Lets think !

Dear Sampath

2011-10-06T03:56:00.000-07:00

A personal tragedy. Think about a man who even after his death, was able to get thousands of people for his funeral. People of all social strata coming and paying respect to him. His employees in his farm, factory crying that they will never get another boss like him. The same employees turning to the house next day, so that in case family needs help they can be of use. Local leaders cutting across party lines coming and paying their respects. Everyone stating how that person has helped them and never has asked for help atleast once. That person was my cousin Sampath Kumar. I am missing him so much that the memory haunts me and it is three days after he left our family and earth. Sampath the entire vennarbank and its surroundings is missing you. You have not just left us alone but the entire place whom you served.

i still remember the days you took me to quiz to Sivakasi and you were the only person who actually answered atleast some questions. I still remember you talking to me last month about how the factory is progressing and how your new compound is better than all chem engineers put together. I remember how you strove for all temple renovation jobs and took care of all the people who came to the house. I remember how you took care of your mother[my aunt] alone with still doing all other jobs.

I do not know what to say... You are my brother and i will remember you forever....

Android

2011-06-24T05:24:00.000-07:00

Got an android phone and it is 6 months and still cannot stop playing around with it. First i tried updating official ROMS [android OS for un initiated] and then moved to custom roms. I am using cyanogenmod now. www. cyanogenmod.com. Please check on how a team of guys are able to do things which officially all the bigwigs of Mobile companies are unable to do.

1. They are able to provide OS updates ontime and not like the service providers and mobile manufacturers who take ages [ means more than a year].

2. They are able to provide nightly builds which means constant resolving of issues.

Also they are willing to stretch for any new phones that come and also help people who want to provide the same for other not so familiar phones.

CyanogenMod Rocks

Handling information overdose

2007-04-10T17:28:00.000-07:00

With so much information in EMail, Web , and Web Links i am finally running out of patience, imagination in handling, reading and archiving them. Assuming all the mails i get, all the web pages i read and all web links lead to correct indicated information, still it will take ages before i can be on par for information i have today. But then new information come and catch up continues. Of course i need to work for my living....

So i am going to hereon filter the information i get. No more all tech info which sounds interesting.... I know it means i will miss a lot of information. But then i can concentrate on my core.......

Till then........

How to capture the market

2006-12-20T05:53:00.000-08:00

Recently i was thinking on how companies capture their relative market. For example microsoft captured desktop market by opening up and giving api's when none did . Also it encouraged 3rd party providers and worked symbiotically with them. Currently reliance communications in India captured market by offering phones as well as call rates at throw away prices, when mobile phone and call rates were high in india. In both these cases the market tilted to these companies because they reached the non users by offering services at lower cost which were thought to be premium in nature.

Now comes the google part. how did it did it ?

First search engine. no wonder it made the task easy because of faster results and clear UI
But the real stuff is not that. Then google ventured into everything and anything where they can get user information. Search is probably a best indicator of what people needs. They offered search as service when others offered it as add-on. They understood that people search more than any other action being done on web. They out thought the giants, since they are nimble and also they were also end users at that time.

Now comes the question of what domination of market brings in. Microsoft did dictates its own terms. So is reliance in telecom sector in india.

But the real difference in google is that it needs is sponsors to grow for it to grow. That is the reason for gmail, with context sensitive ads, blog, writely, froogle, and finally wi-fi. It eventually points out is that google is offering all these products free at the cost of getting information about each and every user. Google may not and i am sure will not sell this info. I believe in their ethics more than they do. But they can still target ads on me, create a nudge wink kinda situation where little pointers of ads by google tipping the favour for the respective brands due to google targetted advertising.

Long story and out of way by me,...

Another useful idea

2006-07-12T04:09:00.000-07:00

Nowadays i am stunned and surprised with so much creative implementations in web.

