I got a new Samsung LED HDTV on Friday 2/5/2010. Its UN46B6000.
> First, I connected Direct Comcast cable into the TV's Antenna. I have Basic Comcast package. Then I ran the tv's setup options to scan all available channels. And it scanned all the HD channels availalble and it was looking great. But I wanted to play the sound in my home-theater system. Unfortunately I did not see any Component Audio Out ports that I can use. So, I had to use the TV's audio for those HDTV channels as well.
> Then I got the Digital Receiver from Comcast. Comcast cables goes directly into the Receiver and Receiver's RF Out goes directly into the TV's Antenna. This box also had the Audio out ports that I connected to Audio In of the home-theater system. So, Audio worked fine. But the Video quality of TV was not as great as I expected. I was getting better quality w/o the digital receiver. So, I learned now I need to get an HD Receiver that will do the job.
Other nice things about the TV were
- I could plug in my iPhone to its USB and could see the pictures. Could not see any videos yet.
- I could plug in my external Hard Disk via USB to the computer and see the pictures. Again, could not see any videos from Hard Disk.
- I plugged in my PC monitor cable to the TV, and it was looking great. Very good quality on the TV screen (1080p).
Looking forward to connect the TV to internet via regular LAN cable. There is LAN port. And see what all it can do. Also the wireless LAN adapter - but that costs > 50 dollars so holding off on that for now.
Monday, February 8, 2010
Monday, February 1, 2010
can iPad rewrite internet
From conservative point of view, this thought may be laughable, ridiculous.
Assuming that iPad and tablets like this will become as common as a notepad and sticky notes in your day-to-day life, would internet be limited to how its now via the servers, urls, domain names etc?
There is one internet that exists for serious business - where there are servers, IT teams, professionals, web applications and all sorts of complex processes to make everything work.
But then there is another internet, that is used by normal people to share their photos, videos and music files. They care less about how everything works, they just want to let others see what they have. And that's why the sites like Google Picasa, Flickr, Napster, YouTube all became famous and multi-million dollar business.
When iPad and devices like this will be connected all the time via wireless they in a way form their own network. And each such device can have its own NETWORK ID (iID?) Today in my contact list, I store the phone number and email address of a person. But that can extend to storing the NETWORK ID of the device as well. Each device can have an area (folder) in which the owner can put sharable files. And others can browse these files and download it or play right from it.
How easy would it be if you just browse other's iPad for their sharable content right from your iPad w/o going to url or browser or any html crap. It's like iLAN.
Then there would be some directories that would store the iPad's NETWORK IDs and the publicly available content in it. Information holders can even make money out of their own such information. All that Content publishing would take is to shoot a video and store it in such area of their iPad.
But, hard reality is Apple wants to be in between of all such transfers and they don't want any thing be published w/o their iTunes or AppStore. You can't even share ringtone. If they let go off their such greed or if Google or someone comes up with such freedom, we may see a new type of internet altogether in future.
Assuming that iPad and tablets like this will become as common as a notepad and sticky notes in your day-to-day life, would internet be limited to how its now via the servers, urls, domain names etc?
There is one internet that exists for serious business - where there are servers, IT teams, professionals, web applications and all sorts of complex processes to make everything work.
But then there is another internet, that is used by normal people to share their photos, videos and music files. They care less about how everything works, they just want to let others see what they have. And that's why the sites like Google Picasa, Flickr, Napster, YouTube all became famous and multi-million dollar business.
When iPad and devices like this will be connected all the time via wireless they in a way form their own network. And each such device can have its own NETWORK ID (iID?) Today in my contact list, I store the phone number and email address of a person. But that can extend to storing the NETWORK ID of the device as well. Each device can have an area (folder) in which the owner can put sharable files. And others can browse these files and download it or play right from it.
How easy would it be if you just browse other's iPad for their sharable content right from your iPad w/o going to url or browser or any html crap. It's like iLAN.
Then there would be some directories that would store the iPad's NETWORK IDs and the publicly available content in it. Information holders can even make money out of their own such information. All that Content publishing would take is to shoot a video and store it in such area of their iPad.
But, hard reality is Apple wants to be in between of all such transfers and they don't want any thing be published w/o their iTunes or AppStore. You can't even share ringtone. If they let go off their such greed or if Google or someone comes up with such freedom, we may see a new type of internet altogether in future.
Friday, January 29, 2010
What future holds for iPad
Name
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Yes, Name sucks. May be because they have iPod, they wanted to rhyme it too closely with it. Steve Jobs must have written some poems using "iPod" and "iPad" words and iSlate, iNote, iTablet, iLet words did not rhyme. People are making fun of word 'iPad' because of similar feminine health product name. But if they had kept name iSlate, there would have been obscene jokes about that too.
