Nokia Unveils The N97

Nokia has unveiled the Nokia N97 calling it the world's most advanced mobile computer.
Designed for Internet-savvy consumers, the Nokia N97 features a large 3.5" touch display with a full QWERTY keypad.

"From the desktop to the laptop and now to your pocket, the Nokia N97 is the most powerful, multi-sensory mobile computer in existence," said Jonas Geust, Vice President, heading Nokia Nseries. "Together with the Ovi services announced today, the Nokia N97 mobile computer adjusts to the world around us, helping stay connected to the people and things that matter most. With the Nokia N97, Nseries leads the charge in helping to transform the Internet into your Internet".

With the new concept of 'social location', the N97 with integrated A-GPS sensors and an electronic compass, intuitively understands where it is. The Nokia N97 makes it easy to update social networks automatically with real-time information, giving users the ability to update their 'status' and share their 'social location' as well as related pictures or videos.

The N97 features both physical QWERTY and virtual touch input and its 16:9 widescreen display can be fully personalized with frequently updated widgets of favorite web services and social networking sites while.

The Nokia N97 supports up to 48 GB of storage, including 32 GB of on-board memory, expandable with a 16 GB microSD card, has full support for the Nokia Music Store and features continuous playback time of up to 1.5 days. The Nokia N97 also has a 5-Megapixel camera with high-quality Carl Zeiss optics, 16:9 and DVD quality video capture, and support for services like Share on Ovi for immediate sharing over HSDPA and WLAN.

The Nokia N97 is expected to begin shipping in the first half of 2009 at an estimated retail price of EUR 550 before taxes or subsidies.



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Google Desktop : On-Screen Ruler

Description :

A ruler gadget that helps you align your on-screen elements, and measure the number of pixels between them. Double-clicking on the solid handle of the ruler rotates it by 90 degrees clockwise.






Options :

• Ruler Thickness - Thickness of the ruler in pixels. (Acceptable values are between 50 pixels and 150 pixels.

• Ruler Length - Length of the ruler in pixels. (Acceptable values are between 200 pixels and the screen width.)

• Division Size - Number of pixels between each division marking. (Acceptable values are between 10 and 100.)

• Major Marking Interval - Number of divisions between each major division marking. (Acceptable values are between 5 and 20.)

• Colour - Colour of the ruler and its markings. Select from black or white

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Google Lively is shutdown

from googleblog :

In July we launched Lively in Google Labs because we wanted users to be able to interact with their friends and express themselves online in new ways. Google has always been supportive of this kind of experimentation because we believe it's the best way to create groundbreaking products that make a difference to people's lives. But we've also always accepted that when you take these kinds of risks not every bet is going to pay off.

That's why, despite all the virtual high fives and creative rooms everyone has enjoyed in the last four and a half months, we've decided to shut Lively down at the end of the year. It has been a tough decision, but we want to ensure that we prioritize our resources and focus more on our core search, ads and apps business. Lively.com will be discontinued at the end of December, and everyone who has worked on the project will then move on to other teams.

We'd encourage all Lively users to capture your hard work by taking videos and screenshots of your rooms.

Spice up your Gmail inbox with colors and themes

Gmail fans have been building unofficial extensions to spice up their inboxes for a while, but up til now themes haven't been an integral part of Gmail. We wanted to go beyond simple color customization, so out of the 30 odd themes we're launching today, there's a shiny theme with chrome styling, another one that turns your inbox into a retro notepad, nature themes that change scenery over time, weather driven themes that can rain on your mailbox, and fun characters to keep you in good company. There's even an old school ascii theme (Terminal) which was the result of a bet between two engineers -- it's not exactly practical, but it's great for testing out your geek cred. We've also done a minor facelift to Gmail's default look to make it crisper and cleaner -- you might notice a few colors and pixels shifted around here and there.

Google Introducing the T-Mobile G1

The first Android-powered phone

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Test Your Connection Speed on speedtest.net

Speedtest.net is a broadband connection analysis tool with a huge selection of geographically dispersed testing servers. Ookla provides this service free to hundreds of thousands of people every day. If you are experiencing slowness with your Internet connection or are simply interested in testing your speed, Speedtest.net is for you. If you have a web site, please feel free to link to Speedtest.net.

Speedtest.net measures the performance of your broadband connection. At the end of each test, you are presented with the download (the speed of data from the server to your computer) and upload (the speed of sending data from your computer to the server) bandwidth speeds. The tests are performed completely within your web browser over HTTP (just like normal web browsing). If you experience any problems using Speedtest.net, please visit our Questions & Answers section for help.

