Saturday, January 29, 2011

Top Online sports streaming sites

Watching sports online in the internet is fun if you have a good Internet Connection.But many of the internet users who want to watch online streaming sports will face problems in finding a quality streaming sites.I myself faced many difficulties when I need to watch Football,Tennis,WWE events etc.After so many days of googling for sites.I made a nice list of online sports streaming sites which provide great links for all types of Internet bandwidths.The list is:
  1. MyP2P : This site is the best one I came across,it has all kinds of sites which are scheduled by External Peer-Peer channels.It has wide range of sports broadcasted all day.It has all the sites for Football,MLB,NBA,NHL,Tennis,Cycing,Ice Hockey,MotorSports everything..you name the game, MyP2P will provide the site.You can either stream to the links or you may download the software clients and necessary softwares which are provided in the site.I always prefer this site for any sport!Click here to go to the site.
                                                 
                                                       

    2.Justin TV : is a famous online streaming site known all over the world!It broadcasts all kind of videos on Live.Apart from some region wise issues this site is perfect for watching any kind of sports,videos,etc.My 2nd favourite actually,it covers all live channels for generally WWE,NBA and Tennis events.Click here to go to the site.You need to register to access full range video channels Live!

                                

   3.Atdhe.net : This site even though has a mediocre appearence,it will provide us with high quality and live channels.You can also watch sports channels like SkySports,Fox Sports,ESPN,Star Sports through this site.Click here to go to the site.


    4.Ustream.tv : UStream is another famous online streaming sites which provides wide range of categories in Live channels.You may use this site for watching other programs too other than sports sites.Click here to go to the site.


    5.Veetle.com : Veetle is also one of the finest website for online streaming,especially when you  have low bandwidth Internet Connection then you may find this useful.Some of the streaming channels require Veetle Player download to see the channels online.You can go to the site by clicking here .

           
     
    6.TVU Player : This site provides a software known as TVU Player.This software helps you to watch all streaming channels through your desktop.There are many sports channels all over the world which are supported by TVU Player.You can download the software and register to watch the TVU Player streaming. You can download the player in tvunetworks.com here .


                                   
   7.Sopcast : Sopcast is similar to the TVU Player which is also one of the site which provides a software to stream the channels on your desktop.Sopcast uses peer-to-peer technology which huge bandwidth allowances and usages.You can also create your own channels to host a sports match which is registered to a hosting channel.You can download the software here .


I frequently go through these sites whenever I need to watch the matches or events online.Hope you liked these sites!

                                   



                                            

                                 


                                  

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti Specifications and Overview

Nvidia comes up with its new GeForce GTX 560 Ti graphics card which gives the gamers extreme realism in all the latest games which are set to be released.It supports the 3D-Vision and Surround multi monitor gaming with Physx and SLI.

This graphic card also supports DirectX 11 series with Shader Model 5.0 and CUDA technology which is considered to be the stand out features of this Graphics card.

                                     

The specifications of the graphics card contain 384 CUDA core with 822Mhz Graphic Clock,4008Gbps Memory Clock,8 tessellation engines,4.1 OpenGL,Dual Slot width,Internal Audio Input for HDMI.

The GTX 560 Ti is 46% faster than the products which are under competition in the market which cost 20% more than this GPU.It also provides graphics horsepower and videobandwidth to experience 500 games and Blu-ray movies.

The detailed list of specification is as follows:


  • GPU ENGINE : Cuda Cores-384

                             Graphics Clock-822 Mhz
                             Processor Clock-1645 Mhz        
                             Texture Fill Rate-52.5 billion/sec    
  • FEATURE : NVIDIA SLI Ready-2-Way        
                        NVIDIA 3D Vision Surround Ready-Yes
                        NVIDIA PureVideo® Technology-HD
                        NVIDIA PhysX™ Technology-Yes
                        NVIDIA CUDA™ Technology-Yes
                        Microsoft DirectX-11
                        OpenGL-4.1
                        Bus Support-PCIe 2.0 x16
  • MEMORY : Memory Clock-4008 Gbps
                        Standard Memory Config-1024MB GDDR5
                        Memory Interface Width-256-bit
                        Memory Bandwidth -128.0 GBps 
  • DISPLAY SUPPORT Maximum Digital Resolution-2560x1600
                                               Maximum VGA Resolution-2048x1536
                                     Standard Display Connectors-Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI
                                     Multi Monitor-Yes
                                     HDCP-Yes
                                     HDMI-1.4a
                                     Audio Input for HDMI-Internal  
  • STANDARD GRAPHICS CARD DIMENSIONHeight-4.376 inches,Length-9 inches,Width-Dual-Slot
  • THERMAL AND POWERMaximum GPU Tempurature-99 C
                                                       Graphics Card Power-170W
                                                       Minimum System Power Requirement-500W
                                            Supplementary Power Connectors-Two 6-pin     

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Bored with Facebook online games?Try these!

