Manish Agrawal

Sync Contacts between your Android and Nokia phones thru Google Contacts and Nokia Sync..

Manish Agrawal — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 08:17:16 GMT

Google provides you a very good contacts manager. http://contacts.google.com

Google also gives you the ability to synchronize your phone contacts with the contacts on your gmail account. I found this quick tutorial to do contacts sync on Nokia 5800 xpress music phone.

Now contacts on my Android phone (Google Nexus One) and Nokia phone (5800 Xpress Music) as always in Sync and backed up ;)

Steps of enabling the Contatct (only Contacts) Sync on Nokia 5800.

Without images:
Go to Menu -> settings -> Connectivity -> Data transfer -> Sync -> New sync profile
In the 1st page put any name for the profile.
In the 2nd page select "1.2"
In the 3rd page select ONLY Contacts.
In the 4rth page type "Contacts" (without the quotes).
In the 5th page select "Internet"
In the 6th page type "https://m.google.com/syncml" (watch out for the "s" on "https")
In the 7th page type "Google" (capital ‘G’ is important)
In the 8th page put the user name of your account.
In the 9th page put the password of your account

Once you are over with the pages it will go you to "sync"
You will press options -> Change active profile -> The name of your profile
It's ready for you to try it!

Go to your contacts and press Options -> Synchronization -> Start
It is ready!!!!!

Note: At a time it syncs 50 contacts, so you may have to run it multiple times.

Source: http://www.noeman.org/gsm/s60-v5-symbian-os-9-4-applications/89105-sync-google-contacts-nokia-5800-a.html http://www.noeman.org/gsm/s60-v5-symbian-os-9-4-applications/89105-sync-google-contacts-nokia-5800-a.html

my quote

Manish Agrawal — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 19:24:15 GMT

Change the game or you will not even know how to play it. --Manish Agrawal

Five Key Numbers to Gauge your Agile Engineering Efforts

Manish Agrawal — Mon, 30 May 2011 12:01:40 GMT

Nice Presentation by Jeff Nielsen.

Five Key Numbers to Gauge your Agile Engineering Efforts

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CouchDB - Replication Test - between CouchDB servers on Android 2.2.1 and Windows 7

Manish Agrawal — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 03:10:32 GMT

Step 1:

Download CouchDB on your Android phone from Android Market Place:

info available at: http://www.couchone.com/android

Step 2:

Download CouchDB on your Windows machine

info available at: http://www.couchone.com/get#win

Download link: http://dl.couchone.com/dl/6d2f7222ef93871d5151d1462f002941/couchdb_1-1.00%20erlangR14A%20delayed-commits-false.zip

after unzip, it looks like this:

Step 3:

Check IP of your Windows machine

Note: Your Android phone and Windows machine shall be on the same network (in case of local network).

Step 4:

On your Windows machine, Goto etc/couchdb folder in the CouchDB directory and change the IP from 127.0.0.1 to your Windows machine IP in local.ini file

Step 5:

On your Windows machine, Goto bin/ folder in the CouchDB directory,

Run the couchdb.bat file, it will show the following log

Erlang R14A (erts-5.8) [source] [smp:2:2] [rq:2] [async-threads:0]

Eshell V5.8 (abort with ^G)

1> Apache CouchDB 1.0.0 (LogLevel=info) is starting.

Apache CouchDB has started. Time to relax.

[info] [<0.44.0>] Apache CouchDB has started on http://192.168.0.2:5984/

Step 6:

Access http://192.168.0.2:5984/_utils URL from your Android phone browser

It should show the CouchDB page with database names.

And immediately it will show this log in the Erlang server window:

[info] [<0.107.0>] 192.168.0.3 - - 'GET' /_utils 301

[info] [<0.107.0>] 192.168.0.3 - - 'GET' /_all_dbs 200

[info] [<0.169.0>] 192.168.0.3 - - 'GET' /_session 200

[info] [<0.107.0>] 192.168.0.3 - - 'GET' / 200

[info] [<0.169.0>] 192.168.0.3 - - 'GET' /_users/ 200

[info] [<0.168.0>] 192.168.0.3 - - 'GET' /xyz/ 200’

Step 7:

