Friday, September 14, 2012

Adobe Flex 4.6 : Mobile Application From Tip To Toe



                                      System requirements

Adobe Flex builder 4.6 (trail available on internet for download) download here.
Adobe Flex4.5 also supports mobile application development but the new Adobe flex 4.6 has more components and updates. The new features of Flex 4.6 will help you to achieve great performance and experience, especially with scrolling lists and transitions between views.

                      Supported operating systems

·         Microsoft® Windows® 7 (32 bit), Windows Vista® (32 bit), or Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2 or 3
·         Mac OS X v10.5.6–10.6 (Intel® only)
·         Ubuntu 9.10
·         Fedora Core 12

                                            Java virtual machine

Java™ Virtual Machine (32 bit), IBM® JRE 1.5, IBM JRE 1.6, Sun™ JRE 1.5, Sun JRE 1.6

                      Supported runtimes

·         Adobe® Flash® Player 11
·         Adobe AIR® 3


                                      Sample Flex Mobile Application

Let’s start building a simple flex mobile application for android. Flex 4.6 lets you develop native applications for Android devices, BlackBerry and IOS. We are taking example of android since it’s widely used among Indian masses.
I’ll cover a simple hello word mobile application development here and will show you how to deploy it on your android device.

Step : 1 Open New Mobile Project

Open a new Flex Mobile Project




Give your project a name, say “HelloWorld” and click on Next





Choose a template , here we are using a blank “View Based Application  for Google Android. Now click on Finish.






Step : 2  Default Project Structure

In the Package Explorer you will see your project created with some default structure like this



Under default package resides default main application file.
HelloWorld.mxml

xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
                                   xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark" firstView="views.HelloWorldHomeView" applicationDPI="160">
      
The  firstView contains the name of the file to be shown first when application is executed.

Step : 3  HelloWorld Example Code

In HelloWorldHomeView.mxml we will simply create a Label and two buttons to hide and show the Label.
HelloWorldHomeView.mxml
xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
       xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark" title="HomeView">
       <![CDATA[
protected function btnClick_clickHandler(event:MouseEvent):void
              {
                     lblHello.text="Hello World";                                  }
             
protected function btnClear_clickHandler(event:MouseEvent):void
              {
                     lblHello.text="";
              }
             
       ]]>
  width="50%" height="162" >
      
horizontalAlign="right"
verticalAlign="top"/>
       id="lblHello"/>
       id="btnClick" label="Click Me"
              click="btnClick_clickHandler(event)"/>
       id="btnClear" label="Clear"
click="btnClear_clickHandler(event)"/>  

Step : 4 Run on Desktop

To Run the application click Run button or press Ctrl+F11. On first time execution the run configuration appears.



Choose the option On Desktop and then device name (like Samsung Galaxy Ace) and then click on Run.


 

OutPut :


Step : 5  Installing .apk on device

In order to create the .apk file which will be deployed on your device we need to Export Release build

Click Next and go to Digital Signature tab . Create your Certificate and Password by clicking on create button. And then click on Finish.




You can now see your .apk (HelloWorld.apk) file in Package Explorer

Now send this .apk to you device via Data Cable or Bluetooth and install the application and Enjoy!!!
 If you face any issues in Exporting Release Built kindly refer following link : Installing an application on a Google Android Device

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Moments To Remember With The Movies I Saw


I have many memories with the movies that I have seen in my life and I m sure you guys too have many. From childhood till now I quickly connect a movie with the moments connected with it.

            I can’t even remember some of my childhood movie’s names but I remember my brother use to show us every Arnold Schwarzenegger movies and all Chinese action movies no matter how boring they are for us. He even forced us to see those silent movies which were way ahead of our understanding. He used to explain us the story but we use to laugh and have fun seeing his dedication to convince us for those bore slow movies.

The first movie in a hall is always a moment to remember for everyone. I’m sure it’s not only me whose first movie in a theater was "Hum Aapke Hai Kaun". Had a great experience to watch flops with school buddies, first movie with buddies "Chor Machaye Shor" it was fun to watch flops when u have good company. Reasons to watch movies were many, fight with best friend n stress reliever was nearest PVR theater. 

