M loving Ginger Bread Update 2.3.5 with hTC Sense 3.0 on my Desire HD…

hTC Quietly Brilliant with hTC Sense new features…

Feel the Rhythm…

Feel the Rhythm

An awesome song from Roadies…. YAHAN…

Kuch kar guzarne ka junoon jahan hota hai
Wahan zindagi rehti hai, khuda hota hai
Justuju ho toh safar khatam kahan hota hai
Yun tu har mod pe manzil ka gumaah hota hai

Bantay hain bigaadte hain, raaton se dil ulajhte hai yahaan, yahaan
Girte hain sambhalte hain kaanto se raah sajti hai yahaan, yahaan
Bantay hain bigaadte hain, raaton se dil ulajhte hai yahaan, yahaan
Girte hain sambhalte hain kaanto se raah sajti hai yahaan, yahaan

Thodi si dhoop kadi, chaaon bhi kuch ghadi
Shaam kabhi andhere mein kho jaati
Yahaan baarish ki jhadi, wahan kirno ki ladi
Kahin pe phalak subah ko paati
Phaasle jab aise bulaaye Bas chalein hum manzilon ki kisko hai padi
Bantay hain bigaadte hain, raaton se dil ulajhte hai yahaan, yahaan
Girte hain sambhalte hain kaanto se raah sajti hai yahaan, yahaan

Aankhon mein basay, garam aansu bhi thode hain Sapne bhi hain
Dil mein dard bhi thoda hai thode armaan bhi hain hmmmmmm mmmmmmm mmmmmmm
Rehte haathon mein chaale hain Kismat bhi haaaiiii
Hain kaboole saare theek hain, sab rafeeq hain
Bantay hain bigaadte hain, raaton se dil ulajhte hai yahaan, yahaan
Girte hain sambhalte hain kaanto se raah sajti hai yahaan, yahaan

Thodi si dhoop kadi, chaaon bhi kuch ghadi
Shaam kabhi andhere mein kho jaati
Yahaan baarish ki jhadi, wahan kirno ki ladi
Kahin pe phalak subah ko paati
Faasle jab aise bulaaye Bas chalein hum manzilon ki kisko hai padi

M lovin it… Not Mc’d its my Android Phone… hTc Desire HD

Day by day i m falling into love with my Android based hTC Desire HD phone. This is the first post i am going to post from my phone itself. Its Android, imagine what you want to do through your phone and you will be able to do it…. :) don’t take it otherwise. I mean updating blogs, live TV, social networking, awesome games, smooth mail clients, integrated phone book, calendars….and a lot more, list never ends. Its incredibly awesome. Android Google market gives a lot of freedom to its users to use their phones as their notebooks.

Here is list of few apps which i like most:

  1. Word Press : Word Press Official App
  2. App2SD : Detects automatically for the apps which can be moved to SD card to save your phone memory.Must App.
  3. Whats App : Blackberry, Android and Nokia OVI supported messenger which detects users from your phonebook who are using this app and you can send messages, images, videos instantly without any charges except Internet usage. This automatically compress the images to provide instant sharing. A really awesome app.
  4. Unified Remote : Control your PC from your phone (Power Management, Music Player Controls, File manager,Task Manager and lot more). You can simple start songs on your PC and roam around your home and change the song at any time using your phone, shut down the PC, No need to go to your PC. An amazing App..
  5. Quick Setting : Very nice and necessary app to change Ringer, Brightness, Bluetooth, WIFI, Volume Control. Just One Touch app to change these all settings in one go.
  6. Zomato : Search any restaurants, Clubs, Ice Cream and Pizza Parlors as per your choice of food around you itself.
  7. BookMyShow : Official App from Book My Show
  8. Photaf : You can create panorama easily even if your phone camera doesn’t support.
  9. Cam Scanner : Awesome App to scan your documents using your phone camera itself.
  10. Expense Manager : Daily Expense Tracking System App
  11. IP Webcam : Live Stream of Phone camera to your PC
  12. Shush : Automatically detects when user changes sound profile to vibrate or Silent. Silent your phone for meetings, and this app will automatically pops up in very nice way to ask u the time limit and restore the sound profile again after the time limit ends.
  13. Tata Sky : Control your Tata Sky
  14. Office Talk : Online OCS for Official log-in from your phone itself for people who are using Microsoft OCS in their companies
  15. Zedge(Free) : Free Download of wallpapers, Ringtones and notification tones.

Some Nice Games:

  1. X-construct:Construct efficient bridges for a train to pass..this ones addictive (reminds me of mechanics trusses and frames)
  2. Air Control : Air Traffic Controlling game for different types of planes and helicopters, an addictive game.
  3. Stupid Zombies : A game for Killing zombies with limited number of bullets in your gun with tricky reflection mechanism of bullet from walls. Mind Game.
  4. Fruit Slice :  aha ! This is really an amazing and addictive game to slice the fruits which are coming up into the screen randomly, you are not allowed to miss more than three fruits otherwise Game is Over, also you need to think before slicing fruits using knife as there might be a bomb on the screen. An Awesome Game. Try it you will fall into love with this game.
  5. Speedx 3D FREE (Free) : Nice Game. Control yourself into the speed on a 3D road, Don’t miss road and Don’t get hit by any hurdles.
  6. Racing Moto : Wonderful game of Cruiser Bike Racing.

