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Restoring Send, Menu, Home keys on your HTC mytouch android phone

amit — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:58:34 PDT

I had this frustrating experience before on my android phone (HTC MyTouch 3G). This usually happens after powering on the phone after some time, it does not respond to the physical keys like “Send”, “back”, “home”, “menu”. The keyboard lock pattern is gone and you just cannot seem to lock the phone and you need [...]

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Mahishasur Mardini Stotra

amit — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 04:55:53 PDT

Courtesy: http://carnatica.net/lyrics/mahishasuramardini.doc Audio Download/Listen. Devanagari English In Devanagari: अयि गिरिनन्दिनि नन्दितमेदिनि विश्वविनोदिनि नन्दनुते गिरिवर विन्ध्य शिरोधिनिवासिनि विष्णुविलासिनि जिष्णुनुते | भगवति हेशितिकण्ठकुटुंबिनि भूरि कुटुंबिनि भूरि कर्ते जय जय हे महिषासुरमर्दिनि रम्यकपर्दिनि शैलसुते || १ || सुरवरवर्षिणि दुर्धरधर्षिणि दुर्मुखमर्षिणि हर्षरते त्रिभुवनपोषिणि शङ्करतोषिणि किल्बिषमोषिणि घोषरते | दनुज निरोषिणि दितिसुत रोषिणि दुर्मद शोषिणि सिन्धुसुते जय जय हे महिषासुरमर्दिनि रम्यकपर्दिनि [...]

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Elmcity San Diego, CA

Friendconnect recommendations module

amit — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 15:39:13 PDT

I have been thinking about adding more “social” features to my song lyrics website. Have been looking at google friendconnect for some time and had added their initial friend-wall module. But that did not quite integrate well into the website. There is an appeal to having people using whatever identity they have (google, yahoo, aol, [...]

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Sandboxie: Blocking Web-Based Malware From Your PC - www.esecurityplanet.com

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Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:00:00 PDT

YouTube - IPL's Channel

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Ubiquo guides

Default file sort order in DOS

amit — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 11:04:12 PDT

This is just a quick tip – I use mp3 players mostly for listening to audio books. So when I rip the CDs, I take extra care to create properly named files. But recently I found out that the new mp3 player I got (Great product BTW to listen to mp3 files in your car FM radio; how [...]

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Tetherbot
This is an experimental SOCKS proxy and Port Bouncer that should allow you to connect your laptop to the internet using the internet connection (EDGE, 3G or Wifi) of your T-Mobile G1 Cellphone

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Jubilator - Git it on your hands
A nice tool to quickly browse code on github. Provides a desktop editor like multi-tab interface.

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Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PST

ETF Finder « apsquared.net
Use this tool to find a list of ETF’s that have a specific holding (in it’s top 10% of holdings). This tool will search through over 750 ETFs to find which ETFs have a specific stock symbol. Please let us know what you think, we can enhance this tool if people think it is valuable.

Kolhapurchi Maja

amit — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:41:54 PDT

Kolhapur Radio prank. Mee Baburao boltoy: Some fun conversation between radio host and an unsuspecting person. Prerequisite – at least some understanding of Marathi.

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Hot, Flat and Crowded – Friedman’s new book

amit — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:29:30 PDT

After the success of “The World is Flat”, Friedman turns to the negative effects of the globalization; the global warming and its the chilling consequences in his new book “Hot, Flat and Crowded – Why We Need a Green Revolution–And How It Can Renew America”. He makes an argument that America needs a big problem [...]

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Book Notes – The Adventures of Johnny Bunko

amit — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:21:11 PDT

Finished reading a new book The Adventures of Johnny Bunko by Dan Pink (whose previous book – A Whole New Mind I liked a lot). This book is unique because it is made entirely of manga style cartoons and it has clear and simple career advice. Instead of listing down the key ideas, I will [...]

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First impressions on Google Wave

amit — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:52:39 PDT

I was really looking forward to get a chance to play with Google Wave. If you have not heard about this, Google is experimenting with a new means of communication and collaboration (to destroy any remains of your unused time!). Watch the video of the demo from Google IO conference to get a feel for [...]

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डिपाडी डिपांग

amit — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:06:52 PDT

डिपाडी डिपांग डिचिबाडी डिपांग इडिबाडी डिचिबाडी डिपांग ।२। ||ध्रु|| काळी माती निळं पानी हिरवं शिवार ताज्या ताज्या माळव्याचा भुईला या भार ज्वानीच्या या मळ्यामन्दी पिरतीचं पानी बघायाला कवतिक आलं नाही कुनी मळ्याला या मळेवाली भेटलीच नाय अन् राणी माझ्या मळ्यामन्दी घुसशील काय ||१|| काकडीचा बांधा तुझा मिरचीचा तोरा मुळ्यावानी कडू तरी रंग गोरा गोरा लिंबावानी [...]

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Book Notes – The New Coffeehouse Investor

amit — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:28:59 PDT

This is the second edition of The Coffeehouse Investor. I had really liked the first edition and I dug this up to see what has changed. This book is all about three lifelong principles: 1. Don’t put all your eggs in one basket – Diversify your assets to maximize the chances of reaching your financial [...]

