Berkeley Kite Festival 2008

Yesterday i went to Berkeley Kite festival. This was a very colourful event, i was seeing big kites first time in my life. Various Kite companies demonstrated various kites made of paper, bamboo, they also organize Kite competitions, hundreds of kids were enjoying the free kite making. There was also lots of food stalls. Thai, Fish, seafood, sushi, corn on the cob, pretzels, Ben & Jerry ice cream. I enjoyed Ben & Jerry ice cream.

You can check out the various kites images at my flickr page

Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, San Jose

I got chance to visit Egyptian Museum in San Jose, CA. I was amazed to see this museum, they had Mummys, statues, history etc. They have very big collections of old history. I was fascinated after learning Egyptian history. I highly recommend to everyone to visit this place if they are in Bay area. I took lots of photos of Statues, articles. You can check out the various collections photos at my flickr page. And to know more about this museum, click here

What is Symbian Signing?

Symbian signed is, its application signing program that promotes best practice in Symbian OS content and application development. The program tests applications against industry-agreed criteria in support of network operator and mobile manufacturer requirements.

Symbian Signed offers three signing options to support the different needs of Symbian OS, these options are

Test House Certification: Suitable for ISVs with a small number of applications. Applications are submitted to the Symbian Signed portal and tested by an independent third party test house.
Self-Certification: Suitable for ISVs with more than 15 of their own applications that require Symbian Signed status. ISVs or network operators certify their own applications through the re-use of internal, recognized quality assurance processes.
Publisher Certification: Suitable for application publishers, Symbian OS licensees and network operators or any public software distribution portal owner. The publisher tests and certifies the application using its own quality assurance processes on behalf of the originating ISV.

Symbian Signed typically guarantees that a signed application

• No files remains on the phone when the application is uninstalled
• The application only creates files on the drive where it has installed unless the user has explicitly given permission to write files elsewhere.
• The application can be closed thought the applications task list.
• The application detects low memory conditions and behaves correctly. Typically it should not start under particularly low memory conditions as this may compromise other key functionality of the phone.
• The application pauses when necessary, for example when there’s an incoming call.
• The application does not crash when storage memory is full.
• The application consumes too much system resources
• The application has been signed against a valid developer identity certificate.

Samsung Blackjack 2

This is one of my favorite phone. Blackjack 2 is light, compact, slick with great call quality, what else you need from a smartphone. It runs on windows mobile 6.0.

Samsung BlackJack i617 aka Blackjack 2 features

* 3G Broadband
* Built-in GPS
* 2.0 MP Camera/Camcorder
* Bluetooth
* Microsoft DirectPush & XpressMail