Searching to know whether a particular component, module or board is available in India can be daunting. I made a google custom search engine (CSE) with all the main online embedded/electronics sites. The URL for the search is http://www.google.com/cse/publicurl?cx=001138685502448049082:odwaxexu1te The current list of sites included in the search are http://www.mgsuperlabs.co.in http://www.ventor.co.in/ http://extremeelectronics.co.in http://ventor.co.in http://nex-robotics.com…
BSNL post paid GPRS,EDGE,3G raw configuration for bluetooth and serial modems
My post at https://sunish.net/2007/10/25/bsnl-gprs-configuration seems to be one of the most popular pages in spite of the fact that the site was not updated for a long long time. The most important parameter to be set is the APN or Access Point Name. The settings are as followsAPN : bsnlnetUsername : Not RequiredPassword :…
Fenugreek – Magic on my cholestrol levels
I don’t know precisely when I started to have high cholesterol levels. But one fine day in 2005, I felt I was gasping after a walk and I had this intuition that I had cholesterol. Went for a blood test along with my mom who already had started taking medicine, to find that I too…
Do we give more attention to those close by ?
Reading Influence – The Psychology of Persuassion and various other books, made me think about various influences. I just came across this phenomena while working as a cashier at my business premises. I tend to give more attention to those who are close by even if they were not the first to ask for a…
Does money make you happy ?
Deep thought might definitely tell you otherwise. I’ve been browsing through the Happiness Project Blog for a long time. I read Joel’s article about intrinsic and extrinsic happiness at inc.com. I probably have a lot of intrinsic happiness in helping out to solve tech problems. With the recent cash crunch I do feel that more…
Train Timings from Quilandy / Quilandi (Indian Railway Code QLD)
I had to wait for quite some time for my train to Mangalore, thought to make the time worthwhile. Just jotted down the timings from the board on to my Treo using Documents To Go excel.Man.. I had to retype it all. Copy paste from excel does not work. Train No. Route (Towards Mangalore) Train…
Time taken to download for various Broadband Speeds
A recent business proposal required me to calculate the time taken to download huge files. Being a BSNL Dataone user, I was comparing it with various plans including the Home unlimited plan for Rs.900. 1 MB = 1024 KB = 1024 * 1024 bytes = 1048576 bytes = 1048576*8 = 8388608 bits Bandwidth in K…
My favourite Windows Explorer and Command Prompt Usage Tips
These are tips that you might already be using but definitely there would be one thing or the other that you would not have known. As far as I’m concerned most of these are tips that I use almost daily . That much for the usability. Most of this stuff will work from Windows 95…
Opera Mini on Treo Review
My idea was to write a complete review from my Treo, using Opera Mini. After writing couple of sentences or even more, I tried copying the content that I wrote to the clipboard using FieldPlus’ Shift- Enter keyboard shortcut. Oh! what a bad decision that was, everything went off and I was with a blank…
Tips on checking and fixing HP Laptop Remote Control
I have a HP dv6395 laptop (should be applicable to the whole HP dv6000 series) and it comes with a remote. Once in a while it just stops working. The ultimate problem solving technique of resatrting windows doesn’t solve this problem. Usually whenever there’s a problem with any IR remote, I use the digital camera technique to ensure that the IR light actually comes…