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Why to Choose Ultrabook | Guide for New Comers

noreply@blogger.com (Shafqat Ullah) — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 10:23:00 +0000

They are the lightest and thinnest laptops yet and the biggest & very popular computing category of the years. Here is what you need to know when joining the Ultrabook generation. [By Eric Grevstad]

Tablets and Netbooks are Toys? Nope. The Holy Grail of Portable productivity is a no compromise laptop with a full-sized, comfortable keyboard; easy on the eyes display; all the performance and ports of a desktop replacement; the convenience of near instant on startup; and all day battery life all in a package so think and light you will forget it’s in your briefcase.

It’s not a new vision, but it has a big new backer or cheerleader in Intel, which at the Computex trade show in May 2011 sketched the outline of what it calls Ultrabooks. In August, the chip giant announced a $300 million marketing and R&D campaign for the new category. And by January 2012’s CES, Intel was boasting of 15-odd Ultrabooks on the market with another 60 designs in the pipeline.

If you would like to board this bandwagon, the first thing to know is that while Intel as a trademark on the capitalized word Ultrabook, it doesn’t have a monopoly on the idea. The 2.9-pound Apple MacBook Air 13-inch dates back to 2008, and its magazine-like-profile, tapering from 0.7 inches thick in back to just 0.1 inch in front, has inspired numerous Ultrabook designers (some Apple fans would say copycats). There’s also a MacBook Air 11 inches.

On the Windows side, Samsung Series 9 also predates Intel’s Ultrabook push, and Samsung doesn’t use the term in describing it; the company’s super thin flagship is available in 13 and 15 inches size. The Series 9 is also, like the MacBook Air, a premium or status symbol machine that lands north of Intel’s pricing guidelines for Ultrabooks theoretically, under $1,000 for 13 inch models, a goal not all manufacturers have met (prices at this writing range from around $800 to more than $1,400 for fully loaded systems).

[PC Magazine March 2012]

Sony SmartWatch | Overview

noreply@blogger.com (Shafqat Ullah) — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 20:18:00 +0000

Awesome Gadget of the month February this year. But let you look at the picture, is it a wrist watch? Is ita Smarphone? Is it a PMP? Well, its all three-in-one featured SmartWatch. They guys at Sony have got really creative and come-up with a SmartWatch that not only does the job of a wristwatch, but also lets you use it as a smartphone. Like the original Sony LiveView, the new SmartWatch connects to your Android phone via Bluetooth and displays a variety of notifications from social networks, emails and even access and control of applications on your phone. The Sony SmartWatch is improved over last year’s model with a full color display, accelerometer and a variety of color rubber wrist bands to choose from. For those who want a more traditional look, Sony also has a wrist band connect a standard watch wristband. But here the main difference between the Sony SmartWatch and the other Android watches we’ve seen at CES is that Sony’s watch is simply an accessory rather than a standalone device. the good news is that the Sony SmartWatch can now keep the time even if it is not paired with your Android phone. by design, the SmartWatch is limited in functionality, but that allows it to retain its charge for much longer than the I’m watch and the Motorola ACTV.

Sony’s Smartwatch is compatible with all phones running Android 2.1 or higher. A Sony rep mentioned that the final hardware will be tested slightly before launch, but we should see the Sony SmartWatch show up on Sony’s website and retail stores before the end of March this year for $149.

Apple is ready to Birth iPad 3 | What’s Changed

noreply@blogger.com (Shafqat Ullah) — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 17:20:00 +0000

Apple to unveil iPad 3 on March 7 in San Francisco: confirmed. By Andrew Couts | Digital Trends.

Apple has sent our invitations to its iPad 3 event, to be held on March 07. Event venue is Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.

The invitation includes the words, “We have something you really have to see. And touch.” Well known for its enigmatic invitations, Apple is likely alluding to the next generation iPad’s new screen, which is expected to have twice the resolution of the iPad 2.

Is there no home button included? | CNET / Apple

No home button was in picture that was an invitation card or a first look picture from Apple received to CNET . The simplest explanation here is that it's a photo of (what is presumably) an iPad 2 on its side, something that's not that much of a stretch given that the iPad's been designed to work the same no matter which end is down.

What changes are expected in the new Apple iPad 3

Siri?

Last year, Apple introduced Siri to the iPhone 4S. So far, the technology isn’t running on any of the company’s other products. However, chances are that Apple will be bringing Siri to the iPad 3 as it starts to roll out the feature across its product line. I’m sure you’re awfully excited to hear that.

Retina Display?

Apple’s Retina Display is wildly popular on the iPhone and iPod Touch. But the time has come for Apple to deliver the same feature to the iPad. After all, Retina Displays really are the future of screen technology, and not to bring it to its flagship mobile product would be a mistake on Apple’s part.

4G support?

One of the things missing in the iPad 2 is 4G connectivity. In order to connect to the Web when you’re away from a WiFi signal, you’ll need to connect to 3G. And as you know, 3G is so 2010. It would be awfully nice if Apple offers up 4G in the iPad 3 and finally matches the many competitors that are already offering the technology.

Android Phone to PC | Send files via Software Data Cable

noreply@blogger.com (Shafqat Ullah) — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 12:33:00 +0000

Have you ever wanted to transfer files between your Android phone or other mobile device and your computer without the hassle of cables? Consider Software Data Cable (for Android) a free app providing file transfers via Wi-Fi.

The app has downloaded from the Android Market and tested on a Droid 2. Installation was no-fuss and took a scant few seconds.

The app’s main display buttons are Start Service, Stop & Exit, and Settings. While the display does show ads, that’s to be expected in a free app. Once running, my mobile device was assigned an IP address doled out from my wireless network’s DHCP server. The app then tells you to input the address displayed (the IP address assigned to the mobile device) into your computer. Once I put the address into my browser, a page opened up, listing the entire file directory of my Android device. On my Android, I also noticed the app showed the total and available storage capacity of my Droid 2 handy for knowing how much data you can transfer.

Back to the desktop side, because the Android’s directory is shown using FTP, you can also view the directory structure in Windows Explorer. It’s a great feature because you can copy a file from your desktop to your Android device using Explorer’s drag-and-drop capabilities or Ctrl+C & Ctrl+V (for copy & past in Windows Explorer). I copied a 25MB video from my Windows 7 PC to my Droid 2 in about a minute and 20 seconds.

I also was able to copy pictures from my phone to my laptop as easily as copying and pasting files between two folders in Windows.

Another great feature of this app is file and folder management on the device. I am not the most skilled at navigating my Droid’s data folders, always afraid it will accidentally delete something important. But Software Data Cable gives you a full graphical representation of all the files on a mobile device and option for copy, cut, and delete, as well as the ability to navigate to a parent directory and create new folders.

Software Data Cable is dead simple, and delivers great file management between a computer and Android device provided both can connect to the same wireless network. It’s an easy pick for a user spending more time on his Windows PC or Laptop while in home or in office because its simplicity and efficiently a great free app.

Lenovo K800 Medfield | Intel Processor Smartphone

noreply@blogger.com (Shafqat Ullah) — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:27:00 +0000

Lenovo K800 Medfield Smartphone with 1.6 GHz Intel Medfield Processor with 8 Mega Pixel of HD Camera | PC Supporter Review.

As it is not a first smartphone powered by Intel, the Lenovo 800 Medfield smartphone would still catch your attention. Boasting a 4.5” screen and running off a 1.6 GHz Intel Medfield processor, it features an 8 Mega Pixel camera that offers up ISO 3200. Despite running a modified version of Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) rather than Ice Cream Sandwich, and although this phone will not be seen in SA it still looks like promising foray of Intel, who is strong on the PC processor front but lacking foothold in the smartphone and tablet market. Intel is also receiving support from Motorola, who will be releasing an Intel powered phone in the second half of this year.

Nokia Windows Smartphones | What You Need To Know

noreply@blogger.com (Shafqat Ullah) — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 04:28:00 +0000

Nokia’s new Windows Phones running Lumia phone range landed in SA at the of last month. It makes a much important departure from Nokia’s old and tired Symbian OS, to the brave new world of Windows Phone. Here is all you need to know about the top of the Nokia’s chart new Smartphones Lumia 800 and Lumia 700.

Expected Features:

Office and SkyDrive

A key benefit of phones being Windows based is Microsoft Office integration in the form of the Microsoft Office hub. This is one of the strongest documentation creation and editing packages on offer for any mobile OS, and includes the mobile versions of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint as well as SharePoint. Users also have access to Microsoft’s SkyDrive, a free cloud-based storage service offering users 25 GB of online storage for documents, music, photos and videos.

Nokia Drive and Maps

Users of Nokia’s Symbian operating smartphones as well as the N9 will be very familiar with the company’ excellent Nokia Drive, their free turn by turn drive and walk navigation offering that boasts voice guidance. Nokia Drive will also be available on their new Windows based devices and helps set Nokia’s devices apart from the other crop of Windows Phone OS running mobiles out there. It includes the ability to employ maps in either a 2D or 3D view and also to change the screen contrast to enhance the readability of the display during night driving.