For example the site http://www.dodgeit.com/
Whenever you need to give an email to a site you can just give anything@dodgeit.com. Then you can go to the site and login with the email-id [anything] and check the mail. Do this for places where you need to give email-id to download something or access something. Do not give this type of id where you expect an important mail or that has password for a registration.

Another creative thing is http://myemail.com. Here you just give your username password for any POP3/IMAP server you need and it can login to that account. Very simple idea but nonetheless extremely creative as well.

Laslo Mail - New Rich Internet Experience

2006-06-26T23:18:00.000-07:00

Recently i saw this Laslo mail with lots of reviews tomtomming its rich features. So decided to check myself. The registration process is simple. Then went to the UI. Liked it pretty much, You can do all the changes for setting, composing in one page itself. its so simple. Also i never saw this page getting refreshed. So no waste of time.
Check the screen shot above.
The webLink is http://www.laslomail.com

See the supposed advantages features.

We've taken a completely different approach than, say, AOL and Google," said John Foltz, the product manager for EarthLink's e-mail using Laslo. "It doesn't behave like a Web page at all."

Among the features possible with something like Flash, he went on, are keyboard shortcuts identical to those used in desktop mail clients such as Outlook -- the Delete key erases messages, a Shift-Click maneuver selects multiple messages -- a single page interface, and in-the-background mail transmission.

Foltz hammered on the single page interface idea. "There's never a page refresh, so it works exactly like a desktop application," he said. "Web e-mail is certainly more convenient [than POP3-based mail], but people don't use Web mail more because it's so slow. We're addressing that."

When clicking on a message header, for instance, to see its content, a user of Enhanced Webmail sees the message body in a preview pane almost immediately, and without the browser redrawing the page. The most current messages, in fact, are pre-cached when the user heads to the site, so that message content appears instantly.

"It behaves very much like Outlook," Foltz said, comparing it to the popular Microsoft e-mail application.

The interface is also significantly more customizable than the new version of Web e-mail just rolled out by AOL, promised Foltz, who demonstrated how users will be able to resize panes and reposition elements in the browser window.

Out the gate, Enhanced Webmail will offer 100MB of storage for each mailbox (each EarthLink account can have as many as eight mailboxes), but the ISP plans to boost that to 1GB -- matching Google's free Gmail -- by the third quarter.

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Microsoft Vista is available for CPP...

2006-06-08T04:15:00.000-07:00

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/preview.mspx. The expiry of this software is July 7th 2007. RC1 will also be available here when it is ready.
Cheers

Practical Innovation

2006-05-31T06:01:00.000-07:00

MK Taxi Tokyo has developed a system to allow customers to use their mobile phones to find and contact the cab closest to them, bypassing the dispatch center. The system, called the Private Chauffeur Service (PCS), makes use of NTT's i-mode service, which essentially turns mobile phones into small Internet terminals. MK worked with NTT to develop an application that physically locates each PCS caller, determines the closest cab, and automatically connects the customer with the cab's driver for a voice call. At the time of the case, Maasaki Aoki, the head of MK Tokyo, wonders how best to expand and enhance the PCS service.

Safety of Searches

2006-05-30T05:00:00.000-07:00

http://www.siteadvisor.com/studies/search_safety_may2006.html. I am not surprised that msn scores heavily in safety. What surprised me is the my fav Google does not.

My Nerd score- time pass

2006-05-25T02:59:00.000-07:00

HOW 2 GET INVERTED IMAGE OF SCREEN IN WINDOWS

2006-05-25T01:13:00.000-07:00

This is FUN
HOW 2 GET INVERTED IMAGE OF SCREEN IN WINDOWS.... Press CTRL + ALT + Down Arrow. To revert back to normal screen Press CTRL + ALT + Up Arrow

New Yahoo mail beta

2006-05-05T03:45:00.000-07:00

My blog friend senthu has shown this in his link. new beta for yahoo mail. But alas it is not working on Yahoo 7 beta.

