tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56023539912148391212024-03-13T16:50:35.266+05:30Nitish Kumar SaysHere you could find articles over Technology, System Administration, Sketching and Happening issues.Nitish Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767066705344147713noreply@blogger.comBlogger431125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5602353991214839121.post-25282586575806974302010-05-03T01:30:00.001+05:302010-05-03T01:30:02.473+05:30Can you afford to be an IIM-ian?<blockquote> <p align="justify">You might have discussed the big figures of payrolls offered to IIM Students by private companies and have heard that even after doing B. Tech. from institutes like IITs or even after leaving their jobs just for adding one more degree, MBA from IIM. Many of you might have watched <strong>“3 Idiots” </strong>recently and wondered that why one student of the college chooses to suicide in the movie? Let’s discuss some of facts and comments on today’s high educations in India ….</p> </blockquote> <p align="justify"><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S93ZnNDnxYI/AAAAAAAABUQ/-nbizpRcx4g/s1600-h/big%20salary%5B5%5D.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="big salary" border="0" alt="big salary" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S93ZpvUsdDI/AAAAAAAABUU/MUe2ZtL1O0U/big%20salary_thumb%5B3%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="370" height="253" /></a>Just got a call from my younger brother from HAL, B’glore about the troubles related to fees, he needs to pay for IIM-B’glore and that the issues related to the same triggered this post.</p> <p align="justify">Some boring family history … Father doing a simple job in PNB, Mom housewife, Three brothers; Second to me secured 50th rank in UP Boards, engineering (B. Tech electronics) from MNNIT (<em>after missing IIT by a few ranks</em>), Allahabad and then started career with to HAL, B’glore. Third and last one, secured 19th rank in UP Boards; engineering (B. Tech Mechanical) from BIT, Ranchi and secured placement with NTPC.</p> <hr /> <p align="justify">Coming to point, both the bro’s participated in a few MBA entrance exams and second brother secured IIM, B’glore and IIM, Lucknow, here comes to call. Do you know how much fees one needs to pay for getting an IIM degree now? <strong>More than 10 lacs? </strong>Yes! You know that you are reading it right, you already have heard debates about it, but I just realized the pain of figures by today only.</p> <blockquote> <p align="justify">I have read many arguing in favour of fees hikes as faculty asking more. People say that at elast this is one place, which don’t beg money from Government and wants to keep the things real. ‘Common man’ will be graduated to ‘rich’ in three four years, what’s big deal? </p> <p align="justify">Knowing something, discussing something, reasoning something, arguing about something is just another thing and being into it… just another…which you wont understand.</p> </blockquote> <p align="justify">A father earning around 20k or you may assume a little more, spending a part of salary in house construction like most of the parents do once their other sons start working. Parents, who hardly might have took any load ever or even if would have taken then  it was a house loan itself and the son asks for signing on a loan of 13 lacs for his studies. The amount already says that the EMIs to paid later on for years <em>(6-7 years) </em>would be of same amount as currently salary of his dad.</p> <p align="justify"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S93Zql8M4cI/AAAAAAAABUY/qVSPB1XBKRY/s1600-h/dadism%5B4%5D.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="dadism" border="0" alt="dadism" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S93ZrnfzdYI/AAAAAAAABUc/Oer5c9D48-k/dadism_thumb%5B2%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="354" height="354" /></a>If mature, then the son already might have done some savings from his engineering job of last 4-5 years knowing his family conditions. Might be the case that he has few lacs (<em>not more than 2-3</em>) saved in his accounts, but still … what you expect from a father?</p> <blockquote> <p align="justify">He sure would have heard of MBAs from IIM. He may be aware or might not be aware that what worth an IIM degree has. But still … he doesn’t know that is it that worth to leave a job that was already paying more than double of his income?</p> </blockquote> <hr /> <p align="justify"><strong>Why such high fees? </strong>If you think from the view of businessmen then its justified coz to give lectures in <a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S93ZsnafUGI/AAAAAAAABUg/IbV_twLFXPY/s1600-h/high_fees%5B11%5D.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 10px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="" border="0" alt="" align="right" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S93Zt7ttnzI/AAAAAAAABUk/FFz5ZoNLHiw/high_fees_thumb%5B9%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="220" height="174" /></a> IIMs, we don’t get professors here, who didn’t been practical and smart enough to get placed with big companies. You need already successful businessmen and management professionals, who knows the language of money only, the language, which someone doing an MBA needs to know more than anything. Bringing anything lesser asks for degradation, so it goes justified in a way.</p> <blockquote> <p align="justify">But question is, why Government banking it this much if they want such money by fees themselves? Why they don’t think an MBA bringing worth fo country than an engineer do? Why they want only business tycoons afford such degree not the talent?</p> </blockquote> <hr /> <p align="justify"><strong>Yes!!! Educational loans come in to ‘rescue’, but unfortunately the only rescue.</strong> What will you put <a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S93Zuzk17PI/AAAAAAAABUo/qz7F5cpKZpo/s1600-h/education%20loan%5B6%5D.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 10px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="education loan" border="0" alt="education loan" align="right" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S93Zv4jSwHI/AAAAAAAABUs/tdW5yQHcPgE/education%20loan_thumb%5B4%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="170" height="200" /></a> against a guarantee, when you never earned even one third of such a amount that you expect to get in your first paycheck? The banks know it, so they take only IIM as guarantee, means your loan will be forwarded to your first employer and you will be set to pay 15-20k per month till next 5-7 years after completing the degree. A career will begin with a debt, a debt, which none of the family ever thought to took. Loan is a scary word in itself. No wonder not every talent making it to IIM.</p> <blockquote> <p align="justify">Six-seven years is much for a big time, the amount you expect to earn ask for a high life style, can you hold? What if wanted to buy a flat in the big metro, you might be working then? Why wouldn’t you wish for a car suiting to your profile? Would you be able to? Would you be fresh with ideas under thoughts of a debt over you?</p> </blockquote> <p align="justify">Lacs of students who take such loans every year, prove that there is not much of risk involved as it sounds, but who has to understand it, students or banks or government? Higher interest rates than even home loans already shout that its not about education, but about profit. Probably the first lesson an MBA aspirant gets before even starting, its a tough world about taking risk and earning money only. Morals don’t matter. </p> <p align="justify"><strong>Congr8s IIMs. Congr8s Banks. Congra8s Government. You doing a nice job.</strong></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <div class="vcard"><img style="float: left; margin-right: 4px" class="photo" alt="photo of Nitish Kumar" src="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/me12.jpg?w=56&h=62" /><span class="fn n"><span class="given-name">Nitish</span> <span class="given-family">Kumar</span> </span> <div><a class="url" href="http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com">http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com</a></div> <div><a href="http://scifireviews.wordpress.com">http://scifireviews.wordpress.com</a></div> <div><a href="http://nitishkumarsays.blogspot.com">http://nitishkumarsays.blogspot.com</a></div> <div></div> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer">The author is working in Tech Infrastructure (Windows/ Linux) since last five years and always eager to accept new and innovative ideas over technology. Well verse with even software terms being a Software Engineering Post Graduate, current having a career in Server Administration.</div>Nitish Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767066705344147713noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5602353991214839121.post-3182972237353404612010-05-01T00:05:00.001+05:302010-05-01T00:05:33.525+05:30Concept Application for Nokia N8-Contacts Redefined<blockquote> <p align="justify">Recently I wrote about next coming <a href="http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com/2010/04/28/nokia-n8-bringing-class-to-mass-iphone-4g/">Nokia Flagship, Nokia N8</a>, the crown bearer of all Camera Phones in the world. There still remains a lot to talk about the same, but real thing will be when it reaches to our hands. Admirations, amazement and long wait to explore it. Wait is making you crazy na!!!! You can do more than waiting, a chance to make the jewel of your own. A chance to make the next coming Symbian^3 experience even better, a chance to take things to another level. Give your idea about a new app and if it sounds cool then <a href="http://n8makemyapp.com/">you could win a Nokia N8</a>.</p> </blockquote> <p align="justify">All the details are <a href="http://n8makemyapp.com/">here</a>. That’s is what keeping Nokia on the top since all those years. First the Device from Community Ideas and then <a href="http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com/2010/04/09/the-nokia-device-after-10-years/">the future Nokia device</a>, then create your app and now this. Must say, you are heading right Nokia!!! Winning or loosing is on another side, you belong to hearts.</p> <p align="justify">So, what you are waiting for? Its your chance to make it, go for it. An idea could change the life.</p> <p align="justify"><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S9si5Mh5l1I/AAAAAAAABUA/fSjEc3_b7MY/s1600-h/nokia-n8-launch%5B5%5D.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="nokia-n8-launch" border="0" alt="nokia-n8-launch" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S9si6X7OtoI/AAAAAAAABUE/I4JB8ViRJeE/nokia-n8-launch_thumb%5B3%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="470" height="330" /></a> </p> <p></p> <hr /> <p></p> <p align="justify">Like the last competition about Future Nokia, in place of taking part into competition only, my idea is to take the opportunity to present some of my thoughts, which will be very basic, very possible, just Layman’s Take, but still worth thinking for. so here I am presenting one of my ideas here that I don’t think will get voted much there (I am not popular like <a href="http://zomgitscj.com/">CJ</a> or <a href="http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/">AAS</a><em>:jealous</em>)</p> <hr /> <p><strong><u>Contacts Redefined (Social / Geo)</u> </strong></p> <p align="justify">The idea is not entirely new. There is already an app named <a href="http://hermes.garage.maemo.org/">Hermes</a> on Maemo fetching info like display <a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S9si7gSGllI/AAAAAAAABUI/qg7HEQ6GnLQ/s1600-h/contacts%5B7%5D.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 10px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="contacts" border="0" alt="contacts" align="right" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S9si9F2G_NI/AAAAAAAABUM/5PxpXxWxBK0/contacts_thumb%5B5%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="170" height="237" /></a> picture, numbers, webpage, birthdays etc from your social contacts and putting into contacts and calendar. I just wanted to add some more and bring it to already much social Nokia N8 in a big way.</p> <blockquote> <p align="justify">Think about a future, where you need not to ask/ tell your friends about their numbers, birthday etc or update them about changes, because its always updated right into their phone. You don’t even needed to create a phone book, when get a new phone. No one misses birthdays anymore, if not logged into social connections for a while as their phones will automatically going to remind them about upcoming birthdays or events.</p> </blockquote> <p align="justify">Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Orkut etc. all are open with their APIs and depending on privacy level user chooses, practically its not big deal to fetch such profile information from your social connections. Though Hermes doesn’t do that but the same application could be extended to add geo info as well from Ovi Maps or Google Lattitude etc. </p> <blockquote> <p align="justify">Think tomorrow is your friend’s birthday and at 11:45 PM, your phone rings a bell about that and after greeting him/ her in night, when you woke up in morning, at 9:00 AM, you get driving instructions to reach him/ her, if practically near.</p> </blockquote> <p align="justify">I don’t talk about cheesy things, but for me its a very practical, basic and very possible idea to go with. If you fear about battery, then updates could be manual/ optional or of longer durations or in place of replacing/ adding info, it could be chosen to pop up as suggestions kind of (<em>Google Buzz way</em>). Obviously customizations possible from performance point of view or to avoid cluttering on user’s preferences, but practically unlimited contacts space needs something like this for very sure.</p> <blockquote> <p align="justify">Not sure that Ovi will pick this idea today, but it will come to smart phones very soon, from here or there. If you think phones as your personal assistant, friend or companion, then you want this.</p> </blockquote> <hr /> <div class="vcard">If you think this idea is cool then vote for it or promote it in your own ways. <a href="http://www.n8makemyapp.com/">Its there</a> (search for Nitish).</div> <div class="vcard"> </div> <div class="vcard"> </div> <div class="vcard"><img style="float: left; margin-right: 4px" class="photo" alt="photo of Nitish Kumar" src="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/me12.jpg?w=56&h=62" /><span class="fn n"><span class="given-name">Nitish</span> <span class="given-family">Kumar</span> </span> <div><a class="url" href="http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com">http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com</a></div> <div><a href="http://scifireviews.wordpress.com">http://scifireviews.wordpress.com</a></div> <div><a href="http://nitishkumarsays.blogspot.com">http://nitishkumarsays.blogspot.com</a></div> <div></div> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer">The author is working in Tech Infrastructure (Windows/ Linux) since last five years and always eager to accept new and innovative ideas over technology. Well verse with even software terms being a Software Engineering Post Graduate, current having a career in Server Administration.</div>Nitish Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767066705344147713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5602353991214839121.post-87253189878850361072010-04-30T18:40:00.001+05:302010-04-30T18:40:52.992+05:30So my Ovi Cool Swags arrived – Love you Nokia :)<div class="wlWriterHeaderFooter" style="float:none; margin:0px; padding:0px 0px 0px 0px;">[tweetmeme source="mrnitishkumar" only_single="false"]</div><blockquote> <p align="justify">Remember that <a href="http://blog.ovi.com/2010/03/22/win-great-nokia-gps-phones-with-ovi-maps/">Ovi Maps competition</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/OvibyNokia">@OvibyNokia</a> people started on 22nd March 2010? One was to cerate a story, showcase a video or something like that about Ovi Maps and prizes like Nokia N97 mini were on stake. Sigh!!! I wasn’t that lucky to bag one of them but sure I was quick enough to post <a href="http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com/2010/03/21/one-day-with-google-ovi-maps-and-nokia-n97-mini/">one story of mine</a> (<em>which was just fresh to me</em>).</p> </blockquote> <p align="justify">March 23, 2010, 17:46, I got a tweet/ Direct Message from <a href="http://twitter.com/OviByNokia">@OviByNokia</a> that I am one of five people winning Ovi Cool Swags for being early participants. <a href="http://twitter.com/ovibynokia/status/10922280716">A tweet from OviByNokia</a></p> <blockquote> <p align="justify">The fastest participants to the<a href="http://twitter.com/search?q=%23OviMaps">#OviMaps</a> competition get cool swag! Congratulations @<a href="http://twitter.com/riteshnewatia">riteshnewatia</a>@<a href="http://twitter.com/not_al">not_al</a> @<a href="http://twitter.com/trotor">trotor</a> @<a href="http://twitter.com/mrnitishkumar">mrnitishkumar</a>@<a href="http://twitter.com/acurrie">acurrie</a></p> </blockquote> <p></p> <hr /> <p></p> <p align="justify">There was a long wait of more than one month and finally, the wait over now and the surprise gifts started reaching to participants, here comes un-packing of my items …</p> <p align="justify"><strong>1. DHL Parcel: </strong>Many of us, now have become used to these parcels, thanks to WomWorld/ Nokia and similar was security staff of my office. Though for a difference I got the call that there is parcel for me from Germany. I was sure that its that Ovi Swag as was notified by <a href="http://twitter.com/OviByNokia">@OvibyNokia</a> on twitter.</p> <p><a href="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/29042010128.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="DHL Parcel" border="0" alt="DHL Parcel" src="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/29042010128_thumb.jpg" width="470" height="361" /></a><strong></strong></p> <p align="justify"><strong>2. The Invoice: </strong>Yes! I have seen invoices from WomWorld, but there was no logo on them. So, it was nice to see a Nokia logo for a change on invoice. Same was the reason to include the same in pics.</p> <p align="justify"><a href="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/dsc00973.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="The Invoice" border="0" alt="The Invoice" src="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/dsc00973_thumb.jpg" width="470" height="359" /></a> </p> <p align="justify"><strong>3. The surprise revealed: </strong>The goods inside were one white T-Shirt (<em>Did I told you that white is my favorite color?</em>) and a beautiful shiny green packet (<em>green for maps</em>).</p> <p align="justify"><a href="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/29042010129.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="The opened parcel" border="0" alt="The opened parcel" src="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/29042010129_thumb.jpg" width="470" height="361" /></a></p> <p><strong>4. What’s inside the packet? </strong></p> <p><a href="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/29042010133.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="Full Content" border="0" alt="Full Content" src="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/29042010133_thumb.jpg" width="470" height="359" /></a> <a href="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/dsc00972.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="DSC00972" border="0" alt="DSC00972" src="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/dsc00972_thumb.jpg" width="470" height="361" /></a></p> <p align="justify">So there was a White T-Shirt <em>(XL for me though</em>), one Diary, one 4GB cute little pen drive, one Gel Pen, one circular magnetic badge and one sticker. Though still I am trying to figure out that how the last two could be utilized, these all are enough for making me smile.</p> <p><a href="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/dsc00965.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="DSC00965" border="0" alt="DSC00965" src="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/dsc00965_thumb.jpg" width="470" height="359" /></a><a href="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/dsc00970.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="DSC00970" border="0" alt="DSC00970" src="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/dsc00970_thumb.jpg" width="470" height="359" /></a>Can any one tell what the last two might be for? I mean with Circular Magnetic Badge and Ovi Sticker.. Waiting for comments…</p> <div class="vcard"><img style="float: left; margin-right: 4px" class="photo" alt="photo of Nitish Kumar" src="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/me12.jpg?w=56&h=62" /><span class="fn n"><span class="given-name">Nitish</span> <span class="given-family">Kumar</span> </span></div> <div class="vcard"><a class="url" href="http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com">http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com</a></div> <div class="vcard"><a href="http://scifireviews.wordpress.com">http://scifireviews.wordpress.com</a></div> <div class="vcard"><a href="http://nitishkumarsays.blogspot.com">http://nitishkumarsays.blogspot.com</a></div> <div class="vcard"></div><div class="wlWriterHeaderFooter" style="text-align:right; margin:0px; padding:4px 0px 4px 0px;"><a href="http://digg.com/submit?url=http%3a%2f%2fnitishkumarsays.blogspot.com%2f2010%2f04%2fso-my-ovi-cool-swags-arrived-love-you.html&title=So+my+Ovi+Cool+Swags+arrived+%e2%80%93+Love+you+Nokia+%3a)"><img src="http://digg.com/img/badges/100x20-digg-button.png" width="100" height="20" alt="Digg This" title="Digg This" border="0" style="border: 0" /></a></div> <div class="blogger-post-footer">The author is working in Tech Infrastructure (Windows/ Linux) since last five years and always eager to accept new and innovative ideas over technology. Well verse with even software terms being a Software Engineering Post Graduate, current having a career in Server Administration.</div>Nitish Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767066705344147713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5602353991214839121.post-54044329641172192292010-04-29T15:50:00.001+05:302010-04-29T15:50:34.971+05:30Nokia N8 bringing class to mass- Nokia N8 Vs iPhone 4G?<div class="wlWriterHeaderFooter" style="float:none; margin:0px; padding:0px 0px 0px 0px;">[tweetmeme source="mrnitishkumar" only_single="false"]</div><p style="text-align: left" class="getsocial"><a title="Add to Google Buzz" href="http://www.google.com/reader/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnitishkumar.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F04%2F28%2Fnokia-n8-bringing-class-to-mass-iphone-4g%2F&title=Nokia%20N8%20bringing%20class%20to%20mass-iPhone%204G%3F&snippet=Add%20a%20description&srcURL=http%3A%2F%2Fnitishkumar.wordpress.com&srcTitle=nitishkumar.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img style="padding-bottom: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" alt="Add to Google Buzz" align="right" src="http://getsocialserver.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/gsgb5.png" width="50" height="50" /></a></p> <blockquote> <p align="justify">In our Hindu Mythology, there’s a saying that whenever the nature starts loosing the balance, the God arrives to make sure that nature may regain the balance. May not be exactly the same, but probably Nokia’s next product lineup seems to be doing something sort of that ;)</p> </blockquote> <p align="justify">For me technology designs two kind of products; <strong>for mass</strong> or <strong>for class </strong>and the actual growth of the society comes with a proper balance of these two. Unfortunately, in recent past, we seen the balance going much of disarray kind of. Apple iPhone 3G not less than 30k, Nokia N900, probably around 34k and similar were the case with HD Mini or others.</p> <blockquote> <p align="justify">Many questioned from my circle over the price and I guess many others also might be wishing to voice their concerns. A price <strong>over Rs. 30, 000/- </strong>for smart phones? I mean however advance they might be, whatever the technology might have topped, but its a phone man!!! You could get a Netbook in the same price easily with bigger screen, then why spending this much over a phone only? <a href="http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com/2010/03/11/call-for-nokia-an-ideal-smartphone-for-mass/">I dreamed for not only better equipped but a better priced smart phone.</a></p> </blockquote> <p align="justify">Yes! technology is good, the convenience it brings is good, understand that what it takes to bring the same in hands of people, but still it needs to reasonable and affordable to call it “buying a phone”. Were people thinking to buy computers, when they were of house like sizes and prices like even businesses can’t afford? Were ACs made their places in every third home before prices went low?</p> <p align="justify">There was a race between Smart phones not only about features and bigger processors, but about prices as well like who can place a more higher priced phone than other. It really seemed to have lost focus about actual buyers. Being the biggest cell phone manufacturer in the world, it was sure a call for Nokia first and I am glad that they finally took it. Nokia seems to all set for <strong>bringing class to mass </strong>(<a href="http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com/2010/04/14/nokia-c3-nokia-c6-nokia-e5-what-you-always-wished-for/">C3, C6, E5</a> and now <a href="http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com/2010/04/27/more-over-nokia-n8/">N8</a>)<strong>.</strong></p> <hr /> <p></p> <blockquote> <p align="justify">Two leaked flagship phones, the <a href="http://gizmodo.com/5520164/this-is-apples-next-iphone">lost Apple iPhone 4G prototype</a> and then <a href="http://conversations.nokia.com/2010/04/27/one-of-our-children-is-missing/">mysteriously leaked Nokia N8 prototype</a> and it was clear that Market is all set to see another battle even before a MeeGo device could actually arrive (<em>only that should have been actually compared with an iPhone for real</em>). Nokia kept it reputation of being <strong>a company for community</strong> and made the official announcement for the next Camera Flagship for whole industry, <strong>Nokia N8</strong> <em>(probably there was no option left). </em></p> </blockquote> <p align="center"><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S9ldWnQiwII/AAAAAAAABTs/rQB3DzzVyYk/s1600-h/500x_iphone4_012.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="500x_iphone4_01" border="0" alt="500x_iphone4_01" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S9ldXWkbo8I/AAAAAAAABTw/iqGLcIimcR0/500x_iphone4_01_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="170" /></a><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S9ldZDwOPXI/AAAAAAAABT0/hN-0LrdKi-E/s1600-h/n823.png"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="n8-2" border="0" alt="n8-2" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S9ldaBgmjmI/AAAAAAAABT4/IalVSPyLpCc/n82_thumb1.png?imgmax=800" width="403" height="174" /></a> </p> <p align="justify">While still a long wait before we will be able to actually see these two flagship model from two different “cultures” (<em>expected to be released almost at the same time</em>), its sure going to be a hot topic for blogs to compare both of them. Being different price segment device, it wouldn’t be fare to compare them, but still mentioning <strong>a 10 points comparison between Nokia N8 and iPhone 4G</strong> for people exactly looking for it…</p> <div align="justify"><strong>1. Connectivity: </strong>When it comes to connectivity, then on papers, <strong>i</strong>t seems to be a tie as most of the advance connectivity options seems to have became a standard now (<em>except HDMI port in Nokia N8</em>). What seems new to Apple’s iPhone 4G is introduction of Micro-SIM in place of standard SIM (<a href="http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/apple-ipads-micro-sim-explained/">it was already there in Apple’s iPad</a>). Still its not clear that what it might be offering in terms of functioning, but as the manufacturing company ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute) has been offering increased control and security features in its chips, many might be expecting that in place of being some ground breaking technology for connectivity, its more about the compactness, control and security. Apple! why cant you be open?</div> <div align="justify"> </div> <div align="justify">I don’t think that Apple would have thought about providing HDMI port (<em>till now at least</em>), definitely it would be a selling point for Nokia and more convenience for users.</div> <div align="justify"> </div> <div align="justify"><strong>2. A-GPS: </strong>I tried, but still unable to find that if Nokia N8 is going to sport Digital Compass built-in, most probably, it will not. Here we find Apple better as iPhone 4G has no reasons to go below than 3G version. Digital Compass technology might be a little tough or costly to implement, but people who have used it, know that its a blessing.</div> <div align="justify"> </div> <div align="justify"><strong>Apple get marks over this one</strong>, but still Apple’s GPS software doesn’t matches Nokia’s and <a href="http://www.iphonehacks.com/2010/04/google-free-turn-by-turn-gps-navigation-not-coming-to-the-iphone.html">Google not ready to give voice guided navigation to iPhone</a>. Yes! Apple’s <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/26/mapquest-iphone-app-revam_n_552437.html">attempt to improve its own map software</a> seems to be right step in the road ahead. But still I didn’t seen anyone enjoying navigation over iPhone that much, as we see people with even cheaper Nokia sets.</div> <div align="justify"> </div> <div align="justify"><strong>3. Display: </strong>Nokia is bringing 3.5” multi-touch capacitive screen in a flagship model finally (<em>I don’t call the others as flagship ones</em>). While its a matter of excitement, but its true that like in case of GPS, Nokia’s experience win, with multi-touch and capacitive screen, iPhone OS4 and its apps are expected to win the battle. More of it, <strong>Apple completely dominates </strong>due to fact that its expected to sport a much higher resolution than we ever might had seen.</div> <div align="justify"> </div> <div align="justify">Higher resolution does wonder that we had already seen with Nokia N900, even then I could understand Nokia’s concern of keeping price low. Probably that became the reason for lower resolution, but still I will say Kudos to Nokia!!! I am with you.</div> <div align="justify"> </div> <div align="justify"><strong>4. Sound: </strong>Dolby surround sound!!! are we really talking about smart phones. Technology changes a lot and making many things affordable. Apple’s products always known for their sound quality and as both of them going to sport second microphone for noise cancellation, we are all set to move into dream world of music soon. <strong>Expecting it to be a tie.</strong></div> <div align="justify"> </div> <div align="justify"><strong>5. <u>Camera:</u> </strong>Forget it Apple, you are not even going to get even proper mention in this segment. Nice if you added flash, nice if you added a better camera, but you can’t even dream to tally with a Camera like Nokia N8. 12 MP Camera with HD Recording and Xenon Flash!!! Are you insane? Any iPhone including 4G can’t even think of competing even my beloved Nokia N82, leave Nokia N8 aside. Not mentioning much about Camera as there is no fight at any level.</div> <div align="justify"> </div> <div align="justify"><strong>Apple!! You need to move up till 7 generations at least</strong> to get par with Nokia N8’s Camera.</div> <div align="justify"> </div> <div align="justify"><strong>6. Processor: </strong>iPhone 3G supposed to have <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/01/iphone-processor-found-620mhz-arm/">a 620  MHz processor under the hood</a> and iPhone 4G probably coming with a <a href="http://www.redmondpie.com/iphone-4g-with-dual-core-processor-to-top-nexus-one-in-april-2010-9140339/">Dual Core processor</a>. People are wondering if the same would have 1<a href="http://www.concept-phones.com/apple/iphone-4g-concepts-ultra-deluxe-igame-iphone-long/">GHz or more</a>. A lot of expectations are here with iPhone and same has to compete with 1GHz processor of Google’s one, Apple sure could not afford to go low. But still Nokia really making me smile by introducing Nokia N8 at this point, in place of introducing some big successor for Nokia N900. Its already been hard for Apple to sell their phones in Asian market and now …. Apple is on double axes.</div> <div align="justify"> </div> <blockquote> <div align="justify">Definitely a better processor makes you capable of doing much more thing and providing developers a better platform to think more, but at the same point its about being reasonable as well. Nokia does an excellent job with Multi tasking all the time and Apple just seems to be introducing a mediocre multi tasking at this point. Why can’t you achieve that level of multi tasking that Nokia seems to have with even early 300 MHz processors? Many might have seen Nokia N82 running more than 60 apps at a time and they will sure be asking that what’s important? what you do or how you do?</div> </blockquote> <div align="justify"> </div> <div align="justify">Definitely, Apple seems to have a better processor with iPhone 4G, but still it doesn’t seem that Apple will make use of the same for real things. <strong>Nokia has ruled with multi-tasking</strong> and I think Apple will take one more generation to understand that.</div> <div align="justify"> </div> <div align="justify"><strong>7. Memory support: </strong>16GB eMMC mass memory + micro SD card slot (<em>support up to 32GB memory cards</em>), 135MB internal memory, 256 MB RAM and 512 MB ROM, Nokia seems not leaving a place for complaint. I am sure, Apple going to do better with RAM and Application memory, but still there seems to be no place for a memory card slot even now. Being a close technology didn’t served better in past, still Apple seems to chose being worse than Microsoft.</div> <div align="justify"> </div> <div align="justify">Apple!! definitely, till you don’t reconsider this, you will be loosing points. Include MicroSD Card support please. <strong>Nokia rules in this department</strong> like always.