The technology behind Speedtest.net is identical to that of the Ookla Speed Test which is provided to a wide variety of companies and organizations on a licensed basis. Collectively, the application is used over eight million times each month by millions of individuals worldwide. If you would like to have a Speed Test to install and run on your server, please visit our licensing site. We have a variety of options from basic to highly customized.

At Ookla we are focused on building and operating cross-platform web applications that are reliable, accurate, scalable and matched with an attractive and useful user-interface. We are currently working on additional connection diagnostic tools for specialized applications such as VoIP and future network environments where the individual may have have multiple wired and wireless connections to a variety of devices. Learn more here.

Google Notebook, Clip and collect information as you browse the web.

Use Google Notebook to save recipes, gift ideas and interesting articles you find while browsing. Get them later from any computer by visiting www.google.com/notebook

Researching an upcoming trip or purchase? Use notebooks to organize and share your work. Clip reviews and deals and then add your friends under "sharing options."

Take a tour...




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Yahoo! Messenger for Vista (BETA)

Experience a specialized interface that harnesses the power of Windows Vista

Connect with friends free with SMS messaging and PC-to-PC calling

Get new mail alerts and customized notifications when select friends are online

Choose the amount of detail you want to see about your friends with Contact Zooming

Edit text while you write with an as-you-type spell checker

Send enhanced emoticons and monster files (up to 2GB)

Change skins for the entire IM window or individual conversations

Learn more from Yahoo!..
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Nimbuzz Survey, Win a Nokia E51!

Nimbuzz is happy to announce that Nimbuzz launched a new survey with a chance for you to win a Nokia E51. Nimbuzz want to get to know YOU better. With this survey, Nimbuzz is hoping to understand what is most important to you and what features Nimbuzz should focus on next. Nimbuzz is working to create the best mobile messenger. As an incentive, 5 survey participants will be chosen at random to receive a new, shiny, gift-wrapped Nokia E51 mobile phone, for completing the 5 minute survey. So c’mon and take the survey already! :) The survey will end on the 22nd of October. Lucky winners will be contacted and mentioned on the official Nimbuzz blog in the Nimbuzzek of October 20th. Thank you in advance. Nimbuzz invite you to take Nimbuzz's survey.

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NVIDIA & Adobe: Creatively Partnered

Together, NVIDIA^® and Adobe^® are transforming the way the world engages with ideas and information through visual computing. From rich images in print, video, and film, to dynamic digital content for a variety of media, NVIDIA GPU-accelerated Adobe solutions can be enjoyed by anyone who creates and interacts with visual information.

Unleash your creativity with NVIDIA graphics solutions designed for the artistically inclined home user to the highly trained professional video and digital artist.

With built-in NVIDIA® GPU acceleration, the new Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 enables a faster, more natural way of working with images, while improving quality and productivity.

Adobe Creative Suite 4 features a variety of creative applications, including Adobe Photoshop® CS4, which automatically detect the presence of an NVIDIA Quadro® or GeForce® GPU and use the processor to speed a number of visually intensive operations.

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Nero 9 : Simply Create, Rip, Burn, Copy, Share, Back Up, Play, and Enjoy

Nero 9 is the next generation of the world’s most trusted integrated digital media and home entertainment software suite. It features new cutting-edge functionality that makes enjoying digital media content simple.

This easy-to-use yet powerful multimedia suite, gives you the freedom to create, rip, copy, burn, edit, share, and upload online. Whatever you want – music, video, photo, and data – enjoy and share with family and friends anytime, anywhere.

With easy-to-use Nero StartSmart command center, your digital life has never been more flexible, feasible, and fun.

Nero 9 Highlights:

• Fast and easy rip, burn, Autobackup, and copy functions
• Backup files to CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray Discs*
• Create professional-looking DVD movies with integrated 3D menus
• Copy, burn, share, upload, and create music mixes like a DJ
• Convert music, photos, and DVDs to play on your iPod® and other mobile devices
• Quick photo and video upload to My Nero, YouTube™, and MySpace
• Watch, record, pause, and customize your live TV experience
• Play AVCHD and other HD formats

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Sony Ericsson launches PlayNow™ plus - unlimited music download service

24 September 2008 PlayNow™ plus to launch with Telenor in Sweden in fourth quarter this year

Lund, Sweden—September 24th 2008—Sony Ericsson today announced the launch of PlayNow™ plus, which will offer users the ultimate mobile music experience with the freedom to discover, download, play and recommend unlimited amounts of music wherever they are and whenever they like, directly over the mobile data network.

