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I know you folks were curious to know about my opinion about the new Apple Airpods Max which is priced insanely at Rs 59,900/- !!  So I made this video reviewing 2 other cheapest Bluetooth headphones from pretty popular Indian brands LEAF and boAt so that you can make a judgement in terms of the value which you can get at such dirt-cheap prices in stark comparison with the Apple product positioning and the functional aspects of these headphones. The headphones which I have reviewed are very good for the price which you pay. The only major drawback of the LEAF bass 2 headphones which I found was their noise isolation/seal issue where external world can hear the music which plays in your ears during practical usage. This is going to be surely a problem if you are using it in a quiet place with other people around you. Other than this for casual usage at home, these are pretty well-performing headphones for the price which they are being sold in the over the ears headphones category. ...

If you need to utilize Oracle VM Virtualbox Manager, on your Windows Operating system, there are certain prerequisites that you will need to confirm. If these are not as per the below output, then your Oracle VM Virtualbox Manager might fail to start. Open Windows PowerShell prompt and type the below 2 commands & verify that their output should be as below. Windows PowerShell Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Loading personal and system profiles took 16318ms. (base) PS C:\Users\rupakuma> Wmic computersystem get hypervisorpresent HypervisorPresent FALSE (base) PS C:\Users\rupakuma> wmic cpu get virtualizationfirmwareenabled VirtualizationFirmwareEnabled TRUE If not, you will need to enable virtualization through BIOS & disable Hyper-V in your Windows operating system.

In this video, I talk about my Deepavali/Diwali purchase of the last product which I had to buy to complete the essentials loop of the Apple ecosystem. It was my first Apple Watch purchase. I also talk about its features and my shopping for the Apple watch experience in Bengaluru, India. Here is the timeline of the video 0:00 Intro with Watch faces 2:35 Shopping in the store 5:27 Unboxing in the store 8:03 Unboxing at Home 10:19 The Apple Ecosystem 11:31 Features in brief My first smartwatch was an Android wear which is now called the Wear OS from Motorola, It was called the Moto 360n 2nd Generation smartwatch which was released in September 2015. The 1st moto 360 1st generation was the first round shaped Android smartwatch that was ever released in September 2014. I had ordered it from the Flipkart shopping website for Rs 19,000 and made an unboxing, overview and an in-depth review of the smartwatch. I have left the links to these videos below which you can watch for nostalgia purpose...

 Cut to flashback...I need to first mention about the land line telephone which we all were used to earlier. I went to the telephone department at Sheshadri Road to apply for the telephone connection by paying a deposit of Rs 3000/- when I was an engineerig student in 1999. I was so happy that that I need not go to the PCOs or the coin phone booths to call my friends. Now I would have my own number where my friends could reach me when I was @home. It took 3-4 months before we received this phone connection. We got ourselves a cordless Panasonic handset & I was all gung ho about this. It was the year 1999 or 2000 I think, I got my hands on the mobile handsets such as Siemens & Ericsson. These were bought by my father. And then there was the mobile phone from Motorola which belonged to my uncle which used extensively for SMSs. In 2003, I badly needed a mobile phone of my own since I had already started searching for jobs. And then Reliance's Karlo Duniya Muthi main campaign h...

In this video, let’s talk about the pros and cons of the iPhone 12 & my experience of migrating from the Android platform to the apple’s iOS platform. Timeline  Comparison with Product(Red) of iPhone SE at 2:16 Pros at 2:55 Migration from Android experience at 5:31 Cons at 7:50 I have been an Android phone user all my life ever since the glory of the Symbian Nokia era was a thing of the past. But ofcourse I have been using the iPad mini 2 ever since it was launched and became a fan of the iOS platform ever since. However I have never been a fan of the iPhone as such. My first Android device was the Samsung Galaxy S3 which was a lovely phone with some great user experience provided by Samsung. Always felt that the screen size provided by Apple iPhone during those times to be too small to my liking. With iPhone 6 I believe things changed for the iPhone in terms of the screen size. And when iPhone X was launched it made me sit up and take notice. However I had moved on to use seve...

