Mirosoft's IE dope

Say hello to the new world of product integration. The concept has been the secret of the rise of mammoths, one whom the new one has taken on. No prizes for guessing who the giants are. Now, into the subject matter.
We’ve seen Microsoft use this strategy for about 15 odd years now and has been very very successful(extra stress on very ) .The integration of Internet Explorer into Windows Explorer ,use of proprietary DLLs into the very famous Visual Studio programming languages and later support to export these into 3^rd party compilers was received very well indeed. And, what Microsoft showed was possible in offline products is now being done by its competitor against the creator itself (ala Frankenstein, alas IPRs aren’t to be taken lightly, never mind the bad humor and the point I was trying to make and the fact that this has become an unconventionally long sentence).
The latest in the offering by Google is the export of all the pictures you post in your blog to Picasa .The offer is that it would provide 1 GB of space that you can use to archive all your pictures by date, tag them and share them too(after all, this has been the mantra of the new web ,the much hyped Web 2.0 –social presence ). And you, in return make them a good competitor to Yahoo Flickr. Of course, they didn’t say that, but what do you think the new features (ala Google style) link in Picasa which refers to the new (aaargh) ‘Search Picasa community photos’ would be for.
And now into the details. Each of your blog has a separate album and the good news (hehe, my hard disk needs some freeing up, note this and you will know my next step).
The little problem for now is that only photos uploaded since December will be archived, for now although, since Google says it is making efforts to get the older ones up as well. Google says the problem is ‘there are a lot of them’ .The features: You can order prints of them, and mail them. These albums are marked ‘unlisted’ though you can change it later to make them ‘public’. These albums are marked nicely with a ‘B’ (Blogger Logo) and stand out special ;) .
Oh, I forgot to tell you the best part. You can even embed the albums somewhere else in the web. For those who have a real good photo collection, all I would say is “Time to show off, folks”.

The Hacker Attitude

1. The world is full of fascinating problems waiting to be solved.
2. No problem should ever have to be solved twice.
3. Boredom and drudgery are evil.
4. Freedom is good.
5. Attitude is no substitute for competence.
Hackers solve problems and build things, and they believe in freedom and voluntary mutual help. To be accepted as a hacker, you have to behave as though you have this kind of attitude yourself. And to behave as though you have the attitude, you have to really believe the attitude.

But if you think of cultivating hacker attitudes as just a way to gain acceptance in the culture, you'll miss the point. Becoming the kind of person who believes these things is important for you — for helping you learn and keeping you motivated. As with all creative arts, the most effective way to become a master is to imitate the mind-set of masters — not just intellectually but emotionally as well.

Or, as the following modern Zen poem has it:


To follow the path:
look to the master,
follow the master,
walk with the master,
see through the master,
become the master.


So, if you want to be a hacker, repeat the following things until you believe them:

Steve Jobs Interview, CEO Apple Computers

Stanford Report, June 14, 2005
'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says
Printable VersionThis is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.

I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.

The first story is about connecting the dots.

I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?

It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.

It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

My second story is about love and loss.

I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.

I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.

I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.

My third story is about death.

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.

I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.

This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Thank you all very much.

