Technology Updates: November 2011

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Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Apple iTV: Rarely heard name

Apple TV was launched at the end of year 2006 and second generation was launched in end of 2010. Seeing to the name of Apple TV it seems why Apple has jumped into selling Televisions. But it not the television which Apple is selling but it is just a set top box. Again don’t do mistake by seeing this set top box as a satellite STB. This doesn’t capture the satellite signals and acts as other STBs.  Then what Apple TV is?


You can simply say Apple TV is like a connecting media between your actual television and media sources like your computer, Netflix, YouTube, iTunes store or any computers which have Mac OS X or windows having iTunes configured. Taking about its specification or the features, Apple’s product performance is always undisputable. It has A-4 chip processor. Wi-Fi enabled device which can connect to your Mac Computer or other media and you can enjoy movies and music. It can get sync with any devices having iTunes and works like an iPod of 160GBs. You store mostly 210 hours of HD movies or 36000 songs or 45000 photos. Of course it huge amount of data comparatively. It connects to the media, buffers and stores the data in its memory and gets disconnected from respective media.  Moreover in 2nd generation Apple TV you can connect to application like Netflix or Rotten Tomato for renting movie.


If you see the below image, you will hum in yourself that this is real beauty that device is so small and its performance is so great. Now, talking about its price, Apple TV will cost you in two digits only that is $99. List of application to which will serve you are as follows:

-          Netflix - Movies
-          YouTube - Videos
-          NBA - Sports
-          MLB - Gaming
-          WSJ - News
-          Rotten Tomato - Movies
-          Air play - Gaming

I think that makes worth purchasing Apple TV for this much bucks. What say?

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Siri, I love you…! You are beauty


This is what you will say if you meet Siri. Yeah, she is smart-intelligent Siri, which you are thinking about after listening name. You get her free with your iPhone 4S. Siri was born in 2007. Apple is not the creator of Siri but Apple has adopted her from SRI International’s venture group. Seeing to the revenue earned in year 2008 and 2009 which have crossed millions, Apple found good prospect to integrate with iPhone and today Siri is a big player behind successful marketing and selling of iPhone. For information, 4 million iPhones were sold out in the week’s period of its launch. Being Siri was mastered by Apple, it was then not reachable to Androids and other OS. But that was the idea of a creator when Siri born, to make it available for all the platforms.


What Siri can do?                                     
This question can be described in very long list. Siri is like your virtual personal secretary. Siri can set alarms, reminders, play songs, make a call, take down dictations, mailing, go to Internet and search mostly all things you can do it manually. It takes help of Wolfram-Alpha, Yelp, Rotten-tomato and Google too. Siri has been too much accurate in herself that, experts sees a threat for a Google dominance prevailing round the globe.



What made Siri so much successful as an application on technical perspective?
Siri’s working seems very simple but it that complex in actual inside. She works on vocal inputs by the users. She primarily stores the vocal input in the form of digital media. Siri work locally as well as on the network. That means say for example if you request her to play a songs and this can be done locally from the phone where as when you order her to find some restaurant or movieplex she need to connect internet. So after taking input it first of all try to connect to cloud server, with the help of wireless internet or via mobile service provider. Now meanwhile it analyzes the necessity of going to cloud server. If the request of user can be fulfilled locally, it says to cloud, “Thanks Sir! I will take care myself. Don’t bother master.” But this analysis is not as easy as I easily conveyed. It has complex algorithms to decide this thing. There are some statistical models loaded locally in her as well as in her master that is Cloud server. For the execution of user’s request, Siri gets many responses from its algorithms and statistical models but comes with the best of all by prioritizing the bulk of results. If we see the smartness, let take an example. If user requests her, “Call Dimple”, it will go to contact list and see all the probable contacts to be called. Like if contact directory has Dimple Fadia and Dimple Shah, it will ask you, whom to call in case of ambiguity. If you believe me this is just a basic example, she is capable of much much more.

The other side of Siri!
Besides this, Apple engineers have also made Siri character bit funny. If you ask her, “Will you marry me?” then you will get first response, like “Don’t try to flatter me” or “Come on that was not in our contract when you got me”. You will get funny responses for the naughty questions. So, it seems like creator and Apple engineer have poured a life in the application which may even heal a loneliness of user to some extent in a funny way. So get in the Love with Siri, she is open for all. J

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

iPhone 4S issue: Battery drained, Siri gone dumb


Users has been reporting of battery life in iPhone 4S. They are expecting some more life from the battery when iPhone with iOS 5 was not able to keep itself alive more than 12 hours for some users after full battery charge. Apple confirmed some bugs still in the phone which are responsible for additional battery usage and informed to expect a software update or say patch for the same in short time, they added. If you are facing same problem with iPhone 4S battery life problem tips are, you can stop the location inspection service which is generally constantly working in even standby mode. In addition to that you can turn off your Wireless when not necessary, which may save some charge and you can use talking to your girlfriend or boyfriend late nightJ

Center of attraction for iPhone 4S, has gone dumb. “Siri”, which has been talk of the technology round the globe, because of its intelligence and Technical beauty, has gone silent for many users. Siri is a personal assisting application come with all new iPhone 4S and has attracted too many users and considered to be an important reason of iPhone 4S success. Company has acknowledged the users reporting, regarding the problems persists with Siri. Some says that, this was not surprising because Siri was like just beta version in the phone on which Apple have counted a lot in the advertisements and also added that any smartphone you can take in the world nothing comes without the Bug. Some users have also reported like their Siri was back to the action after sometime automatically.