Monthly Archives: June 2008

Twitter SMS cost

Just verified from my bill: for Airtel, incoming Twitter SMSes are free, outgoing SMSes cost Rs. 3 each.

Medianama

Nikhil has a new site: Medianama.

Too many Twitter SMSes on your phone?

If you’re using Linux, install Wammu (sudo aptitude install wammu for Ubuntu). If you’re not using Linux, stop reading. Connect your phone to Wammu (I did it via Bluetooth). Retrieve all your SMSes. Sort by number. Select all SMSes sent from Twitter, right-click and select the ‘Delete Selected’ option. Congratulations, your phone’s inbox is tweet-free [...]

Jokes

My ‘joke’ made it to Planet Emacs! No wonder it got so many views; must have puzzled a lot of people.

3G

$199 for a 3G iPhone… My old phone had cost me more than that. Still waiting for Android, myself.

Ubuntu 8.04

I upgraded to Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) yesterday… The process was easy and painless, almost everything worked out of the box. There was no sound after upgrade, and all of the normal fixes didn’t work. Then I saw this comment by Mark Shuttleworth, which fixed it. You gotta love open source…

Margins

The New York Times has a fascinating visualization of voting patterns for the US Primaries.