HOW TO ACTIVATE VIDEOCHAT ON YOUR FACEBOOK

Step 1 ► Join this Facebook group

Step 2 ► Click on "invite people to join".

Step 3 ► Select maximum friends and click send.

Step 4 ► Navigate to http://userstyles.org/styles/browse/facebook.com and add plugin.





Step 5 ► Install video plugin.

Step 6 ► Restart browser and you can now use Video Chat.

30min after if %75 of your friends joined this group, you will see a new notification in your profile: "You successfully activated Facebook Video Chat"

E-Skin to Change Gadget Colors

Researchers at Philips have developed a new color e-paper technology, dubbed e-skin, that that can change the color and appearance of a device to match the user's mood, environment, or even their outfit. The first applications using the technology could be e-skins for small devices such as MP3 players or cell phones.

The e-skin technology is simple, cost-efficient and green, and should be easily adaptable to new applications.

"The technology is highly scalable," says Kars-Michiel Lenssen, principal scientist at Philips Research. Indeed, the e-skin has the potential to be used in the future for larger area ‘e-wallpapers’, where you can adjust the color of your wall, or smart windows, to regulate the daylight coming through your window.

This new technology will be presented at the International Display Workshops 2009 in Japan. Get the full story, with Chroma Chameleon.

How Google Nexus One Invites System Will Work?

How Google Nexus One Invites System Will Work?
GO Rumors

There has been a lot of buzz lately about Google’s upcoming mobile phone, named Nexus One. However, the biggest point of contention is how anyone can purchase a device themselves. It is implicitly understood that the whole distribution will be via an invites system, and that Nexus One wouldn’t be available outside this – at retail stores.

So, how will the whole thing pan out. From what we know till now, this is the possible way forward:

1. Google has been sending invites to people for a “special android media event” to be held on January 5. We do know that it is all about the Nexus One.

2. As part of the media event, the attendees will be given free invites that they may pass along to those in their network who want to buy a Nexus One.

3. All those who have an invite to purchase a Nexus One can proceed to the Google Phone website (not yet live) to make their purchase.




4. As part of the purchase, users will be required to register themselves at the site.


5. Once these users register themselves, they shall be given additional invites to send it to their network.

6. The Google Phone website shall also become the destination for all future software upgrades.

So as you see, the system shall pretty much work like it did when Gmail was first introduced or as it has now been working with Google Wave. And Google has all the while known to keep the demand high above the supply in order to make their product tantalizingly attractive.

Considering that Google Wave invites sold for close to $70 on eBay, expect a lot more Nexus One auctioning to happen early next year.


Thanks to Source : GO Rumors

Google 2010 Calendar

A 2010 paper version of the Google Calendar available in Japan displays retro cool, with each month fronted by a unique Japanese version of those commemorative Google logos.




According to Gigazine, the Real Google Calendar that is seen in Japan measures 30cm (12 inches) wide by 21cm (8.5 inches) tall. The front features a standard Google logo, a Google Calendar icon and the legend “2010″. When opened, the calendar begins by displaying December 2009 and continues monthly to December 2010 inclusive

Read more at http://apac.globalthoughtz.com

How To Sync Your Twitter and Facebook Status Updates

Well, managing friends and social networks isn’t exactly convenient these days because there are so many online services and communities to help you stay in touch with and keep track of other people — Facebook, Twitter, Ning, Plaxo, FriendFeed, Loopt, Brightkite, GChat…the list just goes on and on. One thing you can do to make it all a little easier is to sync your Facebook and Twitter accounts so that the status messages you enter on one site show up at the other too

Read more at www.insidefacebook.com

Music While You Cook?

Are you fed up of popping food into the microwave, hitting the timer, and then hanging around with nothing to do while waiting for your meal? Well, you might soon be watching your favorite YouTube clips instead of the plate, with Japan's new Castoven invention.




The kitchen is going musical, as researchers from Japan’s Keio University have invented a new kind of microwave: the Castoven, a web-enabled futuristic gadget with a 10.4-inch LCD and built-in speakers.

