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Samsung Pays Apple $1 Billion Sending 30 Trucks Full of 5 Cents Coins

2012-08-29T07:50:00.001-07:00

At the morning of 28 august something strange happened at Apple's headquarters. 30 trucks filled with 5-cent coins arrived at Apple's headquarter. But this is not the strange thing that happened there. Strange thing was the security company that protects those trucks said that those trucks arrived in the wrong place. Then after a minute CEO of Samsung called Apple explaining they will pay $billion dollars for the fine recently ruled against the South Korean company in this way.

Because of this Apple will have to spend long time counting the coins. They should also pray and hope that the Bank will accept all that coin.

The complete delivery of 20 billion coins will hopefully be completed by this week.

Chairman of Samsung electronics, responded to media saying the samsung is not going to be intimidated by s group of "geeks with style" and he also added "if they want to play dirty, they also know how to do it".

"You can now use that money to buy refreshment at the little machines or they could melt the coins to make compters, that's not my problem, I already paid them and fulfilled the law" added more by Lee kun-hee, chair man of Samsung electronics.

The payment method of Samsung has made every one shock and world is watching with curiosity how Apple will respond towards this.

How to make Windows 7 bootable USB pendrive

2012-08-01T12:54:00.000-07:00

Last week my aunt called me to fix her computer , and you know, I just went there with a happy face. why not ? I knew much more about computer than her. And it was no problem I just had to install the windows. That is so easy, I thought but to my dear unluckiness, the computer did not have any DVD drive.It just had an old dusty CD ROM. I had almost given up the hope until google came to rescue.

I googled up the way to make a bootable pendrive and finally found the solution. Here I have posted the way to make a bootable pendrive. Enough talking lets get started.

Things you would need

Pen drive (8 GB ==> I prefer & make sure its empty)
Windows 7 DVD (or .iso files)
Computer with windows installed and DVD drive(or friends Computer)
Cup of coffee(Trust me you will need this)

After you have grabbed all your equipment, Here are the real steps.

Open command prompt (click windows+R and type 'cmd' and run)

You will get this screen

2. Then type diskpart and hit enter. A new window as below will open. You can close our old command prompt now.

3. Now the main game begins. Insert you pendrive and type list disk. This will show all the storage disk that is currently available as below.

4. Usually Disk 2 will be your pendrive. It is obvious because other storage disk are heck too big for a pendrive.

5. Now type select Disk 2 and press enter. Be sure that you have selected your pendrive. You can check this by typing detail disk and it will show you details of that disk as below.

6. Finally these commands should be typed serially. Don't mess the order.

clean
create partition primary
select partition 1
active
format fs=fat32

As you might have figured out what we have done right now. Ya we just formatted our pendrive, that is why I wanted you make sure that it is empty or else you might loosed your important files like I did.

Now take a cup of coffee (I told ya'). and open take rest.(You deserve it).

8. After the format is complete, type following commands

assign
exit

Below is the image of our complete process.

9. When the format is complete insert your original windows DVD in your DVD drive (No doubt you can use .iso image if you have from softwares like VMware, PoweISO, etc)

Then copy all files from the DVD into your dear pen drive and treat yourself a nice nap after that long hard work.

Feel Free to post any comment or feedbacks. I would be happy to here from you.

Thanks

(_BoB_)

Highly paid IT jobs on South East Asia

2012-03-01T04:44:00.001-08:00

We can't imagine the current world without Information Technology. There is hardly an organization who does not involve IT activities in there working environment. If you have visited this page, you must be a student/professional studying IT or someone who is more than interested in Information Technology.

I Googled many sites over the Internet pool for searching most paid IT jobs in South East Asia and found some very interesting information you might be interested in. Without further introduction, let me get to part I want to share with you.

Following are few highly paid IT jobs that I found by researching the Internet Sources.

· 1. IT Manager: IT Manager are people who manages IT departments. Their main duties are to care in house network. in some companies IT managers are also involved in preparing training materials to assist newbie for increasing productivity of the Company.