</div> <div align="justify"> </div> <div align="justify"><strong>8: iPhone OS4 Vs Symbian^3: </strong>There has been big talks around iPhone OS, a number of developers are running after their lives for designing apps day and night for “The most advance mobile OS of planet”. Still openness of Android and Maemo shown the way that what could a more flexible and attractive platform for mass rather than serving profit needs of some company.</div> <div align="justify"> </div> <blockquote> <div align="justify">It nothing like I hate iPhone OS, in fact, I love the innovations it does and understand the Enthusiasm with which developer die for it, but still I hope much more from a Symbian. </div> </blockquote> <div align="justify"> </div> <div align="justify">Only obstacles in Nokia’s way ahead is obsession with backward compatibility. The same probably been biggest reason behind Windows Vista under the hood and fear is if the same happening with Symbian. Sometimes complete overhauling may be required than sticking with older rules only <em>(We have seen in case of Maemo), </em>issue is that overhauling should not be half baked like Nokia N900 missed Ovi Maps and Ovi Store miserably.</div> <div align="justify"> </div> <div align="justify">A MeeGo would be more suiting to stand in league of Android or iPhone OS, but still I believe Symbian^3 will stand tall even if <strong>doesn’t win against iPhone OS4</strong>.</div> <div align="justify"> </div> <div align="justify"><strong>9. Openness and Easy updates: </strong>I loved the way Nokia releases firmware updates for their smart phones ‘frequently’. Yes!! they are not that frequent like Microsoft does or like Maemo started doing, but still having free updates <strong>over the air </strong>is something so amazing for me and others out there for the convenience it brings to users.</div> <div align="justify"> </div> <div align="justify">Apple!!! people hate you for creating the term “Paid updates”. Nokia will be beloved for the same always as I don’t seem that Apple will bow down to remove its arrogance.</div> <div align="justify"> </div> <div align="justify"><strong></strong></div> <div align="justify"><strong>10. Battery Life: </strong>Nokia N8 going to sport <strong>a lesser battery (1200 mAh) than Apple</strong>, but its replaceable. Definitely Apple and Nokia get their advantages in terms for that. </div> <div align="justify"> </div> <blockquote> <div align="justify">I wonder if Nokia could produce a separate more power battery on additional cost. Why can’t the same device had two different kind of batteries in same shape? Would be a more flexible option for people asking for more.</div> <div align="justify"></div> </blockquote> <p></p> <hr /> <div align="justify"><strong>Update:</strong> <em>After observing Q&A session of Nokia, feeling a little disappointed to know the fact that for keeping the slim looks, Nokia did the <strong>biggest compromise ever,</strong> <strong>Integrated battery</strong> <strong>with the device that</strong> <strong>could not be replaced by users</strong> themselves. Not happy with this fact at least.<strong> </strong>Not able to digest as it was deal breaker to many. Nokia goes Apple way in this case.<strong> </strong></em></div> <hr /> <div align="justify"> </div> <div align="justify">A lot could be talked about and would be talked about these two device in next days. 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Well verse with even software terms being a Software Engineering Post Graduate, current having a career in Server Administration.</div>Nitish Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767066705344147713noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5602353991214839121.post-24032999661788851202010-04-29T15:47:00.001+05:302010-04-29T15:48:22.519+05:30More over Nokia N8<div class="wlWriterHeaderFooter" style="float:none; margin:0px; padding:0px 0px 0px 0px;">[tweetmeme source="mrnitishkumar" only_single="false"]</div><blockquote> <p align="justify">Lots of talks were going on over Nokia N8 from long, we even seen the early pics from a russian blogger on last day, but still many were wondering if Nokia going to miss the dates as rumors were saying that Nokia going to unveil this device in April 2010 only. So, today was April 27, 2010 and with only 3 days more remaining in April, rumors got it exactly right, when Nokia Conversations probably became the first source to announce the next generation of Camera Phone series.</p> </blockquote> <p align="justify"><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S9lcCiFPJkI/AAAAAAAABSA/8xi3DjhGb0Q/s1600-h/NokiaN8Vascofullspecs5.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="Nokia-N8-Vasco-full-specs" border="0" alt="Nokia-N8-Vasco-full-specs" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S9lcEUdvvAI/AAAAAAAABSE/oNUBPJH6eN0/NokiaN8Vascofullspecs_thumb3.jpg?imgmax=800" width="554" height="353" /></a></p> <p align="justify">This was the sneak peak into the device, we seen early the morning.</p> <p align="justify">In first few mins, <a href="http://events.nokia.com/nokian8/">the official site</a> had some issue with authentication and was asking for username/ password probably for the active content. But even if one was cancelling prompts, site was ready to reveal the show stopper Nokia N8 in complete day lights. I <a href="http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com/2010/04/27/nokia-n8-finally-brings-multi-touch-to-nokia/">already have mentioned about the specifications and price from the same source.</a> Now, even <a href="http://europe.nokia.com/find-products/devices/nokia-n8">officially product page</a> arrived. Head there to know more about it.</p> <blockquote> <p align="justify">The site has an emulation of Nokia N8’s screen on the front, you can watch the video and increase the volume, forward, pause etc. <strike>Not sure, if it has the same messaging apps as Nokia C3, Nokia C6 and Nokia E5 going to have</strike>. (Just checked the official page, it will have the same Mail/IM support as upcoming Messaging devices), not sure why Nokia kept the resolution 640x380 in place of 800x600 of Nokia N900? But still if price remain on <strong>Rs. 22, 000/-,</strong> then Nokia did an amazing job like always to bring the capacitive screen in such a ‘small price’.</p> </blockquote> <p align="justify"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S9lcE65zuXI/AAAAAAAABSI/DUyg3DlYD3w/s1600-h/NokiaN8034.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="Nokia-N8-03" border="0" alt="Nokia-N8-03" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S9lcGctpqRI/AAAAAAAABSM/7iTLNfELMHo/NokiaN803_thumb2.jpg?imgmax=800" width="454" height="825" /></a></p> <p align="justify">Yes!! the price is small about this device as I bought my Nokia N82 two and half years back in <strong>Rs. 19, 500/-</strong> and its still pricing around <strong>Rs. 17, 000/- </strong>at least I guess. Leave the brand new amazing Symbian^3 a side, leave the costly but lovingly smooth iPhone like capacitive screen a side, its going beyond double of your mega pixels in Nokia N82, bring 12 MP with HD recording @30fps with same Xenon Flash everyone of us was craving for.</p> <p></p> <hr /> <p></p> <p align="justify"><strike>Let me add one thing on disappointment side, its expected to be launched in the countries given below only in first phase:</strike></p> <blockquote> <p align="center"><strong><strike>Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherland, Poland, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States, Brazil, China, Portugal</strike></strong></p> </blockquote> <p align="justify"><strike>Why you skip India all the time?</strike> A reader mentioned that release will be worldwide and I re-checked. Sorry for early excitement. Hope it true.. want it soon in my hands.</p> <p></p> <hr /> <p></p> <blockquote> <p align="justify">Geeks might be out to complain abound lower battery of 1200 mAh, few might mourn about RAM still on 256 MB and CPU on 680 MHz, but no one could deny the fact that only Nokia could have done this by bring a full fledge connectivity device, 3.5” capacitive screen, 12 MP Camera with Xenon Flash and HD Recoridng, 16 GB eMMC Internal Memory (expandable to 32 GB via card), FM Reciever/ Transmitter, finger/ <strong>stylus</strong> touch over Capacitive screen and what a look.</p> </blockquote> <p align="justify"><strong>Updates: </strong>Adding few videos about Nokia N8</p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; width: 425px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:3664b952-6a7e-4f6c-ade5-9f8bbfadb54d" class="wlWriterSmartContent"><div id="519d473b-8bc0-4b30-ae13-df733695d8cb" style="margin: 0px; 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padding: 0px; display: inline;"><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6YYMFbpK10&hl=en_US&fs=1&" target="_new"><img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S9lcqj14pDI/AAAAAAAABTg/PWfuFAQMqwI/videoc87f1ac407bf%5B6%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="border-style: none" galleryimg="no" onload="var downlevelDiv = document.getElementById('417c0ed7-a321-4794-8f52-327eeb5c4ede'); downlevelDiv.innerHTML = "<div><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/Z6YYMFbpK10&hl=en_US&fs=1&&hl=en\"><\/param><embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/Z6YYMFbpK10&hl=en_US&fs=1&&hl=en\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>";" alt=""></a></div></div></div> <p align="justify">Nokia!!!! only you could have done it. Hard to wait for it. WomWorld/ Nokia!!! are you listening me? :P</p> <div class="vcard"><img style="float: left; margin-right: 4px" class="photo" alt="photo of Nitish Kumar" src="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/myself.jpg?w=62&h=74&h=66" /><span class="fn n"><span class="given-name">Nitish</span> <span class="given-family">Kumar</span> </span> <div><a class="url" href="http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com">http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com</a></div> <div><a href="http://scifireviews.wordpress.com">http://scifireviews.wordpress.com</a></div> <div><a href="http://nitishkumarsays.blogspot.com">http://nitishkumarsays.blogspot.com</a></div> <div></div> </div><div class="wlWriterHeaderFooter" style="text-align:right; margin:0px; padding:4px 0px 4px 0px;"><a href="http://digg.com/submit?url=https%3a%2f%2fnitishkumar.wordpress.com%2f2010%2f04%2f27%2fmore-over-nokia-n8%2f&title=More+over+Nokia+N8"><img src="http://digg.com/img/badges/100x20-digg-button.png" width="100" height="20" alt="Digg This" title="Digg This" border="0" style="border: 0" /></a></div> <div class="blogger-post-footer">The author is working in Tech Infrastructure (Windows/ Linux) since last five years and always eager to accept new and innovative ideas over technology. Well verse with even software terms being a Software Engineering Post Graduate, current having a career in Server Administration.</div>Nitish Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767066705344147713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5602353991214839121.post-81994344236200037322010-04-29T15:43:00.001+05:302010-04-29T15:43:21.644+05:30Nokia N8 Finally Brings Multi-touch to Nokia<div class="wlWriterHeaderFooter" style="float:none; margin:0px; padding:0px 0px 0px 0px;">[tweetmeme source="mrnitishkumar" only_single="false"]</div><blockquote> <p align="justify">Here comes the reason to believe on rumors. <a href="http://events.nokia.com/nokian8/">Nokia announced the long awaited and rumored device Nokia N8</a> today. The first to bring Symbian^3, the first to bring 12MP Camera, the first to bring Multi Touch capacitive screen to Nokia, probably first to bring HD Recording in Nokia Smartphones and finally it brings back the beloved Xenon Flash. Dreams came true.</p> </blockquote> <blockquote> <p align="justify"><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S9lbmU_oxnI/AAAAAAAABRo/YiIqe4vW_Zo/s1600-h/n824.png"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="n8-2" border="0" alt="n8-2" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S9lbnfY4DiI/AAAAAAAABRs/fQavYD4AOWc/n82_thumb2.png?imgmax=800" width="454" height="200" /></a></p> <p align="justify">Available in a number of colors and a big 3.5” screen with most of space making the screen only not button, its set to be a great multimedia device for sure. Am I going to get complete replacement for my Nokia N82? Falling in love with lovely looks … though missing the while color from the bunch. Will Nokia Launch the same in white as well?<a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S9lbrGii8rI/AAAAAAAABRw/zluoKc-0Oes/s1600-h/n854.png"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="n8-5" border="0" alt="n8-5" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S9lbsTp3TlI/AAAAAAAABR0/WUNZpDjqPDs/n85_thumb2.png?imgmax=800" width="454" height="196" /></a> <a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S9lbtxyw-8I/AAAAAAAABR4/hEgMuEiMzII/s1600-h/n814.png"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="n8-1" border="0" alt="n8-1" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S9lbu5Ouf6I/AAAAAAAABR8/u6egJFT-ThE/n81_thumb2.png?imgmax=800" width="454" height="196" /></a> </p> <p align="justify">The most awaited device is expected to arrive in market by third quarter only with a price <strong>Rs. 22, 000/- </strong>around (hope taxes wont axe a lot).</p> <p><strong>Available colors</strong> <br />Dark Grey, Silver White, Green, Blue, Orange</p> <p><strong>Operating times</strong></p> <ul> <li>Talk time (GSM/WCDMA) – 12/5 h 50 min </li> <li>Standby (GSM/WCDMA) – 390/400 h </li> <li>Video record – 3 h 20 min </li> <li>Music playback – 50 h </li> <li>Video playback – 7 h </li> <li>Video playback with HDMI – 6 h </li> <li>Web TV – 3 h 20 min </li> </ul> <p><strong>Nokia Original Accessories:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Nokia Wired Headset WH-701 (in box) </li> <li>Nokia Bluetooth Stereo Headset BH-905 </li> <li>Nokia Bluetooth Headset BH-608 </li> <li>Nokia Extra Battery DC-11 </li> <li>Nokia Bluetooth Stereo Headset BH-214 </li> <li>Nokia Bluetooth Stereo Headset BH-505 </li> <li>Nokia Mini Speaker MD-9 </li> </ul> <p><strong>Technical Profile:</strong></p> <ul> <li>System: WCDMA 850/900/1700/1900/2100 and GSM/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 </li> <li>OS: Symbian^3 </li> <li>Form Factor: Touch screen monoblock </li> <li>Dimensions: 113.5 x 59.12 x 12.9 mm (L x W x H) </li> <li>Weight: 135g </li> <li>Display: 3.5 inch widescreen (640 x 360 pixels) capacitive touch </li> <li>Battery: 1200mAh BL-4D </li> <li>Media Storage/Memory: 16GB mass memory + micro SD card slot, 135MB internal memory, support up to 32GB memory cards. RAM256 ROM512 </li> <li>Video Playback: Video recording, Performance: encoding 25fps, decoding 30fps, File Formats: H.264, MPEG-4, VC-1, H.263, Real Video 10, ON2 VP6, Flash video </li> <li>Music Playback: FM radio, FM transmitter, MP3 player, Supported codecs: MP3,AAC,eAAC, eAAC+,WMA,AMR-WB, DRM support, DRM: OMA DRM 2.0 </li> <li>Main Camera: <ul> <li>Lens: Carl Zeiss optics </li> <li>Image capture: 12 megapixels </li> <li>Video capture: HD 720p </li> <li>Aperture: F2.8 </li> <li>Focal length: 5.4 </li> <li>Flash: Xenon flash </li> </ul> </li> <li>Connectivity: </li> <li>HDMI adapter CA-157 </li> <li>WLAN IEEE802.11 b/g/n </li> <li>BT2.1 with support for stereo headsets </li> <li>Positioning with GPS, A-GPS, WLAN and Cell-ID </li> <li>Micro-USB 2.0 high speed for file transfers and charging </li> <li>USB On-the-Go </li> <li>Nokia AV connector 3.5 mm for audio input/output and TV out </li> </ul> </blockquote> <p></p> <p>You can download the official press release with docs from <a href="http://www.nokia.com/press/media_resources/press-kits/devices?kit=121">here</a>.</p> <p>Just placing the quick info from the official site, will be back with details soon. </p> <div class="vcard"><img style="float: left; margin-right: 4px" class="photo" alt="photo of Nitish Kumar" src="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/myself.jpg?w=62&h=74&h=66" /><span class="fn n"><span class="given-name">Nitish</span> <span class="given-family">Kumar</span> </span> <div><a class="url" href="http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com">http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com</a></div> <div><a href="http://scifireviews.wordpress.com">http://scifireviews.wordpress.com</a></div> <div><a href="http://nitishkumarsays.blogspot.com">http://nitishkumarsays.blogspot.com</a></div> <div></div> </div><div class="wlWriterHeaderFooter" style="text-align:right; margin:0px; padding:4px 0px 4px 0px;"><a href="http://digg.com/submit?url=http%3a%2f%2fnitishkumarsays.blogspot.com%2f2010%2f04%2fnokia-n8-finally-brings-multi-touch-to.html&title=Nokia+N8+Finally+Brings+Multi-touch+to+Nokia"><img src="http://digg.com/img/badges/100x20-digg-button.png" width="100" height="20" alt="Digg This" title="Digg This" border="0" style="border: 0" /></a></div> <div class="blogger-post-footer">The author is working in Tech Infrastructure (Windows/ Linux) since last five years and always eager to accept new and innovative ideas over technology. Well verse with even software terms being a Software Engineering Post Graduate, current having a career in Server Administration.</div>Nitish Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767066705344147713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5602353991214839121.post-15013908092721636742010-04-29T15:41:00.001+05:302010-04-29T15:41:21.196+05:30SpiceWorks IT Desktop: IT Management for Dummies<div class="wlWriterHeaderFooter" style="float:none; margin:0px; padding:0px 0px 0px 0px;">[tweetmeme source="mrnitishkumar" only_single="false"]</div><p style="text-align: left" class="getsocial"><a title="Add to Google Buzz" href="http://www.google.com/reader/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnitishkumar.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F04%2F24%2Fspiceworks-it-desktop-it-management-for-dummies%2F&title=SpiceWorks%20IT%20Desktop%3A%20IT%20Management%20for%20Dummies&snippet=Add%20a%20description&srcURL=http%3A%2F%2Fnitishkumar.wordpress.com&srcTitle=nitishkumar.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img style="padding-bottom: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; margin: 5px 0px 0px 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" border="0" alt="Add to Google Buzz" align="right" src="http://getsocialserver.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/gsgb1.png" width="50" height="50" /></a></p> <blockquote> <p align="justify">While managing IT infrastructure for any organization, over the time, things grow up a lot, only to make you feel that you can’t be everywhere, can’t keep eyes over everything, specially when management seems to squeezing human resources all the time. In place of delegation of things, responsibilities seem to get centralized over few and one just find frustrated with the tiny details he needs to care about all the time. Is it time to be negative about the responsibilities or come up with a new and positive approach? Do some more hard work or keep yourself updated with cleaver work? Really being an “IT Guy” sounds tasteless … here comes SpiceWorks … spicing up IT as it says.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong><u>What is SpiceWorks?</u></strong></p> <p align="justify"><strong>Spiceworks </strong>provides a free systems management, inventory, and helpdesk software application, Spiceworks IT Desktop, designed for network administrators working in small- to medium-sized businesses.</p> <blockquote> <p align="justify">Spiceworks IT Desktop is used to inventory, monitor, manage and report on software and hardware assets. It also includes an integrated help desk system. Spiceworks runs on Microsoft Windows and discovers Windows, Unix, Linux and Mac OS X machines along with other IP-addressable devices such as routers, VOIP phones, printers, etc.</p> </blockquote> <p align="justify">An adware and is written in Ruby on Rails, Its not a complete and detailed Monitoring Solution like Zabbix (<a href="http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com/2010/01/03/zabbix-the-simple-yet-ultimate-monitoring-solution-for-corporate/">I already wrote about</a>), but for me it covers another other aspects of your IT management that Zabbix left, in a powerful way like Inventory, events reporting like installations/ updates and complete out-of-the-box-Helpdesk segment.</p> <p align="justify"><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S9la27X1eOI/AAAAAAAABQo/pzN5cQYwsxo/s1600-h/LoginPage4.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="Login Page" border="0" alt="Login Page" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S9la883PJxI/AAAAAAAABQs/wsi42lLuuYk/LoginPage_thumb2.jpg?imgmax=800" width="454" height="282" /></a></p> <p></p> <hr /> <p></p> <p><strong>Here is feature list:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Scan SNMP Devices </li> <li>Linux Scanning via an SSH login </li> <li>Scan Windows Devices via WMI </li> <li>Ability to manage your software licenses </li> <li>Alerts on customizable definitions (eg machines with no anti-virus or low printer toner) </li> <li>Software automatically categorizes machines into groups. eg Laptops, servers, routers etc </li> <li>Ability to define custom devices </li> <li>Ability to compare one machine with another </li> <li>Ability to manage services on remote machines </li> <li>Plugins </li> <li>Reports </li> <li>Network Map (Beta) </li> <li>Helpdesk with user portal </li> </ul> <p></p> <hr /> <p></p> <p align="justify">Having <strong>Inventory of all your hardware’s and Software’s</strong> is something as important as having control over each aspect of your servers. An Inventory not only helps IT staff, but could be a key document for management as well. But the most tedious part is to keep it updated and you always wish that there is some solution that might be doing the job for you without any manual intervention. SpiceWorks does the same job very well, lovable because it doesn’t requires any client side installation and still keep you updated about any changes done in your infrastructure.</p> <p align="justify"><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S9la9mlVNcI/AAAAAAAABQw/cc2OkU4lXGA/s1600-h/Customizedreport4.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="Customized report" border="0" alt="Customized report" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S9la-9dKo5I/AAAAAAAABQ0/ekRpd0aoD-o/Customizedreport_thumb2.jpg?imgmax=800" width="454" height="343" /></a></p> <p align="justify">The other important aspect of SpiceWorks in my scenario is <strong>Out-of-Box ready to roll Helpdesk solution</strong>. A helpdesk keeps your support efficient and ensure resolution of issues within time frame. Not only evaluate individual’s skill sets, but also provide a complete view for IT Staff and management that how well or worse they are providing support. Not only that it may also reduce common calls that requires little IT interventions and could be dealt by non-IT Staff because, it grows up with an open database of resolved calls with causes and comments about the resolution.</p> <p></p> <hr /> <p></p> <p>Enough with dry talk, now let’s engage ourselves in some real things</p> <p><strong><u>Installing SpiceWorks IT Desktop:</u></strong></p> <p align="justify">A 23.3 MB Download from the <a href="http://www.spiceworks.com/signup/">link</a>, the <a href="http://www.spiceworks.com/">spiceworks.com</a> web site claims the software is an IT manager’s dream – asset management and help desk, all from a simple Windows PC. As the site mentions</p> <p><strong>Spiceworks IT Desktop is designed for</strong></p> <ul> <li> <div align="justify">IT Pros who have admin rights on their network. </div> </li> <li> <div align="justify">Organizations with less than 1,000 devices on their network. It will work with more but it won't be as fast. </div> </li> <li> <div align="justify">Running on a PC. It discovers Windows, OS X, Linux and Unix but you need to run it from a PC on your network. </div> </li> </ul> <p><strong>System Requirements</strong></p> <ul> <li>Windows XP Pro SP2, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 2003 Server SP1, SP2 and R2, & Windows 2008 Server </li> <li>1.0 GHz Pentium III class processor </li> <li>1.0 GB RAM (Notice that this one is trickier as it has to cover a lot of aspects) </li> </ul> <p><strong>Browser Requirements</strong></p> <ul> <li>Firefox 3.0 - 3.5 </li> <li>Internet Explorer 7.0 - 8.0 </li> <li>Google Chrome 2.0 </li> </ul> <p></p> <hr /> <p></p> <p align="justify">As its not always the case that you get a fresh server to install a new application, one should worry about two things with installing any of the web solution, first if its going to take the default http port 80 and if the database its going to use already exists on the same server, you are going to install SpiceWorks IT Desktop. Thankfully, SpiceWorks goes well about both the cases. It takes port 9675 (Of course, choice is yours) for HTTP and the database used is not MySQL, but is a <a href="http://www.sqlite.org/">SQLite </a>database.</p> <p>End of worries. Could go for installation now…</p> <blockquote> <p align="justify">~24 M of installation take a little while to install and greet you with a couple of questions about your network like range of IP Addresses to scan, various Windows username/ passwords details possibly across your network, ssh credentials and you are ready to scan your network for finding devices. Yeah! As the very first step, it asks you to get registered with Spiceworks, which would be your one point help system and integration of your account with web resources.</p> </blockquote> <p align="justify">There are also services related requirements on client side like WMI related services should be in running mode and firewall should not be blocking SpiceWorks access. I am not sure that Remote Registry Service is required or not, but possibly that is also in set of requirements on client side.</p> <p align="justify"><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S9lbANGLnCI/AAAAAAAABQ4/vGAjFYwMGCw/s1600-h/typicaldashboard4.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="typical dashboard" border="0" alt="typical dashboard" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S9lbA4FaHaI/AAAAAAAABQ8/LnX_Uze44N0/typicaldashboard_thumb2.jpg?imgmax=800" width="454" height="262" /></a></p> <p>Go for a complete network scan and in just few minutes, you should start getting discovery, monitoring, and alerting items from all over your connected network.</p> <p></p> <hr /> <p></p> <p><strong>Inventory</strong></p> <p>I think it would take a few days for you to manage all of the devices showing up in Inventory Dashboard of SpiceWorks. After the same, one could go for the first amazing part.</p> <p>Click on reporting (<a href="http://localhost:9675/reports">http://localhost:9675/reports</a>)</p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S9lbBrdqHjI/AAAAAAAABRA/XaFEensgfcg/s1600-h/Reportspage4.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="Reports page" border="0" alt="Reports page" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S9lbCp01yXI/AAAAAAAABRE/uDV1nxk9v1c/Reportspage_thumb2.jpg?imgmax=800" width="454" height="207" /></a></p> <p align="justify">Create a new report, name it and add columns as per your requirement or even add conditions for making inventory for some specific group of devices/ workstations like I went for all workstations, whose names might be starting with “IT-“. Columns added in my case were Name, IP Address, Operating System, Serial Number, Model, Manufacturer, Memory, Processor Type, MAC Address and Installation Product Key</p> <p align="justify"><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S9lbDpUWOII/AAAAAAAABRI/l8PbBcta9FI/s1600-h/Customizedreport9.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="Customized report" border="0" alt="Customized report" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S9lbEyEbyBI/AAAAAAAABRM/wWwbmWrw8qM/Customizedreport_thumb5.jpg?imgmax=800" width="454" height="345" /></a></p> <p align="justify">Click on Save and Run and few minutes more will present you a perfectly made, Excel/ PDF/ CSV exportable inventory of your network. More of it, this report will be saved with you to re-run later on for finding more current status of devices.</p> <p></p> <hr /> <p></p> <p><strong>Helpdesk</strong></p> <p align="justify">Adding a new face to your IT Support, profits of a fully equipped Helpdesk really could amaze you and your clients, if you never worked before with any kind of IT Helpdesk. Many even might be running their home made CRM to keep it flexible for meeting their needs. This might come to surprise many in the fact that its totally free of cost and still works like a charm.</p> <p align="justify"><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S9lbGNbYMII/AAAAAAAABRQ/0RibUDIwX8s/s1600-h/Helpdesk5.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="Helpdesk" border="0" alt="Helpdesk" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S9lbMEsQjdI/AAAAAAAABRU/wGqAEIAbGNM/Helpdesk_thumb3.jpg?imgmax=800" width="454" height="343" /></a><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S9lbNAvYMeI/AAAAAAAABRY/aW0GS3Ie2Vc/s1600-h/Ticket4.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="Ticket" border="0" alt="Ticket" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S9lbNwSL5PI/AAAAAAAABRc/DIOulup_vyM/Ticket_thumb2.jpg?imgmax=800" width="454" height="343" /></a></p> <p align="justify">Just click over Helpdesk to find the tickets (<a href="http://localhost:9675/tickets">http://localhost:9675/tickets</a>) being displayed there with filters like Open Tickets, Closed Tickets, Unassigned Ticket etc. Now you have two ways; either let IT Staff lock the complaints themselves with details or even pass the responsibility to actual users themselves via portal (<a href="http://localhost:9675/portal">http://localhost:9675/portal</a>) that could be flexibly customized through (<a href="http://localhost:9675/user_portal">http://localhost:9675/user_portal</a>) like let me show you mine one..</p> <p align="justify"><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S9lbOg5aX-I/AAAAAAAABRg/3Q1GjawDang/s1600-h/Helpdeskview4.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="Helpdesk view" border="0" alt="Helpdesk view" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S9lbPU3MzhI/AAAAAAAABRk/NMhAYPD-B68/Helpdeskview_thumb2.jpg?imgmax=800" width="454" height="280" /></a></p> <p align="justify">There are many details left to be explained in this article, much left for even me to understand and learn through, still waiting for some book (SpiceWorks community seems to be working on the same <a href="http://bit.ly/antjqa">http://bit.ly/antjqa</a>) … even then like Zabbix, I find SpiceWorks IT Desktop kind of must recommend for any IT Administrator.</p> <p align="justify"><a href="http://twitter.com/Spiceworks">SpiceWorks official Twitter page</a> has introduced me with their few <strong>free</strong> training and demonstration videos, which you can go through to know that what this could do for you.</p> <p align="justify"><a href="http://www.spiceworks.com/tv/?cat=webinars"><strong>Videos</strong></a><strong> | </strong><a href="http://www.spiceworks.com/events/webinars/"><strong>Events</strong></a></p> <p>Let’s spice up IT a little (in fact a lot).</p> <div class="vcard"><img style="float: left; 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Well verse with even software terms being a Software Engineering Post Graduate, current having a career in Server Administration.</div>Nitish Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767066705344147713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5602353991214839121.post-46224833587461720142010-04-29T15:37:00.001+05:302010-04-29T15:37:32.996+05:30Zabbix Monitoring-Simplest becomes more simpler<div class="wlWriterHeaderFooter" style="float:none; margin:0px; padding:0px 0px 0px 0px;">[tweetmeme source="mrnitishkumar" only_single="false"]</div><p style="text-align: left" class="getsocial"><a title="Add to Google Buzz" href="http://www.google.com/reader/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnitishkumar.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F04%2F24%2Fzabbix-monitoring-simplest-becomes-more-simpler%2F&title=Zabbix%20Monitoring-Simplest%20becomes%20more%20simpler&snippet=Add%20a%20description&srcURL=http%3A%2F%2Fnitishkumar.wordpress.com&srcTitle=nitishkumar.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img style="padding-bottom: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" alt="Add to Google Buzz" align="right" src="http://getsocialserver.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/gsgb1.png" width="50" height="50" /></a></p> <blockquote> <p align="justify">Remember that IT guy from the movie “Hello” based on Chetan’s One Night @ Call Center? So many USBs hanging around neck, some screw drivers in the pocket, some wires here and there … and don’t know what else. A funny sight to laugh about, but little does you realize that life of us, we ‘IT guys’ somewhat really become the same.</p> </blockquote> <p align="justify">Month by month reduced manpower and day by day getting complex infrastructure really make we IT people, <em>(even if equipped with most powerful and expensive hardware on our side)</em> running every moment of each day. Even sometimes, we find ourselves fed up of our own jobs and issues popping around from all over, try to come up with new energy at every next day and tired at the end of day thinking that will ever we going to get some productive time to block issues before rising rather than facing issues which most of the time arise due to the fact that even after knowing rules, we can’t keep an eye over each and everything by own.</p> <blockquote> <p align="justify">Monitoring solutions do the job for you. You know that problems come due to grown logs, low disk spaces or any such parameter, which could be monitored easily if individual, but monitoring all at one place is what these monitoring solutions are all about.</p> </blockquote> <p></p> <hr /> <p></p> <p align="justify">I already have recommended <strong>Zabbix</strong> as complete monitoring solution and even <a href="http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com/2010/01/03/zabbix-the-simple-yet-ultimate-monitoring-solution-for-corporate/">wrote a dummies manual about deployment of the same</a> on your Windows/ Linux workstations and Servers. Once I even been complaining about the complexity and confusions around simple yet very complex in nature Zabbix Solution.</p> <blockquote> <p align="justify">Genuinely, having a cool product in your hands solve many things, but it frustrates you a lot, when you get lots of questions hitting your mind and no authentic solution over the same other than random answers in forums or hit-n-trial experiences of other users. You wanted to have command over what’s going on in your infrastructure and you not confident about the product itself?