VC’s Techie CockTail

Here is a mail on Facts Underlined , which I got from my friend Honeyking

Whenever I find the key to success, someone changes the lock.

To Err is human, to forgive is not a COMPANY policy.

The road to success??.. Is always under construction.

Alcohol doesn’t solve any problems, but if you think again, neither does Milk.

In order to get a Loan, you first need to prove that you don’t need it.

All the desirable things in life are either illegal, expensive or fattening.

Since Light travels faster than Sound, people appear brighter before you hear them speak.

Everyone has a scheme of getting rich.. Which never works.

If at first you don’t succeed.. Destroy all evidence that you ever tried.

You can never determine which side of the bread to butter. If it falls down, it will always land on the buttered side.

Anything dropped on the floor will roll over to the most inaccessible corner.

42.7% of all statistics are made on the spot.

If you have paper, you don’t have a pen??. If you have a pen, you don’t have paper?? if you have both, no one calls.

If you have bunked the class, the professor has taken attendance.

You will pick up maximum wrong numbers when on roaming.

After a long wait for bus no.20, two 20 number buses will always pull in together and the bus which you get in will be crowded than the other.
The last person to be fired or quit is responsible for all the errors until another person is fired or quits.

Irrespective of the direction of the wind, the smoke from the cigarette will always tend to go to the non-smoker

written by Vignesh \\ tags: Fun Junkies

The last week I was searching around softwares, info on windows mobile phones, here is a list of sites which I found useful

• Windows Mobile : Official site of Windows Mobile. Nice start point to know everything about windows mobile software and phones
• WM6Software : A good site for Windows mobile softwares
• Freeware PocketPC : A great site with a large collection of free softwares for windows mobile
• PocketPCCity : A nice portal with news, reviews and other info on various windows mobile phones

written by Vignesh \\ tags: windows mobile

I’ve a TrendNet wireless router for the past 1 year, without being able to properly configure it with my BSNL Broadband connection. But the last week, with my friends Santhosh’s help I was finally able to make my home a ‘wi-fi’ hotspot. Here is how I did it,

First I checked my broadband connection was working. Then I took the network cable from the bsnl modem and plugged that end to 1 of the 4 LAN ports in the TrendNet router and whereas the other end was connected to the LAN port of my desktop computer. Then with the other network cable, one end was plugged into the WAN port of the router and the other end to the LAN port of the BSNL modem. Now I switched on both these gadgets and checked whether the “System”, “WAN”,”WLAN”,”LAN” lights were glowing in the router and “Power”,”Link / DSL”, “LAN” lights were glowing in the bsnl modem. At this point, if these lights glowed like it did for me the connections you have made are right. Now on to the next step.

Booted into my PC, and in my Internet Explorer logged onto 192.168.1.1 with my router admin id and password. Then in the WAN link selected,I entered the following options

• Connection Type: PPPOE
• WAN IP: Obtain IP automatically
• Service Name: ‘Anything (just for reference) or leave it blank’
• UserName: Account username
• Password: Account Password

And in the password section, I’ve selected WEP encryption and entered a 10 digit passcode. And in other options like SSID network its better to enter a simple network name. And basically thats all. After saving the router will restart and viola !! the broadband was working in my desktop and when I searched for a wireless network with my Ideapad it was there for me to surf wirelessly around my home.

written by Vignesh \\ tags: broadband, bsnl broadband, wi-fi, wireless router

From my previous post on a No-Frills Samsung B520 , today I am going to post my thoughts on Nokia’s enterprise offering E71. Before I got it in my hand, I thought it would be very wide and large but when I got it in my hand I was pleasantly suprised by its compact finish and stainless steel build and its solid finish. Its measurements of 114 x 57 x 10mm and weight of 127 grams is a testament to that.

The landscape oriented screen measuring 2.36 inches and featuring a 320 x 240 pixel 16 million color is nice and sharp to look at. The phone running in Nokia’s Series 60 V3.1 armed with 369 Mhz processor is quite snappy with only little lag. Even though the User Interface is quite plain jane to look at, it can be jazzed up with themes.

Its a long time I’ve used a QWERTY based phone, even though the keys were small it was quite easy to type with. The network reception and call quality was typical Nokia. And those who have used Series 60 phone will feel at home and newbies the interface is friendly enough so there wont be a steep learning curve.

Since its a “Enterprise phone”, features like E-Mail, Office document viewer, Organizer, Phone book, Calendar are all well made and ready to use including a plethora of connectivity options from quadband gsm, hsdpa, wireless lan, bluetooth and usb support.With support for both symbian and java softwares its extensible and ability to do various tasks.

And even though its a enterprise phone, its got a capable 3.2 megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash and a capable media player capable of playing music and videos. Unlike N series phone it has only a 2.5mm jack but still sound through speakers and headphone is good. Coupled with FM radio and a micro sd card slot its a good portable media player too.

Its price too is quite a bargain at 19,500/- rs (375 $) with a pouch, memory card ,usb cable and headset inside the box. The major gripe might be that it has no touch screen functionality.

written by Vignesh \\ tags: e71, Nokia