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		<title>Stay with Zomato Stay with Tasty Food and Fun!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 12:56:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rakesh</dc:creator>
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<td style="font-weight: 600; line-height: 15pt;"><span style="color: #d85842;">Zomato restaurant guide currently serves Ten major cities in India – Mumbai, Delhi NCR, Kolkata, Bangalore, Pune, Chennai, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Jaipur &amp; Chandigarh. Zomato app lets you search menus across 17000 restaurants in India.  This app lets you check ratings, reviews and discounts of all restaurants in your city and available for iPhone, BlackBerry and Android smartphones. Zomato on your Android is also location aware and more..</span></td>
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<p><img class="alignleft" title="Thinking Yummy!!!" src="http://airakesh.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/thinking-yummy-food.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="250" />Beep, Beep, Beep, Beep, Beep&#8230; when I was a kid, every morning I would hear this beeps of the alarm clock, it was so annoying me. I used to say &#8211; Mom, gimme five more minutes! I don&#8217;t wanna go to school today! It&#8217;s so early! &#8220;Gimme 5&#8243;. Later I formed a group of five friends called &#8220;Gimme 5 Gang&#8221;.</p>
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<td style="font-weight: 600; line-height: 15pt;">FYI, I have been using this Zomato BlackBerry app for last 2 months or so. Never had any issues up so far.&nbsp;</p>
<p>What Zomato 3 features I like most:</td>
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<p>Recently, one of my friends from the &#8220;Gimme 5 Gang&#8221; updated his status on facebook &#8211; Zomato.com and ME. I asked, what&#8217;s this? .. Is Zomato or your GF or something else? Then he posted his comment in reply of this question &#8211; it&#8217;s restaurant guide. You can search for the best local restaurants and places to eat.  It&#8217;s the original restaurant guide offering thousands of restaurant listings in your local area. Find the best restaurants in your area.<BR><br />
<img src="http://airakesh.com/blog/image/zomato.png" alt="Zomato Homepage" width="560px" height="520px" /></p>
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<td style="font-weight: 600; line-height: 15pt;"><BR><strong>1. <span>Discover a Random Restaurant by Shaking your Phone</span> </strong><BR><br />
<strong><em>Zomato provides a clean and easy interface, allowing you to sign in with your existing email or Facebook or Twitter account. The feature &#8220;Shake your phone to get a random restaurant suggestion near you.&#8221; is one of good features provided by Zomato. With this feature, you can discover a random  restaurant by shaking your phone. </em></strong><BR><BR></td>
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<p>Are you joining Zomato? He said &#8211; YES. WOW! it&#8217;s great to hear this. So it was obvious &#8211; TREAT TO BANTA HAI BUDDY! He has to join Zomato in Bangalore. But most friends of our gang are living in Delhi. We &#8220;Gimme 5 Gang&#8221; &#8211; decided a &#8220;hang out&#8221; day and spot &#8211; it was 5 Sept. He agreed to have a big party in GK2.</p>
<p>I posted a wall &#8220;Stay with Gimme 5 Gang, Stay with Fun!&#8221; on facebook and the same I posted in our circle on Google+ too and mentioned that &#8211; if anyone has any suggestions for good restaurants in GK2, please ping us or leave a message here.</p>
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<td style="font-weight: 600; line-height: 15pt;"><BR><strong>2. <span>Advanced Customizable Browsing</span> </strong><BR><br />
<strong><em>It also allows for a highly customizable browse function that lets you filter result by selecting options like Location, Cuisine, Cost of two, Pure veg, Credit Cards, Buffets, Happy Hours, Wiki, Bar present, Live music, Outdoors, etc. This is a feature that is missing in many other food guide applications. And of course there is the option of searching for a restaurant by name OR location OR cuisine OR dish and category &#8211; All, Delivery, Dine out and Nightlife. </em></strong><BR><BR></td>
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<p>Before 5 Aug he has to reach Delhi. We were five guys&#8230; everyone started wondering a good restaurant in GK or nearby this area. The friend who has to host the party is living in Bangalore. But the party would be organized in Delhi. We all five guys started searching for a good restaurant in GK, Delhi. You know why we chose GK as location for this party &#8211; because we used to be hangout here in our college days.</p>
<p>Phew! Foolish thing is &#8211; I forgot the name of organization which my friend will be joining shortly.  It happens sometimes, when you hear a strange name for the first time. I started googling for &#8220;Restaurants in Delhi&#8221; .. I clicked through the results pages returned by Google. When I gave a look on the title and description of returned results. I saw one of top ten results with unique title &#8220;Zomato&#8221; &#8211; I liked this name at first and as I clicked on this and saw the site &#8211; a word came from my mouth &#8211; WOW! &#8211; THAT&#8217;s what I was looking for:</p>
