How would it be if you could get first hand information right of the internet about anything and anywhere in the world? Want to click a photograph of a beautiful scenery just with hand gesture? Want a consumer or even a critic review of a book you are about to purchase, all these right in front of you, with just hand gestures. It’s sounds just like the way Tom Cruise accessed information in the movie Minority Report. Doesn’t it?

Pravav Mistry demonstrating the working of Sixth Sense and is the genius behind it’s development

MIT’s Pranav Mistry and Pattie Maes have worked upon this innovative and work-in-progress idea named, Sixth Sense and presented the working of  this great product at the TED conference. Sixth Sense is similar to Microsoft’s surface computer, but a lot better. Watch this video and you will be amazed to see what this technology is capable of:

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While stumbling through the WWW, I discovered a website, www.giveawayoftheday.com, that is dedicated to “Give Away” paid software and games for free download, daily. You get the software/game along with the activation key and you are ready to use it with full functionality! This is a very unique concept where it benefits the down-loaders and the software makers too.

Giveawayoftheday.com has made the whole idea clear with the following words :

The idea behind this initiative is that many sites and publishers offer trial downloads; but only we offer giveaway downloads. What does that mean?

Basically, every day we nominate one software title that will be a Giveaway title of that day. The software will be available for download for 24 hours (or more, if agreed by software publisher) and that software will be absolutely free. That means – not a trial, not a limited version – but a registered and legal version of the software will be free for our visitors*.

The software product will be presented in its full functionality, without any limitations save for those mentioned in Terms and Conditions.

Did you notice the familiar * mark on one of the statements? Yes, all good things come along with certain conditions applied. The software/game usage is limited to non-commercial only, and may also have limited software updates and technical support. But, it’s still good enough to get a break from piracy? Isn’t it?

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Bill Christensen of Technovelgy.com says,

The PETMAN is a supposedly humanoid robot under development to test chemical protection clothing for the US Army. However, take a look at the PETMAN video below; there is something about the articulation of its legs that is not quite right…

PETMAN robot goes for a walk

How is this robot supposed to test human clothing when it has an extra, reversed joint in its legs? My legs don’t work like that. Supposedly, the PETMAN robot has the following goal:

Natural, agile movement is essential for PETMAN to simulate how a soldier stresses protective clothing under realistic conditions. The robot will have the shape and size of a standard human, making it the first anthropomorphic robot that moves dynamically like a real person.

The PETMAN robot is Frederik Pohl’s consumption robots brought to life for your consumer pleasure, right out of his 1954 story The Midas Plague:

There was the butler robot, hard at work, his copper face expressionless. Dressed in Morey’s own sports knickers and golfing shoes, the robot solemnly hit a ball against the wall, picked it up and teed it, hit it again, over and again, with Morey’s own clubs.

Source: Technovelgy

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I have read some tech forum threads and am surprised to see people stuck with a myth that ‘it’s impossible to make a bootable Win XP setup with a portable drive’. With my effort of busting this myth, i will share a step-by-step but a slightly crooked method to install Windows XP from your portable drive. Whether it be a memory card, pen drive or even your digital camera, all are welcome.

Make sure you are prepared with the following perquisites:

• A Portable Drive with at least 2 GB free space (Higher capacity is recommended),

• Intermediate level of knowledge and experience of using a computer and Windows XP,

• Windows XP Setup Disc or ISO (Setup packs that have been stripped for performance and other tweaks may not work!),

• A Computer capable of booting the computer from a USB drive,

• Tools that will do the job: USBPrep8,  PEtoUSB and Bootsect.

Procedure:

• Extract the PeToUSB_3007 contents into the USB-Prep8 folder,

• Go into the folder named USB-Prep8 and double-click the following (usb_prep8.cmd),

• Make sure you select the newly created command prompt window and click any key to continue,

• A new program is started (PeToUSB) Do not change any of the settings, just click start and let it run,

• Once PeToUSB is finished, DO NOT CLOSE any of the windows the program created,

• Go your start menu and click run if your using classic start menu,

• Enter the following command into your run window (CMD),

• Once you have run that command, a new window will appear with the words command prompt,

• Providing you have used the file setup suggested, input the following ( cd \bootsect ),

• Type in the following ( bootsect /nt52 :R ) Replace R with the drive letter of your usb drive,

• You will see the message (Bootcode was successfully updated on targeted volume) if it worked right,

• You may NOW close all the windows except for the window that was created when you ran USBPrep8,

• Providing you closed all the right windows, the USBPrep8 Window will now contain 7 Options,

• Press 1 on your keyboard, this will bring up a window, locate your XP folder and highlight it, click ok,

• Press 2 on your keyboard, the program will ask for a unused drive letter, example: T or Z,

• Press 3 on your keyboard, the program will ask for your USB Stick drive letter, enter it now.Press 4 on your keyboard to start the USBPrep8 process,

• The program will ask you if it is ok to format a drive contained in the letter you gave in #14, click yes,

• The program will start to copy the needed files, be patient,

• The program will then ask you if you wish to copy these files to the USB stick, click yes,

• Finally once it has finished copying the files, it will ask you if you want to make the stick the preferred boot drive, click yes after which it will ask if you wish to un-mount the usb stick, click yes.

• Now, restart your PC and set the boot sequence priority to ‘USB’ and you will successfully boot the Windows XP setup from your portable drive!

Thanks to Geeks! blogger Chronidus and LockerGnome.com for sharing this great idea.

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Apart from pirated programs, sometimes even the legitimate programs are reported to be infected by the Anti-viruses. This does not necessarily mean the reported program is really infected. It might be a false positive (False positive is a term to point out a faulty action by anti malware applications that report innocent programs as infected). You must have adequate knowledge and expertise to conclude the reported program as infected or not yourself, which might again not be a correct conclusion All this is crazy and can be tolerated to an extent.

But, if you are keen to use the program, whether it is really infected or not, you can safely run it in an isolated environment created with the help of a freeware application called Sandboxie.

(This is how Sandboxie works)

To run any program within Sandboxie, follow these step by step visual illustrations:

After running the concerned program with sandboxie, all the files that will be created by the program will only be stored in an isolated space created by sandboxie. All the actions taken by the infected program will be locked in that isolated space and hence keeping it’s actions away from your main system.  This results in better security. Also, it’s a fact that there exist some malware that Sanboxie can’t take control of, so if you are unable to fool the infected file with Sandboxie, make sure you forget about running it and let the anti-virus take control instead!

Sanboxie features:

Secure Web Browsing: Running your Web browser under the protection of Sandboxie means that all malicious software downloaded by the browser is trapped in the sandbox and can be discarded trivially.

Enhanced Privacy: Browsing history, cookies, and cached temporary files collected while Web browsing stay in the sandbox and don’t leak into Windows.

Secure E-mail: Viruses and other malicious software that might be hiding in your email can’t break out of the sandbox and can’t infect your real system.

Windows Stays Lean: Prevent wear-and-tear in Windows by installing software into an isolated sandbox.

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