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Thunderbird "Cannot find binary component" error solved

2012-04-10T06:40:00.003-07:00

Recently i started getting an error message "Minimize to Tray-Component Load Error" while launching or loading thunderbird and "Minimize to Tray" addon was not working properly, "Thunderbird + Minimize to Tray addon + leapord theme" is a killer combination and i use it for email access on all the system i work, Both in office and at home that's the reason i still haven't upgraded my thunderbird to 11.* from 3.1.*. because i just can't live without these addon's as the default mail clients such as outlook and outlook express does not really poll for mails and run in background and notify us whenever we get get mail.

Though error message clearly states that "Component Load Error" or "Cannot find binary component." which means some dll is missing to run this addon properly no matter how many times i download this addon from official mozilla addons site uninstalling thunderbird, deleting all the directories in "application data" etc still i was not able to fix it.

Finally i got to know the addon authors website address in mozilla site Here where i could download the latest working version of the addon which worked perfectly do leave a comment if this worked for you guys.

[solved] the file or directory is corrupted and unreadable

2012-03-21T07:17:00.003-07:00

Today evening i logged into my computer to but for my horror drive g: was corrupted and everything was changed when i clicked on any folder it was showing the error message "file or directory is corrupted and unreadable" i was totally pissed of because it was around 30gigs of important data see the below pic how the folders and files in corrupted drive looked click on the image to enlarge

after googling for a while from microsoft kb site i came to know that This behavior can occur if the file, folder or file system index (Master File Table [MFT] or File Allocation Table [FAT]) is damaged.

solution was simple just to run the chkdsk to repair the damaged files and folder file system index just followed the simple steps see below and issue got fixed

1. Click on start and click on run
2. In command prompt type chkdsk/ f g: (drive g: in my case) and press enter
3. Click ok, thats it you are done

it takes time depending on your hard disk size and data in drive, in my case for 30gigs of data it took 5-10 mins see the below pic after running the chkdsk i was able to recover the data in the harddrive G: click on the image to enlarge

Warning: though chkdsk attempts to fix the file system index using chkdsk with the /f command some time data loss may occur so its better to use it unless until u have a full backup of your disk

below is the chkdsk syntax for windows xp

CHKDSK [volume[[path]filename]]] [/F] [/V] [/R] [/X] [/I] [/C] [/L[:size]]

volume	Specifies the drive letter (followed by a colon), mount point, or volume name.
filename	FAT only: Specifies the files to check for fragmentation.
/F	Fixes errors on the disk.
/V	On FAT/FAT32: Displays the full path and name of every file on the disk.
/R	Locates bad sectors and recovers readable information (implies /F).
/L:size	NTFS only: Changes the log file size to the specified number of kilobytes. If size is not specified, displays current size.
/X	Forces the volume to dismount first if necessary. All opened handles to the volume would then be invalid (implies /F).
/I	NTFS only: Performs a less vigorous check of index entries.
/C	NTFS only: Skips checking of cycles within the folder structure.

Though this is the first time i ever faced this problem while using this system for last 7 years, this problem mostly occurs in secondary or external harddisk if you have faced the same problem and fixed it do comment back.

Went to the church for first time in life

2012-03-15T07:46:00.003-07:00

I visited church for first time today, being a Hindu i never went to the church,mosque or worshiping place of any other religion, temples are the only spiritual and worshiping place i visited my entire life and today i visited church with my sister since she wanted to light the candles for some reason... My sister has a christian friend with whom she visit church once in a while since she was not there this time i accompanied her.

And what weird is i was touching statues of Jesus and other christian gods with hand in praying in Hindu style, while all of them down there were kneeling and giving prayers, all the time i was inside the church i was feeling uneasy to wear shoes, since we Hindus always leave our footwear outside the temple but still it was a nice experience visiting the church for the first time and i was not able to experience or know how priest/father pray or perform religious rites since i visited untime.

below is the pic of Epiphany Church near jayanagar 4th block which i visited.

