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My Nokia e61i gets reviewed on fonearena

Posted By: varun krishnan  Permalink in Web, Reviews, Personal No Tags

25

Aug

I just reviewed my e61i for fonearena

check out the review here and post ur feedback.

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Nokia E61i finally got my new wi-fi phone

Posted By: varun krishnan  Permalink in Gadgets, Personal tags in and

29

Jul

Its almost been 2 years with my Nokia 6630, So I decided to go for a upgrade this time.

Nokia E61i is a phone which meets most of my requirements which are as follows

  • slim form factor
  • plenty of connectivity options - Wi-fi,Bluetooth,IR, GPRS , EDGE , 3G ( which is not coming to India anytime soon :( )
  • long lasting battery
  • large screen
  • Symbian OS
  • email and browsing support

    • Sad points

  • I dont mind the 2Megapixel Camera which is not as Good as the Sony Ericsson phones.
  • Bluetooth is still version 1.2 and lacks stereo support.
  • Audio output in earphones is mono. Lacks a headphone/headset jack.
  • Memory card is not hot swappable.

    • But on the whole , I am happy to have got this phone . Much better than the 6630 on many lines.After all its only a day old.

    Head over to FoneArena for the specs : Nokia E61i

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    I am in a Catch-22 Situation !

    Posted By: varun krishnan  Permalink in Personal tags in

    3

    Jun

    I just turned 22 today.. Its such a nice feeling to look back at the past from here .

    Last year same time. I had just completed by graduation and was about to join Photon.

    Now its going to be almost a year with work as well.

    I must thank GOD, my dear friends and my parents for what I m today.

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    Going to build my own Search Engine spider

    Posted By: varun krishnan  Permalink in Personal, Software, Coding tags in , and

    4

    Mar

    I have been using the web google, wikipedia  and other similar sites to gather information upon the subject of interest.

    I just input the topic and my dream program would prepare a clean report and email it to me with all the possible info about the topic with least redundant info as possible.

    How does it sound ?

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    Google in 1960

    Posted By: varun krishnan  Permalink in General, Web, Personal tags in , , and

    19

    Dec

    google 1960
    Real funny pic i came across here

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    10 Things I like about MySQL

    Posted By: varun krishnan  Permalink in Databases, Personal, Coding tags in , , , , , and

    7

    Dec

    I have worked quite a few databases but most frequently land up using MySQL.

    I have been working a lot on SQL Server 2005 recently at work.

    Some things I love about MySQL are as follows.

    High Speed of Operation

    If you are talking about high speed database access and operation, there’s no better choice. MySQL became popular mainly due to this. Oracle and SQL server may be enterprise ready and more robust when compared to the database from the land of Dolphins.But I just love the speed of MySQL.

    Command line interface

    Simple yet powerful command line gives access entire feature set. In times of Server crashes or high traffic, using the command line via SSH is such a great possibility

    Cool tools

    phpMyAdmin and this database go along so well. MySQL query browser and Administrator are decent tools. Sqlyog is also good enough. There’s a commercial product called Navicat which is quite fabulous.

    Keeps SQL really simple

    In the land of MySQL, you need not be a SQL guru or know the ANSI SQL 92 standard . You just need to have something people call ” Common Sense ” . Its fairly easy to translate real world requirements into mysql queries. If you have worked in SQL server , I am sure you would know how much of crap SQL you need to know for simple operations. MySQL might not be the Enterprise Database but it certainly follows the KISS (Keep it Simple and Stupid) approach.

    Really fast to setup

    I remember using this the backend for my final year project. Its just so easy to get this one running.Be it the official installer,zip or 3rd party tools like Xampp

    Nice variety of storage engines

    MyISAM, InnoDB ,Heap ,Merge are some of the storage engines you can use for your database.

    Cross Platform

    Windows, Linux, Mac, Solaris or even on VMware.

    Light Hardware Requirements

    MySQL is known to eat some amount of RAM, but its works fairly well even on the most simple configurations like a AMD 1.6GHz 256MB RAM Machine. Short learning curve Pretty easy to learn

    Huge User Base

    This is one of the best points about MySQL. Since its free , so many people use it and so you can easily find free help.

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    Mobility at its Max

    Posted By: varun krishnan  Permalink in General, Gadgets, Personal tags in , and

    21

    Nov

    I was off for a short trip near hyderabad during the weekend.Had to travel some 300kms from Hyd to Mantralaya. The only connectivity I had was my Nokia 6630 with Airtel Mobile office. I was able to check mails using the Gmail Mobile App and could also read my favorite blogs using an RSS reader.

    Opera Mini is also a must-have killer app. The speeds were dead slow but atleast transfers were happening.

    Hope the networks are faster !!

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    XML with PHP4

    Posted By: varun krishnan  Permalink in Web, Personal, Coding tags in , , , , , and

    22

    Oct

    I major upgrade is scheduled for one of my projects. Most of you will know which one..

    I have been avoiding XML till now but this time round I cant escape without using the same..

    I know a bit of XML but using it with PHP is what is puzzling me. PHP5 has built in XML support but PHP4 not much.

    Need to use some 3rd party classes I believe.

    Building the new system is going to take some considerable time for sure, but its worth the effort.

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    CIA personality quiz

    Posted By: varun krishnan  Permalink in General, Personal, Links tags in , , , , and

    19

    Oct

    According to the CIA, I’m a Impressive Mastermind
    Take the CIA Personality Quiz, and see for yourself, what sort of a person you are.

    via [nirenjan]

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    Wordpress spikes server load and site down

    Posted By: varun krishnan  Permalink in Web, India, Personal tags in , , and

    19

    Oct

    This site varunkrish.com was down due to  wordpress spiking the server load.

    Finally its back up again.

    Hosts in India are bad.. suspended my account without even informing me.

    WTF? I paid them for a bunch of sites and they dont even have the courtesy to inform me before taking the site down.

    I had to submit a bunch of freakin tickets to get the problem resolved.

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