So here is the situation. You were watching your favorite TV program and as usual you encounter ad break while watching your favorite program. Who watches advertisements? Remote controls are to either skip the ads wherever possible or change the channels. Lets assume you fall into any of those two categories, and you don’t want to watch those Advertisements. Its a human tendency to not to watch boring repetitive ads on television, so you pick up the remote and try to shuffle through the channels. But wait… Its not working. Oh Karma!!.. You try to shrug off your remote on your hand but its still the same. You disparately try pressing every single key on the remote but all in vain. Then you thought “Oh… it must be the battery then!”  You try to change the battery But that did not yield any positive outcome. And there might have been a case when you did not use your Music System’s remote for a long time and it was lying in dust somewhere. Now you took it out and its not working. What to do in this situation. Is there any problem with your remote  or there is something wrong with the Music System or TV ? How to determine who is the culprit. This little trick will help you identify the culprit.

What do you need :
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• A Mobile phone with Camera (Any Phone will do)
• A remote which is not working (Any IR based remote)

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This trick would work for any remote control that works on the principle of infrared. By following the steps below you would be able to identify the problem. Whether its remote, battery or line of sight
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• Fire up your mobile camera, DSLR, camcorder etc. (If you are using a camcorder, i would suggest you record all of this)
• Point your faulty remote control into your camera lens and then push some buttons on the remote.
• Now look at the camera’s LCD screen (not in the optical viewfinder). If the remote works, you’ll see a flashing light where the remote’s infrared emitter is. If you see no such light, then you can be pretty sure that the problem lies with the remote.

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I was lucky to have a camera mobile at the time of writing this article. So I recorded a video to demonstrate the above trick with an Air Conditioner Remote.

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When everything is going great and things are easy. Life is on its track. You come at work, check your mails, reply to some if you want, go on a lot of breaks and come back at evening. Its very easy to be patient. But when things are tough. Really tough at work, at home. I mean everywhere. Then can you be patient ? Well answer is no. But today I am going to teach you some of the things that might help you become patient, a bit. Its all about work. No personal life interference. There would have been so many times that you felt that you are not satisfied with the kind of work you are doing but you wanna stick there and wait for some more time because you have alot of responsibilities. How long is some more time, is the one million dollar question? And its not just about that. There are so many things. Organizational Politics. Honestly If you’d be me, You would probably not accept any of this. I mean why the hell the management does not understand the problems their team members face. OK, so basis my experience I am giving some tips to be patient because that patient my be worth it. It was not for me but I might be the odd one out.

• Work is Worship. Its 1920′s quote. Now money is work. So till the time you are getting a handsome amount every month, just keep doing your work sincerely. Keep yourself involved in your daily work. Try doing something good for your manager if possible occasionally.
• No body at work cares about you. Its a truth. Just note it down somewhere. No matter how good someone is with you at work on your face but at the back they would be more than willing you spoil you for their sake. You are on your own. Just stay away from those ass lickers because they ruin everything.
• Meditate at work if you are idle. Thats the best way to kill time rather than searching for jobs and looking at company intranet.  Research suggest meditation can help inprove your patience level.
• You will get when its time. So learn to wait. No matter how deserving you are ? No matter how much you’ve worked day in and out. You’ve just got to wait and wait. This is key to patience. If you get accustomed with this situation then you can overcome anything and can become the GURU of patience handling capabilities.
• Look for examples. You’d hardly find anyone who is patient because they don’t have to. So you’ve got to take inspiration from your own self. You are the one who will teach yourself to be patient. You’ve seen alot and you wanna see more.

Waiting in queue also requires patience and its a Job. So if you can do at least that you will be able to develop lots of patience within yourself. Many times in life we come across situations big and small that require us to be patient. Patience is the mother of all virtues. If YOU can be patient you can do anything.