SMS email alert in mobile phone

One of the major disadvantage while handling e-mail services is that we need to check mails by intervals. Most people checks their account more than once a day. Some people start up their computer to only check the e-mail and finds that 'No e-mail today' and continue their frustrating work after a couple of hours. This type of services are 'pull-email' type services. Conversely, there's a 'push e-mail' service which will send the mail to your mobile devices. But this service is not available in all mobile phones or services. So here is a method which can be used virtually in any mobile phone. This service will alert you whenever you get a new mail with some information about the sender. The alert is done by sending an SMS. Unfortunately, this method can only be applied in INDIA. Sometimes, all mails receiving in your mailbox including spam may not be important to alert. So by setting up your gmail, you can select which type of mails should be alerted.
I assume you have a gmail account. If not, either you can make a new gmail account or a similar approach will work on your other accounts also- explore it. Moreover, you need to have an account in way2sms.com . Register on way2sms (The service of way2sms is currently limited to India only). You will get your own free email address in way2sms domain.
Setup in gmail account
Go Settings->Filters
Click 'Create a new filter'. Then a box will appear which shows that which type of mails are to be forwarded to way2sms.com. For example, if you type user@gmail.com in the 'from line-box', all mails from user@gmail.com will be filtered. There are several other options also. You can test your filter by clicking 'Test Search'.
Click 'Next Step' button. Then a new box will appear. Check 'Forward it to' option and enter your way2sms email address.
Click 'Create Filter'.
Now onwards, all your filtered mails will be sent to your way2sms email.
Set up in way2sms account
Log in to your way2sms account.
Click 'Mail Alerts' link in the top right corner of the page. Here you can activate mail alerts for 14 days. After 14days, it will be automatically deactivated. So it is needed to activate the alerts in every two weeks. You can deactivate it at any time.
Done. Now you will get an alert SMS whenever you receive a new e-mail.

Free anonymous email now for security

If you want to register in a website which is untrusted and you are not intend to reveal your identity to them, but the website need your email ID and it is mandatory. What do you do? In such cases it is good idea is to have a temporary email which lives only for few days or months and will expire. But for some instant access, it is necessary. You are allowed to read incoming mails till the account expires.
Go here.
You just need to make your account by entering your user name. password is optional. you also need to specify the date which the account expires. Nothing more and you have done.

Here comes Octave Online

Before going to read more check whether you know about Octave.

From the inspiration of my last post about the online Python, I searched internet for the online octave. Luckily, it was a success. All scripting languages or tools are feasible to convert to its online version, even though it doesn't exist for the most. Come back to Octave online. I don't know whether it can be called as octave online, but they calls it Math calculator which supports octave. I was successful in executing simple matrix calculations in the Octave online. Anyway, it is the time to dive into Octave online. You just need to click here.
The parent website http://www.online-utility.org/ offers other free online utilities. Search and explore more.

Online Python

My friends always complaint that they don't have an environment for learning python. They have internet connectivity in the college, but not having the permission to install python interpreter on those machines. So they satisfied by just reading the tutorial only and not by doing python. But here is the solution. Online Python Interpreter is an online python terminal and you can enter python commands as like in your shell. The virtual browser shell is a little bit slower and and again slower for slower internet connections. The speed is entirely depend upon your internet connection and no way to increase because entire python engine is on the server side. But I am sure it will be a boon for the beginners and net-book users. Current limitations are:

• Can't define functions or classes.
• Can't run a script
  

Click to enter online python interpreter
Click to view the ubuntu forum discussion about online python interpreter

PHET science simulations for students

PhET interactive simulations - Fun, interactive, research-based simulations of physical phenomena from the PhET project at the University of Colorado.

I found those simulations were good in today's eduction- thanks for university of Colorado. Most of them are intended for Upper and High school students and pre- graduate students. However, if you just spend your time in experimenting with it, I am sure you get something new. Phet interactive simulations create a virtual lab environment. It's just a feeling that to enter into a physics or chemistry lab in a college. You can do anything in your own lab. Nothing to fear. No more comments from teachers...
One more advantage is that, you only need a java powered web browser. You can browse through different lab environments. If you like PhET virtual lab, you can download it for offline usage. Linux(80MB), Windows(97MB) and Mac OS(85MB) installation supported.

Browse phet simulations
Download phet for offline usage.

Mouse gestures for Mozilla Firefox

Mozilla Firefox one of the leading power of internet browsers, shows its real power and beauty only when the appropriate add on-s are installed. You can download and use them from Firefox add on page. There are a plenty of add-ons available and no need to specify which is good because it greatly depend upon your tastes. Recently I installed an add-on named All-in-one gestures and I feel it very interesting. You can install by clicking 'add to Firefox' button as you usually do while installing add-on. There provision to change the gesture pattern in the 'preferences' mode. Mouse gesture means that, some operations you done in Firefox such as 'back', 'forward', 'refresh' etc can be done simply by moving your mouse. I experienced no problem with both Windows and Linux platforms. There are tons of interesting add-ons like this. It is really fun to experiment with Firefox add-ons.

Hackthissite.org A hacker's university!

Hackthissite.org seems like a hacker's university. This website provides a good stuffs useful for hackers (crackers also). The hackers community is really powerful and active. Only you have to do is facing different types of hacking problems and find a quick and easy way to solve it. If you are a perl programmer or a javascript hacker, it is a plus. Innovative php users get the points more. A deep knowledge in html is not needed. Above all, the most important thing is your common sense. The problem phase is broadly classified in to:

• Basic missions
• Realistic missions
• Application missions
• Programming missions
• Extbasic missions
• Javascript missions
• Stego missions
• Irc missions

personally I felt basic and javascript is good for beginners, but advanced problems like programming missions are needed to eat more points. Earning points is not for just earning points, but it will give you some reputation. You are ranked by your points:

Pentitioner-0 Points
Script Kiddie-700 points
Apprentice-1700 points
Wiseman-3200 points
Master-5400 points
Hacker-7000 points
Elite-8400 points
Sage-10000 points

W3schools help you a lot in learning web programming. Navigate to hackthissite.org and show who you are.

Bhuvan, still have a lot of void

ISRO(Indian Space Research Organization), launched Bhuvan , a Google earth for India (But more than Google earth) after the successful launching of Chandrayan-1. In the first sight, it is like Google earth, but tons of information is there and covering almost all over India. Bhuvan is a strong rival for Google earth, and seems better view than Google earth and have some good features, and is more informative. Currently, Bhuvan works only on Win32 platform. You need a program (about 15MB) and a need a good broad band internet. Bhuvan works fairly well in my system with 2GB RAM. All you need to play with Bhuvan is included in their website.
Bhuvan has enough tools to find exact area, length and other terrestrial info. Bhuvan works well even though you have low bandwidth network because it is designed such a way that it covers almost Indians. I personally don't know Bhuvan supports current GPS systems.

Try Ruby on your browser!

If you are ready to spent a 15 minutes of free time, it's enough to learn ruby. Ruby is Japanese brain and quite easy also. It is famous in its simplicity. You need not install ruby to try it, you can do it in your browser- Not joke!
Just navigate to the official website of ruby.


On the sidebar, you have a wonderful tutorial "Ruby in twenty minutes" to start with. Put a click on "Try ruby on browser" -circled in the above screenshot. Then you will get a command prompt like screen on your browser. Then now ruby is ready to what you want!
If you are beginner, type 'help' on the prompt and hit enter. Then the 'virtual' ruby navigate you through an interactive tutorial which is very useful for beginners. The tutorial takes only about 15minutes.