Apple iPhone 3.0 software update

Come June, Apple CEO Steve Jobs will rejoin after his extended medical leave (The cancer case was one of the rarest kind of which there is a cure and fortunately he's cured). That is when we will be geting our 3.0 software upgrade for the iphone free of cost and for the iPod touch for $9.95.
Short of Jargon, Apple will give developers the tools to make better iPhone Applications, but what will the users get?

Here's the list of the key benefits out of a 100 Apple says the iPhone 3.0 update will give.

1) Cut, Copy and Paste across all applications. (When this annoucnement was made, thunderous applause greeted prompting synics to ask why peoople were clapping for a feature that every mobile phone already has!!)
2) Forwarding SMSes and the ability to delete multiple messages at one go.
3) MMS, I isn't quiest necessary, but with QR code it can be used to sell tickets. QR codes store addresses, URLs and other informations that can appear in magazines, business cards, on advertisements and tickets. The code can be generated by a phone application and sent to a user as an MMS. This again is scanned using a mobile phone to permit entry to converts, movies among other things.
4) Spotlight. OS X Leopard's search facility will be added to the phone. I always hated swiping through seven or eight pages to find the app I wanted to run. With spotlight I'l get there in a jiffy.
5) Turn by turn GPS navigation. If your city is not mapped properly by google you can download third-party maps like map my india.
6) Support for Bluetooth stereo headphones.
7) Exchange files and contacts over Bluetooth. Songs will be excluded.
8) Instantly hook up with another Bluetooth phone and start playing games. No pairing is required.
9) You can now type your emails in landscape mode. This gives you more space between keys and lessens the chances of hittin the wrong alphabet. You can type fater this way.
10) Parental Controls. Parents can now ban sites and videos that they do not want their children to watch.
11) Better streaming of videos. The iPhones will adjust playback depending on your internet speed. So you'll get uninterrupted streaming.
12) Tethering. You can use your iPhone as a modem to get onto the Internet.
13) Voice Memo. You can record your letters and mail them and even attach contacts.
14) Sending contacts to others.
15) Attach multiple photos in an e-mail. Currently you can attach only one picture.
16) Search your e-mails. If it is not found on the phone it will search the server too.
17) Subscriptions. This will allow you to buy new levels of games through the application. You'll be able to buy magazines, books and even newspapers through the Kindle 2 app that is already available in teh Apps Store.
18) Push. Instead of running applications simultaneously, draining battery life, audio and text alerts will be pushed into the closed app.
19) Medical Apps will alow you to measure your blood sugar levels through an adaptor and even track your blood pressure.
20) With the freedom given to developers the iPhone can be turned into a control panel for practically any piece of electronics you can plug it into. This will allow users to pair the phone with a set os speakers to turn the screen into a digital equalizer. And oh yes, just shake your phone to shuffle your songs. Remember it's and iPod too!!

Portable Google Chrome 2.0.169.0 Beta

Chromium is the open-source project behind Google Chrome. Google Chrome is a browser with intuitive and innovative User interface design with sophisticated technology that makes the web faster, safer (although IE is above in security list for now), and easier. The One Box for Everything ideology makes it possible for your
to type in the address bar and get suggestions for both search and web pages; will give you thumbnails of your top sites; Access your favorite pages instantly with lightning speed from any new tab.


A portable application can be run from a removable drive (USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive, etc) on any Windows computer without installation. You will carry the program with settings on removable drive and don't modify settings on
host computer.

Extract (with a PortableApps folder at the device's root) and run ChromePortable or ChromiumPortable. If you want to add parameters, start in incognito mode, delete cache or allow multiple instances: edit Chrom*Portable.ini.
Extract Plugins (with a PortableApps folder at the device's root): Flash 10.0.22.87 & Gears 0.5.8.0.
Settings of installed Chrome should be preserved.


Internet browser (more infos) without installation.

Download Portable Google Chrome Beta on RapidShare
(7.9 MB) (md5:bdd46b84b00941e8048c90a695afb137)
Download Portable Chromium on RapidShare
(8.0 MB) (md5: a6a886a36edbac16feba44d81bad2319)
Download Portable Chrome Final on RapidShare (7.5 MB) (md5: 056dc3ae922f50f6b6042d02745bc943)
Download Plugins on Zone-DL (2.5 MB) (md5: d8dff930fcabd2536eb536228d35e9e2)

And if you want the PC version of Google Chrome, Download : Google Chrome 2.0.169.0

