RnDtoons.001 CricketFans: Classy Brits vs Crazy Indians

Indian cricket team missed nothing to be called favorites on start of the tour, being the nascent ODI world champs and strong No.1 Test nation for few years.. But whole 2 month tour turned out to be a bummer while England was busy walloping  India..

Bummed out and made this comparison few weeks back.. (thank you MSPaint ;P )

btw, not strictly a toon, but this's First of RnDtoons => toons by R.Deva.. 
no other implied meanings, u see :)

omap5 - a monster to spark new era in mobile computing :)

.. have been a lazy bum since last post, but awesomeness of this video gave a surge of inspiration for this quick post.,

ti.com/omap5 => got two A15 cores at 2GHz, with a blue-pill/red pill option of DDR3/LPDDR2 interface, 1080p60, beefed up dedicated 3D/2D graphics cores, couple of cortex M4 cores for imaging subsystem, stereoscopic display/capture, 24MP picture quality, gesture recognition,  etc.. while still assimilating the spec  and the caliber, just look for yourself :)

engadget page http://www.engadget.com/tag/omap5

rangde - how to impact people's life positively

Its just as SMALL as Rs.500, 

but i impacted life of 5 people 

(infact, i'm reinvesting this like 4th time after i got payment back... still feels  good :) )

Lets take a small step

towards ruling out poverty in our nation.

Kudos to RangDe team.

Links

www.rangde.org

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rang_De

Hans Zimmer - hollywood Ilaiyaraaja

Hans Zimmer - Ilaiyaraaja : of course this's not  apple-orange comparison, after raaja won national award in 2010 solely for his film score ;)  (raaja \m/)

Both are epic and legends in their field, and this post is a brief on my addiciton to Hans Zimmer scores.,

Got obsessed for first time with Hans Zimmer scores during college days (~2003) right after hearing  "He's a pirate" from PoTC., all of us were gaga over Jack Sparrow, but i feel Hans Zimmer score appropriately fueled it in right way :)


Even while watching Davinci code in 2006, realized score was awesome, but was spell bound in final climax track., its just the right score that deserved to carry history of thousand years, with tons of emotions., see if you can feel the magic - (spoiler alert - actual movie scene, climax ;P )  The Da Vinci Code: Blood Line (Chevaliers de Sangreal) . 

A cleaner OST version of Chavaliers de Sangreal) track

Then once i heard first time about Angels and Demons (teasers,theatrical trailes were killers, but what glued me up was Angels&Demons sneek peak trailer, of course with a mod-track of chavealiers de sangreal, specifically named "503"), then got the OST immediately, was all over it for a month., got really addicted to 503, 160-bpm, god-particle tracks., it was the first movie i ever did a home-work, and got almost all beats by memory., its a totally new experience when i saw the movie (alone, in stockholm that time)..

Lately, Inception is the last movie i watched with Hans-Zimmer score, first time watched without any prior ground work on OST., but instanly caught up with few scores during the movie only (simple-idea, time (climax seq), dream with in a dream, etc),

Immediately got hold of OST, caught up with few tracks before watching it second time, a week after.,  again, awesome experience..

Here's a sneak peek of "Time" the track from inception climax, performed live  by Hans Zimmer on Inception  premiere.,  its almost equivalent to Chavaliers de Sangreal in appeal..

On glancing his complete work http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Zimmer#Discography, its just stunning to see how many projects were touched by his amazing socres.,  and

 - yet to catch up with dark knight,  gladiator, etc.. scores.,  

 - PoTC sequels, liked Death Man's Chest, At the World's End scores while watching the movie, some how not into too much, basically movies thmeselves got slower than curse-of-black-pearl., or i didnt got ipod that time.,

Hail and Long live the Maestros..!!

how to type easily in tamil (works for hindi,kanada,marathi,arabic,etc)

It was always special to type/write in mother tongue language, but it was a hell of a effort to have tamil scripts earlier.

Life is so simple with unicode being all over the web and Google TransLiterate. Just type in English, let it take care of you.

But what made it awesome is transliterate bookmarks, that you can bookmark and click to switch between (english/tamil) (english/hindi) on the fly,,

Just bookmark these links, (keep it in Firefox Bookmark Pane or Chrome bookmarks bar), click on-the-go to type in your desired language..

   Tamil
   Hindi
   Marathi
   Arabic
   ...

More details on Google Code - Transliteration
Also, try installing IME Transliteration -> One click, you are done.

Happy mother language typing.. :)

OMAP in Android community

A tiny little heads-up on android community happenings and OMAP presence in community.

Android Community

While Google develops/maintains android exclusively in-house, Mailing lists, IRC were prominent portals for public developers to interact with peer developers around globe and Google engineers too.

Android-Porting, Android-Kernel, Android-Platform, etc, were few popular discussion groups. [http://source.android.com/community/index.html]

TI Android support

We got dedicated OMAPAndroid-Discussion gforge portal-mailinglist to address issues faced by community/customers/TI developers.

As we all very much aware, OMAPPedia portal serves great for all internal/external customers.

OMAP Android Projects

We got many OMAP projects actively going outside OPBU too. Few I’m aware of are,

-          Mentor Graphics: Android Development support on OMAP [Whitepaper]

-          BeagleBoard Projects: Should I add beagleboard redefined OMAP reachability J?  Few projects rowboat, embinux

-          Elinux Portal: Android on OMAP

 -          ... many i guess :)

Android-Porting community

I’m especially interested in this community, as the posts are nothing different from our daily L25x/L27x issues.