Job Requirements: Bachelor or Masters Degree in Information Technology or even Specialized Diploma in a particular subject of field.

Job Responsibilities: To develop and implement policies, produce training material for new staffs, evaluating employees based on their quality of work.

Experience: minimum of 10 years of experience of relevant field.

Salary: 10,00,000 to 18,00,000 (Indian Currency) per Year.

· 2.Senior Software Engineer: Senior Software engineers are sometimes referred as Senior manager.

Job Requirements: Degree or diploma in Software development and application.

Job Responsibilities: To manage employees and resources regarding with various software projects.

Experience: minimum of 10 years of experience of relevant field.

Salary: 7, 00,000 to 10, 00,000 (Indian Currency) per Year.

· 3. Web or Software Application Developer:

Job Requirements: Degree or diploma related to web or Software development

Job Responsibilities: Developing software and web applications by using various platforms.

Experience: minimum of 4-5 years of experience of relevant field.

Salary: 5, 00,000 to 8, 00,000 (Indian Currency) per Year.

· 4. System Administrator:

Job Requirements: Degree or diploma related to system administration

Job Responsibilities: supervising subordinates, to provide training and support on regular basis, Managing IT resources and infrastructures.

Experience: minimum of 4-5 years of experience of relevant field.

Salary: 3, 00,000 to 6, 00,000 (Indian Currency) per Year.

Note: that these data may not exactly correct. I have collected these data by visiting some websites. I have used many Internet Resources which may not be incorrect but these are average of those data I found.

I will try to publish more relevant and more accurate data very soon.

If you have any feedbacks or comments regarding this post, I would like to hear and respond them.

Windows 8 consumer preview- Releasing today

2012-02-29T05:14:00.000-08:00

Today (February 29, 2012) at 3:00 PM (Barcelona local time) 7:45 @ Nepali time windows 8 consumer preview will be released by Microsoft.

Very less information has been provided about this fully baked version by the developers. This preview is one of the most awaited things right now.

This preview will show how the complete software will look like.

requirements of hardware : The complete windows 8 or this consumer preview will run on any machine that supports windows 7. It might work well even on XP machines.

minimum requirements are

1 processor = 1GHZ

RAM = 1 GB

Hard disk space = 16 GB

DirectX-capable graphics will be the minimum requirement for running Windows 8 consumer preview.

iPad 4S might be unveiled on March 7

2012-02-28T10:01:00.001-08:00

Apple will be conducting an event next week where Apple Company might reveal its next iPad.

The event will be taking place on March 7 at Yerba Buena located at Center San Francisco. The event notice to media was very much surprising and full of suspense. Apple just said that they have something you really have to see and touch. So we can expect it can be next iPad. :P

Recently, Apple also had a meeting where company discussed about unveiling iPhone 4S with its shareholders. This grand meeting took place last October.

Year 2010 and 2011 was "year of iPad" as proclaimed by Apple and they really have a good reason for this because the Company sold more than 32,000,000(32 millions) iPad during fiscal 2011. They are expecting the number to be 32 million plus 15.3 million units in 1st quarter of year 2012. That is really a huge success for the company. This shows the number of Apple Crazy or seriously iPaderZ. ©

Image: iPhone 4

You know I always say Apple Rumors will continue. Who knows if they are going to unveil iMat?

iPhone 5 being release early fall

2012-02-22T04:45:00.000-08:00

image: could this be iPhone 5?

According to Japanese blog-Macotakara iphone 5 will be lauched in early fal following the launch pattern set by iphone 4S.

The blog claims that next iPhone will be released in September or October. The blog further claims that the same launch cycle will be followed for years.

Looking back to history, latest iPhone was released in early summer. The iPhone 3GS reached customer by June while 3G in early July.

This Macotakar's opinion about the iPhone is different from what other Apple watcher have pointed. According to most of the analyst iPhone 5 will reach customers by middle of summer.

Anyways, This Apple rumor will go on unless Apple finally reveals its new iPhone?

image: or this will be iPhone 5?

