Google Street View Hits All Seven Continents

Today google announce that you can now explore Street View imagery on all seven continents, with the addition today of Brazil, Ireland and Antarctica.

The original idea behind Google Street View was a good one: give everyone in the world a view from any street in the world. Of course, when it launched in May 2007, Street View was only available in five cities in the U.S. But the update today — over three years later — completes an impressive feat for the product: it’s now available on every continent. Yes, all seven. Yes, that includes Antarctica. Yes, a place with no real streets.


You can now see images from around the world spanning from the beaches of Brazil, to the moors of Ireland, to the icy terrain in Antarctica.
visit visit the Street View gallery


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Google Phone Gallery

Today google rolled out Google Phone Gallery -- a showcase of Android-powered devices that deliver the best Google experience today. Check it out at http://www.google.com/phone
All the phones in the gallery include Android Market, Google Search, and other Google Mobile services such as Gmail, Maps, and YouTube. There are tools that make it easy to compare phones side by side: you can filter phones by country, manufacturer, and carrier; view and compare technical specifications and features; and find where each phone is available for sale.
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Predictions for the Future of Display Ads by google

1. Google announced two new kinds of video ads for YouTube and predicted that half of display ads would include cost-per-view videos that viewers choose to watch. On YouTube, people will be able to skip video ads they don’t like after five seconds (and the advertiser won’t pay for those views) or choose which of three ads to watch.

2. Half of the audience will be viewing ads in real-time, Google predicted. That means changing elements of ads on the fly based on things like location, the viewer’s interests and the weather. Google demonstrated technology from Teracent, an advertising company it acquired, that changes a car ad depending on whether the viewer is in a sunny or rainy place, is a woman or a man, and prefers shopping or sports. The technology would allow “millions of possible permutations,” Mr. Salzman said.

3. Google has been talking for a while about mobile being a priority and predicted that cellphone screens would be the No. 1 screen for viewing the Web by 2015. In display advertising, that means using phones to bridge the gap between a magazine ad and an online ad. An app called Google Goggles already lets people take photos of things like a landmark to search for them on Google. Eventually, people will be able to take a cellphone photo of a print automobile ad, for instance, and see the car in 3-D, zoom in and visit the company’s Web site.

4. There are metrics more important than clicks. “Whatever the marketing goal is, you should be able to measure it,” Mr. Salzman said. In addition to measuring engagement with rich media ads and video views, other examples of new forms of advertising measurement include “sentiment analysis” that examines “the tone of consumer comments about a brand” and geo-based metrics will allow marketers to measure the increase in foot traffic or to their stores.

5. Three quarters of all ads will be socially enabled. “All users will be able to share an ad, comment on an ad and give feedback on an ad,” said Mr. Mohan. Instead of advertisers talking to consumers directly, Mr. Mohan envisioned “a two-way communication channel between a brand and its consumers.”

6. Rich media ads will comprise 50 percent of all campaigns. According to Mr. Salzman, “Static banner ads will become a thing of the past.” To illustrate his point, Mr. Salzman showed the audience the live video stream of the presentation as it was streamed to ad units on the Advertising Age Web site. He described it as a “meta media phenomenon.”

7. Display advertising will grow to be a $50 billion market.

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Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 IE9 Q and A

Q: What’s so special about IE9?

A: IE9 shows that Microsoft has been learning from its competitors — most notably, Google’s Chrome. Microsoft has also clearly been listening to the complaints of the legions who have made rival browsers Firefox and Chrome serious threats to IE’s dominance in the browser market.

The first thing you’ll notice about IE9 is its interface, which is immediately reminiscent of Google’s Chrome. Like Chrome, IE9 is stripped of most screen elements by default. The title bar, menu bar, and most toolbar buttons are hidden by default. Instead, along the top of the browser window, you’ll see only the Back and Forward buttons, an Address bar which doubles as a search field, tabs for your open websites, and View Favourites and Tools icons, reminiscent of similar icons along Chrome’s top edge. The effect of this lack of clutter is that web pages start to feel more like applications rather than pages running inside of another program.

Happily, all keyboard shortcuts for accessing hidden menus and other features still work. Press Alt-A, for instance, and your Favourites menu appears. The interface is also thoroughly customisable and reacts to changes the way you imagine it would. For instance, if the Address bar seems too narrow to you, just grab it by the right—hand side and extend it as far as you’d like.

Also reminiscent of Chrome is the way IE9 shows your “most popular” (favourite) sites whenever you create a new tab. You can change what appears on new tabs, as you can with Chrome, but the default behaviour of the two browsers is now identical in this respect.

Microsoft’s headline feature for IE9 is hardware-accelerated text, video, and graphics. What this means is that IE9 takes advantage of the hardware in your PC in ways that previous versions did not. The result: faster pages loads and faster display of graphics. Most unofficial tests since the beta release of IE9 show the browser’s speed to be at least on a par now with Firefox, with some tests showing IE9 pulling ahead.

Also out in front on the feature list is tight integration with Windows 7. The most notable evidence of this is the Pinned Sites feature, which refers to the ability to drag a tab from the browser and drop it onto the Windows 7 taskbar, where the site then becomes available with one click in the future. In testing, this feature worked only when the taskbar was located at the bottom of the screen, however — not when it had been moved to the left or right edge.

There are assorted other changes in IE9, as well, and most of them again bring IE up to the performance and usability standards set by other browsers. There are beefed-up security features, for instance, to help protect you against phishing attacks or stumbling upon malware-infested websites. There’s a new download manager that arguably makes downloads easier to organise and find. Also to help with the safety of downloads is a new “download reputation rating” system, which will help you know whether you’re downloading a file from a trusted source. Noteworthy, too, is a new “no add ons” option for launching the browser, which should aid in troubleshooting issues caused by browser plug-ins.

Q: Is IE9 compatible with all version of Windows?