PlayNow™ plus is due to set a new standard for the unlimited music experience on a mobile with unrivalled download speeds, high-quality audio and access to the largest music catalogue of any unlimited download service. Sony Ericsson’s PlayNow™ plus music service guarantees ‘all-you-can-eat’ unlimited access to millions of music tracks.

PlayNow™ plus is very easy to use, with millions of songs available on your PC or phone at the click of a button. No need for cables, PlayNow™ plus offers simplicity and a great out of box experience with 1000 of the best selling songs already in the phone. learn more...

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Microsoft Environment : How Green is Your PC

Product Overview

Verdiem’s Edison is a free energy-monitoring application for eco-conscious consumers. You can use it to more actively control your PC’s energy consumption — and subsequently your household’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.

Feature Summary

Made for Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Vista PC users, Verdiem’s Edison enhances the operating systems’ existing power settings with increased overall energy savings and provides a consumer-friendly user interface that makes it easy to set up and manage. Endorsed by Microsoft and Climate Savers, Verdiem’s Edison enables consumers to measure, monitor, and manage their PC energy efficiency in an effort to reduce carbon emissions.

Features include:

• Scheduling. Identify work and non-work schedules to optimize power schemes based on when your PC is in use or on standby.
• Settings. Choose from among several options for power savings and settings.
• Estimated Savings Reports. Find information that shows how PC power settings correlate to money, kWh and CO2 savings.
• Intuitive User Interface. Drag easy-to-use sliding bars to choose settings and instantly see the power and monetary savings. Clearly marked tabs make the interface easy to navigate.

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Samsung announces second Armani phone called M75500 Night Effect

The M75500 is a candy bar from the stables of Sammy and Armani. This Night Effect beauty features a 2.2-inch AMOLED display screen, 3.2 megapixel camera, 120 MB internal memory, microSD card slot and supports HSDPA/GSM network. Last year Sammy partnered with Giorgio Armani but this year the glam has shifted to Emporio. The phone will be available in November this year in Europe. Although the pricing is not out you can expect to see it in the vicinity of 300 Euros or $437.

Microsoft Photosynth : View your photo in 3D space

Imagine being able to share the places and things you love using the cinematic quality of a movie, the control of a video game, and the mind-blowing detail of the real world. With nothing more than a bunch of photos, Photosynth creates an amazing new experience.

Photosynth is really two remarkable technical achievements in one product: a viewer for downloading and navigating these complex visual spaces and a "synther" for creating them in the first place. Together they make something that seems impossible quite possible: reconstructing the 3D world for sets of flat photographs. Learn more...



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AMD Infuses Corporate Brand with the Power of "Fusion"

Global “The Future is Fusion” corporate brand campaign focuses on AMD’s unique ability to ignite next-generation solutions through innovation leadership, customer collaboration and industry impact. Consumers, especially PC gaming fans, can see and experience the power of Fusion on their PC desktop via the AMD Fusion for Gaming utility beta, a freely available software download that allows gamers to experience greater performance on AMD-based PCs with a simple click of a button. Learn More...



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Google Chrome : The new browser from google

Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.

One box for everything
Type in the address bar and get suggestions for both search and web pages.

Thumbnails of your top sites
Access your favorite pages instantly with lightning speed from any new tab.

Shortcuts for your apps
Get desktop shortcuts to launch your favorite web applications.

comic book to explaining google chrome

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Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ Processors Deliver World-Record Web Performance

SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- July 28, 2008 --Demonstrating its superior ability to handle the strenuous and increasing demands placed on today’s high-traffic Web-based businesses, AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that the power- and cost-efficient Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processor Model 2356 and Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor Model 8356 now hold the top x86 web performance records for both 2P and 4P servers, as measured by the SPECweb®2005 benchmark. These records demonstrate that Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors deliver the ideal platform for dynamic web-based businesses to help scale with peak loads, improve server utilization, minimize data center power consumption and deliver next generation Web 2.0 infrastructure.

“Web-based businesses, including hosted services for customers or internally facing business critical functions like CRM environments over a corporate intranet, often require more peak performance and scalability to handle heavy user traffic while balancing cost and power concerns,” said Patrick Patla, general manager, Server and Workstation Business, AMD. “These benchmark results are the latest evidence of the clear value that Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors offer an Internet business – or any data center that requires the ultimate in performance, reliability and power efficiency.”

