Punch the keys

Yesterday I got the below message from Tata Photon about my internet connection.. Dear Photoner! Balance on your Tata Photon+ No: < my number here > as on 24/11/2010 -Avbl. Bal: Infinity MB, valid till 15/12/10.Now also recharge online at www.ichoos# Obviously they made an error. But just imagine if I would have a balance of infinity MB. Wouldn't that be simply wonderful ;)

I had been looking to take screenshots on my android for some time now. But couldn't find a way out without rooting the phone. So it was great to find another way, although a round about one. It suited me because I already had the java and android sdk in place on my work laptop. Yes, its a work around. And you can read about it here . Have also read that the next version of android, i.e 2.2 froyo, is supposed to have built in support with key combination press. Don't know how much of it is true.

Today I happened to notice a "Call Phone" option in the browser version of google chat. I was under the impression that the call option was available only in US and not in India. Even now am not sure if Google has rolled out this feature in India or if some bug caused it to appear on my screen. I am on a slow bandwidth and had to do a lot of browser refresh to get the gmail to load. Need to check this out once I am back on a proper internet connection.   Update: Ah! Just as I thought, it was a glitch. As soon as I went into the option for add credit, it told me..

I have been trying to get my content from www.mdominic.com , which is hosted on blogger, over to the posterous site. But after an initial euphoria, I realized that all my posts were truncated. Only the first few sentences have been imported.  Have sent a mail to the posterous support team. Lets see if i get any help to this problem. 

Yesterday, the weather decided to change it plans. From a bright and sunny morning, it quickly turned cloudy and was pouring heavily by 4 pm. Looking out of the window, it was very easy to visualize my plans of leaving office early getting soaked and flowing down the drain! Of all the days why did I have to come to office on my scooter! Not being one to give up so easily, I made up my mind to get the taxi from just outside my office and go home anyway. I could always pick up the scooter the day after. So on the dot at 5:00, I rushed out to the line of taxi's hoping that there would be one, it being such a rainy day. Thankfully there was one still in the taxi stand. Taxi driver is busy cleaning the moisture forming on the insides of the glass... He does not see me as I approach. He turns his attention to the other window. I hesitate thinking he may be on hire, waiting for someone.. But since I am getting wet, I persist. I knock on the glass. He does not turn. So I go to the ...

One of the most sort after items while looking at a new OS or a new computing device is the boot up speed. The faster you are able to get the machine up and running, the better. The new OS, Chrome OS, being developed by Google is especially keen on being the fastest to start up. I mean thats one of the most talked about items on their videos or posts.  The mantra being, get as quickly online as possible !  The demo they showed already had the machine up in 7 seconds and ready to login. Where as a "normal" system may take from 20 seconds upwards to boot up. I say normal, because the more you use a system, chances are, the slower the machine boots. The fastest boot times are probably the times where your system has just been formated clean and a fresh installation of the OS done. There may be tweaking options to keep the system from slowing down, but then again I am talking about the general case here. A couple of weeks back, I installed Ubuntu 10.10 on my home desktop and wa...