Review: MyCube: A new Social Networking Platform that lets you make Money

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For those early adopters, here is a new social networking platform to try: MyCube. Started by a Singapore based and led by a strong team consisting of serial entrepreneurs and seasoned operational managers with experience from Netscape, RealNetworks, Yahoo, eBay, Let’s Buy It and Icon Medialab, MyCube claims to be word’s first Social Exchange site. What it means is that it lets user own the digital content and share it (either with friends of common or with public with common interest).

It is very focused on user’s privacy and doesn’t share the information in public without user’s consent. User connects with people who are most relevant to him. It has Interests feature (similar to Sparks in Google Plus, actually Google copied the idea from MyCube) where user can select the area of interests and feeds from sponsored agency (like a news magazine) or from other users (if they share it publicly) can be viewed on its home page thus bringing the most relevant information. Here is how my profile looks like:

The idea of social exchange is focused on giving user the control of his/her digital life i.e. it lets user own the data he shares. Unknown to most, the majority of social networks own the content you upload to them, and thus own the right to monetize it. According to a study in a year 360 Billion User Generated Content (Pictures, Videos, Links etc) are uploaded on Facebook in a year and Facebook makes $1.86 Billion out of it. So, Facebook makes money out of users’ content.

In MyCube, user owns the information it updates and shares. MyCube has its own virtual currency called Cubes (1 cube = 0.0.1 Singapore Dollars) which can be used in trading the information. It is ideal for people who have expertise in some field. They can share their work with others (MyCube lets you allow to whom you want to share the information with and in which category).

In a nut shell, MyCube has the following features:

  • Focuses on giving user the control and privacy
  • Lets users interact with people with common interest
  • Provide the ability to monetize the digital life (The best thing)

If you want to join MyCube you can request an invite by entering your email id or by using the invite code “friend” or “tk500” in http://beta.mycube.com/. First 50,000 users will get 1000 cubes. So, what are you waiting for? Hurry Up!

Questions, suggestions and feedback are most welcomed.

How to hack / reset Nokia Mobile Phone Code

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Hack a Nokia Mobile PhoneThis trick works with most of the Nokia phones but exceptions may be there. It most likely won’t work for the newer phones like the Lumia 710 or the Windows phone. By this method you can get the master code of the Nokia phone. These master codes are unique for each phone and can be used in place for the security / phone code. This way if you have forgotten your Security code then you can reset it with this Master code. Following are the steps:

Supported Nokia Phones: 2100, 3110, 3210, 3310, 3315, 3330, 3350, 3390, 3410, 3610, 5110(i), 5130, 5190, 5210, 5510, 6080, 6110, 6130, 6138, 6150, 6190, 6210, 6250, 7110, 8210, 8250, 8290, 8850, 8855, 8890, 9110(i), 9210(i), 9290, 3100(b), 3108, 3120, 3200(b), 3220, 3230, 3300, 3360, 3510(i), 3530, 3590, 3595, 3600, 3650, 3660, 5100, 5140(i), 6020, 6021, 6100, 6101, 6108, 6200, 6220, 6230(i), 6260, 6310(i), 6500, 6510, 6590, 6600, 6610(i), 6620, 6650, 6800, 6810, 6820, 6822, 7200, 7210, 7250(i), 7260, 7270, 7280, 7600, 7610, 7650, 7700, 7710, 8310, 8390, 8800, 8910(i), 9300(i), 9500, N-Gage (QD).

P.S. It doesn’t unlock the PIN code.

Java code for GUI of a chat program

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I worked on the GUI of a chat program in Java. I would like to share the experience as well as codes of my program. The code which I am going to share is a stand alone GUI i.e. its not a complete chat program but just the windows without any connectivity. (I’ll also upload the running version of the complete program sometime later).

It consists of three classes, LogInWindow, ConnectWindow, ChatWindow. The features of these classes are as following:

LogInWindow:

It consists the main and the whole code is run by this class. When it runs for the first time it automatically calls ConnectWindow so that user can provide detail about itself like its name, nick name, port number etc. There are (in this example predefined) a no. of users as buttons. Clicking on a user (Buttons) opens a ChatWindow. When you exit the LogInWindow the whole program exits. The window is named “WeChat”. There are two menu option in menu bar. One is to change status and one is to connect and terminate the chat. Various Status option are:

  • Available
  • Do Not Disturb
  • Away
  • Invisible

Connexion consists of two option: Connect and Terminate. Clicking on Connect allows the user to put info about itself in the ConnectWindow (If user has already done it then it shows the previous entries). Terminate deletes all the previous info about the user.

ConnectWindow:

It allows user to put info about itself. Already discussed in LogInWindow.

User can put the following information:

  • First Name
  • Last Name
  • Nick Name
  • Display Name
  • Status Message
  • Port Number

Pressing Ok Button enters these information. Clicking on cancel simply disposes the window

ChatWindow:

Chat Window class provides different facilities for interacting with other user. It has a text field where user can enter chat. All the text is shown in a text area. There are some buttons for Voice and Video Calls as well. The chat transcript can be saved easily by clicking the save button. Closing the chat window disposes it. And it also gives calls a function while closing the chat window (So that it can be used to pass info about the closing the chat window to some other class/module, if needed).


P.S. You can find the codes here (All the code are in word file. You can copy paste these codes in txt file): GUI Code