Happy New Blogging Year

Its the start of a new year. Wish you all a Very Happy New Year.

I'm extremely happy to have my own domain and this lovely new Wordpress blog. It feels like the journey has been so long but actually the work has just started and I hope to make this blog as popular as my blog on My Opera. Wish me all the best.

Hard Reset Warning

Any one who has a Nokia handset and is trying to do a hard reset (*#7370#) please be aware that this will also delete the pre-installed applications on your phone.
I realised today that I have lost the SMS Scheduler, Oxford dictionary, and even N-gage games. I'm feeling a bit sad 'cos I don't know if I can get these applications back.
The lesson I've learn't is you should try the hard reset only after you back up any pre-installed application you want to continue using.
You've been warned.

Bluetooth Messages stuck in Inbox

Kindly read this warning before trying a hard reset.
Sometime after getting my new phone I tried to transfer the content from my old phone to my new phone. I used bluetooth to transfer the contents mostly contacts, images and music files.
The trouble with Nokia phones is that the files transferred by bluetooth go to the inbox and you then need to open the file and save it. It can be really annoying if you have to transfer a lot of files. I had more than 100 files just in contacts. So I just saved the contacts and left the music files and some images for another day. The icon for new messages was still being displayed on the home screen which was fine as I knew what was pending.
But when I tried to save the music files after a few days I was able to save them except for 4 files. And the new messages icon continued to appear on the home screen. I tried to delete the message but one of the songs gave an error message "file already in use". Strange because the songs that were stuck in those 4 bluetooth messages did not appear on the Music Player or the File Manager. I tried marking them all and deleting them but that had no effect. I tried opening the messages with Active File Manager but that was taking a long time to open the messaging folder and the stuck bluetooth messages did not appear there.
I searched the online forums and I read somewhere that doing a reset settings or master reset did not work for them and the only option was to reflash the phone. I read something about UDP(User Data Protection) that would save your contacts, messages and other personal info even in case of a master reset. I was stuck, cos I would have to send my phone away and I didn't want to do that.
I tried some other forums that had steps to access the messaging with apps like Xplore or FExplorer but that did not work with this Nokia N79. The file system on the Nokia N79 is different from other phones that the people claimed to have been able to access messages.
I resigned and was just using the basic functions of the phone. Now even if I added new songs they would not appear in the Music Player. On trying to refresh the Music Library it would be stuck searching for new content for several minutes and not add any of the new songs. But yesterday I clicked a few photos and they did not display in the gallery. Now that was the limit. I really need to see and show others the pictures I click easily, navigating via the file manager is not acceptable, especially considering how deply nested the photos are.
So yesterday I finally threw caution to the wind and tried a Factory Reset. The phone restarted And guess what nothing happened, the stuck bluetooth messages were still there. I was disappointed. I searched online for the code for a hard reset (its *#7370#) and after saying a little prayer I tried that code. And I was lucky on Christmas Eve. The messages were finally deleted. Yes. I tried clicking a few photos and they appeared in gallery straight away, however the older photos don't appear under captured but they still appear in all photos and videos (just different sections in the gallery on the Nokia N79).
The music player is still affected though. Even if I leave the Refresh Library search running for several minutes it does not detect the new files that I've added. Does anyone know how to fix this?

Mr. Grinch

One of my favourite Christmas movies is How the Grinch Stole Christmas starring Jim Carey.
It truly shows that Christmas is more than just about gifts.
My favourite song from this film is the track You're a Mean one, Mr. Grinch
Here are the lyrics taken from
http://www.seuss.org/seuss/mr.grinch.html

You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch.
You really are a heel.
You're as cuddly as a cactus,
You're as charming as an eel.
Mr. Grinch.
You're a bad banana
With a greasy black peel.
You're a monster, Mr. Grinch.
Your heart's an empty hole.
Your brain is full of spiders,
You've got garlic in your soul.
Mr. Grinch.
I wouldn't touch you, with a thirty-nine-and-a-half foot pole.
You're a vile one, Mr. Grinch.
You have termites in your smile.
You have all the tender sweetness
Of a seasick crocodile.
Mr. Grinch.
Given the choice between the two of you
I'd take the seasick crockodile.
You're a foul one, Mr. Grinch.
You're a nasty, wasty skunk.
Your heart is full of unwashed socks
Your soul is full of gunk.
Mr. Grinch.
The three words that best describe you,
are, and I quote: "Stink. Stank. Stunk."
You're a rotter, Mr. Grinch.
You're the king of sinful sots.
Your heart's a dead tomato splot
With moldy purple spots,
Mr. Grinch.
Your soul is an apalling dump heap overflowing
with the most disgraceful
assortment of deplorable
rubbish imaginable,
Mangled up in tangled up knots.
You nauseate me, Mr. Grinch.
With a nauseaus super-naus.
You're a crooked jerky jockey
And you drive a crooked horse.
Mr. Grinch.
You're a three decker saurkraut and toadstool sandwich
With arsenic sauce.

Mobile Blogging tool

I've been looking around for a blogging application to update this blog directly from the handset and I came across applications called Wordmobi and Scribe. Now both these apps are based on Python so I had to install Python runtime first.
I decided to try Wordmobi first. They've got a page explaining about the installation of the software. But I wasn't able to install the Python version provided on the site.
After much searching and downloading non working files I managed to get a working version of Python for S60 version 1.9.7 from www.symbian-freak.com. And finally I managed to install Wordmobi. Unfortunately I'm not able to use this wonderful software because this site has not enabled xmlrpc on its blogs. :(
I've raised a ticket in the support system and I hope to get some help or atleast an explanation for not enabling xmlrpc posting.

Hello world!

Hello there,
Yeah you think you know me, don't you? Well I guess you probably do. I've been around on the internet for over two years, I mean I've been blogging for more than two years. But you'll be thinking, "Liar! Your blog is less than a week old." Yes. But I'm not lying. Let me explain.
I've been blogging on several other blogging platforms right from wordpress.com, livejournal.com, my.opera.com right to blogger.com . And these are just the ones where I actually managed to maintain my blog for a while without getting bored. If you still don't believe me just look up selurus. I'll be waiting when you're back.
Oh your back already. If you've browsed through my other pages you would have discovered that I'm blogging from a Nokia N79. Yes. I'm on a Mobile, I a smartphone actually and a really nice one at that. And I generally blog about mobile technology and Opera Software and things I've seen on the internet and some personal experience thrown in for fun and make things lively. I'm not sure what I'll make of this page but it is most likely to be on similar lines and I guess I'll be making this my new base once I have a domain name sorted.
Well thats the update for now. Thanks for stopping by, I'll see you around. Have fun.