Get together with childhood friends, friend got first job, exams are over, wanna eat pop corns, birthday, break ups, patch ups, farewell, getting bore. What to do after bunk, watch a movie. Friend is on date, inside the hall and we are waiting for her for 3 hrs outside and then return home pretending we had fun watching movie together. The craze of watching DVDs, spending hours and hours in the room watching movie all alone just coz had craze for horror movies and Action movies.  First Late night show that too of a movie like "Mangal Pandey". The hilarious comments that bunch of guys at back seat passed while watching those serious dramas. Cozy scene on screen and friend sitting next to you has wide eyes open with the straw in mouth. Sitting on 3rd seat from corner and the corner seat couple is busy in creating their own moments, who enjoys the movie in that case. Bunk from office and fight with the PVR manager to take care of our laptops. Forgetting keys, cell phones and wallets inside hall. Hiding yourself from neighbors sitting in next row. Hooting in hall n irritating everyone around.

Well I think I should stop here now. Hope you too got few memories back after reading it. If u did then feel free to share your comments.

Friday, July 8, 2011

Who Likes to watch movies with breaks...

 Trend of first on television is now all settled in India. The moment a movie releases it’s been booked by various channels to telecast it first. No wonder a movie released few weeks ago is now on your television. The surprise for me is that people are not interested to watch these movies. I was living in a myth few weeks ago that people like this concept of first on television but since last few experiences I came to know that its not something people prefer.

Watching movie on TV channels is not the trend now. Why? Well one major reason that I heard from my friends is, “who likes to watch movie with breaks “ and without any control of fast forward and rewind. Ok then solution to this is digital TV service providers (like TataSky, Dish TV and IPTV). They provide their own video library or video on demand service which is without any breaks and is in viewer’s control.

Watching movies on laptops is something youth loves nowadays. It’s good to have your own movie collection. In fact some people even have their own video library.Watching movie on 14inch screen and watching same in a theatre are two totally different experiences and have no comparisons with each other.

So Is it worth showing a movie on TV when people are loosing all their interest of watching them?

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

CWG2010 up bringing New Digital TV Technologies - IPTV

CWG2010 is all set to bring country's biggest sports event on 3rd October 2010. Well the CWG2010 has definitely done a lot of development for Delhi. Lots of new flyovers, bridges, Metro, parking, bus stands etc. have been developed. World's largest Bus Depot was launched a few days back. We all are watching these infrastructural developments in Delhi, but not only the infrastructure has improved but with CWG, television too is getting latest technologies.

DoorDarshan got HD, which means now the experience of watching the games will be double fun as you will be getting high definition digital quality videos. Another big thing that nation will be hearing about is the use of IPTV. Yes! the CWG village will be providing IPTV services to the players along with the luxury rooms. iControl IPTV which is providing IPTV services along with BSNL / MTNL in 22 cities of India is gonna make it possible. They recently updated on Facebook and Twitter about the news that they will be providing IPTV services for the CWG village. For those who are new to the word IPTV can read my earlier blogs on IPTV.


IPTV technology has lots of features making TV viewing experience lot better. iControl provides features like time shift (named CHILL & COOL). CHILL lets its viewers watch all the that was telecasted on TV up to last 7 days while COOL lets the viewers rewind-pause-play LIVE TV. This means players at their free time can watch all that they missed during their matches. It will be a real high tech facility that they will be getting. Though IPTV is already present in lots of European countries and others as well but, in India its still an emerging technology and hence its presence in games up brings the IPTV in digital technologies. Lets hope that after the games India will get a step ahead of DTH and will initiate to go for IPTV.




Friday, September 17, 2010

It's Reality Show Time


Reality show are back on television. Khatron Ke Khiladi x3 (KKKx3) has already started, Bigg boss 4 (BB4) is about to come and this time its gonna have a competition with Kaun Banega Crorepati 4 (KBC4) and Akshay (Akki) is all set to come with his cooking show (Master Chef India).

