Why max ?

Okay, I have figured out the contents of the wimax series. I will be covering all aspect of wimax, except handover (Coz haven't done it myself :)). In two months, I will tell you about:

1)Introduction (1 week)

2)Medium Access control (3 weeks)

3)Physical Layer (3 weeks)

4)Summary + Practical issues (1 weeks)

The focus will be more on practical than academics. I will not go into deep, but you are welcome to ask question pertaining to the discussion. For more clarity, I will be providing online consultancy in my off work hours through Bit wine consultancy. You can book a prior appointment. To know more about me visit peak2average.blogspot.com

Your comments are welcome!!

Coming Soon !

Starting from October 1, I will be writing an educative series on Wimax 802.16e. Covering Phy and Mac, you will get a comprehensive view of this exciting technology. You can also get your doubt (except IPR) solved through my Bitwine personal consultancy at a very nominal rate. I will be posting the link to which soon. So check my blog regularly !

Google's chrome

Monday morning, I was in the office, checking up my mail when I got a news update on the Goggle desktop. Google was unveiling it's new browser, christened, "Chrome" on Tuesday. So, was it an another great 'Google' secret? Huff! Anyways, I immediately fired my browser to the Google's homepage, filled with triumph, to be the first one at work to discover it. But my honeymoon got over soon, when I realized that it is Tuesday: by United States time.

Nevertheless, came the Wednesday morning, and while people are celebrating the Ganesh festival, I am here sitting and playing with this new Internet toy. First thing that I noticed about this browser is it refreshingly new interface. Layout is quite inviting, and the colors are apple for the eyes. Recently visited web pages greets you in an ingeniously placed square grid, when you open the browser. I found this feature quite cool, but a moment later not so cool :P (you know why right?)

Although, lots of innovation has been brought in with the chrome , but the one I like is the concept of "process" instead of threads. Google says that it optimizes the processing and does not render the browser freak out when a web page hangs. There is also a task manager, just like the windows task manager, that shows the memory and cpu consumption of a tab. This is quite useful because it helps to shut down a crazy, misbehaving website without murdering the browser itself. But still my browser crashed occasionally.

Downloading time was more or less same as compared to IE. I was actually surprised when I went to the Chrome downloading page, and found that the Chrome was only 446Kb. A smile bestowed on my face. But my belief in "There is nothing like free lunch" got strengthen, when I clicked on the installer.

I would strongly vouch for this new browser as a must have in every computer. I hope, google has also unveiled the linux version of chrome and if not, would do it soon.

Download it now here!

Opera mini 9.5 Beta

The other day when I read about opera mini, in some blog, I didn't know that I will find it so cool. I own a HTC touch, and I was frustrated with its IE explorer. I could not do blogging from my mobile. Can you believe this? So, while I was bitching about it to the CJ, I was also exploring the Mozilla Minimo (Mozilla web browser for pda and window mobile phone). Minimo made my touch go crazy. It frequently hanged with its monstrously heavy contents, and the interface was much similar to the FireFox itself.

But what drove me crazy was this new Opera Mini 9.5 Beta. HTC owners you got to have this in your phone. Its interface is so cool. It has tab browsing, feather touch movements and an amazing zoom in and out function. If you tap the screen twice the page in view would zoom in, and another double tap will zoom it out. I wish, I could show you :) It is also lightning fast. A new and improved compression technology has made the browsing two to three time faster. And with googles backing, this is surely a killer application.

Anyone agrees with me ?