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Upgraded Nokia 5800 XpressMusic firmware on v 50.0.005

Posted on 30. May, 2010 by Tahir Akram.

Last day I made another attempt to upgrade the firmware of my Nokia 5800 XpressMusic to latest version that is 50.0.005. I was running version 40 before it. I read a lot on Internet that people are facing troubles after upgrading their phone software to this version.
I upgraded from OTA (on the air). I [...]

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Computer science is an attitude

Posted on 15. May, 2010 by Tahir Akram.

While discussion with one of my friends this term has been coined out. That people who are programmers or they solve computer problems, associated with different computer professions (but programming in particular). They have computer science in their lives.
Laws of nature
This thing generate in them an attitude of thinking every thing in the terms of [...]

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Social media websites affected IMs

Posted on 02. May, 2010 by Tahir Akram.

Since I started using Twitter and Facebook I found my usage of IM has been decreased. I believe that social media websites has affected greatly the usage of messengers. Google did a good job to me that I don’t need to add people explicitly into Gtalk. The people to whom I ever wrote some thing [...]

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Download Gravity, a Symbian S60 Twitter client

Posted on 13. Apr, 2010 by Tahir Akram.

If you are an avid Twitter user and addicted to use it from your phone. Then you should try Gravity. Its Symbian S60 based Twitter client. Which has very cool and usable interface. I have also tried Snaptu and TweetS60, which are free. But Gravity gave me great experience. I am using it on my [...]

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Download premium Wordpress theme Thesis 1.7

Posted on 13. Apr, 2010 by Tahir Akram.

Some days back I spend time in hunting some quality Wordpress themes which can give me great options and configuration. Thesis theme could be your choice if you think the same. I have seen many sites built over this theme.

You can download Thesis 1.7 from here.

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Google Buzz, yet another Google’s failed product

Posted on 11. Apr, 2010 by Tahir Akram.

The list could be long where I want to tell that which products are really crapped that made by them. But I just want to mention Buzz here. Which I believe badly flopped and unable to gain popularity.
Some days ago one of my friends told me that he is getting Google Buzz from me. It [...]

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Configure custom subdomain with Posterous blog

Posted on 05. Apr, 2010 by Tahir Akram.

The use of my personal blog at posterous.com has been increased. As I post a lot of pictures and posts on my daily life there. I thought to buy a domain for it. Here comes the deal of configure it with my subdomain. I thought to make it blog.tahirakram.com.
I read about it on internet, and [...]

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Java certification voucher in $40 till 31st March 2010 for students

Posted on 20. Mar, 2010 by Tahir Akram.

From a recent announcement from Oracle under Sun Academic Initiative program (SAI). Now students can get Java certification voucher in $40 till 31st March 2010. This is an excellent opportunity for students. After this date they will give 40% discount on the actual price of the exam fee.
Read more on SAI home page:
All SAI members [...]

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How to use and retain Twitter4J OAuth access token

Posted on 01. Mar, 2010 by Tahir Akram.

I  was stuck in a problem that how to re use access token, once user has authenticated by Twitter (on call back URL). I got it working. There was problem in my understanding about request token vs access token. When user first time comes on call backed URL. I take request token and token secret [...]

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Get Google Wave invitation

Posted on 26. Feb, 2010 by Tahir Akram.

I got 28 Google Wave invitations. I am inviting my friends. I want to bring people in so that they can try it out. If they find it useful. So if you guys didn’t tried it yet. Just leave a comment by filling your correct email address. And I will bring you in.
Google guys take [...]

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