This is something I’ve wanted to blog about since eons now. I’m stumped as to why Nokia cannot correct this on their phones with a firmware update. All the v3 phones I’ve used from the N95 onwards have had this bug.

The first image shows the screenshot of a contact. Note the icon that appears next to the number, to denote a landline number. Now, if I go ahead and call this number, I’d obviously have this number in the call history. Navigate to the call history and now check the log. The contact now has a mobile phone icon! This IMO, is very irritating, and misleading to say the least.

Lets assume I get a missed call from a contact for whom I have multiple details, including a mobile phone number and a landline number. By looking at the call log, how am I supposed to figure out what number did I get the call from? The different icons are there to identify the type of number, in the first place. This bug totally defeats the purpose.

I wonder if Nokia is listening?

Right, Nokia seems to be doing a boatload of firmware updates this week. The N97, E71, E66, E51 and what not. Tried my luck yesterday, and sure enough, the Nokia E63 had an updated v200.21.012 posted. Duly upgraded, here is what I’ve observed, yet.

Looks like quite a bit of Ovi integration is happening, with Ovi Contacts being added to the already present FIles on Ovi. Ovi contacts is now integrated within the contacts application, and there are a few new widgets for Facebook, MySpace and Youtube. There seem to be a few updates to the themes, with ‘Black Personal’, “Black Business’, ‘White Personal’ and ‘White Business’ being added.

Keep in mind that the E63 does not support user data preservation, so please backup your phone before updating.

Gmail’s menu above the inbox. Now, I’m wondering, how easy is it for someone to accidentally mark a mail as spam instead of archiving it? Should it not have read Archive, Mark as read, Report Spam, and Delete – in that order?

I’ve blogged previously about how I hate dual boot configurations. I prefer the safer alternative, running a virtual machine on your parent system, running virtually whatever OS you want inside this VM.
I chanced upon Virtualbox as a good free alternative to Virtual PC 2007. Installed, booted up an ISO of Ubuntu 8.10 and after a bit of tweaking, this was the result. Efficient utilization of the dual monitor setup, if you look at the screenshot. The only flipside, I had a memory Utilization of about 2.14GB with Vista and Ubuntu running side by side. Processor Utilization was a measly 15% on the XPS.

For all you Virtual Machine junkies out there, check out VirtualBox, highly recommended!

I’ve finally gotten over my obsession with customizing my desktop, the latest being this. Figured out, its not worth the performance hit, even though the XPS should be able to handle it comfortably. So, end result, I’m back to the plain jane Vista look, patching the theme files to have a super-transparent theme, with no widgets and the likes on the Desktop.

The only program that seems to hog memory perenially, is Firefox, though…

Alright, the real purpose of this shitty post is to check whether Twitter gets automatically pinged when I click submit..

Update: - It does!