Santhosh’s Blog

It was holiday for all of us.. so we decided to go for a 3 day trip to various beautiful places in Southern Karnataka. We started our journey on 22nd Jan 2009 night and came back on 25th evening.. We enjoyed the three days to the max we can..

Here’s the list of places we visited…

1. Kavale Durga (Remote place in shimoga)
2. Siri Mane Falls (water falls) in Sringeri
3. Sringeri Temple
4. Aagumbe (Famous for sunset)
5. Udupi Temple (Krishna temple)
6. Malpe Beach.
7. St. Mary’s Island.
8. Mangalore.. (just had ice cream there).
9. Madikeri
10. Golden Temple in Kushal Nagar near Madikeri.
11. Kauvery NIsarga Dhama in Kushal Nagar
12. Irpu Falls.
13. Nagarahole..

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Me and Charan started developing Gigasmilies back in Dec 2007 and stopped developing in Feb 2008. But in that short span of time, we released 4 versions and 2 web versions. Charan also decided to buy a dedicated a website for this project and he did. And we moved on from GooglePages to our own site.

Our app became so popular, that it was even featured in India’s No.1 Technology Magazine “Digit” in Jan 2008 Issue.

But later somehow we lost interest in developing Gigasmilies maybe because we found ourselves busy in our real life activities and or lazy developing it. Whatever maybe the reason but we stopped developing it.

Since we now have no further interest in developing GigaSmilies anymore, we decided the gigasmilies.com domain and hosting to expire and it did yesterday (8th Jan 2009). So now gigasmilies.com is dead.

There is also another reason for this idea. Back in Oct 2008, Gigasmilies.com was hacked by some Australian hackers. We still don’t know what was the glitch that led for this hack. But we believe it’s because we didn’t use to manage it properly due to lack of interest. Even after we recovered from the hack, there were many attempts made by those hackers to take over the site once again. So we concluded that gigasmilies.com is a soft target to hackers and there is no point in just protecting it whilst we have stopped developing it.

However Gigasmilies will be still available for download from gigasmilies.googlepages.com.

We hope you still enjoy this piece of app.

History.

Ever since I started this blog, I have changed about 4 themes. Out of which 3 are designed from other Web Designers. But after I became as a Web Designer myself, I started designing many themes for wordpress and I designed a very simple theme for my blog which was just around 30KB in size including images, it was WP-Replica. That was my 4th theme and was designed by myself. I used that theme for more than 6 months.

The Making….

And for a change for this new year, I decided to design a theme for my blog and came up with this theme. I wanted the theme to be clean, elegant and dark. So I started hunting for a good dark abstract wallpaper or image on the web and came up with JosephYang’s Titanium Silver wallpaper. Later I optimized the image to load faster on slower connections. So honestly I did not design the background of this theme. So all credit goes to him.

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Wish you and your family a Happy and Joyous 2009.

I hope you will have great days ahead this year. And I also hope you will follow all your new year resolutions without fail. :p

The year 2008 brought bit a change in my life. They are like this:

• I became a Web Designer.
• My degree course started.
• I started earning a bit from web designing…
• I became lazy..
• I started BSNL EVDO CLUB and ThemeBin.
• I started tweeting..
• I started watching too many movies…
• I started learning PHP
• I missed old friends.. met new friends..
• Became internet addict.
• And many more…
Anyways.. My new year resolution is simple.. I promised myself that I will start shaving my beard once in 2 days.

Enough of my personal things.. here’s what happened to the world in 2008.

Once again, I hope u will have a great days this time.. Happy New Year!