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Event

F e r r a r i — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 07:17:29 +0000

I am interested in events, where breakfast comprises of mallipoo idli, chutney, dosai, pongal, vadai ,kesari and filter kaapi. Followed by a juice say an hour later, and then lunch comprising of paruppu usili couple of hours later. Am not … Continue reading →

HTC Touch HD

F e r r a r i — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 04:15:39 +0000

Is it available in India?
Is it worth the cost?

Nokia Email

F e r r a r i — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:00:54 +0000

Nokia has introduced this cool email application(Thank you Gopal) for their smartphones. If you are in the habit of checking emails regularly from your mobile phone, check it out. Its too good, unlike the Gmail for mobile application.

It is the coolest ~~mobile phone~~ e-mail interface, I have ever seen on a Nokia phone. Try it out! I am sure you will like it.

Gadget time

F e r r a r i — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:58:55 +0000

1. I have been using this Binary watch for quite some time, and its really cool. Next, I want to go for a bluetooth watch. Is there any alternative to this sony ericsson bluetooth watch? I would prefer a watch without an analog or digital dial
2. Did anyone of you manage to download skyfire? I would like to see if it supports tamil fonts. None of the mobile browsers seem to The iphone browser has the same problem that firefox by default has Atleast firefox has a patch.
3. Why on earth are people excited about iPhone? I find HTC far better than iPhone. Typing in iPhone is hell. I tried a demo version for couple of days, and I didn’t like it. Touchscreen is fun for sometime. Beyond that you get bored with it. I wish Nokia introduces a version of N810 with mobile and 3G features. That suits my requirements perfectly
4. 3G is really good. For GPS, internet radio, youtube, fring and so many other things. I hope we get it in India really soon, now that the government has initiated some steps. Nokia maps rocks, by the way!
5. Does anyone know if any television company has launched a LCD TV compatible with an USB port? I heard Philips has a USB compatible DVD player. But the problem I heard, from my friends, is that it plays only audio. And jpegs. No divx I see that there are some LCD monitors enabled with USB but I am not sure if they can play DivX videos.
6. Has anyone used Pinnacle’s USB TV receiver? Does it make sense to have one in India?

S-Video Cable

F e r r a r i — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 04:36:19 +0000

Off late, I have been watching a lot of English movies. Unfortunately the movies are in Div-X format, and my DVD player doesn’t recognize that. And I don’t prefer watching movies on my Lenovo notebook. Not that it’s bad, but watching it on television is good. And I don’t have a PC table(?) like what Amit mentions here

I could have actually used some converter software to burn a CD/DVD in the format, my DVD player recognizes. But that is a long and cumbersome process. I faced a similar problem in Sweden, when I had subscribed to Indian channels via Streambox. One of my colleagues, told me about this S-Video cable.

Using this cable one can connect their notebook/PC to television. And then do the following
1. In desktop properties–>Settings, choose monitor 2 and click on the checkbox ‘Extend my windows desktop onto this monitor
2. Switch to AV mode in the television
3. Your desktop background, should appear on the television
4. Open any application and then keep dragging to the right using your mouse. Drag it beyond the notebook screen. It will start appearing on the screen. Drag it completely to the television screen.

Thats it. But at same time, change your desktop resolution to fit your television screen.

Using S-Video cable you can just redirect the video output to Television. In case you want to redirect the audio output as well, then you need a separate cable for audio output. When you are buying ensure that, one end of the S-Video cable can fit in actually to the Video-In port of your television. Actually, there is a separate attachment that can be attached to the S-Video cable to suit your Television ‘Video-In’ port.

The quality of the video is pretty good. In case you find the video clarity like that one of DD sports, ensure that you switch off your DVD player. And your mobile phone is bit away from the television.

This came very handy for this weekend’s get together, since Gopal had brought some clippings which can be played only in the PC

Am not very sure how much S-Video cable costs in India. It cost me around 100 SEK, and in eBay the cost seems to be 8$. Check it out. Its worth it.