Airtel landline Parallen double ringing support

I just came to know about Parallel Ringing support in Airtel Landline.


It allows to add another or land line number for parallel ringing. There is no extra charge for 'ringing'. But the call forwarding charges apply if the call is picked on the parallel number.

I have enabled it on my Home Land line. It is really an useful feature.

Google Voice has this as one of the features.

Airtel 1mbps plan 8gb plan

I was on 256kbps unlimited plan : 800Rs a month or 900Rs/month including taxes.

That's the best unlimited plan I could get below 1000Rs. Helpful for downloading movies/software and Linux Distro.But this plan is not you tube friendly. Most of the videos plans >256kbps speed and there are lot of jitters as expected.

I wanted to try out 1mbps plan: 800Rs with 8GB limit.

• I was aware of the bandwidth limit and avoided torrents for 1 month
• Youtube and and other video streaming sites were friendly for the 1st time :)
• Navigating and browsing through pages with lot of images was very fast. Could play sideshow of my picasa web albums from browser itself with out waiting for images to load.
• Downloaded some software Eclipse and Netbeans
• Did regular updates on my Ubuntu.
  
• It was good overal

But then, somehow I crossed the 8Gb ( Total usage was around 10GB) limit and ended up paying additional 1000Rs :(. So switched back to 256kbps. Unlimited plans works out best for me!

I am eagerly waiting for the day where I can get 1Mbps 'unlimited' for less than 1000Rs a month. But, that looks like a distant dream if we look at the recent trends in Broadband in India.

Free profile Scheduler/Switcher for Nokia N95/ S60 phones

I have been looking for a good profile scheduler for my Nokia N95 8GB,  for a long time and finally found one.

What is Profile scheduler/profile switcher?
Change profile from general to Meeting/Office based on time/day of the week. It's quite useful when you want a profile to be automatically changed to one during Office hours.

Download:

• Profile scheduler from DrJukka  for Symbion S60 phones.

• I chose the unsigned version instead of ad supported adronic version.
• Sign the application by visiting OpenSigned 
• Enter your phone's IMEI. Get it by keying *#06#
• Enter  the Email ID
• Select the unsigned application for upload
• Make sure you select the following options: SWEvent, ReadUserData , WriteUserData , UserEnvironment , ReadDeviceData , and WriteDeviceData.

• You'll receive link to download teh signed app to the email you specified
• Make sure you rename the file: remove "unsigend" from the the app. It doesn't make sense. But the app installed on my phone only after renaming the file.
• Install the app on your phone
• Start the application ( It is created under folder called "DrJukka" inside applications Menu/Folder). You may want to move that to different location and delete the DrJukka folder to keep the Folders neat.
• Create new schedules for your profiles and enjoy :)