The idea is to display a YouTube video whose length matches the time you need to heat up whatever you are cooking. So, if you need to cook something for, 1 minute and 5 seconds, the Castoven will automatically pull a video from YouTube with the same length, and put it on the screen. When the video stops, your food is ready!

high speed train

China has introduced a high speed train between Wuhan-Guangzhou the world's fastest train journeys at a 350-km-per-hour designed speed, will cover a distance of 1,068.6-kilometer in just more than 3hours previously the distance used to take 10hours.

Two passenger trains rolled out the Wuhan Railway Station and Guangzhou North Railway Station at about 9 a.m. and reached the terminals within three hours, compared with the previous 10 and a half hours.

The service between Wuhan, a metropolis in central China, and Guangzhou City, a business hub in the southern Guangdong Province, was put into trial operation on Dec. 9, reaching a maximum speed of 394.2 km per hour.

A 600-member delegation from Xianning City boarded the train at10 a.m. at Xianning North Station to promote tourism and attract investment in Guangzhou. Nearly two hours later, they had to take off winter coats on arrival of Guangzhou where the temperature was about 20 degrees Celsius at noon.

Read more at http://news.xinhuanet.com

File Compression Technology

Why we need to compress files?
Some times files are too big to be transferred through the Internet or between PCs. This post will help to use the WinZip program to compress files for quick transfer and storage.
What is winzip?
Winzip is used to compress the files into smaller so that they can be easily transfered.WinZip is the one of many programs able to compress files, in this case to what are known as Zip files with the filename extension .zip
How to install winzip?
You can download a trial version of WinZip from www.winzip.com
After the trial period is over you will be reminded to purchase a License to continue using the program.

How to use winzip?
To start the program, double-click the WinZip shortcut on your desktop, or alternatively click on the Start menu then All Programs > WinZip > WinZip.
Click on Use Evaluation Version. You should now see the WinZip Wizard, which helps you perform the most common tasks associated with WinZip. Click Next and for this example, Create A New Zip File.
Choose a filename such as "ZipTest" which will be saved to the default folder, or use Browse to choose a different folder, enter the filename and click OK.Click Next. Use the Add Files button to add the files you want to compress, or you can click and drag them into the empty box. When you have added the file or files you want to compress into this Zip file, click ZipNow then Finish.
WinZip will close and if you now look in My Documents or whichever folder you specified earlier, you should see a .zip file called "ZipTest". To open this or any other Zip file, in Windows XP you can double-click it as if it were a normal folder. From here you can drag the files out, which will extract them so they can be used as normal.
Alternatively, right-click the file and choose Open With WinZip. Click Evaluation Version and you should see the Wizard again.
Click Next then UnZip or Install from "ZipTest.zip". Click Next and choose a folder to extract the contents of the Zip file to (the default location is a folder called Unzipped in My Documents).
Click Unzip Now. In the folder you specified you should now be able to see the files you originally compressed in the Zip file, extracted and ready to use again. Click Finish in WinZip to close the program.

world's thinnest TV panel

The company, the world's second largest maker of liquid crystal displays (LCDs), said the panel uses an ultra-slim, edge-lit light emitting diode backlight system and proprietary optical film technology.

It said in a statement the 42-inch panel weighs less than 4 kilograms (8.8 pounds), making it ideal for wall-mounted TVs.

Read more at http://www.physorg.com

GE Stifles Doctor Over Opposition to Drug

General Electric, one of the world’s biggest corporations, is using the London libel courts to gag a senior radiologist after he raised the alarm over the potentially fatal risks of one of its drugs.

The multinational is suing Henrik Thomsen, a Danish academic, after he described his experiences of one of the company’s drugs as a medical “nightmare”. He said some kidney patients at his hospital contracted a potentially deadly condition after being administered the drug Omniscan.

GE Healthcare, a British subsidiary of General Electric, has run up more than £380,000 in legal costs pursuing Thomsen.