Just writing this post for future reference down the memory lane to know when i visited the church and for longingly remembering

Which color ink to sign documents red green blue or black

2012-03-01T08:28:00.004-08:00

who can sign in green ink? can anyone do signature in red ink, Is there any legal rule that green and red can only be used by government authorities or people at higher position this was the question that was bugging in mind from my childhood but never attempted or cared to know about it, but today something made me to research on this subject but after googling i did not get any convincing straight forward answer all the i came to know was different version of answers based on their own opinions but not convincing or authoritative any where even there was no wiki entry to best of my knowledge on it on which ink for which rank authorities.

Even the transport authority official sign in my driving license was green in color but same sign was red in my sister driving license so this shows level of authority does not mandately need to use same color to do signature.

But popular opinion and belief in internet forum and blogs suggests:

--> Blue and Black: is used by lowest level government officials or people in general positions
--> Green: Will be used by people at middle level such as notary public, oath commissioner (though i always thought green is for highest level)
--> Red: is used by people at highest level (not sure i thought it to be at mid-level)

But i have seen many privileged gazette officers use both red and green ink to sign now after googling for answers my doubts turned into confusion and i really did not get any solid answers any where on the net, who ever reading this post know more about which ink signifies what leave of authority do leave a note here.

Bsnl online bill payment landline bangalore missing SSA or STD

2012-02-22T06:00:00.003-08:00

Recently i wanted to pay BSNL landline bill i registered in portal.bsnl.in, i was asked to add my phone account i selected the circle as Karnataka and when i needed to add SSA or STD code for Bangalore from the list i was amazed to see that Bangalore was missing after a lot of search i finally found a way to pay bill online, really these bsnl and government portal are always stupidly designed or maintained i even had problem filing income tax online see below pic

Paying BSNL landline bill online is very easy just follow simple steps below

1. Log into www.bangaloretelecom.com
2. On left hand side click on "View & Pay Phone bills online"
3. On top corner select New User? Sign up now link
4. Add your telephone number, consumer number and register
5. Now click on bills you can see the outstanding landline bill and can make a payment directly from there see below pic

Though i paid my bill via BSNL bangalore portal it is better to register in bangalore one so that we can pay all the bills such as cellphone, landline and electricity bill at the same place.

Facebook is not safe ? its your unofficial personal database to the world

2012-02-12T21:57:00.000-08:00

Lately i am feeling highly unsecured on Facebook, sometimes i feel like i am exposing more personal information about myself in this virtual world than real world with friends and family, Facebook has grown to such a enormous scale that it holds more personal information of people around the world compared to intelligence organizations like FBI, CIA, CBI etc collectively put together, i sometimes feel Facebook is another spying portal if you know first name and last name or email id you can get significant amount of information of the person you are searching, even government spy agencies around the world is using it as tool to fight crime, not only facebook it applies to twitter also.

Recently European couples in United Stated was detained and deported back to their home country just for tweeting silly message about United States, i read somewhere that USCIS(United States Citizen Ship and immigration Services) is also tracking applicants on facebook and one person was even showed his photographs downloaded from FB and questioned more by Visa officer though creepy its true see below video how CIA saved millions in intelligence data gathering because of facebook

Now a days its fun for me finding people on facebook who i encounter in virtual world such a forums, chatting rooms, websites etc easily on facebook with their complete persona portrayed like never before i think facebook is systematically collecting your data to become a one world Spying agent, the day may be near when people realize the fact and start coming out of this spying portal.

Though many of my friends who are facebook ambassadors and fanatics claims it to be safe and secure pointing towards its privacy features still facebook does not deny to handover our information to Government agencies without our permission, whatever it is i am planning to slowly remove my personal info from this notorious website and eventually delete my account.

Keep your personal information and other things on facebook as minimal as possible, because you don't know what information about yourself exposed on this portal becomes a silver bullet against you in near future, best use facebook just as a chatting application instead of sharing your personal and family pics, interests, things you hate, personal emailid's, phone numbers etc etc, and btw don't add strangers that's the biggest mistake we all tend to do, play safe

USCIS denied my petition l1b individual premium

2012-02-10T09:24:00.000-08:00

after a month long wait finally my l1b individual was denied stating that my petition was unable to prove that i have specialized or advanced knowledge, I strongly feel denial was really unfair.