KKKx3 with Priyanka is rocking at present, though comparing her with Akki was the most expected thing before the show and people now are comparing two. Some say Akki was better so some have a totally different opinion. Natural phenomenon, different people have different taste but, yes TV world has another topic to talk about.

BB4 too has a different host this time and what a difference they are bringing for their show, Salman khan (Sallu) is the new host of BB4 . Yes Ander Maza toh bahar Mazzzedar. I am eagerly waiting for the BB4 and wanna know who will be the participants. Well on one side craze of watching Sallu is there then on other side I also wanna watch the classy kbc4, yes classy b'coz big B is back on KBC and when he is hosting the show the level gets ever higher. His way of greeting and asking questions is loved by all. I read somewhere that both BB4 and KBC4 will be telecasted at same time, sad news for those who are not having time shift TV. I am not gonna miss any of these coz of the IPTVtechnology.

Recent shows like India's Got talent (IGT) too are going well. In first season of IGT Prince dance group won and will be performing for the CWG2010 next month. Having such shows encourages the talents to grow and expand their wings. Well may be that's another reason why KBC is a hit always, coz it too reaches the common people and gives them an opportunity to fulfill their dreams by earning money with their brain/knowledge.

I don't know what is it that attracts me towards Bigg boss but, from season one I simply love this show. Its just like the strategy or virtual games which become an addiction in a gamer's life, once the show starts I try not to miss even the 12am live telecasts. So once the show will start my tweets on twitter (@bmeenu) and comments on FB will get a increase in stream/updates. For me the real reality show season is about to begin - Its Reality show time .

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

The Indian Idol OR The Indian idle ?


Indian Idol, the show where talent gets a chance to perform. But what after that? What do these talents do after showing their talent, after winning this show? The Indian Idol is such a popular singing show today, that even its 5th season is getting huge mass of audience and the votes (SMS). I don't know what is it that contestants like in this show. They participate, cry, fight, share their stories of struggle, they become best buddies and then they start the back biting. In fact its hard for me to understand that is this show about popularity? Singing? Or Drama?

I have been noticing one thing since the very first season of Indian idol that at this show Winners come & winner go, they first become the IDOL & then sit IDLE. Season one winner Abhijeet Sawant, released two of his albums – Aap Ka Abhijeet and Junoon. He also sang the Mohabbatein Lutaunga song and acted in the movie Lottery. Nowadays he is seen in reality shows dancing or hosting. Anyways Abhijeet is the only Indian Idol winner who achieved this much after winning the show.

The Season 2,3 & 4 winner Sandeep Acharya, Prashant Tamang, Sourabhee Debbarma are no where today. I haven't heard of them doing some singing. In fact the singers of Indian idol who lost are still seen somewhere. So what does this conclude? Does the show gives a winner who is not deserving?

Voting count of Indian Idol 3 Finale broke records, around 7 crore (70 million) votes were received and Prashant Tamang was the winner at that time. What did he get? An Album with Sony called Dhanyabad and after that? I never saw him on TV after his Album. Sourabhee created history by becoming the first girl to win the Indian Idol title. And that's the only achievement that she had, won the title & created the record. When it comes to singing these winners are hardly seen. After the end of show they are back to their struggle.


I have no knowledge about singing and that is why I can't say that these winners were not deserving. I can't even say that the judges are not choosing the right talent. But I would like to know what is it that brings these winners a lot of audience SMS and No work after winning. I say what I see and observe and my observation is written here. Anyways season 5's top five are chosen and one who will win will be getting a contract to work with YashRaj banners and that will be something good for the winner this time. So keep tracking the Indian Idol season 5 and check out if season 5 winner is the winner for real life or not.

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

If I were an Advertiser

I wrote a lot on advertisements, some where criticized, some were admired. I always feel like writing what I want in an advertisement. In other way how I would have created an advertisement if I were an advertiser.