Read more at http://www.ktradionetwork.com

Taiwan to Host IBM's First Joint Healthcare IT Research Unit

IBM will work with Taiwan to research and develop healthcare services and devices using the latest information technology and data management techniques. The two signed a research collaboration deal Monday, IBM's first in the healthcare field, it said.

The IBM Research Collaboratory in Taiwan will house researchers from the American company as well as those from Taiwan's publicly funded Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Institute for Information Industry, and several universities including the island's well-regarded National Taiwan University

Read more at Taiwan to Host IBM's First Joint Healthcare IT Research Unit

Google fined $14,300 a day in France over books

PARIS – A Paris court ruled Friday that Google Inc.'s expansion into digital books breaks France's copyright laws, and a judge slapped the Internet search leader with a euro10,000-a-day fine until it stops showing literary snippets.

Read more at FarStone Technology Announces the Release of Snapshot Recovery

Latest in Backup and Recovery Software

Snapshot Recovery is designed to backup your PC in as little as 10 seconds, for easy and effortless recovery. It allows users to instantly recover files, system configurations, and even an operating system in less than 2 minutes.

Read more at FarStone Technology Announces the Release of Snapshot Recovery

 

Augmented reality on mobile devices

Augmented reality is a coalescing of technologies that promises to create a new interactive relationship between mobile users and their surroundings. It's easy to make AR sound like the latest technology in search of an application, but an analogy with jet fighter pilots might help.

Pilots look through the cockpit window, or a helmet faceplate. The inside of these surfaces is treated to display transparent images of cockpit controls and navigation data, a technique called "head-up display." Data, images and text overlay a view of the real world.

Read more at Augmented reality on mobile devices

new Promethean technology

Two teachers at Madison Elementary School demonstrated how the latest technology has left the old black chalkboards once used in the classrooms even further in the dust.

The Promethean boards resemble by size and shape small portable movie screens, except the boards are rigid and mounted onto classroom walls. In addition, the boards are connected to computers, so instead of just displaying pictures and words, the users can interact with the devices and move the items on the screen.

You may find more inforamtion at new Promethean technology

OPTI-SIGHT

OPTI-SIGHT is a device that is desire by the all those who want to improve their aims. This is the latest technology that can be very helpful for improvement of the aims. It is designed in the shape of half triangle. This latest technology is basically design for the law enforcing agency.

You may find more inforamtion at OPTI-SIGHT

Accenture Boots Tiger Off Its Team

In the latest blow to Tiger Woods's multimillion-dollar endorsement business, global consulting firm Accenture PLC said Sunday that it had terminated its sponsorship pact with the golf superstar.

Accenture's decision to cancel its six-year relationship followed two weeks of revelations of alleged extramarital affairs after a Nov. 27 car accident outside Mr. Woods's home that has led to intense international scrutiny of his personal life

Read more at Accenture Boots Tiger Off Its Team

Facebook Revamps Privacy Settings

Facebook users may be in for a rude awakening this week following a revamp of privacy settings that prompts them to post their status updates and personal information directly to the internet for everyone to see.

The privacy overhaul, which is intended to give users more control over who sees the information they post on their personal pages, suggests users publish posts and personal information, such as work and education, to everyone, as the social networking company responds to competition from Twitter.

Facebook users will be presented with a transition tool that explains the changes and gives them an option to update their settings according to Facebook's recommendations, or to preserve their existing settings

You may find more inforamtion at Facebook Revamps Privacy Settings

Tweeting by Thinking

In April, University of Wisconsin doctoral student Adam Wilson — working with adviser Justin Williams, above — tweeted 23 characters just by thinking. He focused his attention on one flashing letter after another on a computer screen while wearing a cap outfitted with electrodes that monitored changes in his brain activity to figure out which character he wanted. His efforts spelled out "USING EEG TO SEND TWEET," among other messages.

Read more at Tweeting by Thinking

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Wake Up to the Laser Alarm Clock

The laser alarm clock is a new invention that truly challenges you to get out of bed in the morning. To switch it off, you are required to sit up in bed, aim carefully with a battery-powered laser pistol that is sold with the alarm clock, and hit the target that sits on top of the clock.
Until you hit the target, the alarm clock continues to ring.

