Sunday, August 30, 2009

Biggest Shark Ever Cut

WinTV v7 - Fa sucks, sostituiamolo. Sad

Recentemente volevo usare la mia scheda Hauppage Nova-T Sitck (25€ da Auchan) per vedere il digitale terrestre sul monitor.

La penna USB arriva in scatola con un telecomando, un antenna ed un software. Il punto debole di tutto quanto è il software per metterla semplice semplice è difettoso (I try not to use swear words). Indeed it is one of the worst software I ever used in my life:
  • Slow
  • Serious problems of synchronization Audio Video
  • Heavy Difficulty logging on the system with installation of multiple gadgets on the start bar.
Thank God if you look on the disc there is also a folder called "Drivers" that made me whip out his brains ... if there are drivers there must also be some other program to use the card in a decent way. Having said that I found two good solutions and media:

GOOD : Progdvb - It is used for satellite cards, a cream also works with the stylus Hauppage! Fantastic, light on the system also enables recording in MPEG2. Council version 4.x 's FREE . The codecs are not free to use it but you can download separately the DScaler codec it is. So the best solution is also the free, great!

Fair : Cyberlink Power Cinema - Download the trial version which is free for 30 days. I tried it and I thought it was a great program with excellent video quality if you use your computer as a multimedia center (and not my case). Unfortunately il telecomando incluso è incompatibile con questo programma, ed usarlo con la tastiera non è il massimo.

Conclusione Buttate WinTv7 e usate ProgDvb

Saturday, August 1, 2009

Bleeding Gums More Condition_treatment

performances of N82 as access point.

I'm a owner of a iPod Touch and a Nokia N82 smartphone. I feel compelled to write this post as you might be tempted to think how well the two interact... The results are'nt that good.

After some like 3 months of using wireless internet access my dissatisfaction was total. Speed was never exiting ranging from 0kbps to 50kpbs. Today as major UMTS providers are pushing internet adapters as crazy it was at least a turnoff to see such performace.

Web sharing throught joikuspot Light
I used the Joikuspot light application to visit the internet using my N82 connection. Basically it turns the phone into a access point. The light version namely allows you to roam the web... namely. In fact it looks to me like it's acting as a proxy with the nokia browser (a gecko based one). This brings massive incompatibility with the Apple's Safari browser wich otherwise can enjoy some optimization while visiting the net. The result is that sites and applications don't work, forget facebook, gmail and every single iPod application.

Internet sharing throught Koikuspot Premium
I then downloaded joikuspot premium to see improvements in speed and compatability with applications. The result is that while speed didn't improve at all I had limited connectivity for the applications.

Wireless performance for N82 tested
Now let's see the problem here: wireless performance. It looks like the internal antennas have some problem living togheter. For testing I used several connections methods to my Macbook and my iPod touch, then comparing the results with speedtest.net I come to these conclusions
  • Wired UMTS connection: Good
  • Bluetooth UMTS sharing: Poor
  • WiFi UMTS Sharing throught Joikuspot: Very Poor to none.
To share a wired connection over WiFi from the macbook is not difficult. You just need to go into preferences -> sharing -> internet sharing -> Share from wired to airport. The same can be done to share from a Windows Machine but that's a pointless effort to me.

Here I throw some graph from my testing to show the futility of buying into a joikuspot software or using bluetooth for internet connections with a N82.

MacBook internet access with various methods including Joikuspot
iPod Touch internet access with various methods including Joikuspot
Conclusions
If 'you're looking for wireless internet access from your N82 expect poor performance. In Addition to it I've Found That the professional applications JoikuSpot JoikuSpot is useless and the dispute is unusable for iPod touch access. When you're traveling Advised to carry the cable alongside your phone.