Features
-----------
Yes, its just another iPhone with bigger screen. It sits between iPod Touch and iPhone in a way that it does not offer calling via wireless network but supports 3G.
Those who did not like it say
> It does not have camera
> It has got too big bezel
> Its aspect ratio is not 16x9
> It does not support Flash
> No parallel apps
Those who like it say
> Its not for video chat, you can use laptop for that
> you can hold it without touching something by mistake
> you got 4x3 the standard tv ratio before new hdtvs
> flash is not secure and hogs the cpu
> hiya...hiya...
Look at it this way
-------------------
A small iPhone has created an IT market that never existed before. Development for blackberry or WindowsMobile wasn't that great. iPhone really attracted the consumers and the developers that what they can do with the mobile computing.
Now, if Apple makes a bigger size iPhone then its neither magical nor even ground-breaking invention. They just had to do what they did ealier, with a big size screen and rest is imaginable. So, what people can be disappointed with is, its not a 'new' device. Just same but big size.
But the potential for iPad still exists. Previously we used 800x600 monitors and the monitors kept getting bigger while the smaller resolution monitors are still used in many places - specially for point of sale at merchandise stores. Analogy may not be accurate in saying that iPad is an evolution from iPhone. iPhone and iPad has different audience and has different usage.
Applications
--------------
> Doctors/Health staff will be able to use iPad in their day-to-day work. A big screen with enough information about patient, x-rays, facesheets, prescriptions can be viewed easily.
> Sales team can use it on the road for apps like SalesForce.Com or CRM. The main advantage is not the screen size only, but the bootup time. It takes time loading a Windows machine, but this will be always ON. We will see Microsoft Office tools on this very soon.
> Executives will be soon carrying this instead of notepad for their calendar, notes and contact management.
> A UPS or FedEx guy may be carrying this to get delivery signatures. It would be nice if the touch-input can accept some pen size stylus then you can easily sign on it.
> A construction engineer will be carrying this at the site for measurements and inputting data. Engineer on the roof can input the dimension on this and get a drawing easily.
> Devices will be made to attach credit card reader and barcode scanners. So that you can use this at point of sale. If stores don't use it, this can be used at events.
> During exhibitions, stall executives can use this to show off their products to customers walking by. No need to bring them to the stall and display products on large screens.
There is unlimited use of this beyond what people are talking about games, music and books. Don't think of this as an entertainment, time-spending instrument. Think of it as a money making instrument. You no more have to bring your customers to a place where you have hooked up your computer. You can just carry your business with you everywhere.
Future of iPad
--------------
What would have amazed the people, which I think soon should be coming either in iPad or in competitive products:
> Sure, a camera. But two sided camera that you can turn to yourself or backside.
> Sure, parallel applications. no doubt about it.
> Bluetooth capacity with phone. A bluetooth device that you use with your phone should be able to be used with iPad. And iPad should allow video chat via this bluetooth receiver. If not over 3G, this should be possible over wi-fi.
> A pen-like writing tool for notes so you don't have to use keyboard. And the OCR that can transcribe what you are writing. You can store the notes either as image or transcribe and store as text.
> Speech-recognition. Not a major but executives may like it.
> Find another iPad via BlueTooth around you and then throw some of the info to another iPad - something like Bump in iPhone.
> Being able to share the desktop of multiple iPads like GoToMeeting or WebEx.
> Being able to place a regular paper on the iPad screen, and then write on the paper. iPad can behave like a carbon copy of what is written on the paper. That can be then stored as image/text etc. This would be a huge hit seriously.
> Sometime in distant future, iPad can have one side of it behave like a scanner. So you can slide the iPad over a page and scan the document. Wouldn't that be cool? if not iPad, at least a separate device can be made that can plug into bottom of iPad and then scan a document.
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Yes, Name sucks. May be because they have iPod, they wanted to rhyme it too closely with it. Steve Jobs must have written some poems using "iPod" and "iPad" words and iSlate, iNote, iTablet, iLet words did not rhyme. People are making fun of word 'iPad' because of similar feminine health product name. But if they had kept name iSlate, there would have been obscene jokes about that too.
Features
-----------
Yes, its just another iPhone with bigger screen. It sits between iPod Touch and iPhone in a way that it does not offer calling via wireless network but supports 3G.
Those who did not like it say
> It does not have camera
> It has got too big bezel
> Its aspect ratio is not 16x9
> It does not support Flash
> No parallel apps
Those who like it say
> Its not for video chat, you can use laptop for that
> you can hold it without touching something by mistake
> you got 4x3 the standard tv ratio before new hdtvs
> flash is not secure and hogs the cpu
> hiya...hiya...