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<td style="font-weight: 600; line-height: 15pt;"><BR><strong>3. <span>Call a restaurant JUST by CLICKING on the CALL button &#8211; very Inventive and Useful feature</span></strong><BR><br />
<strong><em> </em></strong><strong><em>What is most impressive about Zomato&#8217;s smartphone app is the sheer number of restaurants and eateries they have cataloged with great detail, making it easy to find restaurants. You can call a restaurant just by clicking on the call button &#8211; very inventive and useful feature on a smartphone. You can also browse through Menu, Ratings and Reviews. What&#8217;s more &#8211; you can also see the location of the restaurant on Google Map and pictures of the restaurants that will give an idea about the places and restaurants. </em></strong><BR><BR></td>
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When I opened this site it seemed so impressive.. I just said&#8230; WOW!. I love food and going in fun parties. I was very excited for this party. I started navigating <a href="http://www.zomato.com">Zomato.com</a> homepage. At first, I was thinking of whether it&#8217;s a restaurant or something else. Then I saw text &#8220;EXPLORE restaurants by locality in your city&#8221; on top of the front page. I thought.. Zomato might have many branches in different locations as there was mentioned metro and other cities name on top of the site: <strong>Delhi NCR, Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata,  Pune, Hyderabad, Chennai, Jaipur, Ahmedabad &amp; Chandigarh. </strong></p>
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<p>As I&#8217;m from Delhi that&#8217;s why I clicked &#8220;Delhi NCR&#8221; link, a page opened &#8211; it was appearing on the page: &#8220;Featured User&#8221;, &#8220;Reviews Events at Restaurants&#8221;,  &#8220;Our Editors&#8221;, etc in the middle of the page. I started scrolling down&#8230; I found that the site containing web pages like &#8220;From Our Blog&#8221;, &#8220;From Our Newsletter Crunch&#8221;, &#8220;Hot Restaurants Today&#8221;, &#8220;Newly Added Menus&#8221;.</p>
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<td style="font-weight: 600; line-height: 15pt;"><BR><strong>1. <span style="color: #d85842;">Popular Top 10 Best Restaurants</span></strong><BR><br />
<strong><em> </em></strong><strong><em> </em></strong><strong><em>You can add a feature that will include &#8211; Popular Top 10 Best Restaurants by city list and the most searched restaurants in every major city in India. So there should be option on your site to select from the Top 10 restaurants from our 5 most searched cities by enter a city of your choice to view their Top 10. Search on any city and see what are the Top 10 Delhi NCR  Restaurants, Top 10 Mumbai Restaurants, Top 10 Bangalore Restaurants, Top 10 Kolakta, Top 10 Hyderbad, Top 10 Chennai, and more.</em></strong><BR><BR></td>
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<p>As I kept scrolling down through the page, the iPhone, BlackBerry and Android apps I saw at right and says &#8211; Zomato.com provides apps for smartphones. I said to myself &#8211; Cool product!&#8230; As we know, with the world going more mobile, finding that restaurant.. I was happy to see that Zomato.com is smartphone friendly. Well&#8230;at first, what came in my mind, it would be a restaurant but later I realized that it&#8217;s not a restaurant listing site only but more than that.</p>
<p>For long time I was searching website related to this kind information i am very happy to find it here. As usual, I started playing with this site. As I scrolled down the page. I found that it is mentioned &#8220;17,800 listed restaurant&#8221;, &#8220;1,627 foodies online now&#8221;, &#8220;1,063,957 foodies served in August&#8221;, &#8220;8,547,360 foodies served till date&#8221;, &#8220;Popular on Zomato &#8211; Delhi NCR&#8221; and more&#8230; After giving a look on these pages it has been confirmed that Zomato is a local restaurant finder guide. After navigating to other pages in Zomato.com, I found that <strong>it&#8217;s a complete Restaurant Guide</strong> and currently serves Ten major cities in India &#8211; Mumbai, Delhi NCR, Kolkata, Bangalore, Pune, Chennai, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Jaipur &amp; Chandigarh. The website currently lists over 17,800 restaurants and featured menus for restaurants listed on the website. As per recent press reports, Zomato claims that it gets more than a million customers on its website.</p>
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<td style="font-weight: 600; line-height: 15pt;"><BR><strong>2. <span style="color: #d85842;">ADD your Restaurant to Dining </span><BR></strong><br />
<strong><em>Let the restaurants owner add the option to add own restaurant on an additional fees, I&#8217;m sure a lot of people will be willing to pay the extra. Once it is verified and approved by you, it can be displayed in your restaurant listings.</em></strong><BR><BR></td>
