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Mailsend is a multi platform command line tool to send mails.

It has two modes : commandline and interactive

I have used this mailsend binary to send mails as a background process by using a wrapper shell script to read the necessary inputs required by mailsend from XML files. This script would be called by cron periodically. The XML files have the email data contained in it.

You can download the Opensource software from the below link

http://www.muquit.com/muquit/software/mailsend/mailsend.html

I was wondering, Why software occupation is uninteresting to few people ?

Fatigue is common to all types of occupation.

But the reason i believe why software profession is uninteresting is “Software is intangible”.

I feel that more research and innovation in software arena is possible, if people start enjoying the software development process and the draw an analogy of the concepts involved with the real life. After all, softwares are meant to automate the real world.

iPoke application caught my attention immediately, when apps where introduced in orkut.

You have to add the application to your profile first.

Now you can poke your friends now.

You smash birthday cakes, throw flowers, bowl googly or smash tomatoes etc

If your friend has this app in his profile, int he top 3 order, then his profile will show the pokes he received from you and others.

You can also view the pokes that you sent through your history, from My History tab in iPoke tab.

For my project, i used doxygen, doxygen is a source code documentation tool.

It was really wonderful.Without which its little difficult to follow the various datastructures, global variables, definition, enumeration, file list in a project.

It can generate output in LaTeX and HTML formats.

Verdict: Doxygen helps to understand code better !

I may be wrong, or not well informed.The below is just my feeling.

Our fridge was under repair.It was twenty years old.The service centre people came, changed the major component with a new similar one, this means the company has not changed the major component ever since our model.There could be pros and cons in this.Pluses are continuous support, well designed.Minus could be the component has not been enhanced during this period.A contradictory point to the minus could be,the interface of component remain same over period where as the implementation could have been made efficient.

With respect to other components, few had backward compatible or work around techniques as our fridge was old.

Finally my conclusion, is how far has this component orientation has been possible in Software industry.Please leave your comments.

From my blog statistics i find that there is a good hit for bluespam.So i decided to write an article on bluespam.

I have not used the exact bluespam software, but i trimmed version of the program.I use the modified version to send a file to all the bluetooth devices that have been discovered.The bluetooth devices receive a prompt saying do you want to receive a file from my device.Once accepted the file is sent to the device.Some devices require authentication, so a pairing has to happen before sending the file.The passkey can be made fixed or dynamic.Suppose my device is running without the user, then i have to hard code the passkey into my hcid.conf file.Since its hard coded this particular key has to be publicly distributed.

Further documentation can be found here http://www.mulliner.org/palm/bluespam.php

Refernce Manual

Refernce Manual 2

Hello Newbies !

FOSS stands for Free/Open Source Software

Free does not mean free as in free lunch, it means free as in freedom of speech.But mostly FOSS softwares are free of cost too.Why use FOSS? A fantastic question to ask.The answer is, rather than writing a huge paragraph i would like to give a pointer to a set of slides with “only pictures”.http://sirsasana.org/slides/

In order for engineering students to learn software engineering they cannot use a proprietary software like windows or any other software whose source code is not open.Through proprietary software one can only learn about the cost and the interfaces, not software.Linux alone is not an example of open source,even applications like Mozilla Firefox is an instance.The source code of firefox can be found at here

Linux was initially a simple kernel, but it was continuously improved and enhanced to reach the current stage.With so many packages for linux.It was possible by people like you and me.This is an example of how powerful is contribution.Contribution can be

1. Development - i.e. writting code for kernel/device driver/application
2. Testing Bug/Reporting Bugs/Fixing Bugs
3. Localization i.e. Help translating the FOSS software to local languages
4. User
5. Donation - FOSS softwares run on donations, but they not compulsory.But if you are satisfied its ethical to pay for the software.
6. Advocacy - Spreading the word to your friends
7. Documentation - wiritng HOWTO & documenting the free software can help people to learn them better.

The advantage of free software being free is that the community can improve the software for ever, and ultimately the community is benefited.One can learn a lot of intellectual property issues likes copyright, trademark & patents in FOSS.The famous license in FOSS is GNU GPL, which focuses on copyleft.Other licenses can be found here.

References

Why is Microsoft so rich ?

recommended to know restrictions of proprietary software http://www.debian.org/intro/free

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html

If you had spent some time through this entire post & the links mentioned, then you know what is FOSS !

See my credits page too

FOSS really helps my project.When i use open source software, i am able to study, analyse and modify it to suit my purpose.I was clueless how to go about with my project until i met Kenny Jacob at FOSS.IN.He introduced me to a open software called bluespam & btopush open library.Reference manual of can be found here.They helped me to understand how to PUSH files into discoverable bluetooth devices using Object Push profile of bluetooth.I learned how the software was built.I wanted the functionality of pushing files into discoverable devices, so i modified the software to my own purpose.The btopush library depends on openobex, which in turn depends in bluetooth library.

Scatternet is a concept in bluetooth.I am implementing an IEEE paper “SHAPER:A Self Healing Algorithm Producing multi-hop Bluetooth scattERnets”.

My SVN can be found at

http://code.google.com/p/openscatternet/

My father and me used to do this conversion work, since 2 years.We converted many cassettes into few CD.Recently, i was surprised to know that this was an article in LFY !All you need for doing this is just a cassetter player, it could be a walkman too, then a chord to connect your pc’s audio in and the player’s audio out & audacity

Configure audacity so that it listens & records the audio in or line in port of the pc.Now start playing the cassette.Once recorded you can export the captured signal to any audio format.

we can save audio content in cassettes from corruption !

Today Ashok, a friend who caught me online through this blog of mine, experimented with a encrypted mail conversation.

I have been signing mails.But honestly the first time i tried encryption today.I abandoned evolution, so i had to depend on FireGPG plugin for my IceWeasel to do the encryption for me.

Backed up my keys and the revocation certificates.