In this video, you will see me unboxing the tech gadgets which I purchased in October 2020. I review and unbox the Samsung SSD T7 which has read-write IO speeds of up to 1 Gbps which is blazing fast !!  It costed me 13K during the sale.  I also got myself the Apple Airpods Pro with Active noise cancellation and Wireless charging case on a huge discount at Rs 17,999/- I was contemplating on going for the over the ear headphones from Sony with ANC (1000XM4) but after learning that the Spatial audio support in Apple airPods Pro is way better than any other headphones out there, it had to be the Apple Airpods Pro. I also got the green screen stand and the cloth for my videos & the 19 inch ring light with various chromatic light effects and temperature control from Digitec. The ring light also has 2 slots for inserting batteries for outdoor usage.

Its the apple day !!

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Check out the unboxing of the iPhone SE bought from Flipkart during the Big billion sale 2020. iPhone SE was rightly priced at flipkart.com for the 1st time due to the Big Billion sale 2020. The actual cost of the iPhone SE 128 GB variant is around 47,800/-. Its selling now at 39,999/- after the sale is over. I got the phone at Rs 30,999/- during the sale period. Watch the video for more details and my thoughts on it. Here is the flipkart link from where I purchased the product. Install Flipkart from this link if you haven't already. This is an affiliate link that will support my blog & you will not incur any additional cost by installing through this link. 

 ಮ್ಯಾಕ್ ಬುಕ್ ನಲ್ಲಿ ಕನ್ನಡ ದಲ್ಲಿ ಟೈಪ್ ಮಾಡಲು ಲಿಪಿಕ ಎನ್ನುವ ಈ ಕೆಳಗಿನ ಲಿಂಕ್ ಅನ್ನು ಕ್ಲಿಕ್ ಮಾಡಿ .pkg ಫೈಲ್ ಅನ್ನು ಡೌನ್ ಲೋಡ್ ಮಾಡಿ ಅದನ್ನು ಇನ್ಸ್ತಾಲ್ ಮಾಡಿಕೊಳ್ಳಿ. ಇನ್ಸ್ತಾಲ್ ಮಾಡಿದ ಮೇಲೆ ಅಪ್ಪ್  ಅನ್ನು ಒಪೆನ್ ಮಾಡಿ.    ಲಿಪಿಕಾ ಆಪ್    ಟಾಸ್ಕ್  ಬಾರ್ ನಲ್ಲಿ 'A' ಎನ್ನುವ ಐಕಾನ್ ಅನ್ನು ಕ್ಲಿಕ್ ಮಾಡಿ. ಲಿಪಿಕಾ ಐಮ್ಈ ಅನ್ನು ಕ್ಲಿಕ್ ಮಾಡಿ. ಕನ್ನಡ ಭಾಷೆಯನ್ನು ಆಯ್ಕೆ ಮಾಡಿ.  ಆ ನಂತರ ಯಾವುದೇ ಮ್ಯಾಕ್ OS ಆಪ್ ನಲ್ಲಿ ನೀವು  ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಟೈಪ್ ಮಾಡಬಹುದು.  ಕೇವಲ ಕ್ರೊಮ್ ವೆಬ್ ಬ್ರೌಸರ್ ನಲ್ಲಿ ನಿಮಗೆ ಕನ್ನಡ ಟೈಪ್ ಮಾಡಬೇಕಾದಲ್ಲಿ ಈ ಕೆಳಗಿನ ಲಿಂಕ್ ಅನ್ನು ಕ್ಲಿಕ್ ಮಾಡಿ  ಗೂಗಲ್ ಇನ್ಪುಟ್ ಮೆಥಡ್  (Google Input Method) ಗೂಗಲ್ ಕ್ರೊಮ್ ಎಕ್ಸ್ ಟೆನ್ಷನ್ ಅನ್ನು ಇನ್ಸ್ತಾಲ್ ಮಾಡಿಕೊಳ್ಳಿ. ಅದನ್ನು ಒಪೆನ್ ಮಾಡಿ ಕನ್ನಡ ಭಾಷೆ ಯನ್ನು ಆಡ್ ಮಾಡಿಕೊಳ್ಳಿ.  ವೆಬ್ ಬ್ರೌಸರ್ ನಲ್ಲಿ ನಿಮಗೆ ಕನ್ನಡ ಟೈಪ್ ಮಾಡಬೇಕಾದಲ್ಲಿ ಈ ನೀಲಿ ಕೀ ಬೋರ್ಡ್ ಐಕಾನ್ ಅನ್ನು ಬುಕ್ಮಾರ್ಕ್ ಬಾರ್ ನಲ್ಲಿ ಕ್ಲಿಕ್ ಮಾಡಿ ಕನ್ನಡ ಫೊನೆಟಿಕ್ ಆಪ್ಷನ್ ಅನ್ನು ಆಯ್ಕೆ ಮಾಡಿ.  ಕನ್ನಡ ಟೈಪಿಂಗ್ ಅನ್ನು ಮ್ಯಾಕ್ ಬುಕ್ ಮತ್ತು ವಿನ್ಡೋಸ್ ಲ್ಯಾಪ್ ಟಾಪ್ ಬ್ರೌಸರ್ ನಲ್ಲಿ ಆನಂದಿಸಿ.  ಮೈಕ್ರೊಸಾಫ್ಟ್  ವಿನ್ಡೋಸ್ ನಲ್ಲ...

