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Is it Blackout for BlackBerry in India?

The department of telecom (DoT) is learnt to have issued an ultimatum to Canada’s RIM, the maker of the BlackBerry smartphone, that it will have to provide monitoring solutions either in the form of encryption keys, or by shifting servers to India, if it wants to continue operations.

In simple terms "Open code or shut shop".

more details here..

Lot More to Do with Webcam with Free Tools

Webcam along with a computer can be used for lot more things apart from video/web chatting.

You will be surprised at the amazing things which can be achieved using a webcam and some free utilities.

A few are mentioned Below :

1. Keep In Touch with Friends and Family
2. Turn Your Webcam into a Motion-Sensing Security Camera
3. Login to Windows with Your Face
4. Snap Pictures of Would-Be Thieves
5. Create Time-Lapse Videos
6. Turn Your PC Into a Photo Booth
7. Chronicle Your Face
8. Document the Weather
9. Set Up a Birdfeeder Webcam
10. Repurpose Your Cell Phone as a Webcam

Details of how to work it out are here.....

Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin Fowler

I liked the below quote from Steve Yegge's blog ..................

When I read this book for the first time, in October 2003, I felt this horrid cold feeling, the way you might feel if you just realized you've been coming to work for 5 years with your pants down around your ankles. I asked around casually the next day: "Yeah, uh, you've read that, um, Refactoring book, of course, right? Ha, ha, I only ask because I read it a very long time ago, not just now, of course." Only 1 person of 20 I surveyed had read it. Thank goodness all of us had our pants down, not just me.

So, I started reading it ... Don't want to keep my pants down around ankles anymore.

Developers are Born Brave......

Picture says it ALL...