Ye Meri Life Hai!

Two days back I bought W660i, a Walkman series mobile phone from Sony Ericsson. It features 2 MP Camera, Walkman 2.0, FM Radio, 512 MB card, Bluetooth, Video Call, Email/RSS, USB mass storage, Flight mode, Synchronization services, Stylish, … … all these in less than INR 9K.

In addition to those common features, this phone features something new. In this post I’m going to write those specifications which you won’t be able to know unless you buy the phone. Here are a few…

1. Bright display! I can read text even in sun light. The phone comes with preloaded high contrast images, watching those you can see how much color contrast it delivers !!! - far from any other manufacturer in the same prize range.
2. 3.5mm jack support. This allows any kind of head phones to be used with the phone.
3. Text Copy/Paste feature. Handy for coping/writing SMS.
4. J2ME with support of - Internet access, File system read/write access API, camera API, Messaging APIs, automatic start, local connectivity API, running Java apps in background.
5. You can have at max 1000 Contacts, 1000 SMS memory and 380 events/tasks. (~26MB internal memory)
6. 5 alarms, and you can also set FM alarm.
7. Two kind of keypad lights. White for normal purpose and Orange when Walkman is running. The orange light blinks on the beats of the song.
8. USB charging: When you connect this phone to PC it start charging from the USB cable.
9. Flash Menu: The main menu in this phone is built using Flash Lite. You can switch the orientation and look of the menu. Menu items can be tiled, horizontally or vertical aligned, and can have cool animations.
10. Synchronization is one of the most important service that we should use. In short taking backup of the phone data. I sync my phone regularly with PC. The phone supports synchronization via USB data cable, Blue-tooth, or internet server.
11. Stereo Bluetooth, Picture Blogging, Voice Dial + Playing Caller’s name, Big Fonts, Video Ringtone, etc;

Go and get the phone… it’s a worth buy cellphone.

Note: The camera is not good as compared to ‘K’ series (remember it’s Walkman phone, and this is acceptable). Still it supports EXIF, Night Mode, Effects, Self Timer, No shutter sound (in silent mode), etc;

Ankit

A lot of topics were roaming in my mind, but not able to decide what to write and which one to take first. And it has been 6 months - I haven’t written a single blog post! All this is because of my studies, hectic schedule, didn’t get enough time and few other factors.

But, now Ankit is back with cool and new articles to write. And one promise to the readers of my blog - such absence will not occur again. At least I’ll try to write something about my experiences, my passions, techie stuff.

- ankit

If you got an ‘idea’ that can drive business, implement it right away before someone snatches it from you and publishes the implementation, especially over the Internet.

That’s what happened with me. I had a thought of building ‘code-history’, history of each line of source code file. Typically when you look at the source control, you see file history. Actually it’s not directly associated with source code file; it’s first coupled to the change (change-set) you made and then linked to the file. So, the idea was to build Code History by combining two typical file operations: 1) File History and 2) File Diff technology. And drill down till you get the version where selected code was first introduced.

Orcas, next version of Visual Studio, features the same named – Annotate:

“Annotate is an Orcas feature that allows developers to inspect a source code file and see at line-by-line level of detail who last changed each section of code. It brings together changeset data with difference technology to enable developers to quickly learn change history inside a source file. You can answer the questions “which version of the file introduced this section of code?” or “who left this buffer overrun in the code?!” Subversion users may recognize this as the ‘Blame’ command.”

- Explained by Orcas Team

In simple words, I lost it

This is not a single instance, earlier the concept of Flickr Maps stroke to my mind and while I was planning (for few weeks) the scope of the concept, they launched .
No doubt, they are ahead, but not much. I’m just around the corner!

Lessons I learnt:

• Internet is Big Boss that knows every thing. If you have an idea, first search for the same thoroughly.
• If your thought is unique, carry out Proof of Concept right away. I mean “right away“.
• In case you don’t want to implement, write a ‘Blog post’ to claim (or go for patent). Or give it to me I’ll write.
• Think much faster (much much faster at what pace I do currently).

The exponential growth of Internet has made world’s thinking/inventions much faster then what happened in previous centuries. Inventions are much closer to each other with a thin line of separation. The half-life of our knowledge is decreasing and Humans have to survive!

Thanks!

- Ankit

[Inputs from ‘Chiku’ - aka Chirag Maharaj:

The records breakers are just a second ahead then the runners up then also the money difference in them is more than 10 times and even the glory they receive is 100 times more than runner up; though the diff was just one second!!!

So you to be the winner, you have to be just one step ahead. A little hard work could make u at top!
]

2-3 Years back I have written a script to write Hindi in an effective way. Here is the Online Hindi Writing Tool. And here are few sites who have copied my Hindi writing script .

1. http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~ashishchandra/hindi
2. http://khattarkaka.tripod.com/
3. http://hindipatrikaworld.tripod.com/
4. http://raviratlami.googlepages.com/ Remington-Krutidev-Online-Hindi-Easy-Editor.htm
5. http://www.hungamamasti.com/hindi.htm

Thankx to those who gave me back link, and a kind request to others
The worst thing here is, though they have copied content, they stick their (C) copyright message !!!