List will never end.. Try and search for apps which you require. All of above listed apps are freely available in Android Market. Go try them and enjoy !!!

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UTTAM KHSHAMA…

To all readers…

I had no bad intentions and never wanted to hurt you. However, if you ever felt hurt due to my action or inaction, speech or silence, language or tone, looks or behavior, Please forgive me on this auspicious day.
UTTAM KHSHAMA…

Know More about this holy festival…

ZOMATO for food lovers…

I am talking about  Zomato.com !!

Its an Indian website, which gives you a list of all the restaurants, ice cream parlors, pubs, coffee shops etc near you. I just got to know about this website and i tried it. This is really an awesome work done by some Indian techies. You can search all the restaurants near you with accurate Customer Satisfaction Rating, Meal for two pricing, updated contact information, Maps for direction, Photos to check ambiance and lots of other features.

I installed its app on my Android phone and now i can any time search for any type of restaurants anywhere. It also categories restaurants by food specialties. Just give it a try, and you will fall in love with this app.

Although i love a lot of features of Zomato, few of them are:

  • Nice User Interface for Android Phones
  • Fully Updated Restaurant List with some clicks
  • Real reviews with correct pricing
  • Connected with Maps to reach to the discovered restaurant.

Hats off to Zomato guys. Keep it up.

Zomato can still improve in -

  • Coverage of Restaurants
  • Discover feature for Android Phone (bit Slow)
  • UI for Menu Option of restaurants

I still Love ZOMATO !!!  ***** Five star to ZOMATO !!

Most memorable days

It happens a lot of time when we feel so happy and we think this will the most memorable day in my life. Time passes and we forgets that feel of the day when we felt so happy.

I am here recollecting the list of my most memeorable days :
  • The day when I first enter into my college life
  • The day when I got my first job
  • The day when I became a software engineer
  • The day when I have been appreciated/awarded for my work first time
  • The day when I allowed some one special to enter into my life
  • The day when I got my first promotion
  • …………………….
  • ……………….
  • ……..
  • ….
23 April 1987 : When i born
16 August 2004 : My First day in the college
08 Mar 2007 : I got my first Job Offer (Persistent Systems Ltd)
29 Sep 2009 : I joined my first company
4 November 2004 : My first Bike
21 Ovtober 2009 : My First owned bike
23 Jan 2006 : My First PC
23 Dec 2010 : My First Laptop
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Hamachi – A shareware VPN client

logMeIn Hamachi is powerful virtual private network application which simulates the connection between the computers over the internet as Local Area Networks.You can actually play games with your friends by creating some private network over the internet. This is very powerful and useful tool.Remote Desktop, Remote Sharing (File, folder sharing),Gaming Network and lot more things you can do very easily using this tool.
Try it !!

Pune Diary

  • Its been more than 2 years in Pune now, so i decided to make a diary which will provide the information to new guys coming to Pune.

Pure Veg Restaurants in Pune

  • Shakahari (Asian Veg restaurant @ Marriot Hotel) *****
    This restaurant is situated on Senapati Bapat Road, Pune under Hotel Marriot. A good place to be there.
  • Cream Center (The Veg Edge) *****
    Restaurant in Kalyani Nagar, near Gold Ad labs. Very good ambiance. Awesome Garlic breads with cheese ( I am still not able to forget the delicious taste of breads……….Yummmmmmmmmieeeeeee)
    Address :
    Cream Centre – The Veg. Edge
    Cypress Hotel, Lane 10,
    Near Kalpataru Regency II, Kalyaninagar, Pune 411 006
    Tel. no : 020 – 40180000.
    Email: creamcentre[at]cypresshotel.in
  • Green Park Exclusive Pure Vegetarian Restaurant ***
    Awesome ambiance, Candle light dinner situated at Baner Road, Pune
  • Abhishek Pure Veg Restaurant ***
    Good place to be with family at Kothrud, Pune
  • Horn Ok Please ***
    Indian Dhabas theme based restaurant at FC Road.
    Fergusson College Road,
    Near Sagar Arcade,
    Pune – 411004
    Phone: +91 (020)2551 3227

Jain Mandir in Pune

After facing a lot of problems in finding Digamber Jain Temples in Pune, I decided to post the information related to ‘Jain Mandirs in Pune’, on my Blog.

