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Tuesday 29 December 2009

Check mails of Softbank mail account from your PC

If,
1. you dont have access to Wifi network
2. you want to check your softbank mail
3. you dont want to pay for the packets

you can simply go to www.mail2web.com give your softbank mail address(@i.softbank.jp) and the password. No registration is necessary.

If you are not comfortable providing this detail to the site, there is yet another way to access your mail.

Configure your PC`s mail client with the softbank`s address and password. I tried with my Mail application of Mac OS X and it worked without a glitch. I am sure that it will work with other mail clients like Microsoft Outlook, Thunderbird etc. Softbank uses IMAP (not POP3) as the incoming mail server(imap.softbank.jp). Hence, you cannot add your softbank account to Gmail. Gmail only allows POP3 server accounts to be added.

Happy mailing!!!

Wednesday 12 August 2009

Friday 12 June 2009

Indian style Red bean(Azuki) dish

The Azuki beans are a common ingredient in many japanese sweets. I just googled and found that it is also common in the chinese cuisine. In the northern part of India, the Red Kidney bean(called as Rajma) curry is a common dish. I tried making Azuki bean curry in the Rajma curry style and it turned out to be very delicious.

Ingredients:

1. Tomato
2. Onion
3. Azuki bean
4. Pinch of turmeric powder, corriander powder.
3. Curry Powder
4. Salt
5. Oil

Procedure:

1. Keep the red beans soaked in water for about 2 hours. It is the same as done with Rajma. This saves a lot of cooking time.
2. Boil the red beans with enough curry powder, salt, pinch of corriander powder and a pinch of turmeric powder.
3. Shallow fry onion and tomato with enough salt and curry powder.
4. Add the boiled beans to the shallow fried onion and tomato and stir it in low flame for two minutes.

And you obtain the delicious red bean curry as shown below.

Wednesday 10 June 2009

Is this just a Video? or a web page? Incredible Firefox

This Tech Crunch video shows the power of Firefox 3.5. With some javascript, both the developer and the user can change the way video is rendered. We dont need Flash or any other RIA technology to customize the videos. Chrome, Opera and IE may need to catch up...

Thursday 4 June 2009

Thursday 30 April 2009

Navigate using your thought

Do you agree that the fastest vehicle in the world is our mind? Let me justify. Just think of a place that you like the most. Done. You are there!!!!!

Now you will also be able to navigate to a place you are not familiar using your thoughts. Yes. Think about the direction you have to head, once you sit in this wheelchair and you navigate in that direction. Don't believe me???? Have a look at the video below.

Monday 6 April 2009

Ubuntu with a Vmware!!!!

Came across this news. "Portable Ubuntu Runs Ubuntu Inside Windows". Many users(like me) want to learn and work with linux. But, fear for the lack in support for hardware and other software. Now, even without installing the expensive Vmware, users can have the advantage of running Linux within their existing Windows system. A great option!!!!

Tuesday 24 March 2009

Desalination Plant of tomorrow?

Came across this exciting video. It may be used to make an affordable Desalination Plant. Any takers for Chennai???????

Tuesday 17 March 2009

HSTP - Hyperspeech Transfer Protocol

Yes. You read it right. It is Hyper Speech Transfer Protocol and not Hyper Text Transfer Protocol. It is IBM's new protocol developed to "talk" with the Web.

"People will talk to the web and the web will respond. The research technology is analogous to the internet. Unlike personal computers it will work on mobile phones where people can simply create their voice sites," IBM India Research Laboratory Associate Director Manish Gupta said to The Times Of India.

The increase in the number of mobile phone subscribers in spite of the serious recession may help the technology to become commercially successful. Does it have the ability to replace the Internet?