This elite Web performance capability affirms the idea that businesses no longer must invest in traditionally large, expensive, proprietary hardware. The Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor allows businesses to affordably and easily scale up a datacenter with power efficient, high-performance servers that offer enterprise-class functionality at industry-standard pricing.

With its Direct Connect Architecture, Web-based companies world-wide, including DAUM Communications, Rackspace and Strato, have benefited from Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor-based systems in their datacenter infrastructure.

The 2P Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor-based system posted a score of 30007 on an HP ProLiant DL385 G5 server featuring two power-efficient AMD Opteron processors Model 2356 running at 2.3 GHz.¹ The 4P Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor-based system posted a score of 43,854, which represents a roughly 2.5 percent increase in performance over the previous record. This record-breaking score was achieved with an HP ProLiant DL585 G5 server powered by four Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors Model 8356, which run at 2.3 GHz and 75W Average CPU Power (ACP).²

Additionally, the 4P results are among the first to be tested using a 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GigE) network infrastructure, showing that Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors can meet the latest demands of web-based companies and emerging technology.

“Customers in massive scale out and cloud computing environments need reliable hardware with leading application performance to drive distinct business advantages,” said John Gromala, director, ProLiant product marketing, Industry Standard Servers, HP. “The record-breaking benchmark results of the HP ProLiant DL 585 G5 and Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors demonstrate the outstanding performance and reliability these solutions deliver to high-traffic computing environments.”

SPECweb® 2005 is an objective and representative benchmark for measuring a system’s ability to act as a web server, simulating simultaneous user requests for standardized web transactions such as banking, e-commerce and downloading dynamic content. For more information on AMD benchmark performance results, please visit http://www.amd.com/opteronperformance.

New Product from Gigabyte : GV-N98TZL-512H

• Powered by GeForce 9800 GT GPU
• Supports PCI Express 2.0
• Microsoft DirectX 10 and OpenGL 2.0 support
• Integrated with the industry's best 512MB GDDR3 memory and 256-bit memory interface
• Supports SLI and PureVideo HD technology
• Features dual DVI-I / D-sub

65nm Process Technology
Delivers higher performance through blazing clock rates.

	RoHS Compliant As a citizen of the global village, GIGABYTE exert ourselves to be a pioneer in environment care. Give the whole of Earth a promise that our products do not contain any of the restricted substances in concentrations and applications banned by the RoHS Directive, and are capable of being worked on at the higher temperatures required for lead free solder. One Earth and GIGABYTE Cares!
	Dual-link DVI Able to drive two of the industry's largest and highest resolution flat-panel displays up to 2560x1600.
	CineFX 4.0 Engine Through CineFX 4.0 engine that allows developers to create unique 3D game features and effects in both game animation and high-definition video. Gamers can get plus benefit from CineFX 4.0 that streamlines the creation of complex visual effects.
	Intellisample™ 4.0 The industry’s fastest antialiasing delivers ultra-realistic visuals, with no jagged edges, at lightning-fast speeds. Visual quality is taken to new heights through a new rotated grid sampling pattern, advanced 128 Tap sample coverage, 16x anisotropic filtering, and support for transparency supersampling and multisampling.
	OpenGL 2.0® Optimizations and Support Ensure top-notch compatibility and performance for all OpenGL 2.0 application.
	Microsoft® DirectX® 10 World's first DirectX 10 GPU with full Shader Model 4.0 support delivers unparalleled levels of graphics realims and film-quality effects.
	HDCP Support High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) is a form of copy protection technology designed to prevent transmission of non-encrypted high-definition content as it travels across DVI or HDMI digital connections.
	GigaThread™ Technology Massively multi-threaded architecture supports thousands of independent simultaneous threads, providing extreme processing efficiency in advanced, next generation shader programs.
	Quantum Effects™ Technology Advanced shader processors architected for physics computation enable a new level of physics effects to be simulated and rendered on the GPU--all while freeing the CPU to run the game engine and AI.
	PureVideo™ HD Available on HD DVDs and Blu-ray discs, high-definition movies are bringing an exciting new video experience to PC users. NVIDIA® PureVideo™ HD technology lets you enjoy cinematic-quality HD DVD and Blu-ray movies with low CPU utilization and power consumption, allowing higher quality movie playback and picture clarity. PureVideo HD technology provides a combination of powerful hardware acceleration, content security, and integration with movie players, plus all the features found in PureVideo.
	Ultra Durable 2 -Designed with Top Quality Highly Efficient Components Using high quality components on graphics cards is the key factor for having a long lasting, stable and reliable product. GIGABYTE is again setting a new standard by using Ferrite Core Chokes, Low RDS (on) MOSFET and Lower ESR Solid Capacitors, providing the stability and reliability from their high-end graphics solution. In addition, GIGABYTE Ultra Durable 2 Edition graphics cards now feature a sophisticated layout topology. This state-of-the-art power design from GIGABYTE delivers the ideal integration of thermal, electric characteristics, digital signals, power circuitry and optimum placement of components for enhanced graphics performance. Ultra Cooling - Low RDS(on) MOSFET Design Low Power Loss - Ferrite Core Choke Design Longer Life - All-Solid Capacitor Design
	Turbo Force Technology GIGABYTE's proprietary Turbo Force technology that comprises T3 technology and V-tuner2 overclocking application. T3 technology comprises a series of performance tuning process that ensure maximum stability and enhance over 10% performance.

