Ever felt like sending a predefined message to someone automatically after x seconds? Annoy someone ? If you have a smartphone with pyS60 installed it’s just 13 lines of copy-paste. Code and instructions after the break.
Continue Reading...I got a Nokia n82 this year. The only thing I’ve been mad about in the n82 is the GPS. I’ve an unsual attraction and liking for the GPS; it’s simply super-awesome. Most of the time I’m hooked to the GPS applications in my phone. I’ve installed everything I can, upgraded the firmware (which in my opinion has reduced the ‘time-to-first-fix’), Nokia’s Maps 2.0, Google maps (Sadly, I can’t be arsed to pay high for my GPRS data so it’s good as long as I’m in my home, with the WiFi network) and of course Nokia Lab’s sportstracker. Some action-shots after the break.
Continue Reading...You might be wondering, what provoked me to post something new ? It’s this piece from BBC’s website. Some jobless ninja tried ‘suing god’. In BBC’s tone “He sought a permanent injunction to prevent the ‘death, destruction and terrorisation’ caused by God. ”
Seriously, what is that ? Apparently he wanted to ‘prove’ that since a person can sue anyone, he should try suing god and become ‘joe the plumber‘ (I mean the media attention). The court, in turn threw out the case stating “that because the defendant has no address, legal papers cannot be served.”
Continue Reading...Finally, I got a new new monster beast. I haven’t kicked the old beast but they two seem to like each other. Moving on to the config:
Rest, aren’t worth mentioning, though I’ve decided to keep both my old and new pc. About Websites, I sold cropr.in (rebranded to a new site now) for a mid $xxx value at sitepoint. It was an AJAX cropper + resizer. Then, sold sprif.com an AJAX site again for $500 at sitepoint.
Now it’s the time to shoot and burn some stuff, game I mean 
Here it is, an AJAX’d contact form with a captcha. I had an idea to code this about a week ago and thought would be a tough job to do but it wasn’t that tough to code when I started doing it. The only place where I had to spend a lot of time was, pondering how to pass the value from the ‘textarea’ to the PHP preserving the line breaks. After googling for about an hour and reading different articles I finally got what was required, I just had to escape(): the variable before sending it to the PHP script.
On a positive note, I didn’t really have any problem with running this script on IE (I usually have to break my head over this matter). To prelude its features, I guess it does everything you’d normally except a contact form to do. It sanitizes all the variables, checks for the Email structure and disabled the submit button once the email is sent to prevent mass emails. I would like to thank SecondVersion and Psyrens for the PHP backend & ajax captcha respectively. As usual I’m lazy to provide a detailed documentation about it and would *make sure* that I write one in the future. But the whole script isn’t obfuscated at all, you’d just have to edit some constants and woo! it’s done.
I’m currently working on integrating this script as a wordpress plugin. Please let me know any bugs/commments/feedback by commenting below or contacting me. Show-off your own modified version of this script here
Script Demo : ~Snipped temporarily~
Script Download : http://hakc.net/…./….zip
Continue Reading...I’ve finally become free from a voyage that many idiots including me embarked about a year ago. I’m finally completely sane. I had decided long back to write a blog entry on “why orkut sucks” and I think this is the perfectly right time to do it. So this isn’t the way you’d normally expect a person to prelude his blog after months of inactivity and if you’re one of those ‘pro orkut lover’ you wouldn’t indeed like this. Yeah, and this is my first “hate rant”.
I don’t have anything against most of the social networking sites out there (probably because I don’t visit many) but orkut is something which just rages me to the core. I find it ridiculous that it’s a big “phenomenon” in India (I would infact rate Chris Crocker’s videos more than this crap).
PS : Parental advisory , entry is a bit profane.
Finally, I’ve sold a domain for the very first time and the price offered for it has beat my highest earning record. I bought condolences.mobi for 10USD back in april. Bingo, then came the 500 USD bid through SEDO. Here’s my paypal screen :
Yes, the blog is stalled and will be the same for the upcoming months.
I cannot update the blog, been busy in real life.
Will try updating in the mean time.
Surya
PS: Check the movie ratings page, hell yeah I can watch movies but cannot update my blog! :p
Continue Reading...Oops! I’ve finally updated my blog (once again). I got certificated in the compTIA I-NET+ today with 878/900 marks. I’m yet to confirm that if I’m the youngest to do this. It was pretty easy than what I expected it to be and I took 15 minutes to complete this. Two questions went wrong (somewhere) out of 74 questions
Apart from compTIA, I got certified in AJAX and Computer Skills (bah) way back in the first week on may and I was way too lazy to update this. I will post the screenshots of the hard copy certificate pretty soon (yes soon).
I’ve some exciting websites coming up soon and I’ll update here asap they get up. Be sure to check the updated about-me page for some “shiny badges†(I’m still waiting for some more badges).
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