Nilesh.org Notes on technology and everything else

There are no limits to how you can use technology to your advantage today. The other day, I had downloaded a driver file for a specific hardware and didn’t have a floppy to carry it home. Since I do not have internet access at home for the moment, I had to think of ways in which I can take home the single 10kb INF file. It didn’t take long enough for me to figure out how – I had my new Nokia 6610 with me and most of its 725 kb shared memory was lying empty. So I connected the phone to the IrDA port of my office PC. Since initially I didn’t want to take the risk of damaging my phone with wrong filetypes, I created a blank image and inserted the driver file into the image using a steganographic tool. I went home, connected it to my laptop and got back the file. Eventually I got bolder and started dumping small files directly into the phone. And guess what, my phone is still alive! So now, I can add the mobile phone to my growing list of file-transfer-media – floppies, CDRWs, hard disks, thumb drives and MP3 Players.