How to Use Blackberry as a Modem

April 9th, 2009 Apple iPhone and Blackberry Storm have been two of the most influential releases in mobile phone industry of late. While people have been fanatic over iPhone's apps and candyfloss look, blackberry has developed its own position by virtue of usability and features.  They have their own sets of mass.

August 9th, 2006 A booby-trapped game of noughts and crosses (BBProxy) has been used in Black Hat hacker conference to show how a Blackberry can be easily hijacked to steal confidential data. Created by a security researcher the game contains malicious code that turns the popular mobile e-mail device into a backdoor into corporate networks.

August 10th, 2009 Are you planning to buy a new Blackberry phone, a HTC phone or anyone of those touchy smartphones? Well, if you wanna get your hands on a brand new phone by AT&T, here's something for you. We got across the a la carte of AT&T to be released soon.

November 7th, 2005 Have you ever tried to configure your ADSL Modem to automatically connect to the internet without requiring to connect from a computer? Are you a BSNL Broadband user? I have played without success with the ADSL Modem manual before I found this gem on BSNL site. Full Screen View Link Few Tips: You may not want to keep the default IP address of 192.168.1.1 for the DSL Router.

October 20th, 2007 Modern DSL modems by default allows you to establish a DSL link through them to provide internet connectivity. The actual connection is handled by software running on your computer.

July 22nd, 2007 I am going to describe a simple no-brainer way to share your BSNL Dataone Broadband internet connection over wireless network. The same principles can be used with other broadband connections too.

April 22nd, 2007 BSNL DataOne provides software for connecting to Linux. However I found that you can setup much easier and without using their custom software.

May 18th, 2005 An excellent article describing Blackberry architecture and two application models (The browser-based model or Custom Java Application). The browser-based model allows developers to focus on developing back-end content in a standard markup language, such as the Wireless Markup Language (WML) or the compact Hypertext Markup Language (cHTML).

July 2nd, 2007 Here is a simple one line change which will make your webpages viewable well on iPhone and Blackberry. Add the following to your HTML HEAD section: <meta name="viewport" content="width=320"> Apple is using the following on their RSS reader website: <meta name = "Viewport" content = "maximum-scale=1.6,width=320" > The other parameters you can experiment with: initial-scale (first loaded scale), user-scalable (boolean), minimum-scale (default 0.25), maximum-scale (default 1.6).

February 24th, 2009 Blackberry is bringing out some of the popular games for free this weekend. These apps will be downloadable for free.

June 6th, 2007 Our DSL link, provided by BSNL (aka World's crappiest broadband service), was down yesterday causing enormous hardship. However today when it came back up, I could connect it using Windows (yeah, we still have couple of spare laptops lying around) but not on Linux.

September 1st, 2007 eBox platform provides a mini-debian installation along with its modules to allow you to provide and manage network services on your corporate network. The key capabilities includes support for multiple external network interfaces with load balancing, traffic shaping, transparent proxy, firewall, content filters, DNS (domain name server), NTP (time server), mail server, Jabber Instant Messaging server, SAMBA for file sharing, DHCP and more.

March 3rd, 2009 Streaming radios are already an in thing for the generation that belongs to us. You don't need anything but a mobile phone or laptop these days.

October 20th, 2007 In many location, including but definitely not limited to India, single ADSL / Cable connections can be unreliable and also may not provide sufficient bandwidth for your purposes. One way to increase reliability and bandwidth of your internet connection is to distribute the load (load balancing) using multiple connections.

July 29th, 2007 Update: Tata Indicom Broadband Connection SUCKS! My current impression is that Tata Indicom Broadband SUCKS whenever there is any downtime and there are many. My connection is down for 7 days! I have called everyday their customer service number ( 60607070 ) and everytime they responds that it is in progress.