Yippee!!! I’ve a great news for all of you!
You may had heard of GMail’s free SMS service in the United States. Now they’ve added support for other major countries too.

In order to do that, click on Settings -> Labs,  and enable the SMS features.

You can send free sms to your contacts if they are subscribed to a mobile phone operator form the following countries:

• Afghanistan
• Algeria
• Angola
• Bahrain
• Cameroon
• Ghana
• Indonesia
• Iraq
• Israel
• Jordan
• Kazakhstan
• Kenya
• Kuwait
• Liberia
• Malawi
• Maldives
• Mozambique
• Nigeria
• Palestine
• Philippines
• Saudi Arabia
• Senegal
• Tanzania
• Tunisia
• Uganda
• United States
• Zambia

Unfortunately Pakistan is not included in the list!
But hopefully it would be in the future. (Insha Allah)

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Today’s kids have everything spoon fed to them. They don’t want to read game manuals or to have to actually think instead of just pressing fire buttons.

The people who’re making today’s fast paced games are well aware of this, and since gaming has become a big sized money-making industry instead of a fandom for creative and intelligent people, we get fast, quick consumption products. Just like with everything else nowadays.

• Thus, you have fast food instead of quality food.
• You have cars and pollution instead of a healthy lifestyle.
• You have delinquent junkies instead of educated citizens.
• You have TV instead of books.

And naturally, you have action games and portable console products instead of quality, intelligent and challenging turn-based games with a story and a well developed game world.

Talking about turn-based gaming to someone younger than their earlyTwenties nowadays is a pointless exercise, since they probably haven’tEver had the chance to play a legitimate, quality computer game inTheir lifes.They’ve been busy playing slight variations of the FPS engine principle, in between taking their illegal drugs and beating up their teachers in school.

Crap, illiterate games for a crap, illiterate generation – makes sense to me.

We live through another history instance of what we call “dark age”. Let us pray for a change!

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Congratulation!

You have been selected as mig33 Global Admin for next 15 Days. This is
the TRIAL PERIOD and during this period we will notice your
activities.

Go to our Official Panel at www.mig33support.com or,
wap.mig33support.com to get full information about how to use your
power and other information.

*Your Confirmation Code: 1032 (You will need it for verification)

We will send further information to youremail@mig33.com

New Service:

*mig33 Contact List Backup Service – You can get backup copy of your
mig33 contact list and restore/add these friends to your another mig33
id.

Kind regards,

http://www.mig33support.com

The mig33 Support Team

Next the website [http://www.mig33support.com] will prompt you for your mig33 login name and password. Don’t even think of it! Never enter your login details on any website other then mig33.

BTW I’m shocked! How can mig33 allow someone to create an account with the username ‘donotreply@mig33.com’ ?

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Two days training session will be held on 23 & 24 August 2011 on “Building Application for windows Phone Mango”. Microsoft is giving you all the chance to be the part of this international training session by just following the link given below . Just get register and join the training online. Please spread the news among your friends so that maximum people can get benefit from this training.

CLICK  HERE  FOR  FREE  REGISTRATION

https://www.eventbuilder.com/microsoft/event_desc.asp?p_event=m58m12c5

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Virtual Cloud Day – Unveiling the
Infrastructure of The Future!
Please join us at the VMware Virtual Cloud Day, an online event where Paul Maritz, CEO and Steve Herrod, CTO will unveil the next major step forward in Cloud Computing.

Why You Should Attend?
Every business needs to be agile and requires an IT organization that keeps pace with their business needs. VMware’s industry proven solutions help enterprises meet these requirements by:
Reducing complexity to enable a more flexible and agile service delivery
Delivering the benefits of cloud with the security and control that enterprises need to meet the demands of their business
Preserving existing investments so that enterprises can build upon their existing infrastructure. Providing freedom of choice to avoid vendor lock in.

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THIS FREE ONLINE EVENT

Event Highlights
Keynote by VMware CEO, Paul Maritz and CTO, Steve Herrod where they share VMware’s vision on the infrastructure of the future and the key technologies powering it.

Breakout sessions where you can learn more about the latest VMware products &
solutions.
6virtual booths comprising solutions in Cloud Infrastructure & Management, Cloud Application Platform and Desktop.
Virtualization
Chat with VMware experts on topics including datacenter, business critical applications, desktop virtualization and cloud computing
Interaction with industry peers at the online Networking Centre to find out how they are building their cloud that is tailored to their needs
Anonline event not to be missed – Join us and discover how VMware’s unique approach addresses what is most important to your business, so that you can build the only cloud that matters – YOUR CLOUD.

