iPhone Banter..

Its spilled all over the net and possibly the most talked about things over the net. My friend ( an apple maniac ) is getting an iPhone soon and he has asked me to jailbreak and activate his phone. So all i've been doing is reading forums and watching youtube for hacking the iPhone to work outside AT&T network. Its actually pretty awesome to read so much about iPhone and stuff people doing with it and when I say people, not just any people like you and me, some really wacky brains am talking about who made these all these mods possible in iPhone.

Till now only the iPhone which comes with firmware 1.0.2 is hackable not the newest one which is 1.1.1 . But there is a solution if you have firmware 1.1.1 , you can restore the iPhone and downgrade the firmware to 1.0.2 . And the rest of the method is pretty simple which requires few tools less than 15 mb to get your sims working in iPhone.

Rest i'll update here if i was actually able to hack the iphone when I get or I shud say my friend gets his hands on it. Its actually better if you hack somebody' else's iPhone :-)

Here's a video .. A weird one I should say. Just hav a look then you'll be actually able to realise what I cudnt describe thru text. :)

Google "Sky" ??

More than a week to be precise when I actually got up to write in. To be honest, not much is changing right now so I really dont have moutains to fill in My Part. Everything's going on in a vicious circle except JSP which is going tagentially away.. !!

I came across this cool thing which Google just came out with. People who use Google earth should update thier versions to 4.2 beta which has an extra feature i.e the Sky view as well. It shows the sky directly above you and shows all the constellations and even galaxies. Honestly it sounds cool but people like us wont really waste time looking at the sky without having a slighest idea what are we looking at. But unquestionably its an innovative thing which Google came up with to get their share rising in Nasdaq. Speaking of shares, my mum dad going all haywire as the Sensex n nifty reaching "sky" ;-) ( Look what google can do )

And there must be times when you come across any cemented floors which hav some shoe impressions on them and we tend to pass over simpering by the thought that, what kind of a doofus person can step on that when it is wet. Well I got my answer to that question day before while coming back from my class. Thinking of nothing when I actually took a short cut due to the intensly populated streets of South ex, I decided to go the other way round of a car and before my eyes could actually send an intimation to the brain to stop my leg going into the wet cement, I stepped on it. The first thing which I did was or I shud say my eyes did were looking for people who got it done for thier pavement but thankfully no one was there so came somewhat happily. :-)

Do watch The Number 23. Really liked the movie and the whole concept of it. But somewhat stretched I shud say with sex scenes coming every 5 min in the movie. Overall I rate the movie better than what yahoo movies rate which is C- but its a movie one should watch. Freaked me out for sometime really. I actually went on searching for Epistemology which is obsession with numbers.

Eatopia.. !!

By and large, the heading sums up my weekend if you ask me. All I can recall from my bumpy memory from friday till tuesday is eating :-) not leaving behind the great time I had with friends and the relived old times of collg of sensless talks and laughs. Eating obv is the best thing after sleeping but this time when Tues arrived, I just wanted simple home food. serously. Am a eating buff but honestly the whole out stretched weekend due to tues's holiday really messed up my diet.

Its been almost 2 and half months my MacBook arrived and TILL few days back, I went mad as a hatter to clean the dark patch which started appearing in the place where we generally keep our hand letting the fingers to do the magic. I tried every cleaner which I could possibly get here, but no Luck ! Then weird idea came to my mind searching on net for cleaning white MacBook and wolllla.. I was just mused to see that people have actually started forums for this topic of cleaning White MacBooks. Well that really helped and the ans to this growing dark patches was a simple eraser. And it really did the trick. I whiped out the whole damn eraser to get my Mac in apple-Pie order.. :-)

It was a stewfull last week as well with JSP going no where aboslutely. The great pace which kicked off with Servlets is all gone down hill. Holidays came, then Java Beans was taken in a single class.. Imagine.. !! It was like making you a watch football match and then telling you, Bend the Ball like Beckham..Duh.. !! Seriously.. All I can conjure up from that lec is the demo which our teacher showed us of a star shaped character juggling beans which really left me in the center of no where !!

Again, ya again, I actually managed to watch a veritable waste of 2 hrs in theatre in a span of 2 weeks. The Contract. I dont know what got into the directors head to write that type of a story line where nothing was explained and you got more n more info till the end. But Morgan Freeman's acting was superb. I've been a great fan of him after Million dollar baby.

The great mistake from my last Post. Its about the phone I rote, I actually premised about the intimation in the silent mode but the phone does vibrates in the silent mode as well. But actually its no where in the menus that in silent mode that msg tone will ring or vibrate. Guess thats Samsung style ;-) N my beloved fantasy team which is back on winning streak with liverpool where Yossi scored an absolute stunner. And for the Manu fans, they actually playing shit ass If i want to sum it in 2 words. Just stroke of lucks and nothing else. While their derby partners, i.e. Manchester City are looking tooo good. If they keep playing like this, I bet they cud wriggle past the conked up Chelsea after their Special one's departure.