Source:Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57381597-37/iphone-5-will-reportedly-launch-in-the-fall/#ixzz1n73qj3dr

Apple Rumor- iPad 3 and 4 is gonna be launched this march and October respectively

2012-01-09T04:00:00.000-08:00

Apple, a leading gadget and gizmos vendors are not only leader for there products but they are are also famous for there rumors. The rumor continues here. Please enjoy.

According to citing component makers- Digi Times, Apples is going to launch two separate iPad this year. One would be released in march while another would be release in October.

Isn't that date familiar to you? If you are craze for Apple products then these dates are the dates when Apple released some thing special last year. The iPad 2 was release in March while October was the time when they iPhone 4s was released.

DigiTimes also claims that the two models of iPad(i.e iPad 3 and iPad 4) will be released in a very short gap successively. iPad 3 which will be released on March will compete against low-priced tablets in the market.

For the question. "What would be the difference between two iPad", DigiTimes claims that iPad 3 will be focus on high definition display and longer battery life while iPad 4 it will have much more upgraded hardware specification and integrated application. About iPad 3's feature, it could be a rumor like it always was.

It will always be very much interesting thing to know, what Apple would add to its third generation tablet. Following the holiday season the iPad 2 was on sale in early March in 2011. But Apple may be change the product release timeline this year as indicated by the latest report from DigiTimes.

Picture of iPad 2

Hackers Launching there own satellite on space to fight internet censorship

2012-01-02T02:35:00.000-08:00

By putting there own community Satellites into orbit of the earth, Hackers are planning to fight back against the censorship in internet sites. They will also be making a grid station on ground to receive signals from that satellite.

News from the Tech world suggest that censoring internet will threaten the online freedom

This satellite plan was recently outlined at the Chaos Communication(Berlin) as reported by BBC News.

Even though a few small satellite was already put into the orbit by hobbyist but managing those satellites was very difficult due to low budget projects.

Nick Farr, A hacker Activist has already put out calls for people to contribute the project. According to Farr threat of internet censorship motivated them for this mega project.

"The first goal is an uncensorable internet in space. Let's take the internet out of the control of terrestrial entities," Mr Farr said.

Farr and his team are already working in this project along with German aerospace research initiative-Constellation.

Are you wondering, Is it even possible to send a satellite in the space by some amateurs but to surprise you this has already been done by help of balloons to get them in the orbits. But they are having a very hard time tracking them as there project does not involve large companies and national agencies.

But German Hacker have a better idea to use idea of reverse GPS as it uses low -cost ground stations that can be bought or even built by individuals

These low cost stations will be able to pinpoint satellites at any given time as well as improve the transmission of data to earth from satellites. But these ideas are only theoretically correct at the moment.

Hackers have a advantage that the outer space is not governed by any country below it,

If this project goes on long run, a the project aims to put and astronaut onto the moon in next 23 years

Source:BBC NEWS

Ultrabook all over by 2013

2011-11-08T19:56:00.000-08:00

By the year 2015, Ultrabook will take over 40 percent of the laptop market. ‘ Ultrabooks to Deliver Ultrafast Growth’ was a research conducted which found that Intel processor will be taking about 43 percent of the laptop market.

Acer and Asus ultrabook based on widows 7 currently competing with Apple’s Mac book. Future intel processor based on windows 8 will make them more competitive with tablets.

This growth will be very increase from just 2 percent to about 13 percent in 2012 then under 30 percent by 2013.

The Asus Aspire S3 Ultrabook is priced at $899. But this price is still very high when we take a market look.

Ipad and upconming Kinlde fire(on Amazon) are today’s consumer main attraction. PC maker knows that the laptop must evolove to fit in market requirement as written by Wilkins. Soon Windows 8 will be very much popular in Ultrabook. Intel’s vision of Ultrabook is also closely aligned with windows 8- said Wilkins.

