GPRS Settings for Idea cellular on HTC Hero

I struggled quite a bit to set  the gprs up and going on my HTC hero. I use Idea cellular in Maharashtra. So I am gonna do you a favor and tell you how to set it up. First call your customer care and ask them to activate gprs for your number. They will ask your handset type to send you the gprs settings and when you say HTC Hero thier minds go blank(am assuming this is because it is a new model and not yet in thier database). Any way tell them it is HTC, a PDA.

You will get a message that will tell you how to enter the settings manual. basically I did this for my Hero.

Menu->Settings->Wire less controls->Mobile Network Settings-> Acess Point Names-> New APN

it will bring up a menu. In that enter APN Name as “internet” (without the quotes ofcourse). Thats it, leave all the other fields blank. Then Press Menu->Save. Thats it!!!!!!!! You are all set to enjoy GPRS on your phone.

Happy Surfing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My HTC Hero

I got a HTC Hero last week. I was debating between iPhone 3g (not 3gs as it is not available in India yet, you suck Apple!!!).  But what made me go for HTC hero is probably that it has Andriod and iPhone 3g is so last year. Hero is brand new model. However if iPhone 3gs was available for a simlar price I guess I would have got that.

I am happy with my Hero. It isnt laggy like they say all over the internet. Thats because my hero has the ROM update installed already. So I didnt face any performance issues. However for fun I did root my Hero and installed Modaco ROM v2. It was fun. I dont notice any performance improvement with Modaco but then like I said my Hero had an optimized ROM already. I bet I could never do such cool stuff with an iPhone 3gs which is locked as hell. So I am happy with my choice. The music player is surprisingly very good. Love it. The browser is adorable. You can pinch and zoom just like the iPhone. That’s what I always wanted in a phone, a easy to use browser and this one does the job perfectly.

Now what do I hate about it? The camera. Dont be fooled by its 5 mega pixels. I had a k790i sony erricsson before and it’s camera was fantastic and it had a powerful flash too. The Hero takes lousy photos and it has no flash. A real drawback since I love taking photos impromtu. Other than that I find this phone perfect.

Oh my new baby boy..

Ha Gotcha..I have no new baby. I find it quite incredible that any body would willlingly have one of those babies. For one thing they are needy as hell and you cant even do anything about. You have got to give them all the attention they demand. They stink like hell and fill up the whole place with baby poop stink. And well I suppose the cuteness makes up for all the mess they make. And then they turn two years old. So there goes all the cuteness and you have put up with the bratiness till they are like 12. Through thier teens they will be moody and are probably plotting to kill you.  Like Stewie from Family Guy. Is it the social pressure that drives people to make babies? I know how powerful that can be. I cannot understand why any man or woman would want to raise a baby if it isnt for social acceptance? People can do some pretty crazy stuff to gain social approval. Children are a status symbol. To proclaim to the world that you are indeed fertile. This probably not a very good post and I cant be bothered to write more…

A mental adolescent

Vicky, Christina and Barcelona. Woody Allen is dirty old man. Christina is a slut who takes no time to fallen in and out of love.  Vicky is the one with values and then there’s a predictable middle (or old) aged woman who still loves he husband BUT NOT IN LOVE WITH HIM ANYMORE. Can there be a more mundane, psuedo-intellectual story line?

Not. But Christina is strangely typical of many young women and a few men that are internally damned to a condition of dissatisfaction. But this is a wrong kind of movie. Why? Because it makes it seem like it is okay to be slutty and an irresponsible one at that. Sure there is nothing wrong in being slutty as long as one is aware that they are a slut. But masking sluttiness under any guise is not acceptable. Irresponsibility is not cool. Bad movie, you dirty old man, Bad movie.

My acuvue advanced for astigmatism lenses

I was using Soflens 66  toric from B and L. I thought I would try out acuvue advanced for astigmatism. Boy do these stink. My vision isnt good at all. Though they are extremely comfortable to wear and I dont feel like I have something in my eyes, the vision isnt good, no sir. Its like wearing extremely comfortable shoes that are meant to protect you from cold or whatever but they dont. Even though soflens 66 were not as comfortable as these, they were comfy enough. Plus the vision was great with them. I would take them any day over these rotten ones.

