Desktop R&R

Hi,

Thought of buying a new machine suddenly, as my old one is really old now. A pentium-4 processor 2.4Ghz, with just 1Gb of ram and 40Gb hdd, not really enough. So i began doing Research & Research for the same.

Suggestions from my team mates flowed in and was convinced to assemble a machine instead of going for a branded one.

After a lot of googling and reading from different forums i concluded upon a configuration which is more than enough for my needs:-

-> Intel i5-2500k processor(6M cache 3.3Ghz) an ultimate 2nd generation processor that beats i7-875k in price as well as performance

-> Intel DP55WB motherboard as a standard for i5 and i7 processors.

-> Samsung B2030 LCD monitor 20"

-> Seagate 1Tb HDD

-> Transcend DDR3 4Gb RAM 1300Mhz

-> LG 22x IDE super multi DVD Writer

Whole assembly is expected to come around in Rs 30k. Awaiting desperately to get my new beast as soon as possible.

Till then hope for the best.............

BlackBerry Workshop

Happened to be at the BB workshop held in pune on the 6th april '11 at the Hotel Deccan Rendezvous. Was a nice event, which explored about the company facts and their latest product the BB Playbook which is scheduled to be launched in early May in US and by June in India.

The workshop started with a small introduction about the company delivered by
Mr Pradeep Rao from Research in Motion.
Second spokesperson was Mr Alan Wong who had specially come down from HongKong
to give a handsOn experience of the BB Playbook.

The BB Playbook tablet is a powerful machine with its OS built over the QNX technology,
the OS promises powerful multitasking capabilities and is powered by 1Ghz dual core
processer(make not disclosed) with 1Gb ram.
It has got Flash 10.1 support and a HD display with HDMI port. Rear camera is 5mp while
3mp at the front, and records video at 720p which is lower than that of
Galaxy tab 2(1080p HD recording).

To develop apps on the Playbook and other BB devices there are several options as follows:-

1) Adobe AIR
2) BB Webworks
3) Native SDK
4) Browser development -> HTML5, Flash 10.1 and CSS3.

1) Adobe AIR
-> Uses Flex(SDK) based on the Adobe Flash platform.
-> MXML is used for designing the UI/Front end.
-> Interactivity is achieved through the use of ActionScript.
-> FlashBuilder is the IDE required for developing using Flex and also BB Tablet OS SDK is required to build apps for BB.
-> Apps developed using Flex can be ported to BB, android and iPhone devices.

2) BB webworks
-> It is supported on BB v5.0 onwards.
-> Involves development using HTML5, CSS and JavaScript.
-> Simply we need to design UI in HTML5 and use javascript for interactivities, ZIP all the files and with the issue of a command(bbwp .zip) u get the .bar file generated to be deployed on the BB device.

More information can be found on the following website http://us.blackberry.com/developers/tablet

Will soon try the development and would be in a position to more clearly explain the steps.........

Till then keep surfing........GoodNight.