It is said that prices will come down very soon. Acer also announced that Ultrabook will be available for $899 last month.But the prices should be in rangeof 600 and 500 for getting attenntion of more consumer.

source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-57319873-92/ultrabooks-to-see-fast-growth-says-analyst/?tag=mncol;txt

Windows 8 developer edition.

2011-09-16T20:41:00.000-07:00

Microsoft has made one of the most risky decisions in its history and that is no other than choosing metro interface for new windows 8 which is obviously inspired from windows phone 7. The way we are using our pc from Windows 95 is replaced by touch interface. But if you don’t have touch interface on the screen of your pc, you don’t need to worry because this metro interface will remain default, which will be like improved version of full windows 7.

This new metro interface is completely consumer oriented to compete with tablet’s OS built for Google android tablets and Apples’s ipad.

The actual price, date of shipment or any different edition has not been officially said by the company but it is believed to be launched in fall 2012.

Windows 7 apps are supported by windows 8 as company insisted, and claimed that, any computer that can run windows 7 can run windows 8 too. Company is very excited about the new app so called metro-style apps which is similar to windows phone 7 metro UI. These apps will change the way how we used to use to do our task on pc. Menus and setting are shown only after we swipe them from bottom of the screen and if we swipe screen from right side then we get to see “charms” which are icons to see search, start, device etc So it is fun to use this windows 8 on tablet because this OS is touch compatible and swiping does the work better than dragging.

When we run multiple apps, swiping to left of screen displays preview of another apps that is running and it will resize to quarter of screen once we leave the finger. There are so many other features. It will be updated soon in this page. Have patience

pcmag
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Unreleased Iphone 5 missing

2011-09-04T09:31:00.000-07:00

Apple employee lost unreleased iphone 5 in a San Francisco bar. This is not the first time, Apple employee lost an unreleased iphone. Apple is trying it’s best to recover this iphone lost in late July.

A gadget blog was found guilty for buying that unreleased iphone 4 at $5000 that was lost last

year by an apple employee.

Brian Hogan and Sage Wallower were charged for selling that powell’s iphone 4 prototype to Gawker Media's Gizmodo blog.

It is suspected that this time, the iphone 5 must have been taken from that bar and sold to craigslist for $200. But nobody expect Apple knows, how it looks like and what version of operating system it uses.

It is not clear about the exact date when iphone 5 is going to be launched but rumors say the date could be in this early October. But it could be rumor, who knows. :P

When this lost device was electronically traced, it was indicated that this device could be found at single family house at San Francisco’s Bernal height neighborhood but surprisingly when house was investigated by San Francisco police and Apple’s investigator, they found nothing.

They spoke with the man living at that house who was in his twenties and that person acknowledged that he was present at that bar at the time when iphone was lost.

Apple investigator also offered that man, a significant amount of money for the iphone but he still denied for having any knowledge of iphone.

Lightest ultrabook only weighs 2.5 pounds by Toshiba

2011-09-03T20:55:00.000-07:00

You probably know about ultrabook, Right? In case if you don’t know don’t freak out. Utrabooks are the new category of notebooks, which are small in size and very light but this does not comes with the price of performance. To find more about ultrabook, click " ultrabook ".

Digital Production Division of “Toshiba America Information System Inc.”, launched it’s first ultrabook which became to be the world’s lightest ultrabook ever. It is called Portégé® Z830 Series . This new model even left the award winning ultraportable Portégé R830 Series far behind, as the company claims new ultrabook to be 40 percent thinner and 20 percent lighter. It weighs less than 2.5 pounds and has 13.3 inch platform.

Amazingly, price starts under $1000 while it is very portable, durable and looks very stylish with it’s cutting edge design .

This ultrabook uses second generation intel core processor coupled with ultra-fast DDR3 memory. 128 GB SSD(Solid State Drive) provides very fast response. Also with the increased durability and energy efficiency, we can boot Portégé Z830 with in a second, when used with Toshiba’s new exclusive start technology. Now we don’t have waste our time watching the screen, when boot process is going on.

