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2010 Year in Review

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Check out this video to see how the world searched

2010 Year in Review

Sync your files online and across your devices using Dropbox

noreply@blogger.com (Phani Kumar) — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 05:32:00 PDT

Have you ever came across the situation where you want to access a file on your desktop that you saved it on your laptop?
Have you ever wanted some of your files to be synchronized across multiple computers that you use?
Forget to copy your files into your usb drive while travelling?
Want to access your files from web which are on your computer at home?

Here is a solution for you. Dropbox is a software that automatically synchronizes files online and across multiple computers and devices that you use. Copy the files that you want to be accessed on different machines into your Dropbox on one computer, a copy of these files will be stored on Dropbox’s servers and they will be instantly available on any of your other computers that you’ve installed Dropbox on (Windows, Mac, Linux). Now Dropbox is also available on mobile for iPhone, iPad, Android.

You can easily share entire folders or photo albums with Dropbox. Simply copy the folders that you want to share and send invitations to people whom you want to share with. You can also send links to specifics files in your account.

Watch this video for better understanding which is simple and in plain English.

Dropbox works as an online backup solution where you can backup your files online which will be available on all your other computers and devices that you’ve installed Dropbox, you can share files with your friends, it keeps a history of every change you make so that you can undo any mistakes and even undelete files, take photos and videos and sync them to your Dropbox from mobile.

You can see all the computers and devices that are linked to your account.

As soon as you’ve uploaded a file into your account it will show up in all the devices.

Let me put out the advantages for you:

It’s cross platform – Windows, Mac, Linux.
File sharing
Online Backup
Web Access
Mobile Device Access

For a complete list of features check out features list. Free account provides you about 2GB of storage and by referrals you can gain additional storage max up to 8GB. If you want to download it use my referral, I will be getting additional 250mb – thanks for that. You can download it from here.

Just found an interesting post “monitor your computer remotely with Dropbox”. I don’t know that we can do like this also :)

Posting source code in wordpress.com posts

noreply@blogger.com (Phani Kumar) — Sat, 29 May 2010 12:07:00 PDT

I have been looking for this feature from a long time now. I want the code posted in my posts to maintain its formatting and to be syntax highlighted. I achieved this on my blogger posts using the syntaxhighlighter but on my wordpress.com blog 5thCross it was impossible. Blogger allows you to use JavaScript in your blogs while Wordpress.com doesn’t allow JavaScript due to security reasons. It was really great to show the code snippets in your posts syntax highlighted based on the language.

Finally they have added support to show code in your posts with syntax highlighting for various languages without the use of you to insert any JavaScript (internally they are using syntaxhighlighter to achieve this). Only thing that you need to do is to surround your code with the tags that are provided like

[sourcecode language=”java”]

your code goes here….

[/sourcecode]

If you happen to use Windows Live Writer like me for updating your blog, the code in the post doesn’t seem to use the syntax. So if you are posting any code in your posts you have to use the inbuilt post editor to achieve this. Otherwise your code will look like normal text in the post. For a complete list of languages supported and parameters supported for further customizing check this support page.

Here is my test post

50 Stunning Examples of the Droste Effect

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Linux Admin Quick Reference Guide

noreply@blogger.com (Phani Kumar) — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 02:35:00 PDT

Linux Admin Quick Reference Guide

download the pdf from here.

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Efficient blogging with Windows Live Writer

noreply@blogger.com (Phani Kumar) — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:26:00 PDT

Windows Live Writer (WLW) by Microsoft is a blog editor for composing and managing blog posts for windows. You can write your posts offline and publish them later. WLW integrates with most blogging platforms (Wordpress, Typepad, Movable Type, Blogger, SharePoint blog, Windows Livespaces and others). You can see how your posts will appear in your blogs theme even when you’re offline. There are many helpful features in WLW that make creating and managing posts easier.

Inserting Screenshots – You don’t require any third party tools to insert screenshots. Just press Print-Screen and then paste that image from clipboard into WLW using Ctrl+V. You can crop, scale, rotate, add watermark and do so many things in writer itself even before publishing.
Cropping – You can crop the images even if they are pasted and can see a live preview of the image how it looks in your post.
Borders & Effects - You can add different borders and effects to your images like Drop shadow, Rounded corners, effects like Emboss, Sepia Tone etc which gives little aesthetic touches to your pictures. While these effects are no replacement for an image editing application, they’re a quick way to apply some basic effects like sepia, watermark, etc.
Auto Linking – It will help you to link to certain pages from your posts automatically. When you type the auto link words like I have configured WLW to like to its website. So whenever I type WLW it will insert the link to it.
Ping Servers – If you want search engines to pick posts as soon as you publish them you can do that by configuring the ping servers go to Tools –> Options
Inserting – You can insert pictures, maps, tables, photo albums, videos.
Live Preview – You can preview how your posts looks like in your blog theme without leaving WLW by selecting the preview button on the bottom left corner. This is very handy tool so that you can adjust your images configure fonts, colors.

