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Sony Ericsson’s new Android Xperia X10

Jasim — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:56:27 +0000

Yes people, say hello to Sonyericsson’s first ever Android phone – the Xperia X10 and since this is Sony; you can expect stellar aesthetics and build quality.

First the hardware side of this mega phone from Sonyericsson, it is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 1GHz processor so after Google’s Nexus One this is going to be another megapowered Android handset. It has a 4.0 inch capacitive touch screen with 480×854 pixels (WVGA) resolution. Apart from that it is packed with all the Android standard hardware pack, aGPS, USB, digital compass, WiFi but the most special feature would be an 8.1-megapixel camera with auto focus, face recognition, flash, smile-detection and video recording with video light and going by the sonyericsson experience it should have a great audio and video quality. As for the form factor, the handset is pretty thin – only half an inch. The dimensions are 4.7”x2.5”x0.5”. So you can imagine how large the phone is. The Internal memory is 1GB minus whatever the software is taking up (not announced yet). You can put in a MicroSD card, which come in a maximum of 16GB right now. They included an 8GB card when you will purchase it.

The most impressive side of this devise would be the software side of the handset. First is the Mediascape media browser and face recognition in photos integrated with your contacts. Mediascape brings all your photos and videos and links them with the contacts making it easy to bring up the media associated with any contact. Second, there is the Timescape feature. Timescape is a feature that consolidates your conversations and communications with a person. Be it on Facebook, text, phone or email, you can view them all in one place per person using Timescape. I personally like this feature because it sounds like something we all need. I hope it has threaded SMS conversations. Given the myriad communication platforms we use today, features like this one are fast becoming necessities.

All in all it should be a nice new addition to the already large and impressive range of Android devices. Considering this is a sonyericsson device it would mean that another major cell phone manufacturer has joined the ever growing club of Android manufacturers. This handset is all set to hit the market on 1^st of April (unconfirmed).

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Operating Systems (OS) That You Don’t Know About

Fraz Khalid — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:07:22 +0000

If you ask any regular PC user, he/she will only know about Mircosoft windows XP, Vista or 7, or probably Mac OS not more than that. If you ask a professional he/she probably know about linux maximum, so let me tell you about some other operating systems, you probably never heard of them.

Slax

Slax is a modern, portable, small and fast Linux operating system with a modular approach and outstanding design. Despite its small size, Slax provides a wide collection of pre-installed software for daily use, including a well organized graphical user interface and useful recovery tools for system administrators.

openSUSE

openSUSE is a free and Linux-based operating system for your PC, Laptop or Server. You can surf the web, manage your e-mails and photos, do office work, play videos or music and have a lot of fun. It includes new versions of GNOME, KDE, OpenOffice.org, Firefox, the Linux kernel, and many more updates and improvements. In 11.2 you’ll find more than 1,000 open source desktop applications. openSUSE also includes a full suite of server software and a rich selection of open source development tools.

ReactOS

ReactOS® is a free, modern operating system based on the design of Windows® XP/2003. Written completely from scratch, it aims to follow the Windows-NT® architecture designed by Microsoft from the hardware level right through to the application level. This is not a Linux based system, and shares none of the unix architecture. In short, ReactOS is designed to be powerful and lightweight. You can think of the term “lightweight” in the good old fashion of Win95, a consistent user interface and small bundle of very common and useful tools. Although lightweight, ReactOS offers a lot in comparison to Windows 95, with an up-to-date experience as well as built from scratch on a rock solid NT core.

MonaOS

MonaOS is a free operating system. It’s new, small, simple, open source and well structured. So, MonaOS may be suitable for education of operating system and program at school.

FreeDOS

FreeDOS is a free DOS-compatible operating system for IBM-PC compatible systems. FreeDOS is made of up many different, separate programs that act as packages to the overall FreeDOS Project. FreeDOS is distributed under the GNU GPL.

MINIX 3

MINIX 3 is a new open-source operating system designed to be highly reliable, flexible, and secure. It is loosely based somewhat on previous versions of MINIX, but is fundamentally different in many key ways. MINIX 1 and 2 were intended as teaching tools; MINIX 3 adds the new goal of being usable as a serious system on resource-limited and embedded computers and for applications requiring high reliability.

Haiku

Haiku is an open source operating system currently in development that specifically targets personal computing. Inspired by the Be Operating System, Haiku aims to become a fast, efficient, simple to use, easy to learn and yet very powerful system for computer users of all levels.

