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2016-07-28T03:48:00.001-07:00

World’s Most Expensive Smartphone Solarin

2016-07-28T03:48:00.000-07:00

15 things you should know about a smartphone

Called Solarin, the cell phone is known as the 'Moves Royce of cell phones'. Israeli startup Sirin Labs has dispatched the world's most costly cell phone. Here are 15 things you have to think about the Android telephone evaluated at $17,000 (Rs 11.3 lakhs roughly).

1. 'Most secured' Android telephone

The highest point of-the-extent telephone guarantees military-grade encryption innovation to ensure clients' calls and messages and is pointed solidly at business pioneers, famous people, VIPs and the super-rich.

The cell phone offers 256-piece AES encryption, verging on like what the resistance strengths use to secure correspondence. The cell phone can be enacted by means of a physical security switch situated at the back of the telephone.

2. Up to ten times quicker

It has, organization authorities guarantee, the best screen, the best sunshine advanced mobile phone camera, the wealthiest and loudest speakers, more 4G LTE groups than whatever other telephone ever, and WiFi speeds up to ten times speedier than today's systems.

Need to download a full HD motion picture in only five seconds? Sirin Labs guarantees that as well.

The one hitch is the sticker price.

Got an extra $17,000? The essential model is an eye-watering £9,500 in addition to VAT, or $16,560 including U.S. charges.

3. Protection bundle

At the point when the security switch is enacted, the telephone enters a shield mode for completely scrambled calls and messages.

So what does Solarin offer for your wads of dollars?

There's a "deliberately curated security bundle," with Zimperium cutting edge portable danger insurance and KoolSpan military-grade chip-to-chip 256-piece AES encryption, which they say offers the "most grounded conceivable versatile protection assurance around the world."

4.First Global advanced mobile phone with WiGig innovation

It's all around upgraded, which means Solarin "interfaces with the rate of a nearby handset anyplace on the planet," says Fredrik Oijer, Sirin Labs' VP of item.

Organization authorities say it's likewise the main worldwide advanced cell with WiGig innovation, offering rates of up to 4.6Gbps, empowering close moment cloud access, and syncing of photographs, recordings and media.

5. Focus for programmers

"This is something that can happen to any of us," says Cohen. "It's only an issue of in case you're focused on or not."

The wealthy and powerful clients Sirin Labs would like to draw in — superstars, VIPs and business pioneers — are especially helpless against this sort of assault.

"A standout amongst the most critical things that we learnt amid the most recent quite a long while is that physical security needs to run with digital security," says Sirin Labs consultative board part Rami Efrati, author and president of Israeli digital security firm Firmitas.

6. Keeps running on Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 processor

Solarin keeps running on 2GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 processor, accompanies support for 24 groups of LTE, and guarantees "far prevalent" Wi-Fi network than standard cellular telephones.

7. Has a 23.8MP camera

It highlights a 23.8-megapixel camera, with laser self-adjust and four-tone streak. There's a 8-megapixel front camera with glimmer and electrical picture adjustment.

8. Plan and Weight

With respect to plan, it appears they've deliberately maintained a strategic distance from the pompous bling you may anticipate from a telephone in this value range.

The downplayed titanium and calfskin configuration is by commended modern planner Karim Rashid, who's worked with Giorgio Armani, Alessi and Veuve Cliquot.

Solarin is without a doubt not a smooth cell phone, it weighs as much as 250gm. It quantifies 78mm wide x 159.8mm x 11.1mm.

9. Presentation and OS

Solarin has a 5.5-inch Gorilla Glass 4-ensured IPS screen with LED 2K determination. The cell phone keeps running on intensely cleaned Android 5.1 working framework.

10. Sound

The sound framework sound uses three bass-supported speakers, connected through a shrewd enhancer to amplify volume however control mutilation, and can go up to 90 decibels.

11. Non-expandable capacity

Solarin packs a 4,000mAh battery and has 4GB of RAM and 128GB of non-expandable stockpiling. The organization claims talk-time of 31 hours (UMTS) and standby time of 'more than 2 weeks' for the cell phone. It likewise accompanies Qualcomm QuickCharge 2.0 backing.

12. Shading alternatives

The cell phone comes in four shading alternatives: Fire Black Carbon Leather with Titanium, Fire Black Carbon Leather with Diamond-like Carbon, Fire Black Carbon Leather with Yellow Gold and Crystal White Carbon Leather with Diamond-like Carbon.

13. Is water and clean safe

Solarin is water/dust safe up to IP54 level.

14. 'No 100 percent secure arrangement'

Be that as it may, is it conceivable to make a PDA that is safe to assault? What's more, by announcing yourself the world's most secure advanced mobile phone, aren't you setting a test to each programmer on the planet?

"We're not saying it's unhackable," says Avraham. "Be that as it may, in any event we will identify it.

"We'll have the capacity to figure out the assaults, see what they attempted to do. Indeed, even clean the telephone without the client doing anything.

"There is all day, every day occurrence reaction at both Zimperium and Sirin that screens these gadgets.

"There is no 100 percent secure arrangement, however the other option is to get hacked and not think about it."

15. Accessibility

Solarin cell phone is accessible all alone leader store in London's Mayfair neighborhood; and will go marked down at Harrods from on June 30. The organization likewise plans to open extra retail locations crosswise over Europe, North America, and Asia later in the year

Some big websites might require you to change passwords

2016-06-07T05:31:00.001-07:00

If you receive an email from Netflix or Facebook asking you to change your password because it matches a credential from an older security breach, you may want to heed its advice. Cyber-security expert Brian Krebs says some big companies, including the streaming service and the social network, tend to go through data from other websites' security breaches to look for log-ins that match their users'. They then force those users to change the passwords they reused to keep them safe. If you'll recall, hackers recently sold the millions of log-in combinations they stole from LinkedIn, Tumblr and MySpace a few years ago.

