Sankaranand Balaradjou

Author: Sankaranand

  • Optimize your internet speed in GPRS Dial-up connection

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    The usage of internet is evolving greatly with people switching to latest technological advancements like broadband, ADSL, Wi-Fi etc. But there are some exceptional who still use the Dial-up connection via modem or GRPS. One of a good folk from ThinkDigit forum has found a trick for GRPS Internet users.

    Basically GPRS dial-up connections are mostly used by mobile personals, whereas this trick does not apply for them but for those who temporarily use GRPS dial-up internet in their home. By increasing the Signal Reception in your mobile, you can optimize the internet speed gradually.

    Here is a concise info about the trick:

    All u need is:
    – A lengthy old Antenna for TV or Radio (2 Antenna of abt 1Meter is Recommended)
    – A Standard Speaker Wire of about 1 Meter (Transperant with red lines)
    – A Spring of 5 to 10 mm
    – Two Mousqito Coil Stands
    – Blade
    – Tape
    – Scissor
    – A Small Cardboard Box to fix the Antenna (CPU box Size is Ideal)
    – A Metal Stip of ur Mobile Phone size.

    After gathering all these stuff follow the procedure listed here.
    Source: ThinkDigit Forum.

  • Am I a blogger or designer or something else?

    Some times you don’t have a subject or idea to blog about. Don’t you? Well it’s allwhatchanges.gif because we don’t set our time to search for an interesting story.  My blog has been inactive because I don’t usually set my time to search for a useful or interesting story, maybe to post mine. I am not a pro-blogger but I don’t like my blog indexing others story so I avoid that news middle man kind of post most of time. People always welcome unique and interesting posts which are hard to post regularly.

    But sometimes I fear of losing my blog page rank and feed readers, which induces one to post something.  A technological blog posts any news related to technology keeping the fact that there are new news on this category every second. Best example is DIGG even though my blog is not categorized as single genres I still don’t have any interesting posts.  Well there are some who are of monkey blogging type posting anything that covers their mind; excepting all cases I still cannot concentrate my mind on blogging. Day by day I am losing my pressure due to increased work pressure both in college and other activities. Loads of projects are dumped in my to-do list but I cannot set the initial point to start the correct work. Life is all about how you organize your time and giving priority to your works.

    Generally in my experience what I learned is we have to classify our activities based on the priority and assign the time according to it. 24 hours a day is not extendable and everyone knows it. The mistake I committed is saying YES to all the offers that knocked my door. Never minding the type of work, I used to accept the offer but soon I realized that it’s completely wrong. Everyone has their own talent but people do not tend to realize it properly. Say for example if you challenge with your mates for a cook then to their surprise and yours, the food you’re cooking was delicious which made them mouth watering. In this case you are not goanna change your current profession to a cook since you cooked well.  

    Likewise came this blogging along, some say me as a good graphics designer, some accept me as a computer expert while some part express me as a blogger. Which is my profession? How to find which is better for me? When some people still not able to get through in which they are talented I am confused out of which field I am talented!  

    Please comment me your suggestions! Can I blog? Am I a good blogger?

  • Computer virus can kill a human?

    compvirus.gifYeah absolutely this topic looks weird but for weird people I got to say something. In my experience I have met people who don’t even know the difference between a computer virus and a biological virus.

    Considering the above case, FlexBeta reports a funny real incident happened in Pakistan. An effective Rumor has spread around Pakistan regarding a virus spreading across phone that kills people. The prank message stated that a deadly virus has already killed 20 people and spreading fast. We already might heard about many rumors which sounds logical but yet not believable but this prank message has no logic at all which connects a computer virus with biological virus.

    The craziest part is that many mosques in Pakistan began to announce about this deadly virus publically. Another funny incident is when my friend was not feeling well he was examined by the doctor. Since he was accompanied by his father before the doctor could speak anything, his father began saying that “Doctor, maybe that my son is always sitting in front of computer might the virus attacked him?” My friend laugh outbreak there.

