The vTap widget is finally out!

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Veveo has released the source code for the windows mobile client application. This is great because it gives you a way to fine tune our app to suit your needs. You can sign up for the developer program here to receive updates from Veveo. Get the source here.

Post-launch is a very exciting time. Listening to users and incorporating feedback into the product has been our primary activity for two weeks now. Feedback has been overwhelmingly positive and it quite clear that we have a winning technology on our hands. Bug reports have been pouring in as expected and what has surprised me is how fast we have been reacting to these. The credit goes not only to Veveo’s management and of course to us devs’s but also to the thousands of beta testing users around the world. Thank you very much people for your valuable feedback and do keep it coming. If you got an itch, we will scratch it for you

If you still haven’t seen our product, check it out here.

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After months of tinkering away, we have finally launched VTap – A ground breaking mobile search engine for videos. It’s been a very exciting time for all us from Veveo, especially the past few days. The joy of launching the product and watching people play around is simply inexpressible!

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I was digging through some old code of mine when I came across this script. To me, this script was a demonstration of the beauty and elegance of the python language.

You might have come across a puzzle like this:
AID + ICED = IDEA. What digits would you assign to the characters A,C,D,E,I so that the arithmetic will work?
The answer is A=0, C=4, D=5, E=1, I=2.

The “word arithmetic” script can generate such puzzles given a word list and characters.
Here is the code and a sample word list.

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This is related to the previous post and is meant in part to demonstrate how great Linux is for doing “weird” stuff . This is what we are
trying to do.

The circles in the background have been drawn by the python script below. To get the script running you should have python and pygame installed. If you are on Ubuntu do this to install both otherwise you can get the binaries for your distribution/OS.

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What you see above is how my desktop looks now. You need to be using gnome to get this working.

Nautilus draws the desktop (including the icons) for you in gnome by default. We have to tell it to stop doing that, so we can do the matrix animation in its place. Nautilus can be configured using gconf.

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I was reading the few entries I had written in this blog and felt an urge to restart. And so, here I am.

It has been a long break. A lot of things have happened since the last time I blogged. I finished college and got a job in a Tech start-up in Bangalore. Been here since then. I got married a few months back. My perspective towards technology has evolved since I left college. I’ve worked on a couple of interesting projects at work and it has been a roller-coaster ride.

Python has displaced Visual-Basic as my language of choice. I’ve finally succeeded in making the switch to Linux thanks to Ubuntu (I remember the pain of getting X to work in “Red Hat Linux” 5.x) and have not looked back since.

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Yeah, I mean it. Why the sudden realization you ask? Listen then to my tale of woe regarding my accursed Palm III Xe running Palm OS 3.5 and me!

I wanted a Palm top computer for many reasons ( A very important and significant one being “for showing off” ). My cousin in Canada offered to buy one for me and she did. I had to wait for a year to get it to India because I could not afford to get it shipped fearing the hefty customs duty.
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I went to another short trek yesterday. This time we went to a hill in Guduvancheri near the “Pentecostal mission”. This one was around two kilometers from the main bus-stop of Guduvancheri.

We chose this hill for several reasons

1) It is bigger than the one we went to last time

2) It is close as before to my place (in Maraimalai nagar)

3) We wanted to try out a hill with ample vegetation (although we were to have a particularly painful surprise later in the evening)
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Here’s how I’m spending summer holidays this time and how I had intended to spent them and then of course about how I planned and about the circumstances prevailing at the time of this great planning!.

It was quite hot that day. I had not slept properly the night before, slept maybe only for an hour and a half if I stretch the definition of an hour. What was I doing all night, you may ask. Well, I was breaking my head over the course material for this esoteric subject called “Mobile communication”. The first time I heard of that phrase – I told myself, “Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy” style: “Don’t panic!” Then I tried to reason it out.
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I went to a small trek yesterday with my friends. We chose a small hill near Potheri village, Kancheepuram district, Tamilnadu, India. This place is very close to my college and to the place I stay at. We started that trek at 4:30 P.M. A problem cropped up at the very start – We were three and had only one two-wheeler. But then we somehow managed to get on and rode down to potheri. Initially we did not know where to go (we had done very little planning). We enquired about hills in the region but the guy over there told us that we might risk loosing the bike if we left it somewhere. However we saw this hill on the other side of the railway track beside NH5 and we decided to settle for that. We left the bike at a house with an especially kind man who seemed all excited about people coming to his area and was pleased to know that we came from SRM college (actually he wanted us to recommend him for the job of a watchman!, not knowing how influential we were at college and the kind of reputation we had with college profs J ).
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I did a very very stupid thing day before yesterday. My primary partition on which I had Windows installed ran out of space (although I allocated 5GB !) and I had to resize the partition. I used Partition Magic only to find out on rebooting that it screwed up my partition table. I ran scandisk from the Windows 98 bootdisk only to have it corrupt my FAT totally by replacing from a corrupted second back-up FAT or so I think.

So it all came down to me having to format C: and to re-install everything. I made a mental note never to mess with partitions (that is the 37th time!).

Well, so today’s lesson for everyone is “DO NOT MESS WITH PARTITIONS!”

There are two things that brought me back to blogging after the initial burst when my enthusiasm lead me to post 1 blog!

• In anticipation of a gmail account!
  
• because I still think it is cool
  

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