By the time you have succeeded, say the clock’s designers, you should be well awake and well-prepared for the rest of the day!

world's first-ever web site

Info.cern.ch was the address of the world's first-ever web site and web server, running on a NeXT computer at CERN. The first web page address was http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html, which centred on information regarding the WWW project. Visitors could learn more about hypertext, technical details for creating their own webpage, and even an explanation on how to search the Web for information. There are no screenshots of this original page and, in any case, changes were made daily to the information available on the page as the WWW project developed.

You may find more inforamtion at World's first-ever web site

How to capture screen shot of the active window?

Click on active window and then Press "Alt"+"Print Screen" buttons and the screen shot of the window will be saved into the clipboard. Now you can paste it into MS Paint or Word or anywhere else you want.

A New Electronic Reader, the Nook, Launched

Barnes & Noble unveiled its Nook electronic reading device at a splashy news conference on Tuesday to generally positive views from the publishing community, and offered some details about its whispered-about lending capabilities.The Nook electronic reading device from Barnes & Noble was unveiled Tuesday, offering a competitor to the Kindle.

Check out here Electronic Reader, the Nook

Turning PDF Files Into a Slideshow

Fed up of scrolling down long PDF documents? When using Adobe Reader in full-screen or kiosk mode, you have the option of automatically switching pages after a given time lapse instead of having to use the mouse or keyboard to switch to the next page. Please do the following:

1. Click "Edit" > "Preferences".
2. When the "Preferences" dialog box appears, click "Full Screen" in the left pane.
3. Next to "Advance every...", enter the number of seconds you want Adobe Reader to wait before advancing to the next page.
4. If desired, check "Loop after last page" to start back at the beginnning.
5. Click "OK" to close the dialog box.

Please note this feature is not available in all versions of Adobe Reader.

Juggling Increases Brain Power

Complex tasks such as juggling produce significant changes to the structure of the brain and could, in the long term, aid treatments for certain neurological diseases, according to scientists at Oxford University in the UK.

The team from Oxford’s Department of Clinical Neurology says it saw a 5 percent increase in white matter - the cabling network of the brain - on people who had been trained to juggle for six weeks, with brain scans before and after. Changes in grey matter, where the processing and computation in the brain happens, have been shown before, but enhancements in the white matter have not previously been demonstrated.

Professor Cathy Price, of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, said: "It’s extremely exciting to see evidence that training changes human white matter connections. This complements other work showing grey matter changes with training and motivates further work to understand the cellular mechanisms underlying these effects."

How to Find Popular Google Search Words

This link allows a user to search key words being search for on google. A user can browse for images, news, and product searches. A user can search by country. A user can search by categories such as entertainment, games, health, celebrities, etc, etc. This site can be useful when adding keywords to blogs or websites.

Check out here Popular Google Search Words

CEATEC JAPAN 2009

CEATEC JAPAN 2009
The CEATEC event is the showcase for the latest technology and best in gadgets and electronics. The event was first established in early 2000 and its still going strong. This time the event is going to be in Japan. The CEATEC Japan takes place in the October first week from the 6th to the 10th at the Makuhari Messe.

For more information,please visit CEATEC JAPAN 2009

Mobile Number Portability

Mobile phone users in india will be able to retain their mobile numbers even if they switch service providers from Dec. 31, according to the india's Ministry of Communications & IT
The new Mobile Number Portability (MNP) facility will be rolled out by then in the nation's four largest cities and some other service areas, with subscribers in other parts of the country getting the facility by March 20, the government said on Wednesday

To read the news item Mobile number portability by December in the hindu

CSS Formatting using TextMate

If you are writing CSS files using TextMate on Mac OS X here is a formatting tip that will benefit you.

Press CMD + ALT + 0 to hide property values leaving just 1 line displaying the document selector. This is great especially if you need to quickly run through a long CSS file.