Coming Soon, Gigabyte M912

• Genuine Windows^®XP
  Genuine Windows VISTA^®Home Basic
  Linux
  
• Intel^® Atom 1.6GHz
• 8.9”LCD panel/WXGA 1280x768, w/Touch screen, LED Backlight, as 180° rotation angle
• Intel^®945GSE
• 2.5” ,9.5mm S-ATA HDD 120/160/250GB
• Built-in 1.3M pixel web camera
• Speaker 1.5 watt x 2
• 80 key keyboard/Touch Pad

CPU	Intel® Atom 1.6GHz
Operating System (optional)	Genuine Windows® XP, Genuine Windows Vista® Home Basic, Linux
Chipset	Intel® 945GSE
System Configuration	Memory 1GB, HDD 160GB
LCD	8.9”LCD panel/WXGA 1280x768, w/ Touch screen, as 180° rotation angle
HDD	2.5", 9.5mm SATA HDD
Optical Drive (optional)	External ODD by USB connection
Keyboard	80 key keyboard / Touch Pad
I/O Port	USB X 3,Mic in, Earphone out, D-SUB RJ45, Express card, SD/MMC/MS
Audio	Built-in Realtek ALC268, Azalia I/F, 2 Channels Speaker 1.5 watt x 2
Bluetooth	BlueTooth 2.0 built-in
Web Camera	1.3M pixel webcam
Wireless LAN	802.11b/g by mini-card
Protection	Kensington lock
Battery	Li-ion 4500 mAh, Battery life 3.5 hrs
Dimension	235 x 180 x 28~42mm
Weight	1.3kg (include 2.5"HDD)
Service	1 year warranty, 6 month battery warranty More service information, please refer to http://www.gigabyte.com.tw

LG brings the QWERTY keypad to young consumers

Berkshire, UK, 09 July, 2008 - LG Electronics, a global leader in consumer electronics, today announces the UK launch of the KS360, its vibrantly coloured, feature-packed handset specifically designed for messaging on the move.

The KS360's sliding QWERTY keypad and high-spec messaging features mean that users can send SMS, IM, email and have the ability to access social networking sites all from one device. In addition, the KS360 comes with touchscreen dialling, a 2MP camera and MicroSD card slot.


Jeremy Newing, head of LG mobile marketing, LG Electronics says, "We recognise that manufacturers need to develop a variety of handsets that cater for different segments of the market. By offering a whole range of handsets - whether it's premium or prepay, a camera or music device, for example - we're giving consumers the choice to purchase a phone that's right for them."


With the KS360's slider QWERTY keypad, users can write messages quickly and accurately. To make messaging easier, once the full length keypad has been opened, the 2.4" screen automatically rotates 90 degrees using accelerometer technology. At just 16.8mm thin, this handset has been designed to fit easily into a pocket or handbag, a convenient alternative to lugging a laptop around.


"With the popularity of social networking sites and instant messaging amongst younger audiences, the KS360 has been designed so they can access these features when away from their computer. This handset is perfect for this segment of the market. Its vibrant colours, easy-to-use QWERTY keypad and fantastic messaging features offer users a simple and fun device that will enable them to communicate with each other instantly," says Newing.


