I dont know how i got in to this but finally landed in a page which said “Canon Hack development kit“, CHDK in short.

After a couple of struggle i finally managed to activate the CHDK firmware on my canon. It says firmware but this will not modify your existing firmware on the camera and can be deleted or removed simply by formatting your SD CARD using a PC/laptop.

The following time lapse is my second test using a intervalometer script from Andrew Hazelden’s Blog. (spend some time on his blog. he has a very good CHDK articles)

The youtube URL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEPc68D0h6E

Apple says that the new iPhone OS 4.0 will handle the multi-tasking without affecting the battery life or the operating performance.  But how a user knows that the applications are gone to multi-tasking and the number is really growing high.

Lets keep an multi-tasking icon placed on top of the screen. The icon visually shows the user when the multi-tasking feature utilized in “Medium”, “heavy”, or “Extreme”.

May be in this way a user can know things better.

1. Below picture shows multi-tasking utilization is “Medium”

2.Below picture shows multi-tasking utilization is “Heavy”

3. Below picture shows multi-tasking utilization is “Extreme”

Finally a small try to show the icon in the actual user interface.

Multitasking status icon style 2:

1. Below picture shows multi-tasking utilization is “Normal”

2. Below picture shows multi-tasking utilization is “Medium”

3. Below picture shows multi-tasking utilization is “Heavy”

this instructions will apply only to the computers which runs with single hard disk and windows 7  installed in Drive C:

this instructions will apply when windows 7 fails to fix the issue automatically.

Please leave your message if you required an additional guidance to fix your problem. I will try to help at my best.

what are required to fix this?

a windows 7 DVD or a windows 7 recovery CD.  Please google around if you have questions working with recovery CD since there are lot step by step instructions available in the internet.

Once you are in the windows 7 recovery mode

1. go to the “command prompt” (see below screenshot)

2. once you are there, run the command DISKPART. follow the screenshot and type the command as it shows.

3. type exit to come out of diskpart.
4. type the following commands one by one. dont mind about the results.

bootrec /FixMbr
bootrec /FixBoot
bootrec /ScanOs
bootrec /RebuildBcd

5. now go to the “system recovery option” screen again and click on “startup repair“.
6. Once done, restart your computer.

Starting Windows !!!!!

step 1:

Open terminal

step 2:

perform the following commands without quotes:

> “sudo -s”

supply the password when the above command prompt for it.

step 3:

executing the below command will uninstall the iphone SDK 2.2.1.

> “/Developer/Library/uninstall-developer-folder”

remember the above command is case-sensitive.

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iTGE is mainly focused on the game developers who wants to develop their games exclusively for iPhone and iPODTouch. Its gives an easy option to export the game to any platform like Xbox 260, Wii, iPhone and iPODTouch. The most notable point of the Garagegames game engine is, it will work with PC and Mac.

It means, a developer who does not having a Mac machine he/she can peacefully work in Windows platform and export it to Mac or iPhone.

The iTGE engine is available in http://www.garagegames.com. It’s in the pre-order state now. If you pre-order it now, you will have access to Beta 2 of iTGE until the full version release.

Check out the detail blog for more information on this beta: http://www.garagegames.com/community/blogs/view/16939

Steve jobs, or even people in Apple never imagined that iPhone will become a big hit on console gaming. But it did. Once Apple opened the gate for indie developers to publish their apps and games on iTunes App Store, the Success stories begins. Indie’s like Steve Demeter, developer of the popular iPhone game Trism, earned $250,000 in 2 months, and Ethan Nicholas, developer of the popular iphone game iShoot who earned $800,000 in 5 months. The iPhone game development become a huge hit and it’s made independent developers to become multimillionaires in just a year.

iPhone made his foot print on mobile market comes with unique features like multi-touch, accelerometer, proximity sensor and a rich application environment. As i said on the beginning, when Steve job introduced the iPhone, he said it’s a three different product packed in one single device. But in 2009, without any re-engineering, being as it is, iPhone transformed himself to four different product packed into one single device available in the market. Now it becomes a Phone, an iPOD, an Internet communication device and now a Gaming console.

