Tuesday, October 9
Thursday, June 28
Is Engineering in CS/IT the Right Choice for You?
Saturday, June 16
Samsung Galaxy Y Pocket S5300 : Close Kin of Galaxy Y
Thursday, June 14
How to Find the Song Playing in Background ofYouTube Video
You have just finished watching a video on YouTube and really liked the song that was playing in that video. Unfortunately, you couldn’t recognize the name of the song and the video description too has no information about the track.
What’s that song in the YouTube Video?
Here are some tricks to help you find the name of a song that’s used in a YouTube video:
Wednesday, June 13
Windows Metro UI powered Facebook Phone in the making...
Condition Zero :: Video Game Accounts Hacked , What You need to do for Your Protection?
Game accounts have been the targets of hackers for years, but as more games go online or require account verification the stakes are only rising. Having your account hacked could mean hours of lost work and hours more spent on the phone with the game’s tech support.
Tuesday, June 12
Galgotia's College of Engineering and Technology :: Opening & Closing Ranks UPSEE 2011 ::
Adding HTML and Java Scripts in Blogger blog posts
Monday, June 11
Delhi Technological University (DCE) Admissions :: Opening & Closing Ranks AIEEE-2011 ::
Sunday, June 10
Madan Mohan Malaviya Engineering College :: Opening & Closing Ranks UPSEE 2011 ::
Kamla Nehru Institute of Technology :: Opening & Closing Ranks UPSEE 2011 ::
Saturday, June 9
Institute of Engineering and Technology :: Opening & Closing Ranks UPSEE 2011 ::
Harcourt Butler Technological Institute :: Opening & Closing Ranks - UPSEE 2011 ::
Harcourt Butler Technological Institute, Kanpur is an academic autonomous engineering college under the Gautam Buddha Technical University(formerly Uttar Pradesh Technical University). Its programs have been conferred autonomous status under the university. It is the second engineering institute in Uttar Pradesh after the former University of Roorkee. The institute holds ISO 9001:2000 Certification. It offers Bachelors, Masters, and Doctoral degrees in engineering, as well as Masters degrees in Business administration and Computer Applications.
:: InSight :: Revision of Nokia's Device Naming Convention
Thursday, June 7
iMac Hardware Update Rumors Milling Ahead of W W D C
Nearly every single Mac that Apple currently offers is expected to see an update next Monday when WWDC kicks off . The MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and iMac are supposedly slated for an update in less than a week, along with either the Mac mini or the beleaguered Mac Pro. This is in addition to the expected demos of OS X Mountain Lion and iOS 6, though as usual, Apple has not confirmed any of the current rumors.
Wednesday, May 16
Pirate Pay develops BitTorrent traffic blocker to stop piracy
The movie and music industries continue to complain about how much piracy is costing them. DRM doesn’t work as it is easily circumvented, and it seems big lawsuits don’t work either. The proof being The Pirate Bay still being online today.
Another solution has presented itself, however, and it comes in the form of a piece of technology from the Russian company Pirate Pay.
When Pirate Pay was developing traffic management solutions for ISPs a few years ago they came up with a system that managed to block BitTorrent traffic. It worked so effectively the company decided to focus on that bit of tech and developed it as an anti-piracy measure. So good was the solution, Microsoft’s Seed Financing Fund has invested $100,000, and both Walt Disney and Sony Pictures have used it to limit illegal downloads.
Pirate Pay is keeping the details of how their technology works a secret for good reason. All we know is that it floods BitTorrent clients with fake data meaning they disconnect before a download is complete. So even though illegal copies are freely available online, it’s very difficult to successfully download them.
It’s easy to see why such a system would be of great interest to the entertainment industry. With BitTorrent traffic blocked for specific files, it stops movies and music from being downloaded. The cost of doing this is thought to be between $12,000 and $50,000 depending on the scale of the blocking required.
As an example of a successful block, Pirate Pay point to the movie Vysotsky. Thanks to God, I am alive, which was released in Russian movie theaters last December. The company protected the movie for 30 days, during which 44,845 torrent downloads were blocked.
The question now is, can Pirate Pay scale up to protect every movie that is released and effectively end BitTorrent piracy? We also don’t know how effective the system actually is. For example, they may have blocked the movie mentioned above 44,845 times, but how many successful downloads were there?
Saturday, April 28
Review: Micromax Funbook
SpecificationsMicromaxFunbook has decent specifications under the hood.
Dual Mali 1.22 GHz Cortex A8 processor
Latest version of Android for smartphones and tablets - Ice Cream Sandwich.
7-inch tablet has a 17.78cm multi-touch capacitive display.
Now for the negatives, although justifiable for the pricing and target audience it focusses on. The tablet includes a modest 2800 mAh battery. Interestingly, the tablet does not feature a rear camera, although includes a front-facing VGA camera for video calls et al.There is no SIM slot, so the only Internet connectivity is via WiFi or via the bundled Tata Photon USB dongle to provide additional 3G connectivity with free 1 GB of additional downloads for the first 2 months.
The device comes in two colors – Suave Silver and Brilliant Black – and the slim and sleek design with only a centimeter of thickness, is not only attractive, but also easier to carry and work in both landscape and portrait modes.
