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Setup gmail IMAP account on E61i

To configure IMAP for your Symbian S60 device, just follow these steps: Enable IMAP in your Gmail account settings . Select 'Messaging' > 'Options' > 'Settings' > 'E-mail' > 'Mailboxes.' If you have never set up email on your phone before, select 'Yes' to define a new mailbox. If you already have other mailboxes, select 'Options' and then 'New mailbox.' Select 'Start' to begin the setup wizard. Select 'IMAP4' and then 'Next.' Enter your Gmail username (including '@gmail.com') as the email address and select 'Next.' Enter 'imap.gmail.com' as the incoming mail server and select 'Next.' Enter 'smtp.gmail.com' as the outgoing mail server and select 'Next.' Select the appropriate access point and then 'Next.' Enter a descriptive name for the email account mailbox name. Once your mailbox is set up, select it from the email mailbox setting

Biting off more than I can chew

This idiom sums up whats going on in my life these days. I have started more projects than I can handle. And instead of focusing on completing the ones I have started I end up taking every new idea that comes into my head. In the end I have tons of half finished projects with great potential (at least I would want to think that way). But nothing much to show. Recently I bought a domain http://bigchandigarh.com . I have no idea why I bought it. I had no real plans for it, but without thinking I started developing the idea around it. It has evolved into something big, if I can ever complete it. I have the very basic thing up in minutes. If nothing else I could use it on my own for looking around places in Chandigarh. Getting back to the point, this weekend I thought about this domain and what I would be doing with it. But 'cause of that my comics project and other projects were hanging in a limbo. Since its nearly the end of the day I can't help but thing how the day/weekend see

The mystrey "Free Public WiFi" is all over

What exactly is the free public wifi? At first I thought it was some government funded project but its a lot more weirder than that. It seems to be everywhere I go, and to top it all its all over the town/country/world. I am not sure if the IP remains the same but if it does, there is something really awesome that can be done using it. Wait and watch this space for more details. I am just hoping that we can somehow get a DNS system in place and you would be able to connect back to your computer at home without using any ISP. All your traffic would be Peer-To-Peer and way too many things and plans are going on in my head. I can just visualize the whole town connected using WiFi and you can watch streaming media and transfer files amongst your computers without wires and any ISP. Well I need to come out of the dreamworld and need to figure out if its a virus or something even more weird.

Challenging myself for a month of work and results

Over the last few months actually 2 years I have not been able to develop things I really wanted to or to be more precise finish things that I've been developing. The main reason seems to be that whenever I start anything I never finish it and somehow move onto the next project. Due to this I have loads of ideas but nothing that is finished. Since this is not really my job and its more of a hobby these projects seem to linger on for ages without any concrete results. So to challenge myself here is a list of tasks I plan to finish this month. Not sure if I really stick to it, but if I say it here on the blog and there are enough people to push me around about the list I just might finish them. So here goes the list in terms of priority. Work and make the Comic Reader generic, so that anyone can add other comics that they like Finish off the mystery project. Its been a few months in development and redevelopment and have been going back and forth a couple of times without actually

The best mobile development platform for hobbyist programmer - Final words

Finally the frenzy had ended and no more than 5-6 visitors online at a time :), never thought I would be happy about the fact that hordes of people are not visiting the blog. I was about to shift my blog to http://vivekjishtu.com and in a way it was good that I did not. In the last 2 days more than 10K people visited the blog. That site would have collapsed within the first 20-30 minutes. I got all sorts of comments, some good, some bad and a few ugly ones. I've still not gone over the comments on slashdot and probably will not go through them anytime soon :P After all the frenzy I realized that even though I like .net as a platform for development but the fact is that it is expensive to buy the development platform. Given these circumstances Java ME (The platform formally known as J2ME), it almost sound like "Symbol," "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince" wins hands down. Putting BREW in there made no sense 'cause its almost impossible for a hobbyist to

The best mobile development platform for hobbyist programmer - II

Just did not realize that the post would be on slashdot , and now I am scared to go though the comments there.  I was looking for 5-6 comments on my blog but I've got a lot more than I wished for. There was quite a lot more that I wanted to add in that post, but that would be for some other day. Since I saw a lot of people visiting the blog I wanted to know a little about what you guys think about the best mobile development platform. Also are there any more crazy people out there (besides me)  who even think about programming their mobile phones? Just to answer a few comments on the blog post I missed out Maemo 'cause I was talking about software development on the mobile phone. And as far as comparing iPhone which is supposed to be "hardware" I meant the OS on iPhone as a platform for development. " You forgot Nokia's Python implementation for their Series 60 line of phones. As far as joy in programming goes things won't get much better than with P