Akhil's Passion

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Now you can buy Samsung Galaxy S3 in India too.The official price of Samsung Galaxy S3 in India is Rs 43,180. But you can get it for a cheaper price from some of the online stores. The lowest prices of Samsung Galaxy S3 is so far Rs 38,900  as offered by infibeam.com. At the time of writing this, Saholic.com (a spice group venture) offers an additional  Rs 1000 money back when you write a reivew for this product after purchase. Sites like zoomin.com, yebhi.com and sulkha.com are also offering it for Rs 38,900. Exclusive features of Samsung Galaxy S3 Samsung Galaxy S3 Price For : Rs 38,900 The smart-phone that rivals iPhone is loaded with tons of features and have the best in class available hardware. Many of the features are not found in most of the other smart phones. The Samsung Galaxy S3 has full HD front camera (supports a range of video playback), Voice recognition as good as the iPhone Siri, amazing features like eye-tracking to keep the screen on, buddy photo sh...

Asianet Dataline one of the leading Internet Service Providers in Kerala’s is now injecting JavaScript pop-up advertisements to the customer browsers.I directly inquired with their customer service and they've acknowledged the issue. JavaScript ad injection has been happening within all the customers subscribed for the unlimited data plans. I told them that this is a severe privacy breach as ads are being shown even when I’m logged into sites including financial transactions. True, the ads won’t be shown when the connection with another site is HTTPS, but that happens with most of the sites only when you click the ‘Make Payment’ button of most of the site, still the normal logged in session is vulnerable. This un-ethical approach cannot be identified by a normal user as there is no acknowledgement shown from Asianet that ads are shown by them. A normal customer thinks that he's just bugged by some site he visited. Eventually, they offered me (anyone who identify this...

I’ve been using the Blackberry Playbook for quite few months now and I should say its an remarkably versatile device for anyone who love multitasking. Getting an external bluetooth keyboard for the Blackberry Playbook just enabled me use it like an amazing laptop with touchscreen. Fortunately, the (pseudo) brand market competition forced Blackberry to bring down the price for Blackberry up to 30% less than its initial price. Now, we’ve got a tablet with HD screen, 7 hours battery backup and an App Store with plenty of HD Games and Apps for cheap price, all with the Blackberry Playbook that cost around $200 now. I did plenty of research about the best keyboards for Blackberry Playbook, most of the keyboard reviews where out-dated. The initial OS of Playbook didn’t support a lot of bluetooth keyboards but from OS 2.0 updates ( which is a mandatory update for all the Playbooks) things changed and a lot more devices were supported. There weren't much reviews about the...

Today India is so much focused on IT that almost 80% of the graduates are absorbed right away into IT companies soon after they pass-out. The fun part is, it doesn't even matter what stream they graduated in, but they are working in 'IT'. As a matter of fact, it's horrendous to interpolate about the other core industrial R&D future of India. I really hope the situation change and people start realizing the potential in doing what they love. This scenario led me to explore weather real-passionate programmers exist in Kerala ( myself positioned being just a curious novice coder ). Students who set a part of their life for FOSS, those who love playing with API's found around the Internet, those who code for the fun of it and not for the hefty CTC wating at the MNCs. The search didn't disappoint me. The 'Code Jam 2011' coding contest conducted by mobme.in in Kerala last year (2011) brought some very dedicated programmers to the public. If you are stu...

Finally after four years of study and toil, we got our degree certificates few days back.  And now we are all computer engineers ! Although it wasn't such an totally pleasant environment in our college there were several other things that changed us and made us what we are today. Of them,  one thing regarding me was the exciting journey through the world of computer science. Choosing my subject of passion have made me enjoy learning every bit of it. Another thing was that I was fortunate enough to meet some of the best friends I have in this world. They have amazed me in every way of their living and brought out the better human being in me. We forged a lot of life-time relationships on the go, now we know we are not gonna part any time soon.I feel I've learned a lot and gained a lot from there more than I would have from anywhere else.  Of course, Tirunelveli is a hot place, but you've got lot of good places to live and stay at Tirunelveli . Kudos to each of the nice p...

I've experimented developing facebook applications in several newly emerged venues, namely, Goolge App Engine ( Java ) Heroku ( Php ) I got the chance to explore these cloud platforms very deep and learned a lot on the way. For some reason or the other, none of them met my requirements ( they were quite vast :P ) . Now, I've got an account into phpfog.com and done with quite a few testing. So far, I feel it's the best cloud platform ( PaaS ) for facebook applications in php. Good Sides of PhpFog I felt the Git usage from linux is easier in phpfog.com than heroku Allows all Image manipulation functions ( i.e. supports GD library ) It's quite easy to get started with a new facebook application in phpfog. 1. Sign-up at phpfog 2. Create a cloud 3. Create an application  --> Choose Facebook application from the list of presented applications 4. Download it with the Git That was just an overview, detailed steps are described in their documentation very n...