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Thursday, April 9, 2009

Android G1 Apps which I use

I had been looking to buy a smartphone for a long time and finally decided to get an Android G1. I have loaded some applications from the App market, after reviewing them online and on the market itself, and they are given below:

Newly downloaded apps are:

1. 1Cast

2. ACast

3. Butters soundboard

4. Email

5. Labyrinth App.

6. Locale App

7. Locations App.

8. Moxier Mail

9. Mr. Mackey Soundboard

10. PF Voicemail +

11. Restaurant Search

12. RoadSync - Another Outlook client wiith ActiveSync

13. Save MMS application

14. Sipdroid - to setup SIP-based calls.

15. SkyMap

16. SnapPhoto - I have to check if it has been re-updated for the Cupcake.

17. SouthPark Open Home Skin

18. Star Translate

19. Steamy Window - fun app !!

20. Stream Furious - excellent audio streaming solution.

21. Translate App

22. TTS Service

23. Tunes for Android

24. TuneWiki

25. Voice Dialer

26. Voice Recorder

27. Voice Search

28. Web Server

29. Wertago

30. Where

31. WikiMobile

32. Wikitude

33. Wordoholic

34. Yellowbook v2.0

Old apps are stated below:

1. Astro.

2. Backgrounds.

3. Barcode Scanner.

4. Bubble

5. Bush Jokes(!)

6. Calorie Counter - via this app you can have quick access to nutrition details of a very wide spectrum of foods and drinks.

7. Cartman sounds :D

8. Chess - pretty challenging.

9. ConnectBot - for SSH'ing.

10. ContactsSync - for sync'ing with my company / professional contacts.

11. Doom (!) - one of my all-time favourite 3-D FPS games.

12. eQuotes - because I feel that quotable quotes can be inspirational, and a little inspiration does no one any harm.

13. Finance - I am not an investment junkie yet, but it is always good to keep a track of what's going on with some of the larger companies and stock exchanges.

14. Flashlight.

15. Free Dictionary - Though I don't foresee a need to be an english-language expert in the near future, I still decided to download this app, just in case because it's good to learn a new word once in a while.

16. Gmote - This is one of my favourite apps, which I downloaded on the very first day I got the G1. Using this app, you can setup your laptop / desktop as a server, and your G1 as a client, and then use the G1 as a remote for multimedia control. Other than that, you can then use the G1 to remotely browse the files on your computer and play the desired ones. Further, the G1 can then be used as a wireless keyboard. And last but not the least, using this software you can stream music from your computer to your phone. Pretty neat.

17. GV app - short for Google Voice - use all the features available in Google Voice via bypassing the browser completely.

18. Hot Giggity - Quagmire's sounds !

19. imeem mobile.

20. J2ME Explorer - to run Java-based apps.

21. Lyric Search.

22. Meridian Video Player.

23. Mother TED - to see videos on the awesome TED website.

24. NPR Podcasts - to listen to the very informative NPR podcasts.

25. Owner app - to display owner info once the phone is locked.

26. Parallel Kingdom - Localized, city-based social network.

27. PdaNet - awesome application, allows you to tether any computer. Tethering, in simple terms, means the capability to use your mobile device as a modem for another device which cannot directly use the internet. This app was not available directly on the Android Market, and I had to download it from the original PdaNet website.

28. Peter Griffin sounds !

29. PicSay - great app. Using this, you can take pictures and modify them directly on your G1.

30. QuotePro - using this you can stream quotes, in real-time to your G1.

I have many more apps to go, but I shall stop for the time being and come back with more info later.

Happy Android'ing !

On Excellence

I have found that excellence is a habit, and it is not like a feature which can be turned on or off selectively. That is, if you excel in a certain sphere of life, then I believe that your chances of excelling in other, seemingly unrelated areas are high. That is because the secrets to success, in seemingly unrelated areas are the same, only their implementation is different. As a side note, my personal experience has been that there are some days, when I am more diligent than the average, and on such days the quality of my work, irrespective of the domain is of a fulfilling nature. On other days, the exact opposite is true.

Friday, January 23, 2009

Dedicated to all the Pilots

Read this somewhere, truly amazing and conveys my sense of awe for all those who fly !

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I hope there's a place, way up in the sky,
where pilots can go, when they have to die.