Now Open the CouchDB on Android phone Notification bar. (You will see the local IP of the phone i.e. 127.0.0.1:5984)

Create a new database… (in my case database name was xyzA)

Go to Replicator link on the right side of the page

In From DB, fill the http url of your CouchDB running on your Windows desktop

for e.g. http://192.168.0.2:5984/xyz (xyz was the database name on my Windows CouchDB)

In To DB, select the newly created database from the dropdown which shows _replicator as selected by default.

or in case if the newly created db is not there in the dropdown list,

fill the http URL, for e.g. http://127.0.0.1:5984/xyzA

Note: even though new database is created, it may not appear on the Local Database dropdown on the Replicator page

Remember to Reload/Refresh the page in your Android Browser always, you may have to do it at many different times on various pages.

You can select Continuous check box for continuous replication between the two.

Press Replicate button

Immediately it will show this log in the Erlang server window:

[info] [<0.742.0>] 192.168.0.3 - - 'GET' /xyz/ 200

[info] [<0.743.0>] 192.168.0.3 - - 'GET' /xyz/_local%2F34c99c134a502c2cd41d6df7775902e2 404

[info] [<0.744.0>] 192.168.0.3 - - 'GET' /xyz/_local%2F6ed566d89c8c3c6b5c00ddb810717b2d 404

[info] [<0.745.0>] 192.168.0.3 - - 'GET' /xyz/_changes?style=all_docs&heartbeat=10000&since=0&feed=continuous 200

[info] [<0.746.0>] 192.168.0.3 - - 'GET' /xyz/e63b8aa6b2685686199c7e131900052f?open_revs=["1-6371fc9e2fa97f39bd567a3649b3a825"]&revs=true&latest=true&att_encoding_info=true 200

[info] [<0.749.0>] 192.168.0.3 - - 'GET' /xyz/f1ca5a35948b802b82a346a792000e20?open_revs=["2-a73c0007b41ce0b84b6960cd55b2d487"]&revs=true&latest=true&att_encoding_info=true 200

[info] [<0.750.0>] 192.168.0.3 - - 'POST' /xyz/_ensure_full_commit?seq=3 201

[info] [<0.757.0>] 192.168.0.3 - - 'PUT' /xyz/_local%2F34c99c134a502c2cd41d6df7775902e2 201

Problems identified during this exercise:

1. In CouchDB web UI, to change any field value, one has to double click, but if you have opened CouchDB Web UI in Android Browser, double click/double tap work as zoom feature!!

2. Continuous Replication stopped working, once my Android phone moved from WiFi to EDGE and back, I had to restart CouchDB on Android and again set up the replication!!

Steps for MySQL DB Replication

Manish Agrawal — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 07:23:01 GMT

Following are the steps for MySQL Replication implementation on Linux machine:

Pre-implementation steps for DB Replication:

1. Identify the databases to be replicated

2. Identify the tables to be ignored during replication per database for example log tables

3. Carefully identify and replace the variables and paths(locations) mentioned (in bold) in the commands given below with appropriate values

4. Schedule the maintenance activity in odd hours as these activities will affect all the databases on Master database server

Implementation steps for DB Replication:

1. Configure the /etc/my.cnf file on Master database server to enable Binary logging, setting of server id and configuring of dbnames for which logging should be done.

[mysqld]

log-bin=mysql-bin

server-id=1

binlog-do-db = dbname

Note: You can specify multiple DB in binlog-do-db by using comma separated dbname values like: dbname1, dbname2, …, dbnameN

2. On Master database, Grant Replication Slave Privileges, by executing following command on mysql prompt

mysql> GRANT REPLICATION SLAVE ON *.* TO slaveuser@<hostname> identified by ‘slavepassword’;

3. Stop the Master & Slave database by giving the command

mysqladmin shutdown

4. Start the Master database by giving the command

/usr/local/mysql-5.0.22/bin/mysqld_safe --user=user&

5. mysql> FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK;

Note: Leave the client (putty session) from which you issued the FLUSH TABLES statement running, so that the read lock remains in effect. If you exit the client, the lock is released.