The educational focus of Funbook comes from the fact that it packs in study material from kindergarten to entrance examinations via the Funbook’s E-learning app with content from leading publishers like Pearson, Everonn, GK Publishers, Scholarshub, Vidyalankar, Universal Tutorials, and more. Powered by Vriti, the app has more than 500 smart courses ranging from Class 1 to degree courses and preparatory material for engineering, medical, and MBA courses.
For entertainment, Micromax has partenered with big publishers and aggregators like Bollywood Hungama, Indiagames, BigFlix, and Zenga – a formidable lineup by any far measure. You could choose from over 4000 videos and 6000 songs with more added each day. Although, this is available unlimited for free just like games from Indiagames, BigFlix offers over 600 movies in 9 languages – Hindi, English, Bengali, Kannada, Tamil, Teluge, Malyalam, Marathi, Punjabi – and Zenga offers Live TV with over 48 channels to choose from, free for the first 30 days further which you’ll need to subscribe to them individually.
Final TakeFor just Rs. 6499, the MicromaxFunbook seamlessly brings everything from study material to games to a single platform packaged in a neat device that you can carry anywhere. While there are several other alternatives in the market at a sub-10K pricing, MicromaxFunbook impresses the most. With useful bundled content and well thought-out hardware compromises to lower the price, it is a highly recommended device for your school going kid or the Web surfing friend.
MicromaxFunbook can be purchased online from micromaxfunbook.com while Micromax works on an exhaustive distribution plan so that the device would be available at stores in both top-tier and middle-tier cities through the physical retail ecosystem as well.
Tuesday, August 16
Database connections in Java using JDBC and Netbeans IDE ( for CBSE 12th I.P. Projects )
Welcome to all my friends who want to Learn MySQL dB to JDBC Connectivity . I have MySQL 5.0 installed on my Windows. In order to make a JDBC connection to MySQL database one needs to downlad the MySQL/J connector driver from here . I will also expect that you have Netbeans 6+ installed on your machine. Extract the zip file to a folder, you’ll see file ‘mysql-connector-java-5.0.6-bin.jar’ which is the library file that we want. Just copy the file to the library folder, for example to “C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_02\lib” also to the “C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_02\jre\lib directory. Next, create a new Java project on NetBeans named ‘TestMySQL’. Now I’m going to write some code to connect to MySQL database. I have configured MySQL service on localhost. Inorder to test my connections I build my project. So everything seems to be fine till now. To get some data, I need to execute query on the SQL Server and get the result back to me. First, I create stmt (Statement object) and execute query in SQL language. Then I store the result on ResultSet object and iterative show the result on the output window. Insert some data to the created table using the code Statement stmt = null; stmt = con.createStatement(); String SQL = “INSERT INTO ZanduBaam (Name,Roll) VALUES (‘Abhishek’,40)”; int rowsEffected = stmt.executeUpdate(SQL); System.out.println(rowsEffected + ” rows effected”); Inorder to retrieve data from database , I need to execute query on the SQL Server and get the result back to me. First, I created stmt (Statement object) and execute query in SQL language. Then I store the result on ResultSet object and iterative show the result on the output window. ResultSet rs = null; // SQL query command String SQL = “SELECT * FROM ZanduBaam”; stmt = con.createStatement(); rs = stmt.executeQuery(SQL); while (rs.next()) { Similarly you can do the required for updation and deletion .
I’m going to use Connection and DriverMapper Classes so I need to import libraries.
import java.sql.*;
System.out.println(rs.getString(“Name”) + ” : ” + rs.getString(“Roll”));
}
Saturday, August 13
Students' concentration adversely affected by social networking sites
Social networking websites like Facebook have negative effects on children, and those who frequently use such websites are more likely to get lower marks in school, says a new American study.
Such students are also likely to have behavioural problems and “narcissistic tendencies” from spending too much time logged on to such sites, according to the research by the California State University. Psychology professor Larry Rosen said researchers watched as students spent 15 minutes studying something that was important to them. The research team was left dumbfounded as the students’ concentration lapsed because of the need to check their Facebook page.
“What we found was mind-boggling. About every three minutes they are off-task. You’d think under these constraints, knowing that someone is observing you, that someone would be more on task,” Rosen was quoted as saying by the Daily Mail.
“The more media they consumed per day, the worse students they were. If they checked Facebook just once during 15 minutes, they were worse students.”
Rosen released the findings at the American Psychological Association in a speech titled “Poke Me: How Social Networks Can Both Help and Harm Our Kids”.
The negative effects of over-using social media include making students more prone to vain, aggressive and anti social behaviour, the report said.Children under 13 who overuse social sites on a daily basis are also more likely to be prone to bouts of anxiety, depression, sleeping problems and stomach aches.
The study also found that social networking had some positive effects also. They helped shy children interact more.
Friday, August 12
Samsung commercial pokes fun at iPad 2′s lack of Flash
Here we go again. It seems like most of the tablet makers on the market today think that they can toss a tablet out that is similar to the iPad on a different OS and just sell droves of the things because the tablet supports Flash. I think that the gigantic lead the iPad 2 has in the tablet market should show other makers that they need more than Flash support to beat Apple in the tablet game. If they offered a tablet for a lot less money than the iPad 2 with similar specs and Flash support, then they get my attention.