Look at it this way
-------------------
A small iPhone has created an IT market that never existed before. Development for blackberry or WindowsMobile wasn't that great. iPhone really attracted the consumers and the developers that what they can do with the mobile computing.
Now, if Apple makes a bigger size iPhone then its neither magical nor even ground-breaking invention. They just had to do what they did ealier, with a big size screen and rest is imaginable. So, what people can be disappointed with is, its not a 'new' device. Just same but big size.
But the potential for iPad still exists. Previously we used 800x600 monitors and the monitors kept getting bigger while the smaller resolution monitors are still used in many places - specially for point of sale at merchandise stores. Analogy may not be accurate in saying that iPad is an evolution from iPhone. iPhone and iPad has different audience and has different usage.
Applications
--------------
> Doctors/Health staff will be able to use iPad in their day-to-day work. A big screen with enough information about patient, x-rays, facesheets, prescriptions can be viewed easily.
> Sales team can use it on the road for apps like SalesForce.Com or CRM. The main advantage is not the screen size only, but the bootup time. It takes time loading a Windows machine, but this will be always ON. We will see Microsoft Office tools on this very soon.
> Executives will be soon carrying this instead of notepad for their calendar, notes and contact management.
> A UPS or FedEx guy may be carrying this to get delivery signatures. It would be nice if the touch-input can accept some pen size stylus then you can easily sign on it.
> A construction engineer will be carrying this at the site for measurements and inputting data. Engineer on the roof can input the dimension on this and get a drawing easily.
> Devices will be made to attach credit card reader and barcode scanners. So that you can use this at point of sale. If stores don't use it, this can be used at events.
> During exhibitions, stall executives can use this to show off their products to customers walking by. No need to bring them to the stall and display products on large screens.
There is unlimited use of this beyond what people are talking about games, music and books. Don't think of this as an entertainment, time-spending instrument. Think of it as a money making instrument. You no more have to bring your customers to a place where you have hooked up your computer. You can just carry your business with you everywhere.
Future of iPad
--------------
What would have amazed the people, which I think soon should be coming either in iPad or in competitive products:
> Sure, a camera. But two sided camera that you can turn to yourself or backside.
> Sure, parallel applications. no doubt about it.
> Bluetooth capacity with phone. A bluetooth device that you use with your phone should be able to be used with iPad. And iPad should allow video chat via this bluetooth receiver. If not over 3G, this should be possible over wi-fi.
> A pen-like writing tool for notes so you don't have to use keyboard. And the OCR that can transcribe what you are writing. You can store the notes either as image or transcribe and store as text.
> Speech-recognition. Not a major but executives may like it.
> Find another iPad via BlueTooth around you and then throw some of the info to another iPad - something like Bump in iPhone.
> Being able to share the desktop of multiple iPads like GoToMeeting or WebEx.
> Being able to place a regular paper on the iPad screen, and then write on the paper. iPad can behave like a carbon copy of what is written on the paper. That can be then stored as image/text etc. This would be a huge hit seriously.
> Sometime in distant future, iPad can have one side of it behave like a scanner. So you can slide the iPad over a page and scan the document. Wouldn't that be cool? if not iPad, at least a separate device can be made that can plug into bottom of iPad and then scan a document.
logoff user from (rdp) remote server
You are here because you have seen "The terminal server has exceeded the maximum number of allowed connections".
You can check who is logged into the remote server by using command prompt (cmd.exe) on your machine:
qwinsta /server:RemoteServerName
And you can logoff any user:
logoff SessionIDFromAbove /server:RemoteServerName
You can check who is logged into the remote server by using command prompt (cmd.exe) on your machine:
qwinsta /server:RemoteServerName
And you can logoff any user:
logoff SessionIDFromAbove /server:RemoteServerName
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Windows Command Line completion with Tab key
A reference for Windows Command Line completion with Tab key:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/kb00244407.aspx
I did not find it under HKCU but under HKLM. Whatever works!
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/kb00244407.aspx
I did not find it under HKCU but under HKLM. Whatever works!
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
How to use ISO image file
You need to install Virtual CD Rom Control Panel from microsoft site - available here
A Microsoft Support Article for how to use this.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/916902
Some other articles for the same:
http://www.pcauthorities.com/windows-xp/how-to-use-iso-files-in-windows-xp
A Microsoft Support Article for how to use this.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/916902
Some other articles for the same:
http://www.pcauthorities.com/windows-xp/how-to-use-iso-files-in-windows-xp
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Setting up HDTV
setting up HDTV and other hardware related info here:
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/08/19/hdtv_setup_guide/
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/08/19/hdtv_setup_guide/
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