Motorola DC800 Bluetooth Stereo Gateway and S9-HD Bluetooth Headphone
Motorola Bluetooth Home Stereo Transceiver by streaming music to your the Bluetooth Stereo Headphones, the Bluetooth Home Stereo Adapter turns audio devices such as home stereos and MP3 players into wireless music systems. Just plug the DC800 into your home stereo or MP3 player with an included RCA cable or 3.5mm cable and you are ready to go. You can even hook up to your RCA capable TV!
The Motorola MOTOROKR™ S9-HD Stereo Headset delivers style, performance, and remarkable sound for your iPhone, iPod, or other stereo-capable Bluetooth device. This lightweight headset lets you make hands-free calls and wirelessly listen to music, and it features noise-isolating ear buds, so you’ll get high-definition surround sound for all of your calls and tracks.
The Motorola DC800 Bluetooth Stereo Gateway and S9-HD Bluetooth Headphone are excellent products and works amazingly great in combination. The best part that I love is: zero setup. Now, I can watch the TV, without disturbing my wife. But, I use it mainly with my computer to listen to video lectures, watch YouTube, etc. The reason, I don’t use the Motorola Headphone directly with the laptop is, that, it is tiresome to pair it with my laptop. Also for long lectures, if I pause it in between, and want to put my headphone on charge, I can’t switch the audio playback device, without reloading the online flash videos. Now, I can just sit on my bean bag, and enjoy the videos, no messy long cables, superb audio quality, no background noise.
BTW! Motorola DC800 Bluetooth Stereo Gateway can be used as a Bluetooth receiver also, to extend the wireless audio range.
WARNING: Don’t buy Motorola S9 HD, from eBay. All the Chinese version, or as they call themselves original OEM editions are complete waste of money.
Stuff’s that I love: Nook Color
January 7th, 2012 | by Priyank | personal
Jan
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Nook Color:
The Nook Color has a 7-inch 1024×600 resolution multi-touch touchscreen LCD display. The Nook Color uses a Texas Instruments ARM Cortex-A8 processor running at 800 MHz. The device has 8 GB of internal memory supplied by Sandisk, but only 5GB is user-accessible and can store an estimated 6,000 books or 100 hours of audio. As with the original Nook, microSD and microSDHC memory cards can be inserted to expand the Nook Color’s memory up to 32 GB. Unlike the prior Nook, the Nook Color’s rechargeable battery is not user-replaceable and is expected to last for 8 hours of continuous use with the wireless turned off. The device includes a built-in speaker and a universal 3.5 mm stereo headphone jack. VividView technology is used to enhance image quality when viewing in direct sunlight.
In addition to rooting the stock operating system, complete versions of Android are available that can fully replace the firmware and provide functionality similar to any other Android device. Perhaps the most popular such replacement is CyanogenMod 7. CyanogenMod is a community-developed firmware replacement that can be downloaded for free. It can be installed to the internal storage or started via a microSD card, which typically will not affect the internal installation. Neither replacing the stock operating system nor running the operating system from a microSD card requires rooting.
With CyanogenMod 7, VividView technology multi-touch touchscreen LCD, 8+ hrs of battery life, WiFi, expandable memory up to 32 GB, millions of android apps like: Swype keyboard, ezPDFReader, Google apps, Dolphin Browser, Read It Later, Loquendo TTS Voice, Launcher Pro, DocumentsToGo, RealCalc, PowerAMP, Talking Clipboard, Screen Filter, etc. it makes an completely indispensable part of your life.
It’s amazing, my whole reading experience of reading books, news, emails, etc is redefined now. I am loving it.
Computer Vision Syndrome
January 4th, 2012 | by Priyank | fun & entertainment, personal
Jan
04
God gives it to everyone, everyday for free. Still, I have to pay for it and get synthetic version, while everyone gets natural one. The irony is that, I can’t pray to GOD, to give me also more…tears.
That’s the beauty of synthetic tears eyes drop for geek’s (Computer Vision Syndrome) dry eyes.
Why don’t they sell “Refresh Plus Tears” in India? The “Refresh Tears” bottle once opened, is no good, after 1 month, even if you had just used it for 2 days. I think, I know the answer, $$$.
How to read Circuit Schematics
January 4th, 2012 | by Priyank | technology
Jan
04
Yesterday, I watched this amazing tutorial from Collin’s Lab (Make Magazine). Collin has some other interesting videos also like: Electronics Tools, Infrared light, PCB Etching, Pulse Width Modulation, etc. Make sure to watch these.
Crack password protected zip files in a minute
December 31st, 2011 | by Priyank | technology
Dec
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I never knew, breaking a password protected zip file, would be so easy. Just broke a password protected zip archive of a code base. The code uses some standard code libraries, which are publicly available. Using the known plain text and Eli Biham and Paul Kocher algorithm to get the PKZip keys, it take seconds to break into the encrypted zip archive.