My petition was submitted to USCIS on 14 dec and i got rfe on specialized knowledge on dec 23, it took a week to draft my specialized, advanced and proprietary knowledge in the document and finally submitted on jan 17th and got denial decision on jan 31, any person with no or even with little technical knowledge can easily understand the petition, and i suspect uscis adjudicator has not read my petition fully expect initial pages which contains brief introduction or partial information about my specialized knowledge because points he raised in denial letter is completely answered in my petition.

After my L1b filing and hell lot of research on USCIS process i got a lot of know how on how USCIS process the L1b or H1b petition, from my experience i learn't any tomdick and harry who do not have any specialized knowledge can easily get Petition approved if it is well documented its a major blunder in USCIS visa process for individual petitions.

This is a threat to small and startup because they do not have content writer like large and medium sized companies whose HR department can write a excellent approve able document where as in small companies and start ups even though employees with good specialized and advanced knowledge often tends to get denied just because of bad documentation.

USCIS should consider kind of business, number of employees, size of business all other factors before denying the petition because it really damages the business opportunities of start-ups and small size companies in the present competitive market where time plays a major role in company success.

For the people who are above to apply for L1b that too from small or startup companies please prepare the document well USCIS gives a shit whether you have specialized knowledge or not, approval always depends on just good documentation if possible hire a good content writer who can prepare the docs artistically and good attorney who has experience too, do inquire whether the lawyer has rich experience in filing L1b's because many lawyers have more experience in H1b rather than L1b.

Install new software Hang at 49% in eclipse IDE

2012-02-08T02:01:00.000-08:00

Recently i wanted to install C/C++ developers plugin in eclipse for Android NDK development but weirdly the installation was getting Stuck 48% though, i had no clue why this was happening this was the first time i encountered error like this in eclipse.

I already installed similar setup in windows 7 pc and working fine but when i tried to setup same thing in windows xp with service pack 3 i was getting error the installation/plugin was getting freezed at 48% until we cancelled it manually see below pic.

then i came to know that where the bug was, the issue was Oracle Jre 7 and it was the know issue with JRE so i uninstalled Jre7 and installed JRE 6 and now the plugin installed without any issues it is said that this issue was resolved in JRE 7 Update 2 but for me i was getting error even in Update 2 so i rolled back to JRE6 and it is working fine

some websites blocking back button navigation in browser

2012-01-22T23:27:00.000-08:00

recently i am finding many websites are tricking visitors not to navigate away from the website or webpage by disabling or overriding back button recently i landed up in website which offers mp3 downloads but when i did not find needed in that page when i clicked back button in the browser it was weirdly disallowing me to navigate back though i experienced this type many times but clicking back button twice or continuously for a while i was able to navigate away but this website called clip.dj was appending # at end of URL and overriding back key of browser.

below pic shows that website is automatically overriding back button by appending "#" to the same webpage URL thus making us stay on same webpage

Though sometimes it would be a legitimate redirect issue such as when you was redirected by login or some kind of transaction based navigation but if it was just a normal "search engine to website" or "webiste to website hop" and you cannot still hop back then the present website is intentionally holding you back.

So if you are stuck and you want the search engine result of the previous page then don't worry just click on the history menu from the browser and click on the previous link you came from if you know any other tip or trick to overcome this do share it here

Though i am sure its not a browser issue since i have checked this website(ex clip.dj) on IE, Chrome and firefox which is exhibiting same behavior of disabling browser back button i guess the admin/owner of the website is intentionally doing this.

Frontech gem 2225 driver for windows 7

2012-01-13T08:40:00.000-08:00

Recently i wanted to use my frontech 2225 gem ecam on windows 7 pc but unfortunately after installing the software/drivers from the CD given while purchasing the cam did not worked it was incompatible with windows 7 and was throwing error "The software for this device has been blocked from starting because it is known to have problems with windows. Contact the hardware vendor for a new driver.(code 48) see the below pic

After a lot of search i was finally able to find a compatible device driver software for frontech jil e-cam and this is the first time i felt never to go for desi brands electronic items because they never care to update their driver stack for their products all i found was 40kb driver file in their website and the drivers for frontech ecams come from sonix inc.

