AmviZone (Amateur Video Zone) Beta is Live
My thoughts
The entertainment industry is booming and there is growing demand for online media contents. Amvizone is an initiative that help amateur short film makers to promote their videos online. The group behind amvizone moviez are in touch with film Industry experts which is the USP(unique selling point) that make amateur film makers to host there contents at amvizone. The amvizone group started this venture some time back after the success of amateur video “Jaada at Technopark“. The page impression for the video made a surge in a week which identified the growing demand for short movies. The video was hosted in Youtube for 2 years but after that it was hosted in amvizone the page impression drastically increased.
The application is still in its beta which does not have the functionality for user management but the user management features will be live in couple of days. After that user can be able to upload contents and its management.
Application description
Language for development: PHP
Database: MySQL
Content distributed network (CDN): amazone (which is pretty similar to amvizone 
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Framework: Symfony
Operating system: Ubuntu Linux.
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Trip to Wagamon
My thoughts, wirelessWe are on the way to Wagamon. I am writing this post from our Car. You know how I am getting internet? Yes we are going in our Wifi enabled car with internet connection. All of us are using our laptops. We started 1 hour back we reached Kollam now. We need to meet one of the friend here.
Hope we will get the range for internet connection everywhere. As Wagamon hill station is a tourist destination I hope we can enjoy internet there. I had experienced some sort of internet connection issues, may be due to the tower switching. Anyway I am browsing the internet without much hurdle.
The trip
We have a presentation at peerumedu Engineering college tomorrow afternoon. We will leave to Wagmon after the presentation. Will stay at the hill station tomorrow night and will come back day after. Will update you the news from Wagamon. Oh the time is approaching 10PM its time for me to sleep.
Next day.
We had the seminar at MBC college and we started to Wagamon the place is really cool. But the main problem is no network connection for Airtel and Vodafone. So we were not able to call. BSNL connection was there but the signal strength was not good. We tried to connect to internet several times but we didn’t get the connection there. But we got some signal and we finally connected from the top of the hill. My friend is a travel blogger he will describe about the trip in his travel blog.
Yes the connection is here man.
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The Ultimate Mobile Payment Solution :- mChek
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Technology has moved forward a lot. We are very much used with online payment solutions for wide variety of daily purpose which varies from online money transfer to e-commerce solutions. For instance now a days we are booking our air tickets, train tickets, movie tickets etc through online payment solution. Those with a few technology knowledge are used with all kind of online payment systems. By the advent of mobile phones which created another platform for payment, which are going to be more popular than online payment solutions,The mobile payment system.
Yes mchek has made it possible, the mobile payment system which enable online payment system into mobile, the mobile as an e-purse (electronic purse). The solution is currently live in India. mChek already identified their potential markets. The company is based in Bangalore. Company had already tied with banks like ICICI bank, city bank, corporation bank, HDFC etc. The application works with GSM currently the application is live with AIRTEL customers only but I guess soon this solution will be live with other providers too. They are selling their USP via AIRTEL which add more attention to providers. They had tied up with VISA and MasterCard for payment system. They are targeting both merchants and end users. mcheck is just an enabler they provide solution that make payment system mobile enabled. Currently they are backing payment via mobile for AIRTEL, transfer money via Airtel, ticket booking in Yatra etc.
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How does application works?
To avail this facility you have to signup with mchek first(currently Airtel customers only). The registration is pretty simple just enter your mobile number and after that you will receive a USSD push from mchek. USSD push is a simple session oriented SMS push(similar to session oriented login in online). You will receive a j2me application on your mobile if your mobile is j2me enabled. Either you can use j2me application to add you mchek PIN or you can use online interface to add a PIN. The PIN is 6 digit numeric code which can be used later for transaction(s). This PIN should be kept secret don’t divulge this number to anyone. After adding PIN you need to register either your debit card or credit card for future transaction(s). You don’t need to carry your debit / credit card for money transfer afterwards. Suppose you need to pay your Airtel bill once you register your credit / debit card you pay bill from mobile itself. You can send query like “PAY BILL” to a particular number you will receive a USSD PUSH which will ask for mchek PIN and amount to transfer. If the PIN is correct the mchek will communicate with payment gateway and will process the payment. So simple as sending an SMS you can pay your monthly bills.
We can also power our existing payment solution to be mobile powered by registering mchek as a merchant. Now I am in house for developing one of our solution to be mchek enabled.They are providing libraries for platforms like php, java.
