Yahoo!360 is closing down officially on July 13 2009. Yahoo! says it is committed to focus their efforts on the Yahoo! profiles where more users are present. In short Yahoo! wants to bring everything under one tree which is a good thing.So one need not move between the Yahoo!360 and the Yahoo! profiles thereby saving on time and of course e forts. The sore point though is that Yahoo! wont be moving your contents from Yahoo! 360 to your profiles page automatically. We all have to sit down and work it out for ourselves which of course is bit too tedious but if you are a yahoo! fan and your searching in the dark on how to go about setting up your profiles at yahoo! by moving your contents from Yahoo!360 I will show you the way and in the end we all can shout “Yahoooo!!!!!”.

Lets get started..

1. First login to your Yahoo!360 page and then download or save your profile photo, nickname, and any personal status message. Remember these entries aren’t moved to your profile automatically. You will have to upload it alter manually to your yahoo! profiles page.

2. Go to your profile and update the relevant data.

3.Now what to do with all your blogs? Yahoo! has created a blogging tool on your yahoo! profiles so go aheaad and blog. Now what to do with the blogs your Yahoo!360? Well you have 2 options

a) You  can move all your blog contents from Yahoo!360 to Yahoo! profiles.

b) You can download your blog contents so that you van host it at a location of your choice its simple.

To move or download your blog the link is:    http://download.360.yahoo.com/.

Follow the directions in the screen shot provided below.

Make sure your email ids are relevant which are shown in the appropriate locations. A message with the downlaod link will appear in your inbox if you wnt to move ur blog else where.

4.Your 360° inbox, testimonials, friend categories, local reviews, RSS feeds, tags, or custom theme will not be moved to your new profile . So please ensure that you have saved them from your Yahoo!360 page as soon as possible.

Happy networking………

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HTC S740

The HTC S740 is the latest offering from Orange. It succeeds the S730. The form factor is candy bar and sports a sliding Qwerty keyboard. It runs on a variant of windows mobile OS 6.1 for non touch screens. The S740 measures 116mm by 43.4mm by 16.6mm and weighs almost 140g. The phone is considerably slim even though there is  a slide out Qwerty keyboard  and this slide out keyboard explains why the phone is out of proportion and wedge shaped. The phone sports a glossy black front and diamond cut  shaped backplate which means one has to pick up the phone to use it. One cannot operate the phone keeping it on a table due to the uneven backplate.

The number pads are spaced evenly and the soft home and back keys are comfortable even for the stout fingers. With a large navigation button which is raised along with the select button the ergonomics is to be much appreciated.The slide out Qwerty board is also easy to use .All the keys are well shaped and are placed independently. The keys are  quite responsive and has solid feel to it. A dedicated key for SMS/MMS application stands out. There are also keys for caps and a function key for special characters.THe unique touchFLO system of HTC has not been implemented in this model. The phone sports a 240 by 320 pixel  2,.4 inch display.

Navigation to the desired areas is with the hep of the navigation key.To access Windows Mobile’s programs and settings areas we amke use of the Start soft key.256MB of ROM and 256MB of RAM are the storage specifications out of which 82 MB is available. The processor which powers this phone is the 528MHz Qualcomm MSM7255 processor.It supports HSDPA  and is a quad band handset.Blutooth and WiFi is integrated and the phone sports a 3.2 megapixel camera with no flash unit. The battery life is excellent.The only nagging feature is probalble the diamond cut backplate.

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Couple months back when I just started programming on Ruby on Rails, I faced so many problems regarding the configuration and all, in my developing machine Vista. I searched so many resources online but didn’t find a suitable one. Now I managed to resolve that problem. So, I would like to share the knowledge to you on how to setup Rails on Windows platform, using Ruby gems, Rails, Mongrel, and MySQL as a part of the stack. I am using windows Vista for my development process, but all the instructions will work in the Windows Xp too.

1. Installing Ruby: Download and install the latest version of Ruby Installer (currently 1.8.6-27 RC2) from the rubyforge.org website: One-Click Ruby Installer.  Leave all the default settings during installations as such.  Its important that you install in the ruby path without any spaces in it. (Like C:/Ruby by default).

After the installation go to the command prompt in the system (Start –> Accessories -> Command Prompt), and type the following command:

2. Updating Ruby Gems: The above installer also install Gems package via the one-click Installation process. May be the Gem installed will be outdate, so in order to avoid such errors, we should update the Gem package. To do so enter the following commands in the command-line:

3. Installing Rails: Now its the time to install Rails package. Run the following commands to install Rails package as Ruby Gems.

In future if you want to upgrade the Rails Gem, just simply run the following commands

The basic Rails environment is now installed on your system, and you can skip the following part if you are happy with WEBrick as the web server, SQLite as the database server.

The remaining part of the post covers an alternate Web Server called Mongrel, and  MySQL Database.

4. Installing Mongrel: Another most recommended Web Server for Rails development and also for production Server is Mongrel . To install Mongrel Web Server, run the following commands:

After installing Mongrel, Rails automatically starts the Mongrel instead of WEBrick web server when you run the Rails applications in development mode.

5. Installing MySQL: This step covers the installation of MySQL database server and its GUI tools, if you need some other databases, just skip this step.

Download and install the MySQL 5.1 database server. You can safely accept all the default settings of the installation wizard. After MySQL database server is installed, you need to run its configuration wizard to configure the MySQL installation.