Now don’t worry about spilling a glass of water, while you were working late night in low light condition, because this Portégé Z830 ultrabook has spill resistant keyboard and back light LED.

If your favorite device is running low of battery, then just plug in Toshiba’s USB sleep & charge technology. Enhanced audio technology incorporated stereo speaker gives you best performance when you are video chatting, watching videos or just listening to music.

At November 2011, Portégé Z830 Series Ultrabook is going to be available retail stores.You can always buy from directly at toshibadirect.com too.

Efficient Laptop cooler from thermaltake

2011-09-03T11:22:00.000-07:00

Thermaltake, a manufacturer company of power supply units, fans, cooling device, etc for desktop and server has now developed a cooling pad for the laptops, notebooks or tablet pc. They call it “LifeCool Notebook Cooling Pad“.

Due to its great functionality, the overall lifetime of our laptop, notebook or touchpad will be extended to some extent as this pad saves it from risk of heat failures.

picture credit goes to techpower.com

This cooling pad supports Laptops and Notebook or tablet from 10 inches to 17 inches. 120 mm Blue LED fan does the cooling which is controlled by on and off knob. Amazingly this little fan has speed of 800 to 1500 RPM, which is powered by a unmarked mini USB at the left of this pad connected to USB port of your laptop or notebook. So tablet can make use of this cooling pad only if it has USB feature.

This pad provides up to 65CFM of airflow. We can control the RPM for different circumstances manually if required.

Okay, now guess it’s weigh. You need hints? Choose 1 kg, 4 kg,1.1kg or 0.1kg. If you choosed 0.1 kg thinking this must very light but sorry my friend, You are wrong. It weighs 1.1 kg. So this must be a burden, while your laptop might weight 2 kgs.

And It uses only 1W power, very efficient in this sense.

picture credit goes to techpower.com

Google Chrome now 3 years old

2011-09-02T20:30:00.000-07:00

Did you ever wondered when Google Chrome was born. Then you are just so lucky today, because today is the Happy Birthday of Google Chrome. Today is the third anniversary of Google’s very famous open source browser. The actual launched date was on September 2 of 2008. So lets say it loud: "Happy Birthday Google Chrome"

Within this three year of time, Chrome has gain a reputation as one the fastest browser out of many other web browsers. It’s features regarding speed, security and obviously functionality is making it popular day by day. Take a look at this interactive graph that shows the evolution of browser.

Chrome has released lots of version Chrome beta(2008) to Chrome 15.0(2011).

According to browser statistics published from w3 schools, There are now 29.4 percent chrome users in world till 2011. It has already won Internet explorer (22 %) but behind from Firefox (42%). Are you thinking that it is far behind Firefox then you are probably wrong because day by day Chrome user are increasing and it’s current growth rate ,is maximum out of all browser. Hard to believe?

Take a look at the graph below from gs counter that shows how browsers are performing up to August 2011. Do you see that green line going up? It represents Chrome.

Features of Google Chrome are listed below.

Each tab runs isolated from another. This prevents one tab crashing entire tab. It’s memory use is eliminated when a tab is closed. So Google Chrome is best regarding memory and security.

Chrome has made the use of very powerful JavaScript engine,V8. Ever wondered why large application performed better in Chrome rather than other browser?

Google Chrome is a open source project so it gets updated more often and new features will be added.

Nine most visited web pages are shown in a list at starting page.( Chrome 15 has a redesigned page called “New Tab page”. In this page there are three section 1)most visited 2)Applications and 3)Bookmarks but we can place our application in many section.)

Still not using Google Chrome? You can download the latest Google Chrome from here.

$150 amazing off in Black berry playbook.

2011-09-01T20:51:00.000-07:00

Best Buys is offering a heavy discount of $150 on black berry playbook like a recent hp model gave.

Today, Best Buy is giving Black berry tablet for $550 , while the actual price was $700 giving $150 off. This can be compared hardly with the recent offer given by HP(Hewlett-Packard’s), which is $100 off on it’s 16GB touch pad.

