Varun's Blog » General http://www.varun.org Just some random shots and thoughts Sat, 12 Feb 2011 22:51:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Ubutu 6.10 Desktop http://www.varun.org/2007/02/debian-desktop/ http://www.varun.org/2007/02/debian-desktop/#comments Sat, 17 Feb 2007 19:48:23 +0000 varun http://www.varun.org/2007/02/17/debian-desktop/ Ubuntu 6.10 Desktop

My Ubuntu 6.10 Desktop

]]> http://www.varun.org/2007/02/debian-desktop/feed/ 0 HTC Wizard (Cingular 8125) http://www.varun.org/2006/07/htc-wizard-cingular-8125/ http://www.varun.org/2006/07/htc-wizard-cingular-8125/#comments Tue, 18 Jul 2006 07:54:37 +0000 varun http://www.varun.org/2006/07/17/htc-wizard-cingular-8125/ Continue reading →]]> I had been waiting to get a decent PDA phone that has quad band and good connectivity options like wifi, bluetooth, GPRS. I finally got one last Thursday and love it so far.
The Wizard is manufactured by HTC, a Taiwanese company and runs Windows Mobile 5.0. It is privately labeled by cingular as the cingular 8125. Here’s a good review of the device. I found a lot of good resources and tweaks on the HTC Wizard Web site. I now have the direct push email and calendar sync configured with my personal and corporate accounts. With a little overclocking, I managed to run Skype with the wifi connection. The SIP softphone (SJ phone) has been configured but I still need to try it out.

Here is the list of upgrades I did:

1. The cingular 2.25 ROM upgrade that provides the direct push support.
2. Microsoft Activesync 4.2 configured with mail2web live for direct push email.
3. Smartskey
4. TotalCommander – a better file manager with extras like the registry editor
5. Omapclock 0.2 – to overclock the CPU. I’m running mine at 240
6. Skype for pocket PC.
7. SJ Phone

]]> http://www.varun.org/2006/07/htc-wizard-cingular-8125/feed/ 2 Social bookmarking http://www.varun.org/2006/02/social-bookmarking/ http://www.varun.org/2006/02/social-bookmarking/#comments Fri, 24 Feb 2006 08:27:45 +0000 varun http://www.varun.org/?p=65 Continue reading →]]> I came across this cool website called del.icio.us while installing the tab mix plus extension for firefox. The concept behind it is really simple – keep, share and discover all your favorite things. It’s the discover aspect of it that intrigued me the most – you can browse popular and related items. The more people bookmark it, the more popular it gets. It helped me discover two interesting websites:

1. http://www.cambridgeincolour.com

2. http://www.newseum.org

]]> http://www.varun.org/2006/02/social-bookmarking/feed/ 0 Best of the New Web http://www.varun.org/2006/01/best-of-the-new-web/ http://www.varun.org/2006/01/best-of-the-new-web/#comments Thu, 12 Jan 2006 15:42:17 +0000 varun http://www.varun.org/?p=43 Discovered some interesting sites in the business week Best of the New Web. Pandora lets you discover the kind of music that you like.

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