moving !

moving my blog here. i am not sure about this space at the moment, but i hope if you are reading this, you will also stop here

IE7 phishing feature.

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Originally uploaded by ravneetg.

Not that this is correct reporting for IE, to report Russ's site as a phishing site, I am not sure why it did that. since first installing the beta, I have reported this to be a non phishing site, but it reported the site as a phishing site yet again today.
I hope IE7 team is listening and doing something about this when IE7 finally comes out.
And Russ, dont worry, I am reporting it again as a safe site (except for high does of ideas!)

Yahoo - Konfabulator

Talking with a friend of mine, we asked ourselved why did Yahoo buy Konfabulator? Moreover the premium service was dropped and everything is now offered for free. Whats in it for Yahoo...? Where would Yahoo use this product? Are there any integration plans for Konfabulator in existing Yahoo products? Maybe Yahoo messenger? now that would be interesting to see, how konfabulator widgets would integrate into YIM.

We have to wait and see on this one.

j2me exception...

i was writing a small j2me app, making httpconnections to a real IP. initial tests were running good when I started getting ioexceptions complaining that 'maximum number of connections have exceeded'. I realised i was not closing the httpconnection and the inputstreamreader. i altered my code to do that, cleaned the project and ran again after compiling. surprisingly i am still getting the same exception in j2me wireless toolkit.
what else do i have to do? i have cleaned everything, and am closing my httpconnections and inputstreamreaders. but now even on first attempt i get the exception...

any pointers anyone?

VS.NET start page

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Originally uploaded by ravneetg.

I was working with VS.NET 2003 Pro edition and I set the envronment to start with the Start Page so that I can see some hosting options available from inside the environment.
On the next start up, I got this screen! I couldnt see anything except the XP blue screen with the close/min/max buttons on top right corner. Anyone seen this before?

cheap dvr using media center.

coming up in my next post, look out for a cheap digital video recorder solution that i came up with me for home last week.

dvr

xbox media center extender

ok. so i got the xbox media center extender update also. so far i have been seeing the glossy side of media center extenders. all nice and blue.
once, you get to the actual usage, you see thores of media lying around on your pc, that you now want to watch on the tv in your living room. hmmm i had a avi file for a recent stage show in l.a. xbox media center extender cant stream it. all it recognizes is wmv files, that too not all. only some.
now you feel why would a media center extender would be so picky on the formats. wasnt it supposed to be a media center? to play all your media. come on now, i am not talking of some format thats used by couple of companies. i am talking of avi.
i found some converters for converting your avi vids to recognizable wmv format for the xbox extender, on which i will post more later on.
but how long would i do these conversions? i guess its more sensible to dedicate the media center pc to the entertainment rack, besides your tv, and use the tv as the direct output. you get all you have then. no converters, no extenders.
whats happening about this on xbox-360? i will need to find that out.
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Xbox extender