Onkar Singh

SureVideo is a kiosk video player which allows you to use any Android device to loop your videos in full-screen mode. In this post, we explain the steps required to get your kiosk video player up and running in no time. Installing SureVideo Install SureVideo on your Android device. You can download it from Google Play or from our file servers directly. Launch & Configuration Launch SureVideo. On launch, SureVideo looks for playable videos in SureVideo folder (/sdcard/SureVideo) on your device. If videos are present in SureVideo folder, it will start playing your videos automatically otherwise a start-screen is displayed. SureVideo Start Screen You can also configure SureVideo to select any folder of your choice to play videos by entering SureVideo admin settings. To enter SureVideo admin settings, tap on Back button or anywhere on the screen for 5 times. A passwor... (more)

Windows Azure Tips & Tricks

So you deployed your brand-new ASP.NET web application to Azure cloud. All seems to be working perfectly until a user tried to upload large amount of data (approx. over 30MB) through your application UI. Unfortunately the operation failed. Surprisingly small file uploads works just fine. To fix the problem you need to ensure that the following configuration is made in the web.config file. Here value of maxRequestLength is in KB so that makes it 100MB. Having a bigger executionTimeOut value ensures that the file uplo... (more)

Writing 'Hello World' Program for Windows Phone 7

Windows Phone 7 (WP7) is a cool new mobile platform from Microsoft. Developers can use Silverlight, XNA Framework and of course .NET compact framework for developing applications for WP7. What Do You Need To get started, download and install the following tools on your Windows 7 or Vista PC. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=2338b5d1-79d8-46af-b828-380b0f854203&displaylang=en Installation includes Visual Studio 2010, Expression Blend, Windows Phone Emulator, XNA Game studio along with all the documentation required for writing your next great app. Note that... (more)

Feature Checklist of Mobile Device Management Tools

Mobile Device Management (MDM) refers to the approaches or solutions used by companies to remotely manage their mobile devices (PDAs, Smartphones, Laptops, Netbooks). Variety of devices involved pose a big challenge for anyone who intends to implement a Mobile Device Management Solution. In fact, a single solution may never fully satisfy the all the requirements. Using hybrid solutions (multiple solutions from different vendors doing complimentary tasks) is a common approach that is used to solve the problem. Here is a checklist of features that a typical Mobile Device Management ... (more)

Are Your Mobile Devices Working For Your Business?

In recent times, mobile devices have become quite powerful and feature rich and are getting attention from consumers and businesses alike. Faster processors, larger RAM and flash memories along with multiple communication technologies have made mobile devices suitable to deploy and run business applications. Such advancements are helping businesses embrace mobility to improve their processes thereby increasing revenues and efficiency, while lowering operational costs. Mobile device is an important component of any mobile solution. There are wide-varieties of mobile devices to cho... (more)