.Net Geek: A blog by Aakash Jain

Few weeks ago, I bought new DG965WH (Media series) Intel Motherboard. It’s an ultimate piece when power, performance and media are taken in account. I’m not listing the full specification but you can find them here. The most tempting is its 7.1 Audio Output support. I’ve been using a number of Intel motherboards, i.e. 810e, 845, 945 GNT, 965 RY. I can comfortably say this have the best audio output quality with Dolby Home Theater certification and based on Intel® Viiv™ technology.


Intel DG965WH Motherboard (Media Series)

Yes, one this to note here is that this motherboard doesn’t support Windows 2003 server Ent. Ed. It’s mean some of driver may fail to install with this OS. Like in my case I am not able to install display driver.

Yesterday, I Bought a Nokia N-73 (Music Edition Mobile).  It’s a Black Color 3G phone. The best feature of phone is high quality, 2.4-inch color display and a 3.2 megapixel camera. It comes with good camera functions that included Sequence mode, Auto Focus, Red eye removal etc. I must say there is no need to carry a separate camera with you. You can also shoot video. Length of video depends on memory.  But more I like the still camera mode.
Another feature is integrated stereo speakers with 3D sound. It has stereo output with two speakers, first speaker at the top and second is at the bottom of phone. It comes with an equalizer to adjust the music according to your taste.  Moreover, you can switch to visualization mode. Supported format are MP3/AAC/eAAC/eAAC+/WMA. The phone also features Visual radio.

Other key features are:

• S60 3rd Edition Software on Symbian OS
• It will be available as WCDMA 2100/EGSM850/900/1800/1900 MHz (RM-133) or EGSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz (RM-132).
• MiniSD card – 2GB (Comes with the Pack)
• Email (SMTP, IMAP4, POP3), with attachment support (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, PDF, ZIP)
• New Cool 3D Ringtones.
  

Full List of features

There are about a hundred songs comes preloaded in the Memory Card. To listen to them, I need to activate them first using a code. They are in AAC format.  But it is not being connected to the required activation site. I think some problem at server end. I am Just Googling and trying hard to activate them. If anybody has idea please let me know.

[Update - How to activate the songs?]
http://www.aakashjain.com/How+To+Activate+The+Preloaded+Songs+In+Nokia+N73+ME.aspx

They said it right. You might not be able to do much with this button but sure it will give you relax feeling in your office

Checkout Champagne Parachute, just attach this simple doohickey with the bottle of your champagne every time you want to splash open it. Once it is attached shake the bottle to fire this thingy in the air with the cork. This time it will not hit you nor it result a damn tonked on your head. The cork comes down with the parachute tenderly. Great idea

Cool!, I'm going to get one for me.

Zune has been launched in US Market. This gadget seems very tempting to me. That’s obvious for a music freak like me. 

For those folk who don’t know what is it, it is a Microsoft’s new product, A Digital media player. Remember the Apple’s IPods. It is one of those kinds of stuffs. It got lot of features. I am waiting for its launch in India.
Check out this nice thingy here.