A: Unfortunately, no. The IE9 beta is not compatible with Windows XP. And according to Microsoft insiders, the company has no intention of making the final release of IE9 compatible with Windows XP, either.

IE9 is compatible with Windows Vista and, of course, Windows 7. It is also compatible with Windows Server 2008. Its memory and disk space requirements are unremarkable. Essentially any computer running Vista, Windows 7, or Server 2008 should work fine with IE9.

Q: Is IE9 stable enough for me to use now?

A: IE9 is still beta software. That means that it has too many bugs to be considered ready for widespread release. When the final version is available, it will show up in Windows Update as an upgrade option for users of Windows Vista and Windows 7. You’ll also be able to download the final version separately.

That said, however, the current beta of IE9 will work without issue on the majority of websites. Some sites that don’t display properly will be automatically switched to “compatibility view” by the browser, which takes just a few seconds. Some have also reported browser crashes with IE9 that they did not experience before.

The bottom line is that IE9 will run fine on your computer now, but you should be prepared for the occasional glitch. If that idea bothers you, stick with IE8 or whatever browser you’re currently using. It’s important to note that you cannot run IE9 simultaneously with an earlier version of IE. Once you upgrade, IE9 is the only version of Internet Explorer that you’ll have.

Q: Where can I download IE9?

A: Microsoft has set up a Test Drive site (http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive). Click Get the Beta button to begin the process. Note that if you’re using Windows XP, you won’t see the Get the Beta button, since IE9 will not install on XP.

Tips to create better personal twitter handle

Keep it as short as possible. That way you have a handle that looks good and fits into RTs very easily and the brand association is also better when it is easier to remember . So when you have aa choice between @MyFirstandlastname and @Myname, go for the latter and chuck the former.


Avoid funny characters when possible. Try to stick to a non-complicated sequence of aplhabets , it is better to have @GeorgeB rather than @_I_am_George_B when it is available . Moreover the underscores and numbers are a clear giveaway that there are many folks with the same name and you missed the first stop of the bus


Do not over-use numbers. While it is sometimes unavoidable to use numbers in your handle , try not to go over the moon with them . What I mean is , no one is going to follow a @13_12_2010 , not in their wildest dreams , although the idea of a date is cool , in this context , it is a no-no . You will probably get very few non-bot followers with that kind of handle .


Do not add funny adjectives. I have encountered a very troubled breed of tweeps who cannot resist the temptation to add an adjective like “hot” , “cool” , “sizzling” etc to their handles . Let me assure you that with an adjective like that in your handle , that is what people think you are not and not the other way round . I have even seen blind blocking of such handles.


Be yourself and go for the gut. When you haven’t got a lot of choices and feel like your handle is limiting your brand , remember that ultimately it is what comes through from you that matters more than the handle . Try your best and when your gut says something , go for it . It might just be a matter of time when the handle you wanted becomes available and you can jump on it.

OneTrueFan Is The Foursquare For Websites

OneTrueFan is launching a service for web publishers that allows visitors to earn badges for interacting and sharing content on the site.

OneTrueFan is the brainchild of MyBlogLog’s founders Eric Marcoullier and Todd Sampson. MyBlogLog was acquired by Yahoo in 2007. Unsurprisingly, some of OneTrueFan’s interface is similar to MyBlogLog. OneTrueFan has raised $1.2 million in seed funding from Dave McClure, Jeff Clavier, David Cohen and Bob Pasker

OneTrueFan, which will be available as a browser add-on or as a javascript code that publishers embed on their site, aims to help engage visitors while they are on a website interacting with content. The startup revolves around a game-format that allows you to see who is reading content in the site, compete for the most engagement and encourages you to share content within the service and on social networks.

As users share more content within OneTrueFan, and on social networks like Twitter and Facebook, they can earn points, and special badges from publishers. You’ll be able to see a leaderboard of users who have been sharing content and can mouse over fellow contributors to see more information about how they’ve been interacting with a site. All of this info can be seen on the bottom of a publisher’s website.

OneTrueFan will eventually launch a dashboard that allows web sites get a multi-dimensional view of their readers based upon frequency of visits, amount of content read, regularity of shares and traffic sent. Web site owners can use existing channels, such as Twitter and Facebook, to communicate with readers.


In the future, OneTrueFan will be releasing an API so that publishers can customize the experience for their visitors. In the end, the aim of OneTrueFan is to help publishers increase engagement amongst everyday users and time spent on their sites.

Website:http://onetruefan.com/

BlackBerry PlayBook - Preview

Research In Motion® (RIM) introduced the new professional-grade BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet and BlackBerry® Tablet OS – check out the below video for more details on the new BlackBerry PlayBook!

iphone blackberry android shopping apps

Barcode readers

    RedLaser (free for iPhone): Think "red laser" as in the laser in the scanner at the cash register. By tapping the lightning bolt on the screen and steadying the phone's camera over a barcode, you can get details in a flash. If the camera isn't picking up the barcode, you can tap in the digits in the code. You can create wish lists of your scans and e-mail your list.

It's a great tool for comparison shopping online -- and offline. There's a "local" feature that looks for your products at nearby locations using the location services of your phone.  On many food items, RedLaser calls up nutritional information. Of course, it doesn't always find what you're looking for, but we've had more hits than misses.

Google Shopper (free for Android): This Google app lets you do a voice search and image or barcode search. Same concept, tap and zap. You can share results through many avenues including Bluetooth, e-mail and Twitter. Like RedLaser, this app lets you do comparison shopping online and offline. It also provides reviews when available.

You can also use your Android phone to snap the cover of a book, DVD or video game to get details (available in SnapTell for iPhone).

The voice-searching works fine, too. But it can be a little less specific. For instance, if you just say "The Lucky Ones," you're likely to get a bunch of results to weed through until you find the one you're really looking for. 

