Continuing from my previous blog, this is the last blog of this series that will talk about options that will get your favorite programs and media files for view anywhere. You don't really need that TV set in your home to watch the last episode of "The Family Guy". You can watch it over the internet from anywhere - your office (you don't really wanna do that), coffee shop, airport lounges, etc., etc., any place with a wi-fi. All you need is to add this one more box to your home theater setup, called 'SlingBox'.
SlingBox can connect to a DVR or TiVo and broadcast your signals across the internet so that you can watch them on a laptop from any place. They also have a product called Sling Catcher which can grab signals from a SlingBox within the limited radius and let you watch TV on another television or laptop within the house.
On their website, they have shown the various uses of a SlingBox. watch it here.
So, If you recognize yourself as someone who is addicted to television, spends a lot of time in front of it; and often misses other things in life, this is the setup for you- LCD/Plasma TV, TiVo and a SlingBox. And maybe a good BlueRay player for those rentals.
What can be the next development in television broadcast? I am guessing it going to become even more mobile. Like, for eg., you can connect to your channels using a mobile phone. You need a media streaming client in your mobile phone that can connect to your home DVR/TiVo and get your personal media; or watch your channels on a mini TV in your car. Wait and watch!!
Saturday, January 3, 2009
Thursday, January 1, 2009
GA, are they watching us?
You : GA**, are they watching us?
GA : Lemme check the radar
You : What does it say?
GA : As a matter of fact, they are..including three new from Russia, you have been in their views for the last 3 days, 200 of them, to be precise.
You : Emmm...do i have reasons to panic?
GA : I am sorry, i can't tell you that. I am only a website analytic robot.
{John Williams play 'Prologue' in the background}
=== End of chapter 3: the unknown element===
=== Curtains ===
GA**: Google Analytics is a website traffic analizer from google. It can tell you quite an interesting number of facts about your website, like
- how many visitors have been on your site
- how many of them are new visitors
- which page attracts more users
- what parts of the world your users are from
- how much time do they spend on your site
- traffic source to your site
You also have the option to set goals for your site and map it against the actual.
What you need first is a google user account and profile. Then go to google analytics and access analytics. Register your website address in your analytics profile. You are almost done.
Google needs to put a small javascript snippet in your website to send traffic information to analytics engine. This javascript code, which google will provide you once you register your website, needs to go between the <head> and </head> tags of your website HTML.
PS: If you want to track traffic on your blog site; you can do that buy going to your blogger account->Layout->Edit HTML. make sure to put this script in <head> section itself, though google will ask you to put it in <body> tag. <head> is the right place for javascript and everything will work properly. It only makes a difference if you have Ajax style body rendering without loading the entire page. Since that is not the case with blogger, we are good.
You are all set. Give google 24 hours to collect the initial stats from your site and be surprised to see who your users are.
For more details, go to analytics help
=== Curtains up ===
{John Williams play 'Duel of the fates'}
=== Chapter 4 : duel of the fates===
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