MTS MBLAZE Data Card - Crashing on Mac

If you have a MacBook or a Pro, and you are using the MTS Mblaze data card to connect to the Internet, you might have faced the problem of your mac crashing in the few minutes of your data card being connected to the Internet. This is because your mac might be in the 64 bit OS mode and this causes problem with the MTS card which works well on the 32 bit mode. This doesn't seem to be a problem with the 64 bit and 32  bit windows, but the mac catches cold here. To make the card work properly you need to boot your mac in a 32 bit mode. To do this just simply hold the buttons "3" and "2" together when the grey screen comes up until the desktop loads. This helps in clearing the cold. If you have a problem in checking your balance as the software crashes when you hit "check my balance", try installing the older software that is available on the MTS MBlaze website. Comment about the other problems that you have experienced.

Apple iPhone Event - Lets talk iPhone - 2011

The apple's next most hyped event is just on going and I am here to bring you updates regarding some of the great announcements:
iOS 5 - The usual updates were told in brief about the new iOS. To know more about it click: iOS 5 .
Another announcement regarding the iOS 5 is that it will be available from October 12th.
iCloud - Apple's cloud backup service. Nothing new here other than iTunes match ( matching the library of your iTunes with the library on the iCloud ) and that it will also be available from October 12th.
iPhone 4S - The next new box of amazingness and awesomeness? Take a guess from the new features of this iPhone:
    -Nothing new design wise, both CDMA and GSM models are available
    -New A5 chip, which is the first dual core processor to come to the iPhone family, thus making this model 7 times faster than the iPhone 4
    -New and better graphics due to the enhanced speed, more visual candy in games.
    -Antena switching between receiving and transmitting antennas gives more speed, along with the new processor, the speed can reach the 4G speeds
    -New 8MP camera which can shoot 1080p video ( man , 32 GB model might not just be enough...!!!), also more sensors and stabilizer to give great videos and photos
    -New voice assistant named SIRI, which can do almost anything on the iPhone for you, including setting reminders, finding routes and sending texts.
    -Comes in black and white, and also in 16,32 and 64 GB models
    -Release date? Its oct 14th...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
iPhone 4 has been reduced to $99 and iPhone 3GS has some free offers. That's it for the event updates. News courtesy of Gizmodo.com and Telegraph.co.uk

Busting New Features of iOS 5 at WWDC 2011

The WWDC is happening at San Fransisco right now as I am blogging now, and I am here to tell you about the new features of the iOS 5 announced at the conference. According to the announcement, the new iOS will contain about more than 200 new features and they have discussed about 10 of them in detail, which include:

1. Notifications: The new iOS will contain a new notification system which will be less ineruptive than the previous notification system i.e. will show messages and other notifications in the top of the screen, not disturbing what you are doing.
2. News stand: You can consider this as the iBooks app for reading newspapers and magazines.
3. Twitter: Twitter on iPhone has made a major remodel for the new iOS, it will be integrated into the basic apps, such as camera, contacts etc.
4. Safari: Safari includes new features such as story mode and better tabbed browsing. Tabbed browsing also has quicker tab switching mechanism.
5. Reminders: You know what the name says, a reminder app, which is juiced up to remind you even if you leave a place by setting up a geographic wall, along with lots of other features.
6. Camera: This old time favorite baby now includes automatic enhancements and a load of smart features such as using the volume up button for taking a picture. You can also go the camera app quicker than ever directly from the lock screen.
7. Mail: Mail has recieved more features such as rich text formatting and MIME.
8. Game Center: More game center updates include better way of finding friends and downloading games directly from game center.
9. iMessage: Similar to iChat but far more better iPhone and iPad buddy connecting device.
10. PC-Free: This is one of the most awesome features. They claimed that PC is going out of existence and that people prefer only an iPhone or an iPad in their hand. So, the new iOS is bringing an PC free system. You have no need to setup your iPhone initially. It will be unlocked without even connecting to the PC.

Other new exciting features include a new and improved UI, Airplay mirroring and much awaited WIFI syncing. The iOS 5 will be available for iPhone 3gs and onwards. According to the announcement, it will be available this fall.

Windows 7 - Software Installation Problem

It's common all over, some of your older programs have trouble running on windows 7. Even some of the newer driver may show installation errors in your windows 7 machine when you try to install them on an account which is password protected. The reason behind this is some of the software installation procedure utilizes a folder known as AppData. Since your account is password protected, it cannot be easily accessed by the running program. All you need is another account which has administrative privileges and not password protected. This might sound a little odd, but its what worked for me and everywhere around. The newer software don't have these problems, it's majorly found among the older software.

iTunes 10.2.2 - Jaibreak Safe

Apple had released iTunes version 10.2.2, with some of the minor improvements. For all the jailbreakers outside it is safe for you to upgrade to this version i.e. it is jailbreak safe. As for iPhone 4 users, who are waiting for the iOS 4.3.2 untethered jailbreak, redsn0w version 0.9.6 rc14 has been released, which fixes the problem of jailbreaking the iPhone 4 on iOS 4.3.2. Happy jailbreaking.