    This is all because some people still don’t know the difference between Computer virus and biological virus.

    Ok here is the snippet for those who don’t really know! Sorry not for people who knew it!

    A computer virus is a computer program that can copy itself and infect a computer without permission or knowledge of the user. The term comes from the term virus in biology. A computer virus reproduces by making, possibly modified, copies of itself in the computer’s memory, storage, or over a network. This is similar to the way a biological virus works but nothing to do with human beings. There are many viruses operating in the general Internet today, and new ones are discovered every day.

    Do you have any incidents to share ?

  • Windows live hotmail to be launched this week ?

    There’s been some rumor spreading among Microsoft fan sites regarding the launch of final version of Windows Live Hotmail (formerly Livemail) that is currently being rolled out to all live mail users in the version of milestone 10.

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    The current M10 has the following updates like change in branding from windows live mail to hotmail, including faster performance with enhanced spell checker, enhanced checkboxes, safety bars etc. By the time you are reading this post I hope you are get upgraded by this new branding if not wait a bit and you will surely.

    But today Liveside reports that we need to set again for another expectation for the brand launch of final version of Windows Live Hotmail which will happen in the early weeks of April. I expect the new launch hopes to give even more cool features that are not currently in beta m10. Also Windows live hotmail plus members should be proud about their whopping 4 GB storage space increase.

    Currently I think Windows live hotmail allows to send and receive mails from other email accounts like in gmail which seem to be a new feature for me or maybe that I am not updated.

    To send mail from different email address:

    • In the upper-right corner of the Windows Live Hotmail home page, click Options, and then click More options.
    • Under Manage your account, click Send and receive mail from other e-mail accounts.
    • Click Add an address to send mail from.

    To add a pop 3 account in Windows live mail:

    • In the upper-right corner of the Windows Live Hotmail home page, click Options, and then click More options.
    • Under Manage your account, click Send and receive mail from other e-mail accounts.
    • Click Add a POP3 account. Enter the settings for the POP3 account, and then click Save.

  • Boosting P2P file sharing by SET

    Overview:
    A peer-to-peer (or P2P) relies on the computing power in which clients provide the resources, including bandwidth, storage space and so the file transfer speed would probably be higher. Although there is no single server involved in this protocol but factors like denial of data transfer speed due to increased rate of users downloading the same file from the source is possible.

    To overcome this problem, one research team found a technique called SET (Similarity-Enhanced Transfer) that claims to speed up P2P downloads by anywhere from 30 to 70 percent by increasing the potential sources of files being downloaded.

    How SET Works?

    Their idea is simply superb and embedded in their tag itself! Yeah I am talking about “SIMILARITY”. Actually what similarity has to do with boosting up the transfer speed? My answer is that it has many. Consider this example that while you are searching for music data in p2p you come across many sources of the same file. So we had the option to download from the list of sources available.

    When you compare the sources, the data you want to download is absolutely similar but only thing that differs is their tags, titles or sometimes the versions. By identifying the identical data, SET searches for similar files by “handprinting,” method that is similar to the pattern matching techniques which after identifying are scanned for any individual chunks that are identical to pieces of the file being downloaded.

    After identifying them, SET expands the available sources of any given file. By this process “SET helps us to download a 30MB movie trailer in only a third of the time whereas the rate of an MP3 download is increased by 70 percent” says Arstechnica.

    Future Applications:

    Seem like all Future peer 2 peer will implement this technique in their system. You can know more about how this system works by visiting here.

  • Activation of Windows Vista is extendable?

    Over the past few days, the news was flowing about the serious issues regarding an exploit in which Windows Vista which unknowingly gives the ability for a user to extend their activation grace period to indefinite time. To simply say for more than a year. The hack requires no special software or crack from a warez site but a simply registry can do it. This simple hack can disable the countdown timer for time left for activation.
    Although your OS seem to be in trial mode, but yet you can enjoy the full functionality without even activating. KEZnews has posted a step by step tutorial for permanentely activating Windows Vista by patching timerstop system in windows.
    Also another registry tweak available to extend the time period of windows activation by a small registry modifications.