Orkut video chat

Video chat in orkut

Orkut just introduced video chat to talk face-to-face with your friends. Open your webcam and download a small plugin, install it,that's all. Next time when you signed in to orkut, if you see a small green camera icons next to your friends names in your chat list that means they are ready to video chat.Then, open a chat window and click on the "Start video chat" link in the "Actions" menu. You can also pop out your chat window and increase the size all the way up to full-screen for a better view of your friend.

Google Fast Flip

Google is testing a new service, Fast Flip, which lets you browse through recent headlines and feeds from news Web sites. Google introduced an experimental news hub called Fast Flip that allows users to view news articles from dozens of major publishers and flip through them as quickly as they would the pages of a magazine.
Fast Flip, which is available at fastflip.googlelabs.com, first appears as a collection of images of news articles that Google has culled from the sites of its partners. The articles are displayed side by side in various horizontal rails that show them arranged by popularity; sections like politics, business, travel or entertainment; topics like tennis, Iran or the Beatles; and news source.

Read more about the google FastFlip nytimes article titled The Google Fast Flip

Best websites to Send SMS online

Smslife is an innovative idea from Bandvalley Technologies.You can Send Free SMS To All Mobiles in India.What an idea friend.

www.way2sms.comWay2SMS is SMS tool which helps you to send SMS .Also, Send SMS to the Group contacts with single click.

www.160by2.com160by2.com Most Popular WAP Site In India.You can send free SMS from ur email. up to 80 characters long.

ibibo.com let you call or send SMSs to anyone - absolutely FREE!

indyarocks
Indyarocks.com is an online and mobile based social networking site for connecting Indians across the Globe. It is a place where you can Invite, Connect, Share, Speakout and Have fun. The platform is designed to provide you with unlimited freedom of expression.

vakowVakow! is a community of people who love SMS blogging and sharing.

SMS GupShup is a free group SMS service! You can use GupShup from your mobile phone or website.


www.jaxtr.comStray online through your phone to stay in touch and get in touch with anyone worldwide.You can send an SMS to anyone in more than 150 countries.



www.atrochatro.comUseful to send free sms to all GSM CDMA mobiles from your computer.

gizmosms.comYou can send FREE messages to any Mobile Phone

www.mysmsindia.comYou can send FREE messages to any Mobile Phone

SMSJunction>You can send FREE messages to any Mobile Phone

The First Halal Search Engine Launched

The last few years Muslims have become very active on the Internet
. The lack of tools for Muslims to be able to continue their online activities responsibly has inspired
ImHalal.com to enter the search engine market.

Potential Muslim internet users who might previously have
avoided the internet for some of its less wholesome content, now have a safe option in the new search engine
Imhalal.com.

While internet use has increased steadily in the Middle East and North Africa over the last few of years, many potential users have stayed away due to religious concerns over the content. The search engine will not return results considered harmful, forbidden content, instead it will only show results that are halal, approved, under Muslim religious law.

Sardeha has high hopes and more plans for the future. "In one month's time we hope to add Islamic widgets such as prayer time so that you can easily find out when to pray or when you come to the website you will see a quote from the Qur'an. We are marketing Imhalal as a social homepage for Muslim households" He said.

"Imhalal is not a dictatorial or censorship website, we want people to be able to continue their online search," commented Sardeha.

The search engine uses 'various techniques' to determine which results are Halal (acceptable) or Haraam (forbidden).

What are your thoughts on this?

Windows 7

What Is Windows 7
Windows is the world's most popular OS software product.
Windows 7 will build on the substantial investments the company has made in the fundamentals with Windows Vista - improving:
- Security
- Reliability
- Performance
Windows 7 is designed to be compatible with the same hardware, applications, and device drivers as Windows Vista today. Windows 7 will offer improved navigation, a new taskbar and a streamlined UI so that common tasks done in Windows are done easier and more quickly. You will be able to share data to all your PCs and devices in your home network or at work.
With Windows 7 + Windows Live, you will be able to stay connected to the people that matter to you, and with Internet Explorer 8 you will get a faster, safer, more productive Web experience.
Along with new features such as "Touch Gestures" and "Device Stage", Windows 7 will enable you to get more out of your devices including the ones you use most often like your digital cameras, mobile phones and printers.
Windows 7 will make it easier to use networked media devices to play music, watch videos, and display photos that are on your Windows PC.
And Windows 7 will also offer more options than ever to customize and personalize your Windows PC with styles that match your personality!