List of Digamber Jain Temples in Pune :

  • Shree Digamber Mahavir Jain Temple, (NEW)
    Survey No 15, Sanmati Housing Society,
    Near Chadni Chowk, Pashan Road, Bavdhan, Pune
    (Opposite to Maratha Mandir)
    Panchakalyanak Mahotsav (9th December 2011 – 14th December 2011)
  • Shree Digamber Mahavir Jain Temple,
    H.N.D. Jain Boarding, Model Colony,
    Near Om Super Market, Pune. Ph. 25656094
    (Between University Road and Senapati Bapat Road)
  • Shree Mahaveer Digamber Jain Temple,
    In the lane of Trapti Auto Service Center,
    Behind Brahma Veg Restaurant, Manik Bag,
    Singarh Road, Pune. Ph. 24351008
  • Chandraprabhu Jain Temple, Opp. Naik Hospital,
    Guruwar Peth, Pune
    (Opposite to Nail Hospital. 5 Min Distance from Mandai, Near Laxmi Road, Tulsi Bag.)
  • Shantinath Digamber Khandelwal Jain Mandir,
    520, Near Moti Chock, Ravivar Peth,
    Pune-411002
  • Shantinath Digamber Saitwal Jain Mandir,
    846, Lonar Aali, Near Moti Chock, Ravivar Peth,
    Pune-411002
  • Shree Digamber Jain Chaityalya,
    Rajkumar Ji Doshi, Gajraj Cloth Shop,
    M.G. Road, Camp Area,
    Pune. Ph. 65220675
  • Shri.Shantinath Khandelwal Digamber Jain Mandir
    248 Ganj Peth, Pune-2
  • Shree Digamber Jain Chaityalya,
    Anil Madhukar Jain,
    Bhekarai Nagar, Tukai Darshan
    Road No 11, Near Dutt Mandir
    Fursuingi (Haveli) ,Pune Ph: 26980551
    (This Temple is Near Hadapsar)
  • Shree Chandraprabhu Digamber Jain Mandir,
    Telco Road, Yamunanagar, Nigadi
  • Mahavir Jain Temple, Opp. Gometesh Vyayamshala,
    Near Ayurvedic College, Sec. 25, Nigadi,
    Pune Ph. 27659021
  • Shri.Chandraprabhu Digamber Jain Mandir : 110 A, Guruwar Peth, Pune- 2
  • Shri.Shantinath Digamber Saitawal Jain Mandir : 846, Raviwar Peth, Pune-2
  • Shri.Shantinath Khandelwal Digamber Jain Mandir : 520, Raviwar Peth, Pune-2
  • Shri.Shantinath Khandelwal Digamber Jain Mandir : 248 Ganj Peth, Pune-2

List of Swetambar Jain Temples in Pune :

  • Shri Vasupujya Dehrasar, Near Nalstop, Erandwane, Kothrud ,Pune
  • Shewatamber Jain Mandir,
    A-2, KUMAR Society, VISHRANT WADI,
    ALANDI ROAD, PUNE-411015.
    MAHARASHTRA, INDIA
  • Jain Shwetambar Murtipujak Sanghs’
    Shri Kunthunath Jain Temple,
    Dhore nagar-1,
    Old Sangavi, Pune

Batch Image Resize on Linux

Everytime i go to any trip i always carry a camera with me, I click a lot of photographs. Most of time after coming back from the trip when i starts transfering my images to my computer,always my first one hour goes in deleting some old pics, movies or some other stuff from computer so that i can have some more space to put my new stuff. If i need to share my pics on web then also making images smaller one by one is too hectic job. I always used to think of a tool which can resize my all images in single shot so that i could save some space because these high end Digi cameras clicks so big photographs (14MP), which occupies around 3-4 MB of space on the hard disk per pic. Resizing of these pics is always a good solution to save some space but how………..?? We have thousands of pictures and resizing pics one by one is not a good idea. So here u go……………. ImageMagick Mogrify program is the solution for all these problems.

Mogrify is Linux command line program, which can resize the images in batch. Not only resizing Mogrify can do image scaling, image rotation, color reduction, and many other things.

Mogrify tool will be installed with ImageMagick Libraries on your Linux.
sudo apt-get install imagemagick

After ImageMagick installation, ‘mogrify’ can be used through command line.
For example, if I have a folder called “Pictures” locate in my “/home/” directory. I just need to go to that directory using command line and following command will resize my all *.jpg images in given resoltuion -
mogrify -resize 1024 *.jpg

Now I can see on “/home/Pictures/” my all image files are resized to 1024 of width. If you want force resizing to a particulare size without mantaining original aspect ratio you could change mogrify options:
mogrify -resize 1024×768! *.jpg

Jain Festival : ‘Kshama Vani Parv’ (Supreme Forgiveness Day)

Today is Kshama Vani Parv of Jainism, It is the biggest Jain festival. Many of people dont know about this day So i thought to write something about this day.

This day is celebrated in Jainism every year on Pratipada (first) of Ashwin Krashna for the Digambara Jains. ( i.e very next day after the completion of holy month ‘Bhadrapada’) On this festival, people request each other for forgiveness for all offenses committed during the last year.

Forgiveness is asked by telling ‘Micchami Dukkadam’ or ‘UTTAM KSHAMA’ to each other. It means “If I have hurt you in any way, knowingly or unknowingly, in thoughts, words or deeds, then I seek your forgiveness”. This is a Supreme Forgiveness Day when we can ask for forgiveness from our relatives/friends/colleagues or the person to whom we know in any manner for the things which have hurt them because of us.

So allow me to ask the forgiveness on the occasion of this Holy Festival -

‘Uttam Kshama’

Unknowingly or Unknowingly if i ever have said something wrong which might have hurt you, please forgive me for that.
- Ankit K Jain