According to Krebs, Netflix has already begun sending out password resets after scouring the log-in credentials leaked online. The company apparently uses a tool it released in 2014 to comb through leaked log-ins -- so, yes, the email is legit and not an attempt to phish for your details. Of course, the best way to ensure you're safe is to use a unique password for every online account and to delete anything you don't use anymore.

India successfully tests first tiny reusable space shuttle

2016-05-23T08:05:00.001-07:00

India's space agency is celebrating today after successfully launching and recovering RLV-TD, a prototype reusable space vehicle. The craft was launched at 9:00am local time and rose 43 miles into the air before gliding back down, making a safe landing in the Bay of Bengal. As promising as it sounds, the test craft won't be offering any passenger launches just yet, since it was a seven meter long scale model. Still, now that India has demonstrable proof that its shuttle design works, it could set its sights towards becoming a space power like the US, Russia and China.

A seven meter scale model of a shuttle may sound a little silly when Elon Musk's flinging full-size rockets into the sky, but there's logic here. India's space agency is famously frugal, with the five-year reusable shuttle project believed to cost as little as $14 million. It's not the first time the country has shown up its rivals with its low-budget smarts, either, having put a satellite around Mars in 2014 for just $72 million. By comparison, the budget for the film Gravity was closer to $100 million -- so a real Indian space mission cost less than a fake American one.

LINKING SIMPLE CHEMISTRY TO SOMETHING LIKE LIFE.

2013-05-21T13:59:00.002-07:00

A computer model of a growing membrane.

Origin of life researchers have made impressive progress in recent years, showing that simple chemicals can combine to make nucleotides, the building blocks of DNA and RNA. Given the right conditions, these nucleotides can combine into ever-longer stretches of RNA. A lot of work has demonstrated that RNAs can perform all sorts of interesting chemistry, specifically binding other molecules and catalyzing reactions.

So the case for life getting its start in an RNA world has gotten very strong in the past decade, but the difference between a collection of interesting RNAs and anything like a primitive cell—surrounded by membranes, filled with both RNA and proteins, and running a simple metabolism—remains a very wide chasm. Or so it seems. A set of papers that came out in the past several days suggest that the chasm might not be as large as we'd tend to think.

Ironing out metabolism

A lot of the basic chemistry that drives the cell is based on electron transport, typically involving proteins that contain an iron atom. These reactions not only create some of the basic chemicals that are necessary for life, they're also essential to powering the cell. Both photosynthesis and the breakdown of sugars involve the transfer of electrons to and from proteins that contain an iron atom.
DNA and RNA tend to have nothing to do with iron, interacting with magnesium instead. But some researchers at Georgia Tech have considered that fact a historical accident. Since photosynthesis put so much oxygen into the atmosphere, most of the iron has been oxidized into a state where it's not soluble in water. If you go back to before photosynthesis was around, the oceans were filled with dissolved iron. Previously, the group had shown that, in oxygen-free and iron rich conditions, RNAs would happily work with iron instead and that its presence could speed up their catalytic activity.
Now the group is back with a new paper showing that if you put a bunch of random RNAs into the same conditions, some of them can catalyze electron transfer reactions. By "random," I mean RNAs that are currently used by cells to do completely unrelated things (specifically, ribosomal and transfer RNAs). The reactions they catalyze are very simple, but remember: these RNAs don't normally function as a catalyst at all. It wouldn't surprise me if, after a number of rounds of evolutionary selection, an iron-RNA combination could be found that catalyzes a reaction that's a lot closer to modern metabolism.
All of which suggests that the basics of a metabolism could have gotten started without proteins around.

Proteins build membranes

Clearly, proteins showed up at some point. They certainly didn't look much like the proteins we see today, which may have hundreds or thousands of amino acids linked together. In fact, they may not have looked much like proteins at all, if a paper from Jack Szostak's group is any indication. Szostak's found that just two amino acids linked together may have catalytic activity. Some of that activity can help them engage in competition over another key element of the first cells: membrane material.
The work starts with a two amino acid long chemical called a peptide. If that peptide happens to be serine linked to histidine (two amino acids in use by life today), it has an interesting chemical activity: very slowly and poorly, it links other amino acids together to form more peptides. This weak activity is especially true if the amino acids are phenylalanine and leucine, two water-hating chemicals. Once they're linked, they will precipitate out of a water solution.
The authors added a fatty acid membrane, figuring that it would soak up the reaction product. That definitely worked, with the catalytic efficiency of serine-histidine going up as a result. But something else happened as well: membranes that incorporated the reaction product started growing. It turns out that its presence in the membrane made it an efficient scrounger of other membrane material. As they grew, these membranes extended as long filaments that would break up into smaller parts with a gentle agitation and then start growing all over again.
In fact, the authors could set up a bit of a Darwinian competition between membranes based on how much starting catalyst each had. All of which suggests that proteins might have found their way into the cell as very simple chemicals that, at least initially, weren't in any way connected to genetic and biochemical functions performed by RNA. But any cell-like things that evolved an RNA that made short proteins could have a big advantage over its competition.

