Watch Youtube, Flickr, Pandora, 365 Radio all on T.V! : WD TV Hands on and Review

Compare a Plasma Screen with Home Theatre System to your Computer Screen, Dull isn’t it? Obviously. But now, chuck your computer screen and get to your Television man, and enjoy Youtube Video’s in HD, Flickr and much more!

Western Digital’s WD TV does it all, and especially it’s support for HD makes it an awesome Gadget! Music, Video and Photos from everywhere go into the device and then to your television. Neat.

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What i got in the Box – WD TV Live

  • WD TV Live HD Media Player (Call it WD TV, it rhymes though)
  • Charger, Remote and batteries
  • Av Output pins and Component output pins
  • Few Papers (Manuals) and a CD

Enough for me to get started! Unboxed. Now, i go on to fit this piece with my Television. I am using a LG LCD 19″. Practically, you can use any Television and for Best Results, Try it on Plasma (I tried it on a Samsung 32″ Plasma also and the output was too good!) with the Component wires for Better Quality or if you want something better than that too, get the HDMI cables for you WD Tv.

After all the work is done (Attaching the media player to your T.V and your ADSL Router’s pin to the WD TV) now you can enjoy superb quality Videos, Photos and Music on T.V!

Let’s Go one by one with the features.

  • Music – One of the best feature it provides is that you can plug in any of your external hard drives, Pen Drives, Cell Phones, and  supported music players to the box to enjoy music from all these devices. The Interface is Rock Solid and gives you an amazing experience. The Sound Quality is very good (unless the  song itself sucks). You can Share Media across your Network also, using the Network feature. Good! Also Enjoy online radio with 365 Radio and Pandora! Just click and go!
  • Video – Youtube Video on T.V is possible with this one!! Just search for the Video, and get it! DSC00158Along with that, you can have a look at the most popular videos, Latest Additions and lot more. Sign in with your account and play your playlist, Favorite Videos and lot more! You can see Videos in Excellent Quality (HD if Available too) and when your using External Drives or sharing video via network it’s just too awesome. The Control Panel is too cool to be handled!
  • Photos – I tried attaching my iPod to WD TV, unfortunately there wasn’t any Music that got recognized but all i could find was Photos. Still, that was enough for me (Looking forward for iPod Music Support in Future for the device), atleast for that day. Flickr was also enabled so, what next? Log in to your account or view other users photo’s and really, the images were damn clear. Next, i attached my Cellphone (Sony k550i) and music, Photos and Videos all got recognized so enjoyed stuff over T.V!

Check out all the images Below, from unboxing till use!

About Battery app for iPhone: Provides a deeper insight into your iPhone battery life

One of the things which iPhone users constantly monitor is the remaining battery life. The default battery life icon in the iPhone just gives you an idea of the remaining battery. It doesn’t provide you additional information as to what is  the remaining time for performing certain tasks such as listening to music and much more. Enter About Battery. About Battery is an application that smartly monitors your battery life and gives you an insight as to what is the remaining time for different activities.

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It tells you how much longer would your iPhone/iPod Touch go when you surf the internet, listen to the music, watch a movie or talk on the phone.

Features

  • Tips on how to use your battery efficiently(Pro version exclusive)
  • Accurate visual battery indicator (updates very 5% of the battery life)
  • Estimation of remaining hours and minutes for:
    • Stand by
    • Talk time
    • Surfing on Edge internet
    • Surfing on 3G internet
    • Audio playback
    • Video playback
    • Game(2D,3D)
  • Charging indicator

Requirements

iPhone or  iPod touch running iPhone OS 3.0 or later

Download About Battery here

The 100,000 App Glory for Apple : 10K downloads per day for T Pain App!

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Apple’s App Store for iPhone and iPod Touch Recently crossed over 100,000 apps made by developers world wide! This is something which Apple should be proud of (perhaps, it is).

Currently they are serving over 50 Million iPod and iPhone users, and the latest app, I Am T-Pain crossed off all the records with mind blowing 10,000 Downloads per day. The Total count of apps downloaded has crossed 2 Billion!

One of the Strongest Reasons why the App Store succeeded was because the whole new Saga about the Multi-Touch interface which wasn’t much popular in those days when iPhone was released. It gave developers a great chance to explore the new technology and with so many apps being sold everyday a better business opportunity too.

And now when Apple already has a very large user base, it’s surely going to attract the big players in the Market, especially EA Sports, one of the best Game Makers in the world who have made couple of apps which have been great success on App Store like Sims 3 and the Latest Fifa 10.

The Latest Addition was that there came a Genius for Apps, just like the one like music where it showed related songs, now it shows related apps to your current apps. Neat.

Quick Stats about Apple Store

Apps : 100,000+

Countries Served : 77+

Categories : 20

User Base : 50 Million

Now You don’t need to remember long lists of passwords and username : Google

If you have used stuff like Facebook connect and Twitter Sign in, you know how easy it is to just click enter username and password and then just hop in. Well, not everything in the world is as easy, but soon the whole password username thing is going to be history, as there might be a universal account for most of your online presence.