Symbian OS Version 8.1

Symbian OS is the advanced, open operating system licensed by the world’s leading mobile
phone manufacturers. It is designed for the specific requirements of advanced 2G, 2.5G and 3G
mobile phones. Symbian OS combines the power of an integrated applications environment with
mobile telephony, bringing advanced data services to the mass market.
Symbian OS supports a wide range of device categories with several user interfaces, including
Nokia Series60, UIQ and DoCoMo OCD. Commonality of the Symbian OS APIs enables development
targeting all of these phone platforms and categories.
Key features of Symbian OS v8.1:
• Rich suite of application services – the suite includes
services for contacts, schedule, messaging, browsing and
system control; OBEX for exchanging appointments
(vCalendar) and business cards (vCard); integrated APIs
for data management, text, clipboard and graphics
• Java support – supports the latest wireless Java
standards, including MIDP 2.0, CLDC 1.1, JTWI (JSR185),
Mobile Media API (JSR135), Java API for Bluetooth
(JSR082), Wireless Messaging (JSR120), Mobile 3D
Graphics API (JSR184) and PIM and FileGCF (JSR075)
• Realtime – a realtime, multithreaded kernel provides
the basis for robust, power-efficient and responsive phone
• Hardware support – supports latest CPU architectures,
peripherals and internal and external memory types
• Messaging – multimedia messaging (MMS), enhanced
messaging (EMS) and SMS; internet mail using POP3,
IMAP4, SMTP and MHTML; attachments
• Multimedia – audio and video support for recording,
playback and streaming; image conversion
• Graphics – direct access to screen and keyboard for high
performance; graphics accelerator API; increased UI
flexibility (support for multiple simultaneous display,
multiple display sizes and multiple display orientation)
• Communications protocols – wide area networking stacks
including TCP/IP (dual mode IPv4/v6) and WAP, personal
area networking support including infrared (IrDA),
Bluetooth and USB; support is also provided for
multihoming capabilities and link layer Quality-of-Service
(QoS) on GPRS and UMTS networks
• Mobile telephony – Symbian OS v8.1 is ready for the
3G market with support for WCDMA (3GPP R4);
GSM circuit switched voice and data (CSD and EDGE ECSD)
and packet-based data (GPRS and EDGE EGPRS); CDMA
circuit switched voice, data and packet-based data (IS-95
and 1xRTT); SIM, R-UIM and UICC Toolkit; other standards
can be implemented by licensees through extensible APIs
of the telephony subsystem
• CDMA specific features including CDMA network roaming,
third party OTA API, NAM programming mode, CDMA SMS
stack, NAI handset identification, interfaces to enable
Mobile IP, and bridge and router gateway modes of
operation
• International support – supports the Unicode Standard
version 3.0
• Data synchronization – over-the-air (OTA) synchronization
support using SyncML; PC-based synchronization over
serial, Bluetooth, infrared and USB; a PC Connectivity
framework providing the ability to transfer files and
synchronize PIM data
• Device Management/OTA provisioning – SyncML DM
1.1.2 compliant
• Security – full encryption and certificate management,
secure protocols (HTTPS, and SSL and TLS), WIM
framework and certificate-based application installation
• Developing for Symbian OS – content development
options include: C++, Java (J2ME) MIDP 2.0, and WAP;
tools are available for building C++ and Java applications;
reference TSY’s for 2G, 2.5G and 3G provided.
www.symbian.com
Symbian OS v8.1
Technical specifications
Messaging
SMS (supported on GSM, WCDMA and CDMA)
Concatenated SMS
Smart Messaging
- vCard and vCalendar
- OTA system configuration
EMS (3GPP R4)
MMS (3GPP R4)
- SMIL 3GPP R5 (PSS 5) support
- choice of WSP and HTTP as transport
Email (POP3, IMAP4, MIME attachments, SMTP,
SMTP auth.)
WAP push
Java
CLDC 1.1 and MIDP 2.0
JTWI (JSR185)
Java API for Bluetooth 1.0 (JSR082)
PIM and FileGCF (JSR075)
Wireless Messaging 1.1 (JSR120)
Mobile media (JSR 135)
Mobile 3D graphics API for J2ME (JSR184)
Telephony / telephony API
Multimode ETel
GSM Phase 2+
SIM Application Toolkit, class 3
SIM and USIM support
HSCSD
GPRS, classes A, B and C (R97/98)
EDGE (EGPRS, ECSD)
WCDMA (3GPP R4)
Quality-of-Service framework
Phone book synchronizer
CDMA (IS-95) and 1xRTT
R-UIM support
CDMA network roaming support
Third party OTA API
NAM Programming Mode
Multimedia
Audio capture and recording framework
Video capture and recording framework
Direct screen access
Hardware abstraction layer for multimedia acceleration
Abstract camera interface
Still image conversion (all common formats) with scaling enhancements
3D Graphics support with OpenGL ES API and reference implementation
(for use with WINS emulator and test h/w only)
Application framework
Advanced UI framework
Contacts (incl. vCard)
Agenda (incl. vCalendar)
Unicode v3.0
Now supports Thai, Arabic, Hebrew, Japanese and Chinese
Connectivity and data synchronization
OMA SyncML Data Sync v1.1 (Agenda and Contacts)
OMA SyncML plug-in framework
OMA SyncML Device Management v1.1.2 framework
PC Connectivity
- agenda and contacts sync framework
- file conversion and transfer
Communication infrastructure
TCP, IPv4, IPv6, MSCHAP v2
IPSec
TCP/IP plug-in framework
WAP stack
HTTP plug-in framework
- HTTP 1.1
- Pipelining
Multiple Primary and Secondary PDP contexts
Multihoming
Support for PPP and Mobile IP CDMA specifications
Personal Area Networking
Bluetooth v1.2 (L2CAP, RFCOMM, AFH, SDP, GAP and SPP, excluding
eSCO)
Bluetooth PANu and PAN GN
IrDA
USB client v2.0 Full Speed (ACM, WHCM)
Serial
Obex over Bluetooth, IrDA and USB
Security
Cryptographic algorithms – DES, 3DES, RC2, RC4, RC5 and AES
Certificate management (X509, WTLS certificates)
Secure Software Install - MIDP 2.0 support
Cryptographic token framework
SSL/TLS/WTLS (secure web connections)
IPSec and VPN client support
Software development
J2ME MIDP 2.0
Metrowerks CodeWarrior, Borland C++ BuilderX and MS Visual Studio
support for C++ development
PC emulation environment Symbian OS v8.1 System model

