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Nokia Makes it twice to the top 5 worst cell phone designs

Since facebook has called for Facebook stories as a part of their PR strategy to celebrate 500 Million facebook users, here’s my story.

I joined Facebook back in late 2006- early 2007, I can’t remember. At that time my entire class was going gaga over Orkut. I remember talking to my friend  and classmate about hazards of making friendship online (though secretly i was making few myself.) Anyway, since all my friends were on Orkut, I switched back to Orkut which i left for ever again in September 2008.

Shit this has become more of Orkut story than Facebook Story. Sorry.

Finally eBooks to gets cheaper

The new rate comes with stipulations too. For example, the book must be priced at between $2.99 and $9.99, and must be available on the Kindle at least 20% below the physical book’s list price.

Looks like ebook war is heating up.

Okay, Nokia you were arrogant enough to have taken a jibe on iPhone 4′s reception issues without having a look into their own problems.

See

Now watch this?

Oh wait, this is the best way to hold your Nokia

Annoy your loved ones with Vuvuzela on WM

One thing I would like to have in web based email services is to archive the mail after i open it. As in:

Open>read>archive automatically.

I know you can just click on the archive button above after you read it, but sometimes I just miss it and have to take extra steps to archive it to keep my inbox clean. Do you think Google should have this feature in Gmail? I don’t care about other web based email services since I don’t use them.

Working on new project where I expect as much as 500 new pics to be uploaded daily which got me to wonder if storing them in a file System is better than storing in a DB. Thankfully my friend, Binny helped me  make a decision. Here is what he mailed me:

Hi,

Blob
——
Advantages
=========
When deleting a row, the image gets deleted automatically. If storing
as a file, you have to delete it separately.
Backing up the database will automatically backup the images.
Less maintainence

Disadvantages
===========
Marginally poorer performance when compared to file system approach.
If you are going to have a lot of images, it is harder to scale.
Big DB=Long time for backups,Long time for search,etc.
You have to make an extra script to view the images.
The code to do this is a bit more complex than just uploading it to
the file system.

I realize I’m reaching a bit(especially the last two points) when I
write the disadvantages – but I have to justify my use of file system

For more info,
http://mysqldump.azundris.com/archives/36-Serving-Images-From-A-Database.html
(Read the comments)
http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2006/03/storing_binary.html
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum88/9091.htm
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-admin/2002-10/msg00318.php
http://www.childofthemachine.com/blog/2008/02/image-storage-database-blob-vs-file-system/
http://highscalability.com/flickr-architecture

–
Binny V A
http://binnyva.com/

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I have decided to go with File System as I don’t want my Database to grow so huge that it becomes difficult to maintain.

MySQL+PHP iPhone app

When you get bashed it means you are doing something right. And these days Microsoft is getting bashed by anyone and everyone. I have personally used many products and services from Microsoft for the past 5-6 years now and I must say they have improved drastically.

Here are the list of products/services I use by Microsoft and I like them!

• Windows xp/Windows 7
• Windows Live Writer – The best blogging tool for bloggers. I have tried many blogging tools on Windows and Mac but haven’t come across any that can match WLW.
• Windows Photo Gallery – This is not better than Picasa by Google but sorting/deleting and uploading pictures to various photo sharing sites in much easier than Picasa. Plus the plugin makes it so much easier.
• Skydrive – 25Gb free space and many uploading tools. Do I say more?

I suggest if you aren’t using any of these, I suggest you first try them out. If you you like any tool that might interest me please suggest in the comment box below.  Mind you, I am no microsoft fangurl!