EVENT DETAILS
13th July 2011, Wednesday
Malaysia | Philippines |
Singapore
9:30am
Indonesia | Thailand | Vietnam
8:30am

NOTE: This is an online event. Which means you will participate in this event using your browser. So make sure that you have the latest version of Adobe Flash installed. Students are encouraged to participate.

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THIS FREE ONLINE EVENT

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Assalam-o-Alaikum

I am posting a copy of my report along with the powerpoint slides which I presented in front of my class during 2nd semester at the Department of Computer Science, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan.

Download the files from Google Docs:

Mobilink Indio Report by Ahmad Mushtaq.DOC

Mobilink Indigo Presentation by Ahmad Mushtaq.ppt

I would like to thank BZUPages.com for hosting my files till now.

You can view my files at BZUPages.com by following this link:

http://bzupages.com/showthread.php?p=648#post648

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Are you planning to get rid of Windows and switch to Ubuntu? Or just have switched and don’t know where to find all those old applications which you were using before on Windows? Then continue reading…

Last year  I decided to completely switch from Windows to Linux. The reason for doing this was none other than PIRACY! For a long time, my inner-self  was cursing me for using pirated stuff. And there was nothing which I could do at that time. Simply because I don’t want to pay for all those programs which I were using. Programs such as converting software, anti-viruses, download managers, video players, anti-spy-wares and the list goes on… Then I came to know about Ubuntu (A free linux based  OS). Knowing the fact that Ubuntu had many hardware’s drivers related issues, I still switched and hoped for the best. I found Ubuntu very impressive. Much better and easy to understand interface than Windows. With lots of amazing effects with the help of additional software (such as Compiz Fusion). Ubuntu Software Center helped me finding lots of applications and installation of these applications was only a single click away. And all of these stuff for only 0 rupees!!!! Ya you hear me right! Its absolutely FREE!

But still I had some difficulty in finding the exact match for my former favorite applications which I previously used on Windows. But at last Ubuntu really satisfied me without demanding a single PAISA!!!

So right now I’ve compiled a list of my favorite applications on Ubuntu which are actually alternatives to what I used previously on Windows!

Internet Download Manager (aka IDM):

Internet Download Manager was indeed my favorite application on Windows which I used to download lots of Videos and Huge ISO files. After switching to Ubuntu I had difficulty finding the exact match for it. In fact a lot of people still face the same problem. But not anymore.

Presenting the new plugin for Firefox “downTHEMall!” It supports many features such as multiple connections, pause/resume, auto-downloading/single click download. Plus it can download all of the files present in a webpage. You can apply a filter to download specific file types such as .jpg only.

You can get this plugin from:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/201/

Or visit its official website: http://www.downthemall.net/

Adobe PhotoShop

If you’re a designer or web developer then you know better than anyone that how much this software is important for designing and editing images. Well Ubuntu have solution for this too:

GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages. It comes built-in with Ubuntu. But you can also install it on Windows too! Though it is very easy to understand and use, many users after using Photoshop find it very difficult to adopt to GIMP’s interface. To solve this issue, the open source community developed hack for GIMP which provides the interface of Photoshop but functionality of GIMP. It is called the GIMPSHOP.

Windows Movie Maker

From filming a small video clip for YouTube to editing a large ceremony video, Movie Maker helped me a lot because of its simplicity and ease of use. Lets see what Ubuntu has to offer:

Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. It supports many file types, including AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF, using a variety of codecs. Tasks can be automated using projects, job queue and powerful scripting capabilities. I was waiting for such simple application for years!! Atlast!! Now I can easily edit my video clips without rebooting to Windows!

Adobe Dreamweaver CS3

My favorite application for developing advanced web pages.  It was the primary tool which aided me for developing PHP files. Creating a database connection was only some clicks away. Dreamweaver is a very advanced application program and development of such applications is very costly. Interestingly, Open Source Community again beats this commercial app:

For quick and effortless web development – Quanta Plus is steadily becoming a worthwhile competitor to the commercial web editors on the market. Quanta Plus’s features include multi-document interface, WYSIWYG editing and templates. Among the advanced features your will find team development, plug-in support and a PHP debugger. The objective of the team behind Quanta Plus is simply to developer the best tool for web development.

Macromedia Flash Professional CS3

To attract and retain more users, many web developers are using animations which are not only effective but also fast and low in size. Flash was originally made to create multimedia for the web where HTML was not enough – and being vector-based it provides high quality graphics. In some terms it even competes with Java’s applets since both lets you run applications in your through your web-browser. Lets see what open source has to offer:

OpenLaszlo is an open source development platform for web applications. It’s main target today is generating macromedia flash files (swf)and AJAX/DHTML for use on web pages and sites. OpenLaszlo is script based with it’s own LZX programming language – and eventhough it does not provide a wysiwyg user interface it a still simple to use and applications are easy to build. For building rich internet applications OpenLaszlo is a great tool. And recently OpenLaszlo and SUN made a joint announcement to make OpenLaszlo available on Java micro edition (J2ME), which includes mobilephones and set-top boxes.