Proteins go big

How do you go from short peptides to long, complex proteins that rely on a specific sequence of amino acids in order to function? It turns out that you need a fairly specific sequence in order to perform an equally specific function (although even that can be very flexible). However, you may not need to be very specific at all if you just care about having any function at all. In other words, it may have been useful for a cell to just randomly link amino acids together.
This work grew out of a previous study in which someone specified enough of the amino acid sequence to allow a protein to fold up into a small spherical structure. Anything beyond that was made random. The surprising thing was that these partly random sequences ended up doing all sorts of different things, binding some chemicals, catalyzing reactions, and so forth. But it's hard to make and test a huge complement of random sequences, so the authors turned to computational modeling, trying out a comprehensive set of potential proteins.
It turns out that a lot of them would potentially stick to interesting chemicals and form various binding pockets. In fact, a number of proteins that appear to be entirely unrelated on the sequence level happily formed very similarly shaped binding pockets. All of which suggests that making just any protein, with little regard for its actual sequence, could have a positive impact on the cell's fitness. Once in place, it could be adapted to be a bit more sequence-specific.
Although all of these results are exciting, it's important to place them in context. We're never going to know precisely how life first arose, since the actual evidence for the events no longer exists. But we can come up with plausible pathways from basic chemistry to simple biochemistry, something these studies seem to provide. That's not to say that another study won't come up with something that's even more plausible in the future.
The other thing to note is that these studies may start filling in what seems to be a big chasm between life and non-life, and they have a habit of taking a single gap and dividing it in two. They may identify landmarks on the journey towards life, but they open up new questions about exactly what route was taken between them.

Microsoft Kinect Hacked to play World of Warcraft

2013-02-22T00:42:00.001-08:00

Living Rooms all around the world are shaking with fear of users actually taking swords and attacking their big screens thanks to a new hack for the Microsoft Kinect that allows gamers to play World of Warcraft without a keyboard.

It’s no secret that the Kinect is rapidly becoming the most hacked device since the Hackintosh, but students at the University of Southern California’s Institute for Creative Technologies have takent he next step in developing a software hack which enables gamers to use the motion device to immerse themselves even deeper into the online Mid-evil world.
The hack is called the “Flexible Action and Articulated Skeleton Toolkit, (FAAST) and it uses full-body motion control. Gamer can not only wield a sword or axe to take out a feisty orc, but they can also cast spells, making it nirvana for those who secretly love to dress up to play their favorite game. And it’s only a matter of time before someone figures out a way to use their light saber collection to battle someone online.
But with everyone creating bold new uses for the Kinect and porting it over to the PC, the sky is truly the limit for what can be done with this game changing device. And it makes the world of Minority Report that much closer, but in a bold and exciting way. Imagine editing video’s just with a snip of your fingers and a wave of your hand? Designing in CAD programs Tony Stark style. And getting rid of the keyboard forever?
It’s not just for games anymore and that’s a cool thing.

Remotely Send Web Pages to your mobile phones.

2013-01-11T07:26:00.005-08:00

Framote is new tool that helps you share “live” URLs that can be controlled remotely.

To get started, you can specify any website – say cnn.com – and Framote will create a unique URL for that site. You can share that URL with a group of people and everyone will see the same website on their screens. If you update the underlying website at your end, all the other screens are refreshed automatically.

The service is especially useful for testing responsive designs. You can have the main website on your desktop computer and load the corresponding Framote URLs on your tablets and mobile phones. If you open a different page on your desktop, the mobile screens are updated automatically.

Internally, Framote embeds the source website into an IFRAME and makes an AJAX request to check the actual URL every few seconds. If the source URL has been modified, the IFRAME’s source attribute on the client’s screen is updated almost instantly. The Framote dashboard will also show list of IP address and devices that are accessing your unique URL.

Russian Build iPhone monument To honor Steve Jobs

2013-01-10T12:18:00.002-08:00

There are just some personalities out there who are larger than life, and love him or hate him, the late Steve Jobs is definitely one of them, and he is a colossus among innovative minds in the US for the past two decades. In fact, news of his death was met by an outpouring of grief worldwide, and international tributes came flowing in, and the ripples of his death has yet to reach the end as there is a new monument built in Russia in honor of one of Apple’s founder.

The interactive monument would be easily identifiable even to someone living in the interiors of Africa – as it comes in the form of an iPhone, albeit it is a very, very large replica. Not only that, it boasts of a fully functional display, although it does not a full fledged version of iOS running on it, it will display a slideshow that detailed select highlights of Jobs’s life, in addition to giving us a brief history of Apple as a company. This monument can be found at the St. Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics, and sports a QR code on its back that will direct you to a website dedicated to the memory of Steve Jobs when scanned.

Hack Turns Cisco’s Desk Phone Into a Spying Device

2013-01-10T11:57:00.001-08:00

Cisco's internet phones—which sit on thousands of desks around the world—have been shown to be easily hacked and turned into remote spying devices. The official announcement comes two whole weeks after Cisco first found out about the problem.

The exploit was discovered by Ang Cui and Salvatore Solfo, a pair of computer scientists from Columbia University's engineering department. They presented the finding at the 29th Chaos Communication Congress in late December. By attaching a small device to the local serial port on the phone, they were able to inject code that gave them complete control over the device—allowing them to remotely monitor phone calls and turn on the phone's microphone to eavesdrop on conversations happening near the phone. In a statement, Cisco explained:

"Cisco recognizes that while a number of network, device, and configuration based mitigations exist, there is no way to mitigate the physical attack vector on the affected devices. To this end, Cisco will conduct a phased remediation approach and will be releasing an intermediate Engineering Special software release for affected devices to mitigate known attack vectors for the vulnerability documented in this advisory."