- Ankit

[Edited on Jan 27, 2007]

People who recommends this tool:

1. http://www.akshargram.com/sarvagya/index.php/How_to_Type_in_Hindi
2. http://sushilbasista.stumbleupon.com/tag/hindi/ , http://artist.stumbleupon.com/tag/hindi/

Ya, the story is about Google Adsense account. I registered for GoogleAdsense account 2 year back in August 2004 and last week my payment of $100 got approved.

Actually, it took a loooooooooo ng duration because visitors to my website were very less. But now I have pretty good number of visitors and expecting next payment in five-seven months.

Heartiest thanks to all my visitors!

~ Ankit

Why do I blog? Is that to make money to run this website through ads? Making an identity on Internet? Being on the top of Google? Sharing my knowledge? Having a platform to write and publish what I think and what I like?

It means all for me , and that’s why I write blog.I remember the day when Dad subscribed for an ISP, and I touched Internet first time (1999). Those were the days of Netscape Navigator v4.5 and Yahoo rocking. Netscape had a build-in HTML editor, that attracted me right away and I started playing with those tags without any book/reference. It was not just an attraction, it was more than a passion which led me to Computer Science engineering and being an IT professional. I have been in this business since college days, when we friends (Vinod, Saurabh…) just fought to build a better and informative website using free hosting packages. We always kept track of new web-based-services. Even though we encouraged students by organizing Best Web Programmer contest – not only building a website but also publishing it. The fight continued and we need something to update that html content regularly. Actually, we were looking for something that allows us to modify html pages without any hassle and publish right away from any where. Here we encountered the term ‘dynamic website’, and started looking for open source forums/blogs/journals. That fever continued and compelled me to buy a domain and host my blog. Humm… … so that’s now called blogging fever we discuss about blogs, ask people to visit ours, keenly wait for comments… That’s how I started !!! ~ Ankit

Blogs around me:Chirag, Mohit, Harsha, Kiran & more…

Updates:

Here is an inspirational speech @ Stanford from Steve Jobs.
Three lessons from his life:

talking about the type-faces fonts “…and since Windows just copied the Mac, it’s likely that no personal computers would have them….”

Stay Hungry…. stay foolish!

ooooh….. it was dead, for almost 94 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes, 48 seconds ! I’m here to revive it.

So much busy last few months and even didn’t notice that it had been almost 3 months (94 days) I haven’t posted any thing.

2005 is going…..
those memories…… college days…..
lots of things I learnt….. moved to Pune…. friends I made….
Learning from all loses…

2006 with new fun, excitments, ambitions… … ( बस एक ही आकांशा है, गुगल के शिखर पर पहूँचना ! )

more confident…. more strong….. make people happy….. to enjoy Life with full bash…

Achievments :

Thank God, I completed BE and felt free from all those heavy burdens of exams, submissions, lectures, etc… …
Campus selection in Persistent… … and … … moved to Pune.

~ अंकित

When one thing goes wrong, every thing goes wrong… That’s life.

Today I turned to 21 . Had celebrations last night, It was a surprise from my room mates Vimal, Nikunj & Vishal

Thanks to all for celebrating my birthday…. I cannot count your names, still i will try…

Vimal, Nikunj, Vishal, Sunil, Bhavesh, Sachin….. Kiran, Maryann, Mohit, Harsha,  Harshvardhan …..  Ruth, Balaji Kapil, Robin, Tushar, Viral, Nitin, Sandip, Kamal,……. and Pravin and Pankaj

And how can I forget those delicious five cakes at Conference room "3A-Small-2", 3rd Floor Persistent Towers,….. those we were not able to eat … and one cake is still at my desk…

my classmates Chirag, Saurabh, Pooneet, Parth, Manoj, Indrajeet. And ya, Brihadish who wished me in advance (on 12th) as he is on leave for his minor surgery in ear.

And missing my family, Mom, Dad, Jagrat and Yojna, Dadi. 

[Post Status: Pending, might add more tastes of my birthday]

Ankit

Here is the conversation I had with Chirag, yesterday, the funny one. First we had a fight on who is most popular on Internet/World. Then as usual he ask for Party