6. mysql > SHOW MASTER STATUS;

+---------------+----------+--------------+------------------+

+---------------+----------+--------------+------------------+

+---------------+----------+--------------+------------------+

Note: Note this information as this will be required while starting of Slave and replication in later steps

7. Take MySQL dump by giving the following command, In another session window (putty window) run the following command:

mysqldump –u user --ignore-table=dbname.tbl_name -–ignore-table=dbname.tbl_name2 --master-data dbname > dbname_dump.db

Note: When choosing databases to include in the dump, remember that you will need to filter out databases on each slave that you do not want to include in the replication process.

8. Unlock the tables on Master by giving following command:

mysql> UNLOCK TABLES;

9. Copy the dump file to Slave DB server

10. Startup the Slave by using option --skip-slave

/usr/local/mysql-5.0.22/bin/mysqld_safe --user=user --skip-slave&

11. Restore the dump file on Slave DB server

mysql –u user dbname < dbname_dump.db

12. Stop the Slave database by giving the command

mysqladmin shutdown

13. Configure the /etc/my.cnf file on the Slave database server

[mysqld]

server-id=2

replicate-ignore-table = dbname.tablename

14. Start the Slave Mysql Server with 'replicate-do-db=DB name' option.

/usr/local/mysql-5.0.22/bin/mysqld_safe --user=user --replicate-do-db=dbname --skip-slave

15. Configure the settings at Slave server for Master host name, log filename and position within the log file as shown in Step 6 above

Use Change Master statement in the MySQL session

mysql> CHANGE MASTER TO MASTER_HOST='<master_host_name>', MASTER_USER='<replication_user_name>', MASTER_PASSWORD='<replication_password>', MASTER_LOG_FILE='<recorded_log_file_name>', MASTER_LOG_POS=<recorded_log_position>;

16. On Slave Servers mysql prompt give the following command:

a. mysql > START SLAVE;

b. mysql > SHOW SLAVE STATUS;

Note:

To stop slave for backup or any other activity you can use the following command on the Slave Servers mysql prompt:

mysql> STOP SLAVE

Refer following links for more information on MySQL DB Replication:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/replication-options.html

http://crazytoon.com/2008/04/21/mysql-replication-replicate-by-choice/

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/mysqldump.html

Telco Evolution Sample

Manish Agrawal — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:46:21 GMT

Yet another good presentation from Alan

One Api Pilot

Manish Agrawal — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:37:01 GMT

Presentations made at Mobile World Congress, MWC 2010, on the Canadian OneAPI Pilot by Graham Trickey (GSMA), and Shane Logan (Telus).

Thanks Alan for sharing it.

Analysis WiMax vs LTE - by Mario Equiluz Alebicto

Manish Agrawal — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:57:25 GMT

Analysis WiMax vs LTE

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Voice Message (VM)

Manish Agrawal — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:33:24 GMT

I have posted a Poll on Linked IN, to study about the pattern of usage of Voice Message and its awareness.

I request you, to kindly spare few seconds of yours to provide your valuable answer.

Poll Question is:

What do U do, when the Person U are calling is not reachable / not picking & a Voice Prompts u to leave a Voice Message (VM)?

You can answer the Poll on Linked IN site (recommended, as it will give very good comparitve analysis) by clicking on this link: http://polls.linkedin.com/p/65807/ugsqd

Or if that is not possible, then by leaving your answer (from below mentioned options) as comment to this post:

1. Leave a VM
2. Don't leave VM & wait for callback
3. Don't leave VM & later send a SMS
4. Don't leave VM & try calling again later
5. Don't know, What is Voice Message (VM)

Thanks in advance...

The Time Paradox: by Philip Zimbardo and John Boyd

Manish Agrawal — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:55:21 GMT

The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life

Your every significant choice -- every important decision you make -- is determined by a force operating deep inside your mind: your perspective on time -- your internal, personal time zone. This is the most influential force in your life, yet you are virtually unaware of it. Once you become aware of your personal time zone, you can begin to see and manage your life in exciting new ways.

In The Time Paradox, Drs. Zimbardo and Boyd draw on thirty years of pioneering research to reveal, for the first time, how your individual time perspective shapes your life and is shaped by the world around you. Further, they demonstrate that your and every other individual's time zones interact to create national cultures, economics, and personal destinies.

