Me, my phone and my calendar!

Recently, I got the entry level HTC smartphone for myself. The 3400i is a VFM phone with all the bells and whistles one would need in an entry level smartphone. Whenever I change a phone, the biggest headache is moving around the contacts and the calendar information. I tend to forget and rely a lot on the calendar to remind me about important events like birthdays, marriage annivs and the likes.

I was looking forward to a dreary timespan trying to update my calendar on the phone for all those important events. Its just today that I read about GoogleSync for mobile phones. Via GoogleSync one can sync their googlemail contacts and calendar events immediately with their smartphone! I was sceptical but it was a total breeze. I just had to enter my gmail address details in ActiveSync (yes mine is a Windows Mobile phone - no bricks please :P) and lo-and-behold my gmail contacts plus all calendar events were uploaded wirelessly onto my mobile! Nice, I say :D

What are you waiting for, go get your mobile synced up!

FC10 woes

So my last posting mentioned the reasons why I upgraded my laptop from FC8 to FC10. But the recent events have left me flabbergasted :(

Last week, the automatic update system informed me of the availability of a new kernel (kernel 2.6.27.9-159.fc10) and I dutifully installed the upgrades. The machine stopped booting up since then! It would directly go to the GRUB prompt and nothing else would occur. 

I thought I will just boot up using a CD, mount my drive and edit grub.conf to start using the machine again. I did so and thankfully the Linux partition started booting up again normally. But in this process my Windows Vista partition got totally messed up (again due to the grub manipulations I would think) and goes into a recovery and rescue mode on every bootup :(. Attempts to mount the partition from within Linux also comes out with an error! 

Now darned if I had taken a backup ever!  To summarize, I have lost my windows partition along with all the data on it and am now in the process of a re-install of WinVista. That this laptop is where I do my work on is what makes matters worse. 

Lesson learnt - do not upgrade to a bleeding edge technology unless it has settled down or you BLEED like me. Guess I should have gone to FC9 first...