Fans Win Over Piracy

One of the highest anticipated game of 2011 "CRYSIS 2" is just around the corner, and just as it was creating the hype about it, some guy released a beta test version of the game online about a month ago. Apart from movies, games are the largest downloaded files in the torrent database. But then, this game , which was feared to become the largest pirated game by beating the record created by the call of duty series, didn't become so  The fans of the game didn't even support the pirated version. Even the persons who downloaded it have commented that they will purchase the original version of the game. This game has set s new standard in digital rights by not even setting heavy and idiotic DRM as other current games do.. Crysis 2 has again set a standard in anti-piracy, a feat no other game has ever achieved.

Mac App Store

The iPhone was a revolutionary device and it became even more popular than ever with the introduction of the App store. This blasted out thousands and thousands of both paid and free applications for the iPhone which was also extended to be used on  the iPad.

Image courtesy: www.gadgetoz.com

Now apple has let out its new store for mac called Mac App Store. It is all easy to install, just update your Mac software and when you restart after the update, the App store icon is displayed on the dock.

So, the app stores magic has been bought to the mac. This means that there will be no more need to buy software on compact discs. All the software can be easily updated and organized. An app can also be re downloaded once purchased.

It is always stuff like this that makes apple the master in innovations. Not to mention the amount of piracy that can be reduced.

iTunes Error 1601 , 1602 , 1603 FIX

I wished to upgrade my iPhone 4 from iOS 4.0 to 4.1. I downloaded the firmware file and got it all ready to do the upgrade on my Windows XP laptop. I didn't want to upgrade it directly, hence I started with restoring it. When I hit the restore button, iTunes verified the restore file and put the phone into recovery mode ( the phones screen was showing the connect to iTunes logo) and iTunes showed the status message – “Preparing iPhone for restore”. When the phone went into recovery mode, the found new hardware window pepped up on Windows XP. Didn't know what to do, so just left it as it is. Then iTunes showed up the unknown error 1601 message. So, I tried the whole process again, no success, same error. Tried it again on my Windows 7 desktop, same error.
When I checked my device manager, it showed two “Apple Mobile Device(Recovery mode)” devices as unknown device with an exclamation mark. I started searching the net with all the possible keywords. Many fixes showed up stating to reinstall all the iTunes services and changing the USB chord, but none of them helped. After a few trial and errors, error number 1602 showed up once. I knew that all the errors were due to unrecognized hardware. I thought installing the device driver manually would help and started on working on it. My guess was right!!!
Initially it was a failure, but after following the instruction on the following the instruction on the following page : support.apple.com/kb/ts1538 ,it worked .
To fix this error,memorize how to install a driver manually and follow the instructions below:
1.When your phone is in recovery mode, go to the device manger.
2. You will find two apple mobile device drivers in an unknown mode and a USB composite device which will be installed automatically.
3. Disable?Uninstall the apple mobile device drivers.
4. Depending on your system, you might find more than one USB composite devices. One of them is your iPhone, to find which one it is, note down the device ID by checking its properties and then disconnect the phone to find it out.
5. Once your have found out which one it is, right click it and select update driver.
6. Now do the manual software install process and in the list of drivers select the iBoot driver, this will make the phone recognizable by iTunes.

I would suggest you to make the phone go into DFU mode, make iTunes recognize it in the DFU mode and when the restoration process starts, wait until you see the message "Waiting for iPhone" to come on the iTunes status area on the top, and then do this procedure, once you have successfully completed it, the restoration process will continue on.

Note: This error is most common among jailbreaked devices that have AppSync for installing cracked apps on their devices.

Any doubts, feel free to comment……

HTML 5

The Internet is all on rage about HTML 5. Every one might have at least heard this name once. So, what is this and what makes it special, read on to learn.
HTML 5 is the latest standard for webpage markup language. The previous version was HTML 4.01. HTML 5 really packs up large and exciting improvements than the previous standards. The following are the new features that it provides:

• This is one of the two most exciting feature: support for video playback. Previous versions needed a plug-in like flash player to play videos in websites such as youtube and others. HTML 5 doesn't need these plug-ins, it can directly play videos. This feature becomes a plus in cases of smart phones that don't support flash.
• The next and the second most exciting feature is the ability to render 2-D and 3-D graphics on your browser: This feature called canvas and it allows users to interact with graphical elements. This can also lead to better graphics in games.
• It supports Drag and Drop feature that can be used for better data input with a enhanced visual style.
• Another great feature is improved offline storage.
• HTML 5 also supports geotagging, which can be used with GPS devices, such as mobile phones.
• Improved protocols.

Remember, I have only given the most exciting features in HTML 5, there is more to it than what is given here. Coming to browser support, Firefox 3.5+, Safari 4+,Opera 10+,Google Chrome have already started to support most of the features of HTML 5, where Safari 4 supports most of the features. It looks like Internet Explorer ( current version: 8) needs the next version even to support some of the basic features. If you want to check your browser's score for HTML 5 support, visit www.HTML5test.com .

