Archive for March, 2009
Worlds Toughest GSM Cell Phone: Sonim’s XP1
Be it wind, water, dust, dirt, mud, extreme temperatures, or crushing weights; Sonims’s rugged mobile GSM phone XP1 is tested for endurance and proven capable of lasting extreme environmental and industrial conditions.
It is the only phone designed to meet the needs of people working outdoors in intense situations. The XP1 works without problems in harsh temperatures and doesn’t die on you if you accidentally drop it in a puddle or a hard rough surface, tossed into a toolbox or even kicked around. It can be seen and heard in bright, dark and very noisy conditions and can be relied upon to provide dependable voice, push-to-talk and data services.
Let’s Play Space Invaders Arcade Game
Space Invaders was designed and programmed by Toshihiro Nishikado for Taito, Japan in 1978 and remains one of the most popular arcade games ever made.
Space Invaders was originally going to be called something completely different as the aliens were originally soldiers which you had to shoot down. They decided that it was politically unwise to encourage killing humans so changed the people into aliens.
The game was licensed from Taito by Midway for production in the US. In 1980, the game was licensed by Atari for the 2600 game system and was the first arcade game ever adapted for Atari’s home system. The Space Invaders franchise has flourished for more than 20 years and according to Taito, the game has generated more than $500 million in revenues over multiple platforms including coin-op, the Atari 2600 and the Nintendo. It was based on a 8080 CPU, had muffled analog audio, and simulated color by putting a transparent overlay on top of a monochrome display. Read More here
Linutop: The Compact Linux Computer
Linutop is a ready to use, small computer that has been designed to reduce maintenance costs. It uses the Linutop operating system that is stored on an internal flash memory and cannot be altered by virus or mishap. You can always recover the initial state at each start up.
This small computer comes with free, standard ready to use Linux software, Firefox, Open Office, VLC Media player, and can be easily customized with additional software.
With no moving parts, Linutop offers a completely silent (0 dB), energy efficient operation in an extremely small package.
This amazingly compact computer is extremely useful for public access Internet Kiosks. It can be set up with Firefox, or any other Internet access software as the starting application, with predefined parameters. The kiosk settings can be protected with a password so that the initial state is always recovered at each start up. The software is stored on an internal flash memory; therefore it is safe from virus and mishap. Ideally, it can be placed in waiting rooms, hospitals, hotel lobbies and other such public places.
18 Firefox Tweaks to Improve Speed and Performance
The best thing about Firefox is the way it lets you do whatever you like with it. If you love the fox as much as I do, and have shunned all the other browsers for Firefox like I have, but cant help being frustrated when sometimes it slows down because you have 40 tabs open in four different windows, or you can’t afford to upgrade your RAM to a reasonable amount… yet (like me), here’s something that will cheer you up. It doesn’t matter if you are a computer rookie or a seasoned veteran in this field, these few easy-to-do tweaks will really get Firefox performing just as fast as you want it to; probably even faster.
By tweaking the way Firefox handles some caching functions, you can improve the page load speed and even free up the RAM it is hogging while minimized. Do not fear if you have never touched your configuration file before, just follow these simple steps and you’ll have it done in no time.
Faster Browsing on Internet Explorer Download ie7pro
Good news for Internet Explorer users. There is a cool add-on available for free which includes a lot of features and tweaks to make your IE friendlier, more useful, secure and customizable.
Features of this add-on includes
- Tabbed Browsing Management
- Spell Check
- Inline Search
- Super Drag Drop
- Crash Recovery
- Proxy Switcher
- Mouse Gesture
- Tab History Browser
- Web Accelerator
- User Agent Switcher
- Webpage Capturer
- AD Blocker
- Flash Block
- Greasemonkey like User Scripts platform
- User Plug-ins
and many more power packed features.
You can customize not just Internet Explorer, but even your favorite website according to your need and taste using the add-on. The add-on is named as IE7Pro and is completely free.
Worldwide Developers Conference 2009 (WWDC2009)
Worldwide Developers Conference 2009 (WWDC2009) has been announced by the World leading company in the manufacturing of computers, Apple. This conference is scheduled to take place in the first or second week of June, similar to every year.
The venue of this WWDC is Moscone Center, West, San Francisco and will continue from June 8 to June 12. Every one in the technology field is waiting for this happening event.
WWDC is very useful to Developers and IT professionals. They get benefit from it by acquiring exhaustive technical guidance and hands-on learning experience about upcoming and exiting technologies in iPhone OS and Mac OS X from the creators of this technology i.e. Apple engineers.