There are few things that I personally like in advertisements & would definitely consider before creating an advertisement :

The concept,The Uniqueness and The Creativity & Innovation.

By Concept what I mean is that an advertiser should first be very clear with what he/she is gonna advertise for. The product's details, its key features, its effects/benefits and its strengths. Lets say like Vodafone (The Zoozoos) I know, I know I always talk about them, but can't help it they are actually the best and my favorite. The person behind Zoozoos knows what the product is "The Mobile communication Group", what is the key feature the product wants to flaunt in a particular Ad. What will be the use of that service i.e who will be benefited most should be targeted .

Uniqueness well what else do you want? Zoozoo has all the unique thing in it. Its look, its color, its shape, its language and its the real people in it, not the animated characters. Want to know some more unique things in advertisement world, Happy dent white's light concept (one where mode of light are the teeth), then Frooti's music through the slurps of it, going a bit back in time we loved 7 Up fido dido, Naukri.com's “Hari Sadu” , Favicol Ads. With uniqueness comes creativity, making something unique doesn't mean showing any thing which is different. Use your brain, your imagination and bring out the innovative creativity of yours.






Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Do We Really Need The 3D TV Now ?



Last 3D movie I saw was Avatar and it was truly a great experience. Watching 3D movie is a bit of struggle for me coz theres no 3D theater in my city and hence have to specially plan for visiting a 3D Theater in neighboring cities. But now 3D televisions are there in the market. I was amazed to hear about the Samsung 3D TV launch in India & was eager to know more about it.


All the craze & excitement died the moment I saw its price. The range starts from Rs 1.3 Lakhs, something that I can't even think about affording. The country like India where a car is worth Rs 1Lakh, selling TV of more than a Lakh is something I feel is not for comman man. And then seeing pros and cons on a TV report I finally concluded that its of no use for me.Leaving the cost, if you still want to buy it, the lack of 3D content in India also makes 3D TV a No.

I read somewhere that “Besides launching its 3D TV, Samsung announced its tie-up with production house DreamWorks Animation for providing 3D content. As part of the tie-up, the company said it will give away 3D version of 'Monsters vs Aliens', an animation movie released last year by Dreamworks, with every 3D television sold.” But I don't think that will be enough for a buyer. One or two 3D movie won't attract customers.

Watching your Non-3D content TV shows on the normal channels ( like Balika Vadhu on Colors) will still be same. You are not gonna see its 3D content, coz there is no 3D content available for all the channels, in fact only a few of Hollywood movies and cartoon movies are there whom you will be enjoying watching on your 3D TV. The channels are slowly moving towards HD contents and I guess providing 3D contents will take a long time.


Third point to note is the 3D glasses, that you will be requiring to wear in order to experience the 3D contents. The users find it odd, wearing their glasses all the time in order to watch their TV. When you purchase a 3DTV, you have to use the same manufacturers 3D glasses to see it. Samsung glasses will not work on Panasonic TVs, as of now it is a proprietary system. Fourth :3D technology works better in a darkened room anyway. So before placing your TV make sure you know that size can fit in the particular location and depending on how much sunlight you get in the room. Just set an environment for your 3DTV in order to enjoy its best.


Bringing 3D TV for now is not a good idea according to me, but once we are done with all these small issues, I am sure we are gonna be another step ahead in the high tech world.

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Busy Bee Blogging



Blogging while Working is getting hectic, got so many things to do. And let me tell you that blogging is not just a piece of cake. It takes a lot of time and nowadays I am short of time. In fact I am even missing my IPL matches, though have a solution to that – iControl IPTV, but still blogs have no such solution. Writing need a lot of research & thinking and I guess now I will reduce the frequency of my posts coz I can't compromise with the quality.