Smartphone + Xbox360

Xbox fans will be happy about the close knit integration between the 360 and Windows Phone. Upon downloading the Xbox Companion App from the Windows Phone Marketplace, you will be able to do things such as using your smartphone as a remote control for the Xbox. Users can edit their Xbox Live avatar, keep an eye on their achievements and receive messages from friends who are on the Xbox Live network, informing them amongst others to join them for a quick gaming session in games like Battlefield 3.

Nokia Radio and Music Store

Mix Radio enables Nokia users to stream a massive library of music for free (besides the data cost involved of course) by utilizing a 3G or Wi-Fi connection, while the Nokia Music Store portal allows users to buy music and download it straight to their device.

Nokia - Why to Choose Windows Phone?

Year 2011 was a very turbulent year for Espoo-based giant Nokia, as its CEO Stephen Elop admitted that Nokia was in trouble, not having products close to offering a user experience that rivaled Google’s Androi or Apple’s iOS. This prompted the company to abandon the Symbian OS “burning platform” as well as ill-fated MeeGo OS it developed together with Intel, in favour of Microsoft’s new Windows Phone OS. The move looks set to benefit both companies with Nokia receiving a much needed OS restructuring, and Microsoft a willing handset partner ready to build on Windows Phone which, up until this time, had limited support from other handset manufacturers.

10 ‘WOW’ Gadgets of the Year

noreply@blogger.com (Shafqat Ullah) — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:00:00 +0000

This year’s CES had some ‘WOW’ gadgets inside, & top ten of which are reviewed below for your info. But Ultrabooks and clever cameras were will represented. Complete guide about these gadgets described here.

Nikon D4 | Digital SLR Camera

Nikon has announced the D4 (Digital SLR Camera), a full frame 16 Mega Pixel camera with a £4,799 only camera price tagged. This pro-camera improves on the speed and accuracy of its predecessors, with better image quality and low-light capability. Full HD recording and a multitude of new features have been added to the gadget. Accordingly, it’s clad in magnesium alloy to keep the gadget at bay. The camera has slots for both CompactFlash and the ultra-fast XQD memory format, and can back up between the two. Wireless modules, and extended ISO range, plus a 51-point autofocus all features.

£4,799 inc VAT (body only) | www.nikon.co.uk

Canon PowerShot G1 X | Digital Camera

Canon introduced G1 X, a 14.3 Mega Pixel Digital Compact Camera with a 288mm wide-angle lens. The aperture ranges from f2.8 to f16, while a huge 18.8x14mm CMOS sensor dwarfs that of APS-C and Micro Four Third models. It also allows for faster continuous shooting and full HD video capture. The ability to continuously autofocus while shooting video, plus 14bit RAW image support, distinguish the PowerShot from its rivals.

£699 inc VAT | www.canon.co.uk

Kodak EasyShare M215 | Digital Camera

Kodak launched a 14 Mega Pixel (as small as a Credit Size) camera weighs just 105g, but it packs in a lot of technology inside. It sports 26mm wide angle lens with a 5x optical zoom, and comes with Kodak EasyShare software onboard. A self portrait mode is included, and there’s a tiny mirror on the camera’s front so you can fix your hair. Smart capture and face-recognition technology are included. The Kodak M215 supports 720p full HD video recording, and can convert into still images. A 2.5in LCD aids composition and playback.

$99 | www.kodak.co.uk

Toshiba Camileo Z100 | Digital camcorders

The latest Digital camcorder introduced in this year CES, Toshiba’s latest Camileo video camera offers full HD video capture at 30fps. A pair of 5Mp CMOS sensors enable it to shoot 3D footage, where an 8x zoom is available. the 2.8in touchscreen offers glasses free previews. The Z100 has a 120x digital zoom in 2d mode, with which it can capture 16 Mega pixel still images. Electronic image stabilization is built in. The user interface has been rethought for this latest model, and a Pause button added for use during recording. Toshiba Camileo Upload software is onboard.

Price to be come| www.toshiba.co.uk

Canon Legria HF-R series | Digital camcorders

Canon blasts with this cool Photography gadget during the CES event, as their Digital camcorder Canon Legria HF-R series having a wireless connectivity to send and share photos to a storage drive or iOS device over Wi-Fi. They extend the Wi-Fi connectivity to the HF-R series only. Key features of the camcorder Legria HF-R36 include Mpeg4 support, optical image stabilization, a 51x digital zoom, cinematic filters and face detection. the camcorder offers 38 scene modes and comes with Story Creator software for easy storyboarding of your resulting footage.

Price to be come| www.canon.co.uk

HP Spectre | Ultrabook

Ultrabooks were popular at CES, but HP was the only manufacturer to launch a see-through model. This glass-clad ultraportable has a 14in display, besting the 13in screens of most other Ultrabooks we’ve seen. It also sports near-filed communications. HP has managed to squeeze this screen into a chassis that would normally accommodate only a 13.3in display. There’s also a multitouch trackpad, a choice of 4GB or 8GB of RAM, a 128GB or 256GB SSD and Intel Core i5 or i7 ultra-low-voltage processors. A mini DisplayPort and a USB 3.0 port feature, as do 802.11n Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.1. HP says users can expect a battery life of nine hours between charges.

$1,399 | www.hp.com/uk

DELL XPS 13 | Ultrabook

Dell has introduced their first Ultrabook with 13.3in screen XPS 13, that pays more than a passing resemblance to Apple’s MacBook Air. Aimed at business users, the laptop is 6mm thick, offers an eight hour battery life and weighs 1.35kg. Dell says the 13in laptop is effectively the same overall size as a 11in laptop, and offers as much processing power as a standard laptop, despite its slim dimensions. Smart Connect technology built into the motherboard allows software updates to proceed in standby mode. Intel Core i3, i5 and i7 CPUs, 4GB of DDR3 RAM and SSD configurations of up to 256GB are cited by Dell.

$999 | www.dell.co.uk

Quaduro QuadPad 3G Plus | Tablet

For business persons, Quaduro’s 12in screen Quadro should provide the convenience of a familiar Windows interface and the ability to access all their Windows programs and documents on a highly portable device. Specifications include a 1280x800 pixel capacitive touchscreen, a 1.6GHz Inter Mobile D510 CPU, 250GB of storage, two USB 2.0 ports and 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi. Bluetooth is an option extra, but Quaduro provides for 3G and WLAN Networks.

From £500 inc VAT | www.quaduro.com/en

Orange Tahiti | Tablet

Mobile operator Orange is introducing a 3G Android tablet. Its 7in screen Tahiti will cost you £25 a month for two years, following an initial payment of £69. The contract includes 1GB of peak and 1GB of off-peak 3G web access per month. a £41 a month contract that bundles an Orange San Francisco Android smartphone is also posited. The Tahiti tablet runs Android Honeycomb from a 1.2GHz dual core Qualcomm 8260 processor and 512MB of RAM. It has 8GB of onboard storage, a 5 Mega pixel camera, a capacitive touchscreen and a GPS compass.

From £69 on a £25/month contract | www.orange.co.uk

Sony Xperia Ion | Smartphone

Sony used CES to unveil the first smarpthone to escape its Sony Ericsson branding. The Xperia Ion is a 12 Mega pixel smart cameraphone that can shoot 1080i full HD video. the Android 2.3 phone has a 4.6in touchscreen and sports a 720p secondary camera. Designed as an entertainment gadget, the phone has a 1.5GHz dual-core processor, and HDMI port, and offers Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and 3G connectivity.

Price to be come | www.sony.co.uk

Top 10 iOS 5 Tips & Features

noreply@blogger.com (Shafqat Ullah) — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:08:00 +0000

iOS 5 is an incredibly complex operating system, filled with hundreds of innovative, undocumented little touches, just waiting for your to stumble upon them. Here are Top 10 iOS 5 Tips & Tricks which will definitely helps you a little.

Quick Split the Keyboard on iPad

You can hold down the keyboard icon on the iPad’s digital keyboard to bring up a menu option to split the keyboard for more natural thumb-typing, but there’s a much faster way. Simply hold down on the keyboard with two fingers and spread them apart. The keyboard will split in half, just like that. Splitting your keyboard with this gesture is fast and easy, but not something you’ll likely stumble upon by accident.

Swipe to Seven-Day Forecast

In Notification Center, switching between seven-day forecasts and a single-day forecast with more information is as easy as swiping the weather banner in either direction. A more detailed one-day forecast is just a swipe away.

Move the Split Keyboard on iPad

The iPad’s split keyboard is great, but positions itself in a weird spot—somewhere about halfway up the screen. that’s fine if you’re typing at the very top of the screen, but the second the text reaches your fingers, there’s no way to see what you’re typing. Fortunately, you can move that keyboard. Just touch and hold the keyboard button in the bottom right, and slide your finger up and down. The keyboard will follow. finally an iPad keyboard we can use !!!

Add iMessage Notifications to iPad

Having a way to message friends on your iPad is great, but putting them in Notification Center is a must. Head to Settings > Notifications > Messages and slide the first item, Notification Center, to ON. Tapping the message will bring you right to the last sent item in your exchange.