WinRAR

No need to introduce this one. Its the most famous compressing tool. WinRAR is a popular shareware file archiver and data compression utility. It is one of the few applications that is able to create RAR archives natively, because the encoding method is held to be proprietary. WinRAR itself is free for Windows but unfortunately WinRAR for Linux is based on a command-line interface. But don’t worry linux users! Here comes the solution:

Install WinRAR on WINE:

WINE is Windows Emulator for linux which can run Windows executable programs on Linux. If you want to use the GUI version of WinRAR on linux then simply first install WINE and then install WinRAR on it. To unrar any RAR file simply open it with WINE>WinRAR.

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You may had heard about student information systems. Its the software which manages student’s information in the form of database records. Many educational institutes use this type of software to manage the vast information of their previous and current students.

Previous semester, our web development lecturer asked us to develop a website system using PHP and MySQL. I preferred this type of system because most of the people can easily understand its purpose and functions.

Features:

• Simple design.
• Fast (due to minimal graphics).
• Less than 10 pages.
• Web pages developed in PHP.
• Records stored using MySQL Database.
• Absolutely FREE with modification allowed.

Watch the following DEMO video to have an idea of Student Information System:

Download Student Information System

• Click here to download the source code files for student Information system.

How to run/install/use?

Instructions:

• To run this project on your PC, you need a web server with PHP and MySQL support. If you’re using Windows then download and install WAMP. If you’re a linux user then use XAMP.
• After installing the above mentioned software, download the zip of Student Information System and extract the files to the ‘www’ folder of WAMP  or ‘htdocs’ folder of XAMP.
• Start WAMP SERVER.
• Import the mysql.sql file using PHPMYADMIN. (Hint open this URL in browser: http://localhost/phpmyadmin)
• After this, open ‘LocalHost’ in your browser by navigating your browser to http://localhost.
• ‘Student Information System’ will be working now.

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1. By Connecting you PS3 to the Internet
2. By using a USB Flash Drive

Using a USB Flash Drive is the safest way to update your PS3 Software. The first benefit of updating from a flash drive is that you don’t need to put your PS3 online. People don’t having a high speed internet connection such as those living in remote areas will love this method of updating.  They can go and download the Update from a Net Cafe or ask a friend to download it for them.  The second benefit of this method is that its more faster. You can use any download manager such as Internet Download Manager (IDM) to speed up the downloading process. The third benefit is that you can save the UPDATE DATA on your PC and is use it later for updating other PS3 Systems. The fourth and the most important benefit of this method is that you don’t need to be afraid of Loadshedding . Any power loss during the updating process can damage your PS3.  So instead of updating your PS3 directly from the Internet, use a USB Flash Drive instead because it takes a few minutes only.

Follow these simple steps:

Update using a PC

Required items

• PlayStation^®3 system
• A wireless controller
• A USB cable
• A PC with Internet access
• Storage media (Memory Stick™, SD Memory Card, CompactFlash^®)* or a USB Mass Storage device such as a USB flash drive
  (At least 168 MB of free space required)
  * An appropriate USB adaptor (not included) is required to use storage media with some models.

Update data download procedure

• Create a folder on the storage media in which to save the update data. Using a PC, create a folder named “PS3” on the storage media or USB device. Within the PS3 folder, create a folder named “UPDATE”.

• Download the update data and save it in the “UPDATE” folder created in step 1.
• 

Notice

Be sure to save the update data as noted below. If the data is not saved in the correct way, the PS3™ system will not recognize the update data. The folder name must be in all uppercase letters.

• Location: Save in the “PS3” folder > “UPDATE” folder
• File name: Save as file name “PS3UPDAT.PUP”.

Update procedure

Notice

• Do not turn off the PS3™ system or remove the storage media or USB device during an update. If an update is cancelled before completion, the system software may become damaged, and the system may require servicing or exchange.
• During an update, the power button on the system front and PS button of the controller are inactive.
• Insert the storage media or USB device that contains the update data in the PS3™ system.
• From the home menu, select (Settings) > (System Update), and then press the button.

• Select [Update via Storage Media], and then press the button.


The system automatically searches for and finds the update data saved on the storage media or USB device.

• Start the update.


Press the button to start the update. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the update.

• Confirm that the update was successful.

After the update has been completed, go to (Settings) > (System Settings) > [System Information].

If the [System Software] field displays the version number of the update, the update was successful.

Hint

You can delete the update data from the storage media or USB device after the update has been successfully completed.

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