ShopSavvy (free for Android, iPhone, Nokia and $1.99 for iPhone 2G): It also offers barcode scanning and wish lists like the other two. ShopSavvy also recognizes QR codes, those codes you may see popping up in stores and magazines that look like some kind of inkblot or obscurist black and white box art. 

Another helpful feature is the price alert for items you're interested in. It lists prices for stores built on clicks and bricks.

Lists

Shopper (free for Android, BlackBerry, 99 cents for iPhone or the free "Lite" version): This is one of the apps that includes RedLaser barcode scanning. There's also a Web interface you can access from your computer of choice. The lists you create are sharable via e-mail or through the app. Shared lists will update with any changes. You can customize your stores lists with those you frequent and get a list of weekly deals. 

You can also use the app to track your grocery budget and spending. It'll calculate what's on your list versus what's in your cart, add in tax and the discount for any coupons you have.

Remember we mentioned scanning? Well, for those of us who are more impulse buyers than planners, you can scan items into your shopping list. And if it's something you plan to buy again, you can make it a favorite to save the information you've already entered.

It'll also send "carts," so you can let your other half know what's already been bought.

Evernote (free for Android, BlackBerry, iPhone, Palm Pre/Pixi, Windows Mobile): This app is one of those gems that you probably have sitting on your phone and never use. But make a note to yourself to use it. Not only is it accessible on multiple smartphone platforms, you can use it on your Mac or PC, making it quite the MVP. You can create text lists, photo and audio notes. We recently used it for both a honey-do list and for mattress shopping, complete with geolocated photos.

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How Facebook Can Conquer Mobile

• Open its own app store. Facebook already has a massive developer community, a payment system and tremendous traffic — three components that are key for any distributor of mobile apps. While it obviously couldn’t deliver applications to iPhone users, Facebook could certainly tap into the booming Android space, not to mention the huge Symbian market.
• Leverage its vast library of contact information. While Android automatically syncs contact information for Facebook users, the company’s iPhone app does little more than add profile pictures to the address book. Facebook has a chance here to expand that integration and add features like presence and location.
• Compete with Google Voice. Improving the sync of contact information paves the way for a user’s Facebook ID to become more important than the phone number itself. Opening up a mobile address book — which is essentially a user’s network of Facebook friends — would allow one to call, IM, text message or email anyone in their network with just a couple of clicks and would be a competitor for Google’s voice service.
• Allow users to share information with specific groups. Facebook has a few hard-to-find settings that users can tweak to give friends varying levels of access to their information, but the company should enable users to create customized groups of friends (like colleagues, family members and college buddies) that would see different kinds of information. Once those settings are established online, they should be easy to find and use on the phone, making it simple to send the right content to the right people without exposing others to it.

How to prevent new orkut virus BomSabado

Today Orkut has been attacked by a new worm named Bom Sabado.(Bom Sabado means "Good Saturday" in Portuguese).It is actually a new script indeed.
This script is believed to be generated from Brazil where Orkut is most popular social networking website. Earlier mysterious links were spreading on Orkut and creating huge problems, that almost made Orkut users quite Orkut!
This new worm spreads on Orkut which sends a scrap with words “Bom Sabado” in it. There are some HTML content also there.
If you open your scrapbook, same scrap will be sent to all your friends from your account.

How it works?
When any one opens a orkut page that is infected by this worm,a javascript will run automatically on that page. Your browser will be hanged for some minutes or seconds. That script will automatically join you some communities.

For Preventive measures you can do the following:
Change your password .
Delete all of your cookies .
If you want to use Orkut then follow these steps :
Open your Host file with notepad :
Windows 95/98/Me C:windowshosts
Windows NT/2000/XP Pro C:winntsystem32driversetchosts
Windows XP Home C:windowssystem32driversetchosts
Windows 7 – C:windowssystem32driversetchosts
Add this code at the end
127.0.0.1 tptools.org
127.0.0.1 www.tptools.org
127.0.0.1 convites.001webs.com
Orkut has disabled creation on new topics on communities for the time being

Bento App for Organizing Business Cards

Bento ($5 for Apple devices) is the program helps users organize a multitude of areas, including projects, To Do items, events, recipes, teams and, yes, business contacts.


Bento is most useful as a mobile companion to Bento 3, a $49 desktop program for the Mac, because it is far easier to type in a list of things to do on a computer keyboard than on a phone. On an iPad, though, that equation changes, since the screen makes project management much more eye-friendly, and typing isn’t so much of a chore.


Business contacts fit nicely in the mobile app, because the app imports names and information stored in your device’s Contacts list. Use the business-card scanning apps to fully populate that list, and you can syndicate those names through whatever projects you manage on Bento.


Since you can store pictures, video and audio clips along with each contact, your personal Rolodex is suddenly much more fun to thumb through.


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VisualBasic for Windows Mobile 7

Today Microsoft announced that developers interested in building applications for Windows Phone 7 can now use Visual Basic to do so, in addition to the previously supported platforms of C#, Silverlight and XNA. This, says Microsoft's Brandon Watson via an official blog post, was the biggest request from the company's developer community to date.

Interested developers can now download the Visual Basic CTP (Community Test Build) for Windows Phone Developer Tools package which includes templates, designer support, emulator and phone support and IntelliSense for Visual Basic, an auto-completion tool used in coding.

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BlackPad new tablet computer from BlackBerry

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. (NasdaqGS: RIMM - News) could unveil its new tablet computer—as well as the operating system that will power it—as early as next week at a developers' conference in San Francisco, said people familiar with RIM's plans.

The tablet, which some inside RIM are calling the BlackPad, is scheduled for release in the fourth quarter of this year, these people said. It will feature a seven-inch touch screen and one or two built-in cameras, they said.

