Iamatechie changed its theme. The themes is much user friendly and attractive than before with all web 2.0 features. Please report me suggestions and bugs. Thanks to my friend Sarath who designed the theme.

We will announce a contest to our valuable readers soon. I am waiting for your feedbacks. We are also planning to sell some advertisement box in the site. Anyone are interested please drop me a email @ mail2sanilATgmailDOTcom.

Google recently started a small interesting game. The game is Google Image Labeler.

How does the game work?

The game is like you can select a nickname or it will be guest. You are randomly paired with partner who is online playing the same game. You can play game for a period of 2 minutes time. During the time both the partners will see same image. We can suggest relevant labels. You will get point if your partner type the same label. We will fail if we type the label which Google already labeled. You are about to gain maximum points within 2 minutes. Number of points you receive will be depend upon the how descriptive your label is? If your pair type the same descriptive label(If your figure is Car. Pair will get more points if he/she type specific car name say for instance Honda Civic instead of Car as label) you will receive good points. Top pairs will be listed at top right corners of the application.

After the game you can see the images you labeled and site in which images resides and its labels.

What is the intention behind?

The original intention behind the game is to label all the images to show better image search results. If you logged using the your Google account, Google will track the points.

Yeah it was an amazing day yesterday. We enjoyed the camp very much. Almost 80 bloggers from different place even foreigners(Canada) also participated in the event. Playback singer Pradip somasundar is the celebrity among the people participated. All most all news media covered the event. The event started at 10:30AM and got it climax by 6:00PM.

The event was sponsored by kerala tourism. Couple of contests announced during the blogcamp one by okaytatabybye.com another one by a resort from Vaikom.

The house boat is a big one with two floors. One floor contain bedroom, bathroom, kitchen and the top floor is a big conference hall with A/C. The house boat is owned by Ariya resorts. The lunch was delicious “nadan rice, kappa and fish curry and chicken.

Around 6 people had taken sessions of which a foreigner from Canada shared his experience about the wrist problems that may occur for bloggers and programmers which was informative. Moreover kerala farmer had taken a session about Malayalam blogging which was also interesting.

Special thanks to organizing committee and Kerala Tourism. Watch memorizing event is @ flickr.

As I mentioned in my earlier post that we can enable our car WiFi by 2 means.

(i) Using Laptop as and enabler to internet connection.

(ii) Using Single board computer in place of Laptop as internet connection enabler.

The main advantage by using Laptop is we can even avoid router(Access Point) by configuring the machine to a point to point wifi access. The disadvantage is we need to carry laptop every time for internet connection.

The advantage of using SBC in place of laptop rule out the disadvantage of (i). We need to buy an SBC to make car wifi enabled which cost around $120.

I am mentioning simple and easiest method that is method (i) now. For this we need to configure our laptop for point to point wifi access. The main advantage of using method (i) is we can avoid access point(AP).

The figure above shows the architecture diagram of our simplest wifi car. The EVDO is connected to the first wireless laptop which will serves internet to other system(s) using point to point network. I will explain the step to step procedure now.

Click on the Network connection in control panel(Start menu->Control Panel->Network and Internet Connections->Network connections).

On the properties window click on the wireless network tab and Add a new connection.

Add a name for the network let it be “MyHomeNetwork” and make the authentication as shown in the figure above. You can add a password which can be used to secure your network. The main and ultimate thing is that you need to change your wireless network as adhoc(point to point) network by checking the check box shown in figure above. Click OK to save the settings. Yeah your system is ready to work as point to point wireless serving device and also a gateway for internet. Connect EVDO driver program to get internet connection.

Carry the system you configured now for getting internet connection in your car.

Your Peer system(s) can be connect to this network. Search for wireless network you can see a wireless network named “MyHomeNetwork”. Connect to the network with key assigned during the process.

My next post will describe the way to make your car wifi using Single board computer. Which is more promising WiFi car.

The entertainment industry is booming and there is growing demand for online media contents. Amvizone is an initiative that help amateur short film makers to promote their videos online. The group behind amvizone moviez are in touch with film Industry experts which is the USP(unique selling point) that make amateur film makers to host there contents at amvizone. The amvizone group started this venture some time back after the success of amateur video “Jaada at Technopark“. The page impression for the video made a surge in a week which identified the growing demand for short movies. The video was hosted in Youtube for 2 years but after that it was hosted in amvizone the page impression drastically increased.

The application is still in its beta which does not have the functionality for user management but the user management features will be live in couple of days. After that user can be able to upload contents and its management.

Application description

Language for development: PHP

Database: MySQL

Content distributed network (CDN): amazone (which is pretty similar to amvizone )

Framework: Symfony

Operating system: Ubuntu Linux.

We are on the way to Wagamon. I am writing this post from our Car. You know how I am getting internet? Yes we are going in our Wifi enabled car with internet connection. All of us are using our laptops. We started 1 hour back we reached Kollam now. We need to meet one of the friend here.

Hope we will get the range for internet connection everywhere. As Wagamon hill station is a tourist destination I hope we can enjoy internet there. I had experienced some sort of internet connection issues, may be due to the tower switching. Anyway I am browsing the internet without much hurdle.