The solution is payment so be careful while developing solutions. A simple loophole may burn a lot.
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Wifi Car:- Technology Hurdles
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When we develop something our own we may experience some technology issues. There are couple of technology issues with Wifi car. I will explain the hurdles below and I will suggest the solution or workaround.
The main hurdles we faced is stable electric supply to drive SBC, wifi router. Most of the Car have 12V DC output from the battery and associated dianomo. We need 20V DC with 3.5A rating and 12V with 1A rating. So we need to design some adapter to cope this. Some adapters are available online we can also buy the same. But we need to make sure that the adapter is stable one. By the time we are using a costume designed power supply for this.
Apart from the electric supply we faced another major issue. As we are using BSNL EVDO for internet connection we need the dialing driver and its stack for connecting the internet. We can’t directly use Wifi router with EVDO cards. Moreover EVDO cards can be connected to USB only. We are using a laptop to install and dial EVDO now. But we need to carry laptop every time for connecting internet, we need to avoid this bottleneck. Single board computer is a solution for this. We can install a linux operating system in a single board computer and we can plug the EVDO card in the USB available in single board computer. By using a single board computer we can reduce the power rating too. For a device from compulab (check the link above) the power rating is 3.3V and around 1A current. This device will also support operating systems like Embedded Windows XP and linux kernels. The device cost around $140, which is promising we can also use the same device as music player too.
In the coming days we will explain the procedure for installing each and every components described above. Coming post’s contain somesort of technology configurations. Don’t be baulked to ask your queries and doubts. Don’t miss any of the post in the series, you may get confused if you miss some.
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Getting things done through mindmaps.
My thoughtsI was using to-do list until yesterday to maintain the list of pending works. But couple of months back one of my friend introduced me an online mindmap called mindmeister. He told me to start your online account and create your mindmap there. But I took around 5 months to create an account may be I am lazy . But today I created account at mindmeister.
The mindmap is something similar to this.
What can I say the application is extremely cool. I used to maintain different list in my to-do list previously. But the main advantage using mindmap is we can visualize our entire pending works in a single diagram. Besides maintaining pending jobs we can also use mindmap for lot of purpose. For instance we can use mindmaps to explain concepts, explain complex architectures, products architectures etc.
The online application mindmeister support 3 kind of editions which are classified according to the price and its features.
1) Basic free (free)
2) Premium ($4/month)
3) Team ($3/month)
This application does support all kind of web 2.0 feature. We can share, collaborate, easy AJAX interactions etc. The application does support export and import of your mindmaps. Premium and team edition support SSL so it can be used by corporates for creating product notes, product concepts etc. Another attractive feature the application is google gear enabled. So we can edit mindmaps offline.
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Make Your Windows Vista Explorer faster by disabling Thumbnail Preview
Operating systemsYou might be experiencing that your explorer is taking time for loading. One solution to minimize the loading time is to disable the thumbnail preview. The thumbnails are reduced size version of your content whether it is picture or videos. This thumbnail preview will help us to quickly find desired content from destination folder by the process of skimming.
The loading time of your explorer is due to the fact that the explorer application will scan the content and generate its thumbnails when we open the explorer or a particular folder. This ambit can be nullified by disabling the thumbnail preview generation. However some of the users like photoshop users, entertainment users, HTML developers are addicted by thumbnails because they really need it. They don’t need to bother about this post, because this process is not applicable for them.
Now I am going to explain the process of disabling thumbnail preview. Open up your windows explorer from your desktop or start menu or by hitting Windows + E button. Click on the menu organize on the top left of your explorer. From the menu select the menu item labeled Folder and Search Options. Check out the figure below.
After selecting the menu item another window will open which contain three tabs. On the Window click on the view tab and enable checkbox that is labeled Always shows icons, never thumbnails.
Restart your explorer, this time you can see magnificent difference in loading time.
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Post Series :- How To Make Your Car WiFi Enabled?
wirelessIamatechie always believes in wireless enabled innovative ideas and its experimentations. We proudly announce “how to make your car WiFi enabled with an internet connection so that you can access internet whereever you go“. We are starting the post series which describes and demonstrate how we changed our Chevrolet Optra to WiFi enabled car.