My new Toric Soft Contact lenses – Update

I am impressed with my new Baush and Laumb contact lenses(Soflens toric). Not only it has corrected my astigmatism(which the normal sperical ones never could) I am able to wear them comfortably for 9 hours. After that it is I admit a little bit of a bitch because I am major protien depositor. They just tend to become foggier towards the end. The one thing I do everyday is clean them properly with tons of solution. It really makes a major difference. Clean them half assed way and they are sure to to fuck up your vision the next day. Otherwise they are pretty well behaved babies. I am 75% happy with them. I think they could be better. especilly if they could let in more oxygen and resist protien deposits, they would be perfect. Well I am soon gonna be trying Acuvue Advanced for astigmatism which are the latest Silicon Hydrogel types. Let me see if they are any better.

Are toric soft lenses lenses any good?

I have been using them today and so far so good. I suffer from astimatism along with near sightedness. I have a cylindrical power of -1 in one eye(spherical -4.5) and a -1.5 in the other eye(spherical -3.00). I perviously used daily disposable spherical only contact lenses for a while and found them very uncomfortable. The vision was never clear enough plus I seem to deposit a lot of protien on the lenses which kind of made things worse. Now with these brand new toric lenses (1 month disposable Baush and Laumb softlens) I feel I may be able to wear these babies. Ofcourse today is only the first day so I dont know how long the comfort will last. On the positive side, my astigmatism problem is fully addressed by these babies. No problem at all in the vision department. However whether I will be able to wear these all for more than 10 hours is something that remains to be seen. I am not sure whether the protien deposition problem is still there. Well I will try these for the next fifteen days and update the status again. I am keeping my fingers crossed(I really hate my glasses, they are totally unflattering and make me look like a nerd).

How / why to use a deodorant?

A deodorant as the name implies is used to deodorize your human smelly self. Humans by nature tend to produce sweat underarms which is supposed to be attractive to the opposite sex ( or same sex if the other person is gay ).  However Americans, the crazy nuts of the world, decided to sell something that could make billions just by shaming people into thinking that it is socially unaaceeptzble to smell your natura self. They made deodorants and convinced people through a lot of advertizing that “To smell is sin”. It is similar to the teeth-whitening propanganda that came in much later. The teeth whitening principle says each american worth his/her teeth  should have excessively arctificial looking extremely white teeth. I actually fell for both of them. The teeth first ofcourse. White teeth can infact make you look a lot more beautiful. Just make sure they do not go to the extreme American white. They should be white enough and yet not so much that they look American white(which looks too white and hence silly).

The deodorant is actually  to used only under the arms and NOT over your clothes. I never knew this until two days ago. My undergarnets (the vest) always looked yellow under the arms by the constant attack of ssweaty bacteria mixture and it stained permanently.  But now the I use a deodorant just after shower everday and there is nolonger that yellow stains under the arms on my vest. Thank you stupid Americans, you get a lot of things right by fluke. Just waiting to see how long stupid Americans get lucky.

Shahrukh Khan is detained at a US Airport

And that is a big huge fucking news for some reason in the Indian media. And Shahrukh apparently is crying and throwing tantrums like a baby over it. Well Shahrukh dude, you are not the first one to be detained nor do I think it has got anything to do with your Khan surname. Its just that you are a needy, little, self-entitled babboon like countless other Bollywood stars. Stop being a baby. Grow Up dude. Nobody said life’s perfect. And you certainly have more than your share of perfections. So yeah, you were questioned and detained. Happens. And the Indian media, Please give it a rest. It really is no big deal.

Chandamama – A new avatar?

When I was a kid I used to read Chandamama, kiddie magazine, in Kannada. I could not get enough of that. I have very fond memories of that. Especially Vikram and betal. I remember that image very clearly the prince Vikram in red clothing carrying an ugly Betal. And it had many imaganitive stories to cute talking animals, jealous siblings, the good guy vs bad guy and well you know a lot of stuff for a imaginative kid like moi.

Cut to 2009, Chandama comes in a Larger format. It has some slick illustrations, simple stories. I read in English now, so its an icing on the cake. But the heres the best part, Chandamama has evovled into a more slick magazine that I find very appealing. It has some stories that look like they have been taken out of everyday life and put in cartoon or story form. I would dare say it has evolved even better than Tinkle(Tinkle was and will always be my best kiddie magazine though). Way to go chandamama. So if you want your kid to read stories I would strongly recoomend Chandamama. Alhtough some stories may actually be a little too sphosticated for a child, nevertheless it is like reading harry potter. You know it has elements that impress both a kid and an adult quite admirably..,