The KS360 is available in a range of colours* to suit everyone, including:
- Titanium and bright blue
- White and soft pink
- Black and red
- Black and silver

KS360 specifications:
- Network: GSM/GPRS/EDGE
- Band: GMS 900/1800/1900
- Battery: Li-Ion 800mAh
- Dimensions: 101.5x51x16.8mm
- Main screen: 2.4" QVGA (240x320) 262k
- Camera: 2 megapixel
- Camera feature: Fixed focus
- Memory: 15MB/MicroSDTM up to 4GB
- Bluetooth: V2.0
- USB: V2.0, Mass Storage
- Ringtones: 64 polyphonic
- Audio codecs: MP3/AAC/AAC+/eAAC+
- Video codecs: MPEG4/H.263
- Browser: WAP 2.0
- JAVA: MIDP 2.0
- Messaging: SMS, MMS, IM, Email
- Other: Touch Screen Dialling
* Network operator dependent

Meet tomorrow's mobile phones

Nokia's Morph concept phone -- probably 7 to 15 years away -- will be made of flexible materials that let it morph from traditional mobile phone shape to bracelet and back



The Handphone, designed by Biodomotica's Massimo Marrazzo, makes use of the familiar "call me" gesture.



The P-Per concept phone from the Chocolate Agency has a touch screen on both sides, as if someone glued two iPhones together.


The tiny Packet concept phone, designed by Emir Rifat Isik, folds open to reveal a split keyboard and a screen for viewing e-mail, Web browsing and more.


A haptic display with millions of tiny pins on the surface is being developed by Japan's NHK Broadcasting Corp. Eventually the technology could be used on cell phone displays to mimic the tactile feel of a mechanical keyboard.


Force sensors at the corners of devices, under development at Microsoft Research Cambridge, could allow users to turn a phone on and off by squeezing or pulling it, or advance a Web page by twisting the device.


The Atlas Kinetic concept phone, designed by Ricardo Baiao of DesignerID, is self-powered: It has a built-in series of weights, rotors and springs that generate power whenever the phone is shaken or moved. That power, in turn, runs a generator that charges the battery.

image source at http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=mobile_and_wireless&articleId=321523&taxonomyId=15&intsrc=kc_feat.

Hyperword, Firefox add-ons, make all word interactive

Hyperlinks are amazing, they let you follow any path.... any path that anyone has made.

But what about your intuition, your hunches,
What about all the other words, the words that are not the hyperlinks?

These other word are Hyperwords

With Hyperwords for the Firefox web browser you can select any word on any web page and do useful things from the menu that appears:

Searches, references, maps, translation and much more!

Hyperwords_3.6_Demo_at_BETT

Hyperwords_3.0__with_Views

get hyperword

RoadMap to OpenSuSE 11.1, prepare for the new openSuSE

OpenSUSE 11.1, the future version of openSUSE 11, is coming December 18, 2008, and we will see the first alpha on July 24, 2008. It will feature the latest in open source innovations and cool new features from the openSUSE community, as well as software updates including GNOME 2.24, KDE 4.1.1, and a final version of Firefox 3.0.

Help out!

You can help us out to get openSUSE 11.1 ready! You can test the latest development builds (until the Alpha1 release is out) and file bugs, or find another way to participate in openSUSE!

More information

For info regarding releases, refer to the roadmap. Stay up to date with the latest news regarding openSUSE 11.1 and everything else in the openSUSE project with openSUSE News, and chat with other openSUSE users through IRC chat and the openSUSE mailinglists.

openSUSE 11.1 is the next community release that incorporates new features from both the community and internal development. It will be done for the x86, x86-64 and ppc platforms.

Major areas of interest:

• GNOME 2.24
• KDE: KDE 4.1.1 (optionally also KDE 3.5.10)
• OpenOffice.org 3.0
• Continued improvement in the software update stack
• Linux kernel 2.6.27 (or later)

The most important dates of the currently planned schedule are:

• Thu, Jul 24: openSUSE 11.1 Alpha1
• Thu, Aug 21: openSUSE 11.1 Alpha2
• Thu, Sep 18: openSUSE 11.1 Beta1 - snapshot release
• Thu, Oct 02: openSUSE 11.1 Beta2 - snapshot release
• Thu, Oct 16: openSUSE 11.1 Beta3 - snapshot release
• Thu, Oct 30: openSUSE 11.1 Beta4 - snapshot release
• Thu, Nov 13: openSUSE 11.1 RC1 - snapshot release
• Thu, Nov 27: openSUSE 11.1 RC2 - snapshot release
• Thu, Dec 4: openSUSE 11.1 GM - final release
• Thu, Dec 18: openSUSE 11.1 public release

The detailed schedule will be added later.

Ctrl-Tab, add-ons on firefox, switch between tabs, more friendly

Are you have a problem to switch between tab in firefox? try this add-ons, and you'll find the easier and friendly way to switch between tab in firefox, get it now...