In this video, I talk about all my Macbook accessories. I unbox my new Apple magic mouse 2. I also talk about the NTFS Windows-based filesystem mount issue & Android file transfer issues on a Mac OS. I also talk about the USB dongle life on a Macbook ! Created By Madhukar Rupakumar https://techbytes-madhukar.com https://krmadhukar.blogspot.com Follow me on below Social media platforms: Youtube, Twitter, Instagram: krmadhukar my FB page: https://www.facebook.com/https://www.facebook.com/MadhukarKRupakumar

Console Games.. Woww.. My mind travels back to the 8 bit era where I played the tennis with my uncle & cousin's son for hours together. It was a great game requiring a lot of hand to eye co-ordination & quick reflexes !! I loved the arcade games such as star galaxy & the car races in the gaming parlors of Mumbai. It definitely ranks as the best 8 bit game for me ! There were others such as Baseball.. Super Mario... Donkey Kong.. & Wrestling to name a few. A special mention to the Nintendo's F1 racing game which was an all-time favorite for me. Also cannot forget the mach rider bike racing game where you could smash your opponent's bike. We played all this in our Nintendo 8 bit gaming console. Then cam the 16 bit era where Brian Lara Cricket & The Jungle book were two of the greatest games using which I have spent days on end with my cousins in Mumbai & Bangalore game parlours. We got lucky to get our own SEGA 16 bit gaming console where we could spen...

My Playstation 4 Pro gaming haul !! Enjoy!! All about my gaming collection. Also checkout the Last of US Part II unboxing and a short gameplay. Do let me know in the comments section which games have you played or owned :)

To create a Python virtual environment type below commands on the required console prompt: On Windows     python -m venv ./venv     .\venv\Scripts\activate On Ubuntu     python3 -m venv ./venv      source ./venv/bin/activate To install pip, securely   download   get-pip.py   by following this link:   get-pip.py . Alternatively, use   curl : curl https : // bootstrap . pypa . io / get - pip . py - o get - pip . py Then run the following command in the folder where you have downloaded  get-pip.py : python get - pip . py Warning   Be cautious if you are using a Python install that is managed by your operating system or another p ackage manager.  get-pip.py  does not coordinate with those tools, and may leave your system in an inconsistent state. Hence it is recommended to use venv (Python Virtual Environment) to isolate the working environment with the Python environment at th...

Watch my long term usage review of the iPad Pro 2018 model with Apple Pencil. Also, check out the Zoom h1 audio recorder & the mic stand.

Watch my long term review of my Macbook Pro touchbar 2018 model !!

In the Administrator elevated command prompt, paste the following command to disable Microsoft Hyper V and press  Enter : dism.exe /Online /Disable-Feature:Microsoft-Hyper-V Once the command runs successfully, close the elevated Command Prompt and restart your computer. At the next startup, open a Virtualbox machine again and see if you’re still getting the same error message.

Today I installed Go lang on my macbook Pro and installed VS Code and the Go lang extension for it. When I tried to Run the first hello.go program from the VSCode Run menu got a prompt that Delve which is the debugger extension for Go lang to be installed. When I tried to install Delve got this strange error: Mac OS: xcrun: error: invalid active developer path, missing xcrun On looking up the internet found that running the below command on the terminal will solve the issue: Install the Xcode toolkit! Even if you had it installed before, you might have to re-register it or update it to the latest version. $ xcode-select --install If that doesn’t work, force it to reset. You’ll need  sudo  access for this one. $ sudo xcode-select --reset And voila, Delve got installed successfully using the  go get -V github.com/go-delve/delve/cmd/dlv  command and all was well. Now I am able to neatly run the Go lang programs from the Run menu of VS Code editor. Alte...