Finally i found driver for frontech gem jil 2225 you can download it from 4shared link here just follow below steps to install i tested it on both 32 and 64bit windows 7 OS

download the driver from above link:

1. Right click on the downloaded driver file --> select "properties"

2. select check box "run this program in compatibility mode from drop down menu select "Windows xp(service pack2 or service pack3)

3. after installing restart the system if it asks.

Now your frontech gem e-cam should be working fine and windows 7 ready if you are having any problem at any steps do say here.

how to download Facebook videos ? working solution

2012-01-10T01:45:00.000-08:00

I recently wanted to download a video posted on Facebook when i googled i stumbled across many links on how to download youtube videos but most of the technique or tips such as scripts, extensions and tools i found was either obsolete or not working for some reason and was very complicated which requires accessing third party websites etc and after a a lot of tries and using addons i found few methods/tools which indeed helped me in downloading the Facebook video clips directly instead of redirects and complicated methods, so thought of sharing these tips i found with you guys

Video Download Helper
If you are using Mozilla firefox then Downloader Helper is a must have tool this extension is developed by third party you can find it in the Mozilla official website deck and can be installed depending on your mozilla firefox version.

Download helper not only rips facebook videos but can download videos from various social networking and web portals such as youtube, vimeo, personal sites, and other organizational websites.

Once the addon is installed and firefox is restarted if the webpage contains any video played the download helper icon near address bar automatically start animating and when you click on the drop down list you can see the list of downloadable video's as shown in below pic.

Firefox and Google Chrome Cache viewer

This is being my favourite type of video rip off trick, from last few years now this trick allows to download almost 90% of videos and audios found on the net, the trick is browsers always download a copy of videos into its cache because if user replays video it does not want to download again from the net this comes very handy because browsers save this downloaded video in form of cache until a specified amount of time say few hours to a day, there are lot of cache viewer plugins and tools that can view and download this content from cache such as audio, video, image, documents etc from browsers such as Firefox, chrome, Internet Explorer, Safari, Opera etc, below is the pic of cache viewer of mozilla firefox

you can install this cache viewer as an addon or download it Here seperately for a specific browser.

Though there are many other tricks to download video from Facebook and other website's such as giving link in some portals and running grease monkey scripts from Firefox i found above two techniques to be easy and non complicated if you know any other easy way of doing do let me know.

has youtube video views count stopped ?

2011-12-28T11:05:00.000-08:00

Lately i started noticing most of the youtube videos count's/counter are getting frozen regularly one morning last month i watched a video on youtube for some reason i was able to remember the view count but when i opened the same video on youtube again that afternoon it was clear that the view count was not ticking the count was same which i saw in the morning. So what might be the reason? below are few things i came to know after searching on forums and net

Since many people started embedding youtube videos and tweaking youtube embed code to automatically play the video youtube has started fighting back to protect its integrity of services to stop view spamming and its relationship with partners and advertisers.

It is also said that youtube has taken action against the view count to consider only legitimate views say if total view count is 430 and i have viewed same video 200 times youtube automatically considers it as 229.

Some say there is a bug in youtube video view counter mechanism.

What ever it is see the above pic which shows youtube video count remained same even after 6 hours even after i watched the video the comment marked prove the statement, btw do you have more information on it?

Automatically repeat option on youtube

2011-12-23T06:13:00.000-08:00

how to replay or loop videos on youtube? this was the question came to my mind when i stumbled across nice music video which i was not able to resist to hear again and again on youtube today though i never searched for repeat option before today when i searched for it i found youtube video's does not have repeat we have to manually click on replay link.

Searching for the hack on how to repeat youtube videos i found a grease monkey script that exactly does what i need, Loopy for youtube is a Greasemonkey script which all to repeat youtube videos over and over again automatically.

after installing greasemonkey and script you get a extra option/link loop in youtube player window as shown in below pic clicking on it loops video infinitely

Though youtube gives the ability for publishers to embed videos on their own site with inbuilt repeat functionality where user can use the value pair loop =1 in embed script don't know why youtube guys has missed such a important feature in their website.

nostalgic classic magnetic gyro wheel toy of lost decade

2011-12-09T23:23:00.000-08:00

growing up in 80's was very fun atleast for us we used to play whole lot of games on streets than home unlike today's kids who are addicted to computer and indoor games and have become couch potatoes and yes toys and comics was our one stop gap of enjoyment and we were annoying our parents for it alteast every now and then.