</p> </blockquote> <p align="justify">After receiving and reading the <a href="https://www.packtpub.com/zabbix-1-8-network-monitoring/book?utm_source=nitishkumar.wordpress.com&utm_medium=bookrev&utm_content=blog&utm_campaign=mdb_002979">Packt Publications book over Zabbix written by Rihards Olups</a>, I really feel getting the same confidence I always wished for. The book really clears around tiny details of Zabbix. As I promised in my last introduction post about the book, allow me to share detailed summery about the book now…</p> <p></p> <hr /><a href="https://www.packtpub.com/zabbix-1-8-network-monitoring/book?utm_source=nitishkumar.wordpress.com&utm_medium=bookrev&utm_content=blog&utm_campaign=mdb_002979"><img style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto" src="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/booka.jpg?w=454&h=556" /></a> <p></p> <p><strong>Zabbix 1.8 Network Monitoring <br />Language :</strong> English <br /><strong>Paperback :</strong> 428 pages [ 235mm x 191mm ] <br /><strong>Release Date :</strong> March 2010 <br /><strong>ISBN :</strong> 184719768X <br /><strong>ISBN 13 :</strong> 978-1-847197-68-9 <br /><strong>Author(s) :</strong> <a href="https://www.packtpub.com/node/4579">Rihards Olups</a></p> <p>428 pages are like nothing, when you talk about something that covers really a lot, but the step by step and Layman’s approach make each of the page of real worth.</p> <p><u><strong>Chapter 1: Getting Started with Zabbix</strong></u></p> <p align="justify">This chapter covers almost all what in first place, you may come to know after installing not one, but a few Zabbix servers. It starts from what Zabbix is, what are the features, how it will look like and then how to install and configure. Yes!! even the first chapter leaves you with completed installation and web frontend with brief explanation of each step and command you went through while installation.</p> <p align="justify"><u><strong>Chapter 2: Getting your first notification</strong></u></p> <p align="justify">Zabbix is much bigger thing than just the installation. by looking at the default provided graphs and monitored data of the server itself already gives you an idea that what Zabbix is going to do for you, but knowing the details like creating a host, items to monitor, defining triggers, email notifications, creating actions etc are what concerns this chapter. It explains in details that how we can monitor some particular element of consideration in Zabbix terms.</p> <blockquote> <p align="justify">An experienced learner could gather the details at his own pace, but having the correct manual about each and everything makes your life easier about the product and enables you to concentrate more on your scenario itself.</p> </blockquote> <p align="justify">By the way, this chapter could be downloaded as sample chapter from <a href="https://www.packtpub.com/sites/default/files/7689_Zabbix_SampleChapter.pdf">here</a></p> <p><u><strong>Chapter 3: Monitoring with Zabbix Agents and Basic Protocols</strong></u></p> <p align="justify">Zabbix usages client-server way to bring the most from the monitored host. You are needed to install Agents on client side (<em>already discussed in earlier chapter</em>). This chapter deals with more finer elements of Zabbix Agents and show the way to use them all over the Zabbix frontend.</p> <p align="justify"><strong><u>Chapter 4: Monitoring SNMP and IPMI Devices</u></strong></p> <p align="justify">Once I mentioned that it requires installation on client side, few of you might have started to think that not each device will be like that you could install something up on like your DSL, your UPS, your EPBX etc… what about that? Don’t get worried, Zabbix isn’t only for typical specialist Server Administrators, but it does the job for more complex scenario as well, where the infrastructure to be monitor includes more variety of devices.</p> <blockquote> <p align="justify">This chapter deals with how to monitor SNMP devices and how to get along with other monitoring interfaces and real worth reading for people, who wanted to extend their capabilities/ responsibilities at another level.</p> </blockquote> <p align="justify"><strong><u>Chapter 5: Managing Hosts, Users and Permissions</u></strong></p> <p align="justify">This chapter is about the instructions that how to behave with frontend about managing hosts, users and permissions as the name hints. It also shows that how you can create different groups for different monitoring responsibilities and in this way delegating the works and rights that might be more suiting to your environment.</p> <p align="justify"><u><strong>Chapter 6: Acting Upon Monitored Conditions</strong></u></p> <p align="justify">A monitoring solution is not only about knowing whats going on, but also doing corrective measures at first place, if harmless. This chapter deals about the same like how to create triggers on specific scenarios, putting human readable constants and using scripts/ remote commands to deal with situation in first place with human intervention. One of most worthy chapter of this book.</p> <p align="justify"><u><strong>Chapter 7: Simplifying Complex Configurations with Templates</strong></u></p> <p align="justify">Templates are like standards or tailor made copies for scenario and having lots of customizable ones make your life more easier. This chapter deals with various templates available with Zabbix and also how to use them.</p> <p align="justify"><strong><u>Chapter 8: Visualizing the Data</u></strong> & <strong><u>Chapter 9: Creating Reports</u></strong></p> <p align="justify">These two chapters deals about the presentation part, which would be actual impression when people other than administrators go through them.</p> <p align="justify"><u><strong>Chapter 10 to Chapter 13</strong></u></p> <p align="justify">These four chapters dig deeper into advanced item configurations, scenarios, later included proxy method for monitoring remote locations and database itself. Worth reading for administrators, who feel themselves comfortable with day to day tasks with Zabbix and want to go geeks with it now.</p> <p align="justify"><strong><u>Chapter 14: Upgrading Zabbix</u></strong></p> <p align="justify">This chapter deals with one of the most important aspect. Zabbix is a constantly growing application and sure we find ourselves in front of another version with new features in short intervals. Knowing exactly that how to make the transitions without loosing data is what concerns this portion of the book.</p> <p align="justify"><strong><u>Chapter 15: Taking Care of Zabbix</u></strong></p> <p align="justify">My experience says that even beginners should read this chapter for sure otherwise they are bound to pass through un-necessary worries like I went. Having a good thing is good, but best is to keep it good. This chapter not only talks about performance and efficiency cautions, but also give good instructions about backing up and restoring data.</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">There are two Appendix A & B after these all chapters, which deals a little with troubleshooting in a few scenarios and things like Global support through online documentations, forums, wikis, IRCs.</p> <p></p> <hr /> <p></p> <blockquote> <p align="justify">If you know the worth of a monitoring solution like Zabbix, then more than anything else, this book makes the place in your closest book self for any free time reading more than anything. Its not about impressing others with some tricks around Zabbix, but its about real living with it.</p> </blockquote> <div class="vcard"><img style="float: left; margin-right: 4px" class="photo" alt="photo of Nitish Kumar" src="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/myself.jpg?w=62&h=74&h=66" /><span class="fn n"><span class="given-name">Nitish</span> <span class="given-family">Kumar</span> </span> <div><a class="url" href="http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com">http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com</a></div> <div><a href="http://scifireviews.wordpress.com">http://scifireviews.wordpress.com</a></div> <div><a href="http://nitishkumarsays.blogspot.com">http://nitishkumarsays.blogspot.com</a></div> <div> </div> </div> <p style="text-align: left" class="getsocial"><a title="Add to Facebook" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com/2010/04/24/zabbix-monitoring-simplest-becomes-more-simpler/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img style="padding-bottom: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; 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Well verse with even software terms being a Software Engineering Post Graduate, current having a career in Server Administration.</div>Nitish Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767066705344147713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5602353991214839121.post-73935723114798473892010-04-29T15:34:00.001+05:302010-04-29T15:34:57.360+05:30WomWorld-Influencing the world from behind the curtain<div class="wlWriterHeaderFooter" style="float:none; margin:0px; padding:0px 0px 0px 0px;">[tweetmeme source="mrnitishkumar" only_single="false"]</div><p style="text-align: left" class="getsocial"><a title="Add to Google Buzz" href="http://www.google.com/reader/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnitishkumar.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F04%2F21%2Fwomworld-influencing-the-world-from-behind-the-curtain%2F&title=WomWorld-Influencing%20the%20world%20from%20behind%20the%20curtain&snippet=Add%20a%20description&srcURL=http%3A%2F%2Fnitishkumar.wordpress.com&srcTitle=nitishkumar.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img style="padding-bottom: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" alt="Add to Google Buzz" align="right" src="http://getsocialserver.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/gsgb5.png" width="50" height="50" /></a></p> <p align="justify"><strong>Update: </strong>Much happy to see many WomWorldian joining here. I know that most of you love to do things rather than saying and we find you people silent most of the times only giving voice to our words. Many like me still wish to get list here grow more to know more about you people. </p> <p align="justify"><strong>Twitter accounts and pics …. wish to add more name … :)</strong></p> <blockquote> <p align="justify">May be the title seem a bit over … but that just prompted me when I thought to put some lines for today’s post. Will try to introduce a team here, whom I just started to know since last few months <em>(in a way)</em>, but knowing more of them still fascinates …</p> </blockquote> <p align="justify"><strong>1000heads …. WomWorld … heard of these names? </strong></p> <p align="justify"><a href="http://twitter.com/chris_illman"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Chris illman" border="0" alt="Chris illman" src="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/chrisillman2.jpg" width="81" height="81" /></a> <a href="http://twitter.com/whatleydude"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Director of Engagement Strategy James Whatley" border="0" alt="Director of Engagement Strategy James Whatley" src="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/directorofengagementstrategyjameswhatley2.png" width="81" height="81" /></a> <a href="http://twitter.com/joelfdiamond"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Joel Diamond" border="0" alt="Joel Diamond" src="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/joeldiamond3.jpg" width="77" height="77" /></a> <a href="http://twitter.com/katieb86"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; 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display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Adam Woodley" border="0" alt="Adam Woodley" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S9lZwh6rkUI/AAAAAAAABQk/zjbxaySkNLY/AdamWoodley7.jpg?imgmax=800" width="85" height="85" /></a> </p> <p align="justify">May be even the pictures above don’t strike something in your mind, but let me tell you, this is the team, now we know as <a href="http://twitter.com/WOMWorldNokia">WomWorld/ Nokia</a>. Each image posted above, when clicked will take you personal twitter page of each of them.</p> <p></p> <hr /> <p></p> <blockquote> <p align="justify">Ok!! tell me, how many of you make decisions about buying products? Either it be phones, electronics, house hold or anything?</p> </blockquote> <p align="justify">TV Ads? Print Media? Friends?</p> <p align="justify">Earlier our opinions were based on what shop owners or sales persons tell you, then it shifted to TVs/ Ads. That’s what companies were doing to reach potential and existing customers. But there was always one thing that never changed, opinions of people like you, opinion of your friends, opinion of people, who might have nothing to with brand or promotion itself, opinions based on personal experiences.</p> <p align="justify"><strong>Here came the independent internet reviews …</strong></p> <p align="justify">Internet reviews really have became a big influencing factor for buyers now and cnet reviews, mouthshut.com etc have made big places in buyer’s mind. This is called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_of_mouth">World of Mouth,</a> publicity from mouth-to-mouth. After using Mouthshut.com so long for my purchase decisions, recently I entered a new world about my very trusted Nokia through WomWorld.</p> <p></p> <hr /> <p></p> <p align="justify">Honestly, now I feel ashamed of myself that I wasn’t aware of existence of WomWorld till recent until <a href="http://twitter.com/_Odog_">Paul</a> mailed me about <a href="http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com/2010/02/11/nokia-5800-xpressmusic-a-real-iphone-for-mass/">my Nokia 5800 post</a>. With a few words of praise, he also mentioned that he could send a few Nokia devices to me for trial. Not knowing anything about WomWorld or any similar thing like that it was a surprise to me, surprise in that much big way that I didn’t even given a thought to search about WomWorld … later on after a few days, when Paul asked me to fill some details so that he could send me Nokia N900, then it sounded some real to me. But really neither me, my room partner or any of my colleague were convinced that such a costly device coming to me like common man for trial, neither did I shared the excitement with many people.</p> <p align="justify">In place of waiting for Nokia N900 in real, then I started searching web about WomWorld and Paul… then the journey started. I received Nokia N900 soon and written a couple of reviews over it, later on the other device that came to my door step was Nokia N97 Mini… I even started following them on twitter and soon won first few entries price from <a href="http://twitter.com/ovibynokia">@ovibynokia</a></p> <blockquote> <p align="justify">Just a short journey, but still big impressions for the products and the way, the team is making them reach to the market.</p> </blockquote> <p align="justify">One could feel the impression as last many post of mine centered around Nokia Products .. in no means for any kind of promotion, but from the heart. Increased hits, a different recognition and a feeling of warmth that’s what I shared and hope to share more with WomWorld.</p> <p></p> <hr /> <p></p> <p>Oh!! Sorry.. I should put a few lines about what <a href="http://www.1000heads.com/what-is-wom/">WomWorld</a>/ Nokia is.</p> <p align="justify"><strong>WomWorld/ Nokia</strong> is a Nokia sponsored resource providing latest news, comment and feedback on all things related to Nokia from the world of social media and beyons. A wing of <a href="http://1000heads.com">1000heads.com</a> that is the largest dedicated global <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_of_mouth">Word of Mouth </a>agency in the world, which is based in London, with staff in New York, Vancouver, Paris and the lovelier parts of the Oxfordshire countryside.</p> <p>They help brands to listen to people, and people talk about brands.</p> <p align="justify"><strong>How to do that?</strong> They do this by understanding conversations, and using the insight they gain to build and nurture immersive relationships between brands and people. This inspires Word of Mouth, builds advocacy and ultimately increases revenues for their clients.</p> <p align="justify">They do like door to door advertising by contacting bloggers directly and offer trial devices through most simplest procedures (<em>taking each and every cost related thing on their own part</em>). More of it, unlike any other PR agencies in the world, I found them much shy in talking about themselves. You hardly hear anything about the biggest name in PR industry that’s because they do it and leave the part of talking to others only. Probably that’s the soul of World of Mouth is.</p> <p align="justify"></p> <p></p> <hr /> <p></p> <blockquote> <p align="justify">A short journey, but still I thought that there should be a post from WomWorld itself introducing its members in details. That’s why posting this… may be it will kick off a detailed post from WomWorld/Nokia itself.</p> </blockquote> <p align="justify">I went through blogs of a few WomWorldians and find that some of them have a separate identity as bloggers as well. It’s really intriguing me to know more about the process of building the team and workplace.. let’s see… what we will hear from them in reply of this post.</p> <p align="justify">Other online marketing professionals out there needs to took note of it, there is a lot of things to learn from these people.</p> <div class="vcard"><img style="float: left; margin-right: 4px" class="photo" alt="photo of Nitish Kumar" src="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/myself.jpg?w=62&h=74&h=66" /><span class="fn n"><span class="given-name">Nitish</span> <span class="given-family">Kumar</span> </span> <div><a class="url" href="http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com">http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com</a></div> <div><a href="http://scifireviews.wordpress.com">http://scifireviews.wordpress.com</a></div> <div><a href="http://nitishkumarsays.blogspot.com">http://nitishkumarsays.blogspot.com</a></div> <div> </div> </div> <p style="text-align: left" class="getsocial"><a title="Add to Facebook" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com/2010/04/21/womworld-influencing-the-world-from-behind-the-curtain/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img style="padding-bottom: 0px; 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Well verse with even software terms being a Software Engineering Post Graduate, current having a career in Server Administration.</div>Nitish Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767066705344147713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5602353991214839121.post-7288342075609976412010-04-29T15:31:00.001+05:302010-04-29T15:31:42.359+05:30Nokia C3, C6, E5-Reality check<div class="wlWriterHeaderFooter" style="float:none; margin:0px; padding:0px 0px 0px 0px;">[tweetmeme source="mrnitishkumar" only_single="false"]</div><p style="text-align: left" class="getsocial"><a title="Add to Google Buzz" href="http://www.google.com/reader/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnitishkumar.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F04%2F16%2Fnokia-c3-c6-e5-reality-check%2F&title=Nokia%20C3%2C%20C6%2C%20E5-Reality%20check&snippet=Add%20a%20description&srcURL=http%3A%2F%2Fnitishkumar.wordpress.com&srcTitle=nitishkumar.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img style="padding-bottom: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" alt="Add to Google Buzz" align="right" src="http://getsocialserver.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/gsgb5.png" width="50" height="50" /></a></p> <blockquote> <p align="justify"><strong>Nokia C3 </strong>Unique S40 device with 2MP Camera, qwerty keypad, 3.5 mm connector, 55 MB internal memory, supports up to 8GB Memory card, WLAN support,  Inbuilt support for ‘Game changing’ Nokia Messaging for mails and IMs. and price? just <strong>RS. 5, 500/- to Rs. 6, 000/-</strong> as announced. May be even more lowered down after production.</p> </blockquote> <blockquote> <p align="justify"><strong>Nokia C6 </strong>A device that seems to fare even more better than Nokia N97 Mini (Rs. 19, 500/-) and even if not, then passing the very popular Nokia 5800 (Rs. 13, 000/-) for sure. Same Symbian OS as Nokia N97 Mini, same processor as Nokia N97 Mini, same 128 MB RAM, 5 MP Camera with LED Flash, secondary camera, sliding qwerty keypad, 3.2” resistive touch TFT screen with nHD 16:9, 640x 360, Free Ovi Maps voice navigation with A-GPS support, WLAN, 3G, Inbuilt support for Game changing Nokia Messaging for mails and IMs and same battery as Nokia N97 Mini… price? just <strong>Rs. 14, 000/- – Rs. 15, 000/- </strong>at max.</p> </blockquote> <blockquote> <p align="justify"><strong>Nokia E5 </strong>Top class business device fairing even better than even Nokia E72 (Rs. 18, 500/-) due to many email supports, Lotus/ Exchange support, same 600 MHz processor, 256 MB RAM, 250 internal memory, 5 MP camera, Free Ovi Maps voice navigation obviously, HSPDA/ HSUPA, WLAN, same sleek looks as featured by E72 or E63 and battery life said to be  18.5 hours on GSM…  price? <strong>Rs. 12, 500/- or Rs. 13, 000/-</strong></p> </blockquote> <p align="justify"><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S9lY2Vq7z-I/AAAAAAAABQA/hEQBn6zm4aU/s1600-h/nokiac5c6e55.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="nokiac5c6e5" border="0" alt="nokiac5c6e5" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S9lY3b9bE0I/AAAAAAAABQE/0pPPzuWxYVE/nokiac5c6e5_thumb3.jpg?imgmax=800" width="470" height="252" /></a></p> <p align="justify"><strong>Enough excitement naa???</strong> Get a read over <a href="http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/features/author/David_Gilson.php">David Gilson</a> post about detailed comparison of these devices with ones, they going to replace. With excitement, Its also a good question to think up on that where are the hidden compromises to present such mouth watering prices? Coz on specification sheets, it seems to bringing the best elements of successful Nokia Smart Phones, but <strong>how much we should actually expect coming for us ????</strong></p> <p></p> <hr /> <p></p> <p align="justify">Well.. if we talk about <strong>Nokia C3</strong>, then if you really think then only addition is WLAN and qwerty keypad or you could add up support for bigger memory card into it as well. Internal Memory boosts up from 30MB as was similar priced Nokia 5310, shouldn’t be that much of price concern as launch dates have years between them. I don’t count Nokia messaging integration on costlier side.</p> <p align="justify">What’s on costlier side is QWERTY and WLAN. but Nokia, Apple already shown that they  could sport WLAN on cheaper rates with their E63 and iPad respectively.</p> <blockquote> <p align="justify">Nokia C3 is a great device for lower end market and might be a big success like old sets like 3300, 3310 and 1600 been. So far, I guess no compromises made as prices are reasonable with a little brave push. Hope as it looks in pictures, Nokia coming with metallic body for C3.</p> </blockquote> <p></p> <hr /> <p></p> <p align="justify">Next is <strong>Nokia E5 … </strong>those who might have missed from specification sheet, let me remind you neither its coming with Carl Zeiss lenses nor I am expecting it to sport that metallic tough looks as E72 had. More of it, what made Nokia E72 standing out of crowd, the Optical Pad is also missing from Nokia E5. At the end, what’s most wrong part is, its loss about battery, in place of <strong>BP-4L (1500mAh) </strong>we are going to get <strong>BL-4D (1200mAh). </strong>Even if its being shown with more talk time, it can easily be expected that battery performance might get crucially lower than its competitor. Current price of E72 has been lowered to 299 Euro and Nokia E5 is being launched on around 190 euro. Less battery and missing optical pad seems to justifying the lesser price.</p> <p align="justify">Also I am thinking about the compromises made around functioning, as increased battery life on lower battery means there are some energy saving techniques applied within and as it happens usually it going to cost over performance from somewhere. Yet to see.. and if Nokia really have found some special technique, then why not it’s there with other two? Future will reveal.</p> <blockquote> <p align="justify">Sure, there are compromises and I am okay with them as its going to allow a broader audience to receive the business series with full feature. Though one shouldn’t expect it going to be great on Camera (<em>provided the Non-Carl Zeiss and No Auto Focus), </em>which is bad as many times a business person uses camera for taking scan like images of documents. Don’t know without Auto Focus and Carl Zeiss, how that would fare. <strike>Just could hope that they don’t get plasticy in the  way, as the body of Nokia 5800 was and</strike> they will sure get an additional sale from my side .</p> </blockquote> <p align="justify">For me, still E72 after next firmware updates <em>(might include this Nokia Messaging into that) </em>fares better due to better battery as Business users tend to use WiFi and 3G than GSM.</p> <p></p> <hr /> <p></p> <p align="justify">People always said that Nokia N97 and even N97 Mini are overpriced in a way and it was sure evident then one looks over the other successful one Nokia 5800. <strong>Nokia C6</strong> seems to giving answers to all those people. Disappointment is on air for few, who expected at least 256 MB RAM and 600 MHz from the successor of Nokia N97 Mini, but let me tell you all of these devices are never meant to be successor of any. Neither E5 nor C6. They are in league of their own and an attempt of Nokia to show that still they rule on the scale they have defined.</p> <blockquote> <p align="justify">The  highest priced among the three, Nokia C6 sure reasons the price due to addition of QWERTY and OS capability of Nokia N97 in Nokia 5800. We have lost tilt slider and 82 MB internal memory, when compared to Nokia N97 Mini. Charging got powered by Micro USB, which is nextGen but still… as I have seen that if we use 3G connection at full force on Laptop via Smart Phone, then it drain battery faster than it charges. I am not sure that should call it a positive addition or not, but its sure convenient for majority.</p> </blockquote> <p align="justify">What are we going to miss most with Nokia C6 is again Carl Ziess and dual LED flash, which will sure make the Camera go completely ordinary. I was not even happy with Nokia 5800 and don’t know how C6 will fare in Camera side that way. I never come to know that why Nokia used lesser battery in N97 Mini and higher in 5800 and same question hits back here as well.</p> <blockquote> <p align="justify">Yes!! there are compromises and some are even painful like camera and battery. 128 MB RAM is not going to take it very far the way it seized sale of N97 Mini and if it lacked anything in A-GPS in comparison to N97<em> (compass already not there)</em>, then it would sure be lesser popular than other two models. The only place where it fares better than other two devices is screen size, which facilitate comfortable browsing and navigation experience.</p> </blockquote> <p align="justify">The only touch screen device of the three model sure would be crucial as still many people wants touch devices. But don’t know why I am feeling that it has less brighter future than other devices and upcoming devices (To be frank)…</p> <p></p> <hr /> <p></p> <p align="justify">So, as a conclusion, I think ‘inclusion’ of Nokia Messaging and Chat <em>(that was already there  in Beta Labs from </em><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S9lY4D36IFI/AAAAAAAABQI/iDKP4zxKaQM/s1600-h/8199_h5.jpg"><em><img style="border-right-width: 0px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 15px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="8199_h" border="0" alt="8199_h" align="right" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S9lY4383bcI/AAAAAAAABQM/j0RZlOhCUJA/8199_h_thumb3.jpg?imgmax=800" width="170" height="111" /></em></a><em> some time available for few select models)</em> sure ground breaking for NextGen communications and a sign of the shift that how seriously various businesses taking social networking. Nokia really went aggressive by including WLAN and all comprehensive features at such mouth watering prices coz sometimes we don’t consider worth of some good things till don’t use them due to price. These devices will bring the power of QWERTY, multitasking, heavy storage support and strong connectivity to mass.</p> <blockquote> <p align="justify">I once said that there are so many features in advance Smart Phones, like we could send co-ordinates that where are we or could upload pictures or could communicate with international friends so easily but that doesn’t make effective appearance till we get such smart phones reaching to all your friends. It was always hard to convince any friend of yours to buy a handset of Rs 20, 000/- as you will always be asked that what’s point of buying a smart phone in such a price, when could buy whole Netbook in same price easily?</p> </blockquote> <p align="justify">You check your Ovi Contacts and find only a few online. You check Google Maps Lattitude and find only two three friends have updated their locations <em>(coz they don’t have smart phones with GPS)</em> You left being lonely many times. I am sure that these new device gonna change the same experience. But sure, we need to keep the expectations realistic as its not gonna be a biggest Multimedia experience for sure. Should wait for next move from Nokia.</p> <p align="justify"><strong>Just got more updates today</strong></p> <p align="justify"><strong>Check out the video showing C3, C5, C6, E5</strong></p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; width: 425px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:5b3a7ac1-819f-4ae0-92b1-48231699d26a" class="wlWriterSmartContent"><div id="766382ae-fa0f-4b1a-b496-920c1d6483c4" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline;"><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_O_AZhMwQQ&hl=en_US&fs=1&" target="_new"><img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S9lY55c_8NI/AAAAAAAABQU/T9ZPb5nlphI/video51c035a2bf77%5B6%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="border-style: none" galleryimg="no" onload="var downlevelDiv = document.getElementById('766382ae-fa0f-4b1a-b496-920c1d6483c4'); downlevelDiv.innerHTML = "<div><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/i_O_AZhMwQQ&hl=en_US&fs=1&&hl=en\"><\/param><embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/i_O_AZhMwQQ&hl=en_US&fs=1&&hl=en\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>";" alt=""></a></div></div></div> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">Few observations ….</p> <p align="justify"><strong>C6 </strong>It’s good to see that there is no tilt slider in C6 as for me, I was always susceptible about the same in Nokia N97 Mini and loved the smooth slider experience of Nokia N900. Hope this would be the same. There are physical buttons for receiving and rejecting calls, but the whole body seems to be similar to that Nokia 5800 means no metal in this one at least.</p> <p align="justify"><strong>C3 and E5 </strong>It seems that I shouldn’t be that worried about the build of these two as both of them seem to sport metallic back and build. Sorry I doubted in first place.</p> <p align="justify">Waiting that when I would be able to take my hands on them…. </p> <hr /> <p></p> <p align="justify"><strong>More updates</strong></p> <p align="justify">Got to see <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rs77/show/with/4520860979/">flicker stream of RS77</a> and view of E5 and C6 there. Interface-wise not much seems to be changed, but I am happy to see the solid looks of E5. 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Well verse with even software terms being a Software Engineering Post Graduate, current having a career in Server Administration.</div>Nitish Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767066705344147713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5602353991214839121.post-16267637187903525252010-04-15T12:42:00.001+05:302010-04-15T12:42:39.485+05:30Zabbix 1.8 Network Monitoring Book from Packt Publication<div class="wlWriterHeaderFooter" style="float:none; margin:0px; padding:0px 0px 0px 0px;">[tweetmeme source="mrnitishkumar" only_single="false"]</div><p><a style="text-decoration: none" class="google-buzz-button" title="Post on Google Buzz" href="http://www.google.com/buzz/post"><span dir="ltr" class="buzz-link-ltr buzz-link">Buzz</span></a></p> <blockquote> <p align="justify">Sometimes big things come in your way in unexpected manner. Happened to me when I was contacted by <a href="mailto:sandeepp@packtpub.com">Sandeep Patil</a> from Packt Publications to take a look over their book over <a href="http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com/2010/01/03/zabbix-the-simple-yet-ultimate-monitoring-solution-for-corporate/">Zabbix</a>. I have seen the book earlier and was already knowing that its one of the biggest book on the subject for sure. Chance of reviewing the same would be like chance of interviewing your favourite star. :)</p> </blockquote> <p align="justify">This would mark my first time, when might have been requested for reviewing some book otherwise, it has happened once for movie, many times for reality shows, many times for websites or services and in recent months a few times for smart phones, but I was never on reviewing some book. I could bet you that even thinking to review a book that too a tech book was harder or may say boring for me, if it would not have been on <a href="http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com/2010/01/03/zabbix-the-simple-yet-ultimate-monitoring-solution-for-corporate/">my sweet heart Zabbix</a>. Zabbix and Squid been my most favourite Open Source applications and these are truly a must for any IT Infrastructure. I have even wrote <a href="http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com/2010/01/03/zabbix-the-simple-yet-ultimate-monitoring-solution-for-corporate/">dummies manuals</a> over them on my blog.</p> <blockquote> <p align="justify">Here is the front cover of the book and if you click over the same, then it would take you to the site itself with the details/ pricing etc of the book. Just taken a sneak peak till now, but I could assure you that its definitely worth taking a look for anyone managing small or big Network Infrastructure.