Change Fonts in Notes

Marker Felt is no longer the default font in the Notes app, but unfortunately it’s been replaced by something just as cartoony. If you’d like to change your font, open Settings and tap Notes. Our advice? Change it to the universally loved Helvetica. Your notes will look much more professional. Finally a Notes font option that doesn’t make us feel like 12 year olds !!!

Shut Off Repeat Alerts

A gentle reminder that you have an unread text message works well for some people, but others will be annoyed by the persistent buzzing of their phones. To shut off repeat alerts for messages, head to Settings > Notifications > Messages. Scroll down, tap Repeat Alert, and change to Never. Or, if you want to seem really popular, go ahead and crank that bad boy up to 10…

Turn on Private Browsing

Shopping for Summer season? Just head to Settings > Safari > and swipe on Private Browsing. Nothing you search for will be cached, so your wife will never know you’ve been looking at the Gift you buy from a Store online. You’ll know you’re using Private Browsing by the sleek black borders…

Swipe to Camera Roll

iOS 5 provides quick access to your Camera Roll while you’re in the middle of shooting. While the camera is open, simply swipe from left to right and your Camera Roll will appear. Continue swiping from left to right to flip through your images. If you go too far, tap once to reveal the onscreen toolbar with image controls, and hit Done to immediately return to your camera. Swiping from the Camera app to the Camera Roll is especially great when you’re tired of your ugly mug…

Create Custom Vibration Alerts

Customizing vibration alerts is easy in iOS 5, but the first step is to make sure the option is turned on. Head to Settings > General, scroll to the bottom and tap Accessibility. Under Hearing, turn on Custom Vibrations. Next, head to Contacts, open a contact, scroll to Vibration and choose Create New Vibration. The iPhone will allow you to tap or hold the screen to make all-new vibration patterns for each contact. Custom Vibrations combinations are limitless, and allow you to record extra long patterns.

Add Twitter Usernames to Contact Cards

First, visit Settings > Twitter, and sign in using your account. Then tap Update Contacts. Twitter will use email addresses and phone numbers from your previously organized contacts to add Twitter handles and photos to each contact it can find. Importing Twitter usernames can give you a good idea of how tech-savvy your friends are. We only had five friends with Twitter handles…

Download Top Productive Apps for Your Gadget

noreply@blogger.com (Shafqat Ullah) — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:31:00 +0000

You can be more efficient and boost your productivity with the help of some software designed to help you get your job done on a desktop, laptop or mobile (smartphone) device. By Jill Duffy

Gadgets and devices are one thing, but the software and apps that runs on them is another, and it’s at the level of apps and services that we actually get things done.

Today we will make an overview of 4 Top Handy Productive apps for Android and Apple devices.

For Android Devices

Smartr Contacts for Android

Smartr Contacts for Android (free), formerly called Xobni for Android, creates a comprehensive picture of your contacts. Xobni is the company that makes the app, and it has been a relatively big name in contact management. The free app, which requires a Xobni account (also free) gathers your contacts from Gmail or Outlook, and finds additional information about them, including headshots, from Linkdin, Facebook, and Twitter, and meetings or text messages. For keeping up with email from your Android phone, Smartr Contacts can increase your productivity by removing a lot of the legwork that can sometimes be involved in keeping in touch. It orders your connections by how often you communicate, rather than alphabetically. And it handily merges multiple emails, so if you have an outdated email address for someone, but she has uploaded the most recent one to another platform, Smartr can find it.

SugarSync for Android

Android users looking for a way to make their files and photos available from anywhere should definitely check out SugarSync. It’s similar to Dropbox, but you get more space, 5GB, with a free account (Dropbox gives you 2GB). When your files are available to you from everywhere and automatically synchronized, you never waste time trying to sort out which version of what file you put where. Some of SubarSync’s goodies are hard to find, and others are hard to use, but for Android users looking for a more full featured alternative to DropBox, SugarSync is a pretty sweet deal.

For Apple Devices

Keynote (for iPhone)

Apple’s PowerPoint equivalent for iPhone is one of those marvels of software design, allowing you to easily and powerfully create compelling presentations on a device that fits in your pocket. It’s a dream for frequent flyers, especially those who are typically headed to a place where they will have to give a presentation or speech.

iWork for iPad

(how to use guide here)

With Apple’s iWork for iPad suite of office applications, Pages for word processing, Numbers for spreadsheets, and Keybote for presentations, you can do real work on iPad. This tablet version offers only a basic subset of features and functions compared to the high-powered OSX Version of iWork. The iPad’s cramped on-screen keyboard can slow down productivity, so if you’re serious about using the iPad for work, pick the Apple iPad Keyboard Dock ($69 direct), too.

Technorati Tags: Android,Apps,Smartphone,Laptop,SugarSync,Smartr Contacts,Keynote,iWork

Top 5 Social Sites | Overview

noreply@blogger.com (Shafqat Ullah) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:22:00 +0000

Top 5 Social sites are listed below, undiscovered till end of 2011. Go and share your photos and interest with million of people, waiting for you.

www.pinterest.com

Currently operating in invitation only open beta, this new social photo-sharing Website lets users “pin” images to virtual vision boards. Using the “Pin It” button, users can tag photos from anywhere on the Web to different categories like Hole Decor, Technology, Sports, Art & Craft, and Men’s Apparel. It’s the virtual equivalent of dog-earing a page in a magazine, but makes the data much simpler to organize and retrieve.

Storify

www.storify.com

If every picture both tells a story and is worth a thousand words, then it fellows that it takes more than 140 characters to get the full picture. Storify lets users weave tales of events from various social media threads like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and Flickr.

Erly

www.erly.com

Why just slap up photos when Erly helps you and friends create collections of your shared memories? Everyone’s content is pulled together in one album full of images, videos, status updates and notes. You send the URL for the collection out and others can contribute. This could be the event scrapbook and the meeting minutes of the future.

Canvas

www.canv.as

Canvas is a great place to get your fill of fun and interesting remixed images posted from users all over the Internet, and what you see is probably safe-for-work. The site is a curated home of interned messages, videos and pictures even your mother could love. And even better, Canvas provides the tools to help you make some of your own.

Chime.in

www.chime.in

What if instead of tweeting, you chimed? Unlike the current social networks, the new Chime.in is not about people and profiles, but is organized around topics. People who log in using their Facebook and Twitter accounts can participate in “Chimes” around their topics of choice, building a community on the fly. If you make a community, you can even put on ads to monetize it.

Toshiba Portege Z835-P330 | Lightest Ultrabook

noreply@blogger.com (Shafqat Ullah) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:04:00 +0000

A lightest ultrabook yet, having full feature set, with extras like USB 3.0, WiDi 2.0 and full sized HDMI. Longest battery life in the Ultrabooks’ category.

The Toshiba Portege Z835-P330 is the newest member of the Portege line, and it’s Toshiba’s first ultrabook. Available exclusively through Best Buy, the Portege Z835-P330 is currently the cheapest of the news slim laptop category of ultrabooks, selling for just under $800. It also has a featherweight chassis, an unusually full feature set, and a long-lasting battery that will take you through an entire workday. Whether or not those highlights are enough to make you overlook its middling performance and mediocre graphics capability is up to you.

The Z835-P330’s solid feel is especially surprising given its size (0.6 by 14.4 by 8.9 inches, HWD) and weight just 2.4 pounds.

The Z835-P330 sports a 13.3 inch wide screen display, with 1,336 by 768 resolution. The screen is backlit (400 nits) for visibility in environments with lots of ambient light. It also offers fairly wide viewing angles, providing clear visibility for yourself and anyone else you want to share the screen with.

There’s very little room for air flow i this slim chassis, and during testing, the Toshiba got very hot up to 102-degree Fahrenheit on the keyboard and 110-degrees on the underside. Granted, our testing process may push the components a bit harder than the average user would, but you still might want to watch out for a possible case of toasted leg syndrome.

The Z835-P330 has a 128GB solid state drive (SSD), which is large enough to accommodate the operating system, a healthy number of programs, and a modest selection of media.

The Z835-P330 is equipped with a low voltage dual-core Intel Core i3-2367M processor paired with 4GB of RAM. It’s a significant step up from the AMD and Intel Atom CPUs found in traditional netbooks, but it’s not as powerful as the Core i5s that have appeared in the MacBook Air 13-inch, the Asus UX31, or the Acer S3.

The battery lasted 7 hours 35 minutes in testing period (PC MAG testing), a full hour longer than the 6:32 offered by the Asus UX31 (with a 50Wh battery), and an additional 2 hours longer than either the MacBook Air or Acer S3.

The Toshiba Portege Z835-P330 may not be the best ultrabook on the market, but it does stand out due to its light weight, exceptional feature set, and category leading battery life.

At last if you favor portability over performance, the Z835-P330 is a solid choice. [Brian Westover]

Technorati Tags: Toshiba Portege Z835-P330,Laptop,Ultrabook,MacBook Air,Acer S3,Lightest

Top 45 Free Apps for your iPad | PC Supporter

noreply@blogger.com (Shafqat Ullah) — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:52:00 +0000

Apps for the iPad tend to go for a higher price than their iPhone counterparts, but here we listed all free apps. Install them all, and you will be well on the way to an excellent tablet mobility computer experience.

