Tuesday, October 11, 2011

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."

Saturday, July 23, 2011

NAS@home

Finally Debian is up and running on my NSLU. It took 12hrs to get it working, with power cuts in the middle of installation i was scared that i would brick my device. luckily all went well.

Current Setup,

NSLU running on debian lenny
OpenSSH
Mediatomb
samba
motion - for webcam

todo:
3gUSBModem support
DynDNS - so that i can access my NAS and security cam from internet

Monday, June 06, 2011

DIY gorilla-pod

On a casual visit to SP Road, found a shop selling Loc-Line modular hose at Rs 99/pc. Couldn't resist to start off my DIY tripod build.

Parts:
  1. 3 modular hose at Rs 99/pc




Bolt and Nut matching the size of the camera mount. Typically a standard size for most of the cameras.

small piece of Acrylic Sheet. I had few pieces left from my previous projects,it a 6mm sheet. A drill to make the holes for the hose.


Just took 30mins in assembling , and works great.


Unfortunately the camera is busy doing its job else where. [ these pics are from my N900 ]
will post the actual camera mounted on this soon.


Next step:
building a holder for my N900, to make it compatible with my new tripod