I was born and bought up in Bangalore and jayanagar 4th block and gandhibazar was my week end Disney land these places where so much happening it was a great place to shop and streets and shops were filled with all sorts of toys from mini working steam boat, water guns, classic car toys to gyro magnetic wheels etc and cotton candies for time pass it was all in 80's and early 90's.

And today when i walk in same streets all i can find is pirated CD's for Sony psp and Xbox,PC game Cd's and some cheap Chinese toys, and really tons of toy's really was out of chart! whats more i was not able to find even cotton candies on the street, to hell with the internet generation, Internet has really snatched all the fun we had from our present generation kids.

The reason to write this post is while browsing for something i came across below pic

Which triggered my retro memories of this nostalgic piece of toy which i used to have and played all times, really when i tried to find this classic toy in Bangalore i was not able to find one if any of you guys reading this know where we can find it in Bangalore do comment here.

feedburner shows 0 subscribers count bug or penalty?

2011-12-02T21:26:00.000-08:00

Today morning i woke up to see that my website / blog feed subscribers had gone from 600+ to mere 0 in just a night i was very much concerned that 2 years (though my blog is 4 years old i added feed burner 2 years back) of building user base just banished in one night. i logged into my feedburner account but i can see all the subscribers active but unfortunately the count on the widget on my site still shows zero even after cleaning the browser cache and loading on to different browser and system see below pic

but if i try to add new email id / subscriber it was still taking in and feeds are still updating with latest content at this point i came to know that its some temporary glitch in the system and when googled it was no surprise that many people had faced same situation in the past.

Still there is no any information in their official blog what concerns me is i have quite a good number of regular feed readers around 300+ according to stats hoping to send a email to them and lets see what happens, just temporarily removed the display of feed count from the widget will be putting it back when the feed count starts showing correctly.if you are a blogger and have faced the same situation do share with us here.

update 04/12/2011: Finally issue got fixed now i can see the subscriber count as usual.

free google apps email for families or other email hosting

2011-11-27T01:01:00.000-08:00

Is there any free alternative similar to google App's email service for families and friends group? answer is "NO", since google app's reduced free accounts initially from unlimited to 200, 200 to 100, 100 to 50 and finally now from 50 to 10, i started googling for alternate players though i expected there would be someone far better such as Microsoft or Yahoo i was surprised to know no one offered free email service like google did which has the complete cloud such as docs, contacts, calendar, chats etc not just email.

I have been using Google app's for my family domain from past 4 years and i have around 200 users limit and i have filled up around 24, recently one of my friend wanted to setup a similar kind of custom domain for his family and all of them have Android and other smart phones but unfortunately he wanted 18 accounts for his entire family but with the new limitation posed he was unable to do so since buying a premier edition for family is not worth it because most of his family members are non geeks and they just want EMAIL and Rarely Calendar nothing else and he was cribbing to have purchased a domain earlier and set it up...

I think google should increase the limit atleast to 25 for standard users it will be very useful for people with midsized family.

When google allows people to create unlimited email accounts for free on gmail then why they have reduced the limit to such a low number on its google apps? when it is similar and no different from regular gmail except people will have their own domain extension and can choose to create email accounts with their first name and also don't mind ad's in their inbox webpage lately i realized google is purely moving into commercializing everything and is not sticking to their original slogan "Don't be evil" its more or less evil now a days with their rigid policies.

what ever it is i suggested my friend other cheap and best alternatives though not best and par with Google they do offer a decent service such as from Bigrock email hosting service where they charge just 4$/per-month for 50 accounts with 2GB space with pop/imap and even contact sync which is more than enough for a family email solution.

Incorrect domain renewal date on my Google order receipt email

2011-11-19T23:06:00.000-08:00

I just renewed my domain from Google through my credit card but i was amazed to see that in order receipt Google says my domain is registered until DEC 19 2010 this means my domain cease to exist, see the below pic

i think its a bug in the system but my who.is record shows its correctly renewed until 2012 DEC 19 what ever it is when i searched on the Google this issue is faced by Google custom domain owners from several months still Google is no updated this issue.