Initially we started experimenting with a GSM/GPRS card and phone for internet connection from AIRTEL, which was pretty slow. But we moved to a 2Mbps EVDO BSNL connection now which is also cheaper wireless connection available in India for an amount 550INR monthly rental.
We are now experimenting with a laptop and linksys router (wireless access to nearby devices). But we are planning to do with single board computer instead of laptop so that we can avert plug and play procedure for internet connection every time. Now a days size of the single board computer is very less. Even the single board computer available within the size of a thumb drive .
I guess all of my readers will participate for this experiment so that within couple of days we can bring our car Wifi enabled. Don’t miss the opportunity to participate for this experiment. Enjoy reading !!!
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Remove Happy Birthday Virus
My thoughtsOne of friend from Dubai told me about the Virus. He told me that their outlets got affected by this virus, its spreading very fast. It will loaded in the first time and will get affected in 1 - 2 weeks time. The name of the virus is Happy birthday virus.
Which all medias used for spreading?
Usually there are 2 main media’s that spread this Virus. One is emails another one is thumb drives. Be very care if you are using outlook as email client. Outlook has an option that will automatically downloads the attachment when we open that particular email.
What are the aftermath?
This mainly affects lots system commands like delete and some necessary commands that windows needed for its execution. We can’t change registry entry since the virus is executing.
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What is the name of executable?
The name of the executable is pretty interesting very similar to explorer.exe but explorcr.exe so that we will be confused. The executable loads in startup so we won’t be able to do our tasks.
Process of removal
Don’t forget to change the downloaded files extension to .zip and change exc file extension to exe!!!
Download below files (Security Task Manager and NOD32 Registry Fix)
2. Kill the process of explorcr.exe and delete manually from %systemroot%\system32 (its hidden). you won’t see happy birthday caption again, as soon as you kill the process
3. Delete manually also autorun.inf from the %systemroot% (its hidden)
Remark:
If you cant find that files, use some other file browser software such as captain nemo!! cause of virus disabled most of useful system command such as cmd, regedit, msconfig etc.
4. Insert windows xp cd-rom for copy ntldr from i386\ntldr to %systemdrive%
5. Run nod32 registry fix to recover system command
6. Restart your computer
Scan all usb storage and delete manually all of autorun.inf, explorcr.exe and foldername.exe. explorcr.exe delete ntldr fron the systemdrive. Use windows xp recovery console to recopy the ntldr, if the computer is already deleted by explorcr.exe.
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Windows Vista Bootloader
Operating systemsIn one of my previous post I described the workaround for installing Windows XP in your pre-installed Windows Vista computer and the process of partition drive in Windows Vista. But I forgot to mention about the bootloader for Vista. When we have multiple operating system installed in our system we need to choose the operating system to boot while booting your system. So we need to install a bootloader for this.
When we install an Linux or Ubuntu in our system then a bootloader will be installed with the installation process. So we can select which operating system to load during the booting process. But we are installing 2 operating systems, Windows Vista and Windows XP both are Windows. Since the primary operating system is Windows Vista we need to install a Vista booloader. Download and install VistaBootPro.
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During the installation of VistaBootPro it will force to install .NET framework 2.0. Open the bootloader application. Select the radio buttons as shown in the figure below.
To add Windows XP bootloader entry, click on the Diagnostics menu item and then choose Run Diagnostics from the menu. This will scan the and find if there is an Windows XP in your system. Click on the “Manage OS Entries” tab and then click in the textbox for Rename OS Entry, and name it something useful like “Windows XP” or “Your Favorite name”.
Click the button Apply Updates and reboot the system. On your next boot process you can see the bootloader with options viz Vista and the Windows XP.
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Godaddy me domain fraud
My thoughts
Yesterday night onwards me domains are opened for registration meanwhile GoDaddy played some fraud games to their customers. We registered couple of me domains but today we got a email saying that “Concurrent registration happened for the same domain so we are putting the domains for auction“. I am sure it is a guise, I worry whether such concurrent registration problems occur with godaddy’s database. It’s really a well planned game from the corporate.
If their is such a concurrency problem with database why don’t it happened previously? Is the architects and engineers at godady are too bad to predict and take remedial measures for this type of concurrency issues? If yes shame call us we can deliver you applications that are quiet stable than godaddy .
There is no need for a reputed company like godaddy to play such scam against their valuable customers. I would say it was against company ethics. I don’t know how much bad impression are going to create against goDaddy simply because of this planned game. I feel pity on you goDaddy.
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