Taiwan Excellence Brand Forum with Digit

Taiwan Excellence

Recently I went to Mumbai for attending an event on 17th  of September. It was organised by Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) along with Digit Magazine (most popular IT Magazine in INDIA). The event was titled as “India Intelligence + Taiwan Technologies = IT for Excellent Lifestyles” and took place in Navi Mumbai, Vashi.  So with this article I want to share my overall experience of the whole event.

Taiwan Excellence, which represents innovative and technological image of Taiwan’s competitive industries, is a symbol of Innovation, Reliability, and Value. Such excellence is radiated in many of Taiwan’s niche industries, particularly the ICT industry, of which many have become renowned brands in their field. In 2011, Taiwan Excellence along with selected 35 Taiwan international brands expects to bring Excellent Lifestyles to consumer’s daily life.

Malaika Arora Digit Taiwan ExcellenceThe event started in the InOrbit Mall, Vashi with the announcement of the “IT Travellers Go! Malaika Arora Khan was also present for brand promotion. There was a registration desk of Digit and gifted Silicon Power pen drives to 40 early birds. All the Digit community members residing in Mumbai and Pune were invited for the event. Even invitations were mailed to across INDIA. Various products from various Taiwanese companies like Acer, Asus, MSI, D-Link etc. were on display. Digit editorial team members also interacted and guided about the various products and technologies. I was very glad to interact with the editorial team of Digit. It was a perfect destination for all the geeks and technocrats!Winners of IT Travellers Contest

The next part of this event was held at Yogi Midtown Hotel in Vashi. It was an interactive session among Acer, BenQ, D-Link and MSI moderated by the Soham Raninga, Online Editor of Think Digit. It was followed by the question-answer session. All the attendees were able to interact with the brand representatives in the question-answer session. I also got a chance to interact with them. And finally the dinner was served and this grand event came to a happy ending.

Brand Forum

Near about 26 Taiwanese brands had participated in this event and the audience present mainly constituted of tech lovers and enthusiasts. And the brand forum consisted of Acer, BenQ, D-Link and MSI. Check this link (www.thinkdigit.com/events/taitra/blogs.php) for more articles on this event!

Finally this whole event was a huge success and allowed everyone including myself to get in contact with the like-minded people and mingle with the great personalities who hold a great position in the evolving IT world.

Joomla Installation Fix

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Recently I got a project for installing Joomla and configuring a template provided by the client itself. It was a very simple project and usually takes around half an hour at most. But as the installation process started, I was flooded with the following error messages:

Warning: session_start(): open(sess_78ac9881b78726f2fb5c194667f74021, 
O_RDWR) failed:No such file or directory (2) in session.php on line 542
Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cookie - headers already
sent by(output started at session.php:412) in session.php on line 542

Also received the following error message:

Cookies do not appear to be enabled on your browser client. You will not
be able to install the application with this feature disabled. Alternatively,
there could also be a problem with the server's session.save_path. If this
is the case, please consult your hosting provider if you don't know how to
check or fix this yourself.

After a bit of research I found an easy solution to fix this problem.

Step 1:

Download this file and place it in the installation directory of Joomla.

Step 2:

Open index.php in the installation directory of Joomla. Add the following lines on top of the file(index.php):

include(“repair.php”);
session_save_path($work_path);

 Now initiate the installation process and the problem will disappear.

How to access internet on slower connections?

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Recently I went to a family trip on Himachal Pradesh, India. During the trip just to check my mails I plugged in my TATA Photon+ but the net connection was very slow which resulted in discovery of this method. This method is mainly applicable to the websites which are optimized for mobile phones or tablets but these days majority of the websites are optimized for mobile phone or handheld devices.

 

Mozilla Firefox Implementation

  1. Install an add-on named User Agent Switcher. This add-on allows us to switch the user agent (user agent is the technical name of a browser).
  2. Now download useragentswitcher.xml(Right click and save it). After that open the User Agent Switcher Options from the addons tab.
  3. After that switch the user agent by Tools->Default User Agent->iPhone 3.0
  4. Now open http://m.google.com/ instead of http://google.com  or any website of your choice.
  5. Main idea is that accessing a website in mobile version reduces the loading time but allows us to access the desired content.
  6. Most of the popular websites are having a mobile version but the problem is that accessing it directly from a browser doesn’t allow us to access the mobile version.