The networking company will roll out a software patch later this month to remedy the problem, which currently affects a number of models in the CiscoUnified IP Phone 7900 series. Until then, be careful what you say while sat at your desk.

Apple vice president Phil Schiller: There Will Be No Cheapo iPhone, Stupid!

2013-01-10T11:26:00.003-08:00

This is not surprising, but since the Wall Street Journal keeps releasing stupid stupid STUPID reports on Apple developing a cheapo iPhone year after year, it's good to have Phil Schiller punching them in the groin with a big hell-no:

Despite the popularity of cheap smartphones, this will never be the future of Apple's products. In fact, although Apple's market share of smartphones is just about 20%, we own the 75% of the profit.

He could have said it wearing a King Kong costume and a 100,000 watt speaker on top of the Empire State Building, but the message cannot get clearer than that.

Of course, Schiller could by lying about this. But the fact is that a cheapo iPhone with razor-thin margins will only do three things: cannibalize the top iPhone, reduce their profit margins and total income, and cheapen a brand that is perceived to be the top electronics brand in the world according to all marketing rankings. And, like Phil says, this is about making as much money as they can, not owning the market battling a myriad of crapola smartphones at the expense of the bottom line.

Miracle of the great lens( The Camera)

2012-12-20T01:56:00.001-08:00

The great lens has come a long way in the advancement of technology from way back. Just the same way the human eye is a lens. I am a great admirer of great distance been covered by just a click of the camera. This is an image taken for your view. Now the question is " What does your camera do for you" http://500px.com/photo/287617

The Five Best Phones Of 2013

2012-02-22T23:30:00.001-08:00

ZTE Grand S

The hardware of the ZTE Grand S is really lovely. It's extremely thin and extremely light, yet it's got some serious specs. A 5-inch 1080p screen, quad-core Snapdragon S4 Pro processor, two gigs of RAM, a 13MP camera, 16GB of built-in storage and an SD card slot for more.

The software side was definitely disappointing. It runs Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean), but the UI is ugly and confusing and there was a lot of lag. It probably won't hit the U.S. until Q2, so hopefully they can clean up the software before then.

Huawei Ascend D2

Pretty much the same story as the ZTE, Huawei is trying to establish itself with the Ascend D2, and it actually looks really good. It has essentially the same specs at the Grand S above, but the Huawei packs in a 3,000mAh battery, which is music to our power-user ears.

The Ascend runs Android Jelly Bean, it has built-in augmented reality navigation, and split-screen multi-tasking. Plus: it's splash-proof. This was a lot snappier than Huawei's gigantic 6.1-inch phablet, which we were not such a fan of. No word on exact release dates or which carrier it'll be on.

Lenovo K900

Before you get your hopes up: The K900 is not destined for the U.S. market. If you want it, you'll have to move to China. That said, it's gorgeous piece of hardware. It has a 5.5-inch 1080p screen, which is going to be too big for some people, but it's very easy on the eyes. It's super thin, at just 6.9mm thick, and it weighs just 5.7 ounces.

It operates on Android, and it has a 13MP camera with a Sony Exmor image processor. It's also running Intel's Atom z2580 processor, with a (rumored) clock speed of 2GHz. If you ask real nice maybe Lenovo will make a state-side version.

Sony Xperia ZL

The Xperia ZL packs a gorgeous 5-inch 1080p Bravia screen, and it, too, lists those familiar hardcore specs: 1.5GHz quad-core S4 Pro, 2GB RAM, and expandable storage. It has a 13MP camera with the newly designed Exmor RS chip, which is supposedly even better in low-light than its predecessor, and it can shoot HDR video—an impressive feat. It has as 2370mAh battery, a physical camera button, and an IR blaster so it can be used as a universal remote. Sony scaled back their skin for Android 4.1 and it looks really nice and performed extremely well.

It was a toss-up between this one and...

TOP PICK: Sony Xperia Z

The Xperia Z, ultimately, is every bit as much of a flagship as the ZL. It has the same exact screen, guts, camera, and software. It does, however, add one very impressive trick: It's waterproof to three feet for 30 minutes. All. Phones. Should. Be. Waterproof.

This Xperia is thinner than the ZL, but a little wider and longer. There's also no IR blaster or physical camera button, and the battery is a hair smaller at 2330 mAh. It's just a gorgeous piece of hardware and it performed really well, so we decided to give it the nod over its brother, but it will come down to personal preference. The bottom line: Both of Sony's new phones are looking good.

Canon S100 Hands-on time.

2011-10-28T02:34:00.000-07:00

Another piece of silver ware, it just got better with the Canon S100 hands- on time. This device is been compared to it's predecessor the canon S95, the device has a lot to offer you, the user. I totally recommend this device to any one looking for a good camera. Canon, has been known for their technology and the advancement in product to suit the consumers. The followup to Canon's S95 is a fairly slick point-and-shoot. It's not the most compact camera in its space, but the new Powershot is surprisingly lightweight. It's got a healthy 12.1 megapixel CMOS sensor with improved low-light performance and a 5x optical zoom, the latter of which could certainly do with a bump. The S100 captures 1080p HD video and sports a convenient, dedicated movie button (no switching modes here). The high-end point-and-shoot doesn't pack too many surprises, but it certainly seems like a worthy successor to the highly-regarded S95. Still I await the release date for the device.

New Face Of iPhone 4S.

