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The official website for Converita 2007 – National Level Technical Symposium conducted by Association of Information Technologists (AIT), SSN College of Engineering, Kalavakkam, Chennai – 603110 – www.converita.com Designed & maintained by Johnson Samuel (Js). Visit this awesome site, and prepare to participate this NLT Symposium on 20th September, 2007. My contribution in Flash for my website development is quite small, just a butterfly.

Apple’s iPhone – Battle for the Zune Microsoft Cruxer – All things in a small phone!

The Mac/tech web has been all about the iPhone over the last few days. First it was the hype and exuberance of the new device, then people started to think about the limited information Jobs presented and speculate about the reality of the iPhone — what it is, what it isn’t. For some, this resulted in a pretty dramatic reversal of their opinion on the iPhone; others simply listed some concerns about the device that really were requests for more information rather than some sort of judgment.

We won’t know until June what the iPhone really is. We might see some real-world reviews beforehand, and from there we can start getting a feel for how good (or immature) this device really is.

Phil Schiller demos the iPhone for CBS’ John Blackstone, and it is impressive, especially when you see how well Apple nailed the user interface goals. The GUI and navigation aspects are simply amazing, and the phone seems quite responsive despite all the eye-candy. There’s cross-fading, real-time zooming, and incredibly smooth scrolling. As the iPhone line matures and diversifies, Apple is going to sell millions of these things

la`AISC IEEE

TD has finally agreed to managed the revised Bus Routes for tommorrow’s AISC/IEEE meet, due to more turnout entries. Registration will be done at the Auditorium permises. Here lays our proposed bus routes for the AISC IEEE 2006 conference yet to be held tomorrow. Mr.Harish, SRM Easwari Enginering College (IEEE Rockz) seems well happy enough to see the lot. Ajit Thala would co-ordinate until nine. Yet there lays some huge work ahead to manage the show. If rather transport department could consider alloting more buses to direct to other colleges rather than awaiting the delegates at Central.

Route No.2	615am. Poonamalle-Porur-Butt road-Guindy-Pallavaram-Chrompet-Thambaram-New Perungalathur-Vandalur zoo-Kelambakam-College
Route No.3	6.10am Kolathur-Perumbar-Vyasarpadi-Dovedon-Egmore-Royapettah-Luz Mylapore-Mandaveli-Satyastudio-Adyar signal-Adyar depot-Thiruvanmiyur-SRP tools-College
Route No.4	6.00am Avadi-Thirumulaivoyal-Ambattur OT-AMbattur Estate-Wavin-Golden Flats-Collector Nagar-Thirumangalam-Anna Arch-Arumbakkam-Koyambedu Roundana-Vadapalani Signal-Kasi theatre-Anna University-Madyakailash-College
Route No.5	6.00am Ernavoor-ITC-Wimco-Ajax-Periyar Nagar-Thiruvattiyur market-Theradi-Kadalipet-Toll Gate-Kasimedu-Kalmandapam-Royapuram-Beach station-Parrys-7.35am College
Route No.9	6.30am St.Thomas Mount-Nanganallur-Madipakkam-Ramnagar-Pallikaranai-Medavakkam BS-Sholinganallur-College
Route No.15	6.15am Nadhamuni-14 Shops-Anna Roundana-Chindamani-TVK Park-Arun Hotel-Loyala-Valluvarkottam-Thirumalaipillai road-Theynampet-Devar Salai-Saidapet-Chinnamalai-Velachery Checkpost-Vijayanagaram 100′ road- Vijayanagar BS-Tharamani Link road-Sholinganallur-College
Route No.19	6.20am Valasaravakkam-Virugambakkam-KK Nagar-Pillaiyar Nagar-KK Nagar Depot-Ashok Pillar-Samiyarmadam-Liberty-Kodambakkam-North Usman road-T Nagar-Saidapet-IIT-Madyakailash-SRP Tools-Perungudi-Thorapakkam-sholinganallur-College
Route No.20	6.25am Sekar Emporium-Rengarajapuram Main road-Brindavan Street-Panagal Park-Venkatnarayana road-Nandanam Signal-Madyakailash-7.40am College
Route No.29	6.30am Sadras-Sadras Gate-AEC Swimming Pool-hospital-Perumalcheri-Amaipakkam-Thirupporur-Kalavakkam-College
Route No.30	6.10am Thirukazhukundram-Chengalpattu-MM Nagar-Kattangkulathur-Srinivasapuram-Guduvanchery-7.40am College
Route No.32	6.25am Anagaputtur-Pammal-Pallavaram-Chrompet-Sanitorium-East Thambaram-Camp road-Gowrivakkam-Medavakkam-Sholinganallur-College
Route No.33	6.40am Santhome Church-Katchery road-Myalapore Tank-Renga road-Mutt Road-Food World-Mandaveli Bus Depot-Rani Meyyammai-Satyastudio-Besant Nagar-Vannanthurai-Thiruvanmiyur-ECR-Neelankarai-Palavakam-Sholinganallur-college
Route No.40	6.50am Bharath Engg College-Camproad-Gowrivakkam-College
Route No. 41	6.20am Thirumangalam-CPWD quarters-Koyambedu-MMDA-Vadapalani Signal-Ashok Pillar-Kannamapettai-Saidapet Court-Madyakailash-College
Route No.42	6.00am Madavaram Theppal Petti-Perumbur-Jamalia-Ayanavaram Signal-Kellys-Kilpauk Garden-Pachaippa Colege-chetpet Signal-Shashtri Bavan-Nungampakkam HR-Gemioni-Music Academy-Alwarpet-Abiramapuram-Kaliappa-AdayarGateHotel-Kotturpuram-IIT-Madyakailash-College

