August 2007

Orkut – New Look

August 30, 2007

Orkut’s new look is active on my profile. The Google logo is highlighted in the footer and there is also the link to the official Orkut blog. Even though there is no major change in terms of features, the new look definitely looks fresh and is a welcome change. What is your opinion on the new look [...]

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Catch up !

August 28, 2007

I haven’t written a post in the past 10 days and many of my friends including some readers started pinging me to check on my status I am very much alive, only that I was caught up with a little work and also decided to take some time off FeedDemon, the RSS reader that I [...]

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Currports – View active TCP/UDP ports

August 17, 2007

The other day one of the application server wouldn’t start up because of a required port being used by another application. This, I am sure is of the common problem faced by many developers The task manager in Windows shows only the active processes and gives no detail on the ports opened by these processes. One [...]

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Shozu – Upload photos from your mobile

August 11, 2007

The camera on my old Sony Ericsson T630 was totally hopeless. Also the amount of memory was so low that after every few photos, I had to move it out to make some space for new ones. However the same is not true with my new HTC Touch. The 2MP camera doesn’t take the best [...]

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TLA Cheque !

August 9, 2007

Yesterday I received a cheque from Text Link Ads and I was surprised to see 25$ printed on it. I never realized that somebody has signed up via my TLA referral link. Generally I direct all payments to my PayPal account, however by mistake I had set the payment option to Cheque on TLA and [...]

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Setup ActiveSync via Bluetooth

August 7, 2007

ActiveSync, a synchronization program developed by Microsoft allows a mobile device to be synchronized with a Desktop PC. Other than syncing your contacts, calendar, tasks and notes you can also sync the Emails on the Exchange server. ActiveSync also allows you to Copy files between PC and the Mobile Device Install/Uninstall Mobile Applications ActiveSync can [...]

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Tabbed Windows Console

August 5, 2007

If you are used to a tabbed browser or a tabbed text editor you would also love a tabbed Windows console. As we all know the windows console isn’t the prettiest of the applications nor its usable when it comes to selecting text or pasting text. (I am not sure if the console application has [...]

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Video: Windows Mobile Keyboard Applications

August 3, 2007

This video is a follow up on my previous post covering the popular keyboard applications for Windows mobile powered devices. If you found the earlier post too lengthy, you would definitely appreciate this video Youtube seems to have again crushed the video and it does look odd compared to the original video. If you do [...]

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Keyboard applications for Windows Mobile

August 1, 2007

One important feature expected from a Touch screen based Windows mobile Smartphone is the ability to quickly input text. Be it composing a SMS/MMS or taking a note or composing a word document, a powerful keyboard application is a must on a Smartphone/Pocket PC. I quickly got adjusted to the Touch based navigation on my [...]

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