(Shift+)Ctrl+Tab navigation for Firefox tabs:
* Tabs are presented in most-recently-used order, similar to Alt+Tab on various operating systems
* Releasing Tab and pressing it again moves to the next preview
* Pressing W closes the selected tab
* Releasing Ctrl switches to the selected tab
* Hidden preferences: browser.ctrlTab.smoothScroll

F4 shows all tabs in a grid:
* Shows tabs from all open windows
* Tabs can be closed by middle clicking
* Search field filters tabs based on their titles and addresses, Enter selects the first tab
* Hidden preferences: browser.allTabs.allWindows

NVIDIA Launches Visual Computing Industry’s First Emerging Companies Summit at NVISION 08

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—July 16, 2008—NVIDIA Corporation, the world leader in visual computing technologies, today announced the Emerging Companies Summit, a two-day conference on August 26-27, 2008 in San Jose, California, aimed squarely at entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and investment bankers who are focused on learning more about the visual computing industry. The Emerging Companies Summit, sponsored by Cooley Godward Kronish LLP, Morgan Stanley, and RR Donnelley will be held at the NVISION® 08 conference in San Jose, California, and include tracks focusing on CUDA and high-performance computing; visual computing; lifestyle computing; and gaming.

“Our first-ever NVIDIA Emerging Companies Summit provides a unique and exciting venue for our attendees to meet some of the most relevant and creative companies, and people, who are passionate about visual computing and the GPU,” said Jeff Herbst, vice president of business development at NVIDIA. “Our goal is for the summit to serve as a catalyst for innovation and business opportunities throughout the visual and high-performance computing ecosystems.”

In addition to presentations by over 60 companies leveraging the power of GPUs for both visual and high-performance computing applications, the Emerging Companies Summit will also include panel discussions on the role of the GPU in modern computing, as well as a “fireside chat” with Jen-Hsun Huang, NVIDIA president and CEO, to be moderated by prominent industry analyst, Jon Peddie. Emerging companies scheduled to participate include Acceleware, Cooliris, Elemental Technologies, Emergent Game Technologies, MotionDSP, NaturalMotion, Right Hemisphere, and more.

“NVIDIA’s Emerging Companies Summit is the first conference to bring together leading investors and entrepreneurs to discuss the visual and high-performance computing ecosystems—its components, its challenges, and the promises it holds for the future of computing,” said Torsten Reil, CEO of NaturalMotion. “We look forward to participating in the summit and being part of an event that is changing the face of technology.”

To register for the Emerging Companies Summit at NVISION 08, please go to:
http://www.nvision2008.com/Professionals/emerging-companies-summit.cfm

Opera Speed Dial on Firefox, speed up your dial

Fast access to your favorite sites through thumbnails, like Opera Speed Dial.

Fast Dial replaces "about:blank" page with a panel of thumbnails of your favorite sites. Click on an empty cell, assign a site URL, click OK - a thumbnail will be generated for a site. You can also add sites opened in browser or existing bookmarks by right-clicking them and choosing "Add to Fast Dial" from context menu.
By checking "Group" checkbox in thumbnail properties you can create groups of nested thumbnails.

You can change thumbnail's position by drag-n-dropping it. (Hold Ctrl while dragging to move thumbnail into a group.)
Left click on a thumbnail title opens "Properties" dialog. Middle click on thumbnail title runs thumbnail refresh.
Alt+number keyboard shortcut opens assigned site.
If you move mouse over thumbnail's top, a panel of graphic buttons appears.
To view zoomed image press left mouse button and hold it for a moment. You can customize Fast Dial page colors & font in Preferences.

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Firefox add-ons, Mini Map Sidebar 0.3.0, search where the link come from

The Minimap Addon gives you a suite of in-built maps and mapping tools for your web browser. Drag and Drop addresses or address links you find on web pages to view their location in the Map Sidebar, or by manually adding locations. Preview addresses from within any webpage using the Map Panel and get larger scale maps with the Map Tab. Import/Export KML, GPX, minimap xml file, CSV (export only). View traffic Info, drag and drop kml files, local search, Google, Yahoo and Live Local directions, view in google earth, tagzania, platial, geourl and many more. Address/Location points are stored locally for later use. Geodiscovery reveals geoURLís or geotags as you browse, with microformat support available as an Operator plugin or natively in Firefox 3 (Adr and Geo).