Results in Acid3 Test :
Chrome Beta & Chromium: 100 %
Chrome Final: 79 %

My Name in Google Results

  1. Today, I happened to look up googling my own name and see what the result is like. I find some sites which is quite irrelevant with me, or rather some sites which I've no or little connection or actually have forgotten for long. Truth be told, I'd been inactive with spock but the spock page still shows up the second in my result list. The first of course is this blog only, the 3rd (LinkedIn), i just opened my account 2 days back there, and much of the rest sites below are developed by me (excepting Flickr, Facebook and MIT of course!). One disappointed is that Google doesn't show my own Facebook page, instead showing my friends page.
  2. pTAM

    my works · RSS Syndicate; Top Return to top. © 2008 pTAM. Grid Focus by 5thirtyone.com. Converted by Blogger Buster. Hacks by Pritam Pebam.
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    Pritam Pebam. jawahar navoday vidyalaya classmate. Aditya-sawardekar · Aditya Sawardekar. new fren. Nandakumar Nameirakpam. friend from orkut ...
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    1. SIBI Online Music Player : Concept

      SIBI Online Music Player (Alpha):
      1) What is SIBI?
      SIBI is a new generation Online Music Player. The main concept lies in its portability and user friendly aspects.
      In SIBI, users can upload their own mp3s on the SIBI server, create their own SIBI playlists, manage their uploaded files and listen it through the SIBI online player from their home PC or Mac, PMPs such as the Ipod, or through their mobile devices which supports the required platform.

      2) Why SIBI?
      SIBI is different, or in fact the first of its kind. It is NOT an online Radio Player.
      It is different because users can upload their own music collection on the server and access it from anywhere on this planet (of course when you are connected!!). It can be imagined as the Winamp combined with your hard drive online.
      Many people usually have a wide collection of music in their PC or Mac, which usually of course, exceeds the capacity of a common PMP (say of 4gb or 8gb, I myself have a collection of more than 90gb!!) and almost everyone hears music while on the travel, on the way to college, on the way to his friends place and so on; but none have the time or the patience to choose out his favorite ones to be uploaded in his 4g or 8gb PMP. No one likes to sit down and make a new collection of his mp3s which will squeeze in his PMs Memory capacity and at the same time includes all his favorites. As a person’s music collection grows over time to time, he may have a lot of albums that he may like to carry around with him but which is not possible because:
      • Low Memory capacity of PMPs (Large Memory PMPs cost a fortune!)

      • Doesn’t have time to sit and pick out the ones he like; or to be precise, hardly if anyone is asked what are their favorite ones, he’ll be able to say just a few out of his huge collection. The truth is, the brain doesn’t give out like a printed list saying, ‘Here’s the list you would want to put in your PMP’… pardon us, we are HUMAN!!

      • But when you are on a journey, say a cross country tour, you won’t want to carry your laptop or PC over to everywhere you go, but the PMP, sure is meant for that time and moreover, you won’t know which type of songs you are going to listen during the journey; it depends on the place you visit, or the people you meet or it could be anything.

      Bottomline: You do not know which one to put around. You just want to listen to it when you feel like listening to it.
      3) Challenges to bring SIBI into production?
      i) Users have to be provided a large online storage area, say 50gb for the start.
      4) Purpose for SIBI?
      SIBI provides users the ability to listen their favorite music anywhere, everywhere without any unwanted extra efforts, provided he has a supported connection on his PMP.
      5) Monetization. 
      SIBI is targeting to grab the music market. On the SIBI main page, ads for new album releases or monetized services related to music can be displayed so that users can buy them. (refer the UI design section). To increase sales, displayed new album should be displayed by finding out the user’s favorite band or music which can be known by checking out the most played songs in his or her playlist. By checking what type of songs the user uploaded, such as which bands, which region of the world the user belong, displayed new album info can be on the basis of user interest which increases the chances of sales.

      SIBI USER INTERFACE: Updating.

      © SIBI Music Player, 2009

      Windows: Generic Win32 Service Error

      I've come across this problem myself and I tried googling a lot and found out a few methods to fix this problem but, the interesting part is that NONE works. 

      With this error, your audio, your networks, the graphics; all are affected. Your audio devices will not be shown in the devices section, your internet will not work and one thing for sure is that, you'll be really pissed! The error seems to be caused by some old version of HP printer drivers. Microsoft has release updates for Windows XP sp2 but the problem still continues with SP3. (Haven't tried with Vista)

      I read about a few other methods other than the WORKING one I've given here, and that includes software updates or patches from Windows and HP; but as I'm using a new enough software, the patch didn't work. 

      Anyway, here's the steps for Manual fixing, which is by far the best:

      1. Open Registry Editor: Start>Run and in the box type: regedit and press OK.
      2. Find "TransportBindName”. (Edit>Find or Ctrl+F) It may take a few mins to search. (You can look for it yourself at the location HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\NetBT\Parameters)
      3. Double-click on that value and delete the default value in the box and press OK.
      4. Find the value “EnableDCOM”, located at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Ole
      5. Double-click on that value and set the value in the box as ‘N’ which currently maybe set as ‘Y’.
      6. Close the Registry Editor and restart your computer.

      I think this will solve your problem.