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<p>Zomato has the first local restaurants search iPhone, Android and BlackBerry application in India. Cool features!! After seeing its all features it was confirmed that we don&#8217;t need to google every time for good restaurant. I thought, why not first I install the Zomato BlackBerry app on my device &#8211; I installed it and started browsing restaurant names and read the reviews of few restaurants wrote by guests,  what type, style or cuisine they&#8217;re serving,  whether they provides live music or not&#8230;.offer a wide selection of liquors, beers and wines as well as non-alcoholic beverages and punches. And also checked &#8211; what kind of other services listed restaurants are providing to its customers. I found listed a good range of restaurants on the site. Once you started using it, I am sure you will fall in love with it.</p>
<p>As much as staying with Zomato.com site or its smartphone app you will find some many good restaurants in your local area where people can go to enjoy different styles of food in various atmospheres that are interesting and intriguing. I just started dreaming about the party we planned .. we are in a party and having great fun with live music and dance&#8230;. <img src='http://airakesh.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif' alt=':P' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Now it came time to decide on a restaurant for a group dinner (party of five &#8211; Gimme 5 gang) in GK locality  where we can organize a party in our style.</p>
<p>I opened Zomato.com and clicked DINE-OUT option under EXPLORE, as it selected this, it appeared an additional option &#8211; check option &#8220;Search for restaurants in 4 / 5 star hotels only&#8221; &#8211; if you are looking for only 4/5 star hotels restaurant. I unchecked this optioned.  In location field, I entered only GK2 ..since I&#8217;m living in GK, New Delhi., due to &#8220;auto complete feature&#8221; on this site it entered automatically &#8220;GREATER KAILASH (GK) 2, DELHI. Next option I have to select &#8220;Cuisine&#8221;.. in our gang, two guys are from North India (Delhi and Chandigarh), one from South India (Bangalore), one form North-East and last one from Mumbai. Each guy belongs to different region and each has different taste of tongue and so I selected MULTI CUISINE.</p>
<p>Zomato has returned two restaurant results near by GK:</p>
<p><img src="http://airakesh.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/zomato-advnaced-search-tips1.png" alt="Advanced Search Tips" width="540px" /></p>
<p>While searching for a restaurant, I tried their advanced search feature for filtering results. I filtered the results by following categories: Open Now, Location, Cuisine, Cost of two, Pure Veg., Credit Cards, Buffet, Happy Hours,  Wifi, Bar present, Bar not present, Live music, Outdoors, 4/5 * Hotels.</p>
<p>Finally, I filtered the results by Bar present, Live music,  Wifi and Outdoors, Zomato returned two results and one of two results was &#8220;Zook&#8221; restaurant. I thought before finalizing the restaurant, I should read about Zook, live music service,  liquors quality and variance and what kind of cuisines they serve and other required services as well. After going through these all things and also I read some reviews .. most guests wrote: <em>Nice place to chilled out. Good varieties of food and hookah. I just love the place&#8221;. Great place,specially on weekends with friends! Nice place for a hanging out or for a party. Rocking music. Good ambiance and good food.</em></p>
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<td style="font-weight: 600; line-height: 15pt;"><BR><strong>3. <span style="color: #d85842;">Make a restaurant Reservation through Zomato</span><BR></strong><br />
<strong><em>There should be a feature to make a reservation through Zomato directly. For this, you can provide a form which will ask customers to enter Restaurant Name, City, Phone and other required information.</em></strong><BR><BR></td>
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<p>Also, I saw the photos of restaurant interiors &#8211; looked awesome and rocking. On the day, this party was organizing in Zook, there is Unconventional Jam on the same day.</p>
<p>So finally we selected &#8220;Zook&#8221;  for our &#8220;Gimme 5 Gang&#8221; party.  All five guys were happy with selection of the restaurant &#8220;Zook&#8221;. Now, we started waiting for this rocking day. Finally that day has come. We all friends arrived at 8:20pm and but one of the friends asked us &#8211; Should I come with my girl friend. We told him, No problem, Dude! Today&#8217;s our day &#8211; come with your girlfriend.</p>
<p>It was rocking party and we had a great fun there. I must THANKS to ZOMATO because we got a good restaurant due to Zomato.com. After enjoying this party we named this party &#8220;Zomato Night @GK2&#8243;.</p>
<p><img src="http://airakesh.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/restaurant-detail-info.png" alt="Restaurant listing Info" /></p>
<p>Last but not least&#8230;. just I wanna say.. it was rocking party organized due to Zomato restaurant guide. This site has so many featured, we do not need to go anywhere or ask anybody and just keep Zomato apps installed on your smartphone device &#8212; <strong><span style="color: red;">Stay connected with Zomato, Stay with Tasty Food and Fun. <img src='http://airakesh.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </span></strong><BR></p>
