Ideas - Driving force of this World

Check mails of Softbank mail account from your PC

2009-12-29T07:58:00.000-08:00

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!!!

Damien Rice - Cannonball [2002][SkidVid].mpg

2009-08-12T18:12:00.001-07:00

Indian style Red bean(Azuki) dish

2009-06-12T23:49:00.000-07:00

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.

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

2009-06-10T07:04:00.000-07:00

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...

Lecture by Stephen Wolfram

2009-06-04T06:50:00.000-07:00

Navigate using your thought

2009-04-30T06:34:00.000-07:00

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.

Ubuntu with a Vmware!!!!

2009-04-06T00:23:00.001-07:00

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!!!!

Desalination Plant of tomorrow?

2009-03-24T13:58:00.001-07:00

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

HSTP - Hyperspeech Transfer Protocol

2009-03-17T06:23:00.000-07:00

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?

Silverlight - KeyNotFound Exception

2008-05-20T20:07:00.000-07:00

Finally, I found out the reason for this exception in Silverlight. Though I had put try catch blocks in all the methods, sometimes this exception is thrown.
I had a doubt that it may be because of animation. And, it was.

I was using storyboard1 for opening canvas1 and storyboard2 for closing it.
And canvas1 opens when i do a mouse enter event to another canvas-canvas2. Similarly, canvas1 is closed in the mouseleave event of canvas2.
The exception was thrown only when I did a fast mouse enter and mouse leave(ie before storyboard1 ended and storyboard2 was called).
So, it is always better to stop all the storyboards modifying the control before beginning a storyboard for animating the control.

Server did not recognize the value of HTTP Header SOAPAction

2008-05-18T20:00:00.000-07:00

This is a SOAP protocol exception. I got this exception when I tried to access a method in a webservice. The reason for getting this exception is that the method I accessed was not a web method.

The following is the exception that i recieved

soap:ClientSystem.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: Server did not recognize the value of HTTP Header SOAPAction: http://tempuri.org/GetFileString.
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.Soap11ServerProtocolHelper.RouteRequest()
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapServerProtocol.RouteRequest(SoapServerMessage message)
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapServerProtocol.Initialize()
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.ServerProtocolFactory.Create(Type type, HttpContext context, HttpRequest request, HttpResponse response, Boolean& abortProcessing)

Silverlight Linq error

2008-04-20T22:39:00.001-07:00

Today also I noticed a new kind of error when I was migrating my existing Silverlight 1.1 control to 2.0. If I add reference of System.Linq.Xml namespace to any existing Silverlight library, I got the below exception when I ran the website.

Now, i have changed the logic so that I dont have to use System.Xml.Linq.
If I find the solution, I shall update it here

Silverlight2.0 Security Tighened??

2008-04-15T23:40:00.000-07:00

I am trying to migrate my existing Silverlight 1.1 control to 2.0 version. I noticed another change. Access to other Dlls placed in the folder is denied by System.Reflection. In other words, the Assembly.Load(fullname) does not work unless a reference is added to the assembly.
Though one may say that it is a security feature, it was happening in 1.1. And I dont think loading a silverlight dll from the ClientBin directly will affect the security in anyways.

Silverlight System.OutofMemoryException

2008-04-11T02:08:00.000-07:00

Today, I encountered a weird exception that I have mentioned in the title when i was building my solution.
I had added many images as assets to a particular project that made it exceed the memory stack. So guys check out.

Shakespeare Programming Language - SPL

2008-01-23T19:37:00.000-08:00

I had created this blog years before but did not update the same. I should say, I was very lazy to do it. But now, I found something very interesting which I want to share.Today, I was reading a newsletter from Code Project.com and it had an item by name The Shakespeare Programming Language(abbreviated as SPL). I expected this to be something that relates Shakespeare with some other programming language. But, i was surprised to see the whole code of the SPL written in the style of Shakespeare's plays. By learning the syntax, one may even improve his English(one of the word I learnt is Exeunt which means exit from the stage).

http://shakespearelang.sourceforge.net/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_programming_language