Philip Zimbardo is professor emeritus of psychology at Stanford University and has also taught at Yale University, New York University, and Columbia University. His informative website, www.prisonexperiment.org, is visited by millions every year. Visit the author's personal website at www.zimbardo.com.

Why it is difficult to accept the realities of a downturn..

Manish Agrawal — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:05:44 GMT

Though everybody knows: "It is always better to come to terms with realities and accept things as early as possible..." but there is a in-built thought process in our mind (Sub-Concious Mind), which keeps pulling us away and makes the process of coming with terms to realities slow and painful..

Saush has written a great article about "why it is difficult to accept the realitlies of a downturn..."

Just by going thru this article, one can realize the common human mistakes, which if can't be avoided can definetly be made less painful.. just by looking at things in a different prospective..

Solar Roadways -- What a revloutionary concept!!

Manish Agrawal — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 10:18:39 GMT

Great work!! Scott and Julie Brusaw

What a great discovery.... It can solve so many major problems of the current world in one shot..

Video from: http://green.autoblog.com/2009/08/28/solar-roadways-get-prototype-funding-from-dot/

To check more details, you can visit the Solar Roadways website.

Join & spread the revolution by making others aware about it.

Cheers..

UUI - Ubiquitous User Interface

Manish Agrawal — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:32:30 GMT

Finally, The world is evolving towards a new mode of interaction.

Where human doesn't haveto give inputs to machines using some input devices like keyboard, mouse, touch etc. rather machines are made capable to understand human body movements and take inputs accordingly.

I will like to give it a new name UUI - i.e. Ubiquitous User Interface

Some examples of this are Accelerometer based inputs in many devices, Microsoft's new Project Natal for XBOX 360 .

Refer my previous blog posts on Sixth Sense, iPhone SDK showing accelerometer based input. And now have a look at this demo of Microsoft's Project Natal for XBOX 360:

It shows, how technology is gradually evolving

from Punch Card based instructions to Command line based instructions to Mouse / Digital Pen / Joystick to Voice / Touch / Accelerometer and now to Observation

for interfaces, from Console to GUI to IVR to UUI

What's Next ?? TUI -- Thought User Interface User can just think of an action and machine will understand :)

Sixth Sense -- What a Demo!!

Manish Agrawal — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:20:22 GMT

When you think out of the box, this is what is the possibility, you can make something so advanced with something so simple... and that also cheaper than the current available options....

Thanks to Parnav Mistry and Pattie Maes for such a brilliant work they have done.

I bet you will not be able to stop yourself from clapping after looking at the video / future.

If you can't see the below video, click here

--Manish Agrawal

iPhone SDK -- What a Demo!!

Manish Agrawal — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 04:24:36 GMT

Convert PDF to Word for Free

Manish Agrawal — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 01:33:42 GMT

Got a good link to convert PDF to Word and that too free.

I checked converting one PDF with Image and Page Header / Footer Margins. And bang it goes... it has converted it very nicely.

Only trade-off was the size of the document, it converted 386kb PDF file to 1.42 mb MS Word file. But never mind, as the quality of output was very good.

To access this tool click here.

Mobile 2.0

Manish Agrawal — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:26:58 GMT

This is a nice presentation prepared by Ruddy, capturing Mobile Trends and Mobile Products.

Mobile 2.0 @ Plugg

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Future of Mobile VAS in India

Manish Agrawal — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 13:49:38 GMT

Nice presentation on Mobile VAS in India.

Mobile Vas In India

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Future Mobile -- nice Presentation

Manish Agrawal — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 04:29:18 GMT

How the future of the mobile web is going to change everything

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If the above presentation is not very clear and is not making sense at few places, you can see the Full Video or Highlights of the Video also.

Google I/O 2008 - (Part 9) - ANDROID Specific

Manish Agrawal — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 17:47:03 GMT

An Introduction to Android by Jason Chen. Android is the Open Handset Alliance's mobile software platform. In this session, Google introduces Android and discuss their vision for more open, powerful, and us...	Anatomy & Physiology of an Android Patrick Brady (Google) Android has been designed as a modern mobile platform that will enable applications to take full advantage of the mobile device capabiliti...