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		<title>I set my eyes on the Taj</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2011 17:16:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rakesh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been living in Delhi for a long time but never really gone to see Taj Mahal at Agra which is one of the wonders of the world. Last weekend, I had planned a trip for Agra. So I started to try to figure out the best way to reach Agra. I know that [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have been living in Delhi for a long time but never really gone to see Taj Mahal at Agra which is one of the wonders of the world. Last weekend, I had planned a trip for Agra. So I started to try to figure out the best way to reach Agra.</p>
<p>I know that there are trains that run from Delhi and back and Shatabdi Express is one of best trains that takes approximately 3 hours each way. However, I was thinking that perhaps a private taxi or by own car may be better option as we won&#8217;t be bound by the train schedule and we&#8217;ll have a reliable mode of transportation while in Agra. My wife and I finally decided to go there by our own car because it&#8217;s been quite a long time I did not take a long drive for pleasure.</p>
<p>However, I have heard that road from Delhi to Agra by car is also very pleasant. One of my friends suggested a trick &#8211; to leave early by 5:00 am and that way you can be back home by 8 pm. We decided to go early to bed and that night, just after we had our dinner, I knocked out of bed.</p>
<p>One way was about 4 hrs. The only glitch we ran into was, when we were returning to Delhi, there was a overloaded bus stucked into a cantilever bridge in Agra city and I was just behind the bus, that lost us about half an hour. The roads were not a problem at all. </p>
<p>My wife was so enthralled by view of greens and sometimes she spot forts and just kept on snapping pictures. We both were very excited to see Taj Mahal. I felt so excited at that moment since I only see Taj Mahal in books, TV and internet. My first thought was, this is going to be real great seeing one of the wonders on the world, once in a lifetime experience. At 10 am, I reached and parked my car in parking area. The gates are about a 5 minute walk from the actual entrance to the Taj. There are cycle-rickshaws available, but we decided to walk. </p>
<p>Only drinking water is allowed to bring inside Taj Mahal because of possible garbage. They are also afraid of corrosion on the marble from the soft-drinks, etc. The guards check each one by one before you enter the place. There are many hawkers standing outside Taj Mahal. They make a sport of fooling tourists, and they brag about it to each other afterwards.</p>
<p>Long queue just to get inside and the security was tight, but that’s good at least to keep the place safe and clean. I was a bit irritated by the idea of waiting in the long line. The queue was quite long for tickets that&#8217;s why I asked my wife to take two tickets as the queue for women was separate and shorter than men queue. Separate queue lines were for men and women to enter in Taj Mahal. That&#8217;s why my wife and I were standing in two separate queue lines. When I asked my wife&#8230; please give me my ticket then she told me the ticket guy had given me single ticket only for both. When we reached at entrance gate as we showed the ticket to security people and they said this ticket is only for one person &#8211; I shocked to hear this thing and became angry on my wife. But she said calmly &#8211; while buying the ticket I had asked the ticket guy to give ticket for two persons but ticket guy said to me, it&#8217;s for two persons. The queue was so long and weather was so hot she didn&#8217;t check the ticket properly and that&#8217;s why it happened. </p>
<p>Finally somehow my wife convinced the securities people and we entered into Taj Mahal. Best part was, my annoyance vanished as soon as I set my eyes on the Taj. I was like “WOW”. Breathtaking, marvelous, wonderful, amazing! I will run out of words to describe what I’m seeing. It was just so overwhelming. A real epitome of love and romance leaves one mesmerized. The essential focus of the compound is the mausoleum; this large, white marble structure stands on a square base and consists of a proportioned building with an arch-shaped doorway topped by a large ground and finial. It was built by Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan for his most beloved wife Mumtaz Mahal. I was so fascinated with the place that we didn’t even notice the time. It was almost 2 pm. I’m still mesmerized with the experience when we were getting out of the place and I was so happy to see such a beautiful structure and for sure memories of the Taj will last in my mind until the day I die.</p>
<p>Around 2 pm, we left for Delhi and after driving continuously 2 hours I stopped my car at one of dhabas on the highway and told my wife &#8211; today we should eat dhaba food and she agreed on this. We ordered some food and had tea also though we were carrying enough snacks and foods with us. The food was nice. About 7 pm we entered in Delhi and reached home about 8 pm. </p>