SOCIAL NETWORKING APPS

TwetDeck for iPad

It may not support social networks such as Facebook or services having location-based facility inside like Foursquare app, but TweetDeck supports respectably Twitter reader with an intuitive interface and accurate geo-tagging options.

Twitter for iPad

Crafting new tweets may prove irritating due to an overcrowded screen, but this Twitter app for iPad is the best mobility Twitter client around, so get it today.

HootSuite

HootSuite allows users to create numerous social-network streams and view them in a clear/clean and friendly interface, dispatching messages to multiple networks simultaneously.

StumbleUpon

If you tried of visiting the same old online place, the beautifully revamped StumbleUpon app lets you Sam Beckett your way through the Web, leaping from article of interest to article on interest. You can also check out the specific links that have been submitted by fellow Stumblers whom you follow if you aren’t in the mood for randomness.

Yelp

Yelp’s iOS app brings the Web site’s reviews and recommendations to the iPad, but diehard Yelpers will miss a handful of features that didn’t get ported to Apple’s tablet.

BUSINESS & PRODUCTIVITY APPS

Calculator for iPad

Need to crunch some numbers? Calculator for iPad Free gives you a large, easy to read, attractive basic and scientific calculator for solving problems. Multi-Touch support lets you swipe away numbers. Upgrading to the 99-cent version adds six additional themes: Standard, Silver Keyboard, Retro Grey, Pink Keyboard, Happy Pink, and Wooden.

Citrix Go To My PC

GoToMyPC for iPad makes it simple to control your computer while away from your work area, but eh lack of multi-tasking support, and latency issues, may dampen the experience.

Dragon Dictation

Featuring very accurate voice transcription and the ability to share messages via e-mail, Facebook, and Twitter, Naunce’s dictation app is both fun to use and immensely helpful as long as you’re connected to the Web.

Dropbox for iPad

Simple to use and extremely useful, this file synchronization app will keep all of your files in step, but the lack of built-in file editing, and other limitations, may prove irritating.

Monster.com Jobs

Monster.com, one of the leading online employment services, makes job-hunting couch-compatible with its fun, free iPad app.

WordPress

One of the world’s biggest blogging paltforms has arrived on the iPad with many of the features that made it such a hit on the desktop intact, Bloggers can create, save, publish, and schedule posts and pages. You can even upload images directly from the iPad.

COMMUNICATION APPS

LiveChat

LiveChat customers who want to take the real-time Web site visitor communication tool on the road would do well to check out this handy iPad app. The free app, which works in conjunction with a LiveChat subscription, lets businesses communicate with visitors to solve customer-services issues or help convert them into customers.

TextNOW

This capable SMS app is easy to use, priced right, and features the ability to send free, unlimited texts, and embedded photos.

TextPlus

Prolific textures who want to save money on SMS messages will find this a solid solution to dipping into their mobile budgets.

GAMES APPS

Apple iOS Game Center

Game Center brings video-game achievements, matchmaking, high scores, and more to iOS devices.

Pro Zombie Soccer: Apocalypse Edition Lite

Far from just another sports sim, Pro Zombie Soccer: Apocalypse Edition Lite combines soccer, the undead, and wacky power ups into a must-try title.

Smurfs’ Village

Smurfs’ Village combines elements of Farmville and Sim City to create and engaging iPad game, but the impatient may find the in-app purchases expensive.

ENTERTAINMENT APPS

Cracked.com

If you count yourself among the many who declare themselves Cracked.com fans, you must own this app. It serves up the same snark-laden content found on the Cracked.com Web site, but in a slick interface that lets you quickly scan content.

Crackle

Crackle, Sony’s video network, lets users stream free, ad-supported Hollywood television shows and uncut movies (as well as original content) from Columbia Pictures, Screen Gems, Sony Pictures Classic, and TriStar Pictures, There’s a nice variety of classic and contemporary content here, making it a solid iPad app for anyone who would like to kick back with their tablets and watch a program without needing to open a wallet.

ESPN ScoreCenter XL

Staying on top of the latest sports scores is a breeze with ESPN ScoreCenter XL. Besides checking out the scores, you can view video highlights, in-depth game previews, and even follow a particular sport or team.

Marvel Comics

Here’s yet another example of some thing you can’t do with a Kindle: read comics in their colorful, crisply drawn glory. Marvel’s free iPad app offers a standard page-by-page view with zoom and pan controls, as well as a panel by panel, animated guided view. There’s also a fully integrated for buying your favorite comics.

MoMA AB EX NY

MoMA’s new Abstract Expressionist app achieves symbiosis with the iPad": if you’re an art enthusiast with an iPad, consider this app a must-download.

Netflix

This app enhances the value of a Netflix subscription by letting you watch movies directly on your mobile device, with excellent streaming. In the latest version, Netflix has made a number of improvements, like adding star recommendations and removing the status bar while titles are playing.

Planetary

This iPad audio player lets you navigate your music and podcast collections by taking a jaunt to stars (artists), planets (albums), and moons (songs). Intellectually, it’s completely unneeded, but sometimes logic doesn’t apply to pure coolness.

Showyou

If you fancy kicking back with your iPad and watching a batch of videos supplied by various online communities, Showyou is a solid alternative to signing into all the sites individually. There are some minor interface issues, but it’s a very respectable app that collects clips from around your community to your iPad in one unified location.

Slacker Radio

Slacker Radio’s iPad has been a long time coming, but the new, eye-catching, intuitive interface, deep customization options, caching, on-demand streaming, and the usual Slacker bells and whistles makes it a must-have for music fans.

TiVo

If you already have an iPad and TiVo Premiere, you must download the new TiVo app for your iPad. It’s free, and if you’re on your LAN, it’s pretty well featured.

CREATIVITY APPS

Photoshop Expres

The iPad is perfect for viewing photos, but what if you want to make changes to those pictures? Adobe’s Photoshop Express lets you crop, straighten, rotate and flip images, as well as add a variety of filters and effects. For fine editing you will still need to work on a PC, but for basic fixes, this app is fantastic.

NEWS, INFO & REFERENCE APPS

Biblion: The Boundless Encyclopedia

The word “biblion” was usedin the Middle Ages to describe collections made from fragments of ancient texts. As such, it’s appropriate that the New York Public Library’s iPad app, which draws from tens of thousands of fragments scattered across hundreds of boxes of materials, bears the moniker. The smartly designed and informative app focuses on the 1939-40 World’s Fair, but even non-enthusiasts can appreciate the history presented. Here’s hoping for a broader topic range in the near future.

Bing for iPad

Bing is a visually rich app that lets you search and browse news, moves, Bing homepage images, local businesses, and trending topics; perform vocal searches, and much more.

CNN

For news junkies and loyalists, CNN App for iPad serves up a heaping plate of streaming videos, and a side social networking.

Fox News

Love it or hate it, Fox News has an impressive iPad app. With it you can watch videos from Smith, Hannity, and O’Reilly, read timely articles, and check out a scrolling ticker with the latest news tidbits.

Epicurious

Conde Nast’s first iPad app for foodies-and mourning Gourmet readers is excellent. Epicurious features a gorgeous interface that feels and reads like a luxurious, fully searchable cookbook. You can find recipes by main ingredient, course, cuisine, dietary consideration, and dish type, and even by season or occasion.

Google Earth

Traveling is expensive, the free Google Earth app most certainly is not. By keying in a location such as “Coney Island” or “London”, you can zip to the other side of the globe in mere seconds to check out satellite and aerial imagery. Geo-located Wikipedia articles add insight to your journey.

IMDB

Featuring an image driven interface featuring movie trailers, popular actors, and a list of current theatrical releases, the IMDB iPad app is a must-have for movie buffs who want the latest Hollywood news.

HowStuffWorks HD

This app brings the content of the informative HowStuffWorks Web site to Apple’s slate. Its thumbnail-laden grid contans links to text, video, and podcasts that are short, punchy, and full of information.

Life for iPad

Life’s legendary photo collection comes to the iPad i glorious HD resolution. Downloading the free app, of course, lets you explore Life’s deep archives, but you can view up to the minute news, photos, and special features as well.

NASA App HD

Consider it the next best thing to being an astronaut or astronomer. NASA App HD features thousands of NASA photos, streaming video, shuttle launch information, and countdown clocks.

NPR for iPad

NPR went for a magazine style approach with its iPad app, which emphasizes news, arts and life, and music coverage in three sliding panes. The app delivers hundreds of NPR live station and on demand streams. In addition, NPR for iPad features photojournalism with full page zoom, plus the ability to share stories over e-mail, Twitter, and Facebook.

TED

TED’s official iPad app brings more than 900 TEDTalk videos (featuring education redicals, tech geniuses, medical mavericks, business gurus, music legends, and more) to Aple’s slate. Not only can you stream videos over 3G or Wi-Fi, but you can download them to your iPad for offline playback.

Thrillist

Whether you’re looking for a leisurely daytime adventure or a night on the town, this app brings you recommendations for places to eat, drink, and shop in 16 American cities and in London.

Wikipanion

Wikipanion for iPad sifts through all of Widipedia’s HTML and metadata, sorting it into a beautiful, content-driven interface. The left side displays the table of contents, and the app remembers your font-size setting. The app even tracks page history by visit date, plays back embedded OGG audio, and saves images to the iPad’s photo library.

