Makrand Mane

While working on Android , I always thinks that can we able to run Android OS on computer. and here it is, recently I saw a video that shows exactly same that I was thinking.

The video shows a Compal Qualcomm powered Smartbook, it says, from the Computex 2009 tech show.

In other news, according to the Financial Times, “Acer … said it would begin shipping the world’s first mainstream notebook computer using Google’s Android operating system in the third quarter of this year … The marriage of Acer’s low-end Aspire One netbook with the Android operating system, originally designed for mobile phones, also reflects a continued blurring of the lines between smartphones and computers.”

written by Makrand \\ tags: Android

While working on Android I have faced lots of problems, I used android forums and that helps me lot

Now I am active user on Android forums and lots of users individually mail me and asking for solutions.

I got some mails for asking Dom parser Error ” XML Dom parser throws error input source needs either stream or reader”
Its not possible to reply every one so here, i am writing solution for above problem.

Basically this problems occurs because of “accessing file in wrong way”.
Some important steps to Access the specific XML file or some other resource.
1) Your file should be in Assets folder or res/xml folder or res/row folder.
2) I prefer Assets to put resources,
3) Then access that file by using AssetManager

written by Makrand \\ tags: Android, Code Snippest

You can read more on Google Wave here, Mashable have done a wonderfully in depth guide to the new app. watch first product demo.

written by Makrand \\ tags: Google, News

While surfing I found some great collection of Education Audios and Videos . so I decided to share this information.

• Free Audio Books
• Free University Courses
• Free Foreign Language Lessons
• Educational YouTube Collections
• Arts & Culture Podcasts
• Music Podcasts (includes a good amount of free classical music)
• News/Information Podcasts
• Science Podcasts
• Travel Podcasts
• Technology Podcasts
• University Video Collections
• University Podcasts – General Directory
• University Podcasts – Business School
• University Podcast – Law School

written by Makrand \\ tags: Apple, Audio, Educational, News, Video

The great Indian Political League

Hi friends Nishad here once again. Comes with a new topic, Indian Elections.
As there will polling for Loksabha from 16th April. That will be held in 4 steps.

I want to give readers the brief of elections in India. In India there are approximately 1500 Authorized registered political parties!!! and 7 national parties according to Election Commission of India.

Those parties are

1) Indian National Congress (INC, led by Mrs. Sonia Gandhi),

2) Bhartiy Janata Party (BJP led by Mr. L.K. Advani)

3) Nationalist Congress Party (NCP, led by Mr. Sharad Pawar),

4) Communist Party of India (CPI led by Mr. A.B. Bardhan),

5) Communist Party of India (Marxist) CPM, led by Mr. Prakash Karat)

6) Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP led By Miss. Mayawati),

7) Rashtriy Janata Dal(RJD led by Mr. Lalu Prasad Yadav).

As I told you there are around 1500 parties in India so single party rule is not possible here. (As there are various regions, languages & religions in India). Now the situation is that similar philosophy parties come together and form a Government. So there are 3 alliances. 1) U.P.A. (United Progressive Alliance) – The Current Government, Led by Congress.

2) N.D.A. (National Democratic Alliance) – The Opposition, led by Bartiy Janata Party.

3) Third Front. (In this front all parties come together who wants that country require the Government other than Congress & BJP or other than UPA & NDA).

But Third front is not united and strong so there will be direct fight between UPA & NDA in most of the states.

Congress Party is the oldest party in the India. Congress party and similar philosopher parties thinks that all religions should live together peacefully. They believe on Secularism.

Bhartiy Janata Party (The Main Opposition Party) and similar philosopher parties thinks that Majorities in India are Hindus so they should be in the power and India Should be a Hindu Nation.

(Like Pakistan is Islamic Nation.)

Communist Parties or Left Front thinks that there is no religion and all are Indians only they are against Capitalism & Hinduism.

The only party that has representatives all over India is Congress party. Base of BJP is Hindi belt region and Communist are in 3 states only but there are so strong over there.

By the way I’m from Maharashtra State. And here NCP is no 1 party then Congress then Shivsena & then BJP.

Ruling parties are NCP & Congress.

So this is brief information about Indian Politics or Indian Election. Curiosity wills over on 16th May 09 that is deciding day/result day.

So keep watching keep, listening, keep reading The Great Indian Political League.

written by Makrand \\ tags: News, Politics

Do you remember Tom Cruise and his technology in Minority Report.? If not, then just watch this video.  Now that technology is not a science fiction.  The MIT guys done it. they brought science fiction into reality.

written by Makrand \\ tags: News, Technology