Is Engineering Degree worthless if not applied in profession ?

2011-11-17T09:59:00.000-08:00

I have seen many people who do engineering or any other college degree just for sake of graduation only 50 t0 60% of them apply what they have studied during their degree in real life atleast in INDIA.

Most of the people in india join engineering just to get into IT field and earn easy bucks whether they have choose major in Mechanical, Electrical, Biotechnology, Electronics or Printing majority of then finally take a crash course on Java or Dotnet Technologies and jump into IT field.

Whats more i know tons of them who completed the engineering course just for the sake of degree and doing other profession many of my friends who have completed Engineering in Computer Science is doing business and into Professions such as Construction, Politics, Film Career etc.

So one question started spinning in my mind, is the degree worth that we studied for and never applied in our life? when i asked this questions to many of my friends, i got a standard answer for almost all of them they say "U know what, This education would help us in growing our children" though weird all of them says the same above answer then why shud we send kids to school can't we teach our self? i think pre-university course is more than enough to bring up a child.

In My Opinion a obtained degree is worthless if we do not apply at least once in our life time, i say even if we work for 1 or 2 years in the profession which we have done major our degree's are really worth else its just another cardboard paper decorating our wall, so what do you guys think do you agree with me or you have any other version to say.

how to clean greasy chimney grill or baffle filters

2011-11-02T04:34:00.000-07:00

most of the modern kitchens around the world is equipped with electric chimney to expel out kitchens fume and cooking smoke during the course of time the oil gets accumulated within the chimney filters though it would be easy for guys who use replaceable filters, but most of the people use a chimney with baffle filters which can be reused again and again by degreasing it, but de-greasing baffle filters is not a common man's task, to completely pristine remove the grease from chimney its easy but require to use of chemical.

We use generous amount of Oil and ghee for cooking this was making our chimney to get fully greased almost every month but paying for degreasing baffle filters was costing too much since the service guy was taking 500rs for 30mins job.

When i watched the cleaning work it was fairly simple the service guy would put baffle filters in a plastic tray and put a handful of white crystalline powder on the filter and just pour boiling hot water thats it a crackling sound, smoke and strange reaction occur for about a minute bingo when he remove filters from tray it looks as if new leaving all the dirt, oil/ grease in the tray.

So what is the chemical/powder used to degrease the chimneys?
I asked service guy what is the name of the powder he refused to say and told me that its is highly dangerous and proprietary and is given to them by the chimney company and he was our regular chimney service guy but this time this guy was not able to come and sent his colleague when i asked the same question he was very quick in revealing the name of that "Secret powder"! at-last i came to know the magic behind the cleaning :)

The magic powder is called "Caustic Soda" also known as Sodium hydroxide or Lye which we can get in local grocery stores, remove the mesh from the chimney put it in a plastic tray or container and put handful of caustic soda on chimney and pour hot water and just keep it only for 2-3 minutes and remove it. Please be careful and do not touch with hand at all. Put gloves and use then remove filters it should be grease free.

Warning: You should be careful while using Caustic soda aka lye it is highly corrosive if used it in wrong way or pouring hot water directly on it or inhaling the fumes and not using gloves and goggles is highly dangerous so if you are not sure on how to use it use at your OWN RISK, better leave it professionals if you are not sure what you are doing.

Is time passing more quickly than before?

2011-10-31T06:07:00.000-07:00

There is a saying that time seems to pass faster than usual as we grow or get older, back when i was in school more than a decade ago the days seems to be of reasonable length but everything seems to be changing now time is flying like anything it starts with Monday and i am amazed to see how quickly i land up on Friday 2008 was longer than 2009 and 2009 longer than 2010 year by year time seems to get phenomenal acceleration... Is earth really rotating that fast? or there is some unknown phenomena behind this? this was few of the question churning in my mind lately.

Is it all how we perceive time or is there any physical reason behind it? this topic is vastly discussed in many forums and blogs each of them give their own reasoning some attribute it to physical saying there is a change in universe and higher consciousness, space and time, some weird theories etc.

