vahIna: search for vehicle Information

Another simple application developed in my spare time. This app can be used to search for vehicle information by entering the Vehicle registration number. Works for Karnataka registered vehicles.

Update:

Application is available in the android market, below is the link

• Direct link
• https://market.android.com/details?id=com.vinay.vahina

Who can use this application?

- Second hand Car/ bike dealers or consultants. They are constantly approached by sellers to help them sell there vehicle. This application can help them quickly identify the Owner and the car details.

Screen shots of the application:

simple Android app to search Indian Central Acts

I have developed a simple Android based application to search for Central Acts of Parliament as on Date right from 1836 onwards. The data includes all the Sections, Schedules, Short Title,Enactment Date and also very significant Foot-Notes in every act.

Search facility is available on the fllowing fields:

1. Act Number
2. Free Text Search

Below are the screen shots of the application.

Main view , search by Act Number

Result obtained is shown as below, you can download the full text.

Search by entering free text

why i developed this?

Short answer is "Just because It can be done."

Liveandroid on vmware

Android on my vmware...

why i have this? well.. i dont know, may be am just crazy about virtualization :p

the phone killer

The mighty iPhone has a newer cousin "iPhone 3G S"

Time and again Apple has proved that style matters than the content, presentation matters than the subject and "simplicity rocks"

We all know when iphone was launched, iPhone

• couldn't handle video recording
• couldn't run multiple application simultaneously
  
• No MMS

yet it was coined to be the killer smart phone. I was wondering how can a non smart phone can take down the smartest of smart phones in the market . After a year of iphone, we know what happend. It was an irony.

I do agree that iPhone set a trend in the mobile phone market. consumers thought touch phones to be like PDA with a stylus based input, and here was a beautiful looking device with no stylus but a finger loving touch screen, and now every other device manufacturer wants to have similar screen on there phone. For this reason i still consider iphone as a truly ICONIC phone of our recent times. And it proved on more point. it opened a new frontier in American mobile phone industry. People started to look beyond just voice when they take there phone out of there pocket, they looked beyond blackberry. This opened a new frontier in American history.

With such a background iphone has yet another form this time with "video recording" can this take out the already flooded mobile market, This time the contenders are for really , palm pre, Nokia N97 and the army of Android phones . Nokia the king in smartphone business is loosing ground for the new kids on the block

From what we have seen it was a clean sweep from iphone back in 2007 and this year marks a very important move to all the mobile giants. Hope the worthy wins the battle.

Note:

when iphone came in people started to really love there phones, When i Android came in they know mobiles mean more than just a style symbol. but all throught "they" over looked one device which was/is much more capable of just giving you direction and pinching through your photo albums. That is Symbian. Symbian now has a new soul as symbian foundation.

p.s. smart or not phone are indivisible part of every day life here in india.

Information is priceless

And google knows this best
Have a look at this

/**
* Listens for GPS and cell/wifi changes and anonymously uploads to server for
* improving quality of service of NetworkLocationProvider. This service is only enabled when
* the user has enabled the network location provider.
*
* {@hide}
*/

Google Android: Looks Impressive, Finally

"Google, Where is my phone?"

All Road leads to "Open Platform".The speculations, hypes and hoax about the Gphone stops at ANDROID, an open and comprehensive platform for mobile devices, which includes includes
An operating system, user-interface and applications -- all of the software to run a mobile phone, but without the proprietary obstacles that have hindered mobile innovation. This acquisition 2 years back payed off.

This platform was developed in collaboration with the mobile giants like Motorola, HTC , Intel, Broadcomm to name few.
How can we miss Windriver when we are talking about ANDROID. The proposed OS is suspected to be a flavour of windriver Linux.

SDK will be out soon, Waiting to see what will we have in there ;)

What does this openhandsetplatform mean?
simple you will have your..
Google contacts as your Phonebook
Google Calender as your mobile calender
Google Docs as your office suite
Jaiku for SMS
Zingku for MMS
Picassa/Youtube for media

And in case if you wonder , who will be the service provider....
Thing big think "life time" think GrandCentral

everything is so tightly woven around the "WEB"

Lets wait till the Prototype hits the market