Thursday, December 30, 2010

Miss Slax? Meet Salix

If you miss the old slackware linux based live cd distribution slax, you should give a try to Salix.

http://www.salixos.org/wiki/index.php/Home

Very nice distribution keeping the slackware philosophy in mind. There are various flavors and a few interesting installation options. Specially check out the live cd modifier and installer programs.

Sunday, December 12, 2010

Moving public work to Github

Just started moving my OpenSource utility code modules and other projects to GitHub - yes I have converted from SVN to Git.

My repository can be found at: https://github.com/kashifpk

Quick Android SMS backup script in python

If you are a person like me who likes to keep a record of his/her conversations then you should find it useful.
On my previous Nokia Symbian phone I had a SIS file to backup my smses before deleting them from the phone memory. So I got an android phone a month back and the smses started piling up. With the new threaded view the sms interface performance becomes quite sluggish when you reach around 2000 smses.

Since I was already exploring SL4A, I quickly wrote a small script to save sent and received messages to memory card. Visit http://www.compulife.com.pk/oss/android_sms_exporter to get the script.