2011-10-18T03:39:00.000-07:00

Finally, the phone we all have been waiting for. It was released and unveiled early this month and just in 3 days of it's sale it sold 4million iPhone 4S. What do you want in a phone?? iPhone 4S has it all. still have problems with the phone navigation. As an admirer of good electronics, I rate this phone above par.This phone is also a tribute to the iconic Steve Jobs. Although, the predecessor iPhone 4's battery last longer than iPhone 4S. Don't doubt, just get one.

iPhone 4S

GENERAL	2G Network	GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
		CDMA 800 / 1900
	3G Network	HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100
		CDMA2000 1xEV-DO
	Announced	2011, October
	Status	Available. Released 2011, October

SIZE	Dimensions	115.2 x 58.6 x 9.3 mm
SIZE	Weight	140 g

DISPLAY	Type	LED-backlit IPS TFT, capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
	Size	640 x 960 pixels, 3.5 inches (~330 ppi pixel density)
		- Scratch-resistant oleophobic surface - Multi-touch input method - Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate - Three-axis gyro sensor - Proximity sensor for auto turn-off

SOUND	Alert types	Vibration, MP3 ringtones
	Loudspeaker	Yes
	3.5mm jack	Yes

MEMORY	Phonebook	Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
	Call records	100 received, dialed and missed calls
	Internal	16/32/64 GB storage, 512 MB RAM
	Card slot	No

DATA	GPRS	Yes
	EDGE	Yes
	3G	HSDPA, 14.4 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.8 Mbps
	WLAN	Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi hotspot
	Bluetooth	Yes, v4.0 with A2DP
	Infrared port	No
	USB	Yes, v2.0

CAMERA	Primary	8 MP, 3264x2448 pixels, autofocus, LED flash
	Features	Touch focus, geo-tagging, face detection
	Video	Yes, 1080p@30fps, LED video light, video stabilization, geo-tagging
	Secondary	Yes, VGA

FEATURES	OS	iOS 5
	CPU	1 GHz dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor, PowerVR SGX543MP2 GPU, Apple A5 chipset
	Messaging	iMessage, SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email
	Browser	HTML (Safari)
	Radio	No
	Games	Downloadable, incl. motion-based
	Colors	Black, White
	GPS	Yes, with A-GPS support
	Java	No
		- MicroSIM card support only - Scratch-resistant glass back panel - Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic - Siri natural language commands and dictation - iCloud cloud service - Twitter integration - Digital compass - Google Maps - Audio/video player and editor - Image editor - Voice command/dial - TV-out

BATTERY		Standard battery, Li-Po 1432 mAh
	Stand-by	Up to 200 h (2G) / Up to 200 h (3G)
	Talk time	Up to 14 h (2G) / Up to 8 h (3G)
	Music play	Up to 40 h

How WiFi Cameras Work

2011-10-07T22:31:00.000-07:00

In this day and age, it may be a big deal to connect something, such as a camera, to your computer to transfer information.WiFi cameras, are aimed at solving cable clutter by making it possible to transfer photos wirelessly from a digital camera to a Web site or your computer. This means you can do things like e-mail photos of your trip while you're still on vacation, or get pictures directly off your camera and to an editor quickly if you're a photojournalist.
These SD cards have a WiFi antennae built into them, which allows them to offer basically the same functions as a camera with built-in WiFi, but they lack the on-screen interface if a camera doesn't directly support it. With the Eye-Fi, you set up the card on your computer, then place it in the camera, where it automatically uploads photos to your computer or Web space anytime it detects a compatible WiFi network.

As with non-WiFi cameras, your choice of camera will be dependent on how you plan to use it. WiFi-enabled point-and-shoot cameras retail for a little bit more than their plug-and-play counterparts,

The difference between WiFi cameras and Eye-Fi cards is straightforward: WiFi cameras are already built to use WiFi functions out of the box, whereas Eye-Fi cards are an extra memory card. Both require a brief setup process and offer the same basic functionality.

If you're worried the simplicity of having a WiFi camera comes at the cost of image quality, your concerns are well directed. Certain models, especially early ones, may upload files at lower resolutions than what is stored on the camera. The high-quality shots remain on the camera, so they can still be transferred through a wired connection when you have the chance. You won't have that problem with most newer models, though.

So, once you've got your WiFi-enabled camera in your hands, you'll need to set up basic features, automatic functions and the Web site or computer to which you plan to upload your pictures.

How to Detect if Someone's Stealing Your WiFi

2011-10-06T13:35:00.000-07:00

Okay, it's time to get down to it. Is your wireless network running slowly? Do you have intermittent losses in Internet access and you can't figure out why? Chances are, you've already detected a WiFi squatter and didn't even know it. If you regularly experience these problems, maybe you have something wrong with your wireless connection. But if you're suddenly having intermittent problems with your Internet performance, especially at the same time each day, it's a red flag that someone is piggybacking off your wireless connection and it's time for you to diagnose your WiFi network.

The first and simplest thing you can do is check out your wireless network connection and see if it's secure. When you install your router, you're given the option of setting a wireless encryption protocol (WEP) key. Basically this is a password-protected method for you to log on to your own wireless network. If you don't have one, you're operating an open network. That means anyone within range can use your wireless for free. While it's not hacking, it is debatable as to whether this is actually stealing. In any case, if you don't have a WEP key, you're vulnerable to WiFi squatting and certainly not deterring squatters.

Even if you have a WEP key, that doesn't necessarily mean your neighbor hasn't bypassed it. To determine if he or she is logging onto your wireless network, you can do so by checking your wireless network log. To do this, click your Start Menu in Microsoft Windows, then double-click My Network Places. Next, double-click View Entire Network. If there are more devices connected than you have allowed on your network, you have WiFi thieves.