It will have Bluetooth and broadband connections but will only be able to connect to cellular networks through a BlackBerry smartphone, these people said. Since the tablet won't be sold with a cellular service, it's not clear which carriers or retailers will sell the device.


The RIM tablet is being manufactured by Quanta Computer Inc. of Taiwan, and will run on chips from Santa Clara, California based Marvell Technology Group Inc. (NasdaqGS: MRVL - News), according to people familiar with the tablet's manufacturing.

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10 twitter tips

1. 140 characters can be limiting sometimes. Did you know you can shorten your URL when it is too long? Services like Bitly or Tinyurl are some tools to help this

2. Use a real picture as your avatar. It personalizes the experience and connects you to your followers.

3. Use twitter search to find people to follow or groups of people who have similar interests. Good examples of must follows include @shunmugam1234 @Chrisbrogan @SethGodin @Kakief @Burbursfriends ;D

4. Build relationships one person at a time. Retweets are one way to do this. If you see a tweet that you think might add value to your followers be sure to use this feature. Here is an example of what a Retweet might look like on Twitter: “

RT @KakieF: Advanced Screening Movie Review: “The Social Network” Based o Mark Zuckerberg and Story Behind Facebook: wp.me/ptP4G-yt “

5. Acknowledge new followers at Social Oomph. This allows you to automatically send a direct message to people who follow you. Be sure the direct message says something authentic and does not have a link in it.

6. A hashtag starts with (#) and is a way to identify a certain trend or group of people.

7. Find a good mobile phone application to tweet from your phone.

8. There are great desktop tools out there to help you manage your accounts. Tweetdeck, Hootesuite, Twhirl are some examples

9. Personalize yourself by sharing photos using twitpic, flickr, etc. In addition, use a real picture as your avatar. It personalizes the experience and connects you to your followers.

10. Listen before you tweet. In other words, observe how others are using it in different circles. It is amazing what you will learn.

Nokia releases Qt 4.7 new mobile UI framework

Nokia has announced the official release of Qt 4.7, a new version of the company's open source development toolkit. The update introduces an impressive new framework called "Qt Quick" that accelerates the development of mobile user interfaces that work across multiple platforms and form factors.

Qt is a cross-platform development toolkit created by Norwegian company Trolltech, which was acquired by Nokia in 2008. Qt—which is used by mainstream commercial software vendors like Google, Adobe, Amazon, Autodesk, and Skype—offers a broad set of libraries, a comprehensive widget toolkit, and a pre-processing tool that extends the C++ programming language and object model with a number of advanced features.


Under Nokia's stewardship, Qt has gained some extremely sophisticated new features for creating mobile user interfaces. The Qt Quick framework, which is the result of those efforts, is now available for use in version 4.7. The Qt Quick stack primarily consists of a new declarative scripting language called QML that allows developers to describe flexible user interface layouts. QML can be used seamlessly with JavaScript as glue code for controlling the behavior of the user interface.

The collection of standard layout elements that are supported by default in QML greatly simplify the process of creating a finger-friendly user interface. Features like kinetic scrolling are tightly integrated, and useful effects like animated transitions are trivially easy to achieve. The QML language emphasizes a design-driven workflow and makes it easier to turn a free-form mockup into a working user interface. Qt Quick is a lot less rigid than a conventional user interface toolkit because it encourages developers to piece together their own distinctive user experiences using arbitrary graphical assets rather than discrete widgets.

It's possible to build entire applications with only QML and JavaScript, but QML is even more powerful when it is used in conjunction with C++. Qt 4.7 offers a declarative view widget that developers can use to load a QML layout inside of a conventional Qt window in a C++ application. The C++ program's underlying functions and data structures can be exposed through the declarative view and made accessible in QML, allowing developers to implement the performance-sensitive parts of their program in C++ but use QML to create a rich user interface on top.

QML is designed to take advantage of Qt's powerful model/view/controller (MVC) framework, meaning that existing Qt applications designed around Qt's MVC classes will be easy to refit with a QML user interface. This opens up a path for bringing existing Qt desktop applications to mobile devices. Developers merely have to add a few roles to their model and then expose it to a QML view, where a touchscreen-friendly interface can be created with a little bit of declarative scripting.

You can download the Qt 4.7 SDK from the Qt website.

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New online Google tool Transparency Report

Google released a new online tool on Tuesday that shows where the Internet giant's services and products such as YouTube are being blocked around the world.

The new tool, which is called "Transparency Report" and located at google.com/transparencyreport, will "allow people to see where governments are demanding that we remove content and where Google services are being blocked."

It will help show whether traffic disruptions in services and products such as Google Search, Google Earth, Google Maps, Google News and YouTube "are related to mechanical outages or are government-induced."

The Transparency Report shows that YouTube has been blocked in Iran, for example, since June 12, 2009 following the country's disputed presidential election.

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HowTo Improve Your Blog’s Alexa Rank

• Use Toolbar : Install Alexa Toolbar. Alexa currently has toolbar for IE and Firefox only, hard luck for Chrome and Opera users. Now set your blog as homepage in both the browsers. You can do this in your relatives and friends house or even in browsing centers.
• Use Widget : Many blog owners found this tip useful. Placing Alexa Rank Widget in your blog helps a lot. But it is worth trying.
• Consistency : Alexa rank automatically improves if you update your blog frequently with good contents. Update your blog daily for a better Alexa rank.
• Write About Alexa : Many bloggers love to learn the tips for improving Alexa rank. They’ll link to you and send you targeted traffic. It is better to keep ‘Alexa’ as a category or a tag.
• Reviews And Ratings : Some bloggers claim this tip has something to do with Alexa rank. Try to increase reviews and ratings for your Alexa website profile.
• Update Info : Update your listing data and blog’s site info using their Self-service tools. It gives a professional touch to it.
• Claim The Blog : Create an Alexa account or use your existing Facebook account and claim your blog. You can verify by uploading a text file or using a meta tag code

VLC player Now on Your iPhone and iPad

VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework, that plays most multimedias files and various streaming protocols.

