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Google Goggles For Android Phones, Hot Or Not?

December 11, 2009 by Raj Agrawal Leave a Comment

Now photos can be used to search the internet

Definitely hot! Google has yet again introduced a great application that allows users to find all available information from your Android powered mobile phone, just with click of a photo. You can click a picture of your favorite book, a restaurant, street and immediately get all the relevant information about it through Google Goggles! The app is intended to cover all tangible objects. Since, it’s a new app and is still being worked upon, there is much to expect from this product in future. Watch this short video from Google, demonstrating how Google Google works:

Google has a very, very far vision of it’s intentions and it seems like Google is willing to capture every thing 😀

HDRadio Gets Smarter, Offers Song Tagging!

November 14, 2009 by Raj Agrawal Leave a Comment

It’s time to upgrade

It’s great news for radio listeners, now you can listen to radio music at CD quality sound and tag all your favorite songs aired on any HDRadio channel at your convenience. It’s like bookmarking your favourite website. If you are really looking for great radio sound quality, this the real deal. The HDRadio has Zune HD and related radio technology products that gives you access to your favorite HDRadio stations with the clear, deep sound and portability, which HDRadio is known for, but now with more. Not only can you listen to your radio station but, song tagging and music tagging lets you to also buy the song you heard. Imagine, you can listen, enjoy, tag and download a radio song forever! It’s only been a few years now that we have started to hear about music tagging and song tagging, HDRadio is now offering a line of Zune HD radios too.

HDRadio features:

CD-quality sound
Crystal-clear reception
No station drop-off
No static, hiss or audio distortion

iTunes users can also take advantage of the tagging feature. You just need an iTunes Tagging enabled HDRadio receiver. When you hear a song you like on your local FM HDRadio station, you simply hit the “tag” button. The song’s info will be saved from your HDRadio receiver to your iPod and iPhone. The songs will show up in a playlist called “Tagged” in iTunes the next time you sync your iPod to your computer. So you can click, download and buy the songs you want directly from the Apple iTunes Music Store.

You can do all this while you are walking, in your car, at home, in your office and even on your boat. Upgrade your current system. Radio listening is going to be easy and enjoyable again. Visit: www.hdradio.com

It’s been a few years now that we have started to hear about music tagging and song tagging, and now HDRadio is offering a line of Zune HD radios.

Installing Old Hardware Drivers On Windows 7

November 12, 2009 by Raj Agrawal 2 Comments

Dealing with the compatibility issue

Recently, I was stuck with installing drivers on my computer loaded with a newly purchased copy of Windows 7 Ultimate OS. I’m referring to a Pentium 4 processor, Intel 845G 64MB integrated graphics and 512MB DDR desktop. Windows 7 seemed to run well, with the luxurious features of Windows 7 like Aero and Media center turned off. The only bad thing is that Windows 7 is not very friendly with the older stuff. “Many” of the older applications (including drivers) were failing to install on the new OS. After some troubleshooting efforts, I found a simple way to deal with the compatibility issue.

windows 7 beta boots creen — Windows 7 boot screen

Steps to install old hardware drivers on Windows 7:

Install a freeware file compression software 7 Zip,
Jump to the location where you have the setup/zipped driver file you are willing to install,
Right click on the setup file, unzip and extract it to any convenient location,
Now you can try updating your drivers by pointing the ‘hardware update wizard’ to the unzipped folder location,
Select “Reinstall with recommend settings” and this should do the job,
If it still doesn’t work out, all you can do is wait till a new fix is introduced via windows update or an update through the driver manufacture’s website or just by upgrading your hardware.

The compatibility issue is just for the time being and all the applications that you used on XP will soon work with 7.