Read more about windows 7 at Microsoft Windows 7

Unique Identity Cards for All Indians

The former CEO of Infosys, Nandan Nilekani, has taken up the challenge of heading a Government of India initiative that seeks to provide all Indians with an unique identity card (ID).

In February 2009, the Government of India envisioned a project for providing unique IDs to all Indians. To bring more accountability to this massive project, it asked the former CEO of Infosys, Nandan Nilekani, to head it.

The decade-long project, which Nandan calls, “the mother of all IT projects,” seeks to provide each of India’s 1.2 billion people with an ID card embedded with a microchip. This would help build a massive national database and bring a new accountability to the system. Most importantly, the project could enable millions of poor Indians to gain access to much-needed financial aid and social services.

Read more about the pioneer and his project in this interesting BusinessWeek article titled The Man Behind India’s ID card program

The Windows Based Web OS -Nivio

Nivio is a web based operating system which runs a Windows desktop from browser. It comes with Windows XP, 5GB of space, back up, virus protection, anti-spam and other kind of software apps available for purchase. Using Nivio you won’t need to extra hardware, fire drives, or cds. Nivio brings your desktop to you, wherever you are. Plus as it’s Windows based, there’s nothing new to learn and files are always backed up so you don’t have to worry. The standard version of Nivio is $12.99 a month. Of course you’ll have to pay for MS Office software, but items such as iTunes, Adobe Reader, and KlipFolio are free.
What Nivio say:
“Nivio is a fully functional Windows desktop environment accessible via a web browser through any internet connected device running on any platform (including Linux, MAC and Windows). Nivio enables a user to seamlessly access the desktop data & applications when and where they need it; be it at the office, from home or even on the go. Nivio stands for "hardware liberation". Your files follow you. You don"t need to take around your external media or even burn CD"s. Just log onto Nivio and access your files on any computer at your destination. With Nivio, your data follows you.”

visit Nivio.com find out more about this interesting technology and its possible impact.

Self Destructing Web Content

Self Destructing Web Content

Vanish! It is the new tool to delete online data. Developed by the University of Washington, Vanish allows data, messages, files, and other web content to self-destruct after a certain time. Soon, emails, Facebook messages, and Google documents can all be set to disappear into thin air by using Vanish, if assistant professor Yoshi Kohno, who designed the software had his way.

There is so much data now created, shared, and stored online, as opposed to on individual computers. And, documents could remain online for years, even after the user deleted the original file. Vanish would ensure that even archived or backed-up copies of the data are unreadable after the time limit set by the original user.

While it is a great technological advancement, this technology can easily be misused. Professor Kohno too acknowledges that the software could be used for ill intent.

Read the original BBC article find out more about this interesting technology and its possible impact.

Beware of Some of the Worst Email Mistakes!

According to the findings of a national survey carried out by Creative Group, a US firm that provides marketing and web services, almost eight out of ten advertising and marketing executives have confessed to making a mistake when sending an email. Read on to find out how to avoid the mistakes that can put an end to a career!

The most common mistakes range from sending an e-mail to the wrong person, accidentally sending out salary information or other personal data to the entire staff, unwittingly e-mailing a new job search to the boss, and sending personal photos as attachments instead of business spreadsheets.

Always giving your e-mail your individed attention and thinking twice before hitting the "Reply all" button are the best means of avoiding what can be unforgiveable errors.

"Email mistakes can be painfully visible and viral," says Megan Slabinski, Executive Director of the Creative Group. "Professionals must be especially careful in this economy not to do anything that could cause employers to question their competence or judgment, and that means paying close attention when sending any kind of message, particularly if the information is sensitive."

There are utilites like those at SperrySoftware.com or SlipStick .com that will prevent a majority of these problems.Of course, no tool can overcome that most insidious of problems - the lack of thinking before hitting Send