Gnokii !

Gnokii is a wonderful tool , an application rather which could communicate with ur mobile device which is plugged to it!

It works very well with Nokia, Sonu Ericson high end mobiles ...

we can do a lot of operations using gnokii like sending an sms, recieving saving , edleting and sms all these and more on cmd prompt!

isnt tat cool!

we can find many nstances where such a utility could be helpful for us.

Ubunto 7.10 onwards come with a default xgnokii installed in it .. we can access it by path Applications -->Accessories -->Xgnokii

Xgnokii has lil bit more features than jus gnokii

to install gnokii into ur kernel jus check all the repositories in the synaptic package manager and say
$apt-get update [enter]
$apt-get install gnokii [enter]


happy gnoking :)

fdm !

wat does it stand for? was my first ques i asked Akhil , my senior who tot me to use fdm today...

fdm stands for Fetch and Deliver Mail .

it is a software application , if u give the login details of ur email acc , like email provider address, its port address along with user name and passwd , fdm fetches the inbox and recieves the email!(ofcourse if internet is on :P )

we are using a shell script to call the fdm to acess the gmail acc .

co incidentally, the mail which we have to read is in form of a fixed format of certain no. fields

so we write the contents of the mail into a text file and run a shell script to scrap the required fields and put it into varialbles and send them to a php page! so indirectly we have an access to the remote database frm jus an email !! wit fdm's help

this sendin of the parameters into the php page of directly to the database is taken care of by anothe r applicaton called curl .. have limited info regarding curl, will search and get familiar with how to use it.

Hello Dr Java !

a friend prompted me to do small java projects ...
and then later we could develop some revenue earning applications!

tot it wud be a nice experience to learn java.

i know a lil bit of javascript, and to my first hand knowledge java is different frm javascript!

i downloaded few ppt abt intro to java to begin wit yest night, came across a software called Dr Java!!

itseems we need a java runtime environment(JRE) to basically run our java program

a JDK( java development kit) is a softy used to create and run our java prog.

JRE is part of JDK
the resources i refered to sugested tat we'll have to run our .java programs on terminal using cmds to first need to tell d terminal whr our java compiler is present using export cmd
and then, compile it using javac cmd , and then a .class file is created, we run this using cmd
java file_name


we've an alternate option!

tat is Integrated Development Environment (IDE) , this provides us a much easier interface to write edit compile run java code.

the most popular IDE is Dr Java

i installed it yesterday, bt not able to run even a hello world program as yet :P

hopefully i'll make good progress in next few days...

why this Blog?

this is my tech blog ,here i'd like to discuss n share any new thing which i learnt ,however small it may be.

wish me luk guys :)