Zite

Zite auto-curates a digital magazine based on content in your your Twitter feed, Google Reader subscription, and viewing habits to deliver an excellent news-reading experience.

READING APPS

Flipboard

Flipboard offers iPad users an entirely original alternative to browsing the Web for news: its magazine style layouts and breath-taking use of photos and white space show the way forward for digital media.

SkyGrid

Featuring a slick interface that gives users the novel ability to follow hot particular topics and categories, SkyGrid is a solid, topic-based iPad news reading app. Streamlining the interface a bit would do wonders to create a more natural reading experience, however.

CONTROL YOUR THERMOSTAT FROM YOUR PHONE

noreply@blogger.com (Shafqat Ullah) — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 08:07:00 +0000

Not planning to upgrade the office thermostat? Not even sure where it is? That’s about to change. The Nest ($249; www.nest.com) is a stylish, programmable thermostat that connects wirelessly to your network. Once the Nest is connected to your network, you can change settings and create a schedule via the Web or an app on your Android phone or iPhone. That’s right: You can change the temperature with a few taps on your phone. In fact, you don’t even need to do that: the Nest can use your daily adjustments to create its own schedule.

HP TouchSmart 610xt PC

noreply@blogger.com (Shafqat Ullah) — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:30:00 +0000

A More Tactile Computing Experience from HP | Intro

$1,099.00 [www.hp.com]

Hp’s TouchSmart line of touchscreen-enabled all-in-one PC makes using a desktop PC fun again. The TouchSmart 610 features a unique tilting 23-inch widescreen display that lets you use it like a traditional monitor and then tilt it back to use it like a tablet PC. It’s no performance slouch either: It has an Intel Second Generation Core i5 quad-core processor, a 1TB (terabyte) hard drive for media and documents, and 8GB of fast DDR3 (double-data-rate 3) memory that eases working with images, music, and video.

Beats Audio-infused software and audio hardware delivers a superior listening and viewing experience.
A slot-loading Blu-ray Disc play lets you run disc-based software and experience movies in all their HD glory.
An integrated Web cam, Wireless N, and Bluetooth ensure you’re connected and communicating.

Smart computing

5 Most Handy Questions about Smartphones

noreply@blogger.com (Shafqat Ullah) — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:45:00 +0000

The cloud refers to storage at a remote site accessible from the Internet instead of locally on your computer. Backing up data to the cloud is convenient because you can access it from anywhere…

Here are 5 most common questions about smartphones.

How is a Smarphone different from a standard cell phone?

There’s no official definition, but smartphones let you connect to the Internet, manage email, run software (called apps), and often have robust multimedia capabilities to play videos and music and let you take pictures and record video.

What is a “platform,” and why should I care?

A platform is the phone’s operating system (much like Windows is an operating system for PCs) and determines what features the phone has and what apps it runs. Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android are two examples. Because Apple controls both the operating system and production of the phones that use it, upgrading to the latest version of iOS is easy as long as your hardware is fast enough to support it. Android is different because each smartphone manufacturer using it can modify the core operating system and doesn’t always make updates of the latest version available to its customers.

What hardware specifications should I worry about?

The simple answer is to not get hung up on the specs and instead find a phone that does what you need it to do. Does it work with your email? Does it run the programs you want to use? Does it integrate with your existing services such as Netflix? Is it available from a carrier that provides great coverage in your area? Does it have adequate battery life for the type of things you plan to use it for? If the answer to any of those questions is no, it could be the fastest smartphone on the planet and be useless to you.

The said phones, with 1GB of RAM are nice because they can run multiple programs simultaneously more smoothly than can phones with less RAM. Also look for dual-core processors, as they can dramatically boost the speed of apps designed to take advantage of them. Finally, 16GB of memory is plenty for most users who don’t plan to haul enormous music or video libraries around with them, though 32GB or more is better if you plan to use a lot of apps, music, and video.

What’s the difference between 3G and 4G?

There refer to the speed of the cell carrier’s wireless data network. 3G stands for Third Generation standards and 4G for Fourth Generation standards. Each company implements these standards in different ways, so maximum speeds vary. In general, 4G networks let you download data at least 10 times faster than 3G networks do. This is great for nabbing large files or streaming high quality video, although battery life often takes a bit of a hit when 4G is activated.

Some smartphones will let me use the cloud for backup. What does that mean, and should I use that feature?

The cloud refers to storage at a remote site accessible from the Internet instead of locally on your computer. Backing up data to the cloud is convenient because you can access it from anywhere, and most companies employ encryption and backup redundancy to protect your data. If you don’t have an unlimited data plan, set up the cloud backup to only operate when the phone is connected to a Wi-Fi network. Otherwise, you risk blowing through your data plan without doing much of anything with the phone.

5 Smartphons that suits your needs

noreply@blogger.com (Shafqat Ullah) — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 12:15:00 +0000

Choosing a smartphones for your initial and entertainment needs is still not so easy to compromise with, because all the latest phones are ingenious, but make sure you get the right one to suit your needs, which are reviewed underneath category wise. Read and share if you like it.

Best for Apps

Apple iPhone 4s | £499 approx.

Apple is renowned for its huge app store – far bigger than those for Android and Windows – and its latest feature is another iPhone exclusive.

Siri, the voice controlled assistant, can intelligently recognize your spoken requests and source information from the web, working with WiFi and 3G. You can also dictate messages or notes with a simple tap of the microphone button, while future upgrades should enable Siri to locate nearby businesses such as restaurants and more.

Best for Business

BlackBerry Bold 9900 | £420 approx.

A 71mm touchscreen and an easy-to-use Qwerty keyboard make this BlackBerry, powered by a 1.2GHz processor, essential kit for business. Its notifications are configured to keep you on top of your workload and with BlackBerry Desktop Manager software, you can easily restore all your vital contacts from a previous model. It also has a chip for contactless payments – common in the US and growing in the UK – making it perfect for lunchtime meetings on the move.

Best for Adventure

Motorola Defy+ | £244.99 approx.

Now upgraded to be faster and last longer, the Defy+ remains the stand-out choice for any adventurer. It can survive being immersed 3ft (91cm) in water and its Corning Gorilla Glass is scratch and dust-proof. To further support your outdoor experience it comes with a preloaded Cardio Trainer app to monitor your progress, and with Motorola Media Link you can stream workout playlists from your desktops at home or work to enjoy wherever your travels take you.

Best for Music

HTC Sensation XE | £465.95 approx.

HTC has collaborated with Beats Audio to set the standard in mobile phone sound quality. The Sensation XE comes with bespoke earphones, which, when plugged in, tailor the phone’s EQ settings to the optimum sound profile for the music that’s playing. The result is a deeper bass and sharper vocals. The noise-cancelling microphones also improve cal quality and a 32GB microSD card adds to the phone’s 4GB of storage for your music collection.

Best for Camera

Samsung Galaxy SII | £409.99 approx

With its vast 109mm touchscreen and lightning fast dual-core 1.2GHz processor, this handset gets the best out of its camera without compromising the rest of its impressive features.

It has full HD video-recording capability and an 8-Megapixel camera with LED flash, assisted by a touch-to-focus function and multiple scene modes. It even has Flash-supported web browsing, so you can watch your clips on YouTube. It’s available free on a Vodafone contract.

5 Low Budget Digital Cameras | for Professionals

noreply@blogger.com (Shafqat Ullah) — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:48:00 +0000

5 Most worthy and stylish Digital Cameras review this year, you can gift someone | PC Supporter

Digital cameras are set to be the most beautiful and popular gifts this Christmas. As photography is a very common interest, selecting a perfect budget camera to gift someone, is still a hard work.

Here we shortly reviewed some of the best cameras of the market, which stands very worthy in the gift markets specially. Prices of all the cameras are taken from PC Advisor magazine of this month.

So here we select 5 digital cameras, most worthy in the market to date, for this review.

FujiFilm FinePix X100 | £ 999 inc VAT

The FujiFilm X100 is expensive, but there are enough committed camera fans out there for FufiFilm to have judged it worthwhile investing development resources in this fixed-lens camera.

The fully manual 12.3Mp camera is built from magnesium-alloy and has an APS-C sensor crammed in. The aperture, shutter speed and exposure compensation settings can all be checked before you switch on the X100. A 2.8in LCD offers an alternative viewing and composition option. There’s also a dedicated RAW button, which lets you switch between uncompressed shooting and processing mode.

The camera weighs 445g and is chunky 54mm thick, so you won’t want to take it out and about on the off-chance it will get used. It’s anything but a point-and-shoot model, and has plenty of quirks.

A less complex (and less expensive) model, the £ 560 FujiFilm FinePix X10, is also available in the market, but because of better output results, the FujiFilm X100 amply rewards.

Canon lxus 230 HS | £200 incl VAT

The Canon lxus is as beautiful a compact camera as you’re ever likely to searching for. It comes in black, silver, purple, brown or red colors, and physically is very slim, given the mechanics inside.

