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Receiving Emails And Feeds On SMS For Free

November 2, 2008 by Raj Agrawal 3 Comments

Nokia 1110i is super cool when it comes to speed and simplicity. Being a Nokia 1110i.user, i’ve always enjoyed the browsing speed and the comfortable keypad. For me, It’s basically a fixed version of Nokia 1100. Even though this black and white phone is stripped to only calling, messaging and with a better version of Snake for entertainment, it doesn’t stop me from receiving my mails and recent feeds on my mobile. The trick is for all who.use a simple phone with no GPRS access and is also.useful for mobiles with GPRS.

There are two services that I am considering, one being only for phone numbers in India and the other one for USA and Canada.

I will start of with the service for phone numbers in India.

For receiving new mails on SMS, you need to free your Gmail feed from the usual authentication (yes, you have a feed for your email account too).

For regular feeds, apart from Freeing your feed, all the steps to be followed are the same.

Google SMS Channels (Currently for India only)

I have tested this trick only on Gmail accounts and works as smooth as whiskey. It should work for other Webmail services too. Though the updates are not in real time, it usually takes 5-10 minutes to arrive as SMS.

Generic Gmail feed link – https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom

The feeds for other webmail services can be found with Google search.

Get started:

Go to https://freemyfeed.com
Enter https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom as the input url, followed by your.user id and password. (Is it safe? Of course it is. But still, you should read the privacy policy on the website). Save the output URL.
Log into Google SMS channels,
Settings,
Enter your mobile number and set the other options as per your preferences,
Create a new channel,
Enter the regular details in the form,
In the ‘Source’ section, select RSS/Atom feed and enter the new feed generated from http://freemyfeed.com
‘Allow publishing by’: Only me
‘Who can subscribe’: By invitation only
Click on Create Channel,
And you’re done.

ZapTXT (USA and Canada only):

Follow the easy step by step guide, and you’re done!

A Painless Way To Solve The 333 Rubik’s Cube

October 31, 2008 by Raj Agrawal Leave a Comment

For many, Rubik’s cube isn’t a puzzle of hard work anymore. Almost each of them have developed their own style and method of cracking the evil cube. They don’t just solve it, they play with it! Even I have developed my own way of cracking the scrambled 3x3x3 cube. The only thing i need to work on is to optimize the method i use to improve my current speed of 2.5 minutes to less then a minute.

If you are really curious to grasp how fun it is to solve and play with the 3x3x3 Rubik’s cube and also finding it difficult to actually solve it, download Jasmine Lee’s Solution (you’ll easily find it with the help of Google) with a step-by-step guide to cracking the 3x3x3 Rubik’s cube very easily. It’s very elaborate and easy to understand. Soon, with practice, you should be able to make your own way of solving it!

Happy Cubing 🙂

Too Many Accounts To Remember

October 23, 2008 by Raj Agrawal Leave a Comment

I have a lot of registered accounts at various free & useful websites. We all do it because of the “free” factor. But, what if i have forgotten my login details of a particular website? I usually don’t encounter such issue as i keep common login details(for discussion forums and freebie portals only) at most of the times, at the rest, i am forced to use a different login for registration as it’s already in use. For such cases, i have to manage the login details at one place cause if i try accessing the websites after a long time and i don’t remember the access keys, reluctantly, i have to follow the sucky login recovery procedure.

To avoid that, there is a tiny freeware utility, Text Locker, that helps me Cipher + Password protect the Ciphered text i need to keep in private. The output file can be saved in a txt format which adds portability to the file.

Cipher, also called as “encipherment” is a term used in cryptography to encode the text to conceal its readability and meaning.

Download the application at http://binprojects.com

Note: You can re-cipher the ciphered text if you need to but, if you keep on hitting the Cipher button, the application will take more time to complete the request each time.