This bring us, into an interesting question, why we still uses zip standard, when 7z format is there for so many years now. Also, why do we have password requirements for WiFi, etc. where password algorithms flaws have already been shown publicly. Also, what is the use of root digital certificate authority, when they can’t guarantee the authenticity of their own root certificate.
Seminar Report on Inter-Integrated Circuit (I²C)
December 28th, 2011 | by Priyank | technology
Dec
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Created a seminar report on Inter-Integrated Circuit (I²C) by plagiarizing from various sources. You can download it from: http://priyank.in/2011/12/seminar-report-on-inter-integrated-circuit-i%C2%B2c/i2c/.
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Motorola Fire XT Review
September 26th, 2011 | by Priyank | general, personal
Sep
26
Motorola Fire XT 530
Pros:
- Beautiful design, great looks and excellent build quality. Mimic somewhat to HTC phones in look. Front is metallic titanium and back is flexible plastic/rubber like finish.
- 800 MHz processor, Adreno 200 GPU, Li-Ion 1540 mAh battery.
- 5 MP camera, auto focus, LED flash. Dual Camera for video calling using pre-installed Qik Video. Picture quality is average.
- Charge through standard USB port is much faster than through the Motorola charger.
- Notification led light near front camera.
- Call Recording and MotoSwitch UI and Android 2.3.4 (Gingerbread) OS.
- Audio quality and signal reception is average (Better than Samsung, but still Nokia is the King). Speakers are loud and good for general use (not music or crowded markets).
- Touch sensitivity is Fair (Not excellent, Not Bad). I am still using it with the default screen sticker, as it is completely transparent unlike Samsung phone screen stickers.
- Browsing experience is good with this phone. Fast and responsive UI, pinch to zoom available.
- Very Cheap. Buy from letsbuy.com for Rs 12,890 with free Jabra Bluetooth Headset BT 2045 Worth Rs 1499 and additional discount of Rs 1200 with discount code: icicilb
Cons:
- User available memory is too low, just 150 MB. Can’t install apps from the market, as the memory is easily filled. Also Apps2SD won’t work, as the apk’s updates files will remain in the internal storage only. Solution: Root your phone any use Link2SD program from android market.
- Battery doesn’t last more than 10-12 hours (2G) in standby mode with no WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth On.
- Bottom buttons are very hard to press and use, as they are not touch sensitive buttons.
- FM reception seems to be very bad, normal earphones (not in-ear, also no ear plugs).
- Not much customizations, but I like the Apps Drawer (Folder) to arrange applications into category.
Rooting method not known. All known exploits don’t work.You can now root your Motorola Fire XT using the method described at: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1218506&page=2- Due to it’s core being ARM v6, so many apps won’t run like Adobe Flash Player, Mozilla Firefox, etc. Also HD games won’t work due to low resolution.
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Open Letter to Mozilla Foundation
August 18th, 2011 | by Priyank | technology
Aug
18
Dear Mozilla Foundation,
Your imitation of Google Chrome browser from UI to increasing the version numbers so rapidly is no only pissing the corporate world, but also powerful XPCOM add-on developers. The reason I support Mozilla and not Chrome is not speed, standards, blah blah, but the power of extensibility, which gives Firefox an upper hand in comparison to Google Chrome Version Infinity.
But unnecessary waiting for delayed xulrunner SDK, incomplete documentation, and unnecessary re-compilation of code every time is at least wasting my time, which I could have used to support Firefox more. I seriously can’t understand your strategy which changed from Gecko 2.0.
When you already have methods to auto block all add-ons, why not, just allow and load an XPCOM add-on if user wants to run it and is ok with running it. Also when add-on runs as a separate process now, what is the need for not loading them, when Firefox version changes. Why can’t you have a manifest, which tells that this add-on uses these COM interfaces, and its ok to run it with this version of Firefox also.
Hope, someone there is listening.
Your’s Sincerely,
Priyank
Mozilla Firefox to include add-on blocking feature
August 18th, 2011 | by Priyank | technology
Aug
18
Mozilla has provided a new feature to auto block all add-on installed silently by third party. Third party software installers until now, can install add-on for Firefox without user permissions. But now, these add-ons will be disabled until user explicitly enables them.
This new feature will be available in the Mozilla Firefox Aurora channel and will be available in Firefox version 8.
Create an alias in Windows
May 20th, 2011 | by Priyank | technology
May
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Recently, I wanted to create shortcuts for git commands. I can have written aliases inside the git config file, but then also, I had to type git explicitly. So, I just searched the internet and came across this link: http://superuser.com/questions/49170/create-an-alias-in-windows-xp.
And I just wrote few quick aliases using the doskey in a file called ‘a.cmd‘. Now I just type ‘a‘ and press TAB and ENTER in the command prompt and set aliases quickly. I don’t want it to be automatic, so I just manually run the a.cmd whenever needed. Here is how my a.cmd looks like initially:
doskey st=git status doskey log=git log doskey +=git add $1 doskey co=git commit doskey ..=cd .. doskey bin=cd "D:\Project\Release\" doskey src=cd "D:\Project\"