His blog links is in my fav. or else click this http://www.tamilmultimedia.blogspot.com/

Unable to create a folder called CON

2006-04-11T01:31:00.000-07:00

Unable to create a folder called CON.
It was discovered that nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere on the Computer, which can be named as "CON". This is something pretty cool...and unbelievable... At Microsoft the whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn't answer why this happened! and they are trying to fix this bug.

I tried doing this in WINXP neither the folder got renamed to CON nor any error thrown.

Innovation Whirlpool way

2006-03-27T22:54:00.000-08:00

Nice intro to innovation and how to innovate.

Windows Screen Keyboard

2006-03-21T23:15:00.000-08:00

Windows Screen Keyboard

If you want to see built in keyboard just go thru the following one.

An alternative keyboard in Windows and mouse in enough to do the job.
In case your keyboard or some keys stop working Microsoft provides you with an alternative way to type in using the mouse To work this tool, follow the steps
            1) go to Start menu
            2)   Then  Select Run
            3)  Type OSK   (OSK- means On Screen Keyboard..)

Eprompter

2006-03-15T02:09:00.000-08:00

Eprompter

This amazing tool is a constant companion for me. I have email accounts in all and sundry and do not have time to log and check them everyday.
When i read about this 4/5 years back, I thought nice trick.
But now this is so useful that all my friends use the same

TRY it.
EPrompter

Tamil Multimedia ::|||:: Social Individual

2006-02-07T02:47:00.000-08:00

Tamil Multimedia ::|||:: Social Individual

Want to have duplicate Email id in Yahoo!

2006-01-24T21:48:00.000-08:00

Want to have duplicate mail id for the same mail box in Yahoo

Yahoo has provided an excellent feature where you can create a duplicate mail id for the
same existing account.
For example if your existing account is used by you for all purposes [both work and personal] and you have created a name like callmein@yahoo.com, it does not sound right with some professional circuits. So you can have another alias as firstname.lastname@yahoo.com

NOTE : see the dot between first and second name. This also a new addition.

After creating the second email name, mails sent to both email ids will still reach the same mail box

How to add a second mail id.

Go to options and there you can see this information.

Cant Log On to Windows XP

2006-01-12T04:29:00.000-08:00

Can't Log On to Windows XP?
If that’s your only problem, then you probably have nothing to worry about. As long as you have your Windows XP CD, you can get back into your system using a simple but effective method made possible by a little known access hole in Windows XP. This method is easy enough for newbies to follow – it doesn’t require using the Recovery Console or any complicated commands. And it’s free - you can easily change or wipe out your Administrator password for free during a Windows XP Repair.
Here’s how with a step-by-step description of the initial Repair process included for newbie’s. 1. Place your Windows XP CD in your cd-rom and start your computer (it’s assumed here that your XP CD is bootable – as it should be - and that you have your bios set to boot from CD)
2. Keep your eye on the screen messages for booting to your cd Typically, it will be “Press any key to boot from cd”
3. Once you get in, the first screen will indicate that Setup is inspecting your system and loading files.
4. When you get to the Welcome to Setup screen, press ENTER to Setup Windows now
5. The Licensing Agreement comes next - Press F8 to accept it.
6. The next screen is the Setup screen which gives you the option to do a Repair.
It should read something like “If one of the following Windows XP installations is damaged, Setup can try to repair it” Use the up and down arrow keys to select your XP installation (if you only have one, it should already be selected) and press R to begin the Repair process.
7. Let the Repair run. Setup will now check your disks and then start copying files which can take several minutes.
8. Shortly after the Copying Files stage, you will be required to reboot. (this will happen automatically – you will see a progress bar stating “Your computer will reboot in 15 seconds”
9. During the reboot, do not make the mistake of “pressing any key” to boot from the CD again! Setup will resume automatically with the standard billboard screens and you will notice Installing Windows is highlighted.
10. Keep your eye on the lower left hand side of the screen and when you see the Installing Devices progress bar, press SHIFT + F10. This is the security hole! A command console will now open up giving you the potential for wide access to your system.
11. At the prompt, type NUSRMGR.CPL and press Enter. Voila! You have just gained graphical access to your User Accounts in the Control Panel.
12. Now simply pick the account you need to change and remove or change your password as you prefer. If you want to log on without having to enter your new password, you can type control userpasswords2 at the prompt and choose to log on without being asked for password. After you’ve made your changes close the windows, exit the command box and continue on with the Repair (have your Product key handy).
13.\r\n Once the Repair is done, you will be able to log on with your new password (or without a password if you chose not to use one or if you chose not to be asked for a password). Your programs and personalized settings should remain intact.
Thanks to Zeroone blog for this info.

