My Qik Story.

Couple of days back i was going to attend my good friend's sister's wedding but before that out of nowhere he asked me " you have to stream the ceremony on the internet - live" ,I thought " does he wants it as a fancy or..." but before I can cross question him,he told me about her eldest sister who was away in USA and wasn't able to come due to some unforeseen circumstances.And she really wants to see the ceremony.
                 "Hmmm, Live streaming ,minimal delay,Quality concerns", jargon just started to pop  in my head amidst this jargonotic chaos many ideas popped in like Skype (firstly) , Google Video Chat, VLC Camera Stream but then i remembered about a service named QIK  which helps to stream directly live from a number of Smart phones ( and im a proud owner of an E5 yeye) to the world .

<<<<<<WARNING ,GEEK STUFF. MAY INDUCE NAUSEA >>>>>> :P
So , the tests began before couple of hours from the main event .Initial tests were just BS (thanks to BSNL 3g) but after tinkering under the hood i was able to get a reliable stream at 176X144 res with audio.
<<<<<</GEEK STUFF ENDS>>>>>>>>>

So,the event began and i started streaming from my Nokia E5 initial streams were good and after getting feedback from US i was confident that everything will go fine, and it did :-).

I am just not happy that i streamed something via my cell to the world but ,i made some one smile because of it ,was what made me happy .

You can still chk out the videos at http://www.qik.com/nihitj .

Qik Rocks .


Peace out.

-j

A funny photo and some info about SSL.

 

Got this funny pic when returning back from Delhi to my place.Well SSL/TLS has made our online presence very very secure with its strong encryption mechanism.From electronic transactions to checking your mail every web application is now implementing SSL/TLS mechanism for securing their users privacy from unauthorized access. more here (okay, i know  its boring but bear with me plz).

       Apart from taking a funny pic I am actually using it in my major project which takes care of some "pretty serious security issues" (more on that later).

Thank you, Netscape. (why am i thanking netscape??).

Peace out.

-j

Chinese Stealth fighter test raises eyebrows .

 

The photo above is of the latest top secret J-20 Stealth air superiority jet fighter ,which was secretly developed by the Chinese to upgrade their Air force.But the impact of its disclosure to the world really shook the "super powers".

Co-incidentally or "deliberately I can't be sure about that but the defense secretary of the  United States was there too when the first test flight of the jet took place (deliberately it is then :P). So,back to the topic ,there are just two more stealth fighters in the world the F-22 Raptor from the US which is out of production due to high production costs and the other is the Joint Strike fighter F-35 being developed by Lockheed Martin but is currently under development ;and one of the three being with the Chinese change the way how there military impression is on the world (clearly going offensive ).

    But What does India has just for the sake of comparison lets see,Jaguar,MiG-27, Harpy,HAL Tejas ,none of them is a stealth and the last one Tejas is not fully developed(and never will).So,we're out of the league and its happy to see our lovely neighbour getting a new Stealth Fighter.Hope they never need to use .

Peace out.

-j

My blogging adventures begins again.

After having maintained a couple of blogs in the past and having mixed experiences with them .I have decided yet again to write myself out but this time in a more generalized way .
The name of the blog is "iWrite-too",the "i" comes from the App*e's convention and the phrase "Write-too" tells about another blogger who likes to tell the world what he has to say,another drop in the ocean.
So here I am writing out myself.

Signing out.
-Nihit

Next Ubuntu's UI will be Unity Based .But what is Unity?

The next version of Ubuntu i.e. 11.04 code named "Natty Narwhal" will feature a brand new interface based on Unity an internal Canonical project which will make the interface more intuitive and easy to use.

 

Some background info on Unity : From Canonical's Website

"Unity provides a complete, simple, touch-ready environment that integrations your applications and your workflow.

Unity is designed for netbooks and related touch-based devices. It includes a new panel and application launcher that makes it fast and easy to access preferred applications, such as the browser, while removing screen elements that are rarely used in mobile and netbook computing.
Unity has a vertical task management panel on the left-hand side and a menu panel at the top of the screen. Using a sidebar for task management conserves vertical screen space, which is much more valuable on a widescreen netbook. The task panel displays icons for commonly-used applications and programs that are currently running. Clicking on an icon will give the target application focus if it is already running or launch it if it is not already running. If you click the icon of an application that already has focus, Unity will activate an Expose-style view of all the open windows associated with that application. "

Unity@Ubuntu