</p> </blockquote> <p align="justify"><a title="Zabbix 1.8 Network Monitoring" href="http://www.packtpub.com/zabbix-1-8-network-monitoring/book?utm_source=nitishkumar.wordpress.com&utm_medium=bookrev&utm_content=blog&utm_campaign=mdb_002979"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="booka" border="0" alt="booka" src="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/booka.jpg" width="454" height="556" /></a> </p> <p></p> <hr /> <p></p> <p align="justify">I have written <a href="http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com/?s=zabbix">a couple of posts over Zabbix</a> and deployed it in a few scenario in current job as well as test environment at my home, but definitely that doesn’t stand for a chance to get compared in anyway against the author, <strong>Richards Olups</strong>, who had straight nine years experience with Zabbix (<em>since first releases</em>). Recently he joined Zabbix SIA and the gained internal knowledge reflects in the book.</p> <blockquote> <p align="justify">This book really fills up the vacuum about Zabbix related books and will really help people, who find it hard enough to deploy confusing NagiOS and then integrating it with other reporting solutions. Even I <a href="http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com/2010/01/28/zabbix-really-frustrating-me-now/">struggled a lot</a> with <a href="//nitishkumar.wordpress.com/2010/01/07/zabbix-server-some-issues-and-some-tips/">countless customizations and template tricks</a> in last many months and always cried if there was a better manual than forums only.</p> </blockquote> <p></p> <hr /> <p></p> <p align="justify">Consisting of 428 pages and 15 chapters, the book not only covers the installation, frontend customizations and extensive configuration instructions, but also includes well worth mentioning chapters over upgrading, maintenance and troubleshooting instructions. The book goes through command-by-command, example-by-example and scenario-by-scenario, not only that but it also includes very useful sources for templates/ rules etc. It really makes the simple yet powerful application experience more wonderful than ever.</p> <p align="justify">As about the structure of the book, then it seems to be really compact and very much to the point (<em>that’s what matter most for any book</em>) along with the same it also impressed me with the way of putting thoughts. Take a look over <strong>one example</strong> that I got to read, when was just taking a look over introductory lines around backing up Zabbix …</p> <blockquote> <p align="justify"><strong>Real men make no backups <br /></strong>And use RAID 0, right? Still, most do make backups, and for a good reason. It is a lucky person who creates backups daily and never needs one, and it is a very unfortunate person who needs a backup when one has not been created, so we will look at the basic requirements for backing up Zabbix.</p> <p align="justify"></p> </blockquote> <p align="justify">I’ll take my time to go though the whole of the book and will be back soon with some more thoughts over the book. Meanwhile I want to take this place to thank Sandeep for providing me this licensed electronic review copy to me with personalized footer as given below</p> <p align="justify"><a href="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/footer.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="footer" border="0" alt="footer" src="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/footer_thumb.jpg" width="504" height="64" /></a></p> <p align="justify">Be tuned … will wait for your comments ….</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <div class="vcard"><img style="float: left; margin-right: 4px" class="photo" alt="photo of Nitish Kumar" src="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/232.jpg?w=76&h=47&h=82" /><span class="fn n"><span class="given-name">Nitish</span> <span class="given-family">Kumar</span> </span> <div><a class="url" href="http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com">http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com</a></div> <div><a href="http://scifireviews.wordpress.com">http://scifireviews.wordpress.com</a></div> <div><a href="http://nitishkumarsays.blogspot.com">http://nitishkumarsays.blogspot.com</a></div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> <a title="Add to Facebook" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com/2010/04/15/zabbix-1-8-network-monitoring-book-from-packt-publication/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img style="padding-bottom: 0px; 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Well verse with even software terms being a Software Engineering Post Graduate, current having a career in Server Administration.</div>Nitish Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767066705344147713noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5602353991214839121.post-59560990423003442862010-04-15T12:38:00.001+05:302010-04-15T12:38:45.128+05:30Nokia C3, Nokia C6, Nokia E5-What you always wished for<div class="wlWriterHeaderFooter" style="float:none; margin:0px; padding:0px 0px 0px 0px;">[tweetmeme source="mrnitishkumar" only_single="false"]</div> <p style="text-align:left;" class="getsocial"><a title="Add to Google Buzz" href="http://www.google.com/reader/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnitishkumar.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F04%2F14%2Fnokia-c3-nokia-c6-nokia-e5-what-you-always-wished-for%2F&title=Nokia%20C3%2C%20Nokia%20C6%2C%20Nokia%20E5-What%20you%20always%20wished%20for&snippet=Add%20a%20description&srcURL=http%3A%2F%2Fnitishkumar.wordpress.com&srcTitle=nitishkumar.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img style="display:inline;border-width:0;margin:5px 0 5px 10px;padding:0;" alt="Add to Google Buzz" align="right" src="http://getsocialserver.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/gsgb2.png" width="50" height="50" /></a></p> <blockquote> <p align="justify">It was just last day, when I <a href="http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com/2010/04/12/nokia-everyoneconnect-invitation-from-womworld/">wrote over the invitation received from WomWorld</a>. I was wondering that what it will reveal? Why the card was required to sent in place of a simple email? Wished if they could do that integration of IMs again <a href="http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com/2010/02/28/nokia-n900-not-only-for-geeks-but-for-mass-as-well/">the way they did in Nokia N900</a>? Was thinking about the price on which the new device will come? Was thinking that if they will be worth thinking about? Will they be touch devices again? Are we going to see the first MeeGo? Is the most rumored N-8 is about to unveil?</p> </blockquote> <p align="justify">Lots of questions and answer was just …. Wait!!!! speculations all around .. even if myself and many got the bit that it has to do something with Nokia Messaging and IMs, but still wait was wait..</p> <p align="justify">I really never took part into such an online event and unfortunately even today wasn’t available due to loads of work, but even sneak peak was enough to excite and I was waiting to reach home to write upon it. And here I am …</p> <p><hr /></p> <p><strong></strong></p> <p align="justify"><strong>What was that invitation card about? </strong>We have seen many type of campaigns, remember those empty banners saying something is coming… advertising needs lots of creativity and sometimes with so simple ideas. So was the invitation card. Yes!!! I am smiling when writing that the black backside of the card was really cryptic and of actual worth.</p> <p align="justify">There was a screen on the site, which presented a flash based app asking for allowing to access your webcam and then asking to show your card from backside.</p> <p align="justify"> <a href="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/3d.jpg"><img style="display:block;float:none;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;border-width:0;" title="3d" border="0" alt="3d" src="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/3d_thumb.jpg" width="520" height="366" /></a></p> <p align="justify">Nothing happened …. ??? Now move the card a bit …. unveiling the new device in front of you … amazing…</p> <p><hr /></p> <p align="center"><a href="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/device.jpg"><img style="display:inline;border-width:0;" title="device" border="0" alt="device" src="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/device_thumb.jpg" width="254" height="172" /></a><a href="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/sidepose.jpg"><img style="display:inline;border-width:0;" title="sidepose" border="0" alt="sidepose" src="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/sidepose_thumb.jpg" width="254" height="176" /></a><a href="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/card.jpg"><img style="display:inline;border-width:0;" title="card" border="0" alt="card" src="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/card_thumb.jpg" width="254" height="168" /></a><a href="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/device3.jpg"><img style="display:inline;border-width:0;" title="device3" border="0" alt="device3" src="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/device3_thumb.jpg" width="254" height="182" /></a></p> <p><hr /></p> <p align="justify">Yes!!.. Nokia really unveiled the next gen of messaging and more exciting the way it got everything right either it be price or battery life or connections or apps coz only that thing matters more than anything about the real connections. I am just left thinking about <a href="http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com/2010/03/11/call-for-nokia-an-ideal-smartphone-for-mass/">my old post on what a dream phone should be like</a>? What should Nokia give a thought? And I am really really overwhelmed that its like getting prayers heard. I am still fascinated that how much of my thoughts coincided. Nokia unveils three new dream devices centered around Nokia Messaging and Social connections.</p> <p align="justify"><a href="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/devices.jpg"><img style="display:block;float:none;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;border-width:0;" title="devices" border="0" alt="devices" src="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/devices_thumb.jpg" width="520" height="291" /></a><a href="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/nokiaaa.jpg"><img style="display:block;float:none;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;border-width:0;" title="nokiaaa" border="0" alt="nokiaaa" src="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/nokiaaa_thumb.jpg" width="520" height="245" /></a> </p> <p><hr /></p> <blockquote> <p align="justify">Yes… not only Nokia N900 like IM integrations and conversational approach will be common to all three of them, but all are having qwerty keypad, WLAN and heavy batteries > 1200 mAh. It really seems that Nokia getting things perfectly right and taking the best elements of its own experience from all of its successful devices rather than thinking about wide spread fever around Touch-Phones.</p> </blockquote> <p align="justify">Let me Introduce the device one by one ….</p> <p><hr /></p> <p align="justify"><strong>Nokia C3 </strong>Series 40 devices.. like the one I had Nokia 5310. Many loved them due to their price and <a href="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/c3.jpg"><img style="display:inline;border-width:0;margin:5px 0 5px 10px;" title="C3" border="0" alt="C3" align="right" src="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/c3_thumb.jpg" width="212" height="260" /></a> functionality. It was not for those people, who are very much concerned about browsing over phones, but wish to have cool camera/ music phones in hands with best talk-time.</p> <p align="justify">Nokia C3 represents the same class. You get connectivity with Gtalk, Yahoo, Live Messenger and Ovi chat, conversational view, One click access to mail via Nokia Messaging (<em>Graduated from beta</em>), favorite contacts on home screen, just like you seen in Nokia N97 etc, easy updates/ uploads to Facebook, Twitter etc, Wireless Lan with easy access point authentication (<em>No 3G though</em>), 2 MP Camera, 3.5 AV connector, FM Stereo Radio, 55 MB internal memory (<em>more than enough for Series 40</em>), though no memory card included but supports up to 8 GB and amazing 1320 mAh battery with 7 hours talk time.</p> <p align="justify">Though searching over web didn’t confirmed me about the processor, but it seems that it would offer 64 MB RAM and 128 NAND ROM. Enough for a Series 40 na????</p> <p align="justify">Could find the official specifications here</p> <div style="display:inline;float:none;margin:0;padding:0;" id="scid:F60BB8FA-6F02-4999-8F5E-9DD4E92C4DA7:3ff76147-a1af-4f58-9ffa-6c90f197e398" class="wlWriterSmartContent"> <div><a href="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/nokiac3_datasheet.pdf" target="_blank">Nokia C3 datasheet</a></div> </div> <p> </p> <p align="justify">Now the best part of the deal. What’s the price? 90 Euro before taxes means should stand somewhere <strong>Rs. 5, 500/- or Rs. 6, 000/- </strong>if I am right about conversion rates.</p> <p> </p> <div style="width:425px;display:block;float:none;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;padding:0;" id="scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:43dfad14-9cd9-4d72-8e0a-222b646e5d89" class="wlWriterSmartContent"> <div>[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e028foGxUB8&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0]</div> </div> <p> </p> <blockquote> <p align="justify">I know you cant believe it.. but the world is sure going to change and the ruler is back. Really will be interesting to see if it returns back the era of non-touch phones. And don’t run to Nokia Priority shops, it’s scheduled to be <strong>released in Q2 </strong>means somewhere around June/ July 2010.</p> </blockquote> <p><hr /></p> <p align="justify"><strong></strong></p> <p align="justify"><strong>Nokia C6 </strong>Do you think that something holding you back, when you take a Series 40 device in your hands? Do <a href="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/nokia_c6.jpg"><img style="display:inline;border-width:0;margin:5px 0 5px 10px;" title="nokia_c6" border="0" alt="nokia_c6" align="right" src="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/nokia_c6_thumb.jpg" width="270" height="154" /></a> you think that a Series 40 device is made for only school going teenagers? Do you think that you can’t live without latest Symbian 9? You think that it would be like living in some village without the cool apps you had in your N82, N97? You still don’t want to loose the grip with touch device. Nokia still with you :)</p> <p align="justify">Nokia C6 represents surprisingly the only touch device among these three next gen messaging devices. Nokia N97 like full keypad, <a href="http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com/2010/02/11/nokia-5800-xpressmusic-a-real-iphone-for-mass/">Nokia 5800</a> like screen, full Email support for Gmail, Yahoo, Live Mail, Ovi Mail, IM client available from Ovi Store for Gtalk, Live Messenger, Yahoo or Ovi Chat. Almost exactly same or better customizable home screen than Nokia N97. What more you could wish for?</p> <p align="justify">Here comes more … nHD 16:9, 640x 360, 3.2” TFT screen with 16M colors, 5MP primary camera with Integrated Led Flash, secondary front camera for video calling, FM Stereo Radio, feee ovi maps voice navigation with Integrated A-GPS (<em>No compass though</em>), WLAN, 3G, 200  MB Internal Memory, 2 GB Card included and supports up to 16GB, Micro USB Connector (<em>Not sure that it could be charged through the same or not</em>) and the amazing 7 hours talk time with 1200 mAh battery, What else you wished for?? Really pushes N97 way behind. rocessor will be the same as Nokia 5800, 434 MHz ARM11 and will feature 128 MB RAM</p> <p align="justify">Could find the official specifications here</p> <div style="display:inline;float:none;margin:0;padding:0;" id="scid:F60BB8FA-6F02-4999-8F5E-9DD4E92C4DA7:e88dafca-dcf9-424a-87eb-5f20bd0ba2a0" class="wlWriterSmartContent"> <div><a href="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/nokiac6_datasheet.pdf" target="_self">Nokia C6 datasheet</a></div> </div> <p> </p> <p align="justify">Again the best part of deal. Nokia really got the point right what I mentioned in my Nokia 5800 post and my dream phone post. The price is highest among the three but still just 220 Euro means will stand somewhere <strong>Rs. 14, 000/- - Rs. 15, 000/- </strong>obviously if I am right about conversion rates.</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <div style="width:425px;display:block;float:none;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;padding:0;" id="scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:9410ebb4-a214-476c-bb20-b1d7f1657adc" class="wlWriterSmartContent"> <div>[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bA4b7ytUHfw&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0]</div> </div> <p align="justify"> </p> <blockquote> <p align="justify">You are really thinking na.. if have already bought <a href="http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com/2010/03/25/nokia-n97-mini-review-part-2-whatever-you-can-expect-for/">Nokia N97 Mini</a> or didn’t bought due to high price or even if you started loving your Nokia 5800 like some die hard. Why Nokia does this? Why their own products stands like best rivals? Its time to enjoy and make fun, for them who waited for better. Yes!! this one is also scheduled to be <strong>released in Q2</strong> means somewhere around June/ July 2010.</p> </blockquote> <p><hr /></p> <p align="justify"><strong></strong></p> <p align="justify"><strong>Nokia E5 </strong>Do you think that IMs and Social updates are for only kids and youth? Do you think that  being a<a href="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/e51.jpg"><img style="display:inline;border-width:0;margin:5px 0 5px 10px;" title="e51" border="0" alt="e51" align="right" src="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/e51_thumb.jpg" width="270" height="194" /></a> professional meant to keep you away from social? Do you think that business phone are made of something else and fun phone of another? You ask that why a strictly professional boss or executive can’t be a active socialite? Yes!! Nokia heard you ..</p> <p align="justify">Nokia E5 brings best of their business phones like E63 and E72. Same qwerty keypad, same long battery life, best 5MP Camera with full focus, best of the connectivity with 10MB upload speed/ 2MB download speed with HSPDA/ HSUPA, favourite contacts with images on home screen, One click IM/ mail clients, support for Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Traveler means covering 90% business mails all over the world and never to miss free Ovi Maps Voice Navigation with Integrated A-GPS Support. Yes!!! this one also packs the same conversational view of IMs/SMS and graduated Nokia Messaging.</p> <p align="justify">You may be disappointed that why business devices still has those 2.4 “ QVGA LCD 320x240 as this one has, but 250 MB Internal memory and support for 32 GB card (<em>2GB included</em>) really come to blow your mind. Here comes Nokia to take you in wonderland, the talk time of 18 hours 30 mins on GSM. Really some trick behind this as its still 5 hours and 30 mins on 3G and battery is BL-4D 1200 mAh. Really wish to know details behind this GSM optimizations. But its amazing for people, who finds them travelling most of the time. This really seems unbelievable when you know that it features the same processor earlier Nokia N900 & Nokia E72 and more of RAM will be 256 MB. Great!!!! Superb!!! Really making me restless …</p> <p align="justify">Oh!!! you are waiting for the price na… here it comes … 180 Euro before taxes means somewhere <strong>Rs. 12, 500/- or Rs. 13, 000/-</strong> I guess. Same price as Nokia 5800. I really love this price tag. The next few month will be hard as this device is not gonna released in Q2, but Q3 means in September/ October I think. Let’s see when it will make it to India. I hope very soon.</p> <div style="width:425px;display:block;float:none;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;padding:0;" id="scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:5ebd6881-5e2b-4e98-bd05-e10b16ebbfb9" class="wlWriterSmartContent"> <div>[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsr6Q0Th28k&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0]</div> </div> <p align="justify"> </p> <div style="width:425px;display:block;float:none;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;padding:0;" id="scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:c54fc85e-521e-469d-9638-50bd9d8bd16d" class="wlWriterSmartContent"> <div>[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48beAls5r0A&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0]</div> </div> <blockquote> <p align="justify">I was already impressed with Nokia E72 and it was being loved all over the world… its like overkill. I love you Nokia. Anyone still holding BlackBerry?</p> </blockquote> <p align="justify"> <p><hr /></p> <p align="justify">For me, the announcement came like a dream came true and Nokia seemed to be like some Santa giving all my wishes. As <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/nokia-c3-c6-and-e5-try-to-smarten-up-the-dumbphone-market/">Thomos on Engadget wrote</a>, Nokia bringing the best of smart phones in affordable ‘dumb phones’ market. The world is sure about to change. The complaints seem being over now that Smart Phones prices are getting as high that people started thinking about buying Netbook and doing compromises. I always said Smart Phones will realize into connections, when many will hold high end devices … it really about to happen. :)</p> <p align="justify">For me, it will be more interesting to watch that how <strong>webkit</strong> based browser will fare in all of these device <strike>and what processors and how much RAM these are going to get as the same is not mentioned in press released but means a lot.</strike> Also have to see that if they will release the same IM client for other devices or not? Again … wait not over even now :( ….</p> <p align="justify"><a href="mailto:‘dumbphones’Paul@WomWorldNokia">Paul@WomWorldNokia</a> already assured me that I will be on their mind once they get access to these dream devices. So, I will sure be back with more details, when get one of these in my own hands. Clocks started ticking slow .. :(</p> <p align="justify"><strong>Update: </strong><em>Updated the link for Dream Phone post. Was pointing to wrong article. 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margin:0px; padding:4px 0px 4px 0px;"><a href="http://digg.com/submit?url=http%3a%2f%2fnitishkumarsays.blogspot.com%2f2010%2f04%2fnokia-c3-nokia-c6-nokia-e5-what-you.html&title=Nokia+C3%2c+Nokia+C6%2c+Nokia+E5-What+you+always+wished+for"><img src="http://digg.com/img/badges/100x20-digg-button.png" width="100" height="20" alt="Digg This" title="Digg This" border="0" style="border: 0" /></a></div> <div class="blogger-post-footer">The author is working in Tech Infrastructure (Windows/ Linux) since last five years and always eager to accept new and innovative ideas over technology. Well verse with even software terms being a Software Engineering Post Graduate, current having a career in Server Administration.</div>Nitish Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767066705344147713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5602353991214839121.post-24443627332800923962010-04-15T12:34:00.001+05:302010-04-15T12:34:37.673+05:30Nokia EveryoneConnect invitation from WomWorld<div class="wlWriterHeaderFooter" style="float:none; margin:0px; padding:0px 0px 0px 0px;">[tweetmeme source="mrnitishkumar" only_single="false"]</div><p style="text-align: left" class="getsocial"><a title="Add to Google Buzz" href="http://www.google.com/reader/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnitishkumar.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F04%2F12%2Fnokia-everyoneconnect-invitation-from-womworld%2F&title=Nokia%20EveryoneConnect%20invitation%20from%20WomWorld&snippet=Add%20a%20description&srcURL=http%3A%2F%2Fnitishkumar.wordpress.com&srcTitle=nitishkumar.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img style="padding-bottom: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" alt="Add to Google Buzz" align="right" src="http://getsocialserver.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/gsgb4.png" width="50" height="50" /></a></p> <blockquote> <p align="justify">Sometimes, you find yourself smiling only over things happened. While eagerly waiting for my ovimaps slugs to reach courtesy <a href="http://twitter.com/ovibyNokia">@ovibyNokia</a>, a DHL courier of A3 size reached to me on Saturday. Received today as I was on leave to entertain parents, who are in Delhi now days.</p> </blockquote> <p align="justify">Take a look what came out of the same ….</p> <p align="justify"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S8a6ZyDmJiI/AAAAAAAABM0/1Jkhm3BMHyc/s1600-h/856829134.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="85682913" border="0" alt="85682913" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S8a6az4iFUI/AAAAAAAABM4/mDiHpmiI63s/85682913_thumb2.jpg?imgmax=800" width="470" height="359" /></a> Oh!!! you think something more inside the packet?? Sorry nothing else inside than this 3” x3” Invitation card. Surprise na!!!! Anyway, take a closer look</p> <p align="justify"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S8a6brQPobI/AAAAAAAABM8/7p4OSf8MlOA/s1600-h/mobileUpload5.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="mobile Upload" border="0" alt="mobile Upload" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S8a6ckc6UmI/AAAAAAAABNA/gyiAuMH7CEc/mobileUpload_thumb3.jpg?imgmax=800" width="470" height="359" /></a> </p> <p>The backside of card also showing something like chat/ message icons… is it cryptic message? Sorry could not use some sci fi technologies to go beyond the black colour … may be …</p> <p><a href="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/13042010068.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="13042010068" border="0" alt="13042010068" src="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/13042010068_thumb.jpg" width="470" height="359" /></a></p> <p>The link given in the card is <a title="http://events.nokia.com/everyoneconnect/" href="http://events.nokia.com/everyoneconnect/">http://events.nokia.com/everyoneconnect/</a>, which is showing a cool flash based countdown as given below</p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S8a6dWc2XrI/AAAAAAAABNI/0PbD_W6KUf8/s1600-h/countdown4.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="countdown" border="0" alt="countdown" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S8a6eBZL39I/AAAAAAAABNM/B88hweRm85E/countdown_thumb2.jpg?imgmax=800" width="470" height="332" /></a> </p> <p></p> <hr /> <p></p> <p align="justify">I guess, Paul@WomWorldNokia already hinted me about some surprise coming my way few weeks back. Though speculations are around that it might be a launch of rumored NextGen mobile N-8 or connecting with <a href="http://conversations.nokia.com/2010/04/09/the-office-meets-glee-by-nokiamessaging100-video/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NokiaConversations-Posts+%28Nokia+Conversations+-+Posts%29">last event</a>, something related with Nokia Messaging. <strike>I think I could be assured that this must be N-8 only as WomWorld knows what interests me more… let see… meet you there …..</strike></p> <p align="justify">Ok. I just went a little deeper, checked the source of the site, by the hint there, I changed the dates of my system to April 14, 2010 and here is what I got …</p> <p align="justify"><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S8a6ezyxydI/AAAAAAAABNQ/GfdMC77EEtE/s1600-h/messaging5.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="messaging" border="0" alt="messaging" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S8a6f8BPFPI/AAAAAAAABNU/oMdzbUFKTfA/messaging_thumb3.jpg?imgmax=800" width="470" height="318" /></a> I am not sure what it is.. is it Same Nokia Messaging App available free for all now with some added functionality? Or it is the same integration of IMs and SMS as I loved in Nokia N900?</p> <blockquote> <p align="justify">I don’t think that it would be that hard to integrate Skype/ Gtalk into common Smart Phones. APIs for both are available and provided the devices in market, they could sure afford to extend the same concept to other devices as well. Will they wrap it up in form of some app or will they offer a firmware upgrade for tighter integration?</p> </blockquote> <p align="justify">Not sure that my expectations will be coincide with the upcoming, but will love it, if it happens.</p> <p align="justify"></p> <p></p> <hr /> <p></p> <p align="justify">I feel bad about <strong>Idea people </strong>crying out there for Save Paper campaign. 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Well verse with even software terms being a Software Engineering Post Graduate, current having a career in Server Administration.</div>Nitish Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767066705344147713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5602353991214839121.post-76209342648429251282010-04-15T12:31:00.001+05:302010-04-15T12:32:50.896+05:30Skyfire-You can play Farmville on Nokia N82<div class="wlWriterHeaderFooter" style="float:none; margin:0px; padding:0px 0px 0px 0px;">[tweetmeme source="mrnitishkumar" only_single="false"]</div><p style="text-align: left" class="getsocial"><a title="Add to Google Buzz" href="http://www.google.com/reader/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnitishkumar.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F04%2F12%2Fskyfire-you-can-play-farmville-on-nokia-n82%2F&title=Skyfire-You%20can%20play%20Farmville%20on%20Nokia%20N82&snippet=Add%20a%20description&srcURL=http%3A%2F%2Fnitishkumar.wordpress.com&srcTitle=nitishkumar.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img style="padding-bottom: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" alt="Add to Google Buzz" align="right" src="http://getsocialserver.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/gsgb4.png" width="50" height="50" /></a></p> <blockquote> <p align="justify"><strong>Farmville:</strong> An addition of web surfers in same way cigarettes might be for some office goers. Symbian users always been deprived of experiencing the same due to heavy flash used in the same and only Flash Lite 3.0 can’t do Farmville. Look like Skyfire taken the task. Yes!! You can use heavy flash on your only Flash Lite 3.0 device with Skyfire.</p> </blockquote> <p align="justify"></p> <p align="justify">I given Skyfire a try for running Farmville on my Nokia N82 and the result were …</p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; width: 425px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:f8ee6d9a-242a-4b46-8ff4-dcee2168fd6b" class="wlWriterSmartContent"><div id="e9e957ba-596b-45fd-ba62-786774872e9e" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline;"><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuLXCKSK4dw" target="_new"><img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S8a6GVmO_XI/AAAAAAAABMw/i-_soVtJOnQ/videod39d5e76d857%5B6%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="border-style: none" galleryimg="no" onload="var downlevelDiv = document.getElementById('e9e957ba-596b-45fd-ba62-786774872e9e'); downlevelDiv.innerHTML = "<div><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/iuLXCKSK4dw&hl=en\"><\/param><embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/iuLXCKSK4dw&hl=en\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>";" alt=""></a></div></div></div> <p align="justify">Not sure what doing the trick, but as much I could guess and read, it render websites first as images rather than actual pages and this explains how it handles Flash. Flash might be playing on servers and device must be getting series of pictures. This implies that this kind of Flash performance should be fast on faster connections like 3G or Wi-Fi and worse if using mere GPRS.</p> <p align="justify">I really want to invite users, if could comment about technique being used behind the same. 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Well verse with even software terms being a Software Engineering Post Graduate, current having a career in Server Administration.</div>Nitish Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767066705344147713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5602353991214839121.post-48413085704520439062010-04-15T12:27:00.001+05:302010-04-15T12:27:44.223+05:30How many of British customs we are following?<div class="wlWriterHeaderFooter" style="float:none; margin:0px; padding:0px 0px 0px 0px;">[tweetmeme source="mrnitishkumar" only_single="false"]</div> <p style="text-align:left;" class="getsocial"><a title="Add to Google Buzz" href="http://www.google.com/reader/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnitishkumar.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F04%2F11%2Fhow-many-of-british-customs-we-are-following%2F&title=How%20many%20of%20British%20customs%20we%20are%20following%3F&snippet=Add%20a%20description&srcURL=http%3A%2F%2Fnitishkumar.wordpress.com&srcTitle=nitishkumar.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img style="display:inline;border-width:0;margin:5px 0 5px 10px;padding:0;" alt="Add to Google Buzz" align="right" src="http://getsocialserver.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/gsgb1.png" width="50" height="50" /></a></p> <blockquote> <p align="justify">Continuing with my own trend of being late into things, here I am with the latest debate raised by Environmental Minister Jairam Ramesh, when on April 02, 2010 at seventh convocation ceremony of Indian Institude of Forest management, he termed the wearing of the traditional convocation robe as a <strong>'barbaric colonial practice'.</strong></p> </blockquote> <p align="justify"><a href="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/convocation.jpg"><img style="display:block;float:none;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;border-width:0;" title="convocation" border="0" alt="convocation" src="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/convocation_thumb.jpg" width="406" height="246" /></a>Sometimes we educated people find ourselves really in weird state of mind, when finding things like this get attention more than the issues that affect common man’s life. May be the statement make some sense, but doesn’t the whole education system must be a matter of more concerns than a uniform thing?