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Cartoons Aren't Only For Kids Anymore

While writing my previous post I realized that cartoons are no more teaching only kids. They also do have a deep lesson for us, the grown ups. Watching Ratatouille was an experience and learning the lessons from it was another. After realizing that the harsh words of critics are hard to write. And the critic praising a marvelous work, ignoring the other facts is so unacceptable. I now do understand the feelings of both the critic and the creator.
Do you think your kid watching Ratatouille will understand that part? No for him/her the movie is simply a fun movie, at most teaching them that anyone can cook. Kids after seeing the movie might experiment with cooking too. I used to do it, whichever movie I used to watch in my childhood, I use to enter into that character. I remember I saw the bugs life during my school days and all my friends were trying to be Flik (The Ant). We all learned that unity leads to success. I am glad that I am still learning from these cartoon movies.

Kung – Fu – Panda is the best example of a cartoon movie for everyone, its a movie teaching you a lot. Each character in the movie has one or the other management quality. No wonder why my brother had a office self management session. He bought the DVD of the movie for his kids at the time of the movie release and now watched it again to see the part he missed in the session. We were making fun of my brother, but when he narrated the same story with its motivational meanings, we were inspired. The diamond dreamer has explained each character of Kung-Fu-Panda in quite a similar way

Though the list of such masterpieces is long I would still mention few in short. UP asking you to go all out and chase your dreams, its never late. Cars says rushing for our success might tend to miss out on simple pleasures of the life. We should learn to take breaks once in a while and enjoy the simpler things. Finding Nemo simply asking you to explore yourself and let the world know your presence. Its never harmful to go around and learn, you will have few enemies but a lot more friends & well wishers.
Learning from animated movies is not only fun but is really an awesome way of teaching the adults. Organizing some motivational events and showing such movies or short movies really brings a boost for the employees. I personally admire those firms a lot who know how to keep their personnel keep going happily. The zest and the passion to work for the firm can be seen more in such environments where motivation is in the form fun activities like showing cartoon movies, playing strategic games etc.
So next time if your kids are watching cartoon movie better you accompany them and share the lessons learned.

Monday, April 5, 2010

Ratatouille : What Lesson Do We Learn


Watching the toons has always been pleasure. I was watching Ratatouille few days back and simply loved the movie. Must say the animation movies aren't just for kids. Ratatouille had a lot for the critics. My eagerness to know about what the critics felt for this movie brought some sweet & sour results. Though movie was fantastic but the controversial part was about Anton Ego – The critic in the movie.

Richard Corliss had a straight thing to say that "The subtle colors and textures of the food alone make Ratatouille a three-star Michelin evening."

In The New York Times, A.O. Scott views were :

A nearly flawless piece of popular art, as well as one of the most persuasive
portraits of an artist ever committed to film. It provides the kind of deep,
transporting pleasure, at once simple and sophisticated, that movies at their best have always promised.

Roger Ebert just stole my words, he says ;

People ( The critics) admired the animation work, story, but when talking about the Ego's character, most of them disagree with him. Well according to me the movie had a nice script, nice use of words in the dialogues and simply superb quotes, especially of Anton Ego - The critic.


These last critic comments for the dish "Ratatouille" (cooked by Remy – The Rat) were spellbinding. Simply loved the critic at end. Yes! liked a character rarely liked by others.

Monday, March 29, 2010

Advertisement innovations for IPL – how good or bad they are


IPL... IPL... its everywhere these days. Loving the matches, maximum sixes, shots, the fully packed stadium, the noise of the crowd and the advertisements. As I wrote in my previous post, IPL every time brings something new in the advertisement world for example Vodafone Zoozoo. Even this time IPL brought some new Ads as well as new brands. Karbonn Mobile is one of the new brand seen during IPL season 3. Though the brand is exploring itself to the fullest in IPL but still the quality of advertisement lacks. I after seeing the Ad, got a weird impression. Can't see Karbonn mobiles even a bit close to Nokia, Samsung or sony ericsson . It just looked like another new mobile brand.