<p>The Taj was marvelous, wonderful and amazing&#8230;.our tiredness gone and we fell asleep immediately. It was really wonderful trip we had never before.</p>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 20:11:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rakesh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First time, when I installed the midpSSH client and configured it on my BlackBerry Curve 8520 and tried to connect to the remote Linux server, it was giving an error message “Writer: could not open tunnel – failed”. Later, I checked it in detail in order to replicate and resolve the problem and I found [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>First time, when I installed the midpSSH client and configured it on my BlackBerry Curve 8520 and tried to connect to the remote Linux server, it was giving an error message “Writer: could not open tunnel – failed”. Later, I checked it in detail in order to replicate and resolve the problem and I found the port 22 is not opened on EDGE enabled BlackBerry smartphone with BlackBerry Internet service by Airtel (as we know that the firewall only permits access to the SSH Server via port 22).</p>
<p>When I came to know that SSH works on GPRS enabled phone — it gave me a clue that the port 22 must be opened on GPRS enabled phone. So I asked my BlackBerry service provider – Airtel India support guys to activate the GPRS service on my phone and as it got enabled and tried to connect the remote Linux Server using midpSSH, it started working on my BlackBerry smartphone – WOW <img src='http://airakesh.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' />  .</p>
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<p>For Linux developer guys, it is essential that you connect to the remote Linux server from anywhere. I found having a SSH client on my BlackBerry 8520 smartphone is very convenient for a quick status check and troubleshooting.<br />
MidpSSH is a SSH and Telnet client for mobile device [It's open source software - so you can modify it too as per your requirement.]</p>
<p>Here’s step-by-step guide on how to connect to a Linux server from BlackBerry 8520 phone using MidpSSH software.</p>
<p>1. Download MidpSSH on BlackBerry Phone</p>
<p>From the blackberry browser, go to http://www.xk72.com/wap and click on ‘Latest Development Release (v1.7.3)’. This will display several download options for blackberry phone. Select the BlackBerry Build OS 4.x.<br />
* SSH1 Build<br />
* SSH2 Lite Build MIDIP 2.0 MIDIP 1.0<br />
* SSH1 Lite Build<br />
* BlackBerry Build OS3.x OS 4.x<br />
* BlackBerry Enterprise Only build<br />
* No Obfuscation Build</p>
<p>When you select download, you may get a warning message — “The application does not contain a signature. It might not be from a trusted source. Do you want to proceed?”. Select ‘Yes’. This will start the download automatically as shown below.</p>
<p>2. Install MidpSSH on BlackBerry Phone</p>
<p>After download, it will automatically install the application and give you the following installation successful message. Click on ‘OK’, which will display the MidpSSH icon on the blackberry home screen as shown below.</p>
<p>3. Create a new SSH Client session and connect to Linux Server from your BlackBerry Phone</p>
<p>Create a SSH client connection by giving the ip-address of the Linux server you would like to connect to from your blackberry phone as shown in the Fig below.</p>
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<td>* Alias – Enter the connection name.<br />
* Host – Enter the ip-address of the server.</p>
<p>* Type: SSH, Telnet. Select SSH.<br />
* Authentication: For SSH Connection Only. Optional. Leave this  empty.<br />
* Username: Enter the linux user name.<br />
* Password: Enter the linux account password.<br />
* Connection Type: Default, TCP/IP, BES, WiFi. Select Default.</td>
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<p>For example:</p>
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<td>Alias: Dev DB<br />
Host: 208.67.222.222<br />
Type: SSH<br />
Authentication:<br />
Username: blackberry<br />
Password:********<br />
Connection Type: Default</td>
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<p>Once the session is created, select the session using the trackball, which will give the option to connect, for me SSH Client session ‘Dev DB’, you need to go to the ‘Dev DB’ client session and right click on ‘Dev DB’ and select ‘Connect’ to connect to the remote Linux server . This will prompt the message — “The application MidpSSH has attempted to access a low-level network connection. Would you like to allow this?.” Select “Yes” for this message, which will connect to the remote Linux server.</p>
<p>Note: As we know, the firewall only permits access to the SSH Server via port 22. If even you have Rs. 899 unlimited Airtel BlackBerry Internet service plan on your BlackBerry phone, you can’t connect to Linux Server from your BlackBerry Phone – it gives an error message “Writer: could not open tunnel – failed”. Because, by default for Airtel users with using EDGE (enabled) BlackBerry smartphone, port 22 is not opened (first, I tested it on BlackBerry Curve 8520 locked phone with Airtel).</p>
<p>You must need to enable GPRS service on your BlackBerry phone if you want to use SSH on your smartphone. So as the GPRS service is enabled on your phone, the SSH will work and you would be able to connect to the remote Linux server.</p>
<p>Happy SSH on BlackBerry Curve 8520!!</p>
<p>Note that the default font size on the SSH client is very small. This makes the Linux prompt really tiny and practically not readable even with a 20/20 vision. The solution is simple — increase the font size.</p>