</p> <blockquote> <p align="justify">In reference of the same, I found <a href="http://www.mumbaimirror.com/article/2/2010040620100406022156791f5a3d7e1/Gown-with-the-wind.html">the Mumbai Mirror article</a> a real good read. It reports that this isn’t the first instance, when such a disagreement with the customs might have been shown. Lawyers in Mumbai's civil and sessions courts moved a resolution making black gowns optional (<em>Though that demand had more to do with Mumbai's humid weather than anti-colonial sentiments, the flowing gowns have been discarded</em>). Similarly, In 2004, the department of posts decided to change the uniform of their postmen from the heavy khaki of the colonial era to blue trousers and shirts. It was felt that the old uniform with embellishments like metal buttons and cap was unsuitable for India's weather.</p> </blockquote> <p align="justify">Sure, these demands weren’t in same context in which Mr. Jairam has taken his concerns, but sure its not unusual to expect something like this from our politicians. Still I am not condemning it, just try to reason with facts …</p> <p><hr /></p> <blockquote> <p align="justify"><strong>Hasn’t this be the case many times that we have changed names of streets, buildings  and roads in name of our leaders from old British names? Haven’t people find more pride in calling Mumbai rather than long established name Bombay now? What’s wrong if someone is talking about changing one more thing ….</strong></p> </blockquote> <p align="justify">Sometimes it really needs to be figured out that what are we following for convenience and what might be <a href="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/roadname.jpg"><img style="display:inline;border-width:0;margin:5px 0 5px 10px;" title="roadname" border="0" alt="roadname" align="right" src="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/roadname_thumb.jpg" width="193" height="121" /></a>actually hurting the sentiments.</p> <p align="justify">Most of us don’t mind wearing jeans, paint-shirts or even foreign brands coz it reasons well for convenience. We reason with renaming of roads, bus/ railways stations and buildings in name of Indians as even in that time, when it was named, it was named to honor someone without caring for our sentiments or might be renamed from some other names.</p> <p><hr /></p> <p align="justify">Similarly, it seems justified if wearing gowns on occasion of convocation reminds us of the fact that its a British custom. But there are many other things to think upon, let’s know about a few ….</p> <ol> <li> <div align="justify"><strong>whole education system is based on British Customs</strong> otherwise, we had some very other kind of <a href="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/gown.jpg"><img style="display:inline;border-width:0;margin:5px 0 5px 10px;" title="gown" border="0" alt="gown" align="right" src="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/gown_thumb.jpg" width="144" height="138" /></a> system in our country then. Rather than flirting with inner sentiments that <strong>why to spend money on buying gown to wear on some particular day only,</strong> when it has no cultural or educational objective, why not to think about the education system itself? <br /> <br /> As about the gown itself, then let me tell you that gown is not only British, but its something all over the world. <strong>Gown is a symbol to show equality among students</strong>, who are now about to face the real world. Throwing the caps in air was symbol for the same. In our ancient culture, we had a similar tradition that the student was to live in Brahamcharya/ Ashram culture, where they were bound to beg before people of city for food and do all the works of Ashram. They were meant to leave behind what they belonged to, however rich, however powerful, Ashram rules were same to all. Once, their study period was over, there was also trend of convocation, where they were to leave Ashram cloths and wear there regular ones. <br /> <br /> In this way, if we see, then time has changed, students are not forced to wear uniforms while study and obviously, we see inequality between students, when someone come with branded cloths/ watches/ cell phones and someone very ordinary cloths. The cruel social life starts from very beginning. <br /> <br /> <em><strong>Is this wrong, if every student get a sense of equality on the day, he/ she leaves the institution?  If really have to change something then should work up on education system, the way it treats, the way it creates</strong></em> <em><strong>… that’s what outdated today coz it was created in context of making clerks for British administration then. <br /> </strong></em></div> </li> <li> <div align="justify"><strong>Whole Justice system of India is based on British customs </strong>Your Honor! Me Lord! His Highness!!! the words have became this much common that we forgot that if they were having any context in current scenario. Was everything created by British system so bad that should be discarded? <br /> </div> </li> <li> <div align="justify"><strong>The biggest railways/ road network of the world is also a British heritage. </strong>Mentioning it not to say that British given a lot to us, but to remind that not everything that belongs to a wrong name would be wrong.</div> </li> </ol> <p align="justify">If you calling uniforms off then why not to apply the same on doctors, nurses, postmen, constables, police officers, army or similar of those? Why shouldn’t they also be relaxed? 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Well verse with even software terms being a Software Engineering Post Graduate, current having a career in Server Administration.</div>Nitish Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767066705344147713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5602353991214839121.post-25514494589885225162010-04-15T12:26:00.001+05:302010-04-15T12:26:46.141+05:30The Nokia device after 10 years<div class="wlWriterHeaderFooter" style="float:none; margin:0px; padding:0px 0px 0px 0px;">[tweetmeme source="mrnitishkumar" only_single="false"]</div><p style="text-align: left" class="getsocial"><a title="Add to Google Buzz" href="http://www.google.com/reader/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnitishkumar.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F04%2F09%2Fthe-nokia-device-after-10-years%2F&title=The%20Nokia%20device%20after%2010%20years&snippet=Add%20a%20description&srcURL=http%3A%2F%2Fnitishkumar.wordpress.com&srcTitle=nitishkumar.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img style="padding-bottom: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" alt="Add to Google Buzz" align="right" src="http://getsocialserver.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/gsgb2.png" width="50" height="50" /></a></p> <blockquote> <p align="justify">Another competition from <a href="http://twitter.com/WomWorldNokia">@WomworldNokia</a>, where this time they have thrown another stone in the pond by asking the question that what a Nokia device will look like in future, say 10 years later. You can win some Nokia goodies like their legendary BH-905 headset or other Nokia/ Ovi goodies or Nokia T-Shirts etc. Though that Ovi Map competition is still on till April 13, 2010, but those who might not have won something there.. could try their luck again this time…</p> </blockquote> <p></p> <hr /> <p></p> <p align="justify">10 years would be a long time and things should evolve really a lot than we could have been thinking now, many of you already seen the concept of future Laptop and also the news that half of its part already could be available soon. So, what would be still there to stay …</p> <p align="justify">Being a realistic person, I wont go directly into Star Treks (<em>like many people used to think about 21st century</em>). Battery life, signal strength, usability, portability and one in all that Nokia always tried to make (<em>hope that this hunger will never stop</em>) always been and must be the prime elements that gonna to stay here always when we talk about Smart Phones. So, I will try to revolve my thoughts around the same and will keep it centered around what really seems to be possible after 10 years.</p> <p></p> <hr /> <p></p> <p align="justify"><strong>Battery Life: </strong>The future will be sure of such device that would be running insanely longer without any <a href="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/battery.png"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 10px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="battery" border="0" alt="battery" align="right" src="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/battery_thumb.png" width="140" height="97" /></a> restrictions. We reached up to 15-16 hours of talk time, but still this will be a place, where people will be looking for in future. Taking the idea from Quartz based wrist watches, I really think that something could be devised that would be running from body heat or movements coz this would be a thing that will sustain for sure than anything else like Sun, Atomic energy or anything else. More of it, this would be a step towards Eco device as well.</p> <blockquote> <p align="justify"><em>Just think, you will not be needed to charge your phone or replace your batteries for very long like you don’t do with your wrist watches. You will never cry on switched off phones in odd places.</em></p> </blockquote> <p></p> <hr /> <p></p> <p align="justify"><strong>Signal Strength: </strong>Connecting people … been the slogan of Nokia and so Nokia always worked upon <a href="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/signal_strength_bar2.png"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 10px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Signal_Strength_Bar-2" border="0" alt="Signal_Strength_Bar-2" align="right" src="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/signal_strength_bar2_thumb.png" width="136" height="136" /></a> presenting devices with legendary signal reception. But still all been dependent of service provider all the time. We watched people in movies crying over signal reception just like the way we find ourselves out of battery in crucial occasions. Obviously, the thing that needed to be evolved most.</p> <p align="justify">Considering the step taken with Nokia N900, VOIP is sure a core of future technology and extending the same in future context, technology should evolve in a way that connects each global connections in the same way (<em>something like we seen in </em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antitrust_(film)"><em>Anti-Trust</em></a><em> movie</em>). Something that could make use of radio connections, TV signals, Wi-fi signals or anything like that in the same way for powerful voice conversations or data usages. Something such will reduce the dependencies over service provider signals and roaming issues as everything will be combined and providers will be earning money through cloud usages only.</p> <blockquote> <p align="justify"><em>just think, you will not be needed to worry about if that place, you wanna go will make you out of signal reception or you would be paying for higher if travelled in some other country. You are connected, no matter where ever you are.</em></p> </blockquote> <p></p> <hr /> <p></p> <p align="justify"><strong>Usability & Portability: </strong>The way of using phones has changed a lot since the first telephonic conversations<a href="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/ericsson_spider_computer_02.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 10px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="ericsson_spider_computer_02" border="0" alt="ericsson_spider_computer_02" align="right" src="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/ericsson_spider_computer_02_thumb.jpg" width="140" height="104" /></a> started. Not long, when we were used to wait outside the PCOs for our turn in night after 11PM for some cheaper calls or the time, when we were needed to call the operator to book some long distance call or those old phones, we were needed to move the ring in rounds to dial some number. Starting from getting slim phones, now its all being changed into touch phone and qwerty era. One can never be assured that what the next turn the technology will take and what users will like in next.</p> <p align="justify">We seen <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minority_Report_(film)">Minority Reports</a> movie and the way, Tom Cruise interacted with machines there. We started getting such cameras in market that are having inbuilt projectors. Sure one can think about a future where dialing number would be more of voice based than any touch or press interface itself or even combination of all such input methods. Voice recognition technologies are evolving and same time processing power of Smart Phones too. Its very realistic to think about such a time when dialing would be having plenty of options like voice commands, a projected screen in air that could take any size you wanted (<em>like some from 3.5 to 10 meters</em>). Even one could think of tiny Bluetooth headset or of any other technology then, which will remove the necessity of using hands completely.</p> <p align="justify">Such flexible devices could be wrapped around your wrist, may be part of your color or anything like that (<em>as you seen in the concept future Laptops</em>) and the concept of cloud could extend things in a way that even phones wont matter about connecting people and the device we would be having then would be kind of some universal nature. Whole data like your contacts, SMS, music contents and even call history etc will be saved in cloud only (<em>depending upon evolved connectivity then</em>).</p> <blockquote> <p align="justify"><em>Just think, with the same device you would be calling someone, doing presentations at office and even using as personal theater at home. Never using hands for calling and provided evolved video calling then maybe not even voice if required at occasions. You would be carrying the same like regular dressing coz you have not to worry about its size, not to worry about its battery and not even needs to be worried about connectivity.</em></p> </blockquote> <p align="justify"></p> <p></p> <hr /> <p></p> <p align="justify">Really so many thoughts in mind, but summarizing into a few points … </p> <p align="justify">What I see in #FutureNokia is</p> <ol></ol> <ol> <li> <div align="justify">Seamless connectivity over any available global connection like TV/Radio signals</div> </li> <li> <div align="justify">Addition of projectors in Smart Phones (its high time to introduce one as cameras already did) </div> </li> <li> <div align="justify">Batteries that could run unusually long over Human body movement or heat etc</div> </li> <li> <div align="justify">Use of flexible displays to make the device settle down in untraditional places</div> </li> <li> <div align="justify">Consistent experience over device due to cloud technology.</div> </li> </ol> <p align="justify"><a href="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/futuresearch52.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="future-search5-2" border="0" alt="future-search5-2" src="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/futuresearch52_thumb.jpg" width="320" height="320" /></a>Though it wont be part of the competition as the competition actually needs hand drawn, photoshoped or anything like such drawing to be submitted that how the device will ‘look like’ not what it’ll be, but I am happy with sharing my thoughts only.</p> <p></p> <hr /> <p></p> <p align="justify">More than the competition itself, the thought really touched me more and sent me back there in my teenage <a href="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/kid_dreaming.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 10px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="kid_dreaming" border="0" alt="kid_dreaming" align="right" src="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/kid_dreaming_thumb.jpg" width="223" height="174" /></a> when I was like 12-13 years and with one of my friend from a big wrist watch shop, I was used to dream about future things, those common fantasies like we were able to disappear, if we were able to travel faster than thoughts, if we were able to make a home, where there were so many mirrors placed in a way that even light get trapped for more than 12 hours and we were able to enjoy daylight even at night time without spending anything. We were used to use tiny motors from watches for making fans or button based curtain openers for woody little houses we were making, were used to take part in showcasing toys in dynamic manner in front of public using so many little tricks with electronic parts.</p> <blockquote> <p align="justify">Oh… those days.. one get trapped if starts thinking about them, but still I think that we were used to be more creative then or thoughts were more fresh than any mature one ever could have. I really think that Nokia should open some kind of competition for kids in the same way to know that which design will be cool. 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Well verse with even software terms being a Software Engineering Post Graduate, current having a career in Server Administration.</div>Nitish Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767066705344147713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5602353991214839121.post-80589790087296556832010-04-15T12:24:00.001+05:302010-04-15T12:24:07.977+05:30Kartik Calling Kartik Movie review<div class="wlWriterHeaderFooter" style="float:none; margin:0px; padding:0px 0px 0px 0px;">[tweetmeme source="mrnitishkumar" only_single="false"]</div> <p style="text-align:left;" class="getsocial"><a title="Add to Google Buzz" href="http://www.google.com/reader/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnitishkumar.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F04%2F09%2Fkartik-calling-kartik-movie-review%2F&title=Kartik%20Calling%20Kartik%20Movie%20review&snippet=Add%20a%20description&srcURL=http%3A%2F%2Fnitishkumar.wordpress.com&srcTitle=nitishkumar.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img style="display:inline;border-width:0;margin:5px 0 5px 10px;padding:0;" alt="Add to Google Buzz" align="right" src="http://getsocialserver.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/gsgb2.png" width="50" height="50" /></a></p> <p align="justify">Didn’t it took me longer to write review over some movie again. Look like now days, I am writing too many things but this part of me been away for a while.</p> <p align="justify">The above is not exactly true as in all of my last reviews, I mentioned that I come to write over something only if it touches me in that way and so this explains why not so many reviews over movies from my side even if I kept a separate category for it. Anyway … let me start with the special one.</p> <p><hr /></p> <p align="justify">Starting with lines that I am happy for Hindi Cinema coz they started making movies differently, been so common about my reviews. The reason is simple, they really started doing this otherwise, we would not have been to get <strong>Kartik Calling Kartik</strong> kind of movie surfaced on the screen. Its one of those movie, which plays in your mind and makes you think rather than staying on the screen only and sure had the reasons to make it into my <a href="http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com/category/nitish-kumar/hindi-movies/">movie reviews collection.</a></p> <p align="justify"><a href="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/karthik_calling_karthik_pic.jpg"><img style="display:block;float:none;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;border-width:0;" title="Karthik_Calling_Karthik_pic" border="0" alt="Karthik_Calling_Karthik_pic" src="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/karthik_calling_karthik_pic_thumb.jpg" width="270" height="378" /></a></p> <blockquote><p> <hr /><strong>Title: </strong>Kartik Calling Kartik <br /> <strong>Release Date: </strong>26 February 2010 <br /> <strong>Distributed by: </strong>Excel Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. <br /> <strong>Writer & Director: </strong>Vijay Lalwani <br /> <strong>Editor:</strong> Aarti Bajaj <br /> <strong>Producer: </strong>Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani <br /> <strong>Executive Producer: </strong>Miriam Joseph <br /> <strong>Music: </strong>Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy <br /> <strong>Cinematography: </strong>Sanu Varghese <br /> <strong>Lyrics :</strong> Javed Akhtar <br /> <strong>Cast: </strong>Farhan Akhtar, Deepika Padukone, Ram Kapoor, Shefali Shah, Vipin Sharma and others <hr /></p></blockquote> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">Kartik, an ordinary boy next door, bullied by his house owner, being abused by his boss, topic of fun between officemates and a shy lover, who will never tell her … he buys a landline phone having no idea that it will change his life forever. Kartik calls Kartik … no .. its not some other Kartik, but he hear himself, no … not his conscience, but his actual voice on phone. He tried to investigate from exchange as well, but they say no calls made to him … Can you believe it?</p> <blockquote> <p align="justify">How’s that possible? Is someone playing with him? Is he insane? If so, then how others heard the same call in front of himself sitting quiet? Is there any ghost? Supernatural? What is it?</p> </blockquote> <p align="justify">The puzzle goes long, the Kartik on the other side, changes the life of Kartik dramatically. The loser guy becomes successful and even gets his girl. He was top of the world, keeping a little secret inside himself. <strong>Kartik calls Kartik</strong> …. What if he reveal the secret?? He does it and whole little world of him flips down. Kartik on the other side, takes it to kill him, to destroy him. He run.. run to somewhere no one can find him, much far from the place he always lived in, some address even he don’t know. Can he run from him??? Find out by watching the movie itself… believe me this worth it.</p> <p><hr /></p> <p align="justify">Keep suspense a side, the story tells us the ancient truth that somewhere answers to all of our questions lie within us. No one else could show us a better path than our self coz no one knows you more. The same things changes in yours favour when you start looking over them differently. Watch the movie and think once in this way.</p> <div class="vcard"><img style="float:left;margin-right:4px;" class="photo" alt="photo of Nitish Kumar" src="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/232.jpg?w=76&h=47&h=82" /><span class="fn n"><span class="given-name">Nitish</span> <span class="given-family">Kumar</span> </span> <div><a class="url" href="http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com">http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com</a></div> <div><a href="http://scifireviews.wordpress.com">http://scifireviews.wordpress.com</a> </div> <div><a href="http://nitishkumarsays.blogspot.com">http://nitishkumarsays.blogspot.com</a></div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div></div> </div> <p style="text-align:left;" class="getsocial"><a title="Add to Facebook" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com/2010/04/09/kartik-calling-kartik-movie-review/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img style="border-width:0;margin:0;padding:0;" alt="Add to Facebook" src="http://getsocialserver.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/gs3011.png" /></a><a title="Add to Digg" href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnitishkumar.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F04%2F09%2Fkartik-calling-kartik-movie-review%2F&title=Kartik%20Calling%20Kartik%20Movie%20review" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img style="border-width:0;margin:0;padding:0;" alt="Add to Digg" src="http://getsocialserver.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/gs3021.png" /></a><a title="Add to Del.icio.us" href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnitishkumar.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F04%2F09%2Fkartik-calling-kartik-movie-review%2F&title=Kartik%20Calling%20Kartik%20Movie%20review" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img style="border-width:0;margin:0;padding:0;" alt="Add to Del.icio.us" src="http://getsocialserver.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/gs3031.png" /></a><a title="Add to Stumbleupon" href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnitishkumar.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F04%2F09%2Fkartik-calling-kartik-movie-review%2F&title=Kartik%20Calling%20Kartik%20Movie%20review" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img style="border-width:0;margin:0;padding:0;" alt="Add to Stumbleupon" src="http://getsocialserver.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/gs3041.png" /></a><a title="Add to Reddit" href="http://reddit.com/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnitishkumar.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F04%2F09%2Fkartik-calling-kartik-movie-review%2F&title=Kartik%20Calling%20Kartik%20Movie%20review" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img style="border-width:0;margin:0;padding:0;" alt="Add to Reddit" src="http://getsocialserver.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/gs3051.png" /></a><a title="Add to Blinklist" href="http://www.blinklist.com/index.php?Action=Blink/addblink.php&Description=&Url=http%3A%2F%2Fnitishkumar.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F04%2F09%2Fkartik-calling-kartik-movie-review%2F&Title=Kartik%20Calling%20Kartik%20Movie%20review" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img style="border-width:0;margin:0;padding:0;" alt="Add to Blinklist" src="http://getsocialserver.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/gs3061.png" /></a><a title="Add to Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/home/?status=Kartik%20Calling%20Kartik%20Movie%20review+%40+http%3A%2F%2Fnitishkumar.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F04%2F09%2Fkartik-calling-kartik-movie-review%2F" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img style="border-width:0;margin:0;padding:0;" alt="Add to Twitter" src="http://getsocialserver.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/gs3071.png" /></a><a title="Add to Technorati" href="http://www.technorati.com/faves?add=http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com/2010/04/09/kartik-calling-kartik-movie-review/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img style="border-width:0;margin:0;padding:0;" alt="Add to Technorati" src="http://getsocialserver.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/gs3081.png" /></a><a title="Add to Yahoo Buzz" href="http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzz?targetUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fnitishkumar.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F04%2F09%2Fkartik-calling-kartik-movie-review%2F&headline=Kartik%20Calling%20Kartik%20Movie%20review" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img style="border-width:0;margin:0;padding:0;" alt="Add to Yahoo Buzz" src="http://getsocialserver.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/gs3091.png" /></a><a title="Add to Newsvine" href="http://www.newsvine.com/_wine/save?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnitishkumar.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F04%2F09%2Fkartik-calling-kartik-movie-review%2F&h=Kartik%20Calling%20Kartik%20Movie%20review" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img style="border-width:0;margin:0;padding:0;" alt="Add to Newsvine" src="http://getsocialserver.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/gs3101.png" /></a></p><p></p><div class="wlWriterHeaderFooter" style="text-align:right; margin:0px; padding:4px 0px 4px 0px;"><a href="http://digg.com/submit?url=http%3a%2f%2fnitishkumarsays.blogspot.com%2f2010%2f04%2fkartik-calling-kartik-movie-review.html&title=Kartik+Calling+Kartik+Movie+review"><img src="http://digg.com/img/badges/100x20-digg-button.png" width="100" height="20" alt="Digg This" title="Digg This" border="0" style="border: 0" /></a></div> <div class="blogger-post-footer">The author is working in Tech Infrastructure (Windows/ Linux) since last five years and always eager to accept new and innovative ideas over technology. Well verse with even software terms being a Software Engineering Post Graduate, current having a career in Server Administration.</div>Nitish Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767066705344147713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5602353991214839121.post-83982716783174967032010-04-15T12:20:00.001+05:302010-04-15T12:20:50.069+05:30Neeraj Publications-Arrogance take you nowhere<div class="wlWriterHeaderFooter" style="float:none; margin:0px; padding:0px 0px 0px 0px;">[tweetmeme source="mrnitishkumar" only_single="false"]</div><p style="text-align: left" class="getsocial"><a title="Add to Google Buzz" href="http://www.google.com/reader/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnitishkumar.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F04%2F09%2Fneeraj-publications-arrogance-take-you-nowhere%2F&title=Neeraj%20Publications-Arrogance%20take%20you%20nowhere&snippet=Add%20a%20description&srcURL=http%3A%2F%2Fnitishkumar.wordpress.com&srcTitle=nitishkumar.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img style="padding-bottom: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" alt="Add to Google Buzz" align="right" src="http://getsocialserver.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/gsgb2.png" width="50" height="50" /></a></p> <blockquote> <p align="justify">It would never been the case that I might be writing over some particular shop or misbehave of employees there coz I understand the way things work. Acts of individuals should not be linked with the reputation of shop/ enterprise itself, but still thought to make a point over online bookings or book shops might be working.</p> </blockquote> <p align="justify">I been fond of reading books but sure not like those big ones, who can be found living with lots of books at <a href="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/books.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 10px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="books" border="0" alt="books" align="right" src="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/books_thumb.jpg" width="91" height="84" /></a> home. On the contrary, you wont find any books at my place as whatever I buy, get borrowed or gifted away soon as I repeat read books only over years. But, I am sure one of those many crying out there for the fact that we don’t find enough buyers or readers for books and only those books make through reach public, which might have been pushed a little bit by media or some award that might have got. But let me share a few experiences here to tell you all why books stay far from reach …</p> <p></p> <hr /> <p></p> <blockquote> <p align="justify">My experience is very ordinary and could easily be defended by the Book Shop itself saying that its not possible to please everyone, but still what a helpless buyer could be doing than just making a point …</p> </blockquote> <p align="justify">The matter was just simple.. my sis called me for some IGNOU books from Mumbai. Unfortunately, even <a href="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/delivery_man_coolclips_vc012362.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 10px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="delivery_man_CoolClips_vc012362" border="0" alt="delivery_man_CoolClips_vc012362" align="right" src="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/delivery_man_coolclips_vc012362_thumb.jpg" width="175" height="218" /></a> though important, sometimes, its hard to find these books on common bookshops. Searching leads to you a name <a href="http://www.neerajbooks.com/">Neeraj Books, New Delhi</a> and that’s the reason I got call as I live in Laxmi Nagar, New Delhi now days. This isn’t been the first occasion, I got a similar request in late 2009, somewhere in November. Will also mention that but bad part first ..</p> <p align="justify">Having a pretty busy schedule and life, sometimes, it doesn’t allow me to drive all over to the shop myself, which is just 9 kms from here I guess (<em>though on opposite route, where I don’t go most of the time</em>). I preferred to order over phone and web both the times. Last time, I dropped a mail to <a href="mailto:info@neerajbooks.com">info@neerajbooks.com</a> and also placed an order through their site, but no one came up. I called up them and after dozens of time, when someone picked up then I was to know that it would take at least 15 days to get those books delivered to me. Great!!!!</p> <blockquote> <p align="justify"><strong>Interesting to hear.</strong> I have got my Laptop delivered to me from UK all the way within seven days, I got Nokia Trial devices from WomWorld, London within three days twice and here where I don’t even get confirmation or some kind of tracking about order status, I am supposed to wait for 15 days just for knowing that if books are available, will be sent or whatever… ?? Make sense??</p> </blockquote> <p align="justify">I was annoyed even that time too… but somehow my phone was picked by some decent man, who was able to reach out to Laxmi Nagar itself. First I discussed with him about the option that if I could send the book directly to Mumbai if its gonna take the same time, but it was he, who came out with the option that as he know the area, he could himself deliver the books to me. I was sure happy with that and I got the books in two days only as it was man-to-man delivery otherwise I was struggling through channels.</p> <p align="justify"></p> <p></p> <hr /> <p></p> <p align="justify">Its true that you can’t be lucky all the times to meet the right man and it has to do more with the system itself. Whenever, you are making some site and placing some kind of order system, you need to be prompt about mailing things and also need to make sure that each request get attended and replied in real time otherwise, no point of having such a website, you are wasting time of customer.</p> <p align="justify">Yes!! Your guess is right, I was not lucky this time. I talked to them over phone and asked if I could buy some <a href="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/begging.gif"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 10px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="begging" border="0" alt="begging" align="right" src="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/begging_thumb.gif" width="181" height="190" /></a> books and they said Ok.. I mentioned that I could order from site, they said that would be better and books could be delivered easily as you are talking about a nearby and familiar place Laxmi Nagar. I placed the order and later when I tried to confirm the same (<em>as I got no acknowledgement of my mail or even of order that I submitted through order form on their site)</em>, then someone on their side replied that it will take at least 15 days. I said at least I could be acknowledged and why should it take this much time, when its a local delivery only?