Chirag Mehta (9/29/2005 5:25:50 PM): http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=chiragmehta&FORM=QBRE
Chirag Mehta (9/29/2005 5:25:50 PM): chk this
Chirag Mehta (9/29/2005 5:25:52 PM): mys ite on
Chirag Mehta (9/29/2005 5:25:56 PM): TOP
Ankit (9/29/2005 5:25:58 PM): so …..
Chirag Mehta (9/29/2005 5:26:06 PM): chk it
Chirag Mehta (9/29/2005 5:26:09 PM): <sensored *****>
Ankit (9/29/2005 5:26:11 PM): seatch for ‘ankit’ on msn then ankitjain
Chirag Mehta (9/29/2005 5:26:22 PM): why shld i
Ankit (9/29/2005 5:26:25 PM): give space in your name
Chirag Mehta (9/29/2005 5:26:38 PM): sorry
Chirag Mehta (9/29/2005 5:26:43 PM): ther are more chirag then ankit in this world
Chirag Mehta (9/29/2005 5:27:37 PM): http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=chiragmehta&FORM=QBRE
Chirag Mehta (9/29/2005 5:27:50 PM): chk the link u will find my site on
Ankit (9/29/2005 5:29:14 PM): ok.. but "there r more ankit’s on internet than "chirag"
Chirag Mehta (9/29/2005 5:29:24 PM): u chk tht
Ankit (9/29/2005 5:29:34 PM): let’s have google fight
Chirag Mehta (9/29/2005 5:29:42 PM): ok
Chirag Mehta (9/29/2005 5:29:49 PM): give me the link
Ankit (9/29/2005 5:30:12 PM): http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=ankit&word2=chirag
Ankit (9/29/2005 5:30:17 PM): i am winner
Ankit (9/29/2005 5:30:20 PM): <:-P
Ankit (9/29/2005 5:30:25 PM): <:-P
Ankit (9/29/2005 5:30:35 PM): <:-P <:-P <:-P <:-P <:-P
Chirag Mehta (9/29/2005 5:30:48 PM): <sensored *****> ‘
Chirag Mehta (9/29/2005 5:30:50 PM): i told the same
Ankit (9/29/2005 5:31:09 PM): u told in this world , i told on internet
Chirag Mehta (9/29/2005 5:31:25 PM): ok
Ankit (9/29/2005 5:31:27 PM): <sensored *u*t*> ……… <sensored k*m*n*>
Chirag Mehta (9/29/2005 5:31:28 PM): swami ji
Ankit (9/29/2005 5:31:33 PM):
Chirag Mehta (9/29/2005 5:31:36 PM): party ki iye hum log tayar hai
Ankit (9/29/2005 5:31:37 PM):
Ankit (9/29/2005 5:31:52 PM): "hum" << who r threre???
Ankit (9/29/2005 5:32:00 PM):
Chirag Mehta (9/29/2005 5:32:06 PM): i himanshu parth vishal
Chirag Mehta (9/29/2005 5:32:06 PM): savan
Chirag Mehta (9/29/2005 5:32:10 PM): neerav
Chirag Mehta (9/29/2005 5:32:15 PM): pallav
Chirag Mehta (9/29/2005 5:32:16 PM): mitka
Chirag Mehta (9/29/2005 5:32:18 PM): jasmin
Chirag Mehta (9/29/2005 5:32:21 PM): any more
Ankit (9/29/2005 5:32:21 PM): wait…….. party cancelled
Chirag Mehta (9/29/2005 5:32:26 PM): i and himanshu only
Ankit (9/29/2005 5:32:26 PM): i am not comming ..
Chirag Mehta (9/29/2005 5:32:30 PM): <sensored *u*t*>
Chirag Mehta (9/29/2005 5:32:34 PM): darr gaya
Ankit (9/29/2005 5:32:35 PM): am cencellating my tickes…..
Chirag Mehta (9/29/2005 5:32:36 PM): i waskidding
Ankit (9/29/2005 5:35:29 PM): so , we had a good fight abt ‘ankit’ & ‘chirag’ ~ isn;t it??
Chirag Mehta (9/29/2005 5:35:41 PM): pls send link again
Ankit (9/29/2005 5:35:44 PM): search ‘ankit’ on msn
Chirag Mehta (9/29/2005 5:35:46 PM): again
Chirag Mehta (9/29/2005 5:35:49 PM): i have still to chk
Ankit (9/29/2005 5:35:44 PM): bye……

 - Ankit

Hi,

I joined Persistent Sys, Pune, on Monday, July 12th , 2005. I was new to Pune, and it was mine second trip to pune. The first one was for Interview in Jan’2005. We had trainning for a month and then allocated to mini projects.

The tutor for C#.NET trainning, Ravi Tambde from Seed Infotech, Pune, who inspired me for doing some thing different/new in this Software Industry . . . . . . . . .

Lots of new Friends; Maryann, Brihadish, Mohit, Farhana, Ashish, …………. then at Work i have Kiran Marke, Mahesh Lambe,

Ankit Jain

(ankitasdeveloper)

So……………… the long await is over today
I got my FIRST Salary…….. and so happy today……

My friends are waiting for a “treat” …….. and even I want to give them a grand PARTY…….
Still i am not thinking for a Moblie, may be on next salary !
If you have something important for me, just drop me an email……….. I’ll definetly reply……….

One more thing I want to share is this is my first post for this blog. I will be regularly updating this blog…………… and also I am about to renew ankitjain.info domain name (with my first salary ) . . . . . . . as it’s going to expire in a short time.

Ankit
(In case you loose my contact search “Ankit” in any leading search engine, You will definetly find me…..)