<p>Later, I had also tested the midpSSH on BlackBerry 9530 Storm Touch, Blackberry 9000 Bold and BlackBerry Curve 8900 (including BlackBerry Curve 8520) with Blackberry Internet service and GPRS enabled and it worked for me on these Blackberry smartphone models.</p>
<p>If you will have any problems related BlackBerry SSH — just let me know by posting your comment here.</p>
<p>Read original story: <a href="http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2009/04/midpssh-blackberry-ssh-client-tutorial-connect-to-unix-server" target="_blank">Midpssh Blackberry SSH Tutorial</a></p>
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		<title>Catch the i: My baby girl friend – “Blushy Eye”</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 22:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rakesh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Few months ago, I had planned to buy a new car because my old car was having some problems, consuming more and I also got bored of it. So I started wondering for new car. My plan was to buy a middle segment car because a big car takes more space for driving and parking. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Few months ago, I had planned to buy a new car because my old car was having some problems, consuming more and I also got bored of it. So I started wondering for new car. My plan was to buy a middle segment car because a big car takes more space for driving and parking. You know, it’s very difficult to drive on Delhi’s busy and crowded road. As we all know, there are lots of middle segment car in the market. So, choosing the best out of them is a real difficult task but not impossible. Hmm.. I have to opt one of them.</p>
<p>I thought I should research first before buying a new car. And I did that a lot..:-). I learned a lot of things from my old car as far as handling, driving and maintenance are concerned. So I was planning to buy a car which has decent look with attractive interiors, good mileage and low maintenance cost. I found that i10 has attractive interiors, good mileage, good market re-sale value and popular as well. The advantage of popular cars is if the car breaks down on the highway or somewhere else, I can easily phone a mechanic for assistance whenever needed.</p>
<p>I did a lot of research and gone through so many reviews, visiting several showrooms and analyzing cars (by giving a look) on Delhi road before taking decision. Finally, I decided to buy Hyundai’s i10. I liked CHEVROLET UVA too but its cost was little above my budget and there are very few service centers of General Motors in India, I thought I might face problems if I go out of the town that’s why I dropped this idea. I would say – choosing a car under my budget, is really a difficult task and tedious job which I did. Once I decided to buy i10, it was easier to go for next steps for me.</p>
<p>My wife and I, visited a showroom (phoned Hyundai Himgiri) which is near to my house, when I saw the interiors of i10 I got caught into, it was awesome.. ahhh…WOW!. That’s actually I was looking for. Then I asked sales executive to give some detailed information about it, like what’s its mileage, blah..blah. She said, it gives 16.5 km/l after first servicing but before that it will give you approximately 13 km/l. I thought it fits in my requirement because I want to buy a car which gives mileage at least 15 km/l.</p>
<p>There are several models available in i10 – based on features and technology used. As per my requirement, I opted i10 Magna Kappa 1.2 and body – metallic and color – Blushing Red, as this is my wife’s favorite color and now I like too. It’s really very eye catching car. I know, it demands more care and maintenance but I am ready for this because I love to care of something that I like most.</p>
<p>This car impressed me so much with its features, interiors, styles and the most important thing is it’s an eye catchy. I finally booked a i10 Magna Kappa 1.2 Metallic (Blushing Red) car immediately the same day I visited the showroom without wasting my time. It was 11 August the day I booked. It took a week just to process to deliver my car.</p>
<p>Well, it was 23 August 2009, the day finally my new baby girl friend – “Blushy Eye” gonna come home!</p>
<p>The sales executive asked me to come in the afternoon at 3:00 pm and I was eagerly waiting for. It was Sunday and I got ready and then the clock struck 2:00 pm. As I was about to leave I got a call from the executive and she asked me to come at 5:00 pm because the car didn’t reach to the showroom yet. I was little worried because I didn’t want to get my car delivered in dark. In the mean while, many things were going on in my mind about the car like delivery checklists and all but the time was going so slow but finally the clock struck 4:30 pm and I just can’t stop myself to get ready to reach before they call me again <img src='http://airakesh.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  . My wife and I reached the showroom on time at 5:00 pm sharp and as I entered the showroom unfortunately there was a power cut. It’s was too hot inside, without air conditioning my whole zest and excitement going down. There was so crowd in the showroom as it was Sunday which was making the whole atmosphere dull and lazy. After an hour power came and we got relaxed.. Aaahhhh!</p>