    PS: This post is posted not to promote the trick of exploiting windows in non-legal way but to help the public realize and make Microsoft Recognize about the issues.

  • 300 the film

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    After seeing 300 film today, it came to my mind to write a short review about the film overall from my view. I never expected this movie to be this much superb actually, I thought the movie was kind of legendry fighting like in Gladiator, Alexander where the movie is fully focused on the leader only whereas people don’t care about the soldiers but to my surprise this is not that kind, here 300 soldiers are the role models about how they strived hard to fight their enemy etc.

    300 the movie is actually the adaption of a novel called 300 which is inspired based on the Battle of Thermopylae. This battle has some unique things to note about that according to Wikipedia “the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC, an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian Empire at the pass of Thermopylae in central Greece. Vastly outnumbered, the Greeks held back the Persians for three days in one of history’s most famous last stands.”

    So the total numbers of soldier for the Spartans were only 300 who fought against the Achaemenid Persia containing 60,000 – 300,000. It is highly impossible to tackle that much soldiers just by having 300 on your side but this film has made you proved how it is possible.

    Also one thing to be noted in this film is that one cannot win the battle just by having an highest number of soldiers until make sure they are efficient. There is no word about visual FX which has played a very big role than the artists.

    CBFC India has rated this movie as A, so it is recommend for children and pregnant ladies to avoid watching this movie since it contains explicit violent. My overall verdict is that this film is completely new and superb with high end visuals which will surely enrich your entertainment.

  • What i did with my new camera !

    It was last week that my brother ordered a new digital camera Nikon Coolpix S9 with 6.1 mega pixels. We ordered it via Sify Online mall which costs around 10k in Indian rupees. The camera is really a worth piece when I added 1GB SD card that costs another 1.5k. Although I am not an expert in photography I have passionate to take photos.

    This gadget has all the features that simulate the photo taken and makes your look like it was taken by an expert photographer. From one touch portrait to automatic red eye corrector with various modes for different occasions.

    As the first part of trying this camera I took some snaps here. To store these photos online I brought a pro account for $24 in Flickr (A yahoo company) which is one of my favorite photo sharing sites.

    I like photography very much and fanatical with it since childhood. Especially when you see something beautiful and if you want to reproduce that vista then the only way is to take a photograph of it. Actually a picture says 1000 words but nice photographs express more than that.

    I am now working ion digitalizing all my past golden times via digital storage. We can return back to our past hood only when you see those photographs that capture the memories in it. So my kind request for everyone is whether you have hard copies of your old memories or under developed stage of negative rolls please scan it digitally and store it in secure place so that you can retrieve it whenever you want and it remains undestroyed.

  • A.R Rahman’s pray for United Nations [Video]

    A.R Rahman does magic again after Vande Mataram now its UN Anthem.

    My music Legend A.R Rahman about whom I blog often, now gave me a chance to write about his recent magic which made me to unknowingly publicize, since I am affected by Rahmania (People addicted by Rahman’s Music).

    This post is about his “Pray for me Brother” Song dedicated to UN’s anthem for its Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) campaign. According to A.R Rahman he strongly believed that Music had the power to change the lives of the people and I too agree that.

    A report from Zeenews says that Rahman has sung this song in english to indicate that statement from India for which english is choosed as best form of expression.

    This is Rahman’s First English song, released by Universal Music that was shot in black and white by Bharatbala Production (Vande Mataram). This is the world’s first music video shot in the mobile cinemascope format. This song was written by Blaaze and composed by our legend.

    “Poverty and hunger have no religion or gender and this song is to inspire people to do a little bit about the world. We all believe in a creator and even a prayer can change things,” – A.R Rahman.

    Do you personally feel that Music has the power to change the lives of people ? Are you agreeing to A.R rahman? ok Why don’t watch the video below and speak out your comment !

    Watch the “Pray for me brother” Video in YouTube | Download |