VLC for iPad has hit the iTunes App Store, bringing with it support for a far wider ranger of video and audio formats than are natively supported by Apple.

Compatible with iPad. Requires iPhone OS 3.2 or later.

Source: itunes.apple.com

first gold dispensing ATM machine

The first gold dispensing ATM machine in the world. Emirates Palace in Abu Dhab

Use Outlook to Take a Vote

Many a time, you need quick feedback from a group of colleagues for their schedules, opinions, or priorities. Such information comes in handy when fixing meetings, scheduling after-work events, arranging extra training sessions, and taking a rough poll of people's views on a certain subject or project. Microsoft’s Outlook makes this process easy for you through Voting Buttons. Here is a detailed guide for using this feature.

Outlook wraps up the entire process of seeking votes in two quick steps – creation of Vote buttons (Yes or No), and tallying responses when they come in.

To create voting buttons:

• Create a New Message
• Select the "Options" tab
• Select "Use Voting Buttons"
• Choose from options provided (Approve-Reject, Yes-No, Yes-No-Maybe, or Custom).
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Now, draft your email – clearly state the question that needs to be voted on, set the requisite deadlines, include all appropriate recipients, and send it. Recipients will see a note above the "From" field – Vote by clicking "Vote" in the Respond group above. They will also notice the "Vote" button, which displays your chosen options, when pressed.

Reply emails will have the voting option selected in the subject line. You can now tally the votes yourself, or let Outlook do the job, especially if you are dealing with a large number of respondents.

To tally the votes:

• Go to Sent Items
• Open the message that had voting buttons
• In the Ribbon, go to the "Show" section and select "Tracking"
• You will see the total number of replies, followed by a list of the individual votes.

Samsung unveils digital video store Media Hub

Samsung on Thursday announced, a digital video store called Media Hub where users will be able to download movies and TV shows onto Samsung phones, the upcoming Galaxy Tab device and personal computers.

Renting a movie will cost $3 to $5 and buying one will cost $10 to $15. TV shows cost $2 per episode and cannot be rented.

Samsung's Media Hub files will be wrapped in copyright protection, which limits the number of devices that can store each video to five.

Videos are also confined to the small screens. While some devices, including Samsung's upcoming tablet computer, have the ability to transmit video to a TV, the Media Hub content won't display on an external screen.

Samsung's Galaxy S smart phones will gain access to Media Hub later this month. The Galaxy Tab, an Android tablet with a 7-inch touch screen, will also have the store. Software for PCs will be available in the fourth quarter of this year, Kim said.

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iPhone Apps for Filmmaking

Hitchcock by Cinemek inc (Cost: $19.99)

(iPhone, OS: 3.0 or later)

Cinemek® Hitchcock for iPhone and iPod Touch is a mobile storyboard and pre-visualization composer designed for Directors, Directors of Photography, Producers, Writers, Animators, Art Directors, film students and anyone who wants to be able to visualize their story.


pcampCam by David Eubank (Cost: $39.99)

(iPhone/iPod Touch, OS: 2.2.1or later)

A Motion Picture and Still Photography calculator for Directors of Photography, Photographers, Camera Operators, Camera Assistants, VFX Supervisors, Script Supervisors, Gaffers, Grips, Editors, Production Designers, Art Directors, Film and Photography Students. Created by the same Hollywood Camera Assistant who created the widely used Palm version.



pcamAction Log Pro Andris Ltd (Cost: $29.99)

(iPhone/iPod Touch, OS: 2.0 or later)

Action Log is a film and television logging tool, designed for use on location or in a studio with up to 25 recording devices. At the touch of a button the logging system keeps track of all reel names and timecodes for each recorded piece of action.


pcamScreenplay by Black Mana Studios. (Cost: $2.99)

(iPhone/iPod Touch, OS: 3.0 or later)

Black Mana Studios’ Screenplay is the world’s first fully-functional mobile screenwriting application. It allows professionals and hobbyists alike to write complete movie and television screenplays directly on the iPhone or iPod Touch.



pcamFiRe by Audiofile Engineering. (Cost: $9.99)

(iPhone/iPod Touch, OS: 3.0 or later)

FiRe was created specifically to be a field recorder for the iPhone, not a voice or memo recorder. It is a truly professional recorder developed for audio professionals by audio professionals. It has many professional features other recorders don’t. In addition to supporting stereo recording, it’s the first iPhone recorder to display an accurate audio waveform in real time, and the first to support markers, Broadcast WAVE metadata, and the instant downloading of files in multiple file formats. FiRe is also the first recorder of its kind to offer native SoundCloud integration.


pcamPocketLD by Michael Zinman. (Cost: $19.99)

(iPhone/iPod Touch, OS: 3.0 or later)

A photometric database and calculator with a vast array of the most popular lighting instruments for film and stage lighting. Need to know what an ARRI 10K fresnel lamp at 25’ will deliver in beam spread and footcandles? The Gaffer’s best reference tool.



pcamGel Swatch Library by Wybron. (Cost: $9.99)

(iPhone/iPod Touch, OS: 3.0 or later)

Browse, search, and compare over 1,000 GAM, Lee, Apollo and Rosco gel colors with Wybron’s Gel Swatch Library™ for the iPhone and iPod touch. The Gel Swatch Library gives you multiple ways to find the perfect color for your production. Scroll through lists of gels made by each manufacturer, or search for a specific gel name. Spectral Energy Distribution curves and CMY/RGB percentages listed for each color provide the vital data you need to create breathtaking scenes.

pcamMyWeather by MyWeather, LLC. (Cost: $4.99)

(iPhone/iPod Touch, OS: 3.0 or later)

MyWeather Mobile is a feature rich weather application with animated looping radar and satellite, 36-hour temperature, precipitation and wind speed/direction graphs (USA only), 7-day forecasts, over 10,000 U.S. cities and now thousands of international cities. You can also rotate the phone horizontally to view FULL-SCREEN radar animation and 36 hour trend graphs (USA only).




pcamArtemis by Chemical Wedding. (Cost: $29.99)

(iPhone/iPod Touch, OS: 3.0 or later)

Artemis is a digital directors viewfinder for the iPhone. Designed with both cinematographers and directors in mind, Artemis works in much the same way as a traditional directors viewfinder, though much more accurately and much more conveniently. After selecting a camera format, aspect ratio and lens type, Artemis uses the camera in the iPhone to simulate the lens views you can expect when you come to shoot. You can either compare all the lenses (as above) or hit zoom and the camera will zoom in to fill the viewfinder with the equivalent view of the lens you’ve chosen.

