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Get PNR status on your mobile sms. Powered by Google

September 23, 2009

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 & ticket status, horoscopes, movie showtimes, restaurant information and more …all through SMS on your phone.

Best of all, you don’t pay a premium charge for any of this, just the price of a standard SMS.

Try it out! Simply send your search query by SMS to 9-77-33-00000 and we’ll send you results back by SMS immediately.

Of course, don’t forget to save 9-77-33-00000 to your phonebook for quick and easy access to Google SMS in the future!

There are no premium charges for this service, only the cost of sending a standard SMS. Incoming messages from Google are not charged.

Also there are host of other services we can use too. Found them useful. Like movies, news, train fare, local business etc.

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Patch for Flex builder 3 with Eclipse 3.4 Ganymede

May 26, 2009

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 you have any existing files while copying good idea would be to take a backup before doing so.

Now restart eclipse with -clean option. Your flex builder should work as it used to before.

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Great Indian Developer Show!

May 25, 2008

India’s first ever Developer summit held recently at IISc, Bangalore, concluded friday night with them giving out developer awards. The event was aptly titled, The Great Indian Developer Summit held between May 19th to 23rd 2008. Yes, it feels great to be recognized as a developer, more so for Indians. FOSS.in, Barcamps and this, I think am becoming a conference junkie.

Saltmarch Media, organized the event. The event was spread over 5 days based on 3 main tracks, for .Net, Web 2.0, and Java. All the talks and workshop sessions were based on the above topics. Who’s who in the respective fields had come over to present the sessions and workshops. I had a chance to interact with Jesse James, popularly called as father of Ajax, or as the person who coined the term ‘Ajax’. Also got a chance to have a picture along with him :)

Ajo with Jesse James (Ajax)

On the final day post the sessions, the action shifted to Palace Grounds, where a first ever Developer Awards were given out. Before the conference started, a online vote was taken for various categories including best IDE, best configuration management tool etc. The list also had a vote on the top committer to open source projects from India. Some of the names included were, Shreyas (Foss.in) and Peter Thomas(Satyam). Eventually Peter Thomas went on to win the award. Among others, Oracle tools, Eclipse, MySQL and Microsoft tools were the potential winners in different categories.

This night also marked the Thirteenth (13) year of Java, a huge cake was cut marking the entry of Java into teenage. The show was well anchored by Divya from Saltmarch with lots of fun activities for the crowd and so on. Rock bands Motherjane (Cochin based) and Bhoomi rocked the crowd with their tracks. Overall a satisfying conference experience, well co-ordinated and executed. Looking more from production team in the near future.

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Use Google for your Peer 2 Peer searches.

March 15, 2008

You can use google for your p2p searches. Use the following search string to look for any media files.

intitle:”index.of” (mp3) titanic -html -php -asp -cf -jsp

 mp3 refers to the media you want as in a extension. You can also use other formats in the following fashion (mp3|avi|mpg)

titanic refers to the name of the media file. You can also give long names separated by a “.” eg:- titanic.my.heart will return sites which has My hear will go on. The “.” replaces a space . or a _ like a wild char.

-html -php -asp -cf -jsp indicates that do not list a .html or .php or other pagers.

Watch the video below for detailed explanation.

Update: To avoid typing all the “codes” use this site to do the same for u www.g2p.org, useful for doing mp3 searches.

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Download videos from youtube.com

January 24, 2007

Recently I found a fantastic python script do download videos from youtube.com. http://www.arrakis.es/~rggi3/youtube-dl/

You just need to pass the url of the video like this
$youtube-dl -t http://youtube.com/watch?v=LNY7Lau0sJw

Below is a script which can download the videos based on your search results on youtube.com.
Suppose you make a search as Shilpa Shetty Big Brother :P and you get a results page, now save this page as say results.html

Now put the below give script into a file called as youtube_download.sh and run it from the directory u saved results.html

#script to download vids from www.youtube.com
#! /bin/sh
if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then
echo "Usage: $0 filename.html |which has links from youtube.com search results"
echo "-Ajo Paul http://ajopaul.wordpress.com"
exit 1
fi
watchlink=""
for i in `cat $1 | grep "watch?" | cut -d '"' -f 2`
do
#watchlink="http://www.youtube.com"$i
if [ "$watchlink" != "$i" ]; then
echo "*********Now Downloading $i **********"
# youtube-dl -t $i 2>&1;
watchlink=$i
fi
done
echo "Done!"
echo "-Ajo Paul http://ajopaul.wordpress.com"

You can also put this script as a cronjob, but before that you must download youtube-dl and put in anywhere in your $PATH.

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