A similar method to determining the status of your WiFi user list is to check your router's DHCP client table. Much like viewing your network, your DHCP client table will list the machines on your network. If the number exceeds what you've set up, you have someone stealing your WiFi.

Nobody wants to be taken advantage of. What's more, you certainly don't want illegal information flowing through your wireless network. That's why you need to take matters in your own hands.

Understanding Your WiFi Network

2011-10-06T13:23:00.000-07:00

Before you can detect if someone is ripping off your wireless Internet connection, it's important to understand some basic computer networking lingo. For more information on how to set up a wireless network, you must know how WiFi works. Now, let's look at a few of the areas in a wireless network that will give you a baseline for determining if your WiFi signal is being sapped unexpectedly.

A wireless network is comprised of a broadband Internet connection from a DSL, cable or satellite modem. You attach the modem to the wireless router, which distributes the signal and creates a network.

This is what's called a local area network (LAN). This LAN is where you set up computer peripherals such as your desktop or laptop computer and printer. Your router will have what's called a dynamic host client protocol (DHCP) table. In essence, your DHCP table is your guest list of every allowed piece of computing equipment.

Each device has its own media access control (MAC) address. Think of this as its signature. MAC addresses are assigned by the manufacturer, but can be changed by users, if they know how. Your router uses these addresses to assign each machine on your network an Internet protocol or IP address. The MAC and IP addresses of your equipment will be useful in a moment when we look at ways to detect whether or not someone is stealing your WiFi. For a more in-depth understanding of IP addresses.

If you're confused by some of this computer rhetoric, don't be. What's important is that you know what to look for when we get ready to diagnose your WiFi connection. Make sure you read the next post.

Another piece of silver ware.

2011-09-22T07:34:00.001-07:00

Looking for a smart business phone?? Then you don't need to search any more because the BlackBerry Bold 9930. It comes in handy compared to the iPhone 2. Although i am a stunt Nokia user, i definitely recommend this one plus its durable. This piece of device was previously rumored as BlackBerry Montana.

GENERAL	2G Network	GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
		CDMA 800 / 1900
	3G Network	HSDPA 900 / 2100
		CDMA2000 1xEV-DO
	Announced	2011, May
	Status	Available. Released 2011, August

SIZE	Dimensions	115 x 66 x 10.5 mm
SIZE	Weight	130 g

DISPLAY	Type	TFT capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
	Size	640 x 480 pixels, 2.8 inches (~286 ppi pixel density)
		- QWERTY keyboard - Touch-sensitive controls - Optical trackpad - Proximity sensor for auto turn-off - Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate

SOUND	Alert types	Vibration, MP3 ringtones
	Loudspeaker	Yes
	3.5mm jack	Yes

MEMORY	Phonebook	Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
	Call records	Yes
	Internal	8GB storage, 768 MB RAM
	Card slot	microSD, up to 32GB, buy memory

DATA	GPRS	Yes
	EDGE	Yes
	3G	Rev.A, up to 3.1 Mbps, HSDPA, 14.4 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps
	WLAN	Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, dual-band
	Bluetooth	Yes, v2.1 with A2DP, EDR
	Infrared port	No
	USB	Yes, microUSB v2.0

CAMERA	Primary	5 MP, 2592x1944 pixels, LED flash
	Features	Geo-tagging, face detection, image stabilization
	Video	Yes, 720p
	Secondary	No

FEATURES	OS	BlackBerry OS 7.0
	CPU	1.2 GHz QC 8655 processor
	Messaging	SMS, MMS, Email, Push Email, IM
	Browser	HTML
	Radio	No
	Games	Yes + downloadable
	Colors	Black
	GPS	Yes, with A-GPS support, BlackBerry Maps
	Java
		- NFC support - BlackBerry maps - Digital compass - Document viewer - MP4/WMV/H.263/H.264 player - MP3/eAAC+/WMA/WAV player - Organizer - Voice memo/dial - Predictive text input

BATTERY		Standard battery, Li-Ion 1230 mAh
	Stand-by	Up to 307 h (2G) / Up to 307 h (3G)
	Talk time	Up to 6 h 40 min (2G) / Up to 5 h 50 min (3G)
	Music play	Up to 50 h you need to check out the O/S and CPU, its incredible..

Two megapixel mini-camera measures in at under a cubic inch, weighs under an ounce.

2011-09-22T07:29:00.000-07:00

"The World's Smallest Camera,packs a petite, two megapixel auto-focus sensor capable of recording VGA video.Resembling a Lego Man's DSLR, storage is done on a microSD card, though you're more likely to run out of battery juice than space -- the battery will give a maximum of 30 minutes use from one hour's charge. For those consumers who love smaller gadgets, this is something you all have to look out for. Good luck, it's coming to a store near you.

Google Plus is no longer invite only.

2011-09-22T06:48:00.000-07:00

The details are here.

Information on changes in Google's "real name" policy that would allow people to protect their identity here.

Oh. Right. Squat.

Darwinian evolution of computers and other inorganic machines

2011-09-14T02:50:00.000-07:00

One of the most important discoveries of the last 200 years was Darwin’s theory of evolution. You are almost certainly educated in the ways and whys and wherefores of evolution, but here’s a quick recap: through multiple generations of a species, there is a process which ensures the survival of the fittest and the demise of the weakest. At its most basic, this process whittles out bad DNA mutations and embraces the good — but extrapolated out through billions of years, and it is the reason that girls prefer taller boys, and why we instinctively revere the leaders and generals of our society.

