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Time Waster : cubo.cc

Posted in Stuff by Ankur on March 31st, 2008

cubo.cc

Remember the pair of eyes on the screen that followed the mouse pointer? This is a more advanced version of the same thing except that this is a actual face, well one thing the effects/expressions are nice check it here http://cubo.cc

Making Xml dump of MySQL

Posted in Life, Linux, Special by Ankur on March 18th, 2008

Yesterday when i was trying/searching for a way to generate XML file from PHP so as to use it in Project 11, i came across a way to make a direct database/table dump from mysql and its damn easy all you have to do is type
mysqldump -u username -p --xml databasename > data.xml
and it will dump whole database into the data.xml file enjoy!!!!
PS:- Info about Project 11 coming up…..

Real Programers

Posted in Special by Ankur on March 8th, 2008

Real Programers

xkcd rules!!!!!!!!!!

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iPhone Finally gets an SDK

Posted in Apple, Special by Ankur on March 7th, 2008

Apple SDK

So finally the much-anticipated iPhone / iPod touch SDK (Software Development Kit) is released, this will start third-party development for these devices. Developers will have access to the same “Cocoa Touch” framework and all other APIs used by Apple for iPhone software development apart from this they will have access to hardware-accelerated 3D graphics, location-enabled applications and full access to all the media capabilities of the iPhone. The iPhone dev center is there for what every you may need along with an Application distribution System for iPhone which has a revenue sharing scheme of 70:30 and also hosting for free applications. I am seriously waiting for iPhone to get released in India and from what i have heard it will be Reliance with the iPhone………….. any comments???

Silverlight comming to Nokia Phones

Posted in Special by Ankur on March 6th, 2008
Silverlight                Nokia E61i

Nokia announced to make Silverlight the Flash alternative being pushed by Microsoft, avaliable for Symbian S60, S40 and Internet Tablet Devices, which will be available by the year end. it means people with Nokia Devices will be able to see content, notably video, written for Silverlight.

“This is an important relationship on so many levels. Working with Nokia means we are easily able to reach a huge number of mobile users, including customers of all S60 licensees. This is a significant step in gaining broad acceptance for Silverlight and ensuring it is platform agnostic. This is critical since we want to make sure developers and designers don’t have to constantly recreate the wheel and build different versions of applications and services for multiple operating systems, browsers and platforms,” said S. Somasegar, Senior Vice President of Microsoft’s Developer Division.

I certainly dont know what gonna happen but i think Microsoft is just trying hard to make Silverlight appealing to developers by making it available on a large number of platforms as different edditions for Windows, Mac, Linux and cell phones. All the main features of Silverlight, including video and interactive Web application development, will be included in all mobile versions.

Source: Nokia

Planet Manipal Fixed

Posted in Special, Stuff by Ankur on March 5th, 2008

Planet had a very bad habit of replacing the title of your post by your nickname or the image description of the image that is there in your post , finally i got a way to make planet not do that and well it was damn  easy just switching the feeds from RSS to Atom works and no other setting is required. I am going to switch over to a proper hosting so will host Planet Manipal properly there and the updates will be more regular till then enjoy!!!!!!!