xbmc Media Center

Found a new Media Center and it seems pretty coooool. Check this out.

Apple Tablet

The (rumored) Apple Tablet and a transparent AMOLED screen.

Google Nexus... and more

Google Nexus with 1GHz and lot of RAM, nothing wrong in calling it a superphone. I'm waiting  till Firefox Mobile becomes available to get my hands on it. It can't be bad. Saw one gaming system with 6 monitors attached to AMD Eyefinity6 card! Wow. Nvidia Tegra 2 launched officially which will be available on most mobile devices very soon. Some are already there. Apple Tablet (rumored) will be the biggest contender for HP Slate, that's once it become available. Haier has introduced a completely wireless TV. No cables for video or power either. Hoping to get some more details on HTC HD2. Charge batteries on the go, Twirling battery is an amazing concept. Saw some reviews on ATI DirectX 11 compatible Mobility Radeon GPUs. Great fire-power on the move. Other than tech-stuff, Spider Man will be little delayed and all time favorite Lego will come back with Universe.

Windows 7 - Hands on

Ok I was a little late and I finally migrated to Windows 7! I was using Vista for about 11 months and apart from eating lot of resources, never had a serious issue worth complaining. Only issue I had was with my old Creative sound card driver (which Creative didn't release any driver compatibke with Vista) which later fixed by switching to kX Project WDM Audio Driver, which was awesome. Ok lets go for Windows 7 again. I was little lazy to backup all the docs and settings and go for a clean installation ;) So I thought of upgrading instead. I had Vista ultimate so it really didn't matter. Only problems I had was making nearly 17GB free space on C: drive and upgrade Vista  to SP1. (I never apply SPs unless absolute necessary, instead live with regular updates. Why? I don't know :) When GTA4 required XP SP3, I just tweaked registry and played the game.) Upgrading was really smooth, took around 2 hours to complete but without a single mess. Not a single issue? Alright I had to find new drivers for GPU, sounds, WiFi adpater and web cam. Nvidia got an updated driver. D-Link got a driver update, but I had to update the firmware also to make it work. Logitech got an updated driver for web cam. Only headache I had was with sounds. My old (but great) Creative Audigy doesn't have any official driver after XP. This time what I found was "SB Audigy Series Support Pack" by daniel_k. How is it? Simply amazing! (Thank u very much Daniel!)

Ok, what I feel about the new OS. Simply put - SUPERB! No kidding you can feel it's fast, mostly because I worked with Vista for neally 1 year. There're some great features under hood like easy wireless setup menu, new themes (like old times), redefined system tray, easy access to screen resolutions, new calc, mspaint and wordpad with office style ribbon. I'm glad I was able to work with old Creative card with full features. Ok I'm still digging up whats new. I'll make a full review about Windows 7 soon.

Dirty @ it best :-)

More Windows 7 'GodModes' !!!

GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
{00C6D95F-329C-409a-81D7-C46C66EA7F33}
{0142e4d0-fb7a-11dc-ba4a-000ffe7ab428}
{025A5937-A6BE-4686-A844-36FE4BEC8B6D}
{05d7b0f4-2121-4eff-bf6b-ed3f69b894d9}
{1206F5F1-0569-412C-8FEC-3204630DFB70}
{15eae92e-f17a-4431-9f28-805e482dafd4}
{17cd9488-1228-4b2f-88ce-4298e93e0966}
{1D2680C9-0E2A-469d-B787-065558BC7D43}
{1FA9085F-25A2-489B-85D4-86326EEDCD87}
{208D2C60-3AEA-1069-A2D7-08002B30309D}
{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}
{2227A280-3AEA-1069-A2DE-08002B30309D}
{241D7C96-F8BF-4F85-B01F-E2B043341A4B}
{4026492F-2F69-46B8-B9BF-5654FC07E423}
{62D8ED13-C9D0-4CE8-A914-47DD628FB1B0}
{78F3955E-3B90-4184-BD14-5397C15F1EFC}

Beware! Don't try this with Vista!

More from CES 2010

Natal Xbox add-on will let people play games using their body as a controller.
3D TV!!!
Super Mario still rolling! Featuring on Wii.
AR.Drone helicopter controllable by iPhone and transmit camera pics to your phone.
Intel Wireless Display (WiDi) wirelessly connect your laptop to your HDTV to stream video / audio.
Eye-Fi new Pro X2 with 802.11n  +  8GB.

YouTube Piano

You wanna play piano on YouTube? Go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siW0pRpCrJU 
Wait till its completely loaded before start playing :-)

Win 7 - God Mode

Step 1: Right click in your desktop.

Step 2: Click New and create a folder.

Step 3: Name your new folder as "GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}" and press enter.

Step 4: Blink as the folder changes to look like the control panel.

Step 5: Open the folder and see inside. Amazing huh? :)

Form where should I start?

Lot of things to talk about. Google Nexus One will be coming out very soon. Saw some device with touch-less pointing system, WOW good for smudge free screens :) Asus offering their new Eee PC with upto 11 hours battery life, that's greay mobility! My favourite IM Skype will work in HD from next version. 'Kama Sutra' the most pirated e-book of 2009! Wasn't there any other left? LOL. Western Digital new portable HDD with USB 3.0, amazing. It seems to be starting of a great year. Lets see what'll keep rolling in future.

2010

Ok I accept 2009 was a failure for my blog :-( FB should be blamed. Anyway I'm doing it far batter on this year. Keep on visiting this simple blog and you'll find lot of interesting things to think & talk about.