Inside the Android Application Framework Dan Morrill (Google) Android is designed to be fast, powerful, and easy to develop for. This session will discuss the Android application framework in dept...	Building an Android Application 101 Jason Chen (Google) This session is a practical introduction to building Android applications using the SDK and developer tools. We'll walk through building a n...

Google I/O 2008 - (Part 8) - Python Specific

Manish Agrawal — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 17:45:38 GMT

Rapid Development with Python, Django, and Google App Engine Guido van Rossum (Google) Learn how to create great web applications quickly on Google App Engine using the Django web framework and th...

Painless Python for Proficient Programmers Part I ---- Alex Martelli (Google) Python is a popular very-high-level programming language, with a clean and spare syntax, simple and regular semantics, a large sta...	Painless Python for Proficient Programmers Part II ---- Alex Martelli (Google) Python is a popular very-high-level programming language, with a clean and spare syntax, simple and regular semantics, a l...

Google I/O 2008 - (Part 7) - AJAX Specific

Manish Agrawal — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 17:43:08 GMT

State of Ajax: The Universe is Expanding Dion Almaer (Google) and Ben Galbraith (Ajaxian.com) The Ajax revolution is complete: Sophisticated JavaScript user interfaces are nearly ubiquitous. Yet, ...	Advancded Gadget and UI Development Using Google's AJAX APIs Derek Collison (Google) The Google AJAX APIs can be used to build sophisticated Gadgets and UI controls for your website. For instance,...


A World Beyond AJAX: Accessing Google's APIs from Flash and Non-JavaScript Environments Vadim Spivak (Google) AJAX isn't the only way to access Google APIs. Learn how to use Google's services from...

Google I/O 2008 - (Part 6) - App Engine Specific

Manish Agrawal — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 17:42:10 GMT

Building Scalable Web Applications with Google App Engine Brett Slatkin (Google) In this session we'll cover techniques you can use to improve your application's performance when you surpass a sim...	Best Practices - Building a Production Quality Application on Google App Engine Ken Ashcraft (Google) Once an app is out of development and has thousands or millions of users, a developer needs to...


Working with Google App Engine Models Rafe Kaplan (Google) Google App Engine Datastore Models have a lot in common with existing frameworks such as ActiveRecord and the Django database API. Howeve...	Engaging User Experiences with Google App Engine John Skidgel and Lindsey Simon (Google) Web developers and designers can create full-fledged web applications with Google App Engine. Learn how to ...

Google I/O 2008 - (Part 5) - Gears Specific

Manish Agrawal — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 17:41:14 GMT

Gears Case Studies: Zoho offline on Gears, Buxfer secure and offline finance with Gears Raju Vegesna (Zoho), Ashwin Bharambe and Shashank Pandit (Buxfer) This talk presents two case studies on Gea...	HTML5, Brought to You by Gears Aaron Boodman (Google) HTML5 is a new set of proposed extensions to HTML that radically improve the capabilities of web applications. However, without implementation...


Creating a Client-Side Search Engine with Gears Brad Neuberg (Google) Come see how Gears can be used to create a client-side search engine plugged right into your web page! Learn how to add this f...	Improving Browsers in New Ways: Gears++ Chris Prince (Google) Google Gears has progressed by leaps since its initial launch -- and in ways that many developers may not realize.

Google I/O 2008 - (Part 4) - GWT Specific

Manish Agrawal — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 17:40:11 GMT

GWT and Client-Server Communication Miguel Mendez (Google) It's a rare Ajax application that doesn't need network access. To the despair of many a developer, though, there are almost as many ways ...	Reusing Google APIs with Google Web Toolkit Miguel Mendez (Google) We like to say that GWT brings software engineering to the crazy world of Ajax, and of course straightforward code reuse is a cor...


GWT Extreme! Ray Cromwell (Timepedia.org) In this session, see Google Web Toolkit used in exotic and creative ways to solve interesting engineering problems, from authoring OpenSocial apps that ru...


Using GWT to Build a High Performance Collaborative Diagramming Tool Alex Moffat and Damon Lundin (Lombardi) Lombardi Blueprint is a browser based business process documentation and diagramming to...	Video of the "Conversation with Josh Bloch" from Pearson Education's Voices That Matter: Google Web Toolkit conference.