0ٹیکنالوجی خواہش کی فہرست

انٹرنیٹ کے بارے میں سب سے بہترین چیزوں میں سے ایک ایک تقریبا کچھ بھی تلاش کر سکتے ہیں ہے. افسوس کی بات ہے, there are some things that can­’t be found (رٹ-ING کے وقت). Below is my per­son­al list that I’m hop­ing to even­tu­ally find…

اپ ڈیٹ 1: 5‑Oct-2010
اپ ڈیٹ 2: 26-Dec-2010
اپ ڈیٹ 3: 30-مارچ 2011
اپ ڈیٹ 4: 30-مئی 2011

اپ ڈیٹ 5: 26-دسمبر 2011

1. Tom Tom Nav­ig­at­or (with IQ routes and ALG) for Android!
I’ve declared a stand-in win­ner by using Google Nav­ig­a­tion in com­bin­a­tion with Cam­erAlert.  Second prize goes to CoPi­lot Live, but I’d much prefer TomTom. Garmin seem to have snatched defeat from the jaws of vic­tory by releas­ing their own Android based Nuvi­Fone but no app for all the oth­er Android phones.

2. A Stand­ard, Media Cen­ter com­pat­ible Remote Con­trol with QWERTY keyboard.
I’ve got even closer to a win­ner with the Motorola NYX­Board.  It would be a con­vin­cing win­ner, except that the build qual­ity is rather dis­ap­point­ing. I pre­vi­ous declared a stand-in win­ner by buy­ing a boxee remote from Amazon US for £40 shipped, how­ever the boxee does­n’t quite do the job — it does­n’t have enough but­tons to be fully func­tion­al. For more inform­a­tion have a look at this [int­link id=“46” type=“post”]article about remotes[/intlink]. Third place now goes to RemoteDroid.

3. A way to prop­erly share my Media Cen­ter sys­tem on my LAN includ­ing Live ٹی وی.
اپ ڈیٹ: I’ve coughed up for DVBLink 4, which has proved a really excel­lent solu­tion. My ori­gin­al thoughts are below in italics…

The “softsled” soft­ware media cen­ter extender dream which seems like it wont ever arrive. There are vari­ous options — one looks to be poten­tial in mov­ing away from Media Cen­ter to an altern­at­ive like Myth­TV DVBLink یا oth­er altern­at­ives, but whilst I have a busy record­ing sched­ule (Ashes crick­et and Top Gear) I’ve put any exper­i­ment­a­tion on hold. Even­tu­ally I’d like to move to a cli­ent-serv­er sys­tem, as I already have a serv­er on 24.7. Oth­er inter­est­ing tech­no­logy which may feed into my think­ing includes an AppleTV run­ning XBMC (at least when a next gen AppleTV arrives which is power­ful enough for high bitrate 1080p).  The Apple ٹی وی has vari­ous issues, typ­ic­al of Apple, which have ended any interest I might have had in it.

4. A Photo Shar­ing site that allows me to tag my face­book contacts.
اپ ڈیٹ: Whilst there is still no win­ner, google picasa 3.9 com­bined with picasa web / google+ pho­tos is close. In the­ory it should do the job, how­ever there are ongo­ing issues with face tags that google don’t seem to have any interest in resolv­ing. Flickr also has reas­on­able tag­ging options now, but it does­n’t seem to be pos­sible to upload face tag inform­a­tion to flickr from either picasa desktop or WLPG. My pre­vi­ous com­ments are below in italics…

This would have been won by Expo­no which offers all the required fea­tures. Sadly some of the fea­tures are dys­func­tion­al and updates seem very sporad­ic. Once-upon-a-time a com­bin­a­tion of Flickr and Polar­Rose had poten­tial, but Polar­Rose has been bought by Apple and is no more. As a res­ult there is no prize for this at all at the moment, altho I do wish to offer a note of con­grat­u­la­tions to google for the accur­acy and speed of Picasa. I also like Win­dows Live Photo Gal­lery for its face recog­ni­tion plus the way it embeds the tags into the pho­tos which is a bonus.

5. An x64 Tag Extender
As it stands play­ing back FLAC’s in Media Cen­ter x64 requires sig­ni­fic­ant “hack­ing” of sys­tem files. It’s about time we had a flac extender for x64

6. A win­dows util­ity that sup­ports Areca raid con­trol­lers and can issue smart commands
Smart­Mon­Tools is close but does­n’t yet sup­port Areca con­trol­lers in Win­dows. Second Prize goes to chan­ging my entire stor­age sys­tem to Unraid.  I’ve got more detailed inform­a­tion about this issue in my [int­link id=“90” type=“post”]article about RAID prob­lems with desktop drives[/intlink]