As I always believe advertisements have a great power, innovation & creativity. And have always loved watching them I would like to talk about the advertisements in this post. Talking about Mobile phone Ads, have you seen MicroMax's Ad starring Akshay, it attracts the viewers. Akki playing tennis with his mobile "Action sensors – The attractive feature". If you want to show mobile images only (like Karbonn) , then its better you go for static advertising of banners and posters, why TV? Didn't even liked The Axe effect Ad. It looks like they are just forcefully putting cricketers in the Ad, just to add the IPL flavor, the brands are just trying to fit things. I found it stupid seeing bunch of girls running after the player in the field coz of Axe. Idea Oongli cricket is still better, though my sister and mom discovered it now that its a contest going on where you have to guess the things that Abhishek asks during the IPL breaks. So according to me the advertisement should be understandable for the common people.

I saw Komolika (Uravashi dholakia) in Shahrukh khan's Nokia - Main Bhi Coach Ad, liked it. It had fun, comedy and a meaning, something that is catchy. In fact Nokia - Main bhi coach's another Ad of newspaper boy is also cool. Talking about sensible good Tatasky's collection of Cold war ads are also fun watching. Wife annoying the husband with the lift as she missed her serial because of her husband's cricket match, then another one of making noises of mixie and the toast one. All are similar in concept but still my favorite is the one showing lift. Good and proper use of the IPL. I even saw iControl IPTV's Ad starring Jassi (Mona Singh) using the cricket to highlight their Chill (time shift) feature.

At the end would like to express what I desire from the advertisements. No matter which season it is, the ads should be worth watching. A 30 sec Ad should take your attention completely. Picking a cricket season for ads doesn't mean just push the cricketers or cricket into it. Just relate the ad with your product and show it. Once people understand, they get attracted and your Ad spreads the magic. Whenever I talk about Ads I always admire vodafone zoozoos, they have no comparisons yet. Still waiting for something like them or better than them.

Monday, March 22, 2010

IPL Was a Different Experience This Time

Watching IPL on my TV is so much fun, all because of IPTV. I missed Mumbai Vs Delhi match on 17th and was really regretting it. All my friends were talking about Sachin's brilliant performance. But the regret was not much since my IPTV was there for making my regret vanish. In fact I had more fun watching the Mumbai Indians banging on & on. Loved the way Sanath Jayasuriya was caught, I even paused the moment just to see how high Yogesh Nagar jumped with his spinning body to catch. Just a brilliant catch by a brilliant fielder.

The experience of watching a cricket match on iControl IPTV was great, the best part was skipping of Ads. I watched the match without breaks. Hey! Don't feel jealous. At some point of times I was feeling like I am the third umpire, coz I was pausing, forwarding & rewinding the TV at my will. Must say iControl choose the right name. Dinesh karthik let it slip out of his hands but Match's every nick of time was totally under my control. When you watch a match like this (Mumbai Indian Vs Delhi Daredevils) you just wish to be a part of the Live audience. I felt like I am setting with the audience with my 5.1 channels audio.

There are lots of new players in IPL and while watching match we all wonder who this new player is? Here too, I simply paused the scoreboard and saw the players list with ease. Used this feature when missed the name of Yogesh Nagar (The new young player who caught Sanath). In fact pausing & reading the slogans/boards that lots of fans are holding was amazing, use to miss it earlier. Remember one sweet text of a fan saying "There are 2 types of batsmen 1. SACHIN 2......" (the camera moved and missed who the 2nd one is). No worries just pressed the rewind button & found who the 2nd one is "There are 2 types of batsmen 1. SACHIN 2. ALL D OTHER".

I was watching the match on Chill, Saurab Tiwari came for batting & the guests arrived. Simply watched the match after they left & from the very moment where I left. Its just pause, enter the time and start playing from where you left. Well I had all the comfort watching the match & gonna enjoy every match like this from now onwards. Don't worry will not miss all my Live matches.

IPTV from iControl has Cool feature too, with everything that Chill has, but for the LIVE TV. Yes I can become third umpire of LIVE match too (just kidding).

Monday, March 15, 2010

IPL, Advertisements and Zoozoos – Who is loved most?