One important step during the configuration process is to select a root password(you will need to enter it in the database.yml configuration file of your Rails application).

Now download and install the MySQL GUI tools.

Now you can create/checkout rails applications, edit them and run them under Mongrel. In the next series I will explain how to create a basic “Hello World” application in Rails.

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Moblin

Moblin which is the shortened form of  mobile Linux is projected aimed at developing OS for Mobile Internet Devices. The Moblion OS 2 was developed specifically for the atom processor. Intel finally turned over the Moblin to Linux in April 2009. the Linux Collaboration Summit in April 2009, Intel showed that the Moblin 2 alpha release can load major components of the stack, including the graphics system and boot up in seconds. A new graphical interface was added to the the Moblin 2.0 beta version.Moblin core which is built on the Gnome  platform is at the heart of Moblin paltform. A new interface built using clutter is the feature of the new OS .Clutter is a project developed by Intel.

The major components of the Moblin include a Moblin Image Creator allowing developers to create a custom Linux file system for a device,Kernel which contains platform-specific patches to theLinux kernel and other device drivers,power manager,Browswer based on Mozilla technologies with a finger-driven UI and MID UI integration( The browser supports major plugins like the Adobe Flash player etc.),multimedia with audio and video playback and photo viewing this also includes Helix or Gstreamer multimedia frameworks and a Linux connection manager supporting various protocols for internet connection.

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Broad band users in India can now harness the power of the internet in making use of the vast computer resources connected via the internet. Cloud computing (Cloud based net PC) is at the very fingertips of Indian Broadband users which is launched by Bharathi Airtel.

Speaking in layman’s terms people need not have a supercomputer to perform any tasks which requires such a huge resource, with internet as a communicating and data transfer medium people can now make use of huge resources connected across the internet to complete huge tasks. This cloud computing and the beauty of cloud computing is that it is dynamically scalable where computers based on different architectures can interconnect and reversible.

Its much like making use of Wolframalpha in scouting factual information. Cloud computing is implemented by marrying the concepts of infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and software as a service (SaaS) and other technology trends that makes use of internet as a common theme in completing tasks and satisfying the computing need of users. Web browsers would be used to access the service where the actual software and other requirements are stored on servers.

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Limo build on the open source Linux platform plans to add 10 more members and 20 models by this year end. With Symbian OS now having a huge market share of over 47 percent in the smart phone segment. Limo plans to bring up its market share alongside android and windows mobile. Morgan Gills the head of Lime feels that the current economic meltdown will force the industry to consolidate and cut costs and he feels that Limo ,Android and Symbian will have an equal share of the market at the rate of 20-40 percent each and the market will consolidate into these three platforms eventually.

Nokia has brought out Symbian and promised it would release it on the open source platform. LiMo Foundation was set up in 2007 by Vodafone, Samsung Electronics, NTT DoCoMo, Orange, Panasonic and NEC with its current number of members tallying 55. The success of android also built on Linux is increasing the importance of limo. The advantage of using Linux is that it has a large developer community and is free. More than 30 models are available from the Limo platform including NEC,Panasonic and Motorola.

Some experts believe that Limo wont surpass the biggies like Symbian and it will remain as a small player with the market being dominated by Symbian and others providing their wares.

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Researchers at the University of St Andrews with partners at Strathclyde and Newcastle have come up with the prototype for a new air fueled battery.The research was funded by Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).

Its possible now for a new generation of electric cars, cell phones and laptops to emerge.It has the potential to sustain the renewable energy industry .this battery can sustain power generation from wind or solar sources in the case of rain or other natural hiccup. The increased capacity is due to the removal of one chemical constituent and the addition of another component which uses oxygen drawn from the air during discharge. Due to the absence of the chemical the weight is reduced and offers more energy for the same size.

The new component is made of porous carbon which is cheaper than the lithium cobalt oxide used nowadays. according to Professor Peter Bruce of the Chemistry Department at the University of St Andrews ” The key is to use oxygen in the air as a re-agent, rather than carry the necessary chemicals around inside the battery”.The oxygen reacting with the carbon pores through the exposed surface of the battery is used to discharge the battery.

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Today I started working on a project moneyvidya. The application is really big with lots of features and all. But when I tried to copy the source code into beanstalk repository I came to see the “.svn” folders are already created in the application. Delete “.svn” folders in the project is a tedious process since I am using Windows Vista for development. If my operating system was Linux simple “rm” command with a regular expression will do. So I googled it for some help. I got really interesting tip to delete this folders. I would like to share it with you

The  best thing they suggest is creating a registry file (filename.reg) and execute [create a text file named svndelete.reg and insert the code snippet below there after double click on the file that will add registry entry] the code snippet below. Once reg file is executed you will get a menu item called “Delete SVN Folders”  in the context menu. Just right click on click on the “Delete SVN Folders” will delete all “.svn” folders in the directories recursively.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Folder\shell\DeleteSVN]
@=”Delete SVN Folders”
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Folder\shell\DeleteSVN\command]
@=”cmd.exe /c \”TITLE Removing SVN Folders in %1 && COLOR 9A && FOR /r \”%1\” %%f IN (.svn) DO RD /s /q \”%%f\” \”"

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Today my friend asked me to help him to aggregate different post from his wordpress MU domain to main domain. I thought of writing a plugin. But when I searched about that I got plugin called Flash Feed Scroll Reader. I wonder why should I reinvent the wheel?

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