Get your Hotmail beta invitation now.

2006-01-02T05:39:00.000-08:00

Why ask other people for Hotmail beta invitations if you can get it yourself.Just do the following.It works.I have tried it.You need hotmail account !!!!!!!!!!
1. Copy and paste
http://by101fd.bay101.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/BetaOptIn?page=option&curmbox=00000000%2d0000%2d00 00%2d0000%2d000000000001&a=b9a426ebd4880ad9d14db4b 4c55a69f8bb8dea2282102422220030b2b6bb98c8 link in your browser (Only IE supported)
2. Sign in
3. It shouldn't work, so copy again and you should get to a page where you can click on a button labeled "Participate or Join"
4.Enjoy!

Learning the last mile Connectivity

2005-12-09T06:05:00.000-08:00

Learning the last mile connectivity

With so much technology around me i am dazed.
I am wondering what is BREW and whether i can sample some
Test programs on it and then move it to my mobile,
Came the thunder of transferring data from one
Device to another.

Currently the wireless method i know are
Infra red, blue tooth and, laser link.
Also wireless LAN help us more.
I am looking more into wireless LAN
For trying different type of connectivity.
Lets me give you update on this on my
Next blog.

GMAIL Facility

2005-10-14T03:48:00.000-07:00

Hi ,
I tried the following in GMAIL it worked. Excellent stuff and useful also till someone identifies it.
Use this when you need to give a correct email and does not want to go thorugh any mail forwarding program

The 'Plus' Side of GmailLike many Email providers, Gmail supports the standard "plus" addressing scheme. But just what is it, and how can it help me?The "plus" method of addressing lets you add additional words to your account name (the "left side" of your email address.) For example, if your email address is john.doe@gmail.com
", you could add "+club" when you give your email address to members of a club to which you belong. So, your email address would now be "john.doe+mailto:john.doe+club@gmail.com
This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it
". But why would you want to do this? Think of the "plus" word as an extra "keyword" or "tag" that you can use to better manage your messages.Using our example, say you email an invitation to your friends in a club asking them to rsvp to the invitaion. You ask them to reply to mailto:john.doe+nope@gtmail.com when sending you a responseif they don't want to come, and reply to mailto:john.doe+ofcourse@gmail.com . Assuming they follow your directions, You can then set up a Gmail Filters to automatically route emails to specific Labels based on the addresses. It's a simple example, but the uses can be numerous.Another use is when you are shopping online. When asked for an email address, use something like "john.doe+mailto:john.doe+amazon@gmail.com
That way, whenever you get future emails addressed to that address, you'll know that it's either from Amazon directly or from someone to whom they sold your email address. This can be a somewhat effctive way to track spam. Just be aware that not all email systems recognize or accept "plus" addresses. In fact, some spammers even strip it out completely, but it's a cool tool, none the less. THe best way is to just try it and see if it works for your application!

A description of Vennarbank

2005-10-04T22:08:00.000-07:00

Vennarbank or commonly called in Tamil Vennatrankarai is a place in Tamil Nadu /India . It is in Thanjavur district. This place is rich in greenery and water resources. I will start describing about this place characters since from my young age this place always catch my fascination even better than all the places i have visited all over the world from Europe, Australia to US.

Keep looking for my next post.