IPL fever is ON and people are throughly enjoying it. Playing & Watching cricket is boy's passion & once the IPL season is ON, they go crazy. What about the gals, what do they like in cricket ? Especially now when IPL is all set to show its glamor in season three. Well even gals are enjoying cricket equally. Its no more the guys only, who are cricket freaks. Actually everybody is loving the cricket season - The IPL season.
Something that started with IPL and is loved equally is The ZooZoos. Infact Zoozoo grabbed a lot of non cricket lovers to watch cricket. ZooZoo came in IPL season 2 & they rocked. Whats more attractive about them is that they are not the animated characters. Yes there are real man & woman wearing the ZooZoo costume. Well I was amazed to see that & since then fell in love with them. [Check them here : Video 1 & Video2 ]
ZooZoo first came in IPL season 2 (April 2009) , & now they are back to rock IPL season 3 again. I remember they grabbed the social media too. I became their fan on Facebook & even participated in the "Complete the Zoozoo story" contest. It was fun watching the incomplete Ad and then guessing what will happen in the second half.
Well in season 3 of IPL ZooZoos have a lot on facebook. They are updating the new ads before showing them on TV, just to grab more fans & are providing E-cards etc. I am still following them on FB. And as far as TV is concerned we all are loving them even now. There are thousands of zoozoo fans & I can tell you one crazy fan, thats my Mom. I dare to touch the remote & my mom throws those heavy scolding bangs on me. She never lets me change the channel during the breaks. All because every new match has got a new innovation of zoozoos and she doesn't want to miss even a single one.
IPL this season is bringing something more with zoozoos. Its bringing a lot of new Ads of mobile devices and Television sets. Karbonn the new mobile phone is seen a lot on the screen of score boards. Though these Ads din't attracted me much. Another cell phone that can be seen in the IPL Ads is MicroMax, endorsed by Akki (Akshay Kumar). Akki is also endorsing LG 's 3D TV in the IPL Ads. Then there is videocon advertising its satellite TV. Lets see whats more in the IPL's Advertisement bag, till then I'll watch my favorite Zoozoos.

Monday, March 8, 2010

Changing Definition of News

One of the most important and influential roles that television plays in the life of many societies and individuals is, as the primary source of news, current events, and various opinions and world views, keeping people informed constantly about what’s going on in the world. Especially in today's 24/7 news channels era. While newspapers are still around, TV News is something people follow regularly. And while TV news have been around for many decades now, they are even more accessible and attractive to viewers.
The untiring exhaustive coverage of the Kargil war between India and Pakistan gained more publicity and attracted more viewers towards the electronic channel. After the huge success of news programme 'Aaj Tak', TV Today Aaj Tak group, launched a 24-hour Hindi news channel with the same name 'Aaj Tak'. Within 11 months of its launch, Aaj Tak emerged as one of India's best news channel and was awarded Best News Channel award from Indian Television Academy Awards. The 'Sahara India Parivar' launched a 24-hour national Hindi news channel, Sahara Samay.
All these news channels had a great start. All were full of zest / enthusiasm & showed some really quality news or in other words lets say The Meaningful News. But as the time is passing news channels are lowering their quality day by day. The news is turning into Masala News. In words of Mr Bachchan in the movie Rann " TRP ke naam per sensationalism becha ja raha hai ". News channels today are not worried about the key issues, rather they are interested in TRPs. Not only this news channels sometimes show such stuffs which are exaggerated. Once news was supposed to be accurate & correct. Why its not so now ? Why can't news channels report something which is informative.
I remember, I read this blog talking about swine flu & the media spreading panic about it. Totally agreeing with this blog post, even I would like to ask news people that, is our system always on wrong path or its just the way you people turn it into your reports ? As lochanrajeev says, on one side you are saying swine flu's vaccination will take 6-7 months in India & when America says the same stuff with a little variations, we are praising them. May be thats not a big thing as we watch such news on regular basis but it is a big problem. It is something called creating panic by exaggeration. I am sorry to say that news media today is exaggerating everyone though its work is to awake the society, bring the revolution. And at the end another Rann dialogue that really touched me " Jahan Lakshya hona chahiye tha Khabrein aur madhyam huna chahiye tha paisa, wahan aaj paisa ban gaya hai lakshya or khabrein kewal madhyam "

Do watch this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNUTKAapXTA

Hope that brings some revolution in news world. Jago patrkaro get up & get awake.