The follow-up model to last year’s popular 220 HS, it’s a 12.1Mp compact with a 28mm wide-angle lens and an 8x optical zoom. Compared with the zoom range of some of the compact cameras, the Canon’s is modest. However, the HS in its name refers to its combination of high speed and high sensitivity something that wouldn’t work well over a 15x zoom. The 22mm thick body would be hard pushed to accommodate a larger lens anyhow.

Controls are geared towards point-and-shoot photography, with a simple dial to adjust the zoom and an onscreen indicator if your hands are shaking. Video can be taken at 720p and has a dedicated record button. A switch that lets you change from automatic to manual operation resides on the right-hand side, while flash and macro options can be adjusted via a navipad on the rear. Other settings are changed via the onscreen menu.

As with other HS cameras (Canon offers lxus and PowerShot models with this feature), the 230 is capable of capturing blur-free photos under challenging low-light conditions, so you can take party shots without blinding everyone with the flash. Canon cites 210 shots before the battery needs to be recharged. Expect around 40 minutes of video footage to deplete the battery.

Kodak EasyShare Touch M5370 | £129 inc VAT

Not everyone wants to spend hundreds of pounds on a digital camera. The Kodak EasyShare M5370 packs in plenty for its £129 price tag. You get a 16Mp CCD, video capture, support for direct uploading to a range of photo-sharing websites and social networks, plus in-camera editing to finesse your images.

EasyShare software can automatically recognize that there’s someone in shot that looks a lot like a person in a pervious photo and suggest they might be one and the same. If so, the face detection and tagging beloved of Facebook form a formidable alliance and pre-tag your photos ready for uploading. When you next turn on the camera, it’ll group photos in the gallery by subject, making it faster to find the best photo of a particular person.

A 5x optical zoom, image stabilization and 20 scene presets all features on this likable budget and worthy and stylish camera.

Panasonic Lumix DMC-G2 | £360 inc VAT

Panasonic Lumix DMC-G2 is a great-value 12.1Mp Micro Four Third camera with a tilt-able 3in LCD touchscreen for image composition. This makes it easy to specify what you’d like the focal point of your photo to be.

A good range of scene presets and an intelligent Auto setting make for a shallow learning curve, while advanced options span aperture priority – from f3.5 to f5.6 – and adjustments to light levels. ISO settings from 100 up to 6400 are supported. For unusual compositions, in-camera effects can be applied.

The DMC-G2 can record video at 720p to the Blu-ray-compatible AVCHD format. The standard camera kit includes a 14-42mm lens.

Sony Cyber-Shot HX9V | £250 inc VAT

The best of the advanced compact cameras crop, the Sony Cyber-shot HX9V eschews manual settings, such as aperture priority and user controlled shutter speeds, and doesn’t support RAW file formats. Nonetheless, it produces excellent digital photographs the most important factor in any camera.

The Sony’s 16Mp CCD promises plenty of detail (we don’t advise buying a camera based on megapixel count alone, but this model is a safe bet) and there’s also a 16x optical zoom so you can capture extreme close-ups even from over the road. Dual-image stabilization helps ensure shots are crisp.

All that zooming in ought to pound the batter but the CIPA rating for the HX9V is an outstanding 410 shots between charges. Really, though, it’s the 3D capabilities of this camera that will astound.

Rounding this off are support for geo-location tagging and some clever in-camera trickery to make the most of your photo artistry.

Rainbow 6 Patriots | Xbox–PC Game

noreply@blogger.com (Shafqat Ullah) — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 13:07:00 +0000

Ubisoft presents Tom Clancy’s Rainbow 6 Patriots, a self-motivated single-player action and ground-breaking co-op and multiplayer experiences for fans of the strategic shooter progression.

Team Rainbow countenance a new and very real hazard called the "True Patriots," a highly-trained, well-organized innovative cluster that says the American government is permanently ruined by greedy politicians and corporate special benefit. The True Patriots will do whatever it takes to retrieve their country. Playing as Rainbow, players will face serious set-ups that will require them to make tough principled judgments in order to stop this new strain of terrorists.

In calculation to the immersive single-player action, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow 6 Patriots will bring-in a huge variety of new innovative co-op and multi-player experiences. Players will be pleased for working as a team and mastering the game’s new skin tone that enhances communication and strategic implementation between team-mates. Victory will come from a blend of split-second conclusion making and working to synchronize attacks against the enemy.

According to the Ubisoft target footage of Rainbow 6 Patriots, the game will be release in 2013. As Ubisoft reveals target footage of the new tactical shooter game “Rainbow 6 Patriots” and shows off gameplay, here is the IGN’s Game footage video.

As progressing-up we will update you with more reviews & videos related to this big blast game of the year 2013. But one thing for sure, revealing the game’s footage so earlier can make this game very popular in-between the gamers on PC & Xbox both. I will also recommend you all the fans to Register here for updates of the game.

Here is the Game footage video from IGN.

Rainbow 6 Patriots | Xbox–PC Game

According to Ubisoft, The Tom Clancy’s Rainbow 6 Patriots is due for release on the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system and Windows PC in 2013. Ubisoft is mentioning in the official website of the Tom Clancy’s Rainbow 6 Patriot’s that “Tom Clancy’s Rainbow 6 franchise has sold more than 25 million copies worldwide and has been hailed as one of the best first-person shooter series of all time. The games are known for depicting high-tech counter-terrorist operations set within the Tom Clancy’s game world. With Tom Clancy’s Rainbow 6 Patriots, Ubisoft is building upon the success of the franchise while also taking it in a bold new direction.”

They also mentioned that “Terrorism has evolved, and so has Rainbow 6. In Tom Clancy’s Rainbow 6 Patriots, all the team play, tactics, and realism that fans of the series love have been coupled with an exciting new narrative direction,” said David Sears, creative director at Ubisoft. “This adds an unprecedented level of humanity that will make Tom Clancy’s Rainbow 6 Patriots an extremely tense and immersive experience.”

Still some fans are searching for the Game Requirements for Tom Clancy’s Rainbow 6 Patriots, but nothing is officially published by the developers of the Game, and do not believe anyone who is trying to advise you to upgrade your PC for the Game, so stay tuned.

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The Future of Malware | News

noreply@blogger.com (Shafqat Ullah) — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:15:00 +0000

The future of Malware | News from “PCadvisor.com”

Security breaches look set to bet worse as hacker groups target smartphones and social media and release more information online. Jeff Vance reports.

Personal information leaked online is becoming an all too common occurrence. For example, Sony suffered a massive breach of its PlayStation Network earlier this year that led to the theft of names, addresses and possibly credit-card data belonging to 77 million users.

If you think the situation is bad now, just wait. Things will get worse as more information is dumped online by mischievous hacker groups such as Anonymous, and cybercriminals begin to target smartphones and social media.

In August, AntiSec (a collaboration between Anonymous and the disbanded LulzSec group) released more than 10GB of information from 70 US law-enforcement agencies. According to Todd Feinman, CEO of DLP vendor Identity Finder, AntiSec wasn’t motivated by money.

“AntiSec doesn’t like how various law-enforcement agencies operate and it’s trying to embarrass and discredit them,” he said.

But, he added, what it doesn’t realize is that when it publishers sensitive persona information, it’s helping low-skilled cybercriminals commit identity theft. Every week, another government department or business has its records breached – some 250,000 to 500,000 each year, estimated Feinman. Few details from those breaches are published online for all to see, however.

While certain high-profile attacks, such as the one on Sony, are intended to embarrass and spark change, the US law-enforcement breach could represent a shift in hacker thinking. AntiSec’s motivations appear to have a key difference, with the attackers consciously considering collateral damage as a strategic weapon. According to Feinman, AntiSec wrote online; “We don’t care about collateral damage. It will happen, and so be it.”

Social Networking

Experts say the future of malware is more about how potential victims will be targeted than how it will be engineered. Collateral damage won’t be limited to innocents compromised through no fault of their own.

Have you ever accepted a friend request on Facebook or connected to someone on Linkedin you don’t know? Perhaps you thought it was someone from school you’d forgotten about, or a former colleague whose name had slipped your mind. Not wanting to seem rude, you accepted them as a friend and quickly forgot about it. “When people make trust decisions with social networks, they don’t always understand the ramifications. Today, you are far more knowable by someone who doesn’t know you than ever,” said Kr Hugh Thompson, program chair of RSA Conferences.

We all know people who discuss everything they do on a social network or blog, from eating their breakfast to clipping their toenails. While most of us consider these people a nuisance and may hide their status updates, cybercriminals love them.

“Password-reset questions are easy to guess, and tolls such as Ancystry.com, while not created for this purpose, provided hackers with useful information,” said Thompson.

There are a few areas he believes the IT security industry needs to concentrate on: security for social media, ways to manage the information shared about you, and better methods for measuring evolving risks.

Enterprise Targets

Fake security software is the most common type of social-engineering attack that researchers at Blue Coat Systems come across. Chirs Larsen, head of the lab, explained that social network’s aren’t being used only to target individuals.

Larsen outlined a recent attack attempt where hackers targeted executives of a major corporation through their spouses.

The chances were at least one of the businessmen would have a poorly secured home PC that he shared with his non-tech-savvy wife. This would provide the backdoor needed to gain access to the company.