New Programming Environments.

This is one of my most recommended software's if you are a software developer.

AutoHotKey
www.autohotkey.com
©2003-2006 Chris Mallett, portions ©AutoIt Team


AutoHotkey is a free, open-source utility for Windows. With it, you can:

Automate almost anything by sending keystrokes and mouse clicks.
You can write macros by hand or use the macro recorder.
Create hotkeys for keyboard, joystick, and mouse.
Virtually any key, button, or combination can become a hotkey.
Expand abbreviations as you type them.
For example, typing "btw" can automatically produce "by the way".
Create custom data entry forms, user interfaces, and menu bars.
Remap keys and buttons on your keyboard, joystick, and mouse.
Respond to signals from hand-held remote controls via the WinLIRC client script.
Run existing AutoIt v2 scripts and enhance them with new capabilities.
Convert any script into an EXE file that can be run on computers that don't have AutoHotkey installed.

The Conscience of a Hacker

+++The Mentor+++
Written on January 8, 1986
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Another one got caught today, it's all over the papers.
"Teenager Arrested in Computer Crime Scandal",
"Hacker Arrested after Bank Tampering"...
Dang kids. They're all alike.
But did you, in your three-piece psychology and 1950's technobrain,
ever take a look behind the eyes of the hacker?
Did you ever wonder what made him tick, what forces shaped him, what may have molded him?
I am a hacker, enter my world...
Mine is a world that begins with school...
I'm smarter than most of the other kids, this crud they teach us bores me...
Dang underachiever. They're all alike.

I'm in junior high or high school.
I've listened to teachers explain forthe fifteenth time how to reduce a fraction.
I understand it. "No, Ms. Smith, I didn't show my work. I did it in my head..."
Dang kid. Probably copied it. They're all alike.

I made a discovery today. I found a computer.
Wait a second, this is cool. It does what I want it to.
If it makes a mistake, it's because I screwed it up. Not because it doesn't like me...
Or feels threatened by me...
Or thinks I'm a smart aleck...
Or doesn't like teaching and shouldn't be here...
Dang kid. All he does is play games. They're all alike.

And then it happened... a door opened to a world...
rushing through the phone line like heroin through an addict's veins,
an electronic pulse is sent out, a refuge from the day-to-day incompetencies is sought...
a board is found.
"This is it... this is where I belong..."
I know everyone here... even if I've never met them, never talked to them,
may never hear from them again... I know you all...
Dang kid. Tying up the phone line again. They're all alike...

You bet your life we're all alike...
we've been spoon-fed baby food at school when we hungered for steak...
the bits of meat that you did let slip through were pre-chewed and tasteless.
We've been dominated by sadists, or ignored by the apathetic.
The few that had something to teach found us willing pupils,
but those few are like drops of water in the desert.

This is our world now...
the world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the baud.
We make use of a service already existing without paying for what
could be dirt-cheap if it wasn't run by profiteering gluttons,
and you call us criminals.
We explore... and you call us criminals.
We seek after knowledge... and you call us criminals.
We exist without skin color, without nationality,
without religious bias... and you call us criminals.

You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat,
and lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good,
yet we're the criminals.

Yes, I am a criminal.
My crime is that of curiosity.
My crime is that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like.
My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that you will never forgive me for.

I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto.
You may stop this individual, but you can't stop us all... after all, we're all alike.

Welcome 2 utitech

Welcome world!
This is the place you can expect to find working tweaks for your comp, mobile, in an easy to understand no frills easy language.
This is my first post. See ya tomorrow.