$500 is very low price for 64 GB tablet while 64GB models from apple are still more than $800.Isn't it?

above picture credit goes to n4bb.com

Following are the features of playbook black berry tablet.

Weight : 15 oz

Widthxdepthxheight : 7.6x0.4x5.1(inch)

Color : Black

Wi-FI connectivity : 802.11 a/b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1 EDR
Input : Touch screen

Resolution : 1024 x 600

Display : 7 inch

RAM : 1GB

Flash memory : 16 GB integrated

Processor : 1Ghz

Other features it includes are forward rear cameras(HD upto 1080p), Display / video - HDMI - 19 pin micro HDMI Type D, USB - 5 pin Micro-USB TypeB

above picture credit goes to bestbuy.com

Also for 16GB playbook best buy offers $50 off, making it available only at $449 while it’s regular price was $499. Nevertheless there is competition going on between 7-inch tablet. For example The price for Lenovo 7-inch IdealPad A1 with android 2.3 will be soon available at $200 for 8GB model and $250 for 16GB model. But talking about present, Best buy offers Samsung Galaxy Tab only at $279. In this crowded tablet market, Apple is still dominating with it’s iPad. Also there are tablets from different other companies like Motorola, Samsung, Acer, Toshiba, etc. WebOs-based is soon coming in the market for final production at $100 for 16 GB models and $150 for 32GB models.

During the first quarter of fiscal 2012 RIM said that they sold 500,000 playbooks. Co-CEO of RIM also added that playbook launch did not go as planned. In a press release, company said that they would start layoff to begin for second quarter.

Most people have taken this offer as just another new fish in the market comment here to share what you think about this offer. Do you think you will buy this tablet now?

references:

news.cnet.com

bestbuy.com

Fresh new look for blogger

2011-08-31T21:42:00.000-07:00

The original post of official Google blog published at 6/28/2011 01:33:00 PM “Evolving the Google design and experience” indicated that there would be lot of changes in Google products. Finally Google blogspot got next major change over.

Blogger has been trying major updates since a few years with the looks and feel but this new update has made blog even more faster and efficient.After several user interviews, to identify the way to use Google blogger easily and enjoyable, finally here comes something new.

You should try it out too like I have done. And I found this new features very easy and fun than old sluggish one. We can create or edit post with a single mouse click at the top of screen, weather we are at a dashboard or at settings. So this is more interactive, fast and efficient way of blogging.The post editor has also been expanded and simplified for giving larger area to draft and preview the post.

This is the “overview” section of the dashboard where we can get see our recent traffic numbers and people’s reaction towards our blog. We can see several update information at “update” sub heading where we can monitor our audience at a single glance. Page view section includes a graph our site stats, which in my opinion is a very important for any blogger.

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But for using this feature you need to enable it yourself. There will be a pop-up announcement on your dashboard which might look like this.

There are also instruction that will help you get started with this new feature. You can also take the help from below references for getting any help or simply comment here about this new feature

References

Blogger Help Center page

Non-Admin Google Chrome Frame, Now Stable!

2011-08-31T10:31:00.000-07:00

Finally Google has developed Google Chrome frame for Internet Explorer and finally Google released stable version of plugin for IE(Internet Explorer).

The link for download of this new frame goes here. Google chrome frame is a free plugin only available for IE6,7,8,9 and windows 7,XP,Vista,XP(sp2 or higher).

Now with this Google frame sites that utilizes Google frame becomes faster speeding up your web experience.

But if any of you have already installed the beta channel version but wish to use stable version then can install it by using above link after uninstalling the chrome Frame.

And also one thing to notice is that this chrome frame can now arrive faster on the system that already uses Google chrome as mentioned by google programmer Alex russell in his blog.

So depending upon the rights on our machine we can now get stable version of chrome frame. Regardless of the admin rights on the system, a user in that system can istall GCF as indicated by “prefersystemlevel=true’ in the coding.

Reference:

Alex Russell, a webdeveloper working on Chrome Frame

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