Health issue and year 2009

Year 2009 has not been really good for family as far as health is concern.. otherwise it has been really good.. one by one everyone fell ill.. and 3 out of 6 were admited to hospital.. I was admited to hospital last month.. had typhoid.. still recovering from the damage typhoid has caused to my body.

I am going to make Mumbai User Group active again.. http://www.mumbaiusergroup.org

planning with UG meet this month for sure.

Xbox 360 Facebook Application Error 800700e8

On Xbox 360, when you try to start facebook application, if you get following error 800700e8 you need to do following steps to start running Facebook application.

You will be requiring Xbox 360 gamertag which has country set to United States. If you dont have, you can create one gamertag and set its country to US. Login with US gamertag id on Xbox 360 and download Facebook Application.

Once download is done, you can sign out and you can start using your original gamertag and run the Facebook application, and error will not come now.

Silence

I have been silent for few months.. and I guess I will be silent for few more days.. having very tight schedule and few things in life going such a way which is making me change my priorities. I am not sad, I am not happy.. I am just ok.

I really hope things happens as what I want, whether it is good or bad I don't care about it.

Michael Jackson – King of Pop

June 25, 2009 was really a shocking day for many people,  Michael Jackson – King of Pop was declared dead on this day. I loved his songs and his dance moves a lot. Check out the following song of Michael Jackson, Will you be there, my most fav. song.

Knowing bit about Michael Jackson through his interviews and wikipedia, I guess this song talks a lot about what he feels and how he feels about his life, he was all alone needed love of people. He was going to come back with This is it concert that he was going to do in few days.

For us fans of Michael Jackson, he is still alive and always with us. :)

lyrics of the song - http://www.lyricsfreak.com/m/michael%20jackson/will%20you%20be%20there_20092671.html

Mobile User Interfaces

 

 

Have a look at the above four images… These are the home screens of the various mobile devices, major screen shots from Windows Mobile, Windows Mobile is very flexible and allows you to customize its UI the way you want. Anyways coming back to topic.

Looking at above four images, which user interface really appeals you? Now, if I am going to use new UIs for first time, it definitely appeals me.. for example iPhone UI is great, I love it.. it appeals me.. similarly HTC Diamond or HTC Touch Pro UI is very nice and appealing. I used all the above phone for several months. User interface is great, nice to play around with.. but then it starts getting boring more you use it.. more boring it seems.

I like to keep information at my fingertip. Basically you can say I am information greedy and I always want to have information when I need it.

Now, lets look at the screen shots of Mobile UI one by one from top left to right bottom. If you look at the first screenshot top left, first screenshot is very much normal, not appealing at all.. just shows time, owner of cell phone, how many msgs in inbox or emails in inbox, shows appointments and task list in home screen.

2nd Screen shot shows, time, weather, shortcuts to few programs and appointments.. but if I want to go from time to weather or shortcut.. I have to click or touch on relevant tab button.

3rd screen shot which is bottom left.. is kind of similar to 2nd one.. but provides more things on the screen.. like speed dial, preview of msgs, emails, pictures, etc… but for all this I have to click on relevant tab.

4th screen.. just shows me programs, nothing else.

Now, as a information hungry… 4th UI fails for me completely, I do not get any information easily.. I need to click click click and get the information I need. Time consuming.

looking at 2nd and 3rd, I do get information, but not much.. only a little.. and for more information again click.

1st screen… provides me information that I need just at a glance.. I dont need to click anywhere.. no need to scroll.. a great UI for information.

User Interface design and interaction wise.. 2nd, 3rd and 4th are great.. but does not give me enough information.. in which 4th one fails like anything.. 1st wins..

so on my cell I disabled all HTC cube or HTC Touch plug-in and gone back to my normal Windows Today screen.

I will be more glad and it will be more useful, if companies design user interfaces keeping information in mind rather than making people wow about the how it looks and how it animates, etc...

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ISO Image burning in Windows 7

Microsoft listened to its customers again, finally from Windows 7 you can straight away burn ISO images or in ur DVD or CD :)

Select image file and u will get Burn disc image option in tool bar :)

Are we animated?

well, yes title is correct. Are we animated? Have a look at the above advertisement, I am sure all of you have seen that and liked ad a lot.

After few days, in news channel we saw how this ads were made, and to our surprise this ads were done by wearing a suite and not animated characters, and we were all surprised, telling everyone that this ad is done by actually a real person wearing a suite.. I was also one of them. One day I was just sitting idle and thinking about ZooZoo ad, and thought I got was kind of amusing and funny for me. About 10-15 years back, if same ad was made and animated characters would have been used.. we would have surprised and said to everyone.. hey this ad is animated.. looks so nice.. you see what am trying to say? We are seeing so many animated things around us that for us anything which does not look real we think is animated. We forget that in earlier days people used to wear a suite and perform things like Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, etc.. but now we have got so much into digital world, that we have taken each and everything granted that it is computerized. Day is very near when we will see everything done on computer.. whole movie with actors like Shahrukh Khan not really a human but animated character, and when we will see real person performing we will be surprised. I know it is very extreme thought.. but still doesnt it really sound funny we getting surprised knowing that real person is actually wearing suite and acting like a ZooZoo.

GTalk issue

WHERE THE HELL IS OK BUTTON?