betterdays

Where Are You From?

preetamrai — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:36:45 +0000

Was asked this question earlier today by a Slovakian girl. The smile was so welcoming that I am tempted to stay put and add Bratislava to my list of homes.

Bratislava old city, Slovakia

Also, been spending a lot of time with Global Voices people, people who also struggle to answer this question.

Why Dancing?

preetamrai — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 04:58:28 +0000

I booked a 3G iPhone.

Awesome Hightlighter

preetamrai — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:15:20 +0000

Got to know of this nifty Web utility from the MacBreak weekly podcast. Awesome highlighter lets you highlight a chunk of text in a web page and share the highlighted page with your colleagues and friends.

Let’s say your are reading this page

And you wanted to highlight this part of the page, a chunk of text that you want to share with your friends.

Head on to awesomehighlighter.com and paste the web address of the page you want to highlight.

Drag the text you want with your mouse. The area will get highlighted. Click on the done button to save the hightlighted text.

There you have it, a web address you can share with your friends. When your friends click on this link they will be routed to a copy of the original webpage with your highlighted text.

Barcamp Phnom Penh 08

preetamrai — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:33:52 +0000

Where: Cambodia-Japan Cooperation Center (CJCC), Multi-Purpose Hall, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
When: September 21st, 2008

Why should you attend?
You will get to meet a very interesting tech community in the region and great food.

Apply for a Cambodian Visa online

How I used an iPhone in Japan

preetamrai — Wed, 28 May 2008 15:38:18 +0000

No, I don’t have the super secret version 2 iPhone that is supposed to work on Japanese mobile network. Japan is one place where the current version of iPhone does not work as it is not a 3G phone.

Still I was able to make calls on my iPhone. I used this mobile software called Fring.

Fring is an amazing service, it is a multi-platform chat client supporting Yahoo, MSN, Skype, Gtalk etc. All this works on the Edge network.

I am finding that I am using Fring chat feature a lot, mostly IMing while I am commuting.

On a Wi-Fi network you can make a Skype voice calls too.

I was using an early version of Fring last year on a Nokia phone. I was so impressed with this software that I promised a Fring employee I met that I will write about it. Never got around doing that as I stopped using the Nokia soon after I got the iPhone.

A few weeks back Fring released an iPhone client. You must have an hacked iPhone in order to install Fring. I hope they will release an official version once iPhone 2.0 is out.

BTW Fring works on several other mobile platforms.