The thing about Darwin’s theory of evolution is that it only applies to biology, to organic, living things — it only applies to genetic traits that are carried on from generation to generation. What if evolution also applies to ideas, to behaviors — to memes? What if memetic traits can also be passed down through generations — or across the broad tree of your species using communication?

Are memes biological? They certainly can’t be explained by biologists or chemists, which strongly hints that memes are inorganic. In its raw, neurological, synapse-firing state you could probably call an idea biological — but memes can also exist as written works, websites, and recorded transmissions. Memes, in other words, can exist outside an organism’s cell walls, and thus freely exist without human intervention.

So, what are computers and machines? They are the physical manifestation of generation upon generation of memes. There is nothing revolutionary inside your PC — every last piece of silicon, circuitry, wiring, and metalwork is the embodiment of thousands of years of memetic evolution, from the brain and hands of one skilled crafter to another, to another, to another. Silicon chips didn’t just burst into existence: they are based on millions and perhaps billions of foundational memes, from electricity to microscopy to chemistry. Even seemingly-simple parts of your computer, like its chassis, are the result of metallurgy memes, oil drilling memes (and by extension, exploration memes)… and so on.

The point is, to put it bluntly, computers and machines engage in reckless, lascivious sex, just like living organisms. If you’re on a PC right now, your hand is probably resting on the beautiful offspring of John Logitech’s naked fumbling with Mary Microsoft. If you prefer to keep your hands on your keyboard, your fingers are currently caressing the lovechild of IBM, Underwood, Remington — and a ton of silicon- and plastic-based technologies too, of course.
Much in the same way that dinosaurs were wiped out by a meteor, allowing smaller mammals to flourish and humanity’s eventual dominance of this little blue marble we call Earth, computers and machines can be wiped out by a rapid change in the fabric of society. This isn’t to say that memes die, but inorganic machines are slave to humanity — and if we no longer need a machine, it dies. When the light bulb was invented, the candle died — and when the internet was created… well, a whole bunch of meatspace machines and systems died.

What can we learn from Darwinian evolution of computers and machines, then? Well, let’s start by looking at an example of computer evolution, and then follow that line through to today, and then the future. Take Microsoft Windows, for example, which is a brilliant example because many of us have been around long enough to remember its inception in the ’80s, and the vast majority have lived through at least three or four generations. Windows was born from one very, very strong parent — MS-DOS — and the weak-but-not-forgotten PARC Labs WIMP graphical user interface. Through competitive pricing and the dominance of the PC clone, it very quickly killed off most of the competition.

graphical interface

What followed, for some 30 years, is a perfect case of survival of the fittest. Other options came along — BeOS, PS/2, Linux, and various versions of Mac OS X — but Windows simply picked up the memes that seemed most important — shiny widgets, better networking, more reliable connectivity — and plowed straight through the competition. It is only now, with a hint that the world is now ready tomove on from the PC, that other operating systems like Android, iOS, and OS X are starting to nibble at Windows’ market share. Microsoft will desperately try to splice the latest mobile computing memes into Windows 8 — but if it fails, another OS, a fitter, stronger OS will step into its boots

If the PC era really is drawing to an end, then we may be looking at an extinction event, and an entire ecosystem will surely perish -- except it won’t, because this is memetics, not genetics. No one can say for certain what would rise in the PC’s place, but you can be damn sure that its memes will live on in the heads of project managers, developers, and end users. Even in 200 years, a period so far in the future that Windows and OS X will be phrases that inventors have never even heard of, their memes will live on.

That’s the amazing thing about the evolution of computers and inorganic machines: unless something actually wipes out Earth, our tools will only improve in their efficiency and efficacy. Unless we create a device that’s as intelligent as us, of course, and then we’ll be part of our own extinction event…

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2011-09-13T23:55:00.000-07:00

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Nokia In The Making.

2011-09-11T13:34:00.000-07:00

Finally, what have you desired for in a phone? Is it complexity or the durability? Then this has all you have been pondering about. Its a phone with class. Nokia N9 has it all.

GENERAL	2G Network	GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
	3G Network	HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1700 / 1900 / 2100
	Announced	2011, June
	Status	Coming soon

SIZE	Dimensions	116.5 x 61.2 x 12.1 mm, 76 cc
SIZE	Weight	135 g

DISPLAY	Type	AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
	Size	480 x 854 pixels, 3.9 inches (~251 ppi pixel density)
		- Gorilla glass display - Anti-glare polariser - Multi-touch input method - Proximity sensor for auto turn-off - Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate

SOUND	Alert types	Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones
	Loudspeaker	Yes
	3.5mm jack	Yes
		Dolby Mobile sound enhancement; Dolby Headphone support

MEMORY	Phonebook	Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
	Call records	Yes
	Internal	16/64 GB storage, 1 GB RAM
	Card slot	No

DATA	GPRS	Class 33
	EDGE	Class 33
	3G	HSDPA, 14.4 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.7 Mbps
	WLAN	Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Wi-Fi hotspot
	Bluetooth	Yes, v2.1 with A2DP, EDR
	Infrared port	No
	USB	Yes, microUSB v2.0

CAMERA	Primary	8 MP, 3264x2448 pixels, Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus, dual LED flash
	Features	Geo-tagging, face detection, touch-focus
	Video	Yes, 720p@30fps
	Secondary	Yes