Microsoft launches IE9 beauty of the web

Microsoft launches the beta version of the browser internet explorer(IE9) in an event at the San Francisco Design Center. The software is now available for free download at
beautyoftheweb.com

Microsoft says that IE9 is a reinvention of the browser. It not only includes greater HTML5 and web standard compliance, but also the ability to turn any website into an application on the Windows taskbar. Thee websites are pinned to the taskbar, providing users with a one-click option to a their favorite websites.


IE9 makes what’s easy and familiar for Windows users available for websites and the people who browse them. Users can pin sites in the taskbar just as they pin applications, and launch web tasks directly, the same way they launch everything else in Windows. Websites can program jump lists for pinned sites, to make common tasks easier for their users as part of the desktop experience. Sites can also program notifications when the user pins them in the task bar. The browser has a clean new design that reinforces the site’s visuals, with a large site icon, and that icon’s colors reflected in the back and forward buttons. IE9 does far more than provide shortcuts to sites on the desktop and reduce the space used in the browser interface.


All but the most essential interface elements in the browser have been removed or hidden in IE9, by default. As a result, the contents of the site you’re viewing don’t have to fight with logos, toolbars, menus, and buttons. There’s no search box in the upper right corner. The command bar and Favorites bar are hidden. There’s no status bar along the bottom. The Refresh and Stop button are in gray instead of color, and three gray buttons in the upper right corner offer access to the Home page, Favorites, and Tools, respectively. (All of those buttons change to color if you pass a mouse pointer over them.) Tabs for open pages are smaller, crisper in design, and located in a band to the right of the address bar. The only element that’s bigger and brighter than its predecessor is the blue Back button in the top left corner.


One Box – The address bar in IE9 still doubles as a search field, but it now has more capabilities. The default search engine is obviously Bing, but you can install Google, Wikipedia, Amazon, Facebook and lots of others through the Add-On page. We're actually becoming bigger fans of Bing by the day, and keeping it as the default search engine has its advantages: typing in terms like "Weather NYC" brought up the temperature and conditions inline, and typing a name like "Hillary Clinton" an image of our lovely Secretary of State. The bar also displays history results.


Download manager – Can we get a loud "finally" on this one!? Yes, IE9 adds a real download manager that lets you see what you've recently downloaded as well as see the progress of a current download. Our program downloads appeared in the manager, but oddly a picture download didn't. It also has a SmartScreen Filter, as it's been dubbed, that alerts you to security issues. Alerts appear within the browser window now rather than as a pop-up.


IE9 will also have more security features that makes it easier for people to check on the risks of downloading software, and remove it if it's been downloaded.

Russian scientist discovers anti-ageing drug

Vladimir Skulachyov, a bioenergetics professor in Moscow, says he has been working on this for more than 40 years. The treatment is based on how oxygen reacts in the body and says the difficult part has been to try and prevent side effects.


If the wonder drug lives up to its promise, the implications could be huge in preventing ageing and increasing the prospect of a longer and better quality of life.


99% of the time oxygen turns into harmless water, but there's that one per cent that turns into a super-oxide that later turns into very poisonous elements," said Skulachyov.


The Russian scientist says the medicine will go on sale in just a few years. The treatment looks complicated and it certainly is. For Skulachyov, it is almost a life's work. Two more years of testing and the doctor thinks he will have finally cracked the enigma of aging.

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Twitter Announces a New Media-Rich Twitter.com

Twitter revealed a site revamp that changes the interface, introduces new features and promises to be "faster, easier and richer."


Two-pane interface.
Twitter is getting rid of its single-panel interface of streaming tweets and updating it with two panes, making the site more interactive and user-friendly.


The left side will look familiar—this is where your tweet stream will appear as well as your actions (@Mentions, retweets, lists, etc.). The left side of your stream will display a visibly larger reorganization of information, such as your followers, who you're following, favorite tweets, lists, trends and suggestions of who to follow.
The new interface is clean and well organized. Lists and trends are easier to view (requiring less scrolling) than with the old Twitter.


2. Embedded media.
If you clicked on a TwitPic link in the old Twitter, the link would send you to the external site. Clicking on a TwitPic link in the new Twitter, however, will display the photo on the right half of the page—without leaving Twitter.com. You'll also see more information such as other tweets that have linked to that same image.


Videos, too, will be embedded. If you click on a tweet containing a link to a YouTube video, the video will pay right on Twitter.com instead of redirecting you to YouTube. This eliminates the hassle of closing multiple browser tabs once you're done viewing.


During the announcement, Twitter noted that it has "done deals with 16 media providers," some of which include YouTube, TwitPic, Etsy, Flickr and Ustream, but didn't address specifics of the deals.

