Ovi is now Live !
Nokia has made it’s Ovi internet services publicly available. This is one stop shop for all people who own Nokia phones to make use of this integrated services offering. Ovi allows you to share files, sync your contacts, manage your photos and videos, navigation packs, games, music and lots more..
P.S. Ovi in Finnish means “Door” !
Check it out !
A post in my friend Jo’s Blog brought me back into thinking about FOSS and Software Piracy.
FOSS is great concept. I am running Debian Linux in my home PC which is pretty good for all my day to day activities and entertainment. My wife loves using it for browsing the net and watching movies etc. She says “it never shows a blue screen” 
In my opinion, one should use the applications which are helping him/her to achieve what he/she wants. If it is a commercial product, please pay for it.
In many cases, I have seen that people does not care when it comes to licenses and software piracy.we show an utter lack of respect to the developers or companies who develop these products.
If you are not finding it easy to pay for a software/operating system, at least try FOSS before jumping into software piracy.
I found this website really interesting… It uses flash to run and the application looks great !
Did not use it for long.. but looks nice and features are very good. Most of the interface reminds me about adobe photoshop.
WWW.splashup.com
As a computer enthusiast, I am signing up in many websites using my email address for software downloads, discussion forums, reviews etc… Many times it is just to get a confirmation mail or an activation link from these sites which I will never use after that. Who knows what will happen to my email ID that I am submitting to these websites… some share the same with spammers for extra money.
I just came across a website called 10MinuteMail.
This website gives you an email address with just a single click ( believe me, you do not have to fill up another registration form ! ) and it remains active for the next 10 minutes. You are able to read,delete & reply to the mails you get. If you need more time, you can request for that too…
What else I could ask for?... I am now much relaxed that I do not have to share my email address with possible spammers. Do check it out…You will not be disappointed.
Hi All,
It’s been a while I have blogged about something. I have been really busy these days.
A most common thing everyone points out about Linux and Open Source is that they lack entertainment tools. Specially when it comes to Media Players and Games. Here is my views….
When it comes to Media Players, Linux and Open Source has many tools. MPlayer is a cool player which can handle most of the common movie and audio formats like VCD, DVD, mp3, mp4, mpeg, avi, mov, wmv etc. There are many more players like xine, xmms, rhythmbox etc. But I like MPlayer for it’s easy to use interface and flexibility. It is truly a all-in-one player. There are many more tools available for audio/video editing too. Audacity, Cinellera, XawTV are just a few of them. Good news is that most of these players are ported to Win 32 Platform also. So you can run these tools in MS Windows too.
I am not a game addict. But I do enjoy playing games in computer occasionally. I used to play “Doom” and “Tetris” when I was introduced to computers and MS Dos. In Windows, I started with the popular “Road Rash” , “Need For Speed” etc. Later on, I was a bit reluctant to play games which needed much physical attention from my side. I was enjoying simple board games and puzzles. But I eventually got back into gaming and I loved playing “Call of Duty” and “Age of Empires”. It was all on MS Windows.
Then, I set out on a search for such games for Linux. I was sure that the Open Source community simply will not ignore such an important branch in Software development and computer based entertainment. After digging the sourceforge.net site for 10 minutes, I locked in on two Open Source games which are available under GPL for Windows too. Here is a brief description about the two games.
Torcs is “The Open Racing Car Simulator” . As the name suggests, it is a racing game. I was amazed the wide variety of Car models and tracks available inside this game. Game AI was also good. Skid Marks, Damage, Sound Effects, Road Tracks, Mud Tracks, Different Camera Angles…. this game will keep you entertained for hours. With a little effort, you could design your own car and tracks too.
Dark-Oberon is a strategy based game like “Age of Empires”. In the start, You have some land and people. You make them work for you and build an empire. You need to consider building barracks, train soldiers, defend your castle, upgrade the forts, make weapons, use people for cutting wood and mining all at the same time. You must attack and destroy your enemies in order to conquer the world. This is such an addictive game. I must say that this game is still not as good as “Age of Empires” when it comes to the sound effects or weapon/building choices.. but I am sure that being only a beta release now, this software promises a lot. Do give it a try.
Why do you want to play pirated games when a better solution is available?
I will be back….
Undan
Apache Web Server is the most common web server used in internet as well as intranets. If you are a web developer, system admin or a technology enthusiast, you must have heard about it already. This is a humble effort from me to document the very basics of configuring an apache web server in Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
We all are used to the “familiar and easy to use” graphical user interface of Microsoft Windows Operating System. How many of you guys know that it has a command line interface also which is quite powerful in doing things that cannot be achieved using graphical tools. This is a humble attempt to share some tips and tricks that can be performed
using command line of Windows XP. These commands would be useful if you want to automate tasks on your computer. For running any of these commands, you need to be in a command prompt or run it direclty from the start->run dialog box.
shutdown -s -f -t00 – Immediately start shutting down the computer. ! If you want to reboot, use shutdown -r -f -t00. Remember,this command tries to forcefully close all applications that may be running on your computer. So be sure that you saved the documents before you run this.
tree c:foldername | more – This command will give you a nice overview of how files and folders are organised in folder “foldername”.
netstat – This command will give you a list of protocols running on your system, and what connections are to/from your computer and what services are they using etc etc. It is always good to know who all are connected to your computer when you are in a network, isn’t it?
net share – If you are sharing files and fodlers on your computer over the network, you might want to get a list of them… This command does it. Simple.
net use – This does the opposite of the above command. It shows you a list of shared resources that you are connected to.
xcopy /s/e/v/c/y c:documents*.* d:backup – This command copies all files and folders in c:documents into d:backup. The special thing about this command is that it does not abort even if copying of one file fails. Very useful to recover possible data from scratchy CDs etc.
That’s all for now. Have a nice time !
I just can’t keep silent about firefox. This is such a beautiful piece of free software, it never fails to amuse me day by day. With all the themes and plugins it supports, it could act as much more than a browser. Needless to say about the security features… It blocks popup ads, malicous scritps .. It even helps you remove ads from the pages ! ( With the use of adblock plugin ).
The amount of hardwork put in by the developers can be found in each feature of this cool product. If you are still among those peple who are not using Firefox, I suggest you to give it a try.
P.S : I am writing this blog using the “performancing” plugin from within firefox !
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