Windows Live Writer Plugins – Using plug-in you can add more functionalities to WLW
- Zemanta - Zemanta lets you find images related to content that you are currently composing. (my favorite plugin). It will automatically picks images from flickr, identifies words in your posts and provides links to websites
- Flickr4Writer – Flickr4Writer is a plugin that enables you to search flickr by tags, photosets, or a photostream. After browsing you can insert the image reference into a post. A flickr account is required.
- Code Snippet – Code Snippet plugin for WLW to help format and apply syntax highlighting to source code.
- DiggThis – Adds a DiggThis button to let visitors Digg your post. You can choose your desired style and alignment in the options menu.
- Twitter Notify – Sends a tweet announcing your new post using your twitter account. A shortened link to your post is automatically generated through the TinyUrl service. If you enable twitterfeed to feed your blog to twitter then don’t use this plug-in as it might create multiple entries to your posts one form this plug-in and another from your twitterfeed.

You can download Windows Live Writer from here. Download Writer plug-ins from here.

Maria Grazia Cucinotta; a Crimson Rosella bird; Hurricane Jimena - Photo Journal - WSJ

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QuickGun Murugan Trailer

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very funny.....

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Pandavas & Kauravas on facebook

noreply@blogger.com (Phani Kumar) — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:22:00 PDT

lol.......found this while stumbling..... lol....

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Ganesh Charturti

noreply@blogger.com (Phani Kumar) — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:37:00 PDT

Happy Ganesh Chaturti
Image from:
http://festivals.iloveindia.c...

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See and download the full gallery on posterous

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2012 International Trailer

noreply@blogger.com (Phani Kumar) — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:29:00 PDT

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wow! the trailer looks amazing.... waiting for the movie.

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Prevention is better than cure

noreply@blogger.com (Phani Kumar) — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:41:00 PDT

Image by Phani.Kumar via Flickr

What is swine flu?

Swine flu as it is commonly known is, a global outbreak of a new strain of influenza virus – 2009 flu pandemic, officially named the “H1N1”. It was first identified in April 2009 and commonly called “Swine flu”. It is thought to be mutation of four known strain of the influenza family of viruses, subtype H1N1: one endemic in humans, one endemic in birds, and two endemic in pigs (swine).

The outbreak began in Mexico. The virus typically spreads from coughs and sneezes or by touching contaminated surfaces and then touching the nose or mouth. Symptoms are similar to those of seasonal flu, and may include fever, sneezes, sore throat, coughs, headache, and muscle or joint pains. – source: wikipedia

Following are guidelines about swine flu from the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital in Delhi...

SWINE FLU SYMPTOMS: WARNING SIGNS IN CHILDREN

Fast breathing or troubled breathing
Bluish skin color
Not taking enough food or fluid
Becoming irritable
Difficulty in waking up
Flu-like symptoms recur
Fever with rashes

WARNING SIGNS IN ADULTS

Difficulty in breathing

Pain or pressure in chest, abdomen

Dizziness

Severe or persistent vomiting

Not taking enough food or fluid

Flu-like symptoms recur

TACKLING SWINE FLU: THE HOME GUIDE

Isolate affected people, minimize contact for 7-10 days
Stay at home, away from work, school and public places
Frequently wash hands with soap
Use wet cloth for cleaning, dusting
Use disinfectants for cleaning
Get plenty of sleep, be physically active
Drink plenty of fluid, eat nutritious food
Use face mask or handkerchief while coughing, sneezing

f-r-i-e-n-d

noreply@blogger.com (Phani Kumar) — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 21:38:00 PDT

f-r-i-e-n-d, originally uploaded by Phani.Kumar.

Happy Friendship Day.

feedly guided tour

noreply@blogger.com (Phani Kumar) — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 02:40:00 PDT

Nice video showing the features of feedly. A cool reader which nicely integrates with Google reader and you can do a lot of things with it. Just watch it

integrating syntaxhighlighter in blogger posts

noreply@blogger.com (Phani Kumar) — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:57:00 PDT

This post explains how to integrate syntaxhighlighter in your blogger blog posts. Syntaxhighlighter is fully functional code syntax highlighter for your code in your blog posts. It will nicely highlight the syntax of the language.

Either download the latest files from here and upload to your webhost or if you can't upload you can directly link to these files and use them from their hosted site.

Goto Layout tab and select Edit HTML

Backup your template in case you might want to revert back the changes. Include these lines in your template right after the head tag.

