Kogan Smart TV Dongle Restarting

If you also bought Kogan Smart TV dongle and it keeps on restarting whenever you try to turn it on you might be able to fix it by reading on.

Mine always restarted, at a time when the Android robot man is in view or when Android word is shown.

I did two main things to get it to work normally.

A) Changed the power source – I found the Red LED light in the dongle was not having the brightness it used to have. After doing some testing I found the power adapter which came with the dongle was faulty, so I used another similar power adapter and immediately the restarting of the dongle became less.

Also sometimes this power limitation is caused by the connector slack between the power adapter and the cable. Try changing the cable or adjusting the orientation of the adapter. For example if the adapter is lying flat try to turn it to a side or try to put some kind of an object underneath to reduce the slack between the cable and power adapter.

B) Update the firmware in the dongle – In my dongle updating the firmware made the restarting issue almost vanish. So if you like to make the fix complete try updating the dongle by following the steps below.

Before starting the process make sure that you will not have any power outages until you complete your firmware update (for about 30 mins). If power is interrupted while the update is happening most likely you will have problems using your dongle again, it might even be bricked so be careful.

1. Download the new version of firmware  from the following link.
2. Find an empty USB flash drive or a Micro SD card of capacity 512MB or more.
3. Unzip the downloaded zip file into the USB flash or the SD card. Make sure only the contents of the zip file is present on SD card or flash drive.
4. Plug the SD card or the USB flash into the HDMI dongle.
5. Go to Settings, find System Update then select Local Device and select either USB flash drive or the SD card.
6. This will start the firmware update process and when completed dongle will be restarted.
7. Then you need to do the initial configuration again for things like screen size, WiFi, accounts etc.

Hope this helps you, if you have any questions let me know I might be able to help. Some of the information about updating the firmware is thanks to a reply made by Ozzie Tigar in forums.whirlpool.net.au.

Bing - But It’s Not Google

Did you check out the new search engine from Microsoft?

If you used to use Live search you may have noted that now you are redirected to Bing, since Bing is replacing Live.

http://www.bing.com/

They have named it as BING and its having some few cool new things to look for.

Soon after the launch on 1st June 2009 Bing is getting bit popular at the moment in the context of search engines.

New Explorer Pane

Helps to filter the search results more or to find more related information.

Categorized Search Results

All the results will be categorized accordingly, so you will be able to find the related things easily.

Results Preview

You don't need to open the web site to view its content, Results Preview will show you a preview of the site so you can decide on it faster.

Image Search

You will be able to sort out the results fast according to things such as size, colour, layout, etc.

Video Search

One cool thing is without opening the site you can preview the video being inside of the Bing which will save lot of time.

There are much more it is better you check the rest of the features your self.

Bing

Travel

Maps
Shopping
Health
Local

The Car of the Future - M 200G

Have you seen the car of the future? Even though people call this a car this is more towards a personal helicopter. The M 200G is manufactured by Moller International located in Davis, California, USA. This is capable of vertical take-off and landing.

Read more at BBC.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6970031.stm

In the future there won't be necessary to us to wait in long traffic ques. But what will happen if all the people buys this car?

I think it will increase the Air Traffic :-).

World's Smallest Mobile Phone - WatchPhone

Have you seen the cool gadget SMS M 500. This is a watch with basic phone functionalities. This will include facilities and features such as

* Full SMS and MMS functionality

* MP3 Support AAC/MP3 and MP4 Support Video Playing

* Touchscreen with Built-in Stylus

* Memory: 128MB Built-in Memory

* Battery: 400mAh, Talk Time 200 Minutes, Standby Time 80 Hours

* USB: For Data Transfer and Recharging

* Bluetooth 2.0

* Date/Time

* Last Number Redial

* Recent Calls

* Missed Calls

* File Manager

* 199 Contacts

* Multi Languages

* Flight Mode

* Email

Roughly this will be priced around A$ 1000 (Australian Dollar 1000).

For the full details please visit the manufacturer SMS Australia at http://www.mymobilewatch.com/watch_specification.php.