</p> <blockquote> <p align="justify">I got the arrogant reply back that <strong>I should buy the books from any shop in Laxmi nagar itself</strong>. I was just shocked on the words spoken. Thanks.. it seems that you are really doing kind of some social service for free that gives you right to say that to a customer. No wonder that books are still far from reach even in the era of online purchases.</p> </blockquote> <p align="justify">Unfortunately, I have no other option left than taking an off from my office, drive to Neeraj Books and buy the books all by myself rather than relying on this online purchase way. Hope will do that today or tomorrow …</p> <p></p> <hr /> <p></p> <p align="justify">I also had similar experiences, when tried to buy books for myself earlier from Rajkamal Prakashan, but those people weren’t arrogant like this even when they had monopoly in same way. That time I was buying <strong>Chandrakanta Santati (6 Parts). </strong>I order through online and I got followed over phone and even intimated that books are not available right now, but will be back to tell you once new prints will be available. Though before new prints might have came, I found it from other shop two parts in some other print and rest four in other. So the story ended, but still I get newsletters from Raj Kamal Prakashan.</p> <p align="justify">I think that’s the way someone communicate with customers not the way, Neeraj Books take thinking that people have to come to them in anyway. Someone should team them a lesson for sure …</p> <p align="justify"><strong>Update 1: </strong>while writing the blog post, I wrote to them on April 09, 2010 …</p> <p></p> <hr /> <p></p> <blockquote> <p>Writing though I don't think that anyone read this. Will post at right place for sure.</p> <p>Thanks for the <strong>arrogant conversation</strong> I had with someone from yours side on number <strong>91-11-23260329, </strong>that <strong>"I should buy the book from somewhere else if in hurry"</strong>, when I was just enquiring about status of my order, which I didn't got confirmed.</p> <p>I am really not sure about the process you have in your place or the esclation matrix, you might be following for the complaints. definitely one could buy the books from somewhere else and having the books with you don't make you priviledged to treat the orders in this way.</p> </blockquote> <p>Got the below given tailor made reply from their side finally by today April 10, 2010, after my furious mail mentioned above …</p> <p></p> <hr /> <p></p> <blockquote> <p>----- Original Message -----</p> <p><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:info@neerajbooks.com">Neeraj Publications</a></p> <p><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:mr.nitish.kumar@gmail.com">mr.nitish.kumar@gmail.com</a></p> <p><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, April 10, 2010 1:49 PM</p> <p><b>Subject:</b> NEERAJ BOOKS</p> <p>Dear Nitish Kumar, <br /><strong>The following is the response against your enquiry:</strong> <br />Please read the following carefully. <br /><strong>Message:</strong> The following is the reponse you have to look at: <br />Sir We are highly delighted to receive your Order of our NEERAJ BOOKS and are thankful for the same. We also let you know that your required NEERAJ BOOKS are available with us and Would be sent to you through V.P.P. Post Parcel Nearly with in 8 - 10 days and it takes atleast 10 - 12 days in the postal service to reach your destination. If you still have any other inquiry or want to get any other information about NEERAJ BOOKS then you may Email us at info@neerajbooks.com We assure you that we would try to provide you best of our co-operation and service as we feel that your satisfaction is our duty.</p> <p><strong>Thanking you </strong> <br />With Regards <br />NEERAJ PUBLICATIONS <br />(An ISO 9001:2008 Certified Com.) <br />1507 ,Ist Floor Nai Sarak , <br />Delhi - 110006 , <br />INDIA Ph. - 91-11-23260329, 69414105 Fax -91-11- 23285501 <br />website <a href="http://www.neerajbooks.com">www.neerajbooks.com</a> <br />Email: info@neerajbooks.com</p> <p></p> <hr /> <br />Have a nice day friend! <br />© <a href="http://ignou.neerajbooks.com">ignou.neerajbooks.com</a> 2009-10. All rights reserved. Powered by <a href="http://economicalhost.com">Web Hosting India</a>. <p></p> </blockquote> <p align="justify">I have replied that I will buy the books from some local shop in that case. Still I am helpless coz know that it wouldn’t be that easy to find the books from somewhere else and I have to drive to the bookshop finally. :(</p> <p align="justify"><strong>Update 2: </strong>Someone from Neeraj Books contacted me today morning 8:40 AM, April 13, 2010. Informed that out of 7, 4 books are available with them and as the delivery address is local, they could manage to deliver the books personally. That was what I expected at the first place. Not sure that I was talking to the same person, I talked in last instance or in the instance months back.</p> <p align="justify">Still issue is with timings, as most of the times, I remain in office. 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Well verse with even software terms being a Software Engineering Post Graduate, current having a career in Server Administration.</div>Nitish Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767066705344147713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5602353991214839121.post-10652243153007141662010-04-15T12:14:00.001+05:302010-04-15T12:14:22.217+05:30Anyone noticed improved IPL telecast on YouTube?<div class="wlWriterHeaderFooter" style="float:none; margin:0px; padding:0px 0px 0px 0px;">[tweetmeme source="mrnitishkumar" only_single="false"]</div><p style="text-align: left" class="getsocial"><a title="Add to Google Buzz" href="http://www.google.com/reader/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnitishkumar.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F04%2F08%2Fanyone-noticed-improved-ipl-telecast-on-youtube%2F&title=Anyone%20noticed%20improved%20IPL%20telecast%20on%20YouTube%3F&snippet=Add%20a%20description&srcURL=http%3A%2F%2Fnitishkumar.wordpress.com&srcTitle=nitishkumar.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img style="padding-bottom: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" alt="Add to Google Buzz" align="right" src="http://getsocialserver.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/gsgb3.png" width="50" height="50" /></a></p> <blockquote> <p align="justify">Just noticed something while watching Delhi Dardevils Vs Kolkata Knight Riders on YouTube/IPL. YouTube seems to have made some serious changes for live telecast since April 07, 2010 or two three days before. The video quality has really improved a lot in resolutions and the improvement is no way lesser that one wont notice. Not sure about the technical details as unable to find any mention on their own site. But its really a welcome step.</p> </blockquote> <p align="justify">Don’t know its due to the fact that I am getting past of teenage or the fact that losing game to Bangladesh in last World Cup made many of Indians not that much interested in Cricket anymore, but it’s is true that these are sure not those days, when I am very much involved in each bit of cricket as I was earlier used to be. Could say lack of cable at home now days might be added in to the same. With Live Telecast of IPL in this season, Youtube/Google really have connected many like me back to Cricket again.</p> <p></p> <hr /> <p></p> <p align="justify">Even then I can’t assure that I always surf YouTube/IPL page in time with start of the match everyday, but when yesterday I did the same then a pleasant surprise was waiting for me there. The quality was exactly something like might have been that of any TV Telecast. I was really up to asking that when does this happened. Even YouTube controls were different than usual (Will add screenshot of controls later) Check out ..</p> <p align="justify"><a href="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/youtube1.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="Youtube1" border="0" alt="Youtube1" src="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/youtube1_thumb.jpg" width="520" height="413" /></a></p> <p align="justify">I am on 22” TFT+MTNL 3G+ NVidia 8600, but don’t think these things do anything much special about YouTube broadcast, but really owe you Google. :)</p> <div class="vcard"><img style="float: left; margin-right: 4px" class="photo" alt="photo of Nitish Kumar" src="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/232.jpg?w=76&h=47&h=82" /><span class="fn n"><span class="given-name">Nitish</span> <span class="given-family">Kumar</span> </span> <div><a class="url" href="http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com">http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com</a></div> <div><a href="http://scifireviews.wordpress.com">http://scifireviews.wordpress.com</a></div> <div><a href="http://nitishkumarsays.blogspot.com">http://nitishkumarsays.blogspot.com</a></div> <div> </div> <div> </div> </div> <p style="text-align: left" class="getsocial"><a title="Add to Facebook" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com/2010/04/08/anyone-noticed-improved-ipl-telecast-on-youtube/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img style="padding-bottom: 0px; 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Well verse with even software terms being a Software Engineering Post Graduate, current having a career in Server Administration.</div>Nitish Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767066705344147713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5602353991214839121.post-29611769028484757962010-04-06T09:32:00.001+05:302010-04-06T09:32:37.285+05:30Whats wrong with Social Services of Google?<div class="wlWriterHeaderFooter" style="float:none; margin:0px; padding:0px 0px 0px 0px;">[tweetmeme source="mrnitishkumar" only_single="false"]</div><p style="text-align: left" class="getsocial"><a title="Add to Google Buzz" href="http://www.google.com/reader/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnitishkumar.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F04%2F03%2Fno-reasons-to-turn-off-google-buzz%2F&title=Whats%20wrong%20with%20Social%20Services%20of%20Google&snippet=Add%20a%20description&srcURL=http%3A%2F%2Fnitishkumar.wordpress.com&srcTitle=nitishkumar.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img style="padding-bottom: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" alt="Add to Google Buzz" align="right" src="http://getsocialserver.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/gsgb4.png" width="50" height="50" /></a></p> <blockquote> <p align="justify">It disappoints you when you get to see nice innovations not catching up that faster than they should have. I was under huge disappointment, when come to see Google wave not taking off the hood that well and even when its for sure that Google Buzz is here to stay, it annoy you a little that why its not catching up that faster.</p> </blockquote> <p align="justify"><strong>What wrong with technically the best services of Google in social department?</strong></p> <p align="justify">A question that’s been repeatedly asked and attempted to be answered so many times in so many ways still <a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S7qyHZm-4bI/AAAAAAAABK4/ZotX1_ctmRQ/s1600-h/workinprogress6.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 10px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="work-in-progress" border="0" alt="work-in-progress" align="right" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S7qyIC6kcVI/AAAAAAAABK8/YBQfRJaaFxM/workinprogress_thumb4.jpg?imgmax=800" width="91" height="91" /></a> remained confusing. A company, who seems to have best moral grounds and respect among users all around the globe, a way of thinking that always seems to be working for betterment of technology and pushing the standards up, a technical leadership, which always believed in simplicity yet the best practices and at the end, owner of something called close to God Google’s Search, which tends to knowing people’s habits more than anything else in the world. Still the company not rising that big on social fronts? Why?</p> <p></p> <hr /> <p></p> <p align="justify"><strong>Just trying to think.. recollecting facts … not suggesting … not answering</strong></p> <ol> <li> <div align="justify">Blogger has much support and options than Wordpress, still Wordpress rules big time.</div> </li> <li> <div align="justify">Orkut been more simpler, cleaner and centered around people more than the business/ advertising, but still it not catching up big time against Facebook or MySpace.</div> </li> <li> <div align="justify">Social Connect and FriendFeed been around with nice features, but no one seems to know much about them not even names.</div> </li> <li> <div align="justify">Google Wave was a path breaking and real huge thing happened to this century, but still …</div> </li> <li> <div align="justify">Google Buzz was way better than Twitter or Facebook status updates, if we count on specifications sheet, but still it seems to loosing battle against Twitter.</div> </li> </ol> <p></p> <hr /> <p></p> <p align="justify"><strong>Then why so many ‘failures’ whenever Google attempts some social thing?</strong></p> <ul> <li> <div align="justify">Is the answer lies in their most successful service Google Search itself?</div> </li> <li> <div align="justify">What if its Google’s obsession with cloud computing and unification of services, which holds them back from thinking outside the box?</div> </li> <li> <div align="justify">Is the reason, is compatibility issues that take time with their <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Google">64 acquisitions</a> till now?</div> </li> </ul> <p></p> <hr /> <p></p> <p align="justify">All of the above may seem to be random and somehow irrelevant with the current discussion na… let me explain each.</p> <p align="justify"><strong><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S7qyJOExw3I/AAAAAAAABLA/PmBV16cJlV0/s1600-h/google_god3.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="google_god" border="0" alt="google_god" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S7qyKMAcmpI/AAAAAAAABLE/zXWQmsCI-IY/google_god_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="264" height="209" /></a> </strong><strong>Why I am pointing over the most sane thing ever happened?</strong></p> <blockquote> <p align="justify">Issue is that their programmers and other people involved are kind of devotee for Google like anyone on this planet and sometimes it hinders with ability to think outside or against the main philosophy that may be laid by top management that “<em>Let the consumer use the thing in simplest way, all complications we will handle free of  cost</em>” Philosophy is great, Simplicity is great, but the problem is - <strong>Everything is not a Google Search.</strong></p> </blockquote> <p align="justify">You may not decide what would be the best for users. You have hands on almost each service in the world,  but you cant keep on suggesting people to use them at the first place before you mature each of them to stand on their own. I know many would say that Google does allow other services more than any other company in the world, but still I am making my point here ..</p> <blockquote> <p align="justify">One example is <strong>Wordpress Vs Blogger</strong>; Acquisition from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyra_Labs">Pyra Labs</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogger_(service)">Blogger</a> seems to be most flexible blogging platform on the planet for people, who are happy with writing and don’t even want to own a domain. you can make use of all kind of scripts, insert any kind of custom code, add other Google services and even write and use your own theme yourself. Then why wordpress still known as the best platform for blogging?</p> </blockquote> <p align="justify"><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S7qyK8uNjzI/AAAAAAAABLI/gBokxRBrPLQ/s1600-h/BloggerWordpressConversion3.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="Blogger-Wordpress-Conversion" border="0" alt="Blogger-Wordpress-Conversion" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S7qyL60zLWI/AAAAAAAABLM/CnETq-VEAbw/BloggerWordpressConversion_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="264" height="184" /></a> Sometimes initiatives and one product centered approach wins over projects with bigger potential and bigger resources. Wordpress has established the whole system with involvement of other companies as well, while Google thinks that we have options in our own domain itself then why go outside? What’s point of not providing support to import whole blog to port on Wordpress or others? What’s point in letting users resister their domain names with Google only? What’s point in keeping just a few very basic themes on showcase thinking that users will do everything? Why no inbuilt tool for stats? Why can’t one webmaster change the content of comments to strip out abusive content?</p> <p align="justify">Once you start using Blogger, you really find that its best thing to go with, but not in first glance itself. Sometimes, I feels that flexibility should be matched well by offering excellent example/ templates and it should not only be on users and third party developers to evolve over the platform, but one should keep himself running in the race. There are some excellent themes and options with Blogger, but none of them are on showcase, like Google don’t wanna save itself from responsibility after putting other’s work on showcase. This doesn’t suit a beginner.</p> <p align="justify"><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S7qyMkQs7hI/AAAAAAAABLQ/l4R3fsRqrRY/s1600-h/twitterorkutfacebook3.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="twitter-orkut-facebook" border="0" alt="twitter-orkut-facebook" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S7qyNcUZ_VI/AAAAAAAABLU/ADIMr7oTRAg/twitterorkutfacebook_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="264" height="203" /></a></p> <blockquote> <p align="justify">Same with <strong>Facebook Vs Orkut; </strong>Google’s initial hesitations from advertising inside Orkut due to inputs from overly cluttered interface of Facebook and MySpace cost its being first choice for third party developer doing their work for money. That kept the concept of Social Networking sane, when Zyanga with its games like Farmvilla and Mafia Wars etc attracts 80% of Facebook, then one really come to rethink that if the strategy to keep the place personal only was helping at first place?</p> </blockquote> <p align="justify">I still love Orkut and still know, the traffic to Orkut is true traffic rather than that of game freaks (<em>the case with Facebook</em>), who will sooner or later get bored with games and then will be frustrated that there is nothing like friend updates in Facebook, but just Farmvilla updates…. but still I wish to ask question that why Google failed to bring more developers in orkut? Simplicity may not be the best policy always.</p> <p></p> <hr /> <p></p> <p align="justify"><strong>Cloud Computing: </strong>Somewhere we don’t see what Google might be seeing for future. Google’s each move heads towards cloud computing. Similar things were started from Microsoft, who wanted to place best solutions for everything that a user might ask for, but now Google seems to be more aggressive on the same front.</p> <blockquote> <p align="justify">Google is heading to the topology of “<strong><em>One Account for all</em></strong>” and their recent <a href="http://devworks.thinkdigit.com//Internet/Google-introduces-OAuth-authentication-for-IMAP-and_4322.html">XOAuth step</a> seems to be right step in right direction. They already have placed all common services on cloud, be it search, mails, blogging, news, feeds, photos, maps, friends, entertainment or anything one do with computers. Chrome OS meant to be the gate of cloud computing, where one login will make you working from anywhere and from any device.</p> </blockquote> <p align="justify">Yes! they had removed the necessity of having a Google Account for their Chrome OS, but still that clears the intentions. What do you think the Google’s obsession for speed, Launch of Google Docs, which enables you to read all common kind of documents online without any installation, advancement of YouTube and its agreement with Media giants to provide full movies or cricket shows like IPL, Google Books, Google translations and flooding like a rage plugins for Google Chrome; is all random?</p> <blockquote> <p align="justify">Google seems to have learned that sometimes things that come in packages and work decently win over specialized products, examples been Outlook Express and Internet Explorer. The rise of NetBooks and popularity of Google Docs really have made it possible for Business persons doing their work with minimal and cost effective setup. Being comfortable with such a system is the first step towards Cloud Computing and though Microsoft started this, but Google making it a reality for sure.</p> </blockquote> <p align="justify"><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S7qyPDf_6II/AAAAAAAABLY/7BT_8c70Cr0/s1600-h/GoogleAppsEd27170095.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="GoogleAppsEd2-717009" border="0" alt="GoogleAppsEd2-717009" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S7qyRel8r_I/AAAAAAAABLc/DWY91v3EZQ0/GoogleAppsEd2717009_thumb3.jpg?imgmax=800" width="520" height="323" /></a></p> <p align="justify">If we see from Google’s point of view, then it makes sense that you login though one account on Chrome OS and you will get all your work ready for you in the same state, you left it. Either it be your docs, your movies, your social networking with Orkut, your blogging with Blogger, your feeds via Google reader, your status updates via Google Buzz and so on.. moreover, once XOAuth starts working in that direction then it would also be easy to announce that all these services wont be sharing data (<em>that could be a security concerns</em>). Definitely Google understands that most of the users might prefer working with what comes out of box like they did with Internet Explorer or Outlook Express.</p> <p align="justify">But question is, even if you seems to be winning in long run, why not to treat each service separate to make them best on their own? Didn’t Internet Explorer Team working in the same way now? Haven’t people started leaving Internet Explorer at last? </p> <ul> <li> <div align="justify">Orkut is still the best about functionality, just what needed is more attention and more people to it. At least few of giant applications, games etc. </div> </li> <li> <div align="justify">Google Buzz requires celebrities as Twitter is riding on flow of early initiative? It needs to work on integration with services like Twitter is going along with Facebook, Wordpress and all. Definitely its more powerful and APIs are available to do so, but still if developers are not catching, then Google should take it in own hands to make them catch up. How can you think that costly Android devices are enough for spreading Buzz? No apps for Symbian, no integration with Gravity etc and you think that you can make it popular? Think again… </div> </li> <li> <div align="justify">Blogger needs to learn basics from Wordpress. Something like Wordpress.org needed to hand over the whole code to users. More of it, needs to integrate things in a way that one could get things working out of the box, be it states, widgets or professional looking themes? I find lack of flexible themes from Google itself as a major fault, at least should showcase 50-100 themes in dashboard like Wordpress does.</div> </li> </ul> <p align="justify"></p> <hr /> <p></p> <p align="justify"><strong>Acquisitions; are they pose some issues as well?</strong></p> <p align="justify">When you acquire some new company then you mingle with entirely new set of rules that company might be following, a different environment, a different system that might have been crucial for working of the same. Sure,  the pieces don’t fit together that easily, but still users expect a lot. Orkut users expect that why not Picasa albums and Orkut Albums could be combined or have some link between them. Picasa users expect that why they are under 1 GB limit, when Orkut Albums could enjoys around 10, 000 pics means many GBs. I  understand the technical/ administration aspects, know that both of them are different services and acquitted at different times and its never been in Google that you change entire way of working once you take over some company.</p> <p align="justify"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S7qySP9NDwI/AAAAAAAABLg/lHgtibMRk7I/s1600-h/mergers_acquisitions4.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="mergers_acquisitions" border="0" alt="mergers_acquisitions" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S7qyTBkNhtI/AAAAAAAABLk/g76klwtNnGA/mergers_acquisitions_thumb2.jpg?imgmax=800" width="224" height="260" /></a>But users expect as other services from your side already keeping the bar higher. Obviously integrating things asks for compromises as you cant go with downtimes and can’t predict what will be the response, if you come to change something entirely. Obviously acquisitions pose some issues that take a little time to go off and that time might be crucial for an early initiative. </p> <p></p> <hr /> <p></p> <p align="justify">Even after writing this much long, I might not be sure that what other reasons might be, same with Google, I guess. My verdict is Social Services are different in the manner that early initiatives, spreading, integration with other services and reach to mass in simplest manner is what keep them going .. sometimes being technically better might not be sufficient. </p> <p align="justify"><strong>Third party developers</strong> </p> <p align="justify"><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S7qyUKjSORI/AAAAAAAABLo/aM9uq9g4pL8/s1600-h/developersBigPic3.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="developersBigPic" border="0" alt="developersBigPic" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S7qyUy-EizI/AAAAAAAABLs/OFWoyu0u-Wk/developersBigPic_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="264" height="264" /></a>Google needs third party developers a lot. To work over Symbian Apps for their Social Services, to work over engaging applications/ games for Orkut etc. Google Maps is brilliant, Gmail App is cool, but Orkut App is crap in looks as Jad apps might be limited in their functionalities. Needs to come out from the same. Twitter/ Facebook/ LinkedIn all getting apps for Symbian and others to get people catching up with them. You can’t rule out already popular things, if wanna growth of own things. Have to support Symbian Apps. Aren’t Gmail/ Google Maps App been a tremendous success? Being open has made Google a success and that’s what needs to go on.</p> <p align="justify">Requesting others to take part in discussion via comments.</p> <div class="vcard"><img style="float: left; margin-right: 4px" class="photo" alt="photo of Nitish Kumar" src="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/232.jpg?w=76&h=47&h=82" /><span class="fn n"><span class="given-name">Nitish</span> <span class="given-family">Kumar</span> </span> <div><a class="url" href="http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com">http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com</a></div> <div><a href="http://scifireviews.wordpress.com">http://scifireviews.wordpress.com</a></div> <div><a href="http://nitishkumarsays.blogspot.com">http://nitishkumarsays.blogspot.com</a></div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div></div> </div> <p style="text-align: left" class="getsocial"><a title="Add to Facebook" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com/2010/04/03/no-reasons-to-turn-off-google-buzz" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img style="padding-bottom: 0px; 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Well verse with even software terms being a Software Engineering Post Graduate, current having a career in Server Administration.</div>Nitish Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767066705344147713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5602353991214839121.post-20882621731981351172010-04-06T09:29:00.001+05:302010-04-06T09:29:17.117+05:30TweetMeMe Live Writer plugin for Wordpress.com<div class="wlWriterHeaderFooter" style="float:none; margin:0px; padding:0px 0px 0px 0px;">[tweetmeme source="mrnitishkumar" only_single="false"]</div><p style="text-align: left" class="getsocial"><a title="Add to Google Buzz" href="http://www.google.com/reader/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnitishkumar.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F04%2F01%2Ftweetmeme-live-writer-plugin-for-wordpress-com%2F&title=TweetMeMe%20Live%20Writer%20plugin%20for%20WordPress.com&snippet=Add%20a%20description&srcURL=http%3A%2F%2Fnitishkumar.wordpress.com&srcTitle=nitishkumar.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img style="padding-bottom: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" alt="Add to Google Buzz" align="right" src="http://getsocialserver.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/gsgb5.png" width="50" height="50" /></a></p> <blockquote> <p align="justify">Sometimes, we come across really great people just like what happened to me today. Just got a new <strong>TweetMeMe Live Writer Plugin</strong> for wordpress.com instantly made by <a href="http://twitter.com/scottisafool">Scott Lovegrove</a> on my request today. I would also like to thank twitter and the great lady <a href="http://mirellamccracken.wordpress.com/">Mirella McCracken</a> <em>(for providing me early tips on TweetMeMe), </em>which later on connected me to the great Scott. :)</p> </blockquote> <p align="justify"></p> <p></p> <hr /> <p></p> <p align="justify"><strong>My days with Live Writer and its Plugins</strong></p> <p align="justify"><a href="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/livewriter.png"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="Livewriter" border="0" alt="Livewriter" src="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/livewriter_thumb.png" width="264" height="173" /></a> Since I started posting <a href="http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com">my blog posts</a> through <a href="http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/blogging-with-windows-live-editor/">Windows Live Writer</a>, I was searching for more and more plugins to make the life easier for me. Plugins really do much great work for people like me, who don’t want to mess with HTML formatting etc and just want to concentrate over content only. There are a <a href="http://gallery.live.com/results.aspx?bt=9&pl=8">quite a many Live Writer plugins on official site</a> and it was easy to spot them on the first day once I started using Live Writer. Even <a href="http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/blogging-with-windows-live-editor/">mentioned a few</a>, I liked and recommended that time.</p> <p align="justify">Even then it’s been a limited experience about customizations and continued to be so as I am not a professional blogger and was using Wordpress.com, which specifically <a href="http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/">don’t allow JavaScript etc</a> neither its possible to install plugins directly on the site (<em>Though plenty of Themes and settings that makes the Wordpress still the best platform to blog with</em>). </p> <p align="justify">Windows Live Writer was a fresh air for me as it allowed me to do many new things, which were not possible earlier through web way or through Microsoft Word 2007 (<em>which I was using earlier</em>). It was not only generating simple yet efficient HTML codes, but also was free. Options to add as many plugins made it a killer for anything else.</p> <p align="justify"><strong>Twitter and Me</strong></p> <p align="justify">Sometimes, if we don’t use, then we don’t come to know about strength of things. Many people were thinking Orkut and Facebook as waste of time and started loving once used. Same with Twitter. It has became the biggest phenomenon of century, but still I was away from the same as I didn’t thought about whole concept and took it as kind of status update service only. Yes!! it is, but its openness, reach and popularity makes it one of most effective tool on internet.</p> <p align="justify">I started recently with twitter, buzz, facebook and all… sure Twitter still rules..</p> <p><strong>What is TweetMeMe and how the button look like on your blog?<a href="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/twitterbird6300x300.png"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 10px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="twitter-bird-6-300x300" border="0" alt="twitter-bird-6-300x300" align="right" src="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/twitterbird6300x300_thumb.png" width="145" height="145" /></a> </strong></p> <p align="justify"><a href="http://tweetmeme.com/about">TweetMeme</a> is a service which aggregates all the popular links on Twitter to determine which links are popular. TweetMeme categorises these links into Categories, Subcategories and Channels, making it easy to filter out the noise to find what you're interested in.</p> <p align="justify">Twitter been a major source for spreading stories and so a very useful way for blogger for bringing traffic to their blogs. Not only bloggers but readers also get profited by simplicity of the process to spread the good words. The green button would look like something as given on the top of my post.</p> <p></p> <hr /> <p></p> <p><strong>What’s the problem with Live Writer+Wordpress.com+TweetMeMe? <br /></strong><strong>What is the first hand workaround? <br />Scott’s solution</strong></p> <p align="justify">There are quite a many plugins to share your post with public directories and social services and even many are available with your favourite browsers, but that’s about reader. Bloggers love the option to provide their readers simplest way (<em>like a single click</em>) to share the content. TweetMeMe Button seems to be very popular around the bloggers as we see many of the icons on all the blogs. The problem is with Wordpress.com and its <a href="http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/">famous code</a> of not allowing JavaScript etc for security reasons. Most of the TweetMeMe buttons available were with JavaScript or iFrame involvement, all stripped by Wordpress.com even Scott’s earlier plugin <em>(official one till now)</em> too didn’t worked.