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

Tips for Gmail Priority Inbox

GMail launches Priority Inbox, a radical new way to sort mail, Google has hugely changed the way you can process and manage email. As Gmail Product Director Keith Coleman says, “Once you go priority, you never go back.”

The set-it-and-forget-it solution has actually existed in various states of completion for years, dating all the way back to pre-release versions of Gmail (Gmail). The feature was picked up again 18 months ago, and today we can finally experience it for ourselves.

Priority Inbox is an algorithmic solution to email overload. Gmail attempts to automatically process your email by factoring in variable such as who the email was sent by, how many people it was sent to and the keywords included in the subject and body of the message.

You can use Priority Inbox with its out-of-the-box default settings, or you can tweak it to your liking by using the plus and minus symbols atop the inbox to “teach” Gmail which emails are important.

We’ve also identified a few more complex tips for those of you looking to maximize productivity and use some of the less obvious features of Priority Inbox.

Source : GMail Blog