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iPhone in India – Breaking, Activating and Unlocking

March 29, 2008

A 16 GB iPhone just made its way to my home today all the way from an US store. Even though I had “experienced” iPhone by reading about it and by seeing tons of videos on YouTube, using it live was a totally different experience. iPhone is an amazing, astounding, remarkable, wonderful, incredible, marvelous product [...]

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Live photo Gallery can now upload to Flickr

October 24, 2007

Live photo gallery was one of the recent applications which got added to my favorite application list. In my previous post on Live Photo Gallery I had wished that the application provided integration with Flickr. The Photo gallery team headed by Michael Palermiti has heard to this wish and the latest update of Live photo [...]

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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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MMS Configuration for Airtel

July 26, 2007

After switching over to HTC Touch, I did have a tough time configuring MMS on the handset. Matters were made worse by Airtel’s “amazing” customer care service. Initially I was told that the settings would be sent to my phone and that this would avoid the pain of doing the manual configuration. The settings never [...]

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Getting Started with OSGi

February 16, 2007

The OSGi Alliance (formerly known as the Open Services Gateway initiative) is an open standards organization founded in March 1999. Over the past few years it has specified a Java-based service platform that can be remotely managed. The core part of the specifications is a framework that defines an application life cycle model and a [...]

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Keyboard shortcuts for Bash

January 4, 2007

The default shell on most Linux operating systems is Bash. And as with every other application (which I use extensively) the first thing I do is to search/use Keyboard shortcuts. First I checked the Bash Reference Manual, however there was no mention of any keyboard shortcut in that manual. A search in Google lead me [...]

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Ethereal User Guide

November 17, 2006

Ethereal is one of the best open source packet sniffer available today. It is available on both Windows and Unix Platform. Detailed list of Ethereal features can be found here ! Richard Sharpe and Ed Warnicke have written an extensive user guide(450 pages) on Ethereal. The intent of the document was to improve the accessibility [...]

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100 Linux Tips and Tricks

November 12, 2006

Nope I am not going to write a post listing the 100 Linux Tips and Tricks. I am just going to attach a nice book that I found while searching through by E-book collection The book is pretty good for new Linux users and can help them to quickly get started on Linux ! I [...]

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