Queries posted gets good deal of attention from peer android porting engineers across world, and the key point is frequent direct responses from Google engineers.

Quite surprised initially to see like 2 out of 5 questions were on OMAP, beagle board, zoom. Even on 3430 SDP J

Few TIIers (Akash Choudhari, Keith Deacon, Girish, Myslef, etc...) were members already and active.

Links
Android Porting Homepage About

OMAP Queries

Omapzoom.org citations

Few sample threads from Android-Porting community: (sample threads started/resolved by us)

Video player - native application (HDMI background playback issue. but we took our own hack fix)

Problem booting Android on Zoom2

Opencore UUID association problem

Minimum Android 2.2 (froyo) hardware requirements (Keith’s response to Froyo on OMAP)

File access: sensor calibration file

How to run shell commands in Android.mk file

Disable hardware codecs

gcc flags for native library

Using existing H264 decoders

…

PS.

Why I love Android?

I can tweet my patch., and was too much excited first time to see my work that public :) 

debugging video/image formats over JTAG

If you pay 10,000 Euros for a Lauterbach JTAG debugger, you better use it to full extent :P

We can use Lauterbach to debug various image formats with data.image command.

It will be handy to debug/verify output of codec, or check sanity of a frame before posting to display.

Command syntax

Data.IMAGE <address> <horiz> <vert> [/<format> | <options>]

                        

    <format>:       MONO, CGA, GrayScale8, JPEG

                         Palette256 <red> <green> <blue> …

                         Palette256X6 <address>

                         Palette256X12 <address>

                         Palette256X24 <address>

                         RGB111, RGB555, RGB555LE, RGB565, RGB565LE,

                         RGB888, RGB888LE, RGBX888, RGBX888LE,

                         YUV420, YUV422, YUV422P, YUV422PS, YUV422W, YUV422WS

    <options>:     BottomUp

                         FullUpdate

More details can be found in Lauterbach Commands document Lauterbach General Commands Reference
Example commands to display buffers of various pixel formatFor YUV 4:2:0

Data.IMAGE C:0x40a1b0bc 320. 240. /YUV420

For NV12 YUV 4:2:0 Packed semiplanar, we need to break up into Y buffer and a UV buffer.

Data.IMAGE a:0x60000000 1920. 1080. /STRIDE 0x4000 /GS8

Data.IMAGE a:0x68001000 960. 540. /STRIDE 0x8000 /RGB565

PS.

A sample view is shown above, with Y-buffer, and uv-buffer, with commands used on window header.

(note in this case, we use strided and physical address of  a 2D buffer directly. Also, some padding used by codec is seen as junk on edge of video frame)

My eTicket booking - bangalore to coimbatore eticket options

Quite surprising to see boom of e-ticket portals in south india., almost all major portals have ebooking or tie-up with eticket portals.

TRAIN
is best option to travel, but BLR-CBE weekend travels have to be booked like 3 months in advance.,
www.irctc.co.in - clean indian railway portal.
www.erail.in - fast,sleek interface., links to irctc for booking/availability
www.cleartrip.com - recently launched., yet to try

BUS
Bangalore to coimbatore ticket sites..,
www.redbus.in (default first option., neat service., but suffered double booking few times)
www.eroad.in  (sleek,fast new i/f like erail.in.. neat, but yet to use)
www.kpntravels.in (neat service., difficult to get bookings)
www.ksrtc.in (neat, only problem is ghat journey for coimbatore via mysore. airavat is cool)

www.sharmatransports.com  (good service)
www.universaltravels.in (not used this portal, but travelled few times. nice service)
www.abtxtravels.com (bus trips by veteran transport service, yet to use, but heard nice reviews)
www.kingstravels.in (good service)
www.ticketvala.com (booked once., nice)
www.ticketgoose.com (booked once, nice)
www.customerneedz.com (clubbed portal,used few times., hated their 20% extra charge policy on weekends
www.ticketsimply.com (clubbed portal, yet to use)
www.arctours.in (yet to use., bus,service looks appealing)
www.sangitatravels.com  (used volvo once, other services too costly, and volvo broke down near hosur, bad service)
www.keralartc.com (kerala govt transport, yet to use)
www.spktravels.com (yet to use., just bangalore to tirupur)
www.srmtransports.in  (yet to use)


FLIGHT
This's out of my league :)
used like once for personal travel to Jaipur (via www.cleartrip.com)..

Bon Voyage..

youtube- 3million views huh? and few youtubers..

www.youtube.com/rdeva => 3 million+ views of videos, huh??

i forgot for few years that i got an account channel, but Lollusabha videos uploaded during of 2006 is doing the job i guess :)

And  recently i started liking few popular youtubers like 
  - Mystery guitar man  simple awesome video tricks :)
  - Meeka Kitty she's funny, u see.. :P
  - Vlog brothers
  - charlie 
  - few others.. :)

snip: Justin Beiber - Baby 's topping like hell with million views a day :) today its 302 Million., http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kffacxfA7G4  (poor lady gaga, her Bad romance was leading, but second now)

PS.
Snapshot