<link href='http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/current/styles/shCore.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'/>
<link href='http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/current/styles/shThemeDefault.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'/>
<script src='http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/current/scripts/shCore.js' type='text/javascript'/>
<script src='http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/current/scripts/shBrushJScript.js' type='text/javascript'/>
<script src='http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/current/scripts/shBrushCSharp.js' type='text/javascript'/>
<script src='http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/current/scripts/shBrushSql.js' type='text/javascript'/>
<script src='http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/current/scripts/shBrushXml.js' type='text/javascript'/>
<script src='http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/current/scripts/shBrushJava.js' type='text/javascript'/>
<script type='text/javascript'>
SyntaxHighlighter.all();
</script>

The location of hosted files is http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/[VERSION]. Replace the version with the appropriate version you want to use or you can use the [current] as shown below to use the latest version. You can see all available hosted versions here

<link href='http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/current/styles/shCore.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'/>

If you want to use a specific version from the hosted site then use it like this

<link href='http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/2.0.320/styles/shCore.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'/>

If you don't post C Sharp code and don't want syntax hightlighting for it you can remove the link for that brush - shBrushCSharp.js. So include the brushes for the code you want syntax highlighting.

When posting your code include that in the <pre> </pre> tags like

<pre class="brush: java>
/* your code goes here */
public class A{

 public static void main(String[] args)
 {
  System.out.println("Thanks to Alex Gorbatchev for syntaxhighlighter");
 }
}
</pre>

For a full list of brushes check this link and for themes this link

Thanks to Alex Gorbatchev for beautiful SyntaxHighlighter.

Displaying environment information in java

noreply@blogger.com (Phani Kumar) — Wed, 27 May 2009 10:25:00 PDT

The following program will display environment information. It uses the System.getenv()
method to retrieve the environment information.

/* 
*      SysInfo.java  
*
*      Copyright 27-May-2009 Phani Kumar
*      
*      This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
*      it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
*      the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
*      (at your option) any later version.
*      
*      This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
*      but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
*      MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
*      GNU General Public License for more details.
*      
*      You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
*      along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
*      Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston,
*      MA 02110-1301, USA.
*/
package com.sixthavenue.phani.examples;

import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Map.Entry;

/**
* @author Phani Kumar
* 
* Displays System environment information
*
*/
public class SysInfo 
{

public void display()
{
  Map<String, String> map = System.getenv();
  Iterable<Entry<String,String>> set = map.entrySet();

  for (Iterator<Entry<String, String>> iterator = set.iterator(); iterator.hasNext();) 
  {
    Map.Entry<String, String> entry=  iterator.next();
    System.out.println(entry.getKey() + ":" + entry.getValue());
  }
}

public static void main(String[] args)
{
  SysInfo info = new SysInfo();
  info.display();
}

}

Installing Jadclipse in eclipse

noreply@blogger.com (Phani Kumar) — Wed, 20 May 2009 05:17:00 PDT

Check out my post on installing JadClipse in eclipse on my other blog 5th Cross at installing Jadclipse in Eclipse

test post

noreply@blogger.com (Phani Kumar) — Thu, 14 May 2009 04:51:00 PDT

This is a test post for testing syntaxHighliter

The following code for java script

public class B extends A implements C
{

   public B(){
   }

   public void display(String s){
       System.out.println(s);
   }

   public static void main(String[] args){
        B obj = new B();
        obj.display("hello");
   }

}

ALL Vodafone Zoozoo IPL Ads in one - must watch!

noreply@blogger.com (Phani Kumar) — Wed, 13 May 2009 03:41:00 PDT

Vodafone IPL Contest - Be the Star of the Match

noreply@blogger.com (Phani Kumar) — Wed, 13 May 2009 03:29:00 PDT

This one is very good

mosaic of ubuntu photos

noreply@blogger.com (Phani Kumar) — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 02:14:00 PDT

mosaic of ubuntu photos, originally uploaded by Phani.Kumar.

1. cube desktop, 2. Desktop, 3. June Desktop, 4. shift switcher, 5. Expo, 6. Ring Swithcher, 7. Gnome do, 8. Desktop Flickr organizer, 9. Bluetooth file transfer, 10. Bluetooth file transfer, 11. connection to mobile phone using wammu, 12. kmobile tools, 13. kmobile tools, 14. Pairing new device, 15. bluetooth devices, 16. Bluetooth devices

Ubuntu Jaunty and Gnome-do Docky - An awesome combination!

noreply@blogger.com (Phani Kumar) — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 04:35:00 PDT

Ubuntu Jaunty and Gnome-do Docky - An awesome combination!

Ubuntu 9.04 Notifications Preview

noreply@blogger.com (Phani Kumar) — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 02:37:00 PDT

Upcoming Ubuntu 9.04 Notifications Preview

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Android 3.0 Preview

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Posting source code in wordpress.com posts

50 Stunning Examples of the Droste Effect

Linux Admin Quick Reference Guide

Efficient blogging with Windows Live Writer

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