This extension comes with three mapping components, the main and most powerful one being the minimap sidebar. In this sidebar you can drag and drop addresses or address links you find on web pages and they will be automatically located, and added to your saved address list. The extension also comes with a quick loading Preview Panel to easily look at an address or directions without having to pre-save in your sidebar address list. The third mapping element is a main browser Map Tab for viewing a larger map. All three elements are accessed from the Toolbar button (customize your toolbar and drop it in), or by highlighting an address, and selecting 'Map Tab: Locate Address...' in the right click context menu, with the hotkey of CTRL+SHIFT+M opening up the Preview Panel. A few of the extension features available:

* Map an Address: Drag and drop addresses or links (the view in google/yahoo type) to show on map, which is added to the address list. Manually add an address. Build up a list of locally stored addresses.
* Map a Coordinate: Manually add a coordinate which is added to the address list.
* Preview addresses (highlight text or click address link, then select Map Preview from right-click menu).
* geoDiscovery: The extension will automatically discover geoURL's and in-line geotags and populate the geoDiscovery list as you browse. Alerts you to the discovery via a status bar image.
* KML File: Drag and drop hosted kml file links to show on map.
* Import/Export KML, GPX, minimap xml file, CSV (export only). Import/Export all from Tools toolbar button, export selection from right click -> share location menu.
* The Crosshair and Lat/Lon box: Map has a centre cross hair which displays the latitude and longitude in the top right hand corner of the map.
* Navigation: Map, Satellite, Hybrid, Terrain and 3D Google Earth views. Pan and zoom.
* Address list: Build up a list of locally stored addresses and kml files.
* Directions: Get google / yahoo / microsoft directions to/from an address list entry and/or set a locally stored ëHome Addressí to get directions to/from an address list entry.
* Tagzania.com: View tagzania.com/near and post address list entry to tagzania.
* Platial.com: View Platial Places entries based on an address list entry. Add an address list entry to Platial Places.
* Google Earth: View an address list entry in Google Earth.
* View locations in Loc.alize.us, Flickr, Panaramio, Geody, Geonames and many more..
* Googlesightseeing.com: Drag and drop googlesightseeing links to view the image of interest.
* Localize: Change Google geocoder source to help improve address results, as well as change the maps domain for directions.
* Miscellaneous: Toolbar launcher available.


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Amayeta SWF Encrypt 5.0 DLL Editions Now Available for C++, C# and Delphi

The Power of SWF Encrypt™ 5.0 is now available as a Dynamic Linked Library (DLL) for Windows Software Development.

The SWF Encrypt 5.0™ DLL, available in a "Silver" and "Gold" variation, can be used from within C++, C# and Delphi (and virtually any development tools which have access to Dynamic Linked Libraries!) to Encrypt, Secure and Obfuscate Adobe Flash® SWF files, protecting them from the most popular Flash Decompiler Tools on the market.

	SWF Encrypt™ 5.0 DLL "Silver" & "Gold" Editions
	DLL Usage Example (C++)
	Unencrypted Vs Encrypted ActionScript
	Frequently Asked Questions

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Mozilla Sets New Guinness World Record with Firefox 3 Downloads

Massive grassroots community effort behind world record for most software downloads in 24 hours

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – July 2, 2008 – Mozilla today announced it set a new Guinness World Record for the largest number of software downloads in 24 hours. The record-setting 8,002,530 downloads coincided with the launch of Firefox® 3, Mozilla’s major update to its popular and acclaimed free, open source Web browser.

Mozilla enthusiasts worldwide drove more than 1.7 million pledges to download Firefox 3 on Download Day, hosted regional download “fests,” and informed more than 43 million people through hosting Download Day affiliate buttons online. The global Mozilla community has been celebrating the historic goal of establishing a Guinness World Record with parties in more than 25 countries, including a 24-hour long download fest celebration called Camp Firefox at Mozilla’s Mountain View headquarters.

“The enthusiasm and creativity of Firefox fans was instrumental in achieving this record,” said Paul Kim, VP of Marketing at Mozilla. “Our community members came together and not only spread the word, but also took the initiative to help mobilize millions of people to demonstrate their belief that Firefox gives people the best possible online experience.”

“As the arbiter and recorder of the world’s amazing facts, Guinness World Records is pleased to add Mozilla’s achievement to our archives,” said Gareth Deaves, Records Manager for Guinness World Records. “Mobilizing over 8 million internet users within 24 hours is an extremely impressive accomplishment and we would like to congratulate the Mozilla community for their hard work and dedication.”