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Jul 11, 2007

Real Player 11 Beta – Love it but has its own issues.

Posted by Anandhan Subbiah in Cool Products, Music No comments

Real has launched a new beta player at Real 11 Beta. It is a really cool product and it also installs a plugin for your browser which allows you to download any streaming audio or media source. I know there are plugins out there which can do the job but I like this plugin better.
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Jun 25, 2007

The Apple iPhone is released this Friday !

Posted by Anandhan Subbiah in Cool Products, Events and News, Technical Articles 2 comments

There is lot of excitment around this new phone from Apple and I am really excited as well. Let us hope the phone is worth the hype. I am only concerned with the charge from the cellular provider . The phone will be as cool as advertised only if the user has access to all [...]

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May 8, 2007

DFX – Review

Posted by Anandhan Subbiah in Cool Products, Music 1 comment

DFX is a audio enhancing software . It uses Digital Signal Processing to improve audio quality. I used DFX years back when I was in India and I loved it . Now DFX 8 is much better and sounds better than ever. It improves the sound quality of all major music types mp3,wma and even [...]

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May 5, 2007

muvee auto Producer 6 – Review

Posted by Anandhan Subbiah in Cool Products, Technical Articles, Videos 1 comment

I recently bought this really cool software muvee . muvee is a video creation tool . It allows creation of videos from your photos and has slick styles to make your home videos look better. Audio integration is easy as well. This product also features can also encode videos to most of the popular formats including [...]

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Apr 9, 2007

Norton 360 – Issues [maybe 300 :) but not 360 ]

Posted by Anandhan Subbiah in Cool Products, Technical Articles 3 comments

You would think only Microsoft can overlook important issues like disabling network search in vista when it was possible in XP but Norton is not far behind.
I am a big fan of the Norton Password manager ( bundled with Norton Systemworks) . I read great reviews of Norton 360 and anyway I had to get [...]

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Apr 4, 2007

A Cool Site – Ziddio.com

Posted by Anandhan Subbiah in Cool Products, Technical Articles, Videos 1 comment

      
Ziddio  is the very latest in user-generated video sharing. People like you create videos and upload them to Ziddio.com for the world to see, laugh, question, mock, and even enjoy. The best thing about this web site is that you get paid for the videos you upload . Ziddio allows you to upload videos [...]

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Mar 29, 2007

5 Reasons to work for Comcast = 5 awesome portals

Posted by Anandhan Subbiah in Cool Products, Technical Articles No comments

Comcast is the largest cable company in the United States . I work as a Engineering Manager in Comcast and I honestly believe that if you understand how the web works then Comcast is the best company to work for in Philly (and in the United States !) . Anyone intrested in working on cutting edge [...]

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Mar 29, 2007

How to backup a mysql database ?

Posted by Anandhan Subbiah in Cool Products, Technical Articles No comments

MySql has two awesome tools which make life a lot more easier for people who don’t like to work with command prompts . MySql Query Browser and MySql Admininstrator are bundled together and available for download at  http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/gui-tools/5.0.html .You can use the Query Browser to execute all DML operations and the Adminstrator for all DDL operations.  [...]

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Mar 7, 2007

Tools a java programmer needs

Posted by Anandhan Subbiah in Cool Products, Technical Articles No comments

Unlike Microsoft.net java has a wide variety of tools to support development . I think personally this works both as an advantage and a disadvantage. The challenge is to pick the right tools . I have been in the industry long enough so here is my list of tools
Clip Path : http://personal.vsnl.com/sureshms/ClipPath.zip . This program installs [...]

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Nov 22, 2006

HP MediaVault Issues With Norton Internet Security

Posted by Anandhan Subbiah in Cool Products, Technical Articles 2 comments

I recently purchased a 300GB HP MediaVault . I ran the installer in my HP PC which was running Microsoft XP Home edition. I was not able to use the software which came with the bundle as the Home edition does not support networking but it allowed mapping network drives though . I was never [...]

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