FarmVille,CityVille,Treasure Isle,Mafia Wars,My Empire,Frontier Ville the list goes on.There are many online browser games in Facebook developed by several leading online game developers.Ever felt bored of these same old browser games?Wanna try some other famous browser games?This post is for you,here are the famous browser games which are listed under the games encyclopedia .Take a look and have fun!!

  • Farmerama :This is another farming strategy online game similar to Facebook with improved visuals and features.One who are addicted to Farm Ville may find this a bit unusual but you will enjoy these as you play on!Over 14million people are playing this game.Register yourself and enjoy!
                                   
                                     
  • Gladius2 : In Gladius2, you will be a gladiator who must fight through all the obstacles in a given arena.You will have several weapons meele,long range ,short range.Based on the arena select your weapons ,ammo and armour.Become one of the finest and best Gladiator in the game.You can register here for free and can enjoy the game.This game also includes a Premium version which allows us to create our very own arenas.This game is played by nearly 3.7million users.

                                                                                   
  • DarkOrbit : Again this is a famous well known action/shooter game.DarkOrbit deals with the Action-packed space battles, dangerous aliens, unknown phenomena and challenging missions which we must overcome with a spaceship to conquer the galaxy.There are an estimated number of 21 million gamers for this game.



                                           

  • The Pimps  : The Pimp is an action/strategy game with 16+ age rating.Here you must prove you are the most baddest dude around your city.Ride your Pimps,be a gangster and Fight for Honour!Number of gamers-3.7million



                                   

  • K.O.Champs : K.O.Champs is an online Boxing Simulation game with a 12+ age rating.You have to control your movements all over the ring and try to defeat your opponent.Number of users-500,000.



                                   

  • XBlaster : If you are watching for an action packed machinery based shooting game with lots of 3d Graphics and Animations.Then XBlaster is for you.Registered gamers are around 5 million.
                                   




So,these are some famous online games which are intresting and famous.You can obviously kill lot of time playing these(if you want to xD). 

Why to Captcha in Facebook when you have a friend?

Developers in Facebook try to improve the features of Facebook frequently,their security issues are safe and secured till now but what happens if there is a security problem in the near future?
                                                            


The developers asked themselves this question and Facebook is trying to eliminate the old booooring Captcha recognition service and intends to bring a SocialAuthentication service in Facebook.
                                              
Captcha is a recognition service which makes sure whoever accessing a specific service is a human but not a non-human/bot.This will produce some random confusing words which the user must type to prove he is human.This kind of test is accessible by everyone who can read but Facebook thought that instead of giving a rough random characters , how about displaying an image which the Facebook account holder already knew in which he/she must type his/her friend's name to prove he/she is the authenticated user or not.


This one sounds like a good idea but if we make something,some one will try to break it!Lets see if it works in Facebook!

Tell me what you think about this idea!

                                  

Samsung P1000 Galaxy Tab

Samsung now introduces a new phone in Galaxy series with Samsung P1000 Galaxy Tab.It mainly has a fascinating 7-inch screen which gives an interactive web experience which includes Flash 10.1 support and is powered by Android platform and ARM Cortex A8 processor 1 GHz processor.This Flash support enables the user through browsing rich Internet applications,games and many more!You can experience rich Movie and Multimedia experience with SoundAlive 3D audio.


Readers Hub support is useful for e-Reading many books,magzines and news on your screen.
               
It includes a general Social Hub feature which integrates our E-mail,Instant Messaging and SNS services.It also includes cartographic feature to navigate the different locations,Fast Connectivity and Integrated Calendar.

   
It also incldes Android 2.2 OS and with Full Multi Media Support.The extra features of these phones are as follows:
  • Platform - Quad Band (850/900/1800/1900MHz).
                      - 3G Band - 900 / 1900 / 2100.
                      - 3G - HSDPA7.2 / HSUPA5.76.
                      - Android 2.2 (Froyo) OS and Android Browser.
  • Display  -  Type 16M Colours TFT.
                -   ResolutionWSVGA 1024x600 .
  • CPU        -    ARM Cortex A8 processor, 1 GHz processor; PowerVR SGX540 graphics.
  • Size      -  Weight 380g .
                 -  
    Dimension190.09 x 120.45 x 11.98 mm . 
     