Nokia E7-features specifications benefits prices

Overview

• 4” AMOLED touch screen and QWERTY
• Real-time work and personal emails
• Maps with free GPS navigation
• 8 MP camera and HD video
• Fully integrated social networks

personal communication

• Get emails direct from Hotmail, Yahoo!, Gmail, Ovi Mail and others.
• Chat through many IM services – Windows Messenger, Ovi Chat and more.
• Live updates from Facebook and Twitter on the home screen.
• Update your status across all your social networks at the same time.
• Follow your conversations easily with threaded SMS chats

Powered by Symbianˆ3

• Enjoy over 250 new features from the Symbianˆ3 operating system.
• Personalise your home screen to fit your needs.
• Easier, more intuitive touch-screen controls.
• Multitask without sacrificing battery life.
• Develop your own apps with ease.

Design

Size

• Screen size: 4"
• Resolution: 16:9 nHD (640 x 360 pixels) AMOLED
• 16 million colours
• Capacitive touch screen
• Orientation sensor (Accelerometer)
• Compass (Magnetometer)
• Proximity sensor
• Ambient light detector

Keys and input methods

• Full QWERTY keyboard
• Home key, Power key, Lock key, Camera key, Volume key
• Finger touch support for text input and UI control
• On-screen alphanumeric keypad and full keyboard
• Possibility to use capacitive stylus
• Full screen handwriting recognition
• Handwriting recognition for Chinese

Hardware

Power Management

• BL-4D 1200 mAh Li-Ion battery

Keys and input methods

• Full QWERTY keyboard
• Home key, Power key, Lock key, Camera key, Volume key
• Finger touch support for text input and UI control
• On-screen alphanumeric keypad and full keyboard
• Possibility to use capacitive stylus
• Full screen handwriting recognition
• Handwriting recognition for Chinese

Software

• Symbian^3 OS for Nokia
• Java MIDP 2.1
• Qt 4.6.2, Web Runtime 7.2
  
  • HTML 4.1
• Software updates Over the Air (FOTA) and Over the internet (FOTI)
• Flash Lite 4.0
• OMA DM 1.2, OMA Client provisioning 1.1

Camera

• 8 megapixel camera
• Fullscreen 16:9 viewfinder with easy-to-use touchscreen parameters
• Dual LED flash
• Face recognition software
• Still images file format: JPEG/EXIF
• Zoom up to 2x (digital) for still images
• Zoom up to 3x (digital) for video
• Secondary camera for video calls (VGA, 640 x 480 pixels)

SourceNokia.com

For complete specifications and features please visit Nokia.com

Scientists Make Artificial Skin in Robotics

Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have developed a new technology that may help robots feel, give the sense of touch back to those with prosthetic limbs, and ultimately help robots do the dishes without breaking them (and while they're at it, maybe make a sandwich without turning it into land of the flatlanders).

Biotech wizards have engineered electronic skin that can sense touch, in a major step towards next-generation robotics and prosthetic limbs.

The lab-tested material responds to almost the same pressures as human skin and with the same speed, they reported in the British journal Nature Materials.

Important hurdles remain but the exploit is an advance towards replacing today's clumsy robots and artificial arms with smarter, touch-sensitive upgrades, they believe.

"Humans generally know how to hold a fragile egg without breaking it," said Ali Javey, an associate professor of computer sciences at the University of California at Berkeley, who led one of the research teams.

"If we ever wanted a robot that could unload the dishes, for instance, we'd want to make sure it doesn't break the wine glasses in the process. But we'd also want the robot to grip the stock pot without dropping it."

The "e-skin" has the capability of sensing not only touch but also pressure. Imagine a robot setting the table and being able to feel the amount of pressure to place on dinnerware. The possibilities are endless, and the benefit to mankind is enormous.

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Amazing Android Apps

The Android Market, you will soon discover has hundreds of apps (applications), games and widgets, both free and paid, to make your phone a more useful, multipurpose and entertaining device. Here is a list of applications you could do well to download:

Advanced task killer:

In order to save on battery drain due to multiple applications running simultaneously, it is advisable to download the Advanced Task Killer, or ATK. The application gathers a list of all the applications on your mobile and runs on three levels – safe, aggressive and crazy. Or you manually choose the apps you wish to kill, and ignore the ones you want left alone.

ColorNote:

This is a simple note-taking app. It allows you to create different notes and checklists, and give them a specific title and color. You can lock your notes with a password. You can sort your notes alphabetically, by time created or by color. You can also do a search for quick access. The app also allows you to backup and import your notes from SD card, and add “stickies” to your home screen. The downside is that you cannot share, SMS or email your notes.

Document scanner/ Portable scanner:

This app scans documents using your phone camera, and converts them into PDF files. You can then email the files, save them to your SD card, or upload to Google docs. On the downside, this Beta app will soon go paid.

Flashlight:

Great for when you want to find your way around in the theater! This app has options such as a color flashlight, strobe light, blink, spiral, candle and more.

Handcent/ ChompSMS:

The default SMS applications typically leave a lot to be desired. With these applications, you can take customization to a whole new level. This includes changing fonts, font sizes, background colors and images, speak your SMS, blacklist, search, add signature and display messages in iPhone like bubble style.

Folder Organizer lite:

Once you have a whole bunch of apps downloaded, your next problem will be quick and easy access. Simply having them on your home screen will be messy. Folder Organizer Lite creates a list of all your apps, games, contacts and bookmarks, and lets you display these on your home screen in widgets, of which you have three sizes to choose from. It also gives you choices in icons, fonts display etc, and the fully paid version offers you more conveniences.

Tripit:

This is a great travel organizer. You simply forward your travel confirmation emails to TripIt and it automatically creates master travel itineraries. After that, you just need to click to check flight status on any airline, view confirmation numbers from rental car suppliers, or get directions to hotels. The paid version gives additional features like flight alerts and alternate flight options.

So visit the Android Market and add more capabilities to your already souped up droid today!

