Get PNR status on your mobile sms. Powered by Google 4

Google has a host of mobile products for the Indian market, the full list can be seen here. Among them, the pick of the lot is the SMS product, using which one can get instant PNR status for your Indian railway ticket reservation. Excerpts from the page here. Get cricket scores, Indian Railways train schedules ...

Duplicate tab for firefox 3.5 3

Until I saw this post , I was sorely missing the duplicate tab for firefox. It was near the top of my most loved firefox extensions till firefox 2.x. The addons page for this extension said it does not support 3.5. Well, and then I learnt 3.5 has a built in duplicate tab feature. Just ...

Undo SVN merge from a Collabnet eclipse merge client 1

Collabnet has added a enhanced merge client to work on top of Eclipse and subclipse. While it replaces the existing merge client given by default in subclipse, it adds quite few features for the merge process. Every body knows the pain surrounded in an svn merge. No matter how you do it, there’s always a ...

Enable sound for 3gp videos in ubuntu using mplayer 4

To play 3gp videos with audio using mplayer in Ubuntu Jaunty, add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list file sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/jaunty.list --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list You need the GPG key for medibuntu packages. Get it the following way. sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring sudo apt-get update now install the following packages w32codecs mplayer mencoder amrnb ...

Unable to connect Yahoo messenger in Kopete? 4

[UPDATE] As of now the latest update on jaunty for the kopete package, the problem is fixed in the version 4:4.2.2-0ubuntu2. It seems Yahoo! is changing their protocols for client connection. Heard somewhere this is done to disallow 3rd party clients like pidgin and trillian access yahoo’s messenger service. On my Ubuntu Jaunty, this has ...

Flex builder on Linux kept on Hold?

This post has reported that the flex builder work on linux has been put on hold.  Noted Adobe techie has said “there is not enough requisition for the product to continue its development” Well, that’s not a great news to hear.. considering the open sourced SDK of adobe flex,  good amount of interest was generated ...

Gmail Inbox preview while gmail is loading

Gmail Inbox preview while gmail is loading
New in gmail labs allows you to preview your inbox when gmail is loading. Useful, if you have a little slow connection. Your anxiety of which mails you are about to open will be served too.:) Just goto gmail -> settings – > labs look for inbox preview enable it, close the browser and relogin ...

Patch for Flex builder 3 with Eclipse 3.4 Ganymede 1

If you have been working with Eclipse 3.2 or 3.3 with flex builder 3, and if the upgrade to 3.4 broke the builder, try the following patch http://www.tekool.net/blog/2008/06/28/flex-builder-3-plugin-dont-work-with-eclipse-34/ Just download the patch from here unzip it somewhere on your desktop and copy the plugins content ( 2 jar files) to your eclipse’s plugins folder. If ...

FOSS.in 2008 announced.

FOSS.in 2008 announced.
India’s only and premiere foss event has been announced. It is to be held at its traditional home, IISC Bangalore between 25th November and 29th Novemeber 2008. Register now http://foss.in/register/delegate-registration or visit http://foss.in for more info. Happy FOSSing!

World record attempted, and I got a certificate!

World record attempted, and I got a certificate!
Around 8 million downloads in 24 hours for Firefox 3, great feat! Get your certificate from here..