la`Conver`ita 06 -IT Syposium

Come dawn awaiting on for the great event held at my college, a technical symposium held in the name of Converita (meant to reframe protocols.. sounds crap does’nt it?). A fact being the same name as my IT Co-ordinator Hari.G had a coincidental facet with one Hari Gudu, delivery manager from Infosys who had come to grace & preside the ocassion over there as cheif guest.To say about all damn lethargic evenings we spent on that eve would be quite be a tale so long as a nile rather mile.Further the intro had never been so long been frusturated for audience’s patience had been held to a test for upto 20 minutes.

Missing codecs,Errorenous extensions,Incompatiable audio and video drivers,Unsupported Formats had made quite a big fuss over there in the main auditorium.Further the KLC codec was installed (but I failed to re-boot the OS in Laptop,and missed a humorous ending track during 2nd video) ,further we changed player configuration version too,but it had been quite a grave disaster being a streaming video one rather than seeking-and-set version.Further setting the intros had been quite well finalised and all credits really reserved with xap literally.Then the comedy track made along with venkat had been a hit, that many had their laughs a stomachful, as it seems.And then what to say about the third wonder presenation that Joshua (my di`e rolemodel`e) had made.It seems he had used a variety of tools like Photoshop, 3DsMax etc rendering and making a compositon with Maya (Still now I have a first hand exerience in this wonderful tool yet).Multimedia Presentaion – Powress had been quite nice going as a past time, in the stuffy lounges of ECE seminar hall,for I had a good time interacting to all guys along from other colleges with Joe as the judge for this Powress.Come home after the valediatory events at audi,felt too miserable with a bad headache in that sultry ambience in the dungeons and had a gloomy night without good sleep until dawn.Loneliness ever haunts me,in a verge until all roses seem to blosoom on my grave.I am always seem to subjected in writing up so called “fast philosphy” even to all my friends, uttering every word on as a hard-beaten lead.Indeed we need a inner depth, so I must try to sublimate myself into many channels of life and walk up until horizons (Struck to old habit..).To put a end to all being alone in a bliss,I really had a wonderful company with the seniors, friends and thoughtful guys,rather made a great start..

It`erarion Symposium

Starting off a day long in the warm,sultry hot sunny morning at corridors of our college a gentleman had been quite kind hearted enough to help us with a Qualis to reach kelambakkam, from where we just boarded the Tambaram 21H to St.Joseph`s IT symposium Iteration `06 The crowd was well enough at 700+ and moreover yet well we just were suprised to well qualify into the first round in Quiz ,but lost time and hope in damn Debugging, and had quit without Gaming.Hoping to some paper presentations would to enable better chance of wining.