It is proved that more we enjoy time seems to fly's away at faster rate say watching a good movie of 2hrs seems to fly like 10 or 20mins and a 2hrs of college lecture seems to be boring and never ending, We are living in interesting times where electronic gadgets, computers, internet and other modern things and social culture keeps us so busy and entertained that time seems to pass faster and faster.

Whatever it is i believe that the latter idea of modern era is behind the fast pacing time factor so what do you guys thin you agree with me or do you have your own theory?

Contacts backup in android Mobile sync / restore instantly Wirelessly

2011-10-08T00:09:00.000-07:00

For Long time one thing missing in android market is a powerful address book or phone book backup application good enough to sync your contacts to the cloud and restore in case of theft or changing phone to such as iPhone, Blackberry or Brew and other J2me devices.

I recently came across a Contacts Backup sync application in android market called "Desktop Sync" though the name sounds weird it backup's contacts to the Remoba servers which is highly secure and sync's quite often whenever a new contact is added, modified or deleted such that keeping exact same copy of contacts in both Phone and Web whats more this application even gives you a "desktop Sync application" for all versions of windows OS that lets you sync all your contacts from Outlook, Outlook express, Palmdesktop or Lotusnotes to the webserver which then you can sync them back to your mobile, i think thats the reason they named it "Desktop Sync" its complete "Contact Sync solution" at your finger tips.
What's more? you can even add, edit, modify, search the contacts through the Web Access/portal, this comes handy if your handset is @home and you urgently needed your friends or family phone number see the below pic contact list in web access.

This is not yet over you get a complete list of awesome cutting edge features with this app that you only dream't of such as:

Backup of Phonebook Contacts
PC Sync Software that enables your desktop PIM contacts(Outlook,Outlook express, Lotus Notes and Palmdesktop) to your mobile phone
Restore Contacts from Server to the Phone
AutoSync – Daily, Weekly, or Monthly
Data Wipe when the phone is lost or stolen
SSL Security
Web Access for online viewing or editing contacts
Find your Mobile, it shows the location of your mobile device on the map.
Still lots of other features yet to come cooking in developers garage.

QR Code to download this application
Whats more Remoba boasts of bringing Google, Yahoo and Hotmail sync via this android application in near future so watch out, i already started using this contact / addressbook backup application and i am really satisfied if you are looking for a pure/working 2way sync android contacts backup app then this is your best bet and you will never loose your numbers again

Google Plus Stickers with adsense check (Stick 'em up! )

2011-10-05T00:27:00.000-07:00

First of all "Wish you a happy dussehra and vijayadashami" for all of you guys, well today i got google adsense check in the morning a good sign this festive season, secondly while i was digging for check inside the envelope i found something extra this time, though at first i thought it could be some kind of coupons or gift voucher :) i was surprised to find four Cool "Google Plus" Stickers inside it see the below pic.

E'mm what to do with stickers, well the stickers are really cool so i though of sticking it on to my room door see below pic ain't it looks great :) and planning to stick another one to rear windshield of my car and other to My AC unit outside :P ..

I heard google send lot of other goodies such as USB memory cards, digital photo frames, Mobiles, Wireless Mouse, lava lamps etc to top publishers i think it still takes a long time for me to reach that mark.

It would be a good idea if Google distributes Orkut, gmail, blogger and other stickers too, for bloggers T-shirt would be better :P

Thanks you google for sending such a cool google plus sticker and helping us monetizing on the hobby that we love to do and hope you keep sending such goodies to adsense publishers.

Do you remember family phone numbers lately ?

2011-09-12T10:14:00.001-07:00

I bet 90% of people in world do not remember mobile / phone numbers of their home, family or friends, recently i forgot my cell phone and i was too far away from home and urgently required a mobile number of my friend but unfortunately i was not able to remember numbers of my mother and sister nor anyone @home, and one thought that came to my mind is who should i call in an emergency? because i haven't memorized any number? though i remember landlines number it is in my room and only used for internet/broadband and this shows how much we are dependent on stored numbers in our mobile phones and handheld electronic devices.