VLC Player is the popular open source video player software among a lot of computer users.  Recently HP laptop users facing a inbuilt speaker problem, which is often getting malfunction across the users. The official HP service center executives advicing the laptop users to stop using the VLC player to watch, play media files. They reporting that playing a media files using VLC Player causing the damage to the built in speakers.

As an additional information the official HP service center executives informing the customers bring the laptop to service for the build in speaker problem that , “the laptop will not cover under warranty if its identical that the diagonse report finds the user used the VLC player.”

first download and install the windows based softphone called xlite from http://www.counterpath.com/

download and install the following package if it does not exist in your linux box. the asterisk installation will fail if any of the following packages does not exist in the machine.

Packages:

gcc
cpp
glibc-headers
glibc-devel
glibc-kernheaders
gcc-c++
libstdc++-devel
libtermcap-devel

Hope you have all the packages mentioned above.

lets start.
go to the linux machine. create a directory as your choice. here am creating under /usr/local/

command:
mkdir /usr/local/asterisk

go to the newly created directory

command:
cd /usr/local/asterisk/

then am downloading the asterisk package from www.asterisk.org

command:
wget http://downloads.digium.com/pub/asterisk/releases/asterisk-1.4.22.tar.gz

once the download completed , unpack the package.

command:
tar -xvzf ./asterisk-1.4.22.tar.gz

note: in the above command the file name is the name of the file which we downloaded before.

once the unpack completed, the package is unpacked into the directory /usr/local/asterisk/ as a folder named asterisk-1.4.22. that is /usr/local/asterisk/asterisk-1.4.22/

now you need to jump into the newly created directory.

command:
cd asterisk-1.4.22

the final step is to compile the package.

commands:

make clean
./configure
make
make install
make samples
make progdocs

note: above listed are six different commands and it needs to be executed one by one.

now almost done. the package is successfully installed. hopefully

now, to make the basic asterisk to run, we need to edit the two configuration files located in /etc/asterisk/

the file names are (with full absolute path)

/etc/asterisk/sip.conf
/etc/asterisk/extensions.conf

first we are going to edit the sip.conf file.

command:
vi /etc/asterisk/sip.conf

go to the bottom of the file and paste the following configuration. this configuration actually creating the sip user accounts. the first line [thiyagu] is the user name. here i used my name thiyagu as the username.

the third line which is secret=thi123 is the place where you need to key in your desired password. here i used the password thi123. am creating two users in the name of thiyagu and jack

[thiyagu]
type=friend
secret=thi123
qualify=yes
nat=no
host=dynamic
canreinvite=no
context=internal

[jack]
type=friend
secret=jack123
qualify=yes
nat=no
host=dynamic
canreinvite=no
context=internal

the sip.conf is now completed. the next one is extensions.conf. the file is under /etc/asterisk/
here we are going to create the extension numbers for each users which we created before.
am assigning the extension number 100 for user thiyagu and 1o1 for jack

command:
vi /etc/asterisk/extensions.conf

go to the bottom of the file and paste the following config.

[internal]
include => outbound
exten => 100,1,Dial(SIP/thiyagu,20,tr)
exten => 101,1,Dial(SIP/jack,20,tr)

thats it . you are done.

now run the asterisk executable

command:
/usr/sbin/asterisk -vvvvc

it should run without any errors. Configure the username we created under sip.conf in xlite softphone in two different machines and call each other.

Have Fun

The “Elevated mode” error pops up twice and and shuts down the program completely when pressing the “close” button. Disabling the “User Access Control” will help you to run the program successfully without any errors.

Follow the blow steps to make the changes.

Please read the Microsoft advisory before performing the following settings.
Link: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc709628.aspx

step 1:

Go to the control panel and open User Accounts.

Step 2:

Click on the “Turn User Access Control on or off” (highlighted in red on the above image)

Step 3:

After step 2, you will get the following window on your screen.

uncheck the check box saying “Use User Access Control (UAC) to help protect your computer” and press “OK”.

Step 4:

After step 3 the system will ask you to reboot your computer.

Reboot the computer the computer and start the Nuance Dragon NaturallySpeaking.

Have Fun..