Your phone might catch a cold

FIR of a virus on a phone! A very warm welcome to the world of computing! Soon we will need antiviral software running on our phones all the time and that would mean that your phones will get more processing power. If phones take the way PCs have, the day when we will have a phone with a huge Pentium or whatever processor and tons of RAM won’t be too far away. ...

February 22, 2005 · 1 min · Shivanand Velmurugan

Woes with airtel services

What a lousy feeling it is, when you hold shares of a company, whose customer you have been for more than 2 years and have paid everyone of the bills in time, and when you have an issue, you are brushed under the carpet!That’s what happened to me today. I have been with Airtel (cell phone service provider in Chennai, India - for the uninitiated ;)) for the last two years. I had an automatic debit facility enabled. In January, the credit card I had enabled the auto-debit facility on expired. Airtel, promptly disabled the facility and disconnected my service asking me to call customer support. Well, I tried to do just that, but you know what?, the call to customer-care wouldn’t go through coz they disconnected me!! Wonderful! ...

February 17, 2005 · 3 min · Shivanand Velmurugan

New website launched

Hi folks!! This weekend I got myself a website and a domain name. I’m yet to get my site up and running. I am looking for ideas for my site content. keep checking http://www.shvelmur.com

February 2, 2005 · 1 min · Shivanand Velmurugan

Eulegy for a good heart

Today has been a very sad day. I bid farewell to Mr Subramaniam. He was my grandfather’s nephew and has been my a great inspiration to me in my life. One of the bravest and knowledgeable persons I have known. One who lived through life with conviction and was as clear at heart as they come. He has always been there for my family at good and bad times. A devout and practising Hindu, and a learned man in vedic chants, I have always envied him of having lived in my grandfather’s company. I think, what I know about my grandpa, is what “mani thatha” (what I used to call him) has told me of. Having lived in the pre-independance era, he has offered many insights into the lives of my forefathers. ...

January 22, 2005 · 1 min · Shivanand Velmurugan

A very kewl site from Microsoft

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/design/ This site deserves a visit, but don’t try it with anything less than a T1 line! ;) (T1 = high bandwidth high speed - for the uninitiated) A very new refereshing interface. Quite an enjoyable experience.

December 15, 2004 · 1 min · Shivanand Velmurugan

Tutorials for the uninitiated

JavaScript Tutorial This site has the most comprehensive tutorials for almost everything that I have seen offlate!!! Really work a visit! If you are looking for anything related to the web from HTML, XML, CSS, Javascript, DHTML, SQL, ASP, .NET, VBScript, SOAP, RDF,WAP ..etc.. and the list goes on forever, you can find it at the aforementioned site!! hats off to whomever that maintains the site!

December 13, 2004 · 1 min · Shivanand Velmurugan

Zaval Light-Weght - Visual Component Library

This is a very kewl gui toolkit for J2se, .NET, J2me . Very neat and neat indeed. Zaval Light-Weght - Visual Component Library It is available under GPL and comercial license.. Need to try using it with a coupla tools I have in mind. I know that there are zillions of open-source utilities out there, but I am looking for ideas for applications and utilities that you would liket o use at home/work. ...

December 9, 2004 · 1 min · Shivanand Velmurugan

Pocket GCC @ mifki.ru

Been offline for quite a few days now!! Work, work work!!! Loads of it!! and I am luvin’ it! Btw, my latest acquisition in my digital brigade is my new (well not so!) Delll Axim X3 handheld!! Check out these sites for kewl development utils for the pocket pc http://mifki.ru/pocketgcc/index.html http://mifki.ru/pcsharp/index.html

November 30, 2004 · 1 min · Shivanand Velmurugan

copyrights!! that's the in-thing these days !! Wired 12.11: How I Learned to Love Larry

Wired 12.11: How I Learned to Love Larry This article by the former CEO of RIAA is quite intriguing. In today’s world of “digital creativity”, are the copyright laws really as relevant as in yester-years? Does copyright laws curb creativity or are they in place for safegaurding the poor content creator from being cheated out of their pride possessions by 12-year-old, computer weilding school kids?! Check out these links too ...

October 28, 2004 · 1 min · Shivanand Velmurugan

Google Desktop Search Download

Google Desktop Search Download Check it out!!! I love thee Google, “Lord of Search”!! Really really neat way to access information. Very quick, a little scary considering that Google can go on to become the next MS! We the users of technology (particularly developers, testers etc) are going to have more exiciting times!! Google Desktop is a like have the Google search engine installed for searching your system. it indexes your system, and ofcourse it currently supports only Microsoft products, but hope that a few of the open source software liek thunderbird and firefox are also supported soon. ...

October 21, 2004 · 1 min · Shivanand Velmurugan