Every once in a while my Sony Play TV would display “Failed to Initialize Tuner” message, only to display the TV channels perfectly ok without any intervention. It was annoying however I kept it ignoring as it was not causing any issues to me. Then suddenly it started behaving even worse, during recordings and normal TV operation Play TV would repeteadely stop and then start and with each stop-start sequence it would create separate recordings for the same program, this time I thought I must give it a reinstall. This reinstall exercise however, proved fruitless. Then serendipity played its part, I pulled all the cables and untangled them and then gave it a go after reconnecting them. I could not believe myself when the problem vanished with this simple re-setup of cables. It turns out that the fix is to make sure that the USB cable connecting the Play TV with Playstation 3 needs to be not sharply bent and should be sitting loosely. This simple trick will ensure the problem will not happen. So next time when you have this nasty message appearing, make sure that the USB cable is not bent and of course not broken!
iOS4 a first look
iOS 4 became available on 22nd June 2010 from iTunes application. We decided to give it a go and see how it works on iPhone 3G, which is the oldest version that this update is compatible with. The update process is although very straightforward in which you just connect your iPhone with your computer and iTunes manages the whole update process, however you will need to be patient as this update could take from 15 minutes to 2 hours or may be even more.
Our iPhone 3G has only 1.5 GB of total 16 GB available space so 14.5 GB content took around 2.5 hours! We are using MacBook Pro with the specification as shown in the following screen.
The first surprise that we received after the update was completed was that the Home Screen Wallpaper is not supported with iPhone 3G! Instead the screen something like this:
However, being a free update we would not mind updating to the latest version.
One very important feature in iOS 4 is the ability to group applications into categories. You basically drag and drop an application icon onto other application icon to create a group. As usual you just click and hold an application icon first to enter into the state where you can arrange application icons. We were able to quickly group our games into one category. The screen after grouping applications looks something like this:
Although the icon for the Calculator icon is changed there is nothing new in the application. The scientific look is still the same:
The search feature looks like below with the options to search the Web or Wikipedia.
iBooks application can be downloaded freely from iTunes. This however is going to be a very popular application and we are looking forward to add few books to it:
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