I signed up only today and I love the features it provides.

This is how it works:

• Basically GC will give you a phone number (Actually you can chose from available numbers).
• You only give out the GC phone number to people.
• You can keep adding / deleting your other phone numbers to your GC account.
• In your GC account, you can select which calls should be routed where.
• The service also tries to save you from the telemarketers by blocking the known SPAM callers etc.
• Other good things include unlimited voicemail box, etc

GC was acquired by Google and the service is still in BETA. So you would need a invite to try it. If you have a Google blogger account you can get a GC  account. If you don't have a Google blogger account but still want to tryout GC service, leave a comment with your mail id and I can send you a invite.