How to Achieve Online Anonymity in 10 minutes
We all know how useful internet is in today’s world. It’s your ultimate source of pretty much everything you need information on, your medium of staying in touch with friends and relatives across the globe, it is what you use to express your feelings and opinions on anything and everything you feel strongly about, and it may even be your bread and butter. In short, in this era where technology has pretty much taken our lives over, it’s impossible to imagine what life without internet would be.
But you must remember that though it connects you to the world, it can expose you to the world as well. What most innocent web users don’t realize is that anonymity is the best policy when using the internet. Initially, it’s a great feeling to see your name pop up when you search it on Google, but what you don’t realize is that, that Stumbleupon photo blog that was automatically generated when you added your ratings to that nude photo has also made it to all the search engines. Similarly, your funny home movies, your age, your personal information that you carelessly added to your MySpace or Facebook or other social networking profiles all becomes public information for anyone who wants to see it.
Nano Technology in Healthcare- Devices that smells out illness
A new scientist reported that U.S. researchers used nanoparticles to ‘smell’ the scent of illnesses in fluids of the body. The researchers used nanoparticles of gold with different coatings so that they can distinguish among different proteins and could be able to detect the illness.
As said by Vince Rotello from the University of Massachusetts the human nose has got a series of receptors, which react differently to different compounds. Thus the receptors do not react to a specific smell, but it is a generalized response produced by the receptors, that creates the smell.
Vince Rotello made a team with his colleagues from the university and with scientists from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and then he applied the same ‘nose-principle’ to detect proteins.
The ‘nano nose’ is a system of six receptors, each one consisting of a solution with gold nano particles which are not larger than 2 nanometers, each one having a different coating too. Nitrogen atoms form the organic molecules which develops the coating of the nano particles.
10 Best Add-ons – Making Firefox Private and Secure
Everyone seems concerned about his Privacy and Security while browsing web, but not everyone knows how to stay secure and how to make things private. Many of you will already be using some software or different kind of tools to maintain their security, but here is a list of free add-on which are available to be used with Firefox. You may install and download them if they suits your needs. Sorry to users of IE, Safari and other web-browsers and I can not spend my time surfing for add-ons working on those browsers as well.
Stealther
If you want to browse in a private mode, then you should go for Stealther. You will be provided an environment to browse the web which can note be traced. It temporary disables the following:
- Browsing History (also in Address bar)
- Cookies
- Downloaded Files History
- Disk Cache
- Saved Form Information
- Sending of ReferrerHeader
- Recently Closed Tabs list
There are some other extensions available for Firefox which also let you browse securely but none of them is as good as Stealther. This is what is claimed by Stealther.
The add-on is affective on version 1.0 to 3.o of Firefox.You may download it from here
Close ‘n’ Forget
As the name suggests, just close the current tab and forget what you were browsing. Related cookies will also be closed as well as the full domain is also cleared. To clear the domain, configuration is required.
The add-on is effective for Firefox 2.0 and higher versions. You may download it from here
WOT
If you are looking for a shield which can warn you from risky websites which are scamming their visitors, or spending spam or delivering malware then you must give WOT (Web Of Trust) a try. WOT works as a front-line layer preventing your computer against online threats. WOT has color-coded icons which show you ratings of the websites. Just like a traffic signal, WOT is composed of three colors, each giving you a special meaning for a website. Lets understand what each color means for WOT:
- Red: to stop
- Yellow: caution
- Green: to go; website is safe
WOT also lets you sets a protection level for children by blocking inappropriate content.
WOT works with Firefox 1.5 and above versions. You may download WOT from here.
Amazing Invention – A Complete Computer in a 160mm ball
Today’s technology is at its peak point beyond what we could ever imagine. New inventions and innovations are emerging on daily basis. No one would have seen such amazing thing before. Our imaginations have dressed into reality and today it has become possible to have a whole computer in our pocket all the time. This ball computer has taken the computer technology to new horizons.
You may have seen many other inventions of this kind but what is unique in it is that when it is closed no one is able to guess that this ball contains a whole computer inside it. When you will open you will find a complete set which includes display screen, virtual keyboard and a mouse.
This is known as E-Ball which is designed by Apostol Tnokovski. He was aiming to create the smallest PC in the world when this idea comes in his mind.
It is shaped like a sphere because in its designer’s opinion this is the best shape in nature and it captures everyone’s attention.