“Whaling is definitely on the rise,” said Paul Wood, senior intelligence analyst for Symantec.cloud. “Just a couple years ago, we saw one or two of these sorts of attacks per day. Today, we catch as many as 80.”

According to Wood, social engineering is by far the most potent weapon in the cybercriminal’s toolbox (automated, widely available malware and hacking toolkits are number two). Combine that with the fact that many senior executives circumvent IT security because they want the latest and trendiest devices, and cybercriminals have many valuable, easy-to-hit targets in their sights.

“Attacks on small businesses are increasingly dramatic because they are usually the weakest link in a larger supply chain,” said Wood.

There’s no sure way to defend against this. Until companies start scrutinizing the cyber-security of their partners and suppliers, they can’t say with any certainty whether or not they themselves are secure. While it’s common for large firms to keep a close eye on their suppliers, with factory visits that result in the implementation of an array of ‘best practices’, companies aren’t doing this when it comes to cyber-security.

Smartphone Threats

Smartphone threats are on the rise, but we’ve yet to see a major incident. This is partly due to platform fragmentation. Malware creators still get better results by targeting PCs or websites.

Larsen believes that platform-agnostic, web-based worms represent the new frontier of malware. Platform-agnostic malware lets legitimate developers do same of the heavy lifting for malware writers. As developers re-engineer sites and apps to work on a variety of devices, hackers can then target the HTML, XML, Jpegs and so on that render on any device anywhere.

Mobile phones are serving as a second identity factor for all sorts of corporate authentication schemes. Businesses that used to rely on hard tokens, such as RSA SSecureID, are moving to soft tokens, which can reside on mobile phones roaming beyond the corporation as easily as on PCs ensconced within corporate walls.

“Two-factor authentication originally emerged because people couldn’t trust computers. Using mobile phones as an identity factor defeats two-factor authentication,” said Marc Maiffret, CTO of eEye Digital Security.

Today, Android is the big smartphone target, but don’t be surprised if attackers soon turn their attention to the iPhone – especially if third-party antivirus programs become more or less standard on Android devices. iPhone demographics are appealing to attackers, and security experts will tell you that Apple products are notoriously insecure.

Apple is reluctant to provide third-party security entities with the kind of platform access they need to improve the security of iPhones, iPads, MacBook Airs and so on. “Apple is very much on its own with security,” said Maiffret. “It almost mirrors late-90s Microsoft, and it’ll probably take a major incident or two to incite change.”

If we’ve learned anything about security in the past 20 years, it’s that another major incident is always looming just over the horizon. With the number of IP-connected devices climbing to anywhere from 50 billion to a Trillian in the next five to 10 years, tomorrow’s hackers could target anything from home alarms and air traffic-control systems to flood control in dams.

AMD 8-CORE Processor for Laptops | PC Supporter

noreply@blogger.com (Shafqat Ullah) — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 11:10:00 +0000

PC Advisor | December

AMD 8-Core CPUs to Boost Laptop Speed | an Overview

Bulldozer processors to rival Intel’s powerful Core i7-990X Extreme Edition.

AMD is promising faster performance for laptop and desktop PCs with eight-core processors that feature its Bulldozer architecture.

The FX-8150 and FX-8120 are the first Bulldozer processors to hit the market, and offer a speed boost of more than 50 percent compared to previous AMD chips.

Both belong to the re-launched FX chip family, which is aimed at gaming and high-end systems.

The FX-8150 has a base speed of 3.6GHz, which rockets to 4.2GHz in turbo mode. The FX-8120, meanwhile, runs at 3.1GHz as standard and 4GHz under load. Built using the 32-nanometer manufacturing process, AMD said the chips are unlocked and customizable.

“AMD has historically been about total performance and not thought to be competitive in terms of power efficiency.” said Rob Enderle, as analyst with the Enderie Group. “Bulldozer is a redesign from the ground up. It aims to put AMD back in the race for power efficiency, specifically with laptop computers.”

AMDs chips will rival Intel’s high-end Core i7-990X Extreme Edition processor, which is based on the firm’s Westmere architecture. However, Intel will soon launch an even faster Extreme Edition chip that’s based on its Sandy Bridge architecture.

Dan Olds, an analyst with The Gabriel Consulting Group, said the power boost and extra cores have a lot to offer high-end computer users. With a retail price of 199 pounds, these eight-core chips can also offer consumers more cores per pound than anything on the market today.

But while AMD’s new processors stand to put the company back in the game, Olds said they aren’t “Sandy Bridge killers”, AMD still has a lot of catching up to do, he noted.

ARM Processors to increase Smartphone efficiency

noreply@blogger.com (Shafqat Ullah) — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:39:00 +0000

ARM Processors to increase Smartphone efficiency | PC Supporter

Smartphones will no longer have to compromise between performance and battery life. ARM’s A7 microprocessor uses the company’s most energy-efficient chip design to date, and will bring improved performance to entry level smartphones.

Used alongside the forthcoming Cortex A15 in the ‘big.Little’ power-saving architecture, the A7 will also feature in high-end smartphones.

By combining two types of core on the same chip, and assigning different applications to each depending on their requirements, ARM said it can resolve the conflict between the need for both higher performance and longer battery life.

big.Little can reduce power consumption by 70 percent, according to ARM. Gaming and video playback is performed on the more powerful A15 chip, while tasks that require less power, such as making a phone call, are assigned to the A7 to conserve power.

The A7 will be manufactured using a 28-nanometer process; combined with architectural improvements, this will make the processor one-fifth the size, with one-fifth the power consumption, compared with today’s Cortex A8 processor. But the A7 will still give a 50 percent performance boost compared to the A8, according to the company.

The big.Little architecture will have a die size of less than 0.5 square millimeters and draw less than 500 mill-watts of power, said Nandan Nayampally, director of marketing for the ARM processor division.

Furthermore, the A7 and the A15 will have identical features sets, so software applications will run on both cores without modification.

ARM’s designs are licensed and manufactured by companies such as Texas Instruments, Broadcom and Freescale. The chip makers are expected to produce the first A7 parts next year, and smartphone makers will begin fitting them to devices soon after that. It may take chip makers a little longer to implement the combined A7-A15 design, but ARM said this could also appear in smartphones by 2013.

Top 20 Free Android Apps | Download Now

noreply@blogger.com (Shafqat Ullah) — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 11:02:00 +0000

If you are a long-time Android user,

Some of these apps will look familiar, although in a few cases, the best apps in a certain class aren’t necessarily the ones that have been most popular for a stretch of time. New comers are supplanting some tried and true favorites.

As Android apps grow, so will our list, so stay tuned for updates to the Blog. http://software-review2010.blogspot.com

Dolphin Browser HD | Download Now

Dolphin Browser HD is a veritable trickster of a mobile browser. You can change this Android app’s look and feel through custom themes, add capability with Add-ons, or even navigate by gesture. When you encounter a pesky mobile site, you can don a disguise, for example, you can masquerade as an iPad – to unlock the un-cropped page. Flummoxed by Flash? No more, so long as you’re running Dolphin and Android versions 2.2. The browser lacks a full syncing service, but it does support Google Bookmarks.

Google Maps | Download Now

Whenever I ask people to name their five favorite Android apps, “Google something” almost always makes the list. Google Maps may be one of the most popular of the Android apps from Google. A few of its signature features, such as navigation and layers, work better on Android than most other mobile operating systems. It’s indispensible for finding addresses, service providers nearby, and just for simply getting around.

Wikidroid for Wikipedia | Download Now

Looking up information on a smartphone should not only be easy, but also something you do frequently. Otherwise, what’s the point of having so much data at your finger tips? Wikidroid pulls articles from Wikipedia and optimizes their display for easy reading and searching from your mobile phone. The app has elegant search functionality, too.

LastPass Password Manager Premium | Download Now

LasPass manages and fills in your user names and passwords for you automatically. You’ll only have to remember one password ever again: the one to get into LastPass, so make it strong. Another advantage of using a password manager is it ensures you use a different password for all the sites you visit, as recycling passwords leaves you prone to identity theft and other online crimes.

Wheres My Droid | Download Now

How many times have you claimed your phone was stolen, only to find it, days later, wedged between the couch cushions, muffled from ringing loud enough to hear when you called it? If you are prone to losing your phone, Wheres My Droid will put your mind at ease. The app helps people find their lost or stolen Android phones by forcing it to ring at maximum volume or vibrate when the phone receives a text message containing a specified phrase, such as “Where’s my Droid?” The app can also tell you the phone’s location, as long as its GPS is enabled.

Dropbox for Android | Download Now

If your files live all over the place, your office computer, home desktop, laptop – having a dependable syncing program is a must. Dropbox, the service that lets you store your files in the cloud and access them from anywhere you have a signal, fills that role nicely with an Android app. It has a simple interface, easy uploading, and swift syncing across all accounts.

Astrid Task [Todo List] | Download Now

Many Android users gravitate to Astrid because it is, quite simply, the best list maker and task manager that exist for Android phones. Astrid has all of the features every list-maker needs, including due dates and alarms, and it also conveniently syncs with Google Tasks. Unfortunately, it doesn’t sync with Remember the Milk, although it used to.

