June 12, 2007 at 8:19 am
· Filed under Projects, Film / Animation, Reel Now
I love movies and I love watching movie trailers in high quality. I used to go to Apple.com for trailers all the time until I realized that they don’t have all the trailers and neither does Yahoo. I had to visit a couple of web sites to watch these trailers. A very few of these web sites had an easy and simple way of watching high quality trailers and the focus was solely on Hollywood movies. What about independent movies, foreign movies and Bollywood movies?
I launched Reel Now in October 2006 so the community (and myself) could have easy access to really good quality trailers from film industries around the world. The goal is a lot harder than I thought. So far, I have about 440 high quality Trailers (Hollywood + Independent + Bollywood). But I am far from my goal of having all the latest trailers from various film industries around the world (and in HD). Moreover, the web site is built for the community so it makes sense to allow the users to request new features or even participate in developing those features e.g. adding Movie Showtimes to the site or maintaining a current news blog etc.
I am writing this article because I would love to involve the community in determining the future of Reel Now. Thus, I’m reaching out to all the film enthusiasts out there who would love to work together in taking Reel Now to the next level.
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May 31, 2007 at 6:20 am
· Filed under Discussions
In SQL Server 2005, after I restored a database backup and tried accessing the Database Diagrams, I got the following error:
Database diagram support objects cannot be installed because this database does not have a valid owner. To continue, first use the Files page of the Database Properties dialog box or the ALTER AUTHORIZATION statement to set the database owner to a valid login, then add the database diagram support objects.
To solve this issue, simply execute the following script against your database.
EXEC sp_dbcmptlevel ‘yourDB’, ‘90′;
go
ALTER AUTHORIZATION ON DATABASE::yourDB TO “yourLogin”
go
use [yourDB]
go
EXECUTE AS USER = N’dbo’ REVERT
go
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January 18, 2007 at 2:37 pm
· Filed under Research, PHP
There are a lot of web hosting companies who do have PHP 5 installed but require you to rename your .php files to .php5 extensions. This can be problematic if you are using a packaged application or an app with hundreds of .php files. For those who are frustrated with the problem, here’s how you can make it all work.
Solution:
- Create a text file named .htaccess
- Insert one of the following lines :
- CHOICE 1:
AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
- CHOICE 2:
AddHandler x-httpd-php5 .php
- CHOICE 3:
RemoveHandler .php
AddType application/x-httpd-php5 .php
- Note: Please use code from ONE choice at a time.
- Upload the file into the top most folder of your application.
- That’s all Folks!
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January 7, 2007 at 11:26 am
· Filed under Film / Animation, Reel Now
I have recently updated ReelNow.com with some new features. It now has over 300 HD Trailers of upcoming Hollywood and Independent Movies.
Please check out the web site at http://www.ReelNow.com
If you have any suggestions on how I can improve Reel Now, please leave your comments here. Thanks!
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January 7, 2007 at 11:16 am
· Filed under Research, Windows
When Microsoft was designing the Royale theme for Windows XP Media Center, they were testing a Black theme which was scrapped for the blue one.
I’ve found the original black theme. You can download it by clicking here.
Instructions on Installing this theme:
- Download msroyale.zip file by clicking here.
- Unzip the file, Copy the Royale folder and paste into your themes folder
(e.g. c:\windows\resources\themes)
- Double click the luna.msstyles to start the installation of the theme.
Screen Shots:
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December 12, 2006 at 1:02 am
· Filed under Research, Mac OS X
Have you ever wondered how to debug JavaScript in Safari? Well, I am currently working on a few projects that need to be compatible with most of the browsers. For some reason, my application worked on all the major browsers but Safari. After some reason, I found out a way to show the “Debug” Menu in Safari.
Here’s how you can do that on Mac OS X (of course):
- Quit Safari if it’s open.
- Open Terminal.
- Type in : “defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 1″ without the quotes to show the debug menu
- Re-open Safari.
- Now you should see a Debug Menu that has an option of displaying the JavaScript console.
For more Safari FAQ, visit Apple’s site at :
http://developer.apple.com/internet/safari/faq.html
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December 6, 2006 at 1:07 pm
· Filed under Projects, Film / Animation, Reel Now
I have recently added a Blog to Reel Now. Please feel free to check it out at http://www.reelnow.com/blog
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December 6, 2006 at 1:04 pm
· Filed under Research, MS SQL Server
I was getting the DB_E_ERRORSOCCURRED error when opening a database connection to a MS SQL Server using Connection.Open() Method via OLE DB. After searching through a couple of forums and not being able to find any problems with the code, I figured it has to be the connection string. As it turns out, it was.
If you get this error, please check your connection string by referring to http://www.connectionstrings.com/
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November 8, 2006 at 12:35 pm
· Filed under Discussions, Resources, Personal
I’m always looking to meet new people who are passionate about technology and creating something new. But it’s not so easy to find people who want to work on projects out of true passion and love. Most people need money first and the effort will be directly proportionate to dollar amount.
I believe that sincere effort, creative thinking, strong passion for innovation and luck are the factors for making a very successful product/business. Well, being lucky isn’t always under our control, but the other 3 are entirely up to you. So let’s capitalize on that.
I started looking for other people who think like me and landed up going to sites such as meetup.com, blogger.com and others. But no luck. I finally decided to just post a message on my blog to express my frustration of not being able to find people who want to re-define the future. Hopefully, people with similar idealogies will find this blog and contact me.
So why waste time? Are you looking for people who are passionate about technology? Are you looking for people who want to create something revolutionary? Just contact me via this site and I’ll be more than happy to collaborate with you and spport your dreams by investing my time.
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November 1, 2006 at 1:21 pm
· Filed under Research, Windows, .NET
Did you know that a call to a Web Service from C# Application times out for no apparent reason?
Cause:
It seems that some some background application like SETI, screen savers, or some random application that you didn’t even know was installed on your computer, can lock up ports or resources required by a C# .NET App to call a Web Service.
Solution:
The solution is to find this application and terminate it. Doesn’t seem much like a solution does it? Well this is the best I have at the moment. I will update this blog as soon as I discover something. Till then, I would recommend opening Task Manager in Windows and killing some of the processes that are not required. (Note: Please be carefull while doing this.)
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