Foss la`Creativities

Symposium nearing & work going at optimal velocity, sure to change gears. Our site has been designed by my seniors Allen Pradeep, Anto and Murthy aka Unreal over from last month. Hope it rocks out well nice with boom. Ubuntu version 6.06 – Although released quite long bygone June`06 by Ubuntu, canonical Community seems to deliver an attractive release with full GUI compatibility. Although I had no idea how to handle up some situations and mount upon all HDDs in my system, there were unique feature which made me feel a damn stupid programmer. What a great effort an open community have contributed well off been put up some where in SA. Well Ubuntu does have some good and well experienced professionals running a good show (not to forget the graphics & animation artists as I am well interested in this damn dear arena).Well there had been some sluggish things I found in damn Operating Systems like in non-GUI Compliable UNIX and M$ which seems not a good take. But M$ must not openly criticized. As too much for the media hype which this product company seems to handle after the google episode. When questioned Bill Gates had openly accepted his fact that what had been done to Netscape would not be quite well entertained over with google. Further M$ Zune seems a crappy odd i-pod ever to be. To specialize some features as said by my best friend ,a M$ champ – Ashutosh Mohan based on popular findings by some jack whose name starts with S, says It’s a odd stuff unlike the well-creative works of the Apple (having that geek looking gizmo scroll) had been exactly replicated well enough to make up a damn 4 button pointing junk. Up,down for volume and sidebars for seeking had made it look as a blade of grass. Copy cats pay the price for all fuss, and if you are sure to make something foss you are not a loser.

Damn d`powerpoint vides

Such a fuss was made on the sympo presentation jogs.It was attempted to check the power point opening in the TV using AMD but it causes flickering at 50 HZ visible. Also only video out is connectable, no audio is possible. When we use a camera handy cam(sony) to record the PPT output directly from the PC monitor , the same flickering is seen. Also it was attempted to record directly the TV out signal of the PC (AMD), but since the signal was bit very weak, poor result was perceived.The DVD recorder records the video signal from a handy cam directly.

Getting a microphone preferably cordless is better, but how to record. The AMD PC has very little memory and though 512 MB many programs are loaded. So ULEAD studio could not open a capture device like sony handy cam.

The recoding first in a handycam is better as it helps editing but the hell a lot disadvantages faced soon are
1. Time waste
2. The battery gets drained faster.
3. The same tape has to be repeatedly are used, as a result it wears out faster and we may not know which portions would not have recorded correctly.

It is very essential to keep the cds carefully, if scratch happens on the tracks, the CD becomes a junky waste esp. the read write ones that tend to be costlier and we cant know if we really got results correctly when we use with a DVD recorder. DVD recorder can record both TV and handy cam signals. We should keep log of all our daily activities for future reference. It will avoid us dong the same old things again and again.ADOBE Premiere was also loaded in the AMD PC but damn it was not working.
One thing we have to learn is how to put power point presentation on a TV display without flicker. In video it is always better to get presentation by a speaker but it do take lot of time to be wasted because writing on a board is taking hell my time.

The ULEAD & Visual studio was not working with the old Philips monitor, as it needs more resolution, however Windows Movie maker is working. The direct recording from a handy cam through ULEAD video studio takes more bytes than through the DVD recorder. If it is a SONY handy cam, it takes only DV format and we cant adjust.

The DVD recorder records the signal in a different unusual format. Though we can play in any DVD player, we cant edit in the ULEAD studio.That is one disadvantage.The ULEAD studio actually captures in AVI format initially just as a TV Tuner card. Later we are able to change to DVD or mpg or VCCD or DV Format. But it takes a long time to edit this as we has to save the file damn slowly. Here we are able to add background music etc! A 52 MB 20 sec clip after editing with adding one mp3 music file became 54 MB in mpg format saving but the same thing in DVD format became 85 MB. So it does not reduce in DVD saving? But a windows moviemaker saves in wmv format which I don`t know whether we can play in a DVD player checked this later and found it is unsupported type. A 2 min AVI raw video takes 432 MB space. Whereas a 4 GB DVD in the DVD recorder take 2 hrs therefore 1 hr — 2 GB so, 2 min will occupy 66 MB that means 7 times more The same was converted by editing to VCD format. We got 19MB only got reduced from 432 MB

Ultimate Goals :
We have to find a way out to reduce space.

When u record in DVD recorder ensure that it is in AV4 (front panel of DVD recorder shall read A4. If it is others it will not record. So select using the second change button in the remote control after going to AV1.Again tried with windows movie maker 25 sec clip takes 91 MB in DV-AVI mode but in best quality mode , it is 1.& MB only for 25 sec ext: wmv but converting from wmv to mpg using ulead tales very long time. So we have to find some other solution. The VOB extension of the DVD Recorder format is not accepted by both windows movie maker as well as ULEAD Studio. So we cant edit the DVD record format. But okay in case of inter video from Nero express. A 714 KB wmv file was converted to 17 MB file when using ULEAD studio converted. A 17 MB wmv file was recorded in MM2 for 3 min in high quality video. Then it was converted in ULEAD… And wow so awesome was the presentation!