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If your selfie stick camera button does not trigger the shutter button on your Android Phone Camera App, it does not mean a defective or incompatible stick. The issue may actually reside with the camera app that you are using. Read on for an explanation of the issue and one possible way to resolve the problem. The solution works with wired and wireless selfie sticks.
The article title is a oxymoron and it will become clear as you read the article. It is however accurate. This article does not attempt to sell Linux in-lieu of Microsoft Windows. If you...
Micromax is a well known name in electronics in India. They have introduced a slew of products such as mobile phones, tablets, LED televisions etc. Recently they have introduced Laptop computers featuring Intel processors and licensed Microsoft Windows 10 OS. The laptops have contemporary hardware and are priced very competitively. Are these laptops only good on paper or will they delivery in price – performance? Read the detailed review to find out.
Mobile phones have replaced the pocket watch, the scientific calculator, the compact camera for most people. While the camera capabilities of mobile phones is improving at an exponential rate, users want features such as closer, further, wider. Solutions such as clip-on cameras that use your mobile phones as LCD monitors exist but are falling out of favour. While mobile phone makers ponder how to implement paper thin lenses that provide 10x zoom, interim solutions exist as clip-on lenses. These are cheap and simple with tall claims. Do they actually deliver? Do they work identically? Will they work on your phone? Read on to find out how they fared in my tests.
If you have wondered if your 8 MP phone-camera images are suitable for magazines or how sharp your 16 MP DSLR images will look on a 6-feet wide poster, you need to understand the separation between MP and DPI. Plenty of misnomers and misinformation are leading to greater confusion among amateur photographers. Read on to clarify your doubts once for all and estimate print suitability of your images like a pro.
Ola Cabs, Taxi for Sure and Uber are the dominant private taxi cab operators in Hyderabad and have completely replaced operators such as Meru Genie, Yellow Cabs, Green cabs etc. However, the multitudes of service plans are confusing and it is hard to pin-point which operator and plan are ideal for a specific journey you have in mind. Article compares the service plans of the popular operators and lays out inferences that should help you save some money.
The Panasonic SC-HTB3GW-K Sound Bar is a Bluetooth-enable 20W RMS speaker designed to improve the audio-experience of LCD TVs. The sound-bar also features the ability to play from USB Pen Drive. While 20W RMS is pretty loud and a tall claim, sound-bars are saddled with small drivers and generally do not offer sound that is fulfilling. At just Rs. 2599/-, Panasonic has attempted to create a speaker that it hopes will stand apart and set the benchmark. Read on to discover if the sound-bar delivers on Panasonic’s promises.
WordPress Contact Form 7 (WPCF7) by Takayuki Miyoshi is one of the most popular WordPress plugins to create forms. It’s not easy to set-up but it is completely free and power-users can create forms in seconds. The post contains lists such as countries, states, country codes, etc. for Contact Form 7 to make it easy for you to generate the forms.
Powering components on a breadboard is always challenging. Solderless breadboard certainly make it easy but for elegance, you will need to invest in an expensive bench power supply. Trying to power a mass of sensors using the power-pins on a Raspberry Pi or Arduino board is not a good idea because of the limitations placed on maximum current draw that these boards apply.
A $1 Breadboard Power Supply module from China is an elegant drop-in solution. It supports 6.5V – 12V input and outputs stable 3.3 V and 5V over two rails up-to 700mA.
Last few months have been very exciting for those who want to move to a digital streaming media player and move away from the conventional set-top boxes. Apple fanbois have been going crazy about the impending launch of Apple TV 4. Roku fanbois have declared victory already. Google Nexus TV is and will probably remain a niche output of their R&D division. Amazon’s Fire TV is taking the technology of Nexus TV and making it practical. nVidia is joining the race as a me-too. Outside of USA, none of these boxes will ever achieve mass penetration. These markets are dominated by China-made Android Media Players. The article compares the Media Player devices by listing their prices vs. technical specifications.