Yelp for Android | Download Now

The most comprehensive review app, Yelp turns out to be a pretty invaluable tool for finding businesses nearby, especially when you’re in a town you don’t know well. Yelp’s mobile app has helped me find a hairdresser when I was in a pinch in Washington D.C., and a suitable lunch while driving through Ohio. The quality of the reviews can be touch and go but for finding businesses and services, and vetting out ones that are very poorly received, Yelp’s the app you need.

Facebook for Android | Download Now

Social networks thrive with a reliable app, and Facebook for Android is undeniably solid. The Android app has the quintessential, familiar, Facebook-branded interface, but it also offers some unique functionality that’s absent in Facebook’s iPhone app. This includes a side-scrolling preview pane of recently shared photos in the dashboard area. Very cool.

Twitter for Android | Download Now

The best app for Twitter is Twitter. Plenty of third-party Twitter apps and social media aggregators have graced the Android Marketplace, some with pretty terrible performance track records, but the one that works best is Twitter’s own. Starting with version (2.1.2), Twitter for Android adds support for multiple accounts as well as optional push notifications (alerts that appear on your phone similar to an alarm or incoming text message), two features that had been sorely lacking prior to this release. A clean user experience and smart design doesn’t hurt either. Best of all, if you don’t have a Twitter account and aren’t interested in joining, you can still use the app to search and read the site.

ooVoo Video Calls | Download Now

Stable and reliable video chat apps for Android aren’t easy to come by, but ooVoo is terrific. The Android video chat app supports group video, voice calls, and instant messaging – across iOS, OSX, Android, and Windows! Not only do you get solid Android video calling, but you can practically video chat with anyone.

IMO Instant Messenger | Download Now

Multi-purpose instant message apps can falter on mobile phones, crashing frequently or draining the phone’s battery. While it’s not perfect, IMO Instant Messenger is by far one of the lesser offenders. Android reason it’s better than some others is it supports instant messaging across an impressive 11 networks: MSN, Yahoo!, AIM/ICQ, Google Talk, Myspace, Skype, Facebook, Jabber, imo, VKontakte, and Hyves.

Movies App for Android from Flixter | Download Now

Movies, by Flixster (some people know the app better by the developer’s name), puts theater times, release dates for movies and DVDs, film reviews, and trailers in the palm of your hand. If, for example, you need to know the exact date that A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas will be hitting theaters, Movies can confirm the November 4, 2011, release. By default, the app pulls movie ratings from Rotten Tomatoes, although you can override this feature if perhaps you don’t think The 400 Blows deserves a 100 percent critics’ approval rating. You’d be wrong, but you can do it.

Angry Birds for Android | Download Now

There’s just no denying that Angry Birds has been the hit game across mobile devices. The casual puzzle game challenges you to destroy structures by flinging crotchety little birds at it using a giant slingshot. The franchise has dozens of titles, like Angry Birds Rio and Angry Birds Seasonal, but the original Angry Birds is the one to download to your Android phone first. (Also see The Best Free Android Games.)

Words with Friends Free | Download Now

The Scrabble-like game from Zynga, Words with Friends, is among the most popular mobile social games around. If you own an Android phone but your friends are on other devices, such as iPhones or iPads, you can still challenge them to head-to-head wordplay, as it doesn’t matter on which platform your opponents are playing. While some Android users have reported stability problems with the game, Words with Friends is in such high demand that most people will grin and bear it, especially since it’s free.

Kindle for Android | Download Now

Read books, magazines, and newspapers right on your Android phone without ever buying an e-reader. The Kindle app is by far the most popular reading app in the Android Marketplace because it gives you access to buy or download for free hundreds of thousands of books, and more than 100 different newspapers and magazines. And while some users have complained that they can’t uninstall Kindle once they’ve downloaded the app, it is possible (but it takes a little effort).

NOOK for Android by B&N | Download Now

Anti-Amazon book lovers might prefer an app by Barnes & Noble for reading on their Android phones. NOOK and Kindle largely do the same thing (give you access to an impressive library of books newspapers, magazines, and other things to read), although their interfaces and experiences are different. Whether you like Amazon or B&N is largely a matter of personal preference. The NOOK feels a little more graceful in its design, whereas the Kindle app looks more utilitarian.

Pandora Internet Radio for Android | Download Now

Of the music streaming apps available to Android phone owners Pandora steals hearts for having very good quality streaming even over a 3G signal. Newcomers to the Android arena, including Slacker Radio and Spotify, are earning more and more market share every day, but Pandora tends to be the most reliable, likely because it has a longer history running on Android.

FxCamera App for Android | Download Now

Not every smartphone running Android has a great camera, so get better photos with the help of software. FxCamera adds filters and effects, like “toy” and fisheye lens, to enhance even modest pictures. It also helps to arm yourself with some additional tips for getting better photos from your phone.

ESPN Score Center for Android | Download Now

ESPN’s free app lets you check the game quickly, and discreetly when necessary (with your phone under the dinner table, (for example). Sports fans of all stripes will find this app useful; it covers more sports types than most other sports and news apps out there. It can pull game data from baseball, basketball, American football, the sport the rest of the world calls football (soccer), ice hockey, cricket, rugby, and more. For stat lovers, ScoreMobile is a fine option, but only if it has the sport you follow, as it misses a few, like rugby and boxing.

Nikon Coolpix S6150 | Imaging Device Review

noreply@blogger.com (Shafqat Ullah) — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 06:41:00 +0000

Touch Screen Controls, fantastic value and great features make the Nikon Coolpix S6150 a tempting buy.

Key features:

16MP

Optical 7 x zoom, 7.5 cm (3in), approx 460k-dot

Wide-viewing angle TFT LCD screen

720p video

Peer into the core of the Nikon Coolpix S6150 and you’ll find a 16MP CCD sensor with Nikon’s Expeed C2 image processing system, which promises enhanced 720p HD video recording and high sensitivity performance.

Motion detection and lens-shift vibration reduction help to compensate for camera shake, and Nikon’s Best Shot Selector choose the sharpest image from a swquence of 10. The emphasis here is on automatic operation 19 scene modes and a scene auto selector will appeal to those who prefer to simply point and shoot. The Smart Portrait mode offers a range of useful features, including skin softening, blink warning and smile shutter. You can further improve shots via the Retouch menu, Nikon’s D-Lightning contrast adjustment is probably the most useful.

As you’d expect from Nikkor ED glass, the versatile 5-35mm zoom on the Nikon Coolpix S6150 delivers sharp images with plenty of detail.

Images exhibit a hint of grittiness even at the lowest ISO settings when viewed at 100 percent, although you won’t notice it unless printing is pushed to extremes.

Colors are generally accurate, occasionally erring on the warm side. 720p movies from the Nikon Coolpix S6150 are good, appearing smooth and finely detailed. Filming controls are limited though you can only change autofocus, white balance and wind noise reduction. The stereo microphone has a tendency to pick up the sound of the zoom.

It’s slim but sturdy build, rubberized finish, raised lens mount and thumb rests provide confident, assured handling. The touch screen is less tactile, although it does make pictures look glorious. Most importantly, the Nikon Coolpix S6150 can produce detailed, balanced images.

PC Plus [Marcus Hawkins]

Nikon J1 | Compact Size

noreply@blogger.com (Shafqat Ullah) — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 06:55:00 +0000

Source: PC Magazine - November 2011

It’s Compact, But Focuses and Fires Like a D-SLR.

Nikon’s J1 marks the company’s entry into the compact interchangeable lens camera market. Nikon’s J1 is not that much larger than a point and shoot, but manages to capture sharp images and focuses and fires faster than many D-SLRs, even though its image sensor and lenses are much smaller.

The J1’s included zoom lens covers a 3x zoom range, matching the field of view of the lens included with our Editor’s Choice Sony Alpha NEX-C3. The NEX-C3’s larger sensor packs more pixels and delivers best in-class low-light performance, but if you are put off by its larger lens, which is closer in size to that bundled with most D-SLRs, the J1 is worth a close look.

The J1 measures 2.4 by 4.2 by 1.2 inches (HWD), and weighs 8.3 ounces without a lens. The included 10-30mm kit lens is collapsible, which helps to conserve some room in your bag. Thanks to the compact optics, J1 is also noticeably smaller than the Sony NEX-C3, which features a kit lens that is the same size as that of a standard D-SLR.

The J1 is a compact speed demon. Although it is hindered by a just-ok 1.8 sec and start up speed, autofocus speed is excellent, the camera is able to lock onto a subject in about three-tenths of a second.

Shutter lag is virtually non-existent; we measured it at 0.04 seconds when the lens was pre-focused.

Nikon’s J1 is a very good choice if you are looking for a compact camera that delivers D-SLR-level performance. It offers a manual shooting mode that will satisfy serious photographers, and its burst-shooting capability and Smart Photo Selector mode make it possible for almost anyone to capture the perfect shot. But some shooters may feel limited by its fixed rear LCD and lack of a hot shoe or accessory port, which makes it impossible to use an EVF or a better flash. The same-priced Sony Alpha NEX-C3 offers a larger image sensor, and accessory port, and a tilting LCD.

Jim Fisher