Quite True, because webmasters and developers also see less conversions and members because of the hefty pain a user has to go through to register all over again. But now, with Google this is soon going to be history with Google’s Hybrid OnBoarding.

What users can soon expect from Google when invited from Facebook or Plaxo or other supported services,

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Hybrid OnBoarding

Now it’s So easy to join up so quickly. Earlier it involved tons of steps, where you even had to confirm emails in one step and so on. But with this, it’s all click and done. 

Facebook and Plaxo are the supported websites till now, and we are waiting for the complete list to come up in future! Check out the Companies Official Blog post.

Who Said $0 cannot make it to the Millions? : Proving the Myths Wrong

Whoever said that unless you have a large capital, it’s impossible for you to succeed, is wrong. He’s Speaking Crap. No, Really.

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I have seen and read about people who grew from Nothing to Everything E.g DhiruBhai Ambani and my most recent post about the Directi owners who went form Very Low Capital to a company whose estimated worth is more than 300 Million Dollars!

So To Succeed, these are not necessary

  • Huge Capital / Investors
  • Forget a Big Start. All Big things have a Small Start
  • You don’t get to order anyone, your in charge of everything

What you Need to have to succeed with No or Very Less Capital

  • Awesome and Supportive Team
  • Having a Experienced Team member simplifies the task of Team management, and this is the problems mostly in new Startups these days. More Fights in Teams which lead to nothing.
  • Focus on Goal. Shifting it may prove very harmful, yes beleive me.
  • Value for Time and Money. If you know that both these are like Sand, which Slip out of Hand Easily so You need to spend it wisely.

In Hindi there is a Statement, “Kaam Hosh me Kiya Jata hai, Josh me Nahi”. It means, that any work is not to be done in extraordinary excitement, but in full senses with proper thinking.

There’s another craze out everywhere. Bachendri Pal, who climbed Mount Everest said, No Pain, No Gain. No Doubt it’s True, but till some extent. I found people taking Risks insensibly and landing up with nothing. What last they say is that, atleast they attempted to take the risk. That’s was a good try but a sure waste of time, money and power. It’s useless till it’s planned. Calculative Risks are what need to be taken, where the chances of failure are low and even if you fail, you do gain something.

Planning and Execution

While my Talks with the Founder of MouthShut.com, Faisal i came to know a lot of things about his experience, starting mouthshut.com.

He told, while having a own startup and if your the CEO or the Director it probably does not give you the right to order people, and complete tasks for you. You have to involve yourself into each and every stage and unless this happens you won’t have knowledge of your own venture’s Structure!

Somethings are best written on paper. Whenever i get ideas, i put them on paper as soon as possible because it empties my brain very soon and this helps me when i am thinking of more things.

Experience Vs. Knowledge

Me and my Dad always had discussions about this topic. He told me,

Son, there is now age for knowledge. You may be more knowledgeable than me. But Experience only comes which age in which many more elders are ahead of you.

This Gave me a clear idea as to where i stood. He also told me, that always be a Good Listener and then a Good Speaker and listening to Experienced always help, wether you put their words into practice or not, that’s your wish. But Listening to it is a must.

Download Google Chrome Theme for XP

Most of you would have heard about Google Chrome. Infact large number of users would even have used Google Chrome. But do you know that there is a Google Chrome Theme for XP?. Well believe me there is a Google Chrome Theme for XP. Yes, the theme is available for download free of cost. The theme pack has a size of 7MB.

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Google Chrome theme includes

  • Theme files
  • Cursors
  • Fonts
  • Iconized Taskbar
  • HackVista
  • Drive Icon
  • RocketDock
  • TransBar
  • ÜberIcon
  • VisualTooltip
  • YzShadow
  • UXTheme
  • Multi-Patcher 6

Download Google Chrome Theme for XP

Apple’s Trick or Treat : You cannot even think of it!

Apple_Trick_or_TreatChildren Generally Expect Candies, on Halloween but what do they get from Apple this Halloween? No Candies, Nah, No iPods, or iPhones or Macbooks Either.

The Bellevue Apple store gave out Nano-Sized Bookmarks to huge bunch of kids around. Guess why? No one knows. Some people are telling that these Bookmarks would be a sign to show that Books will soon be replaced with their New Tablets…

Kids were confused, but the BookMark Design was good though :P I wanted one too! Jokes Apart, i mean they could have given something better like Apple Shaped Candies.

[Via iPhone Saviour]

Gmail goes out during Halloween

If you are a Gmail user, you probably wouldn’t be in the best of your mood. The reason being, once again Gmail went out, this time on the Halloween occasion. And if you thought that Gmail is back on track, well you should think again. Many users have posted on Google’s support forums complaining they haven’t been able to login into Gmail. It seems certain user have even made up their mind to switch to another email provider. One such user reacted to this situation in the following way:

More than 30 hours without email…totally unacceptable. I’ll definitely have to reconsider my selection of gmail for my primary email account. It may be I have to pay for an account but hell will freeze over before I pay one penny to Google after this debacle

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The sad thing in the whole scenario is that Google has yet to  come out and acknowledged the issue. To add salt to the wound, people (owning premier accounts) calling Google support line have yet to get their calls answered, so much for the so called Google 24/7 support for premier account users.