So how to remember phone number in case of emergencies? below are few methods that may save you in case of emergencies:

1. First of all try to memorize two phone numbers one is your family member and other is your best friend.

2. It would be a better practice to maintain a "phonebook /telephone index" for important contacts and emergency numbers, i guess this was the common mode of storing phone numbers before cell/mobile phone became widely used.

3. Sync contacts to web via mobile or store contacts into web such as yahoo, google or hotmail so that you can access contacts via net in case of stolen mobile or if device is not handy we can just browse online contacts to get numbers anywhere anytime provided we have access to internet.

If you know any other ways or tips to remember or access phone numbers to do share with us.

Names of Nursery Rhymes poets/Authors we need to know

2011-09-03T06:27:00.000-07:00

Every one of them in their childhood must have come across nursery rhymes such as "Twinkle Twinkle Little star", "Ring a Ring o Rosies" etc most of these rhymes are like defacto in schools around the world in most of the countries, and many of you would have even taught to your kids or other children but have you ever tried to know the names of the real persons who actually wrote it? i bet no one would have, recently i was showing some rhymes to my nephew in youtube and i was like "wait a minute" who is the person who wrote this rhyme that 90% of the children around the world are learning next moment i started googling wiki-page and i learn't who author was below are the list of rhymes and the poet/author behind it

Name of Rhyme	Author / Origin	Published Year
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star	Ann Taylor (1782-1866) and Jane (Taylor(1783-1824)	1806
Baa Baa Black Sheep	The slave trade; medieval wool tax	1744
Ring Around the Rosy	Black Death (1348) or The Great Plague (1665)	1881
London Bridge Is Falling Down	Not Known	1744
Ding Dong Bell	Not Known	1580
Hickory Dickory Dock	Reports claim that the rhyme was written by Oliver Goldsmith	1765
Hot Cross Buns Rhyme	Not Known	1798
Humpty Dumpty	Richard III of England; Cardinal Wolseyand a cannon from the English Civil War	1810
Itsy Bitsy Spider Rhyme	Not Known	Not Known
Jack and Jill	Cullen Boltey	1765
Mary had a little lamb	Sarah Josepha Hale (American Origin)	1830
London Bridge is broken down / Falling Down	Lady Lee (Not sure)	Not Known
Star light, star bright,	Not Known (American Origin)	Late 19thC
Pussy cat, pussy cat	Not Known (England)	1805
Rain rain go away	Not Known (England)	17th C or earlier
Row, row, row your boat,	Not Known (American Origin)	1852
This little piggy	Not Known (England)	1760
Three Blind Mice	Mary I of England	1744
Old MacDonald had a farm	F. T. Nettleingham (Original Version)	1917
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe	Not Known (Origin London)	1805
johnny johnny yes papa	Not Known	Not Known

Above is the list of some famous nursery rhymes i came across, i was amazed to see i was not able to find most of the poet behind the rhymes if you think you have a rhyme to add with author and date leave it in comment section i will add it to the table asap.

How to get sitelinks for website & what is authoritative blog ?

2011-08-25T12:31:00.000-07:00

Site-links is one of the important factor for any webmaster or blogger because having site links implies his/her blog or website is considered authoritative by google today when i typed my blog name in google i was surprised to see that my website had a sitelinks on google search i was surprised and at the same time was very happy because not all website and blogs have sitelinks only authoritative websites get the sitelinks automatically enabled by google see below pic

according to google sitelinks help users to navigate our website and they are basically created automatically by google algorithm and these cannot be purchased or requested to google, if google thinks if you have quality information and links it will automatically get generated.

Though there are lots of debate whether having sitelinks for a website is considered to be authoritative but one thing for sure its very hard to get the sitelinks for any website and i am glad atleast i got after 3 years of blogging

Some of the important tips to get sitelink soon:

1. Try to get more organic traffic
2. More the back links more google think your site is important
3. Quality content, content should always be useful and original
4. Search engine Optimization is very important
5. Internal linking will help in bringing more page-views.
6. The website should be very old with good back links.

Now that i got sitelinks for my website i have to see how to modify it to categories instead of links if you guys have any tips do share with us.