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W indows phone may not have picked up that much pace as Android phones has, but from my personal experience they are one of its kinds. Though Nokia is the only company left to produce phones with this operating system, still there are many buyers existing may be because of the brand Nokia has. I have been using Nokia 920 since one year now, and to be honest I am quite satisfied with the phone. Some features of the phone are not as straight forward as it is for Android phones and I had to research and tweak with the phone to get them done. Some of the functions or shortcuts which do needs a mention are specified below. You will get all these shortcuts if you Google them, but my intention was to club all of them together so that this page becomes a one stop for all such shortcuts. Disabling auto complete Well auto complete is good while writing texts to your friends but to some extent. At some times auto complete feature will simply annoy you since it tries to guess each and...

O ur bags were packed, tickets were booked and we were ready to go on a trip to the Mountains of North India. We were a group of 15 people all set to make a difference waiting at Howrah railway station for the signal to get green. Suddenly the sound of the Engine hooting came all across and our face was covered with smile. Smile of Joy, Smile of seeing new place, Smile of being together.  I was only a kid, perhaps 8 years of age when I got this opportunity to go visit a new place with my parents. Along with us were 3 more families, my father’s office colleagues.   Excitement was truly visible on all our face as the train passed by fields, cities and many small stations getting closer to our destiny, Shimla. After some tiresome train journey, we finally reached Kalka and took a bus to Shimla. Days passed and finally our 10 day trip came to an end. We were there back at Howrah station bidding goodbyes to each other. A moment of sadness was all around but the wait for...

      V elocity has nowadays gained a lot of respect in web development and you will for sure find this language in most of the places. In such a scenario, if the language is not detected by Eclipse then that becomes a huge drawback and also difficult to work. There are scads of plugins available but I used Veloeclipse and it is working good. So you can as well go ahead and try this velocity editor. Steps to install Veloeclipse in your Eclipse: Step 1: I am hoping you have your Eclipse open. Go to Help --> Install New Software. A new window appears. Step 2: In the new window you will find an Add button. Click on it and you will get one more window. Here you will have two options. Fill them as shown. Name: veloeclipse Location: http://veloeclipse.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/update/ Step 3: Once you click OK on the previous screen, you will get a new window which will have an option to select. Select the box and click Next . Step 4: T...

   S ometimes the requirement comes when you have to use a third party plugin in your project which is not present in any public repositories. In such a scenario it is advised to deploy this jar file into your repository and then use it as a normal dependency in your Maven project. This is helpful as the jar file becomes available to a lot of projects in future and if any further development work on the same project is done in future, then the dependency is resolved easily. It's just a matter of running a maven command and you are ready to go. In case you want to install this plugin into your local repository(.m2 folder) then the command would be different from the normal deployment into your public repository. For Local Maven Repository(.m2 folder): mvn install:install-file  -Dfile=<path to the jar file> -DgroupId=<groupId you want to provide>  -DartifactId=<Unique name of the plugin> -Dversion=<version of the plugin you want to...

Well this requirement is quite well known. Its many time a requirement when you want to set up a link in a web page which points to a particular topic of the same web page or some other web page. The looks like a very tough job to achieve but believe me it is as easy as filling a glass with water. I will quickly guide you through the steps to achieve this task. Note: You must be the owner of the page. Or at least you should be able to embed an html snippet in the destination page where your link should point. Lets take a simple example and demonstrate how this works. Say I have two html pages viz., page1.html and page2.html . I intend to have a link in page1.html which would point to a particular topic in page2.html. Page1.html <html>     <body>         <a href="file:///C:/Users/satyamr/Desktop/page2.html">Link</a>     </body> </html> This Link now takes me to the top of pa...

       'R onny...... Ronny.... Wake up'. I could hear a fading voice calling my name to wake up. I somehow opened my eyes and looked at my watch. It was 10:50 PM. Then I could figure out that it was my roommate waking me up to have dinner. My eyes did not like this disruption and forced me to close them again. Within seconds this friend of mine started calling me again and this time handed me my dinner. With no choice left, I woke up and had my dinner. There is a small incident before this one which needs to be depicted before I proceed further. Four friends including me decided to share an apartment as we worked in the same company, were friends for the past 6 months and this would indeed save some bucks for us to enjoy. Once, there was a long vacation of 3 days (Once you join office, 3 days will be like 1 month holiday) and everyone was planning for some trip or the other. But for us it was a normal holiday which meant sitting back home and watchi...

    P hew !! After lot of postponing, I finally went for the OCPJP Exam (formerly SCJP) and luckily I got through it. Yes I was quite lucky enough to pass the exam, though the percentage I scored is pretty low compared to most of the people out there. But still I am quite happy with what I have. Scads of tips to score well in the exam will be easily accessible on doing some search in Google, so I am not going for anything like that. This is mostly about how I went for it and finally came out with flying colors. I thought to write this blog just to give a boost to all those people who are planning to write the exam and also those who scored less and are in the notion that they ruined it completely. If you have passed the exam, then you are good. Oracle and previously Sun made it pretty sure that only if you know the basics of the language, you will pass the exam. But nowadays you can get hold of so many dumps which will fetch you more than 95% easily. The ques...