Abhishek

Yesterday I was too anxious to update my iPhone firmware from 1.1.4 to 2.0.1 to access the Appstore. I was feeling left out in Techworld as I was not able to access that shiny new store Apple had opened for iPhone.

After my failed attempt to upgrade previously using the iClarified tutorial, I decided to give it a try again in daytime. This meant that I can lose important calls from people during daytime when I am upgrading! But I was determined to do it.

Well all did not go as expected and I was there with a dead brick for 2-3 hours. But I was only at fault. I was finding a new thing everytime I read the iClarified tutorial. Finally I got how to get your iPhone into DFU mode and that worked!

I was having new shiny fantastic 2.0.1 version in my first generation iPhone now. But now what? I did not see any EDGE option over there? oops!

So when I am not in wi-fi I can not access internet using my Vodafone Mobile Connect plan (VMC). It is not EDGE but it is slightly faster than a GPRS connection in India and is not that much costly to have. It does not give you great speed but it will work for checking mails, browsing sites and twittering from iPhone.

So now what to do? I was sleepless. I have to get my VMC up and running else there is no point of having that plan or there is no point of having upgraded version of firmware.

But where there is a will there is a way. I googled for sometime in using wi-fi connection at home and finally I found a solution

So if you are like me who is stuck with version 2.0.1 firmware in your iPhone 2G then follow these steps

1) Find a wi-fi spot and get your iPhone working

2) Open http://unlockit.co.nz

Click on Continue to Next Page

3) Indian Vodafone users click on Set Custom APN

4) Set Custom APN to www

5) Now it will ask you to download and install custom config file. It will create a new option called “Profile” in your iPhone. Go to Settings -> General -> Profile to remove the config.

Just restart the iPhone and you are ready to rock ‘n’ roll using Vodafone Mobile Connect (VMC) service.

I love iClarified and iPhone is the best ever phone I have ever used

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Well today is one of the best days of my life. I have become proud dad of a baby girl today. I have been married for more than 3 years now and timing could not have been better. My wife and I were looking for this day for so long and finally it has arrived.

Check out few first photos my cute baby at this link

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I never though I would write this but I think I have to because I am feeling too low today. Yesterday was a great day.

There was India vs Sri Lanka in Asia Cup final. There was British Grand Prix and above all there was Wimbeldon Final, Federer vs Nadal. What a day !

I was not excited about anything but this match. I had a great start of the day beating our traditional rivals in local cricket match. I performed great taking 6 wickets in 4 overs with a hattrick! (for those who does not know cricket it will be tough to understand)

I was upbeat about the final and our family was divided between Federer and Nadal. Well there was only one person on Nadal’s side and that was my youngest brother in law, Vivek. After some time Chintan and Anjali came over and both the team had one more supporter to them. Anjali was accompanying Vivek.

We had almost lost hope when Nadal beat Federer in 2 straight sets but still we were hanging there. In 3rd set rain came into play and play was suspended for long time. After that I have not seen the live match but wake up with a disappointment when I saw the score first thing in the morning.

I just love Federer’s game too much to believe this. He is a maestro in a true sense. I don’t think player like him will be born again. I don’t think I will be watching tennis this intensly once he retires. Well I just hope that he come back next year and take the title to beat every record of Sampras and Bjone Borg.

This is end of an Era in certain sense because now Federer will never be able to beat Bjone Borg’s record of 5 straight Wimbledon titles. He will have to share this record with him forever. He has lost the winning streak on grass which he might not be able to get back now.

But I am sure this is not an end to his greatness. He has many titles to won and many records to break. Long live Federer, Long live this Rivalry.

Signing off!

I am honoured to be featured in “Simply Gujarati”, supplement of India Today. India Today is one of the most prestigious magazines of India. Check out this link to know more about the article.

PS: it was fun to have a photo shoot in public

Yeah its hard to believe but it is true! I am featured in a book called “iFounders” by Abdul Jaleel. You can get the book here. Please download it and read about exciting journeys of Indian Startup Founders including me. It has mentioned only my name as founder of Rivals4Ever. But actually all my other friends (Nachiket, Sanket, Kuntal) are equally instrumental in little success which we have got so far.

Please download the book and write a short review if you can. I am thankful to the author Mr. Abdul Jaleel who considered my startup and me worthy to be featured in his book.

Right now my company has around 50 people on roll. We are doing development in various technologies like .NET, PHP, Facebook Applications etc. We do really interesting development which is good for company and developers.

Now for some reason we thought that our company needs some more structured technical growth and for that we need to scrap one of the holidays in month people enjoy. Right now first and third saturday are holiday here. For training we have to scrap first saturday so that we can get full day for training and at the end we can have monthly event (We do fun event once a month).

The moment we announced this there was outburst in the company about scraping one holiday. People were obviously not happy with the decision which was expected but there was something which was more disappointing.

I found that most of them don’t know what they want to do in life. They think that life will just go on like this coding, developing, testing etc. Nobody wanted to be the best in whatever they are doing. They wanted to enjoy the holiday they get just like any other unambitious person.

Please note that I am not criticizing my own team. We have a very strong and dedicated team who are good in whatever they are doing and I really love my team but there is always room for improvement i.e. to become the best. Lack of this quality makes any person so lifeless, at least to me. This kept me wondering what happens to people having no aim in life ? do they really do something important in life ? or they are just like people wandering around in zombie movies ? I love my team probably that is why I am more disappointed.

Please correct me if I am wrong somewhere, I am sure I am wrong somewhere but I am not able to find it.

Regards,
Abhishek

Hi,
Its been more than 4 years since I have started my own IT service company but somehow yesterday only I realized that I should also have my own personal blog. Actually I got TechCrunchified about a year back. Since than I have been reading various blogs and getting more and more into startup world and Sillicon Valley. I simply love the valley and my dream is to make it big over there sometime.

I have been working on few projects for that and hopefully will be there soon.

Now because I have a blog, I have to find something to write about it regularly. Well let me start working on that.

Thanks,
Abhishek