DirectX - Behind Gaming

We all love to play games, we all have games, we all enjoy games, but what makes the games tick? What is the mechanism in which computer gaming works? How come a game works with many versions of an operating system?

The most important component that helps gaming in a Windows PC is DirectX. DirectX is a collective word used for Direct Music, Direct Play, Direct 3D etc. In short it is an Application Programming Interface ( API ),
which is related with multimedia operations. Thus, when a game is created, it has to only be interfaced with Direct X to work.

There are many versions in DirectX. The latest one is DirectX 11, which is present in Windows 7. The most popular one was DirectX 9, the one in Windows XP. DirectX 10 ( the version that was released with Windows Vista )  was not such a big success as it did not have any great advancement over its previous version. Both DirectX 9 and 10 almost look similar. But there are heavy expectations over DirectX 11 as it brings in much more realistic gaming. I will be discussing about directX 11 in the upcoming posts.

New Mozilla Firefox 3.6

The latest version of mozilla firefox , version 3.6 is out. It has more enhanced security features than the previous versions. It also allows us to use more personas than before. For those of you who dont know what a persona is, read the last line. The new firefox also uses Gecko 1.9.2 rendering which makes rendering more faster. This version is also available in more than 70 languages. The browser also provides more stability than ever. As usual this version is available for Widnows, Mac and Linux.

To download this version , click here.

Persona:-Persona is like the dress that you can wear for Firefox. It is nothing more than a theme for your Firefox browser.

32-bit and 64-bit OS

The term "Windows 32-bit" is known to all of us, but we never really think of what "32-bit" actually means. Infact there is also another version called "64-bit". A 32-bit operating system uses 32-bits for data transmission, while a 64-bit uses 64. There is only one major difference between both of them. A 32-bit system supports upto a maximum of 4 GB RAM. So, if you have a 32-bit operating system and 4GB of RAM installed you will only be able to use 3.00-3.25GB of RAM since the system reserves 1GB of RAM for PCI devices ( Eg. Graphics cards ). On the other hand a 64-bit oeprating system supports upto 128 GB of RAM. Thus the major differnce is the memroy support. Other issues when compared between both systems are only minor improvments. Also remember that if you are planning to install a 64-bit operating system, make sure that the processor that you have supports the same. Some processors only support 32-bit.

Do you know about torrents?

Torrent is a way for sharing file online. The basic strategy is by creating a peer to peer network to establish a connection between the file holder and the user who wishes to download the file. So, one person has the original file with him and when another person requests the file, it gets transferred through the peer to peer network that gets established.For those who don't know what a peer to peer network is, here it is- The peer to peer network is computer network in which there is no central server or a master, everyone in the network are equal. Who establishes this peer to peer network? What takes control of this file transfer? The answer is a small software known as torrent client. The most famous torrent clients are "Bit torrent" and "Micro torrent". (Click to visit the pages.). Once you have a torrent client in your computer, you can search for a file that you want to download using a torrent search engine. The files in the torrent network are generally referred to as torrents.

The person who maintains the original file is called a "seed". Once another person downloads the complete file, he is also called a seed. So, totally there will be two seeds and when another person starts to download this file, he will be downloading from both the seeds. The files transmitted will be split into various pieces and then sent. When a person has the original file, he is called a seed only when he shares the file with others. If you do not share it, then you are called a "leecher". The health of the torrent is dependent upon the number of seeders and leechers. It is important to note that the more you share a file, the more speed you will gain. If you think stopping the  upload of the file will increase the download speed, you are in for a surprise. The torrent network maintains a direct hash table, which stores the tracker address and share ratio. If you upload less then what you download speed will greatly decrease.

Thats it for the basic of torrents, for more news keep in touch!!!!!!!

Google is coming up

Google is really coming up with brilliant ideas and turning into the largest rivalry that microsoft ever had. Google has announced various services which include the google accounts that give you access ot gmail,blogger etc. It has also announced a web browser called google chrome. Chrome has many features that are very interactive to use. For example the interactive homepage, full screen view and many other. Other great programs are google calendar and google docs. Google docs is really great as it gives an office suite to use online and free with just a gmail account. Click here to visit Google Docs. Google calendar helps you reduce the burden of remembering various events by making you access the calender wherever you are. Try out google calendar by clicking here.

The next biggest addition to the google family is going to be the Chrome OS. I will be filling detailed information about this in the near future, be sure to keep in touch.

How about Open Source?

Open source,Open source,Open source...........This term has been used widely and still not knowing what it means is really bad. But it is never late ot learn such definitions. So here it is: Open Source is something in which you will be having access to the source code and thus you can modify it according to your own needs.

Open Source Softwares(OSS) are really become famous these days. OSS may permit you rights to modify the whole source code or may be just a part of it. The rights are also specified whether the OSS can be redistibuted in the modified form or not. Most of the OSS are available for free. Linux is one great example. It is available free and also an open source. Linux are mainly used in servers. Another example that uses OSS is Debian. Open source softwares that are free are usually termed as F/OSS,FOSS(Free Open Source Software) and FLOSS(Free,Libre,Open Source Software).