VC’s Techie CockTail

Here is a sms ….

6 FACTS on EARTH.
1st FACT:- U can’t touch all ur teeth wit ur tongue
2nd FACT:-After reading this all fools will try it.
3rd FACT:-Now U will smile coz u have become a fool. 4th FACT:-Now U want 2 fool ur frnds.
5th FACT:-Now u will forward it 2 all fools.
6th FACT:-Fact 1 is false.

And some pics which I got in my mailbox for you to enjoy

written by Vignesh \\ tags: Sms

After the very successful Nokia N73, Nokia’s answer to its successor N82 seems to be holding all the aces in the multimedia as well as the smartphone segment. In the last month, I had chances to fiddle around with the N82 and from the owner’s experience here is a brief summary on the “Candybar King”.

• The call reception, audio and speaker quality are Excellent. And the Battery life is also exceptional provided this phone has Wi-Fi built into it.
• The screen size is slightly larger than N73, the display resolution of 240 x 320 @ 16 million colors was excellent. But the keypad was a tad uneasy to use , but a little practice will rectify this situation.
• Another improvement from N73 is the inbuilt RAM, standing now at 128 MB makes the phone response quicker. But still there were times when the phone seemed slow and one time it switched off by itself.
• Audio quality was excellent and loud too. And the presence of a 3.5mm jack makes it easy to plug in any high quality headphone of your choice.
• Even though in India, there is no proper GPS service the Nokia Maps application combined with GPRS was able to point out my town Sivakasi.
• As usual this is a Symbian Series 60 phone, so there is a huge library of softwares for multimedia, office , internet and security needs.
• And its 5 megapixel camera came out with nice stills. (Supposed to be the best 5 megapixel snapper, in the 5 megapixel race according to various mobilephone review sites.) Video recording was also good.
• Connectivity department is fully loaded with GPRS, EDGE, 3G, HSDPA, Wi-Fi. Coupled with the excellent web browser its a very good tool for browsing the internet for users on the move.

Nokia N82 has lots going for it and for people looking for a convetional candybar phone with all the bells and whistles this is a sure choice and will set you back by 21,000 Rs. But there are other 5 megapixel snappers out there like Sony Ericsson K850, LG Viewty (very interesting device according to me), Samsung G600 (cheapest 5 megapixel phone in India) and Nokia N95, which are all competitors in this space. Be sure you check out all these devices if you are out there looking for a “Camera Phone”.

written by Vignesh \\ tags: Nokia

I think many of us would have found it irritating and maddening to see when their Media player says that the “file couldn’t be played, please download the codec required” or have multiple players to play various video formats like rm, 3gp, mp4, mov, avi ,mpg etc….

Here is a Free solution to your problem, called K-Lite Codec. It has various flavors but the pack called K-Lite Codec pack should satisfy all your multimedia needs. The installation is straight forward, and at the end of the installation it will ask whether to tweak your settings according to windows media player or the media player classic which comes along with K-Lite. I’ve configured to play everything with mediaplayer classic.

It has also various other utilities to analyze codecs, stats reader etc. But I don’t use them, might be it will be useful for people who are into video creation and editing. The media player is bare but it can play all types of video files including 3gp, flv and also music files like mp3,m4a. I haven’t tried ogg formats.

You can download the latest version here.
Download K-Lite Codec Pack Full from FileHippo.com

written by Vignesh \\ tags: Softwares

Here are some interesting mobile and general websites I found interesting,

• GoComics : For people who like to read Calvin & Hobbes and other comics on the move try m.gocomics.com
• MoneyControl  : For people who track and invest in Indian stock markets this  application in Moneycontrol  will be a very useful application. Point your mobilephone browser to  mobile.moneycontrol.com
• Labnol : Here is a very good blog on the latest technology trends and some practical tips for computing
• UIQBlog : A great blog on UIQ and UIQ based phones.
  

written by Vignesh