</p> <p align="justify"><strong>First hand workaround</strong>, I found from <a href="http://mirellamccracken.wordpress.com/">Mirella McCracken</a>’s Blog. The solution was to add one line in the source of every post before posting and the magic line was</p> <p align="justify">tweetmeme source=”<strong>yourtwittername</strong>” only_single=false</p> <p align="justify">Ofcourse, need to change the <strong>yourtwittername </strong>with yours and also opening and ending brackets [].</p> <p align="justify">I started using the same and at the same time <a href="http://twitter.com/mrnitishkumar/status/11410073792">tweetted</a> that if someone has a working plugin? For my surprise, very soon, I got <a href="http://twitter.com/scottisafool/status/11417756490">the reply</a> from the man himself, the writer of the original TweetMeMe plugin from Windows Live Gallery; <a href="http://twitter.com/scottisafool">Scott Lovegrove</a>. In few tweet conversations, he offered me that he could work out a plugin to support wordpress.com as well. I was overwhelmed for sure and was happy to hear if he can. Few mins more and he was right there with a new plugin (<em>not available in Gallery yet</em>) to function in exactly the same manner. Scott is great, Twitter is great, Live Writer is Great!!!!</p> <p></p> <hr /> <p></p> <p><strong>How is work?</strong></p> <p>Its as simple as other plugins,</p> <p>1. Install the MSI</p> <p><a href="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/installed.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Installed" border="0" alt="Installed" src="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/installed_thumb.jpg" width="244" height="190" /></a></p> <p align="justify">2. Configure the options in Live Writer</p> <p align="justify"><a href="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/config.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="config" border="0" alt="config" src="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/config_thumb.jpg" width="248" height="277" /></a></p> <p align="justify">3. It will ask permission once</p> <p align="justify"><a href="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/start.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="start" border="0" alt="start" src="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/start_thumb.jpg" width="244" height="85" /></a></p> <p align="justify">4. While typing the post, if you try to see preview, then you will get this as this works at publish time</p> <p align="justify"><a href="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/preview.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="preview" border="0" alt="preview" src="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/preview_thumb.jpg" width="244" height="65" /></a></p> <p align="justify">5. After publishing, you gonna get a button like this at location you preferred. :)</p> <p align="justify"><a href="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/button.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="button" border="0" alt="button" src="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/button_thumb.jpg" width="121" height="149" /></a></p> <p></p> <hr /> <p></p> <p align="justify">I know <a href="http://blog.tweetmeme.com/2009/07/02/do-you-want-the-tweetmeme-button-on-wordpress-com/">many wanted this to work</a> out of the box and here you go. Not sharing the MSI right now, as waiting for Scott himself to publish the same. Though anyone could contact him directly otherwise, he himself has promised to come up with a blog post and also to push this new one on Live gallery. Worth waiting.</p> <p align="justify">Thanks Scott.. hope I will bug you again ;-)</p> <p align="justify"><strong>Update:</strong></p> <p align="justify">Scott has published the plugin on Live Gallery. Added one more. Find the two links given below</p> <p align="justify"><a href="http://gallery.live.com/LiveItemDetail.aspx?li=741477f1-d3cf-4da3-b9f1-faa05f817ca6">Link 1</a> </p> <p align="justify"><a href="http://gallery.live.com/LiveItemDetail.aspx?li=1f356143-17d1-4a0f-8462-040db74fed58">Link 2</a> (<em>This one will not work with Wordpress.com and is for follow me</em>)</p> <div class="vcard"><img style="float: left; margin-right: 4px" class="photo" alt="photo of Nitish Kumar" src="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/232.jpg?w=76&h=47&h=82" /><span class="fn n"><span class="given-name">Nitish</span> <span class="given-family">Kumar</span> </span> <div><a class="url" href="http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com">http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com</a></div> <div><a href="http://scifireviews.wordpress.com">http://scifireviews.wordpress.com</a></div> <div><a href="http://nitishkumarsays.blogspot.com">http://nitishkumarsays.blogspot.com</a></div> <div> </div> </div> <p style="text-align: left" class="getsocial"><a title="Add to Facebook" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com/2010/04/01/tweetmeme-live-writer-plugin-for-wordpress-com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img style="padding-bottom: 0px; 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Well verse with even software terms being a Software Engineering Post Graduate, current having a career in Server Administration.</div>Nitish Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767066705344147713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5602353991214839121.post-6514392206615701662010-03-31T10:00:00.001+05:302010-03-31T10:00:25.460+05:30Have you ever wrote diaries<div align="justify"> <blockquote> <p>Did you come to see the recently released movie "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karthik_Calling_Karthik">Kartik Calling Kartik</a>"? A ordinary guy, bullied by everyone else around him, all of a sudden find someone telling all the right paths to him and turning miseries of his life overnight into success coming from all over to his ways. Do you know whose voice that was? His own self. Surprised?? You can't be/ shouldn't be, if you ever been in writing diaries.</p> </blockquote> </div> <p align="justify"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S7LPWsOzFgI/AAAAAAAABJw/4ICO8wm6Mu8/s1600-h/diary_open_520%5B2%5D.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="diary_open_520" border="0" alt="diary_open_520" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S7LPXtcCkXI/AAAAAAAABJ0/0tFC3l9l9ac/diary_open_520_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="147" /></a>In moments of confusions with lots of questions swinging around, sometimes it can happen to you that you open a mail sent by yourself and you find that the questions which seem to confusing you now, you already had answered them long back by yourself. You open few old sent mails years back and get surprised by even your own writing style then. Human mind has so many dimensions that leave others a side, one can't even reach all the corners of his/ her own mind.</p> <hr /> <p align="justify"><strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diary">Diary</a> ... words written by self for self </strong></p> <p align="justify">May be someone else or even me could have defined it more simply.</p> <p align="justify">Though one can never be sure, but historical counts say that the oldest extent diaries come from Middle Eastern and East Asian cultures though there been existence of similar things even much before that.</p> <p align="justify">For me, its something as old as human history itself is, but question is <strong>"what exactly it is?"</strong></p> <p align="justify"><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S7LPY2ZIUGI/AAAAAAAABJ4/G9qIfT4RaC4/s1600-h/diary%5B3%5D.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="diary" border="0" alt="diary" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S7LPZ5IwQ5I/AAAAAAAABJ8/fxKdQafUhSk/diary_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="264" height="204" /></a>A diary is a record (originally in handwritten format) with discrete entries arranged by date reporting on what has happened over the course of a day or other period. The writer may detail more personal information and normally intended to remain private or to have a limited circulation amongst friends or relatives. The writer may also describe recent events in his/her personal diary. The word "journal" may be sometimes used for "diary," but generally one writes daily in a diary, whereas journal-writing can be less frequent.</p> <hr /> <p align="justify">Oops.. I did it again. Went techie as many of my  readers keep on complaining me, though intended to keep it simple straight from heart. Coming back again...</p> <p align="justify">I remember my own days, back to 1995, when I was a in 8th standard. Don't know what prompted me start writing diaries. May be father's old diary might have been an inspiration or I thought to share my deep self to someone I trusted most in my life; myself. Started in simple Hindi, soon it was converted to English .. may be I thought to use this 'useless' habbit to improve my English skills then.</p> <p align="justify">When you start writing diaries, then you really come to know that what privacy is and why you wish it most <a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S7LPav54H1I/AAAAAAAABKA/gSjAzQbxHqA/s1600-h/ww11-secret%5B4%5D.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 10px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="ww11-secret" border="0" alt="ww11-secret" align="right" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S7LPbio-l8I/AAAAAAAABKE/MaNzfd1FAOM/ww11-secret_thumb%5B2%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="208" height="268" /></a> sometimes. While it regarded as kind of sin, but nothing could interest others more than someone's personal diary and you soon find yourself running around to find places to hide your diary as it starts growing up with your raw thoughts and secrets, which you might not wishing someone else to know at least at that point. Same happened to me, when I ended up converting my rather simple diaries into cryptic comments or rather a cryptic language.</p> <p align="justify"><strong>I took two ways then ...</strong></p> <ol> <li> <div align="justify">Mirror writing in which I was writing in way that would be plain English if seen in some mirror otherwise seeming confusing symbols.</div> </li> <li> <div align="justify">Writing diary in numeric codes (<em>'0' for 'a', '1' for 'b' and placing dots above numeric after 9</em>).</div> </li> </ol> <p align="justify">Many of people around me found the second way more fascinating and interesting than the first one as I was able to write and read that way with same ease and speed as the usual English phrases. But still it was pretty easy to guess and once scared the hell out of me, when I found my mom trying to read it through mirror (I always kept my diaries at hidden places, but you know that you cant be sure about it) and ended to join both the techniques means writing in numeric with mirror image symbols.</p> <p align="justify">You might be thinking that what is it now? If wanted to keep things that personal then what purpose of even writing the same? But once you start writing then you come to know that this things is really addictive.</p> <hr /> <p align="justify"><strong>Purposes that a diary solves</strong></p> <p align="justify">Its true that one cant be honest even with self and the diary is second to self. It happens that you write only those things/ thoughts in your diary, which at some point of your life you think that you could admit as of own but still it collects so much of your raw thoughts that even you feel surprised that did I really thought this then?</p> <p align="justify">Your restlessness about getting just a mere glimpse of someone special, your jealously even pretending like nothing happened, your moving crushes and point of interests, your grief about your loneliness, your anger over restrictions from family, your joy of winning something you think other will think stupidity of yours, your true ambitions rather than what you say in front of your parents and friends, your dreams .... possibilities are endless about what you might be writing in your diaries and over the time, it become most precious friend of yours. Someone who listens you most patiently without commenting and answering you about your confusions in a voice you understand and trust most, <strong>yours own.</strong></p> <p align="justify"><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S7LPcYPSXRI/AAAAAAAABKI/dFqvZz5Q_ao/s1600-h/type-purpose%5B4%5D.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="type-purpose" border="0" alt="type-purpose" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S7LPeJWYq6I/AAAAAAAABKM/il5MDXNVHPY/type-purpose_thumb%5B2%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="264" height="201" /></a> A diary might be collection of some random writing of yours, thoughts might be foolish, but it starts making you mature and complete faster than otherwise you could only wonder. Interesting sights becomes the moments to see same words calming you down, which you once wrote in your most restlessness. A diary truely completes yourself.</p> <hr /> <p align="justify"><strong>When you leave it locked and quit writing?</strong></p> <p align="justify">Later on coping up with the time required to pen down your thoughts become more tougher considering other priorities of yours. Other people come to your life to share all the personal moments and thoughts of yours. Even you come to feel that you found the purpose that started your habit  of writing diaries and the loneliness is no more in your life, so diaries ……. not required now. More of it, even there might be things in life such that one don’t wanna to share ever, not even with self. </p> <p align="justify">In more sophisticated way, we start thinking that we took diaries to recollect our thoughts, then re-evaluate the same to improve ourselves at stages and over the years, we find that now nothing remained to improve, we have already made our views and lives those are not gonna undergo some such big change that may require re-evaluation at any later stage. Ultimately,  you say that you don’t wished to be writer or never wanted that someone might be writing biography over you.</p> <p align="justify"><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S7LP25mxCxI/AAAAAAAABKU/Xd1EIWmPugg/s1600-h/locked%20secret%5B3%5D.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="locked secret" border="0" alt="locked secret" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S7LP39m_-vI/AAAAAAAABKY/Rr-sT6XjlQE/locked%20secret_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="264" height="184" /></a></p> <p align="justify">Is it true? Writing diaries is fate of big people only? Can you be so certain of yourself that nothing to re-evaluate, when yourself seen so many changes over the years? Do you really think that you got the purpose that why you started writing diaries at the very first place? Do you think that over the time, it becomes impossible and even useless to keep on writing thoughts that touch your mind? Do you think that any other voice you can understand more, trust more than yourself?</p> <p align="justify">Blogs, Social sites, Twitter (<em>it suits first part of definition about time, though fails about privacy thing</em>), SMS's and insanely running life may make you think that Diaries are irrelevant in this era, but have a night alone awake thinking of only self. Don't you want to write diary for self or revoke the same old habit of writing again???</p> <p align="justify">Give me your thoughts over it. I'll love it, if I find someone starting afresh again due to the conversations ..</p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <div class="vcard"><img style="float: left; margin-right: 4px" class="photo" alt="photo of Nitish Kumar" src="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/232.jpg?w=76&h=47&h=82" /><span class="fn n"><span class="given-name">Nitish</span> <span class="given-family">Kumar</span> </span> <div><a class="url" href="http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com">http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com</a></div> <div><a href="http://scifireviews.wordpress.com">http://scifireviews.wordpress.com</a></div> <div><a href="http://nitishkumarsays.blogspot.com">http://nitishkumarsays.blogspot.com</a></div> <div> </div> </div> <p> </p> <p>If you liked this post, then please <a href="http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com/feed/">subscribe to it</a> and do comment over it.</p> <div class="blogger-post-footer">The author is working in Tech Infrastructure (Windows/ Linux) since last five years and always eager to accept new and innovative ideas over technology. Well verse with even software terms being a Software Engineering Post Graduate, current having a career in Server Administration.</div>Nitish Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767066705344147713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5602353991214839121.post-13151943278480409712010-03-27T13:04:00.001+05:302010-03-27T13:04:09.050+05:30World Earth Hour (20:30 – 21:30, March 27, 2010) and us<blockquote> <p align="justify"><font size="3" face="Garamond">I already </font><a href="http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com/2010/02/28/fm-channels-social-messages/"><font size="3" face="Garamond">discussed in past</font></a><font size="3" face="Garamond"> about some innovative effective social  campaigns and ideas coming our ways in now days. Here I am with the updates on latest and biggest social event ever that is going to be happen tonight, </font><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Hour"><font size="3" face="Garamond">World Earth Hour</font></a><font size="3" face="Garamond">.</font></p> </blockquote> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S620yIgu0jI/AAAAAAAABJI/dAtBSOZFLxs/s1600-h/earth-day-earth-in-hands%5B3%5D.jpg"><font size="3" face="Garamond"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="earth-day-earth-in-hands" border="0" alt="earth-day-earth-in-hands" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S620zHFmHuI/AAAAAAAABJM/JaiCxLhPovg/earth-day-earth-in-hands_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="264" height="264" /></font></a><font size="3" face="Garamond">  </font></p> <hr /> <p></p> <p></p> <p align="justify"><strong><font size="3" face="Garamond">What is World Earth Hour?</font></strong></p> <p align="justify"><font size="3" face="Garamond">Earth was first conceived by </font><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sydney_Morning_Herald"><font size="3" face="Garamond">The Sydney Morning Herald</font></a><font size="3" face="Garamond"> and </font><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Fund_for_Nature"><font size="3" face="Garamond">World Wide Fund for Nature</font></a><font size="3" face="Garamond"> on March 31 in Sydney, Australia at 7:30 pm, local time. The reception was mixed as many columnists and bloggers mentioned it as a Hippocratic move. Many statistics were shown that there wasn’t that significant drop in CO2 emission or electricity savings and the move was comparable to taking out 6-7 cars from road for an year only.</font></p> <blockquote> <p align="justify"><font size="3" face="Garamond">Statistics aside, the campaign became very significant for awareness towards saving nature and kept on getting worldwide support for the same. The next year only added 35 countries from all seven continents and 400 major cities, when the event was celebrated on March 28, 2008 from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. local time. The official website for the event, </font><a href="http://www.earthhour.org"><font size="3" face="Garamond">earthhour.org</font></a><font size="3" face="Garamond">, received over 6.7 million unique visitors in the week leading up to Earth Hour. Other websites took part in the event, with Google's homepage going "dark" on the day Earth Hour took place. </font></p> </blockquote> <p><font size="3" face="Garamond">Much detailed statistics related to this event could be found on </font><a href="http://earthhour.org"><font size="3" face="Garamond">the Official site</font></a><font size="3" face="Garamond"> or on </font><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Hour"><font size="3" face="Garamond">the wiki link</font></a><font size="3" face="Garamond">.</font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Garamond"></font></p> <hr /> <p></p> <p></p> <p><strong><font size="3" face="Garamond">What’s your excuse for not participating?</font></strong></p> <blockquote> <p align="justify"><font size="3" face="Garamond">Are you aware that in past moments of wars, every country including India had asked from its countrymen to contribute by giving their one young member of family to forces? People were asked for donating some part of their income in form of taxes. Are you waiting for something such to happen?</font></p> </blockquote> <p align="justify"><font size="3" face="Garamond"><strong>Yes!! its a war</strong>, not between countries, not for mere some piece of land, but <strong>for our own existence</strong>. </font></font></p> <p align="justify"><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6200GiNxgI/AAAAAAAABJQ/9Ey9cjRKfEU/s1600-h/state-newspaper-excuses%5B3%5D.jpg"><font size="3" face="Garamond"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="state-newspaper-excuses" border="0" alt="state-newspaper-excuses" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6201HDRFQI/AAAAAAAABJU/hEOygyDKy1A/state-newspaper-excuses_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="264" height="204" /></font></a><font size="3" face="Garamond"> </font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="3" face="Garamond">I know many of you feel the fears about environment shown in movies/ documentaries much exaggerated and think that its not going to “collapse” in near future if you have left some bulb on in your lawn. You feel that there are many marriages happening out there with thousands of bulbs and electricity equipments emitting loads of harmful gases. You talk about highly decorated with electrical equipments monuments by Government Officials only. You feel grieve about millions of AC running around the globe sucking environment badly. I understand that you feel that a small contribution doesn’t matter.</font></p> <blockquote> <p align="justify"><font size="3" face="Garamond">Earth Hour and its statistics over years (<em>increase in number of people participating per year</em>) is the biggest example that how such small contributions matter.</font></p> </blockquote> <p><font size="3" face="Garamond"></font></p> <hr /><strong>What will you loose?</strong> <p></p> <p></p> <p align="justify"><font size="3" face="Garamond">If someone says you to do less showoff in your functions, then you feel that you’ll loose the fun of the moment and it will look dull and bore. If someone asks you use public transport rather than using your own Car, then you give him weired look that do you know anything about rush there? If someone asks you to mere share your car with people heading in same direction than using separate cars, then you think about inconvenience in waiting for others when you might get late due to that. If some campaign tells you that you should switch off your engine on red lights, then you think that do someone knows a bit about traffic in India?</font></p> <p align="justify"><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6201_zu7HI/AAAAAAAABJY/TDouKZ4Ey-g/s1600-h/imageslose-lose-small%5B3%5D.jpg"><font size="3" face="Garamond"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="imageslose-lose-small" border="0" alt="imageslose-lose-small" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6202xxwbVI/AAAAAAAABJc/TU38XBsbTbc/imageslose-lose-small_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="264" height="251" /></font></a><font size="3" face="Garamond"> </font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="3" face="Garamond">Yes!! its been about inconvenience, whenever such a campaign rise on air.  But tell me what are you loosing? Few bucks less from electricity and a pride to participate in the biggest event of history??? That shouldn’t be heavy on you, I guess.</font></p> <font size="3" face="Garamond"> <hr /></font> <blockquote> <p align="center"><strong><font size="3" face="Garamond">Are we supposed to stop our work and businesses in that one hour? </font></strong></p> </blockquote> <p align="justify"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6203vGwP1I/AAAAAAAABJg/KTUFPxSC4Rs/s1600-h/scared-monkey%5B2%5D.jpg"><font size="3" face="Garamond"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="scared-monkey" border="0" alt="scared-monkey" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6205ZtXK_I/AAAAAAAABJk/rlNMGgO6CwM/scared-monkey_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="242" height="244" /></font></a></p> <p align="justify"><font size="3" face="Garamond">No!!! Earth hour is asking you for only switching off that you find redundant for you. If you are running businesses, then you could switch off few central ACs for that while, could switch off heavy decorations outside. If you are normal family, then you could all gather in your dining tables with lights off and a moody candle light dinner or even if wish then all watching your favorite shows on Cables or TVs with all lights off. You can enjoy your rare moments on roof of your house/ flat with your family. Its nothing like that you can’t think of a way. </font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="3" face="Garamond">So, who is joining me tonight to celebrate World Earth Hour 2010?</font></p> <p align="justify"><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6206u99YJI/AAAAAAAABJo/0MQcuziowJE/s1600-h/happy%20earth%5B3%5D.jpg"><font size="3" face="Garamond"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="happy earth" border="0" alt="happy earth" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S62070S0IqI/AAAAAAAABJs/RuAMupmDv0s/happy%20earth_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="264" height="204" /></font></a><font size="3" face="Garamond"> </font></p> <div class="vcard"><font size="3"><font face="Garamond"><img style="float: left; margin-right: 4px" class="photo" alt="photo of Nitish Kumar" src="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/myself.jpg?w=62&h=74&h=66" /><span class="fn n"><span class="given-name">Nitish</span> <span class="given-family">Kumar</span> </span></font></font> <div><a class="url" href="http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com"><font size="3" face="Garamond">http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com</font></a></div> <div><a href="http://scifireviews.wordpress.com"><font size="3" face="Garamond">http://scifireviews.wordpress.com</font></a></div> <div><a href="http://nitishkumarsays.blogspot.com"><font size="3" face="Garamond">http://nitishkumarsays.blogspot.com</font></a></div> <div><font size="3" face="Garamond"></font></div> <div><font size="3" face="Garamond"></font></div> <div><font size="3" face="Garamond">What about subscribing to my posts? Leave your email on the text box on right top of the blog. :)</font></div> </div> <p><font size="3" face="Garamond"></font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Garamond"></font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Garamond"></font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Garamond"></font></p> <div class="blogger-post-footer">The author is working in Tech Infrastructure (Windows/ Linux) since last five years and always eager to accept new and innovative ideas over technology. Well verse with even software terms being a Software Engineering Post Graduate, current having a career in Server Administration.</div>Nitish Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767066705344147713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5602353991214839121.post-52542322565694617682010-03-25T17:32:00.001+05:302010-03-25T17:32:32.127+05:30Nokia N97 Mini Review Part 2-Whatever you can expect for<blockquote> <p align="justify"><font size="3" face="Garamond">Call it </font><a href="http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com/2010/02/28/nokia-n900-not-only-for-geeks-but-for-mass-as-well/"><font size="3" face="Garamond">affection to Nokia N900</font></a><font size="3" face="Garamond">, says it </font><a href="http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com/2010/03/21/some-riddles-you-cant-solve/"><font size="3" face="Garamond">mess at personal front now days</font></a><font size="3" face="Garamond">, may be my a bit illness on health front, I feel that I was unable to give sufficient time to my </font><a href="http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com/2010/03/16/nokia-n97-mini-unboxing-and-first-impressions/"><font size="3" face="Garamond">latest trial device Nokia N97 Mini</font></a><font size="3" face="Garamond">. Though I </font><a href="http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com/2010/03/16/nokia-n97-mini-unboxing-and-first-impressions/"><font size="3" face="Garamond">written comments</font></a><font size="3" face="Garamond"> about Un-boxing, wrote about </font><a href="http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com/2010/03/19/nokia-n97-mini-review-part-1-hardware-dissected/"><font size="3" face="Garamond">Hardware Specifications</font></a><font size="3" face="Garamond"> and a </font><a href="http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com/2010/03/21/kalkaji-temple-and-punctured-tyre/"><font size="3" face="Garamond">few posts</font></a><font size="3" face="Garamond"> on </font><a href="http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com/2010/03/24/ovi-maps-the-door-of-possibilities/"><font size="3" face="Garamond">Ovi Maps</font></a><font size="3" face="Garamond"> small </font><a href="http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com/2010/03/21/one-day-with-google-ovi-maps-and-nokia-n97-mini/"><font size="3" face="Garamond">adventures</font></a><font size="3" face="Garamond"> with it. But still this amazing device deserves a review about its functioning. Trying to cover a few this time…</font></p> </blockquote> <p align="justify"><font size="3" face="Garamond">When you talk about <strong>Nokia N97 Mini</strong>, it was known to be made for youngsters; thanks to its bright, responsive and big 3.2” touch screen, QWERTY Keypad opening in slightly tilt mode to make it a Mini Netbook, always on connection with status updates from various social networks, fast processor and increased RAM/ Application memory, strong multimedia skills due to amazing 5 Megapixel camera & FM receiver and smooth video experiences (<em>local and web</em>) and huge storage options with 8GB internal memory and support for <strong>16 GB MicroSD card</strong> to increase it more.</font></p> <blockquote> <p align="justify"><font size="3" face="Garamond">But sometimes I really think that except the comparatively lesser battery (<em>though that’s also enough decent</em>) why not to call it a Business Device? QWERTY keypad operating in long landscape aiding to fast typing like on some 13” Netbooks, big display to support viewing web pages comfortably without much compromise, almost all connectivity options (3G, wi-fi), all time synced contacts, photos, calendar, even files with Ovi, so that if you are using multiple devices then you get the same experience (<em>I can’t help myself not to think about, if some corporate start using synced contacts, calendar and files through one account</em> ), 5MP Camera capable to take snaps of documents like scan images, support for TV-Out for presentations, number of applications out there for suiting your needs and huge space for keeping your mails and files ready on the go. What else are your expectations from a Business device?</font></p> </blockquote> <p align="justify"><font size="3" face="Garamond">For me, its been kind of full entertainment device. I could keep on checking my updates, my blog, snapping here and there, sharing anything over web on the go, watching movies when travelling to somewhere and getting bored. If we want to </font><a href="http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com/2010/03/22/easy-to-go-green-from-nokia-conversations/"><font size="3" face="Garamond">go green</font></a><font size="3" face="Garamond">, then we should really promote such device at our best. </font> <hr /></p> <p></p> <p><font size="3" face="Garamond"></font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="3" face="Garamond">Ok!! much talking. Now I should talk about how it looks like, when we operate on it means Screen Shots, lots of them…. </font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="3" face="Garamond">At first, when I was looking for how to take screenshots, then it reminded me that how easily I was taking them in N900 by pressing Ctrl+Shift+P … but anyway, I found a free app in Ovi Store itself by name of </font><a href="http://store.ovi.com/content/1540?clickSource=publisher+channel"><font size="3" face="Garamond">Best Screensnap</font></a><font size="3" face="Garamond"> and then started taking snapshots after setting HotKey (<em>it made me confused that if Camera key would be set for taking screenshots then how to take snaps, anyway, I changed the hotkey on long press camera key</em>).