Not to forget my duplicate Liverpool jersey which I bought from Palika doesnt fit me.. Damn.. !! I was forced to buy from there bcuz the Adidas store doesnt hav the new Jersey of this season. Imagine.. Palika has it and official store doesnt. How advanced are We !

Finally after '83

So finally after very long I shud say the big wait was over and something for us Indians to be gleefull about. We won the 20-20 World Cup. I wasnt keeping much track of the any of the matches to be honest and didnt even see a single match in this tournament. ( ya, I no its surprising ). But the sound of Ind vs Pak just made me pick up my car keys and drive st. to bua's house to watch the final. This was the second cricket match I saw to be precise after that mammoth match between Aus and Saf. No wonder I got a call from my friend Devgan today and the first thing he said was ," Kitne Goal hue " . ! haha.. I really appreciate that guys sense of humor.. !!

Cricket just rules the Indian society really. A place like south EX in Delhi was all lifeless during the match n u wont believe (neither did i ) my class was also called off due to match. When I reached bua's house, I found everybody just hooked on to the tv sets. Specially my dadi was so into the game that she cudnt stop looking onto the screen while doin her routine puja and my Phupha ji just ready to kick our indian bowlers ass and and ready to bowl himself for every sixes and fours they gave. I bet my dadi was praying for our cricket team n nothing else :-). Then finally we won the tournament which was a big thing and a good passifier for the wounds of the World cup which was earlier this year.

And another finally to this post after the a really really long wait for my phone. The word is simply awesome if u ask me. You wont find a better phone in this price range despite of the fact that it is samsung :). The phone is just 10.9 mm thick. I havnt measured it but well thats what it says on the box, Its slick phone with 4 touch buttons on the front panel and key pad slides out downwards. The slid mechanism is a bit rusty I shud say bcuz being dimensionally so small, there's no space for you to slide the front panel up which leaves you giving your finger prints on the screen while you slide the phone. The touch buttons really gave me a hard time first few hours. Everybody being a phone junky who really maneuver the keys sharpish and things really come to the matrix mode when handling the phone. You wont even realise and it'll call and and unbelivable things can happen with these cool touch sesitive buttons and when I say touch sensitive I mean real sensitive.

Another flaw which is THE most irritating thing and which is the ONLY flaw in the functionality of U600 is that it offers no profiles management, just ringing and silent. It didnt bother me much though but the thing which really pissed me off was that for incoming msg, you can only hav a tone or a vibration intimation thing no matter your incoming calls are on ringing state or silent.

Rest the phone is a worth buy and am sure everbody will fall in love with the stunning looks and menus and displays and features lives up to everybody's expectation. Well another down side of the phone which I wont put in my -ve box are the themes. You cant change themes in U600 ! No hardware smashing and no third party softwares, nothin. But the amazing thing is it changes by countries. Though I wont be goin newhere in near future so it wont be much of a use for me but still like here it shows Taj mahal and changes with the places of most importance. The best thing is when you dial no.s from your phone which come animated with a pen or a leaf whichever you want. Another plus to the phone is that here is a setting for sunlight that alters the colour scheme and does indeed make the display a bit clearer in bright sunlight. Not to forget its brilliant camera of 3.2 MP which comes with LED flash.

And well the Battery part I shudnt touch :). The fully charged batt lasted 1 and half days but obv the first 2 days were all messing arnd in the menus and songs and videos and camera testing and going to every single menu trying to search something out of curiosity. Seems to be ok..

There's a pic which I got in my mail, some forward. Usually I dont care to open any forwards in my mail box and just effortlessly press the delete button but I accidently stumbled onto this one which had a very cute pic. I really looked closely if its a work of some hi fi photoshop ka kamaal but cudnt make out. What it looks like to you ?

The REAL feeling..

Gone were the days of college when we actually didnt think twice before our getting our shoes on and throwing ourselves everywhere on the ground to play the game we loved. After planning and planning and more planning from weeks, finally bought a football and got myself ready to play in a ground near my apartment ( Where a couple cudnt help themselves kissin ). Though only two of us ( my apartment mate ) were there but the feel of football on the feet brought the long gone feeling back to life. It felt great to don the Real Madrid jersey I have and play in the ground though it wasnt much of a play but still long balls and some show off juggling were enough to set the mood..

One very cool thing I also did this week was, heard the BBC radio Five Live on my MacBook. Well it seems dumb though but try (Click here n click ne of the available matches) and then come back to the next line which will make things much more meaningful.

The flaw is that it doesnt work outside UK. But doing some fiddling with HTTP proxy, I actually managed to get it work and listen to live commentary of Champions League yesterday night. About proxies, I found on this Site which had countless proxies for every place. You just have to start your real player and goto prefrences and click HTTP Proxy shown down here
and paste any UK proxy but mind you on one thing really. Finding a working proxy from the whole bunch is a hay in a stack kind of a job.