FEATURES	OS	MeeGo OS, v1.2 Harmattan
	CPU	1GHz Cortex A8 CPU, PowerVR SGX530 GPU, TI OMAP 3630 chipset
	Messaging	SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email, IM
	Browser	WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML, RSS feeds
	Radio	No
	Games	Angry Birds Magic (NFC), Galaxy on Fire 2, Real Golf 2011; downloadable
	Colors	Black, Cyan, Magenta
	GPS	Yes, with A-GPS support; Ovi Maps
	Java	Yes, MIDP 2.1
		- MicroSIM card support only - SNS integration - Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic - Digital compass - TV-out - NFC support - Dolby Digital Plus - MP3/WAV/eAAC+/WMA/FLAC player - MP4/H.264/H.263/WMV player - Document editor (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), PDF viewer - Video/photo editor - Voice memo/command/dial - Predictive text input (Swype)

BATTERY		Standard battery, Li-Ion 1450 mAh (BV-5JW)
	Stand-by	Up to 380 h (2G) / Up to 450 h (3G)
	Talk time	Up to 11 h (2G) / Up to 7 h (3G)
	Music play	Up to 50 h

GENERAL	2G Network	GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
	3G Network	HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1700 / 1900 / 2100
	Announced	2011, June

SIZE	Dimensions	116.5 x 61.2 x 12.1 mm, 76 cc
SIZE	Weight	135 g

DISPLAY	Type	AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
	Size	480 x 854 pixels, 3.9 inches (~251 ppi pixel density)
		- Gorilla glass display - Anti-glare polariser - Multi-touch input method - Proximity sensor for auto turn-off - Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate

SOUND	Alert types	Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones
	Loudspeaker	Yes
	3.5mm jack	Yes
		Dolby Mobile sound enhancement; Dolby Headphone support

MEMORY	Phonebook	Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
	Call records	Yes
	Internal	16/64 GB storage, 1 GB RAM
	Card slot	No

DATA	GPRS	Class 33
	EDGE	Class 33
	3G	HSDPA, 14.4 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.7 Mbps
	WLAN	Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Wi-Fi hotspot
	Bluetooth	Yes, v2.1 with A2DP, EDR
	Infrared port	No
	USB	Yes, microUSB v2.0

CAMERA	Primary	8 MP, 3264x2448 pixels, Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus, dual LED flash
	Features	Geo-tagging, face detection, touch-focus
	Video	Yes, 720p@30fps
	Secondary	Yes

FEATURES	OS	MeeGo OS, v1.2 Harmattan
	CPU	1GHz Cortex A8 CPU, PowerVR SGX530 GPU, TI OMAP 3630 chipset
	Messaging	SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email, IM
	Browser	WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML, RSS feeds
	Radio	No
	Games	Angry Birds Magic (NFC), Galaxy on Fire 2, Real Golf 2011; downloadable
	Colors	Black, Cyan, Magenta
	GPS	Yes, with A-GPS support; Ovi Maps
	Java	Yes, MIDP 2.1
		- MicroSIM card support only - SNS integration - Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic - Digital compass - TV-out - NFC support - Dolby Digital Plus - MP3/WAV/eAAC+/WMA/FLAC player - MP4/H.264/H.263/WMV player - Document editor (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), PDF viewer - Video/photo editor - Voice memo/command/dial - Predictive text input (Swype)

BATTERY		Standard battery, Li-Ion 1450 mAh (BV-5JW)
	Stand-by	Up to 380 h (2G) / Up to 450 h (3G)
	Talk time	Up to 11 h (2G) / Up to 7 h (3G)
	Music play	Up to 50 h

Touchscreen keyboard morphs to fit your typing style.

2011-09-08T05:47:00.000-07:00

Typing on a touchscreen is not one of life's pleasures: the one-size-fits-all nature of most virtual keyboards is a hassle that puts many of us off using them. I've lost count of the number of times I've seen journalists put down an iPad, for instance, and pick up a laptop or netbook to do some serious notetaking or writing.

After an initial calibration stage, in which the keyboard asks users to undertake a series of exercises to set response time, anatomical algorithms get to work, sensing through the touchscreen the finger skin touch area, finger size and finger position for the logged in user.

As this information is gathered - IBM does not say over what period this learning takes place - the virtual key buttons are automatically resized, reshaped and repositioned in response.

The patent shows a keyboard with some keys subtly higher than others, and with some fatter than others. This "adapts the keyboard to the user's unique typing motion paths" governed by their different physical finger anatomies, says IBM, which suggests the idea being used in both touchscreen and projected "surface computing" displays.

Touch screens phones add value to typing, and enhances productivity to users.

Augmented reality app keeps libraries tidy

2011-09-08T02:29:00.000-07:00

Libraries may be cathedrals of knowledge, but their custodians have the distinctly earthly task of keeping all those books in order.

Now Bo Brinkman, a computer scientist at Miami University has developed an augmented reality (AR) app which he hopes can facilitate and speed up the job of finding misplaced books and returning them to their rightful place. The app, called ShelvAR, scans a dozen book spines at once and detects errant titles. Viewing the shelf through a tablet PC, the user sees incorrectly filed books highlighted, and on-screen arrows point to their correct place on the shelf.

Eventually the software, written by undergraduate research assistant Matt Hodges, should be available as a downloadable app for any library volunteer to use.

Currently the ShelvAR system requires machine-readable stickers to be placed on books, which isn't ideal when collections can easily stretch to hundreds of thousands of titles. The success of ShelvAR will depend on whether librarians consider the cost of labelling all their titles to be offset by the time and money saved in crawling through miles of shelf in the hunt for misplaced books.