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DhiSMS Application

noreply@blogger.com (morbid) — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 06:55:00 +0000

It's been like a month since I started playing around with XUL, the XML User-interface Language. My aim is to make something useful using the Mozilla Application Development Framework. The XUL application will require mozilla's runtime "GRE" (Gecko Runtime Environment)

So far its been great, and I have developed the basic functionality for the my hello world application "DhiSMS". As it's name say's it's an application which will allow users to send sms using the username and password provided by Dhiraagu. It's still under development and I'm adding additional features to it like adding extensions.

Features Included in the initial release

Basic SMS (basic sms functionality)
Batch SMS (this will limit to 10 sms, as Dhiraagu only allows 10 sms per day)
E-Directory Search (this will be release as an extension to the application)

Releasing this application to the public might take a while as I'm learning and developing.. I will announce a release date soon. Btw if you've got any ideas please let me know.

Technorati Tags: XUL, SMS, DhiSMS

The Programmer's Nemesis

noreply@blogger.com (morbid) — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 17:59:00 +0000

Greg writes on the perennial problem at the workplace named "interruptions." According to our friendly usability expert, it is a programmer's nemesis: one millisecond of interruption could disturb one's "flow," or nudge one out of his "zone."

Programmers produce their best code when they are in a 'zone' (others call it the 'flow'). During this stage, developers are fully concentrated in their work as if they are in their own universe. They lose track of time and forget that their last meal was 8 hours ago.

Red Hat to make Linux run on Intel macs

noreply@blogger.com (morbid) — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 09:38:00 +0000

Red Hat representative Gillian Farquhar announced
last week that the company plans to add support for Apple's new Intel
Macs to its popular distribution. Fedora and several other commonly
used Linux distributions support the PowerPC architecture used by Apple
in the past, and Red Hat wants to ensure that its software will
continue to run on new Apple hardware in the future. The current
impediment is the Extensible Firmware Interface, a relatively new BIOS
replacement designed by Intel that is not yet commonly used or widely
supported.

Technorati Tags: Red Hat, Intel Mac, Linux

Opera 8.5 beta for Windows Mobile, Pocket PC

noreply@blogger.com (morbid) — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 11:01:00 +0000

Opera 8.5 Pocket PC beta version is based on the same core as the Opera 8.5 desktop browser and brings the full internet to mobile Pocket PCs.

The version is available for both WM 2003 and WM 5.0.

Opera for Pocket PC Features
* Open URL with auto-complete
* Zoom
* Download
* Multiple Windows
* Navigation and history
* Bookmarks
* Landscape/Portrait Mode
* Full screen/ Fit to screen
* Pop-up handler
* Pad-lock icon on secure sites
* User preferences
* Context menu
* AJAX Support

Download Opera for WM 2003
Download Opera for WM 5.0
Tutorials on Opera for Pocket PC

Tags: Opera, Mobile, AJAX, PPC

Free Apress Programming Books

noreply@blogger.com (morbid) — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 07:23:00 +0000

Apress is giving away e-books in PDF. It may appear that you have to sign up to receive their newsletter, but just uncheck the subscribe box and click the download button. That is unless, of course, you want to receive their newsletter.

Here are the titles available:

* A Programmer's Introduction to PHP 4.0
* Writing Perl Modules for CPAN
* Programming VB .NET: A Guide For Experienced Programmers
* COM and .NET Interoperability
* XML Programming: Web Applications and Web Services With JSP and ASP
* Google, Amazon, and Beyond: Creating and Consuming Web Services
* Dissecting a C# Application: Inside SharpDevelop

Enjoy!

Tags: Apress, Books

Google Personalized Homepage for Mobile Users

noreply@blogger.com (morbid) — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:16:00 +0000

I remember talking to wadde about this, when will google realized about the mobile users who would want to search mobile content from google and get results that are optimized for small screens. It seems they have answered my question by adding mobile search plus some more cool features that a mobile user would want from google.

Now we can use Google Personalized Home for Mobile in our little mobile browsers and use Gmail inbox to news headlines, weather, stock quotes, and feeds (Atom or RSS).

Point you mobile browsers to http://www.google.com/xhtml

Tags: Google, Mobile, Web

PHP Easter Egg

noreply@blogger.com (morbid) — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 23:02:00 +0000

After all these of coding in PHP I never came to find out the hidden php easter egg but someone did it and posted about it on digg. Just append this string "?=PHPE9568F36-D428-11d2-A769-00AA001ACF42" to most PHP enabled site's URL and you'll be suprized at what shows up in your browser. It seem this trick doesnt work on websites hosted on DhivehiNet Hosting Service.

Test sites

www.leptone.com
www.digg.com

Happy New Year

noreply@blogger.com (morbid) — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 18:59:00 +0000

EDIT: Last year I was busy working on the official Tsunami fund raising and awareness website [http://www.tsunamimaldives.mv], at least there were some planning ministry nuts screaming and celebrating, and this time unfortunately I have to be all alone in office restoring the mail server to its original state. I guess this is how I might have to spend the rest of the New Year nights. Anyway, boys and gals enjoy a great New Year.

Digg/spy effect

noreply@blogger.com (morbid) — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 10:05:00 +0000

I came across with the "digg/spy" when browsing ajaxian for my weekly updates and found the coolest WEB 2.0 implementation, at least for this year. Whats cool about digg/spy is that it uses AJAX to update itself with the latest comments on the news items on digg, in short a real-time view of digg.

