May 04


Nokia, the leading mobile phone manufacturer of the world lately joined the race of making the slimmest flap phones.

They finally lunched the Nokia N76 with Symbian OS 9.1.

It is an intelligently designed phone has all the ingredients to be accepted by the high-end mobile users. This sleek phone is bound to create some ripples among the high-end mobile enthusiasts worldwide.

Nokia N76 has some cool features like shortcut key which allow playing of music and taking pictures without opening the phone. (See the picture right).
It also has a 2 megapixel camera with 20x digital zoom for taking up to 1600X1200 pixels high clarity pictures.

It also has an integrated Flash. Video calling and video sharing are two of the exciting features of Nokia N76. It can also be effectively used for video streaming, storing and downloading. Videos are captured in QVGA resolution camera and can playback up to 15 fps with up to 4X digital zoom. This makes taking videos a sheer pleasure.

It has a internal memory of 26MB and can be extended up to 2GB with a miniSD memory card.
With a large 262K color display and EDGE facility you can surf the web faster with Desktop like features.
The phone is equipped with integrated FM radio, Music Player which supports mp3, wav and aac files and also has a Real Player for playing rm and 3gp files. The wide screen of the phone enables the users to view the downloaded and recorded video clips in larger size. This enhances the viewing pleasure of the users.

Nokia N 76 support various email protocols such as SMTP, IMAP4, and POP3. This is apart from the regular features such as Chatting, MMS, Picture messaging etc. Other common Nokia features include calculator, voice recorder, Bluetooth, integrated hands free speakers etc. With Nokia N76, it is also possible to video conference. It is also possible to use software like Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express. Nokia N76 has a talk time of up to 2.75 hours and a standby time of up to 8.5 days. It comes with a standard Li-ion 700 mAh battery.

Nokia N76 is expected to maintain the popularity of the Nokia N Series mobile phones. It is stunning looking phone loaded with tremendous features.

Available Memory Cards for Nokia N76:
Micro-SD card
Micro SD memory
Memory Stick Micro
M2 memory
M2 card

May 03


The iPod, while standing as a technological marvel, perhaps will ultimately claim its place in history as a connector of societies and people. Yes, everyone knows and appreciates the fact that the iPod, or one of the other versions of the iPod, such as the iPod Nano can store, list and play hundreds, if not thousands of songs. And while that is to be admired, perhaps the iPod’s greatest trick is how it can, in some instances and circumstances, bring people together. No, the iPod isn’t going to solve all of the worlds problems and ails, but it can bring two people together to share their personal style who would otherwise never have met, even if they bumped into each other in a crowded square.

When an iPod user sees another iPod user, a bond is created. Those ubiquitous white earbuds are more than just something that delivers music from the player to the listener. Rather, they are a symbol of the revolution that the iPod started when it was first released. There is something about the iPod, and iPod users that isn’t really explainable, or that can’t really be translated into other forms of portable technology.

The iPod is both personal and shared; everyone has an iPod story, or they accessorize their iPod in a certain manner. And, most important of all, many iPod owners and users are dying to either share the music on their iPod with a fellow iPod user, or is interested in listening to what’s on someone else’s iPod.

There are cases of iPod strangers becoming friends, simply by coming up to each other ans asking the simple question “what’s on your iPod?” For some reason, the iPod has a cache that isn’t really inherent in other items like the Walkman, Discman or Blackberry. Nobody would really walk up to a fellow Blackberry user and ask who’s in your phone list, now would they? Granted, a phone list is to be more protected than a music playlist, but song selection is much more personal than the phone number of your hairstylist.

Seeing someone else with an iPod can sometimes create a sense of comraderie. The iPod Nano is the most popular portable digital music player in the world today. However, even though it has and enjoys tremendous popularity, not everyone has an iPod. And those who want to own an iPod don’t really understand the iPod culture and family until they have one.

The music, the portability, the look, the accessories, the style - there are no other MP3 players like the iPod in the world. And once you are part of the iPod family, you literally want to meet every member that’s out there and experience and listen to what’s on their iPod. Just as important, you want to say to someone else with an iPod “hey, you have to listen to THIS.”

Will the iPod open the lines of communication around the world and get people talking, listening and sharing? No, it won’t do that, unfortunately. But, what it can do is that it can introduce iPod listener A to iPod listener B and exchange music, ideas, and maybe even an email address or two. Think about it: if you were in a foreign country, and wanted to know what was popular among the youth of said country, the best way to do so would be to listen to the music of the land. And, depending on your demeanour, most people with an Apple iPod Nano would be receptive to sharing their music with you. That doesn’t mean running up to someone like a madman, trying to shove your earbuds into their skull. Rather, simply introduce youself and your purpose, and you may find someone who is on the same mission as you!

May 01

FFDSHOW is a DirectShow decoding filter for decompressing DivX, XviD, H.264, FLV1, WMV, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2, MPEG-4 movies. It uses libavcodec from ffmpeg project for video decompression, postprocessing code from mplayer to enhance visual quality of low bitrate movies, and is based on original DirectShow filter from XviD, which is GPL’ed educational implementation of MPEG4 encoder.

Features:
- various compression methods:
· MPEG 4 compatible (Xvid, DivX 4, DivX 5) using libavcodec or XviD
· Divx 3 compatible, MSMPEG4v2, MSMPEG4v1
· WMV1/7, WMV2/8
· H263, H263+, H264
· HuffYUV in YV12 colorspace
· MJPEG
· MPEG 1
· Theora (not for regular use, format isn’t stabilized yet)
· MPEG 2 by using mpeg2enc code from MJPEGtools project
· all Windows Media Video 9 supported encoders with output to asf/

wmv file or AVI
- all common encoding modes: constant bitrate, fixed quantizer, fixed quality, two pass encoding (depends on compressor features)
- for libavcodec and XviD detailed selection of motion estimation method
- minimum and maximum I frames interval
- minimum and maximum quantizer selection, quantizer type and trellis quantization selection for libavcodec
- adaptive quantization (aka. masking) for libavcodec and XviD, single coefficient elimination
- selectable compression of starting and ending credits
- two curve compression algorithms for second pass of two pass encoding - thanks to XviD developers
- second pass simulation: although not very precise, still helpful for tweaking advanced curve compression parameters
- ability to use libavcodec internal two pass code
- image preprocessing with ffdshow image filters (latest ffdshow version must be installed)
- graph during encoding: if your encoding program doesn’t provide one
- B frames support: from one to eight consecutive B frames
- support for MPEG 4 quarterpel and GMC
- selectable interlaced encoding
- decompression

Download FFDShow from here

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