       
  • Battery  - Talk Time : Up to 4.6 hours (Video Call). 
                 -  Standby : Up to 27.6 hours . 
                 
  • Business & Office - Document Viewer-Thinkfree,Mobile Printing,Voice Memo and Voice Mail.
  • Memory  - 16/32 GB User Memory,microSD upto 32 GB external memory.
  • Other Features - Music Player,3.0 Mega Pixel Camera,Bluetooth,Wi-Fi,TouchScreen,Video Recording,Video Calling.
This tablet phone is not yet released in India and its price range and launch date is also unknown.Some sources suggests that it may be around Rs.22,000 and 790 Euros in Europe.




                              
                                                           

                                          

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Pokemon White Version and Black Version

Pokemon is back!After much anticipation Nintendo is releasing Pokemon White Version and Pokemon Black Version on March 2011.The previous 5 generations of Pokemon games(Diamond,Gold,Platinum,HeartGold,SoulSilver) has nice 3D gaming attributes which are set to be continued in this new Black and White versions!


Both the games are set in a region called Unova with new exciting Pokemons,trainers and manymore exciting features.We also come across a Castelia City where we must explore the Pokemons,gyms and trainers!This version has exclusively around 156 New Pokemon covering the types from Psychic-Ground.We can use Pokedex to know about the new unknown Pokemons and also a new Poke Shifter to trade the Pokemons.

As in the previous versions a special Pokemon can be unlocked in each of the versions named Zoroark.

                                 

It included several intresting features like Triple Battle,Rotational Battle,Pokemon Global Link which allows you to connect to your friends through Internet,3DS,Dsiand many more!!

The new Pokemons included are Reshiram (Black Version) and Zekrom(White Version)!

More and More features will be released by Nintendo as we come closer to release date!


Monday, January 24, 2011

Hide your important files in an image!!

We all hide our important and secret( :D ) files in our system.In this way we restrict the other users from viewing our files.As you already know there is a problem of virus and malware with this hiding process.So what we should do to effectively and securely hide our files?


My answer is to save it in an image file instead!!


Here is the process for that :

  • Let your files that must  be hidden are 1.mpeg,2.txt and so on..
  • Add these files to archive and name it as say hidden.rar
  • Select an image file,let it be image.jpeg .
  • Let this files are stored in the location say D:\New Folder.
                                     
  • Now go to Start->Run->cmd->Go to the specified location D:\New Folder.
  • Type "Copy /b image.jpg+hidden.rar new.jpg".
                                
  • Now you can see a new file new.jpg with all these files.You can extract the files by archive extracting program.
        
     So, hoping that you found this post useful!!

     Au Revoir!!
                                 




Sunday, January 23, 2011

Mobile Number Portability

What is this Mobile Number Portability?

Recently there is lot of buzz about this Mobile Number Portability so I intend to write something I know about this now.So,Mobile Number Portability is nothing but a service which is provided to a mobile phone subscriber to choose a service provider of his choice without changing the mobile number.So,if you are the one who is not any more interested in your network services or who have some other reasons to change your network,Mobile Number Portability is for you.
                                              
                                                


This feature can be used by both Pre-Paid and Post-Paid subscribers with the extra option of change in technology like GSM/CDMA.

How can I maintain the same number even though I change my service provider?

In this MNP, the calls or messages are just routed from one subscriber to another i.e ; If you change your Service Provider SP1 then all your calls or messages coming to your number will be forworded to the S1 by your previous Service Provider SP2.


You cannot change your SP too frequently,a gap of atleast 3 months must be maintained.To change your Service Provider you will be charged with only 19 Rs.

How to change my Serviceprovider? 

  1. Send an SMS (text message) with the word "PORT" to the phone number "1900". 
  2. You will immediately receive your own UPC (Unique Porting Code).This is a eight-digit code with an expiry date.
  3. Consult your nearest service operator office and after all the proceedings like filling up the form with your UPC and  paying the money you can collect your new SIM card.
  4. According to what I came to know your request will take upto 4-5 hours of time and after that you can enjoy your new subsriber service.It must take no longer than 7 days to complete the request according to some sources!!
Sounds interesting right!!I am on my way to change my MSP so what about you?


Samsung Google Nexus S

Google Nexus S has been now officially announced by Google.The much hyped device with the Google Android 2.3 Gingerbread OS and platform's SDK has been released.So let us see some information on this new phone.