<p>The sales executive came to me and asked to complete the further procedure. She told me that before delivery, each car is thoroughly cleaned inside and out that’s why there is delay in delivery. We waited for another hour and then at 7:30 pm we got delivered the car..:-). It was too late and also dark which I didn’t want but it happened. My wife was on fast so my concentration was on her only because she was not well and due to this the checklists which is to be followed before delivery, I didn’t go through it. My intention was to reach home somehow as soon as possible. So, I just gave a quick look on wheels, manufacturing date, engine and odometer (mileage — how much distanced traveled before delivery and found it was okay and I was satisfied) and few more things.</p>
<p>I was in hurry though but still I didn’t forget to give some tip to delivery boys. When I gave tip to them they were so happy and gave me a good smile. After that the sales executive finally trying to hand over my car’s keys but I asked her please give it to my wife then she gave the keys to my wife and finally my wife gave it to me..:-) and let’s go. Then I took the keys with a big smile <img src='http://airakesh.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':-D' class='wp-smiley' />  and drove away from there and reached home at 8:00pm. This way I brought my baby girl friend “Blushy Eye” home.</p>
<p>Though the day was so hectic and long but we still enjoyed it. My all tiredness weared off after driving my new car. It is so cool and giving so comforts to me. I feel like I’m in a plane. The driving is very smooth, soundless and no jerk at all, air conditioning is so cool that it makes my drive so peacefully. I experienced in some of the cars, the pickup will be very poor if the AC is on i.e. the pickup goes into full humbucking. But with i10 I experienced that the AC doesn’t affect the pick-up, it’s giving proper cooling even if the pickup goes up, there is no humbucking.</p>
<p>It’s only one week old baby girl friend “Blushy Eye”… so, as I experience different situations with different individual, I will continue to share my experiences.. <img src='http://airakesh.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>I’m with happy with my baby girl friend – “Blushy Eye”.. <img src='http://airakesh.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' />  .</p>
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		<title>One Evening Hangout in the Walled City of Old Delhi</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 21:18:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rakesh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I always like visiting some places, eating something, traveling somewhere and seeing something obvious for the first time. Yesterday it was our 62nd Independence Day. On this our special occasion, as coined Red Fort monument name in my mind, I made a flashback in my memory, you know – what happened last month.. as usual [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I always like visiting some places, eating something, traveling somewhere and seeing something obvious for the first time.</p>
<p>Yesterday it was our 62nd Independence Day. On this our special occasion, as coined Red Fort monument name in my mind, I made a flashback in my memory, you know – what happened last month.. as usual I was in my office and working on something. Before leaving for my home, one of my co-workers sent a message on the terminal of my work station – “Kya Aaj Chandni Chowk wala – Parathe Wali Gali Chalein” (how it would be to go to “lane of parantha-makers”…) and Jama Masjid as well for chillout. I said, Hmmm…..let me think. Since I have been living in Delhi for last fourteen years but I never planned before to visit this famous place. So, without thinking much I decided to go there along with my colleagues.<br />
Jama Masjid Courtyyard</p>
<p>First, let you know about Gali Paranthe Wali (literally “the bylane of fried bread”) – it is the name of a narrow street in the Chandni Chowk area of Delhi, India, noted for its series of shops selling paratha, a fried Indian bread, and now a popular culinary destination. Paranthe Wali Gali (”lane of parantha-makers”) in Old Delhi is a famous gourmet localities of the world.</p>
<p>According to last minute plan, we left for this place in the evening and I remembered it was 28th July 2009. As I use my own car for going office…when we came out from our office it started raining and after talking with one another we decided – why not we go there by metro… then I said what would I do with my car. Some of us took metro for Rajouri Garden and I reached Rajouri Garden metro station with three co-workers and there I parked my car. From there we all together took metro and reached Chawri Bazaar metro station. One of my colleagues is resident of Chandni chowk who is familiar with this place very well and he was guiding us to reach Gali Parathe Wali.</p>
<p>Before going Gali Parathe wali, we decided to see Jama Masjid of Delhi. As we reached Jama Masjid, we all got wet as it was rainy season but for last one month all Delhiites were praying for rain and finally it rained that day we were all feeling very happy and cool. Rain after a long time brought relief to us.</p>
<p>As we reached at the entrance gate of mosque, one of my fellow friends asked us to put off our shoes and carry it in our respective hands before stepping in the mosque. I didn’t have any idea about  this. I never went to a mosque before this trip that’s why I were unaware of these customs. So I asked one of my fellows to explain the reason – why we actually put off the shoes at entrance gate and carry it???</p>
