Things you need:

• Nokia mobile phone with memory card
• Computer with iTunes.
• iPhone

First On Nokia phone

1. Nokia: Go to contacts/ phonebook
2. Nokia: Select all contacts
3. Nokia: Option> save contacts
4. Nokia: Select destination as memory card
5. Plug in your nokia phone to computer in data transfer mode.
6. Browse through your nokia memory card and open /Others/ folder
7. Open ‘contacts’ folder placed in memory card/Others/contact
8. Select All contacts and copy-paste them in ‘windows contact’.
9. Windows contacts, (known as windows Address Book in windows XP) can be found in C:\Users\Logged-in-user\Contacts\ or you can click win logo or press win key and type ‘contacts’ in search slot windows start.
10. Plug in iPhone to the computer.
11. Open iTunes, if it doesn’t pop up automatically.
12. Select iPhone in iTunes and open ‘info’ tab
13. check/ mark/tick ‘sync contacts with ‘windows contacts’ (choose from dropdown menu)
14. press ‘sync’ button.
15. Done.

PS: When I tested this to newer Nokia phones such as Nokia E5-00, X2-01 it doesn’t have option to copy your phonebook contacts into memory card, the same way I’ve showed. However as long as you could backup your phonebook/contacts list you’re good to go and follow the rest of the instructions.

Google Earth offers border and road lines on maps. It provides upto secondary administrative region (actually ternary if considered international/country-level border as primary, state-level border as secondary and district-level boundary as ternary layer). But if you have something specific that you do not find on Google maps or any other online maps available, and you want to add it on your map especially on Google earth and save it for future reference; here’s HOW TO for creating your own lines accurately on Google Earth using old-school tracing paper technique.

You need:

1. A PC (a computer with as big screen/monitor as possible)
2. A tracing paper (semi-transparent white paper)
3. Pencil (or pen)
4. sellotape
5. Google Earth software
6. Internet connection.

Procedure

• Sketch detailed map on your tracing paper for your desired area.
• Open Google Earth app and place tracing paper on user monitor screen.
• Use sello-tape to glue on the screen. (This requires two persons.)
• hold the paper and click on ‘add path’ on google earth.
• Mark the path, name it and save it.
• There you have it! remember the location where you’ve save the file, it must in kmz format.
• DONE!

The best part of this kmz file is, it’s tiny, you can send it as attachment and your friends can open it and see it on their PC. Just like I’m now sharing the same file that I created on the above snap.

You would definitely notice if you open the Dahanu Border I created using authentic maps and tracing paper.  download Dahanu Tahsil border in kmz format! Notice the area in picture above? It’s my taluka place Dahanu, and am uploading this file for all my visitors. Google failed to sketch Maharashtra-Gujrat border and Dadara & Nagar Haveli area properly. I think their state level border plotted it wrongly.

Also if you’re a Google Earth fan, share your work or comment below.

View My trip to Pune, Kisan exhibition. in a larger map

I am deactivating Feedburner, a feed manager/ distributor service from Google. If you subscribed to my blog recently that is in last 6-8 months, chances are you’ve automatically subscribed me via feedburner url. In that case please change my feed url to simple n straight feed://http//pranav.amrute.me/feed/

I think it’s wise to switch back to basics, also I think it’s bit annoying seeing adsense ads in your RSS feeds. So I’ve removed it. No adds on feeds

If you want GMAT specific articles, simply click on that right cartoon sitting on the bench.

Although dont panic, if you dont understand a word here; this post wasn’t even necessary. But WTH! Following figure will help you understand & google will take care of rest.

How you  can use the data from Alexa toolbar?: to analyse the web. Simple. For instance you’d be surprised to see Maps.Google.Com isn’t in top 10 places people go to Google!! Although it’s very very popular product (at least in US!)

So, download the toolbar & enjoy it’s features. It’s available for Mozilla Firefox as well as for MS Internet Explorer.

