Oct
18
Groovy - WebServices made simple.
October 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment
I am trying constantly update my knowledge on the latest technologies. To sum up a few, Ruby, Groovy, grails etc. Upon suggestion from a previous colleuge on Groovy, I tried my hand on it after a long time. I am impressed, the learning curve is almost zero. All I had to do is read about the Groovy introduction and in no time I got my hands dirty with some coding. Added an eclipse plugin and there you go, everthing is magic.
Oct
2
Confessions of an iPhone user
October 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment
I don’t know how many iPhone/iPod users like the iTunes software, but I for one definitely does not enjoy using that piece of junk. I have given many a times benefit of the doubt to Stevie, but this time he has really crossed the line. I am unable to sync my MythTV Homebrew DVR recordings with my iPhone. I used the nuvexport tool to convert the recordings from MPEG2 to MP4 format and tried to sync the files using iTunes 8.
On a nice Sunday afternoon, I decided to transcode my recordings on MythTV system to MP4 format so that I can sync them with my Portable Devices (Zune and iPhone). I took like 3 hours to convert 4 recordings to MP4 format 320×240 resolution. Everything went fine on my Ubuntu system with the transcoding. The next part of the story is where it gets interesting.
I copied the MP4 files onto my windows system so that I can sync it with my Zune and iPhone. I added it as a library in iTunes and when I tried to sync them, the files did not show up in the sync list. At first I thought that they are not in the specified format like the h.264 codec an the resolution. I double checked everything but still did not have any answer. On the contrary to popular belief, with Microsoft Zune software, I just added the video location in to the sync list and connected my Zune to my laptop and it is magic.
Sep
17
Finally found some time
September 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment
I finally found some time to post content here. I have been busy for the past 2 weeks. Now that I have a little time on my hand, I can concentrate some time on the weekends on my pet projects like a twitter client for android, or a plugin for mythtv which emails or tweets when a show is recorded. Lately I have been thinking on developing my own process engine using LAMP. I have to see how many of these see any day light. They are in my brain, hopefully I will be able to bring them to life.
Sep
12
Upgraded to wordpress 2.6.2
September 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment
After a long time, I found some time to blog. The great news is I found some time to upgrade to 2.6.2. I hope I find some time to write.
Sep
2
Google Chrome..the new kid on the block
September 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Google is releasing a new browser at 2:00 PM Eastern time or 11:00AM PDT. The key features in this browser are:
- It uses webkit (the engine behind Apple Safari).
- Multi-tabbed, where each tab runs as different process.
- New JavaScript engine.
- Privacy mode.
- Suggesting sites based on the users browsing history.
- More to come after I use it for the first time.
Adios
Aug
15
Look what I found on YouTube
August 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Who said that YouTube is about dog skating and people make a mockery of themselves. Dog skating videos is just part of the package. But as a whole, YouTube is like an archive of video game walkthorughs ;-), old symphonies, music videos etc. It serves to the tastes of different target audiences.
Recently India celebrated its 61st Independence Day and this year marked the 20th anniversary of the so called unofficial national anthem “Mile Sur Mera Tumhara“. The song promotes national unity and shows the diversity of India. The interesting thing is, I found the video on YouTube. A big thanks to the uploader.
Mile Sur Mera Tumhara - INDIA Unity In Diversity
Aug
15
XBOX 360 Back Home
August 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Finally my XBOX 360 is back home from Microsoft Repair Center. I hope everything is fixed. I will be recording some HALO 3 montages (edited version to show how awesome I am at it ;-)).
I will be back with some interesting news about MGS online gameplay and how it sucks and how awesome XBOX live is.
Adios
Aug
3
MGS4 Boss Fight
August 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment
I recorded MGS boss fight using my new toy HAVA Platinum HD. I think the results are pretty impressive. I resized the video to accommodate online viewing.
Boss Fight Cutscene
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Boss Fight Gameplay
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Aug
2
Xbox - Red Ring of death
August 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Picture speaks thousand words 
Jul
30
Updated my blog to WordPress v2.6
July 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Finally I got the time to update my blog software to WordPress v2.6. Not that I am totally busy, but I it is the lazy genes that stopped me from posting for long time. Now it is time fill some garbage online.
The flash news is - I bought a new LCD TV and my XBox 360 puked on me. I contacted the XBox support. I will try a few more maintenance tricks on it before I send it to the XBox repair team.
In other news I am training hard to get myself into shape. I am working relentlessly on my muscles. Who doesn’t like a toned body.
And finally that review, I am going to give my opinion on the new iPhone 3g is still pending (blame it on my lazy genes).
Adios
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Phanij aka Brahmi SW Engineer ;-) -