April 14th, 2008 by Zeeshan Hasan
Orkut which was of its time a very famous social networking site launched by Google Inc. recently launched its mobile version where from mobile you can use orkut. Though there is lack in functionality as the core purpose of the mobile functionality is the ability to review / reply to your scraps … well to be frank Google people we have moved forward with scraps now we use twitter and every single day i am getting more addicted to twitter reason being its adoptability with diffrent apps, you can twitt from web / mobile / IM which is quite fun & easy.
Though check out Google Orkut Mobile at :http://m.orkut.com
April 14th, 2008 by Zeeshan Hasan
Okai this interesting “China Mobile” who previously acquired “Paktel for $460 million finally launches an aggressive marketing campaign with a new brand called “ZONG” its a good step by China Mobile as changing there original brand name “China Mobile” on the back end and brining “ZONG” as new brand to compete in our telecommunication market where no doubt competition is cut throat.
One thing interesting about the brand name is the meaning of the word “ZONG” which according to Google means “A bong that has kinks or curves in the neck allowing more smoke to fit without the height of the bong increasing” ok now if you are smart you should know what bong is if not then “A bong, also commonly known as a water pipe, is a smoking device, generally used to smoke cannabis, tobacco, or other substances” other substances can be many other substances easily available by import from Afghanistan. So the question is What does this mean for there brand does it mean ZONG is for people who like to live ‘HIGH’ above the others hmm ..
Check out ZONG’s Website for more details on Package plans
April 14th, 2008 by Zeeshan Hasan
Today i installed and implemented SVN on my desktop & my laptop.
So let tell you a bit about subversion (SVN), it is a version control system initiated in 2000 the core purpose to maintain current & historical version of files which could be source code of a project, design files or could be anything. The core purpose of SVN is to maintain a repositery of files organized and synchronized with the latest version available one click away. This means if there three or four members of your team who are working on a single project at remote locations then they can easily synchronize there file, code without worrying of over writing other users code or files. No need to worry about if you have the latest files or not either cause SVN is made for that. For a developer its like carrying your project with you all the time.
Setting up an SVN was quite easy too, My web host provided the support for the SVN which i setup using there cpanel Once the SVN for a project was setup i download the Tortoise SVN client connected it with my web host and bingo all my source files for a perticular project i have been working on were synchronized on my web SVN from which i can get the latest version any time any where i want to work.
Its an essential tool for IT firms as it will help reduce the load on your locally hosted webserver which always under tremendious load if 8-10 people are working directly on it and ofcoure there are network problems, file getting over written. Although apart from SVN there is another very old version control system which used to come with Visual Basic called visual source safe, but the issue with visual source safe is if there is a violation of file sharing it simply deletes the file (which is quite an interesting situation and a bit funny). I used it many years back i am not sure if that problem still excites.
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April 7th, 2008 by Zeeshan Hasan
Radiohead launches a social network site. Seems amazing & yet interesting, Radiohead being one of my most favorite band launched there album “In the Rainbows” many months back, though the interesting part of the launch was they did not sign up with a record label rather the placed there album online and gave the options to the users to buy the album from there site in a digital download at any price there fans want to buy in, yes at any price the price field is empty fill in anything and buy the album, It was interesting and got allot of attention from the media and of course the fan’s loved it.
So now Radiohead launched there own social networking website called ” WASTE CENTRAL”. The themes of the site is all black & dark someplace clost to the “In the Rainbows” theme and site offers its members to socialize, post comments, watch videos, share videos keep track of Radiohead’s tour and also upload there own music collections to the site. Seems intersting check it out at http://www.waste-central.com
April 5th, 2008 by Zeeshan Hasan
This seems like a nice Friday post, the week has ended most of the pilled work finished, some on schedule & some a little late from schedule. But there is one fact I am quite exhausted and for Saturday I definitely need to watch a nice Movie I hope some gr8 movies get released the last one which I enjoyed was a month back called “Flawless”.
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