Below are some other cool Web 2.0 applications you might like:

Social Bookmarking: http://del.icio.us/
Web 2.0 Start Pages: http://netvibes.com/
Website Clipping: http://clipmarks.com/
Online To Do Lists: http://voo2do.com/
Image Storage and Sharing: http://zoto.com/
Online Chatting: http://www10.meebo.com/
Web-Based Word Processing: http://writely.com/
Online Calendars: http://calendarhub.com/
Project Management & Team Collaboration: http://basecamphq.com/

Xbox360 Hacked using a PSP

noreply@blogger.com (morbid) — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 02:52:00 +0000

Some dude just published a video showing a Xbox360 being hacked using a PSP, and he intend to release the hack on 28th this month, so far there is no solid proof that this video is real or not, but hey shame on you Microsoft.

PSP firmware downgrader

noreply@blogger.com (morbid) — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 13:35:00 +0000

I guess this month will be the most exciting month for all the PSP owners who had the 1.51/2.0 firmware on their PSP's. I know 2 PSP owners in Male, they were able to downgrade there PSPs from 1.51 to 1.50. So what’s so exciting about downgrading? PSP's with <= 1.50 firmware can run homebrew on them, which mean you can play any game downloaded from the internet, Well not every game but most games with emulators or the UMD loaders. Anyone who is interested in downgrading there PSP's please read this tutorial and here is a link to the Downgrader.

BTW PSP count in Malé as of my knowledge is 8. Hope we can have a WLAN game party soon.

E-directory Search Plugin For Firefox

noreply@blogger.com (morbid) — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 04:02:00 +0000

When ever you need to search for a number or and address from Dhiraagu E-directory you have to visit Dhivehinet web site and then search for it, I thought I could cut down one step and make life easier. So I have written a small search plugin for Firefox, this is not official for now just download this file and unzip them into "Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins\" and you'll have new search plugin on your firefox browser. Hope this will be useful.

Download Search Plugin

noreply@blogger.com (morbid) — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 21:12:00 +0000

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noreply@blogger.com (morbid) — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 05:34:00 +0000

Office reshuffle

noreply@blogger.com (morbid) — Sat, 23 Oct 2004 09:30:00 +0000

Google has released a new tool called GMail Notifier which will help you check your mails without having to login to gmail using a browser.

noreply@blogger.com (morbid) — Sat, 23 Oct 2004 08:36:00 +0000

Since I have been a huge fan of Wi-Fi (Wireless Fidelity), senn mailed me a link to a flash presentation about wireless network security made available from the dudes at CNN. It discusses about the basic and the simple things to do to prevent damages made to your pc or network. I thought I will share it with you guys.

DeskShot

noreply@blogger.com (morbid) — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 11:31:00 +0000

DeskShot,
originally uploaded by shifaz.

This is a picture of my desk at dhiraagu, pretty nice huh! Actually this is a test post from my picture blog. :) The coolest thing about this is, that i can post here directly from my hand phone.

noreply@blogger.com (morbid) — Wed, 01 Sep 2004 09:10:00 +0000

Guys Ive just now launched the new DhivehiNet website. It's been developed using Medusa, a framwork developed by Leptone Interactive. So let me know what you guys think of the new design ,functionality and if there is any request you would like to make.

noreply@blogger.com (morbid) — Sun, 29 Aug 2004 03:44:00 +0000

Microsoft has launched there new website with less tables, and focusing more on web standards. I guess this is a good change. But still some of the styles doesn't work on opera :(.

noreply@blogger.com (morbid) — Thu, 05 Aug 2004 04:50:00 +0000

A web based messanger have been released by MSN today. This release opens the possibilities to use it on any shared computer - at school, at work, at a friend's house or anywhere you can't install the MSN Messenger software. Check it out.

noreply@blogger.com (morbid) — Mon, 26 Jul 2004 07:34:00 +0000

I've been really busy these day, and that's keeping away from blogging. Thing is I'm developing a blog software plus some other stuff, that's right, its called "zeroBlog". Now you may wonder what happened, why developing a new thing after all these days of using Blogger. Well it all started when i was switching themes for this blog, some things cannot be done as i wished, so i thought why not do your own thing to manage your blog, and here I am doing my own thing. Hopefully in a near future i'll post the release of "zeroBlog". Oh one thing I'm developing this blog using the ultimate Medusa framework.

noreply@blogger.com (morbid) — Fri, 16 Jul 2004 12:08:00 +0000

Here is it, I guess this one is better than the old design I had. I thought of keeping the old design to anyone who might want to use it.

noreply@blogger.com (morbid) — Thu, 08 Jul 2004 05:02:00 +0000

When i was reading throuh Chris Shiflett's blog, I found intresting 2 things, the post on Mon, 17 May 2004 which somehow includes my name (actually nickname), and the discovery of an entirely new blog and it a cool one.

noreply@blogger.com (morbid) — Wed, 23 Jun 2004 06:45:00 +0000

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noreply@blogger.com (morbid) — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 05:29:00 +0000

Hotmail doesn't receive e-mails from Google's GMail, at least for a few users. It's being reported by some users that Microsoft's Hotmail blocks e-mail's from GMail. A MSN representative is telling another story saying that there are no known problems with Hotmail's incoming mail. Is Microsoft pulling the same thing with GMail as it did with the MSN Homepage and Opera's web browser? Read All about it