And there is picture which I want to show which is quite humorous and astonishing. I apologize for the poor image quality but you'll have to spare me bcuz am on my dad's rusty nokia 6670 and that too , its shot at night. My U600 yet to come which i'll be getting this week positively.

Look closely in the pic and see there is something on the car.Ok, Its a dog ..!! I saw this very jocular view while jogging and cudnt help myself taking this pic. What does this picture actually imply ? Feel free to comment the first thing crosses your mind seeing the pic !
Does it really show that there's no space for poor doggy's on the roads or dogs are smart enough to find a nice place without anyone disturbing them up there.

I really dont think the person who owns the car will find any thing to laugh about in this pic for sure. :-)

28 Weeks Later..

Its been a long week if you ask me where and what I've been upto. The advanced java kicked off at lightening pace with loads to catch up with. Have to revise my HTML concepts which I skimply went through from a web site. Am frankly finding the servlets and the whole thing pretty interesting but from the past experiences, I better be ready for something horrendous in near future. Learning Java means the process of piling books will go on untill the very end and the end doesnt seem to come any soon. Oh boy. :-(

From the last post till now, there was very little which I cud flock together and update to My Part (  ). I actully have few complaints about people failing to understand, what is this symbol between the braces. Its an apple sign which I guess only Mac users have the god gifted power to see the it. I havnt tested safari of windows though, it might have this symbol in its lib. Coming to my eventfull weekend ( I call it eventfull, most of you wont agree ) ,most of the it went by connecting and reading articles for using Apple Remote Desktop (ARD) or similar remote access softwares for Mac. One which I found was Chicken of the VNC lol's.. I no the name is too funny , cant even imagine what crossed somebody's mind to keep a name like that. But the chicken of the VNC was too chic to work for .Me and my friend had a coversation for 3 hrs on skype to just get the each others screen ( I no am crazy ). I no its a ludicrous affair bcuz it aint that hard to get these things to work and for once I really went to roll back my memories of our trusty windows remote client when ARD was looking rusty. But then after reading loads of blogs about remote access and watching video tutorials and ssh connections and what not, bumped into a software called Hamachi. Its not a very unknown software but I really didnt have an idea that it came for MAC OS X as well which actually did the trick.

Went to see this movie yesterday, 28 weeks later. And pls, dont watch this movie. Reading the reviews on net made me watch the 2 hr complete non sense. I expected it to be a more by-the-books popcorn affair but to my utter disapointment, it wasnt. It was just a fight for survial from a rage virus which was spread throughout London. Its a typical Dawn of the dead or Resident Evil types movie. Resident Evil though offered much more kick ass action with some slick gun shooting that keeps us glued to the screen which definately 28 Weeks Later failed to offer.And desperately waiting for Shoot' em Up. It is surely going to be a action packed piece of celluloid ( seems to be from the trailer ).

And finally England (football team) beginning to paddle things up and getting into a winning habit. After so long I actually found them playing for each other rather playing shit football the whole 90 min. England which always has been the most disconent team from many years despite of having a star studed team which one cud dream of and then also some how manage to fall like pack of cards with a reasonable opposition. It was a boon I guess from the bane that Lampard suffered a injury which made Mc Laren play Gerrard and Barry play in the mid field who I read in Gerrards autobiography were very good friends and came together for a debut to represent the England team.
Lets see, today they play Russia which is again important match to win to qualify for the EURO. But this time I think i'll go with Spain, again a team which has mouth watering talent and style but fail to perform. And thankfully premiership is coming back this weekend boys which will definately bring back the euphoria which was lost this weekend. And hope this time I end up smashing people in my fantasy league and bring my Raiders back. !!

iPhone ?? Look Closer.. !!

Ok, I could not retain myself from writing a post on iPod Touch. Ye boys, the new iPod Touch which was unveiled yesterday along with an upgradation or I shud say (you'll agree with me as well) is a degradation. The new iPod nano's become a hobit now it seems which really failed to impress me.

iPod Touch apart from having almost deceptive looks of being an iPhone, has many features which am sure would blow your head off. It comes with Wi-fi and all the web browsing and emails can be done on that slick piece of metal. Yes it is metal ..!! For those who are dumb enough to test the metal properties by putting their iPod on a huge piece of magnet. (DO NOT TRY THIS), specially if its from HP.. ;) I'm sure only few of the very few who read my dormant blog will actually find the humor element in what I just wrote above.

It costs for 299$ US, which is I guess pretty affordable and something I would like to get my hands onto by next year. A thing which really bamboozled me was the price drop of iPhone and that by 200$. Man.. !! What you make out of that ? Is it really to pump the sales in the market or what ? But obviously, it'll be a delight for people who kept their hearts in the pockets earlier and now can loosen up some to buy it.

To be really honest, hats off the Steve Jobs who always makes a mark in the gadget market with watever he comes with and it ends up becoming the in thing.