Author Archives: Justin Joseph

Song influence ;)

Today when I listened to the following two songs, I could see, how similar they were, or rather identical!! Note by note. It was Ambika who pointed out this to me, and I was very happy that, she made this comparison “Bhagyada Lakshmi Baramma – S.Janaki” “Vannathi Puzhayude” from Kaliyattam

Sim swap alert

SIM SWAP ALERT: Airtel never calls you to do a SIM Swap by sending an SMS ‘SIM <20 digit number> to 121’ WITHOUT having a NEW SIM. Beware of such calls as it may lead to banking or financial fraud/misuse of your mobile number. Got the above mentioned message, today morning. Think about it, people… Read More »

Trojan Attack on Android

Today read a report in the newspaper that the app with I regularly use for scanning images and converting to PDF- Camscanner has a trojan in it ! I was like WTF? It had over 100 million installs and trends on the Android home page. I had used this app several times and never doubted… Read More »

The Vanishing act

In any major magic show, the vanishing act is given a lot of importance. Most magicians pride themselves if they pull this one-off. Its the scenario where an object or person is made to disappear ( or they are shown to disappear ) at the command of the magician and the audience is left with… Read More »

Scr cpy

Found this gem on github Immediately took a fork out of it https://github.com/justinjoseph123/scrcpy

Doctor Database

Doctor database is avaialbe in India and is provided by several websites like https://dbshop.in/database/doctors and http://www.doctorsdirectoryindia.com/doctor According to dbshop, these are the advantages of having access to such a database Hospitals can get benefited the most. They can appoint doctors depending on the departments and their requirement. NGO’s carrying out medical camps can use this… Read More »

Youtube video conversion using vlc

In VLC, head to Media > Open Network Stream. Paste the YouTube link in the box and click Play. Under Tools, click Codec Information. In the box that says Location, right-click the block of text and click Select All. Copy this text to your clipboard. Go back to your browser and paste the link in… Read More »

Hunting for text editors

Looking for a component that could input formatted text and give out HTML text. As you know, normal textbox within html, does not support formatted text, like bold, italics and so on. Typical applications : Formatted text while sending email, a cooking recipe application which accepts formatted text and so on After a bit of… Read More »

Melvin – A great entrepreneur

Melvin has always been always been a source of inspiration for me. And now when I saw his entrepreneurship skills being praised and published in ‘The Hindu’ newspaper, which is a national daily, along with this photograph, my joy knew no bounds. When I read the article, I thought about all the hours he spent… Read More »