Archive for March, 2009

Saturday, March 28th, 2009

Today’s visit to Valley School

It’s been a while since I visited Valley School. I decided to try my luck today morning.  I met Basavaraj on the way to Valley school. I could find a few birds on the way to Valley school. Success rate was near to zero inside the school. Here are some photos from today’s trip. [...]

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Sunday, March 22nd, 2009

Video encoding for Nokia or iPhone

Nokia and other current smartphones use a video format called 3GP. 3GPP, 3GPP2 are the new worldwide standard for the creation, delivery and playback of multimedia over 3rd generation, high-speed wireless networks. Defined by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project and 3rd Generation Partnership Project 2 respectively, these standards seek to provide uniform delivery of rich [...]

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Sunday, March 22nd, 2009

Creating Nokia playlist

I’ve been exploring ways to encode videos and create playlist for my Nokia N96 without using Nokia’s PC Suite. I use openSUSE11.1 and hardly boot into my dual boot windows. Nokia implements usb storage and so E:\ gets mounted as a USB volume in linux. You can copy or move music [...]

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Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

Legends of Engineering

We struggled really hard for a product release last couple of years.  It was more like 24 hr working through out.  However, I must say that company rewarded us with awards and an invitation to  presidents club.  Today, I noticed this site.  This is the product that we were working on.  Good to see some [...]

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Monday, March 9th, 2009

How many computers does the world need?

This was an interesting story. According to Microsoft research chief Rick Rashid, around 20 per cent of all the servers sold around the world each year are now being bought by a small handful of internet companies – he named Microsoft, Google, Yahoo and Amazon. That is an amazing statistic, and certainly not one I’d [...]

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