Over the last 2 years I had corresponded with several GuruLib users through my hotmail account. Some of their email address was stored in my contact list. Today when I checked my email, I found out that I have become the victim of an email scam. Someone has sent an email to everyone in my contact list soliciting to purchase goods from some electronic online company. I am sorry that it happened and I don’t have any idea how they were able to get to all my contact list and them email one by one from my account. I hope I get an answer. I am searching online to find people with similar problem.
July 24, 2009
July 5, 2009
Need a Mac Computer
I have been looking to port the gurulib barcode reader to the iphone for some time. However, I don’t own a mac. Iphone SDK only runs on Mac. I would greatly appreciate if anyone willing to donate their old mac. Additionally, I had several users complain that the barcode reader crashes the safari browser on mac. A mac would help me debug that too.
June 17, 2009
GuruLib is back
Once again apologies for the time it took to bring GuruLib back. A new CPU, extra heat sink and an additional cooling fan hopefully should prevent this failure in future. Thank you for your patience and I hope to build a reserve money in future for maintenance. If you find this service useful you may donate here
June 16, 2009
GuruLib temporarily down
Sorry for this delayed response. I have been trying to find enough money to buy a new processor and UPS for GuruLib. Due to overheating since the cooling fan was not adequate for the Athlon X2 processor GuruLib’s main CPU failed and additionally, the APC UPS that was my power supply backup needs a battery change. The total cost was around $320. I managed to save some money and I have all the hardware available now. I will try to bring GuruLib back soon. All the data is safe and I have been backing up the contents all the time. One again sorry for this delayed response. I hope you all understand the pain of being in school and finding some additional income to run the website.
February 3, 2009
Touchscreen Interface coming
A cool touch screen interface is coming for GuruLib. Checkout the touch screen demo video.
Still working on fixing some of the bugs in the new interface. I bought the touch screen for $90 from ebay. It has a maximum resolution of 1024×740.
January 23, 2009
Garage sale fundraiser
Selling some of our stuff to raise money for GuruLib. Local pickup preferred. Mailing is an option but the buyer has to pay for the postage.
August 2, 2008
GuruLib will be back on Aug 6th
Our internet service provider has major breakdown causing GuruLib to go out of service. I sincerely apologize for this disruption. The latest estimate from the internet service provider to get the service back is Aug 6th. Once again sorry for the inconvenience.
June 26, 2008
Major Hardware Failure
Sorry for the interruption that GuruLib suffered last day. GuruLib was down for almost 12 hours. The server failed but all the data is safe. The data is regularly backed up and also the database is replicated. So there was no corruption of data. I am very sorry for the inconvenience.
May 28, 2008
Pressure of doing PhD
Its been a while since the last major feature addition to GuruLib. Pressure of PhD is finally getting on me. One year ago I quit a comfortable job at Garmin for pursuing a PhD in computer Engineering. Honeymoon period is finally over and I have to start churning out papers. My advisor is on my tail imploring me to “start working 24 hours like a dog”. My specific research is on indoor localization using wireless. Lately, I had some inspiration and finally put together enough material for a paper. I hope the conferences that I am planning to send the paper will find my ideas interesting enough for publication.
Sorry to go on ranting about my problems. Anyway this post is to let you all know that I am still working on fixing bugs in GuruLib and keeping it going healthy. I use GuruLib daily to catalog the collection of research papers on my subject of interest.
March 17, 2008
Detail View with iTunes style cover flow
The detail view was completly rewritten. The new feature allows resizing of columns, a new cover flow feature etc. You can watch all the new features in action in this short YouTube video below
Or you could checkout my library here
