Cost of keeping phone on bed while sleeping

Today it happened once again after 1+ years that somehow while I was sleeping and my phone was laying somewhere on my bed that I pressed those magical numbers which lead to deletion of my all calendar entries, now for coming months I will be forgetting birthdays and anniversaries of my friend and relatives and hearing complains from them later on, really frustrating and annoying feeling, I always realize after the loss only that I should have kept backup of my phone memory.
But despite of this incident happening 2nd time now, I would still like my phone only to keep those tasks stored and I don’t want to feed those details on any of the website, but this time I would make sure I would take backup atleast.

Faced DRM first time, it stopped me playing my song on my music player

DRM, Till now I am sure I have heard enough , mostly the horror stories that how it will stop living us with full freedom and all, and really even heard stories from other people that how bad it can be, but never really realized till today when it really stopped me playing my favorite song on my ipod!Following is what I get when I try to play it on itunes, i.e. can't even play on my system



Really can't stop myself saying "BIG THANKS" to apple for doing this to me, showing who will have remote control in future, for now I am moving to windows media player, and I am already seeing atleast one benefit, I see it consumes far less CPU cycles than what dirty iTunes used to, but really afraid if I update windows too and it might stop playing this song there too ...

Tags: DRM apple ipod windows media player

Flock, a new browser or firefox with different theme & few plugins?

I beleive this is again one of overhyped thing, and it was hyped simply because it was hot, and it was hot because it had keyword WEB2.0 browser.
Today only I got beta preview of flock and I am using it to browse from past 2-3 hours now and really don't see it any different from firefox, indeed in reality it is just a firefox only with change of few things, And I would rather say, they have changed whatever it was possible to change without touching the core part of firefox, I could smell this thing clearly when on download page of flock I see version even for mac and linux, otherwise it is not at all possible for a startup to launch for all these 3 platforms.

Following are the points which prove flock is not a new browser:

1) user agent header flock sends to a web server while making connection
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/2005
1019 Flock/0.4 Firefox/1.0+
2) Type about:config on address bar and you will see what exactly config page you see on firefox
3) You can run a XPI and XUL in flock

I don't think I need any further point for proving flock is firefox with a theme and maybe some plugins pre-installed.

Now look at some of the points where flock is better than firefox
1) Favorites, It looks good to see a browser integrated with my delicious without any problem, but I thought I would be able to use by favorites with much ease, unlike in firefox where livefeed is shown all under one name, I wish there could be separate sub-menu's for my each tag, thus I can move easily in my favorites, but flock also didn't fullfilled my this wish., But still it is better than any other one.

2) UI looks much neater than firefox though I wish they could change the color of menu's also, that dark color over light really looks ugly.

3) Blog editor looks neat, though I couldn't reach to my blog using that editor as my current firewall is blocking blogspot, so I tried one of wordpress blog, and since past 15 mins it is still trying to detect my blog setting, But I consider this might be a problem at my end, and it is really handy to have a blog editor inside browser no doubt about it, indeed I believe flock do notify event technorati when you publish your blog from flock.

4)This one is my favorite, Flock has added very nice accessibility feature in dialog box which says "Allow text to be selected with keyboard" I really love browsing with caret on, as I mainly a qwerty person, but yes you can enable this feature even in firefox with about:config --> accessibility.browsewithcaret to true :)

Technorati tags: firefox flock flockfox IE7

joining the IM islands

Couple of hours while I was jogging around my condominium, just to make sure that I don't have any regret on monday morning about not working out this weekend too; While I see some friend of mine talking to our another friend in Denmark and suddenly a thought come in my mind, how come these differnt mobile providers are able to talk to each other, well, reply is surely simple, they have to comply to standards else they will loose business, now another thought comes in my mind why is it tak'g forever to join the IM networks, this is really unfair to isolate millions of people in peaces, though jabber is really good start, but it is not backed by any major IM network and neither any govt. so it might take forever for world to migrate to this protocol and companies like AOL,Yahoo,MSN,ICQ are going to make this client better and better but will not open there network, and surely they don't view any economic benefit, while in truth there can be alot of not only social benefits but economic benefits and VOIP over it can be like bless directly from god, so I come back from jogg and after quick bath get stick to my system again and try to search if this was any time in past planned or any organization is try'g to make sure all they can communicate, and I get this beautiful story according to which yahoo and msn might open gates to each other by mid nxt year, here is the link, this news truly put a light in my eyes, atleast things have started to change now, hopefully one day all IM networks in the world will be able to interact to each other as smoothly as a call from one mobile operator to another mobile operator.

yahoo msn jabber meebo

delicious is down right now

Okay, I really don't wanted to write this, atleast not after my past post, But can't help, I am right now facing one of the inherited disadvantage of web2.0, that is your system can't do anything without server, and pretty strange feeling, but yeah delicious is down right now, and I really dunno what to browse now, as all my favorite links and todo-read etc lists are there, without it I'll be just end up wasting time in surfing things of no use to me ...

Tags del.icio.us delicious web2.0

5 reasons why delicious can be new google for search?