A place where a guy can buy a cold beer
for a friend and a comrade, whose memory is dear;
a place where no civil servant or lawyer can tread,
nor a management type would ere be caught dead;

Just a quaint little place, kind of dark, full of smoke,
where they like to sing loud, and love a good joke;
the kind of place where a lady could go
and feel safe and protected, by the men she would know.

There must be a place where old pilots go,
when their paining is finished, and their airspeed gets low,
where the whiskey is old, and the women are young,
and songs about flying and dying are sung,

Where you'd see all the fellows who'd flown west before,
and they'd call out your name, as you came through the door.
who would buy you a drink, if your thirst should be bad,
and relate to the others," He was quite a good lad !"

And then through the mist, you'd spot an old guy
you had not seen in years, though he taught you to fly.
he'd nod his old head, and grin ear to ear;
and say," Welcome, my son, i'm pleased that you're here".

" For this is the place where true flyers come,"
" When their journey is over, and the war has been won."
" Relax with a cool one, and a well deserved rest;"
" This is heaven, my son...... You've passed your final test!"

Monday, October 13, 2008

Misc Security Tools

Firewall, Sniffer, Scanner, Nmap, Nessus, SAINT, Snort, Tripwire & SATAN * Cisco Intrusion Detection System, CyberCop, ISS Security Scanner, ISS RealSecure, ISS Preventia, Sniffers - Network Associates Sniffer Pro/ Sniffer Basic, Net-Xray, Ethereal, Snoop, TCP Dump, Novell Lanalyzer, Axent NetProwler, Abirnet Sessionwall, Winpharoah, Nessus, NMap, CyberCop, Internet Security Scanner, SSH Scan, Strobe,Cowpatty, Auditor, Sleuthkit, Autopsy, Helix, Snort, PortSentry, Host Sentry, Tripwire, ITA, ISS, Real Secure, Checkpoint, Cisco PIX, Juniper Netscreen, Secure Computing Sidewinder, Cyberguard, McAfee Intrushield, TippingPoint, SNORT, SourceFire, Fortinet, iPolicy, Cisco, Network General Sniffer, NESSUS, RetinaArcSight, Computer Associates eTrust, eSecurity, Intellitactics, Network Intelligence, PIX

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Opinions

Opinions

- Sometimes it can be a curse to be ‘too’ opinionated. However, I feel it is absolutely very difficult to _not_ form an opinion about many things in life. Maybe that’s just me, in which case it still is OK since this is my blog and all of these are my opinions. :D But, anyways, here is my rationale for my line of thought. Suppose we consider _any_ juncture of your life, when you are seeing new things and/or meeting new people, it is but natural to think and mull over about one’s experience with the place/person/whatever. In general, it is a natural human tendency to place one’s experience in wide ‘buckets’ of goodness/badness etc. As time passes, one’s bucket of categorization becomes narrower and narrower, in other words, it becomes more specific, which again is natural. Here I would like to note, that opinions are based on one’s experiences and/or observations. Observations can be extremely subjective and can depend on too many variables to even comment about. Some parameters can be, what was your ‘mood’ at the time of observation, how was ‘your’ reaction to the person / place in the first place, did you interact with the person with a bias, was the person biased when he/she was talking to you which ended up affecting their reaction to you and thus inturn your ‘experience’ ? Thus, we can see that there can be many parameters which can end up affecting our observations and make them less subjective / more objective. Observations lay the foundations for our opinions, thus a subjective observation will lead to a biased opinion. Hence, for one to have an unbiased (relatively speaking ofcourse since one man’s bias is another man’s neutrality) it is important to be as objective as possible during the process of observation. In other words, one must be able to stop oneself from jumping to conclusions without proper observations….

Questions...

Questions

- Asking questions, lots of them with genuine interest is one of the best ways of learning. Before a questions is asked however, it is very important to realize however that one must try to accumulate all the possible resources and tools one has to possibly answer the question. Let me try to answer what I sat. Questions are usually asked in response to ‘problems’. Now, it is possible that at any given point of time you might have the necessary knowledge base to attack a question, but you might not have the correct direction / approach to attack the problem. Anyways, my point is that the process of self-introspection / investigation into one’s existing knowledge base is very important _before_ one asks the question because once that is done, and your question gets answered, you know _exactly_ what you were missing in your thought process and/or knowledge base and you are much better able to integrate the knowledge acquired to attack future problems. Furthermore, such knowledge is more likely to stick with you for a longer period of time.