Alexa Toolbar (sparky) is perhaps the first toolbar available for IE must be since pre-Y2K era!! not sure though…

Maybe it’ s time I should remove ‘under construction’ note from here & add some helpful links. Though I still want to add some more pages… & upload some photos etc. but will do it side-by-side…

Download the theme JohnyC.zip

It’s a 1000px width theme, I specifically coded as I believe visitors of my blog mostly have more than 1024 px screen resolution in width.
You can read the description of the them in CSS file once you post it on your workpress dashboard but some things I’d like to disclose about this theme.
I’ve modified someone else’s theme for my needs its optimised for Google Adsense. Google usually approves only 3 ad codes per page, two are already there in the script however there’s scope of adding one more Ad units say in sidebar to increase monetisation probability
I’ll upload this theme in official WordPress.Org theme directory, once I get more time, writing proper info viz tags. etc.

Yeah! I logged in to Yahoo Mail after more 2/3 days, this is very unusual but I was on travel so couldn’t check the mails.

Now what I see, the new mail from Yahoo, about the shutting down Yahoo briefcase feature.

I’ve been Yahoo user since I started using internet and I’ve been loyal to them.

Yahoo briefcase was one of the unique feature Yahoo had. No email service provider dot com had this feature available to its users for free. So I am sure there must be plenty of them, old timers like me who had been using Yahoo briefcase. 
It’s really sad looking at the Yahoo cutting each of its feather (oops I mean feature)  one by one.

It was Yahoo photos, now it’s Yahoo briefcase. 

Dear Yahoo! Briefcase user,

We will officially close Yahoo! Briefcase on March 30, 2009. Until then, we are offering you the opportunity to download your files back to your computer. You need to take action before we close, after which any files remaining on Yahoo! Briefcase will be deleted and no longer accessible.

To access your Yahoo! Briefcase account, click the link below:…..

Yahoo used to offer 30MB storage space. I remember email storage rage back when Google introduced GMail. Hotmail was reluctant to offer same storage space as its competitors and hence lost its costomers big time (I was one of them) & now when we see, Windows Live offers 25 GB of storage space (known as skydrive) absolutely free to live ID holders, its sad to see the opposite move from Yahoo.  

It’s very unlikely to encounter this ad if you’re not browsing from India as it’s pretty location specific ad. And it was never published on my blog anyways. But now that I’ve again started google adsense service I made sure that this ad is not on my blog. It seems that BJP/LKA has invested a lot of money in this ad campaign as every second website has this ad irrespective of the content of the site.

It’s nothing about politics, I’m not against BJP or anything, I dont even want to send anti-BJP message through this blog but that ad is just too much. It irritates when you visit any website with Indian content, you see close up photo of Mr. L K Advani; (I know, had it been Angelina Jolie, the brand ambasador of BJP, I would not even have typed this post. ) & it just dont stop there, you’re most likely going to see spams through emails in your inbox.

Anyways, I already have received many negative reviews about it.

On personal front, my PC is on repairs so I wont be blogging or writing long posts on forums but I’ll be around & keep on tweeting…

Yes, you can see the new box on the right column & see some people already joined it. & did I tell it’s Day 1 of this blog… (Obviously I asked them to join ) check this short and quick video to find out what exactly I am talking about:

Google Friend Connect is not just new for my blog but it’s new for the internet. It’s recently launched and has much to evolve. I’ll make it more interactive, may be enable facility to make comments or give 5 star ratings etc. But that depends on how this box grows at this site.

It’s in a way a small online/virtual social networking among the visitors of this site. So what are you waiting for? hit the “Join” button. If you’re a regular visitor, just do it. If you think you’re not gonna visit this site again, just do it leaving your footprints. Yeah, both ways “join” it’s hassle free. Now why I encourage you to join because it needs no-registration. All you need is already-existing-id with one of the big players: GMail, Yahoo or AOL. thats it.

It’s competition to mybloglog but I think google went a step ahead in terms of features, though they launched it later…