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Television - The Easy Learning Tool

What is the last thing that you learned from TV ? We learn from TV every time we watch it. What we learn is the question? TV is a wonderful teacher but it may also show things that you are not comfortable with. One should establish a limit on what you watch. Sitting with family while watching TV is something we all should follow. A good TV should be interactive, you should talk, discuss what you watch. Do the activities related to knowledge. A TV is something age-appropriate. Watching shows that are research based & are intentionally meant for teaching are beneficial.

You can make TV viewing fun for the whole family along with the learning. TV is a tool, just like any other media. Especially now when you get IPTV – The interactive TV. Using IPTV one can learn, plan what to watch, how much to watch and can actually interact with the TV. TV like iControl IPTV in India are making it possible. You get features like parental control, using which you set or plan what you want to watch and what you don't. There are cool features of play-pause-rewind called the CHILL & COOL feature. Interactive educational games help you learn a lot while having fun. And as mentioned earlier discuss what you watch, iControl IPTV has a brilliant facility for that. You get your TV shows recorded automatically. Whenever you feel like discussing a show you can simply watch the show, pause it wherever needed. And can have all DVD like features. All this is present in iControl IPTV 's CHILL & COOL feature. You get everything to watch on TV but its not necessary that you want to watch everything. Todays digital TV service provider's Pay-per-view lets you do that. You get parental control options with which you set what your TV should show.

The most important thing to remember when using television as a learning tool is that you’re in charge of the clicker. If you’re watching a video, you can pause it to discuss something funny or scary, or a behavior that you think is a great example for teaching your kids. If your kid wants to recall something you can go back to that part and can recall. This helps kids learn better and its more fun too. All thanks to today's technology, learning is so organized, easy and simple.

Monday, February 22, 2010

No more Idiot Box, The Digital TV is Here

Those were the days, the days when watching your own TV was Royal. Classic times, when movies were telecasted once in a week. The mythological shows were everyone's favorite. Making sure that no single episode should be missed. The time when changing channel wasn't that easy. When TV was only a "tele" "vision" (only limited channel views).

Gone are the days of those Idiot Box (Idiot Box is a slang for television), requiring efforts. Its the time of digital TV. The time in which Royal not only means big & costly. The Royal means digital, the quality, the feature and the applications. Watching "Interactive" TV is Royal now. Having 100 TV channels is not the only thing people want today. You have 100+ channels, Music, Games and a lot more. You not only watch your TV, you now even have the Triple play options. Triple play, the technology which enables voice, data and video on your TV. What does that mean? That means you can access internet on the TV and a lot more. You use Web cams and do video conferencing through your Digital TV now.

IPTV is making all this possible, it is making television Interactive. It has Shopping, Classifieds, Play-Pause-Rewind LIVE TV and many other options for interactive TVs. Its the time when missing an episode does not mean end of the world. You no more rush to watch your favorite show. You smartly go back to the time and watch the missed show using Time Shift features. Shopping or window shopping, whatever it is you can do all on your TV. Just use your TV Remote and buy what you want. A lot more than 500 Movies are there in the video libraries (Video on Demand). iControl IPTV, MyWay IPTV and Airtel IPTV are three big IPTV players in India. Though iControl IPTV wins the race with its better features and facilities. FTTH is the latest buzz today, making the interaction more faster. And iControl wins here too, as it recently launched FTTH in Jaipur.

The Digital TV is making television as good and fun as it was in the golden era. Who thought of pausing the LIVE TV in the Golden Era. All that we missed in our idiot box, is now present in the Digital TV. Its the Smart TV Era – The Digital TV Era .

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