Maxthon 3.0 launched

Maxthon, the long-lasting Internet Explorer alternative based on the Trident layout engine (developed by Microsoft and used for IE) released its latest version (3.0) which utilized two engines for its rendering needs - Trident and WebKit (Chrome, Safari).

its dual-engine architecture Maxthon 3.0 is fast, and able to display correctly more sites than any other browser. The choice between WekKit and Trident is made automatically, depending on the page visited so the users won't hate to worry about anything except enjoying the surfing experience.

Beside the two engines, Maxthon also includes features like:

 - Online Favorites, History and Browser Settings - MX3 stores your favorites and browser settings securely in the cloud for use from any machine with Maxthon on it, anywhere.

 - Surf By Mouse - Tie and trigger a number browser commands to quick mouse cursor actions.

 - Smart Address Bar - MX3 remembers and suggests URLs based on your favorites and browsing activity.

 - Magic Fill - Securely save and manage your growing collection of website usernames and passwords and let MX3 log you in to any site.

Maxthon 3 can be downloaded for Windows from here

Google Instant search

Google Instant is a new search enhancement that shows results as you type.
The basic change means that users will find a changing set of results in the middle of the page each time they type in a character into the search box.

Benefits

Faster Searches: By predicting your search and showing results before you finish typing, Google Instant can save 2-5 seconds per search.


Smarter Predictions:
Even when you don’t know exactly what you’re looking for, predictions help guide your search. The top prediction is shown in grey text directly in the search box, so you can stop typing as soon as you see what you need.


Instant Results:
Start typing and results appear right before your eyes. Until now, you had to type a full search term, hit return, and hope for the right results. Now results appear instantly as you type, helping you see where you’re headed, every step of the way.

Stream Video From Your Computer To Your TV

Warpia offers a device that plugs directly into a laptop and lets you stream everything from the computer wirelessly to a television or computer monitor.

There are two models to chose from; both allow full sharing of the entire computer screen.

The main device, a Wireless USB Audio & Video Display Adapter Set, costs $170 and is designed specifically to stream content from a computer directly to a high definition television. The video quality is crisp and clear, provided your laptop is within line of sight of the TV module and not too far away. I found the quality dropped off at around 30 feet. Although this version works only on PCs, a Mac version will be available in the coming months.

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how to use McAfee data loss prevention program

• Test system to make sure that it gathers minimum requirements like 100 Mbit LAN serving all endpoints and DLP DB server, 80 GB Hard Disk and Microsoft Windows 2003 or later.
• Go to website and buy McAfee Data Loss Prevention software.
• Install this software to network. Attach to all end points containing laptops and thus get better safety.
• Set system to level of data protection you want. Maintain information from being downloaded to any detachable media. Handle how and when data is sent from anywhere on network.
• This software used to maintain track of usage data for network managers.
• Block, clean and check all data on network and know what programs and data being utilized at any given time.

WaveSecure App for Backup your Mobile Data

WaveSecure Backup for Java runs on non-smartphones and helps keep your personal data safe by letting you back up or restore your data securely. You can also move data between phones easily.

Key Features

• Remotely lock down your device
• Wipe out important data stored on your mobile to protect your privacy
• Back up your data from your phone or remotely on the web
• Access your data online from anywhere. Restore your data to a new phone
• Locate your lost phone and plot the locations on a map
• Track SIM cards inserted and phone calls made to help get your lost phone back

WaveSecure runs on major mobile phone platforms including Google Android, BlackBerry, Symbian and Microsoft Windows Mobile. If you don't have a smartphone, WaveSecure Backup is available for phones that run Java.

simple and quick fixes for cellphones

• Accidentally dropped your phone inside a water pool? It is almost dead. Chill, there is still a chance to revive it.
• Just remove the battery cover and put the phone in a plastic bag of dry rice. This may help you soak out the water from your phone. You can also put the bag out in sun for quick evaporation
• Looking for an important email, and the trackball on your smartphone just refuses to scroll.
  It's dust and dirt. Just like in a computer mouse, dust and dirt also make the movement of your trackball tardy. Just soak alcohol in a cloth and rub it over and around the trackball. Another way can be to pop out the trackball and clean it manually.
• An aging cellphone can often give tough time charging the device. Also, charging connector within the phone also at times gets damaged, loose or corroded. For mild corrosion, scrubbing the connector with a soft brush or a cloth soaked in alcohol can help.
  However, for damaged or loose connector one needs to visit the repair centre.
• Got scratches on your mobile phone's body, there is a simple way to get rid of them. Just do a light buffing with fine sandpaper. However, this may affect the shiny coating of your phone.
• Scratches on your phone's screen gives you a tough time reading? Applying metal polish with a soft cloth may help here.
• Special scratch removal liquids and gels are also available.
• Your phone often hangs? It simply refuses to respond. Here the first step is to switch off the device and power it again. In case this does not work, remove the battery and reboot it.
• Another way to restore it is to try connecting it to your computer. Also, look for instructions in your phone's settings or menu. It might help.
• Your phone's case got cracks. But its working, so all seems to be fine. Not really, continuing with a phone with a cracked case can be damaging for your phone in the long run as it exposes your phone to dust and water. To protect it from further damage go for a close-fitting case.

NASA posts archived photos on Flickr

NASA Images documenting more than half a century,posted on photo-sharing website Flickr.




Almost 200 pictures have been uploaded on the site. And just as if they were your best friend’s vacation photos posted on the site, you can add tags or keywords to the images to identify objects and people.



So, for the aerospace buffs out there, you have the chance to show off a bit and add what you know, as well as peruse some amazing pictures. For those living in Southern California, there is some local flavor because many of the events captured in the photos take place right here.



In all, there are three sets of pictures:



"Launch and Takeoff" features 104 shots of iconic spacecraft and aircraft taking flight.



"Building NASA" is made up of 44 photos of the construction of NASA facilities.



"NASA Center Namesakes" highlights 32 photos of the leaders that NASA's 10 main centers are named after.
Source:LATimes.com