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Fun with microsoft “bing”

amit — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:47:56 PDT

Bing (the microsoft way of googling information) has gone live today! Seems nice and googly! Had some fun with the search suggestions: type linux in the search box (but don’t press enter). Watch all the suggestions Seems like they are making AJAX request to http://api.search.live.com/qson.aspx?query=linux every second or so for anything that is typed and [...]

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RSS Feeds for Indian Columnists

amit — Wed, 27 May 2009 13:42:34 PDT

Frustrated by Indian Express’s inability to provide individual syndication feeds for its columnists, I have written scripts to parse the HTML pages and generate the feeds myself. Here are the feeds for Shekhar Gupta Tavleen Singh. R. Jagannathan (DNA India) Arun Shourie Sudheendra Kulkarni Ila Patnaik If you want this for another columnist, let me [...]

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Simple way to share files on intranet.

amit — Sat, 09 May 2009 15:52:57 PDT

If you want to download files from machine A to machine B and have python installed on machine A, here is a very simple way to do it: On machine A, open a command window and change directory to where the files are and run this command: python -m SimpleHTTPServer This command starts a web [...]

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Seminar: Lars Ekman – EVP & President Global R&D – elan

amit — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:59:23 PDT

From Rags to Riches and back again – 7 Year Learning Experience with eLan History – Deal driven Cash Flow – Drug Delivery Acquisitions – 22 companies in 2.5 years Model – JV between Biotech and elan which will buy IP from elan using money from elan! MS Tysabri Tlymphosites reverse memory loss on cover [...]

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opml to csv converter

amit — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:37:23 PDT

This is a first step in being able to make all my planets configurable from anywhere. The following ruby script parses the opml file specified on the command line and generates a comma separated file with XML feed URL and feed title. In case of nested outline elements, it just picks the elements which [...]

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Hridaynath Mangeshkar in Los Angeles

amit — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 18:12:50 PDT

Had the pleasure of attending the live concert of Pandit Hridaynath Mangeshkar (Feb 21, 2009). It was a blast – with Panditjee’s rendition of the memorable songs that he has composed and sung (in some cases). There were around 400 people attending and still it had a feel of a private mehfil with Panditjee responding [...]

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Password protect GNU screen sessions

amit — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:35:54 PST

Or, How do i get a crypted password for .screenrc ? Here is a quick tip, hopefully it helps someone, I struggled with this for some time… I have been using GNU screen program since a long time. This program is like a window manager for terminals and is especially useful for ISP and home [...]

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Sony Bravia Internet Link Unofficial API

amit — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:07:45 PST

Some notes from experimenting with my new toy! The device (DMX) plugs into HDMI port of the TV and has its own HDMI input allowing pass-through. The control of DMX is done from a USB cable which is attached from the TV to DMX (Wonder why they do not use the HDMI for that!). DMX [...]

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बाल विहार प्रार्थना

amit — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:01:38 PST

To play the file, click on the small triangle before the name. (needs javascript and flash plugin) To download the file, right click on file name and select “Save Link As” or “Save Target As” १ एकदन्तम्‌ महाकायं लम्बोदर गजाननम्‌ । विघ्ननाशकरम्‌ देवं हेरम्बं प्रणमाम्यहम्‌ ॥ (Ekadantam mahakayam lambodaragajananam Vighnanashkaram devam herambam pranamamyaham) O Lord [...]

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Did wordpress upgrade destroy all your unicode posts ?

amit — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:44:29 PDT

I upgraded wordpress software for this blog to version 2.5.2. After that none of the posts that had devanagari (unicode) text looked okay. After comparing the configuration files, I discovered that the troubling variable is DB_CHARSET. The default config setting is ‘utf8′. But if you have been updating the software versions, your database table is [...]

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Google jumps into custom hosted application bandwagon!

amit — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:56:30 PDT

Google has launched appengine which provides developers with a platform SDK (python based!) and hosting with access to own Google BigTable database! This competes with Amazon.com’s SQS , S3 (storage) and EC2 (hosting) services which are used by many startups… The applications will get google’s massively scalable infrastructure, failover. Apps would also be able to [...]

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Book updates

amit — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 23:20:59 PST

Finished the following books: Great book on investing! Very easy to read and short too! Joel Greenblatt describes a “magic formula” to rank stocks (based on two criteria: Return on Assets and Earnings yield (reverse of P/E!), rank stocks with higher numbers for both. Add the two ranks and rerank based on sum of the [...]

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Books: Two Travelogues

amit — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:49:25 PST

One fictional: The other factual:

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Seminar: Morgan Dene Oliver – CEO OliverMcMillan

amit — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 21:45:47 PDT

Today’s speaker was Morgan Dene Oliver who is a CEO of OliverMcMillan, a real estate development and management firm. While his projector was getting fixed, he started by doing some show-of-hands about who in the audience: 1. believes “Art and Design” are essential for their future success ? (Many hands went up) 2. believes they [...]

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Seminar: Leo Spiegel – Mission Ventures

amit — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:48:07 PDT

This was the first professional seminar. Leo Spiegel is a managing partner with Mission Ventures, a hi-tech venture capital firm. Leo has been a president of Digital Island, CEO of Sandpiper Networks. He is also a member of Dean’s advisory Council of Rady School of Management, UCSD. This was an interesting and engaging presentation about [...]

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