Harry Potter is a modern phenomenon. You can love it or hate it, but you can not ignore it. As far as fantasies go, Harry Potter is one of the best fantasy stories ever told.

The story is groundbreaking for many reasons – the plot is excellent and flawless, the world described in the story is believable and continuous, and the characters are well developed as well as matured (and maturing over the course of the story). But these are probably true for any well-knit story. There is another noteworthy characteristic of the Harry Potter story however, that is absolutely unprecedented. more…

The Background

Traditionally, cell phones use four frequencies: 800 MHz, 900 MHz, 1800 MHz and 1900 MHz. The 700 MHz spectrum range was being used by TV stations to broadcast analog channels 52 through 69.

Now that analog TV is going bye bye (February 17th, 2009 is the last day of full power analog television broadcasting. Beyond that date, it’s going to be all digital. If this is news to you, check out http://www.dtv.gov/consumercorner.html.), Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has decided to open up that frequency range for other purposes.

An auction was started on January 24th, 2008 for this frequency range. more…

Apple website (http://www.apple.com/getamac/macosx.html) proudly says “While Vista does its best to copy some features that have been in Mac OS X for years, Mac OS X offers an experience that is simply years ahead.” (Note that this page has been removed from Apple website since I wrote this article. But the text is available elsewhere.) And they base this observation on the articles written by WSJ’s Mossberg, and NYT’s Pogue.

Enough has already been said about Windows copying Mac. With the fear of sounding cliché, I will try to explain why that may not be the actual scenario. Indeed, in some cases the reality may be totally reverse. more…

Thanks for visiting the ÜberCyber Blog! We are going to start this blog with a few articles we had written sometime back (but they should still be mostly relevent). We intend to frequently update the blog with new write ups, as and when time permits, and also when we get new ideas

This is a place where we will post articles on varied interests. Hopefully the range of subjects should keep things interesting. Of course, we will accept writings from anybody, so long as the writings are not blatantly abusive to any person or community, or explicitly sexual in nature. We reserve the right to refuse to publish any articles, but in most cases, that should not happen.

Keep checking the blog, and the other pages too, which should increase with time. We also plan to include some software tools written by us by creating a download section. So, things should become more interesting in a short while.