Posted on July 21, 2008, 6:04 pm, by Mayank Jain (makuchaku).
The atmosphere was electrifying at Proto4 – and the talks were doing everything to make the conference even more interesting! The presenting startups didn’t got much time to attend the conference talks – we were quickly rushed for the rehersals which were to prepare us for the upcoming showcase on 2nd day of the event. [...]
Posted on May 27, 2008, 5:18 am, by Mayank Jain (makuchaku).
Ever since my bug list for ApnaBill.com started to go down, I was worried that what am I going to do in all the free time which will suddenly be created. So much so, I was even creating unnecessary tasks and them scratching them out upon realizing that they are just not needed – sure [...]
Posted on October 17, 2007, 2:18 am, by Mayank Jain (makuchaku).
I had to run an IE only app in office today but didnt wanted to boot into Windows! Two reasons for that I hate Windows I have forgotten my login password from past 3 weeks Ask google on what can be done for the situation & it’ll redirect you to a script called ies4linux. This [...]
Posted on June 24, 2007, 6:56 am, by Mayank Jain (makuchaku).
No, I am not connected to any Wifi access point – its a plain old GPRS connection from Idea Cellular!!! I took this screenshot a few days ago when I managed to stream a full 12 MB video off the GPRS connection! The speeds I was getting were mind boggling – averaging 15K per second, [...]
Posted on May 15, 2007, 12:38 pm, by Mayank Jain (makuchaku).
Being on the day’s Page 3 brings a different feeling all together! Check out the Reader’s Speak coloumn! Direct link to access the Epaper & this is what I had said – I had thought that everyone would have a same thinking – but oddly enough, the others had a different opinion to sound. Hmm!
Posted on May 10, 2007, 6:28 pm, by Mayank Jain (makuchaku).
I’ve been searching like mad – all across the Mobile showrooms in Pune for any signs of E61i – but without any luck. Until just now, out of nowhere, thought of checking a hit on EBay.in & to my surprise, this dude is selling it for 24k, which seems like a 2k more than what [...]
Posted on April 7, 2007, 7:28 pm, by Mayank Jain (makuchaku).
Just spoke to Gaurav & found out that he’s enterpreneur’d http://www.hostcurry.com with a friend. & truly speaking, I’m really impressed. It takes more than just a business plan to start something like this – courage, time & ability to face an eventuality of heavy losses (personal & financial). I’ve been planning to start something but [...]
Posted on February 27, 2007, 6:37 pm, by Mayank Jain (makuchaku).
10-Jul-2005 – when I had registered makuchaku.in domain (infact it was a sponsored domain), I always dreamt of being on top of google search when “Mayank Jain” was searched. But MAYANKJAIN.{COM,FI} were already taken & since they were a direct hit for the search term, they always occupied a place above my website – & [...]
Posted on February 15, 2007, 1:18 am, by Mayank Jain (makuchaku).
Dear Mayank Jain, We are pleased to inform you that you are now part of the GNOME Foundation Membership. You are now eligible to become a candidate for election and to vote in the annual Board of Directors elections held each November… All the hard work – bugs, patches & keymaps I’ve been contributing to [...]
Posted on February 12, 2007, 2:39 pm, by Mayank Jain (makuchaku).
I just saw on Mobile Gazette that Nokia might be announcing the Nokia E90 Communicator later today at the 3GSM World Congress. Wow – it can be a definite successor to my E61. I have not seen much of E90 (its yet to be announced & Nokia was keeping its release under tight security), but [...]