Prevent your signature from showing up in your email to blog post

I recently started evaluating mobile blog posting apps. But the omnipresent Google just isn't as 'there' when it comes to my recently acquired Blackberry. But given Blackberry's superb email handling abilities the email-to-blog option seemed just what I needed. The idea is simple - compose what you need in an email, attach whatever you want and hit send! Blogger automatically converts it into a post. Perfect!

Setup was easy, but the first problem I've faced was that my signature turns up in my blog post! The signature is automatically added as a part of Blackberry's email settings. And there's no way that I know of to turn it off for a particular email (Groan!).

But here's a way to stop that signature from showing up in your post. Simply add a #end at the end of your email.

It's that simple! Happy posting :)

My vi settings files - *still* avialable for all.

Wow, It's been nearly 6 years since I uploaded the first version of _vimrc (vi settings file). And near 11 years since I first started using it . By now I have used it on nearly every platform I've worked on - and those have been quite a few.

And still there isn't a single day that I don't discover something new I can do with Vi(m). Surely, there is no better proof that this little application has stood the test of time.

Translating articles with Wikibhasha

The up-to-date article on the recent earthquake in Japan is a testament of Wikipedia’s ability to help bring together people from around the world to produce something useful – and fast! At the time of writing this post, the English version of this article is already being translated into a mind-boggling figure of over 48 unique languages! A tool that may perhaps makes this translation effort a bit faster – Wikibhasha from Microsoft Research.

My favourite portable applications

I am a big fan of portable applications.  Every time I download a new app, one of the first thing I check for is whether it has a portable version. And these days most popular tools do. I’ve often spoken about these and I thought I should put together a small list of the ones I absolutely cannot do without. So here they are!

How to avoid being phished.

Yes, I spelt that right. Phishing is actually a word :-) Internet-based banking has led to a substantial increase into internet based fraud. One popular method of extracting your private internet banking related details is through the use of “phishing” by email. Here’s a walk through of what such an attempt would look like. The idea is to learn to spot such attempts and remain safe.

Extracting Subtitles from a MKV

You have a .MKV (Matroska Video) file with built-in subtitles and you need to extract them to separate .SRT (Subtitles) file. Here’s how to do this quickly and easily.

Winamp, Android and WiFi

Here’s a quick guide to synchronizing files between Winamp and your Android phone – without any wires. Yes, you read that right – wireless ;-) Ordinarily, this would have needed you to connect your phone to your PC using a USB cable. But in our case we are going to use your home WiFi network. Here’s how to get started in less than 5 minutes.