</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="3" face="Garamond">Here are some screen shots and notes about them:</font></p> <font size="3" face="Garamond"> <hr /></font> <p align="left"><font size="3"><font face="Garamond"><strong>Home Screen (</strong>Portrait Mode<strong>)</strong></font></font></p> <p align="center"><font size="3" face="Garamond"> </font><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tNbYzIJ9I/AAAAAAAABC8/P5M7yOWqp1c/s1600-h/Scr000024%5B2%5D.jpg"><font size="3" face="Garamond"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Scr000024" border="0" alt="Scr000024" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tNcTfFZtI/AAAAAAAABDA/84jK83lfOfw/Scr000024_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="139" height="244" /></font></a><font size="3" face="Garamond"> </font><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tNdFZh2UI/AAAAAAAABDE/whDhj7hVtp4/s1600-h/Scr000023%5B2%5D.jpg"><font size="3" face="Garamond"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Scr000023" border="0" alt="Scr000023" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tNd6FjurI/AAAAAAAABDI/x9Q7maSI6_0/Scr000023_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="139" height="244" /></font></a><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tNfvKWSwI/AAAAAAAABDM/ZcsTCDeaTN8/s1600-h/Scr000021%5B2%5D.jpg"><font size="3" face="Garamond"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Scr000021" border="0" alt="Scr000021" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tNgvXGXxI/AAAAAAAABDQ/q0_Z6xM89Kk/Scr000021_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="139" height="244" /></font></a></p> <p align="left"><font size="3"><font face="Garamond"><strong>Home Screen (</strong>Landscape Mode<strong>)  </strong></font></font></p> <p align="center"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tNhv_CtzI/AAAAAAAABDU/YcWf4zdksUI/s1600-h/Scr000005%5B3%5D.jpg"><font size="3" face="Garamond"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Scr000005" border="0" alt="Scr000005" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tNioKj0-I/AAAAAAAABDY/8G7CXJWa914/Scr000005_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="224" height="128" /></font></a><font size="3" face="Garamond"> </font><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tNjmal4FI/AAAAAAAABDc/eOgcaUejW0o/s1600-h/Scr000018%5B3%5D.jpg"><font size="3" face="Garamond"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Scr000018" border="0" alt="Scr000018" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tNkQlhYzI/AAAAAAAABDg/0q4kVa1tf20/Scr000018_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="224" height="128" /></font></a><font size="3" face="Garamond"> </font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Garamond"></font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Garamond"></font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Garamond"></font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Garamond"></font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Garamond"></font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Garamond"></font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Garamond"></font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Garamond"></font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="3" face="Garamond">Addition of Home Screen widgets was the greatest thing that started with N97 classic and obviously continued with Nokia N97 Mini. Users of Nokia 5800 and other Smartphone in lower cost range still crave of the same feature on their screens, but probably this feature is kind of too much for their low RAM or application memory.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="3" face="Garamond">If you go through options, then you can see that there are options to hide the contents and go back to plain home screen without any widget on it. There are also option to hide/ show content by swapping your finger left/ right side on screen. Moreover, options are here to keep the content Offline as well (Handy if you want to save the data usages or battery for a while).</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="3" face="Garamond">Default contained Facebook widget, which I replaced first with Accuweather and later on with favourite contacts. Though I tried to add Gravity later on, but didn’t found quick way to add something already installed in your Phone, it was directing to Ovi Store.</font></p> <font size="3" face="Garamond"> <hr /></font> <p align="justify"><font size="3"><font face="Garamond"><strong>Calling and Dial Pad (</strong>Landscape Mode<strong>):</strong></font></font></p> <p align="justify"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tNlGcYRPI/AAAAAAAABDk/Ic0Ig540Uu0/s1600-h/Scr000006%5B9%5D.jpg"><font size="3" face="Garamond"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="Scr000006" border="0" alt="Scr000006" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tNmMHvaVI/AAAAAAAABDo/_ojhDt7bgZM/Scr000006_thumb%5B5%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="305" height="183" /></font></a><font size="3" face="Garamond">Dial Pad look similar as of other touch screen phones from Nokia and USSD numbers obviously work out of the box unlike Nokia N900. Provided the sleek looks, one can never be needing the H/W keypad to dial some number, even if one requires then he could directly type numeric keys of the keypad (no necessity of pressing shift key in that case).</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="3" face="Garamond">Signal Reception of Nokia is legendary as always and surprising I found the sound louder than Nokia N900 and others. Kind of a good thing for Indian Users. ;-)</font></p> <font size="3" face="Garamond"> <hr /></font> <p align="justify"><font size="3"><font face="Garamond"><strong>Messaging:</strong> </font></font></p> <p align="center"><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tNntxVzxI/AAAAAAAABDs/ruNrePXGAEA/s1600-h/keypad1%5B6%5D.jpg"><font size="3" face="Garamond"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="keypad1" border="0" alt="keypad1" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tNorr3PcI/AAAAAAAABDw/QVU4ehuZmIM/keypad1_thumb%5B4%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="309" height="241" /></font></a><font size="3" face="Garamond"> </font></p> <p align="center"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tNpi1Kq2I/AAAAAAAABD0/vIijGlfwcPQ/s1600-h/Scr000025%5B2%5D.jpg"><font size="3" face="Garamond"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Scr000025" border="0" alt="Scr000025" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tNqeuTPUI/AAAAAAAABD4/CwjIqsfrWSo/Scr000025_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="139" height="244" /></font></a><font size="3" face="Garamond"> </font><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tNrIK79PI/AAAAAAAABD8/-bA67VE3mFs/s1600-h/Scr000027%5B2%5D.jpg"><font size="3" face="Garamond"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Scr000027" border="0" alt="Scr000027" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tNsFTgc-I/AAAAAAAABEA/HStyM3sqw6g/Scr000027_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="139" height="244" /></font></a><font size="3" face="Garamond"> </font><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tNs5u45FI/AAAAAAAABEE/ZBD_i2bE3jI/s1600-h/Scr000028%5B2%5D.jpg"><font size="3" face="Garamond"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Scr000028" border="0" alt="Scr000028" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tNttXJ8OI/AAAAAAAABEI/S7f2IVI2uCs/Scr000028_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="139" height="244" /></font></a><font size="3" face="Garamond"> </font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Garamond"></font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Garamond"></font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Garamond"></font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="3" face="Garamond">The Keypad is awesome to type on. I already said that I just loved the similar keypad in Nokia 900, so bound to love it. Although it still lacks of auto-complete feature in Nokia N900 (<em>may be some third party apps out there for the same</em>), but it support long press keys to get symbols etc.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="3" face="Garamond">The touch screen keypad lacks of mini qwerty that is quite disappointing as it was there even in Nokia 5800. True that one should use H/W keypad for the same, but there may be scenarios that you can’t operate with two hands. I really recommend Nokia to add the same in next firmware update.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="3" face="Garamond">Rest two format are available in the same way as on other phones and good that they have retained handwriting mode, though I didn’t used it that much, but sure a good thing for occasions.</font></p> <font size="3" face="Garamond"> <hr /></font> <p align="left"><strong><font size="3" face="Garamond">Various Menus inside:</font></strong></p> <p align="left"><font size="3" face="Garamond">First screen shot is about Menu screen and then I am following the calendar app.</font></p> <p align="center"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tNunpG2YI/AAAAAAAABEM/ZGCdwmx8vF4/s1600-h/Scr000029%5B3%5D.jpg"><font size="3" face="Garamond"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Scr000029" border="0" alt="Scr000029" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tNvv55kxI/AAAAAAAABEQ/TIEftsj5qdE/Scr000029_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="104" height="184" /></font></a><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tNwcKSW2I/AAAAAAAABEU/R0JqmJ9AqHM/s1600-h/Scr000030%5B4%5D.jpg"><font size="3" face="Garamond"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Scr000030" border="0" alt="Scr000030" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tNxcpct4I/AAAAAAAABEY/XxLYmVtXF78/Scr000030_thumb%5B2%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="104" height="184" /></font></a><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tNyHM_ZBI/AAAAAAAABEc/k-QrINwBUrY/s1600-h/Scr000031%5B3%5D.jpg"><font size="3" face="Garamond"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Scr000031" border="0" alt="Scr000031" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tNzEb2eeI/AAAAAAAABEg/1XjYgI9s9ec/Scr000031_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="104" height="184" /></font></a><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tNz9VklQI/AAAAAAAABEk/S8k9n71s0ZE/s1600-h/Scr000032%5B3%5D.jpg"><font size="3" face="Garamond"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Scr000032" border="0" alt="Scr000032" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tN0m9OM1I/AAAAAAAABEo/K2VRZ0nAueM/Scr000032_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="104" height="184" /></font></a><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tN1axDa-I/AAAAAAAABEs/krIpdxPObzI/s1600-h/Scr000033%5B3%5D.jpg"><font size="3" face="Garamond"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Scr000033" border="0" alt="Scr000033" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tN2ZZYcYI/AAAAAAAABEw/HFkHDSbNZQg/Scr000033_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="104" height="184" /></font></a><font size="3" face="Garamond"> </font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="3" face="Garamond">A nice view and then full fledge options for meetings, notes etc. These are all the same options as we find in other leading Smartphone’s from Nokia.</font></p> <p align="center"><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tN3LP1zFI/AAAAAAAABE0/IU41c2NnDlE/s1600-h/Scr000034%5B2%5D.jpg"><font size="3" face="Garamond"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Scr000034" border="0" alt="Scr000034" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tN4HZ-NnI/AAAAAAAABE4/76SRddOUr20/Scr000034_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="139" height="244" /></font></a><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tN4yv0mPI/AAAAAAAABE8/x0jz13GmOLQ/s1600-h/Scr000035%5B2%5D.jpg"><font size="3" face="Garamond"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Scr000035" border="0" alt="Scr000035" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tN6id-MHI/AAAAAAAABFA/SKbxZWja-vM/Scr000035_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="139" height="244" /></font></a><font size="3" face="Garamond"> </font><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tN7eeIfNI/AAAAAAAABFE/Q7ZncAIX0T4/s1600-h/Scr000036%5B2%5D.jpg"><font size="3" face="Garamond"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Scr000036" border="0" alt="Scr000036" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tN8Lrv9dI/AAAAAAAABFI/Io0WvAQdrn0/Scr000036_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="139" height="244" /></font></a></p> <p align="justify"><font size="3"><font face="Garamond">In next, as you can see above, is <strong>Contacts. </strong>As you already heard that Nokia N97 Mini come with kinetic scrolling out of the box, true with Contacts and other menu items. Addition in Nokia N97 Mini is appearance of first letter as you scroll down (<em>D and C in pictures</em>). Definitely Symbian getting polished day by day, device by device. Expectations are higher for <strong>Symbian^3.</strong></font></font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="3" face="Garamond">Another and kind of most important app is <strong>Web</strong>. Interesting here is <strong>Auto Full Screen feature</strong>, even if not like full fledged on Nokia N900, still it was better than other phones. Experience was amazingly richer due to embedded Youtube support (<em>same as available in Nokia N82 or others, don’t remember it was same in Nokia 5800 or not</em>)</font></p> <p align="center"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tN9IU0FvI/AAAAAAAABFM/lUtvUWEuEp8/s1600-h/Scr000010%5B6%5D.jpg"><font size="3" face="Garamond"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Scr000010" border="0" alt="Scr000010" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tN-MXh4OI/AAAAAAAABFQ/iJygZRmQ7n4/Scr000010_thumb%5B2%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="229" height="131" /></font></a><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tN-y4B-bI/AAAAAAAABFU/5M0_kCq1Tbs/s1600-h/Scr000013%5B6%5D.jpg"><font size="3" face="Garamond"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Scr000013" border="0" alt="Scr000013" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tN_yTHIaI/AAAAAAAABFY/Djw-DC5qtV4/Scr000013_thumb%5B2%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="229" height="131" /></font></a><font size="3" face="Garamond">  </font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="3" face="Garamond">As I always recommend, I installed Opera 10 Mobile in it as well and interesting was to note that appearance of my blog was more or less same on both the browsers, though there are more options in Opera for sure. Look at the screenshots as given below.</font></p> <p align="center"><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tOA58ACsI/AAAAAAAABFc/9FgHQ49iUyI/s1600-h/Scr000003%5B9%5D.jpg"><font size="3" face="Garamond"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Scr000003" border="0" alt="Scr000003" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tOB1P39AI/AAAAAAAABFg/BvwEUoaASpc/Scr000003_thumb%5B3%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="229" height="131" /></font></a><font size="3" face="Garamond"> </font><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tOC_TfAwI/AAAAAAAABFk/oocJRgQhzQE/s1600-h/Scr000004%5B6%5D.jpg"><font size="3" face="Garamond"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Scr000004" border="0" alt="Scr000004" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tOEaeYzII/AAAAAAAABFo/DLCr1StKlec/Scr000004_thumb%5B2%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="229" height="131" /></font></a><font size="3" face="Garamond"> </font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="3" face="Garamond">A lovely app is <strong>Nokia Messaging</strong> with HTML mails support, though on trial for few days, but I will love it when Nokia will made it free like its Ovi Maps. This is something that made me checking mails somewhere else than Gmail’s app. Definitely different than any other thing, though I wish it was having more formatting options inside, may be native HTML Coding itself.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="3" face="Garamond">This thing not only supports Push Mails, but the white face make it look much elegant than other email apps. For the detailed descriptions, one could head toward a detailed article from </font><a href="http://zomgitscj.com/email-on-the-nokia-n97-mini/"><font size="3" face="Garamond">Zomgitscj</font></a><font size="3" face="Garamond">. </font></p> <p align="justify"><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tOFZp2vuI/AAAAAAAABFs/pxn83wORzvU/s1600-h/Scr000001%5B14%5D.jpg"><font size="3" face="Garamond"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="Scr000001" border="0" alt="Scr000001" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tOGFs2MnI/AAAAAAAABFw/fGJOu5bHeNY/Scr000001_thumb%5B12%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="150" height="242" /></font></a></p> <p align="justify"><font size="3" face="Garamond">As about <strong>Camera</strong>, then I already said that it compares to Nokia N82’s Camera, which has been my best so far</font><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tOHD2O1wI/AAAAAAAABF0/Rur__sO8OVc/s1600-h/Scr000037%5B5%5D.jpg"><font size="3" face="Garamond"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 10px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Scr000037" border="0" alt="Scr000037" align="right" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tOHy3_10I/AAAAAAAABF4/0WWZ5efrrYA/Scr000037_thumb%5B3%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="105" height="184" /></font></a><font size="3" face="Garamond"> </font><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tOI_zZYxI/AAAAAAAABF8/FSZc9qkNOes/s1600-h/Scr000039%5B5%5D.jpg"><font size="3" face="Garamond"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 10px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Scr000039" border="0" alt="Scr000039" align="right" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tOJ_ylH7I/AAAAAAAABGA/B6eOOJPjDD8/Scr000039_thumb%5B3%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="105" height="184" /></font></a><font size="3" face="Garamond">in such a way (<em>credit goes to Xeon Flash</em>) that even I didn’t found Nokia N900’s Camera preferable over the same (<em>even if was technically better</em>), but Nokia N97 Mini even with Dual Led flashes changes your opinion. It is really good one about snapping and really removes my disappointment as was with Nokia 5800 about Led Flashes.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="3" face="Garamond">You would be surprised to know that I already have snapped more than 5000 snaps from my Nokia N82, so could understand that having such a good camera could increase your photo collection in your camera. Options for tags come much handy for such situations.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="3" face="Garamond">I also tried <strong>Nokia Photo Browser</strong> that is a Beta Lab app and sure impresses in view. Not have tried but came across </font><a href="http://www.symbiandreams.com/nokia-phones/how-to-organize-photos-on-n97-mini-with-tags/"><font size="3" face="Garamond">one awesome article</font></a><font size="3" face="Garamond"> about arranging your snaps on Nokia N97 Mini. Definitely a powerful device as far as Photos are concerned.   </font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="3" face="Garamond">Digging more deeper takes various menus and submenus, which most of you must be already familiar with, so not going into details. Though will mention to look at the last screen shot, it provides the control over Notification lights in a new way, which is a cool thing.</font></p> <p align="center"><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tOKr15mZI/AAAAAAAABGE/bXZRcZ3UqnQ/s1600-h/Scr000007%5B6%5D.jpg"><font size="3" face="Garamond"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Scr000007" border="0" alt="Scr000007" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tOLxHKn-I/AAAAAAAABGI/N2iSDJi0m_0/Scr000007_thumb%5B2%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="104" height="184" /></font></a><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tOMm5KrWI/AAAAAAAABGM/65CJalSzxUg/s1600-h/Scr000008%5B3%5D.jpg"><font size="3" face="Garamond"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Scr000008" border="0" alt="Scr000008" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tONeTdCtI/AAAAAAAABGQ/IjJrR49PvLA/Scr000008_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="104" height="184" /></font></a><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tOOaoVn7I/AAAAAAAABGU/jVH4sYNAOnY/s1600-h/Scr000010%5B7%5D.jpg"><font size="3" face="Garamond"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Scr000010" border="0" alt="Scr000010" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tOPYHK4fI/AAAAAAAABGY/Wkrwm_vOXlU/Scr000010_thumb%5B3%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="104" height="184" /></font></a><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tOQd-PzhI/AAAAAAAABGc/ymIg4BP_NGk/s1600-h/Scr000011%5B3%5D.jpg"><font size="3" face="Garamond"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Scr000011" border="0" alt="Scr000011" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tORDtPu0I/AAAAAAAABGg/MaFtzyOMgcM/Scr000011_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="104" height="184" /></font></a><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tOSIo5VEI/AAAAAAAABGk/do8evFhAsZQ/s1600-h/Scr000012%5B3%5D.jpg"><font size="3" face="Garamond"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Scr000012" border="0" alt="Scr000012" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tOS0Bwr6I/AAAAAAAABGo/fMtKPWzMupo/Scr000012_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="104" height="184" /></font></a></p> <p align="center"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tOTyV11ZI/AAAAAAAABGs/DrR9dcM1ieU/s1600-h/Scr000014%5B3%5D.jpg"><font size="3" face="Garamond"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Scr000014" border="0" alt="Scr000014" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tOUvWVraI/AAAAAAAABGw/Dx9IDenwp_4/Scr000014_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="104" height="184" /></font></a><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tOVoFxy9I/AAAAAAAABG0/usXErGLeI4M/s1600-h/Scr000018%5B7%5D.jpg"><font size="3" face="Garamond"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Scr000018" border="0" alt="Scr000018" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tOWvGJYNI/AAAAAAAABG4/ivDvleUCoz8/Scr000018_thumb%5B3%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="104" height="184" /></font></a><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tOXj3IbzI/AAAAAAAABG8/fTE55nLahPI/s1600-h/Scr000019%5B3%5D.jpg"><font size="3" face="Garamond"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Scr000019" border="0" alt="Scr000019" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tOYYmlr8I/AAAAAAAABHA/VtYvbsuTXqk/Scr000019_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="104" height="184" /></font></a><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tOZEEQpyI/AAAAAAAABHE/zcl60jbTeCY/s1600-h/Scr000020%5B3%5D.jpg"><font size="3" face="Garamond"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Scr000020" border="0" alt="Scr000020" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tOaINh5vI/AAAAAAAABHI/ugyc0hzWLeM/Scr000020_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="104" height="184" /></font></a><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tObBSaCFI/AAAAAAAABHM/OB3Yp-T2qpI/s1600-h/Scr000021%5B6%5D.jpg"><font size="3" face="Garamond"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Scr000021" border="0" alt="Scr000021" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tOb1XWjoI/AAAAAAAABHQ/E32TcO1z_2A/Scr000021_thumb%5B2%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="104" height="184" /></font></a><font size="3" face="Garamond"> </font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="3" face="Garamond">So, here we come to discuss about the most interesting and important feature of this amazing device, <strong>Ovi Maps. </strong>Though content is older in </font><a href="http://www.nokiamobiletalk.com/2009/09/ovi-maps-beta-mobile/"><font size="3" face="Garamond">this article</font></a><font size="3" face="Garamond">, but could worth taking a look for exploration of Ovi Maps.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="3" face="Garamond">I also have wrote a couple of articles over Ovi Maps and even got a tweet from <strong>@ovibynokia </strong>that I have became entitled for some cool ovi goodies. Don’t know what would be that …. Surprise. </font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="3" face="Garamond">Waiting for that. Till then check other screenshots. </font></p> <p align="center"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tOd35hOII/AAAAAAAABHU/YlaoO-A9rkA/s1600-h/Scr000040%5B4%5D.jpg"><font size="3" face="Garamond"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px" title="Scr000040" border="0" alt="Scr000040" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tOe5aPdOI/AAAAAAAABHY/bT5RBl1qy1c/Scr000040_thumb%5B2%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="135" height="240" /></font></a><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tOf2tKzbI/AAAAAAAABHc/dWoTSsNhgUU/s1600-h/Scr000043%5B2%5D.jpg"><font size="3" face="Garamond"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Scr000043" border="0" alt="Scr000043" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tOgxBSyDI/AAAAAAAABHg/tT-QGroBE0w/Scr000043_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="139" height="244" /></font></a><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tOiI0mYiI/AAAAAAAABHk/V5CKEFXy7Zo/s1600-h/Scr000004%5B9%5D.jpg"><font size="3" face="Garamond"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Scr000004" border="0" alt="Scr000004" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tQqnq40qI/AAAAAAAABHs/FdgWQJayDrA/Scr000004_thumb%5B3%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="139" height="244" /></font></a><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tQrgQ98CI/AAAAAAAABHw/apuXYl5iUBA/s1600-h/Scr000005%5B9%5D.jpg"><font size="3" face="Garamond"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Scr000005" border="0" alt="Scr000005" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tQsdiVRaI/AAAAAAAABH0/Uo4Pe44VQ_E/Scr000005_thumb%5B3%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="139" height="244" /></font></a><font size="3" face="Garamond"> </font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="3" face="Garamond">Rest remains is the world of applications. Many comes out of the box with shortcuts to install them means a huge applications folder with full of icons, took at least 4 screens to cover them all. There is an amazing message reader as well to read loud your messages for you.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="3" face="Garamond">What I installed in addition were Fring, Gmail, Opera Mini, Opera Mobile, Skype, Periodic, Compass, Flashlight, Orkut, Best ScreenSnap and the almighty Gavity (<em>I have fallen in love with it</em>). Just added </font><a href="http://zomgitscj.com/nokia-here-now-appears-on-s60v5/"><font size="3" face="Garamond">Nokia Here and Now</font></a><font size="3" face="Garamond"> via Software Updates. Amazing thing again.</font></p> <p align="center"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tQtGzsQiI/AAAAAAAABH4/d4VodUc4KPs/s1600-h/Scr000023%5B6%5D.jpg"><font size="3" face="Garamond"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Scr000023" border="0" alt="Scr000023" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tQtwbpJEI/AAAAAAAABH8/xcFgH2fAfO0/Scr000023_thumb%5B2%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="104" height="184" /></font></a><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tQuhe5NxI/AAAAAAAABIA/qLlV3VN0oB8/s1600-h/Scr000024%5B6%5D.jpg"><font size="3" face="Garamond"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Scr000024" border="0" alt="Scr000024" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tQvTJsd_I/AAAAAAAABIE/n5rT1h6j7vQ/Scr000024_thumb%5B2%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="104" height="184" /></font></a><font size="3" face="Garamond"> </font><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tQwH32GqI/AAAAAAAABII/yWGVDZw3fLk/s1600-h/Scr000025%5B9%5D.jpg"><font size="3" face="Garamond"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Scr000025" border="0" alt="Scr000025" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tQw7HLCNI/AAAAAAAABIM/1uO3UKP99Ac/Scr000025_thumb%5B3%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="104" height="184" /></font></a><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tQxYFkFDI/AAAAAAAABIQ/N2oivOKCU4A/s1600-h/Scr000026%5B3%5D.jpg"><font size="3" face="Garamond"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Scr000026" border="0" alt="Scr000026" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tQycNeouI/AAAAAAAABIU/OUU9XnpZTTk/Scr000026_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="104" height="184" /></font></a><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tQzF_QBSI/AAAAAAAABIY/vVWoH0wI2d4/s1600-h/Scr000027%5B6%5D.jpg"><font size="3" face="Garamond"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Scr000027" border="0" alt="Scr000027" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tQz-I0pPI/AAAAAAAABIc/zWuABCBHJSE/Scr000027_thumb%5B2%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="104" height="184" /></font></a><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tQ0vV1TaI/AAAAAAAABIg/ujqD1-yvkSE/s1600-h/Scr000002%5B3%5D.jpg"><font size="3" face="Garamond"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Scr000002" border="0" alt="Scr000002" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_g3-jtKkWuEE/S6tQ1XsvoVI/AAAAAAAABIk/8NLTrI1rzFc/Scr000002_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="151" height="256" /></font></a></p> <font size="3" face="Garamond"> <hr /></font> <blockquote> <p align="justify"><font size="3" face="Garamond">So, this was the app world about Nokia N97. I addition I checked Videos over the same. I still miss the <strong>3.5” screen</strong> of Nokia N900 that was extra large without any buttons on the screen. May be some people like me will wish that if Nokia could have retained the same 3.5” Screen as was in original Nokia N97 and would have added the same battery as was in Nokia 5800.</font></p> </blockquote> <p align="justify"><font size="3" face="Garamond">I should say that in symbian league, it was the best from Nokia till now. Unfortunately when someone like Nokia N900 appears on the screen, then its bound to steal the show and we started skipping others. But if you talk about features, then you will be surprised that how much effect Nokia N97 Mini will have on your crave for some Laptop/ Netbook always with you. Most of the things, like social media, mails and web access are following you now with its home screen widgets and you find yourself not missing even if you travel a lot.</font></p> <blockquote> <p align="justify"><font size="3" face="Garamond">I really wonder that where Black Berry Phones are getting their places even after their buggy scroll ball (<em>I got all of them go bad after one year or two in my office, not one but half a dozen consistently</em>)?</font></p> </blockquote> <p align="justify"><font size="3" face="Garamond">Yes!! there are some complaints/ suggestions for Nokia Team about Nokia N97 Mini ….</font></p> <ol> <li> <div align="justify"><font size="3" face="Garamond">Why to leave the same messaging innovation as we seen in Series 40 devices like <strong>Nokia 5130</strong>, where we had option to send messages to people we last messaged, people we called recently and setting favourites for messaging? It was too cool in even those low end devices and I thought good things to be continued in higher end devices. I don’t find any additional requirement or issue in porting the same feature, when you already made it once.</font></div> </li> <li> <div align="justify"><font size="3" face="Garamond">Why still we are left with some <strong>trial Quick Office and Adobe Acrobat</strong>? I had it in full with Nokia N82 at least for reading and expected it to be available in <strong>read version at least</strong> with Nokia N97 Mini like device.</font></div> </li> <li> <div align="justify"><font size="3" face="Garamond">I have really no idea what suggested Nokia people to remove the <strong>Mini QWERTY keypad from touch screen</strong>, but its a real must have. Please give it back in next firmware update or whatever…</font></div> </li> <li> <div align="justify"><font size="3" face="Garamond">I can understand Nokia’s requirement about making a device low on price and high on features that made them compromising the battery and FM Transmitter. But don’t you think that <strong>battery is as essential as Network coverage itself</strong>? Think about it.</font></div> </li> </ol> <font size="3" face="Garamond"> <hr /></font> <div class="vcard"><font size="3"><font face="Garamond"><img style="float: left; margin-right: 4px" class="photo" alt="photo of Nitish Kumar" src="http://nitishkumar.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/myself.jpg?w=62&h=74&h=66" /><span class="fn n"><span class="given-name">Nitish</span> <span class="given-family">Kumar</span> </span></font></font> <div><a class="url" href="http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com"><font size="3" face="Garamond">http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com</font></a></div> <div><a href="http://scifireviews.wordpress.com"><font size="3" face="Garamond">http://scifireviews.wordpress.com</font></a></div> <div><a href="http://nitishkumarsays.blogspot.com"><font size="3" face="Garamond">http://nitishkumarsays.blogspot.com</font></a></div> </div> <p><font size="3" face="Garamond"></font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Garamond"></font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Garamond"></font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Garamond"></font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Garamond"></font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Garamond"></font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Garamond"></font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Garamond"></font></p> <div class="blogger-post-footer">The author is working in Tech Infrastructure (Windows/ Linux) since last five years and always eager to accept new and innovative ideas over technology. Well verse with even software terms being a Software Engineering Post Graduate, current having a career in Server Administration.</div>Nitish Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767066705344147713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5602353991214839121.post-32689619032340043512010-03-22T15:13:00.001+05:302010-03-22T15:13:05.276+05:30Easy to Go Green-From Nokia Conversations<blockquote> <p align="justify">We already seen such a campaign from Abhishek Bachchan and Idea. I wrote once in a tweet that what if someone invent such a power source that could power cell phones and others in such a way that usages CO2 and other harmful gases from atmosphere.  Many are trying to come up with ideas to save the planet like Nokia’s new boxes made of recycled material, Apple’s go green.Its really a good sign. 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Well verse with even software terms being a Software Engineering Post Graduate, current having a career in Server Administration.</div>Nitish Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767066705344147713noreply@blogger.com0