<p>He explained the reason that as ritual purification precedes all prayers, mosques often have ablution fountains or other facilities for washing in their entryways or courtyards.</p>
<p>After putting off our shoes, we entered in Jama Masjid mosque and took entry tickets for entering lofty minarets – there are two lofty minarets – it’s 30 feet high, and containing 130 steps.  longitudinally striped with white marble and red sandstone, flank the domes on either side. The minarets are divided by three projecting galleries and are surmounted by open twelve-sided domed pavilions.</p>
<p>We entered in one of minarets – as went up the minaret and when we were going up, it was dark inside the minaret’s stairs and finally we reached to the top of the minaret – Wow! we can see the town clearly and very well, so we took some snaps from there to capture these memorable moments.</p>
<p>When we came down-stairs – we gave tip to a care taker of the minarets and he became very happy giving a big smile to all of us. After that we went to the mosque’s ablution fountain (facilities for washing) in courtyard for ritual purification. One of my friends said, “the prayer is about to start and therefore he is leaving for prayer” and rest of us waiting there for him at courtyard and other at the gate of the entrance.</p>
<p>After prayer he came back and then we put on our shoes and took rickshaw to reach Gali Parathe Wali (”lane of parantha-makers”) and on the way to this place it started raining again, the street was so narrow, crowded and very busy, and due to this traffic was very slow… We were just about to reach there but it was raining so heavily that somehow we managed to reach Gali Parathe Wali. Then we relaxed for sometime and gradually ordered for different varieties of paratha for which we came here. Well, the paratha includes exotic fillings like Kaju, Badam, Matar, Mix Paranthas, Rabri parantha etc. The parantha was served with a side of sweet tamarind chutney, mint chutney, mixed vegetable pickle, a paneer and potato curry, potato and fenugreek curry, and a sauteed mash of sweet pumpkin (sitaphal).</p>
<p>We had varieties of parathas there. While having parathas in dinner it was raining heavily which was awesome! As we finished our food we saw lanes and road were completely inundated with water .. still it was raining — you know water went up to knee height. Then we, three of us, decided to take rickshaw to reach metro station. But other were still saying – “let’s go to have some ice-cream, too”. But I said no because rain has worsen the road condition and we should leave before getting stuck. So it would be better to leave for home now. They said , “we are going to have ice-cream in Giani Ice-cream Parlor which is famous in Chandani Chowk. I said – okay, if you guys want to have some dessert then you can go. We divided into two groups – one group headed to Giani and other group in which I was decided to leave for home. Thus, we took quick walk to the nearest metro station but after traveling some distance we noticed some drainage covers were opened. The heavy rain led to the inundation of Chandni Chowk and city  road as well. The clogged drains led to the mixing of sewage with rainwater at many places causing hardship to the vehicles or footpath goer. It was still raining heavily. I meant to say, it was very risky to walk on the road and footpath as because it was inundated with water — went to knee height. So I suggested to hire a rickshaw and this way we three guys reached metro station and later we came to know other guys also decided to leave for home.</p>
<p>One of the guys was carrying a laptop in a bag and other friend’s mobile and he noticed that his laptop as well as the mobile got wet. Now, both got worried because his mobile stopped working and he could not make a call. At the metro station, both guys re-checked the laptop and mobile and found that the laptop was working apparently but mobile wasn’t.</p>
<p>Well, at metro station we put off our shoes and squeezed them and again wore it. We guys were waiting for a metro to arrive and finally got into the metro. At the other stoppage some passengers were getting in but can’t find space so one of my friends, got down the metro to let the passenger out but he could not get in and the door closed. It was just a funny moment for all of us because we know once the door is closed no one can enter. Well, we reached the destination and he further reached his place somehow..</p>
<p>As I had parked my car near Rajouri Garden Station so I took my car from there and make my way to home. While driving I got stuck in traffic jam due to heavy rain which took me thrice the time to reach my home as compare to normal schedule. Well, somehow I too, reached my home and instantly took bath because I had walked in dirty water and after taking bath I went to bed without wasting time..:-) as I was too tired.</p>
<p>Really I will never forget this day. It was really fun going there and fantastic as well as memorable day of my life, I have never experienced before. Though I got tired and faced so much difficulties but the most important thing is that I enjoyed a lot.</p>
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