Surely if I say del.icio.us is gonna be a bigger repository to find information than google, than even I would say, I am just being big mouth, But looks like this is going to be true very soon, though indeed not really many people have yet started using delicious to dig those reliable information that too real fast.
Here are the five reasons which strongly make me believe above

Reason #1: Google crawls the webpages and index information by robotically determining the type of webpage and try somehow associating it with certain keywords, Yeah real process might be a zillion times more complex, but this is the summary for we layman's, while in delicious user saves there link, no crawler(avoid contents which no=ones cares about)

Reason #2: Google determine type of page by robotic means and than associate somehow those pages with certain keywords, while in case of delicious, those google robots are being replaced by real humans and they are tagging the pages and giving description to those pages, so later one is going to be far far more accurate than automated ones, bcz of obvious reasons; Also in google case link exchange and dozens of industries are being evolved which helps you to increase your google rating as it is easy to fool robots, but in case of delicious input comes from user, so delicious can put a simple robo checks by image and make it real fool proof system(to some extend)

Reason #3: Out of indexed results, google uses a dam good algo(reason behind its success) to find out which link should be shown in what sequence, on top being the best match, but in case of delicious, they can really use a simple algo, out of indexed results, simply put the pages first which are favorites of more number of users

Reason #4: Delcious can show more current search results as with the speed things evolve on net(e.g. web2.0 site meebo) and other things are evolving, any site/link/page can become a big resource in a day, but it might take some good weeks for google to recognize and put that particular match as first result, while in delicious it can be instant hit as we all know how mouth of word publicity works and with that favorites will change so automatically that new link will comes on top if they use algo on number of favorites, and this comes without any delay, so you always get best related results.

Reason #5: Delicious is more logical approach to organize data, instead of robots organizing data by guesses, while in case of delicious it don't only solves the bookmarks problem, but indirectly it is hitting more important problem by making real humans organizing the data over web.

Now only point delicious misses is that they don't give any real way to find there repository, so you have to be savy user and need to guess tags and search using that, I believe this the right time they should have generic search now, where entered keyword will be searched across link, description as well as tag and shown the resultls, Yes, this is not the delicious main business is, but they need to understand that information they are storing is grown massive and it is the right time people really start getting benefitted by it.

Note: Because of obvious reasons delicious will not be able to help for every search on planet and in last they both have to share the same eco, As algo google uses still remain useful as some people really don't know what exactly they are looking for, or for some cases where you don't expect anyone to have that link in there favorite, for instance if you want to know details of API Image::GetThumbnailImage than best way will be google it, but say if you are looking for some resources for some certification, say scea, most suggested approach should be http://del.icio.us/tag/scea and you will get far more better resources than google can give you in a shot.

Tags: del.icio.us delicious google web2.0

Unable to use flickr upload tool v2.3 on my XP Home

Tags: flickr flickruploadtool yahoo

yahoo being overlooked, advantage or disadvantage for them ?

Just now I finished reading this wharton article Why is Microsoft afraid of Google and surprisingly I don't think wharton guys even considered looking at yahoo too for same thing, while yahoo has recently shown real good products and unveiling(via M&A though) real great thing, honestly I strongly think people just got use to off overlooking yahoo, reason can be yahoo is pretty old and consistent and we got use to ignoring things like these in our daily lifes, while yahoo is the one who is big corporate from long time and still kept innovation there alive while google only couple of years back turned from startup to corporate and they still need to show that they can do same magic things even with there big size, I don't know this timely feeling or what, but I think google is just too overhyped in baloon of web2.0 and other things.

Tags: Yahoo wharton google web2.0

yahoo! don't fail to surprise me

In past couple of years I have literally felt that yahoo is not only sustaining well, but emerging really well and doing hell lot of creative work, which according to my experience is really not easy until and unless a great culture, environment and great desire to be creative is pushed from top down, there is really no reverse theory here, it never ever happens that top people will learn from people at bottom and can change things, it is always motivations and desires from top to bottom which drives the companies and yahoo is really doing good at this, now in acquisitions they are no ebay, they really know what exactly they want and choosing them silently but carefully, flickr being the biggest and best deal I would say they got, and just now they have acquired upcoming.org which is also not so old(2 years) and managed by only 3 people.
Hats off to yahoo team at top!

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any hack to send ipod mini to deep sleep directly ?

Lately I have started using my ipod only once in 3-4 days, and the day I use it, I make sure I give him complete charge, but nxt time w/e I pick up, it starts immediately which means it was not in deep sleep, despite of the fact that I havn't touched it more than 36hrs, which is official time by Apple when untouched ipod goes in deep sleep, also after a song or two and sometimes maximum of 20 minutes this dude is again on power low and starts blinking about it, Really strange behavious, I am surely going to try few things over it, like instead of stopping between the song, make sure I stop it and things like that, But I am still surprised by the fact that there is no way to put pod directly in deep sleep, I did found a linux stuff ... But really don't wanna try those things for now, anyone with any magical hack ?

Tags: ipod ipodmini