The trip

We have a presentation at peerumedu Engineering college tomorrow afternoon. We will leave to Wagmon after the presentation. Will stay at the hill station tomorrow night and will come back day after. Will update you the news from Wagamon. Oh the time is approaching 10PM its time for me to sleep.

Next day.

We had the seminar at MBC college and we started to Wagamon the place is really cool. But the main problem is no network connection for Airtel and Vodafone. So we were not able to call. BSNL connection was there but the signal strength was not good. We tried to connect to internet several times but we didn’t get the connection there. But we got some signal and we finally connected from the top of the hill. My friend is a travel blogger he will describe about the trip in his travel blog.

Yes the connection is here man.

I was using to-do list until yesterday to maintain the list of pending works. But couple of months back one of my friend introduced me an online mindmap called mindmeister. He told me to start your online account and create your mindmap there. But I took around 5 months to create an account may be I am lazy . But today I created account at mindmeister.

The mindmap is something similar to this.

What can I say the application is extremely cool. I used to maintain different list in my to-do list previously. But the main advantage using mindmap is we can visualize our entire pending works in a single diagram. Besides maintaining pending jobs we can also use mindmap for lot of purpose. For instance we can use mindmaps to explain concepts, explain  complex architectures, products architectures etc.

The online application mindmeister support 3 kind of editions which are classified according to the price and its features.

1) Basic free (free)

2) Premium ($4/month)

3) Team ($3/month)

This application does support all kind of web 2.0 feature. We can share, collaborate, easy AJAX interactions etc. The application does support export and import of your mindmaps. Premium and team edition support SSL so it can be used by corporates for creating product notes, product concepts etc. Another attractive feature the application is google gear enabled. So we can edit mindmaps offline. 

One of friend from Dubai told me about the Virus. He told me that their outlets got affected by this virus, its spreading very fast. It will loaded in the first time and will get affected in 1 - 2 weeks time. The name of the virus is Happy birthday virus.

Which all medias used for spreading?

Usually there are 2 main media’s that spread this Virus. One is emails another one is thumb drives. Be very care if you are using outlook as email client. Outlook has an option that will automatically downloads the attachment when we open that particular email.

What are the aftermath?

This mainly affects lots system commands like delete and some necessary commands that windows needed for its execution. We can’t change registry entry since the virus is executing.

What is the name of executable?

The name of the executable is pretty interesting very similar to explorer.exe but explorcr.exe so that we will be confused. The executable loads in startup so we won’t be able to do our tasks.

Process of removal

Don’t forget to change the downloaded files extension to .zip and change exc file extension to exe!!!
Download below files (Security Task Manager and NOD32 Registry Fix)

Download file 1

Download file 2

2. Kill the process of explorcr.exe and delete manually from %systemroot%\system32 (its hidden). you won’t see happy birthday caption again, as soon as you kill the process
3. Delete manually also autorun.inf from the %systemroot% (its hidden)

Remark:
If you cant find that files, use some other file browser software such as captain nemo!! cause of virus disabled most of useful system command such as cmd, regedit, msconfig etc.
4. Insert windows xp cd-rom for copy ntldr from i386\ntldr to %systemdrive%
5. Run nod32 registry fix to recover system command
6. Restart your computer

Scan all usb storage and delete manually all of autorun.inf, explorcr.exe and foldername.exe. explorcr.exe delete ntldr fron the systemdrive. Use windows xp recovery console to recopy the ntldr, if the computer is already deleted by explorcr.exe.

Yesterday night onwards me domains are opened for registration meanwhile GoDaddy played some fraud games to their customers. We registered couple of me domains but today we got a email saying that “Concurrent registration happened for the same domain so we are putting the domains for auction“. I am sure it is a guise, I worry whether such concurrent registration problems occur with godaddy’s database. It’s really a well planned game from the corporate.

If their is such a concurrency problem with database why don’t it happened previously? Is the architects and engineers at godady are too bad to predict and take remedial measures for this type of concurrency issues? If yes shame call us we can deliver you applications that are quiet stable than godaddy .

There is no need for a reputed company like godaddy to play such scam against their valuable customers. I would say it was against company ethics. I don’t know how much bad impression are going to create against goDaddy simply because of this planned game. I feel pity on you goDaddy.

Top level domain name (TLDN), is the last part of domain name ie letters after the final dots of the web address. For example com, in, gov, mobi, org these are some of the extensions. These are handled and managed by the non-profit organization called ICANN. The latest development in this domain suffix is organization can apply for any top level domains. For instance, organization could use brand names such as .intel, .ibm, .ebay etc as their suffix.

Registering a new top level domain name will cost around $100,000 to $500,000, Paul Twomey ICANN’s president and CEO said.

Today there are 160 million websites of which 70 million websites end with .com, 80 million ends with country specific suffixes. ICANN increased the pool of top-level domain in 2001 and 2003 but limited names are available now.ICANN is also making possible to register domains with non-English characters such as Chinese, Arabic etc.

ICANN spent years and around $10 million for this top-level domain. If the proposal come through, organization can able to register top-level domains by April 2009.