This phone comes with a beautiful touch based interface with Contour touchscreen.It also supports Near Field Communication(NFC).For ones who dont know what actually is NFC,it is a technology which allows the users to share and transmit data over the devices within certain shortrange.It has some comparisons with Bluetooth but it is generally used to setup  BlueTooth.I think this is one of the best phones right now and can beat all the SmartPhones at present.







It can be rated at a scale of 8 generally considering its features which are as follows:



  • Size 
  1. Dimensions : 123.9 x 63 x 10.9 mm.
  2. Weight : 129 g.
  • Memory
    Unlimited contact lists,16GB Internal Storage and 512MB RAM.
  • Other Features
  1. Android Os with v 2.3 Gingerbread
  2. ARM Cortex A8 1GHz processor
  3. A-GPS support and HTML browser
  4. Media Player,Digital Compass,Near Field Communication
  5. Standard battery, Li-Ion 1500 mAh.
  6. 2G Network - GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 
  7. 3G Network - HSDPA 900 / 1700 / 2100
  • Camera
     5 MP, 2560 x 1920 pixels, autofocus, LED flash .
 




    



















Saturday, January 22, 2011

How to play Counter Strike online?



Counter Strike is an easy game when playing in your own PC with bots.But to play it online is a very different process and it may be very difficult for the newbies to understand.This post is for those who are confused of how to play Counter Strike online.I myself tried very very hard googling for exact information and watching YouTube videos when I was a newbie.So lets get started with this one!!

First of all,Why we have to play Online??

CounterStrike game is designed in such a way that bots uses AI techniques and play in only one dimensional play.They lack quick responses and thinking like Humans and are very predictable if you play regularly.So to get better gaming experience Online gaming is more preferred and popular.

How to play Online??

To play CounterStrike online we have 3 ways.They are using:

  • Steam Servers.
  • Garena.
  • Hamachi.
Let us look at every way in detail now.

  • STEAM SERVERS
  1. The first thing you need to do for this is to buy an original pack of Counter Strike from the nearest gaming Store.
  2. Then go to the site http://store.steampowered.com/ and install the Steam there.
  3. Once you installed the client,get an account and activate it by going into Settings and typing in your activation code which can be found under your CS pack.
  4. After that you are ready to play CS online.Just open the game,go to Find Servers.Select a server and start playing.If you dont have any servers you can go to Console by pressing ` button and start connecting to the server using IP address i.e.connect <Ip add>
  5. You can find the IP Adresses here .
  • GARENA CLIENT
  • Garena is an online gaming client which is used to play online games and which connects millions of gamers around the world.It supports various famous online games such as Call of Duty(CoD),Warcraft,Defense of The Ancients(DoTA),Age of Empires,Age of Mythology.You can download Garena client here .  
  • After downloading and installing,register in Garena and get an ID and a password and login.
  • Now you are ready to start gaming in Garena,go to settings and setup the counterstrike.exe file.
                                                   
  • Go to your desired room and start playing.If you are from India then you can go to IndiaRoom 1,2,3.
                                   
  • After starting the game,you can start playing by going into FindServers and selecting a server or goto the console by pressing ` and type SLIST you will get a series of servers with its IP adress.Type connect <IP ADD> and hit enter.

  • HAMACHI CLIENT
                        
  • Hamachi is a software which creates a virtual LAN between the users.You can download it here .
  • After installing and configuring Hamachi, create/join in a network and u are ready to play the game with your friend.
  • Go to window and check the box show advanced options .
                                           
  • Then right click on the players name and click on advanced.
  • If you are the host , you can see your friends Hamachi IP in the Peer VPN Address and below you can see Peer VPN Alias.Set the alias IP in such a way that first 3 numbers of the IP is yours and the last number is a unique number.i.e; If your Hamachi ID is 5.1.2.3 and your friends Hamachi ID is 5.4.6.7 then your Peer VPN Alias is 5.1.2.(any number),ex:5.1.2.10.If you are playing with more than one mone of your friends set your Alias in a sequence i.e,set the Alias as 5.1.2.11 , 5.1.2.12 , etc;
                                       
  • In this way you can continue to set the Alias for all your friends.
  • Now,everything is set to start a Counter Strike game.
  • Open the game and go to New Game,De-Select the Bots option.(You can also set a server by going into hlds.exe which is situated in the counterstrike folder).Now you have created a server and ready to play.
  • On the clients side,tell them to go to console and type connect <ur Hamachi IP>.
That must do it!!So we saw all the possible ways to play CounterStrike online.Even though there is another Non-Steam procedure to play CS.I didnt mention it as I never tried it!! :D