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Transparent Screen Laptop by Samsung

Fraz Khalid — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 15:29:46 +0000

Samsung is planning to release its first OLED transparent screen laptop in next 12 months. If you see a laptop its looks good but i have no idea how people will adapt it and my guess it will be an expensive one.

iPhone OS 3.1.3: Release by Apple

Fraz Khalid — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 07:21:10 +0000

OS 3.1.3 for iPhone and iPod Touch has released by Apple. this new update features some bug fixes and improvements such as Fix for app crashes on launch, Fixes bug for app crashes while using Japanese Kana Keyboard and Improves accuracy of reported battery level on iPhone 3GS.

OS 3.1.3 compatible for all models of iPhone and iPod Touch but DO NOT update it if you have a jailbroken iPhone / iPod Touch.

The Gesture Cube, theoretical 3D interface

Fraz Khalid — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 07:16:30 +0000

Gesture Cube uses 3D spatial movement tracking to help transform navigating a device into a magical intuitive experience. The underlying GestIC® technology detects your hand´s approach and movements – your favorite apps and media all at a wave of your hand.

If you want to use the Gesture Cube, don’t touch it just wave your hand and access your music collection, surf the web, and do many things you want to do. It is based on IDENT’s GestIC electric field sensing technology, the Cube is a interface system in the form factor of a six-sided cube.

The GestIC detects movements and distances in 3D space, enabling gesture control without any physical touching of any sort. The video demonstration is quite striking, and features a high-tech, futuristic interface.

The Gesture Cube is quite the device, but it’s not exactly for the portable consumer. We already have trouble fitting something the size of an iPad in our pockets, let alone a cube-shaped device. If this were to manifest in the consumer market, stick it for home usage.

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How Google Tablet Will Look Like?

Fraz Khalid — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:21:53 +0000

It seems that we’re getting a first peek at what a Google Chrome OS based tablet may look like. Glen Murphy, Google Chrome’s designer, posted this UI concept video along with some images on Google’s official Chromium site.

Dell Goes For Another Slim One: Dell Latitude 13

Fraz Khalid — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:14:20 +0000

I was snooping around the dell website for new things in business class series, i found about Dell Latitude another slim, light and ultra portable laptop for business people, Dell Latitute 13.

Its looks like Dell is been continuously working on slim and light weight laptops.

Its Based on Dell Adamo design, but its looks almost like Vostrov 13 another Dell Business class series laptop. Which is .65-inch thick and sub-3.5-pound and have 1.2GHz Celeron, 1.3GHz Core 2 Duo or 1.4GHz Core 2 Solo with integrated X4500MHD graphics under that 13.3-inch screen.

Windows Mobile 6.5.3: Sony Ericsson Aspen Takes the Lead

Fraz Khalid — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:53:08 +0000

Yesterday Sony Ericsson announced its brand new Windows Mobile 6.5.3 OS based cellphone, Sony Ericsson Aspen. Aspen gives you look and feel of black berry style cell phones but its the fist with windows mobile 6.5.3. Its a business-focused QWERTY candybar with 3.2 megapixel camera, A-GPS with Google Maps, 3.5-mm audio jack, WiFi, and microSD expansion and will be available in white and black in the second quarter of 2010.

For starters, this release now includes a more finger-friendly layout (no stylus needed even when digging deep into the OS), support for capacitive touchscreens (hoozah!), and acts as a platform to enable multi-touch. Microsoft has also improved browser performance with faster page load times, better memory management, while improving the pan and flick gestures and zoom and rotational speeds.

Blogging On Tumblr Just Got Easier

Fraz Khalid — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:01:24 +0000

Blogging on Tumblr using their web interface couldn’t possibly be easier. That said, since its inception, Tumblr has continued to add new features enhancing the user experience, the latest of which is the ‘Ask’ feature, opening up more means of interaction by allowing readers to submit questions, which you can choose to answer in the form of blog posts. And of course, since its inception, third party apps have cropped up, complementing their straightforward approach to blogging. Here are 4 must-have free cross platform desktop and browser apps to blog on Tumblr.

Tumbleweed

When you open up the Adobe Air app, Tumbleweed, the first thing you see are your latest posts. Tumbleweed allows you to post to all 7 categories available on Tumblr, text posts, photos, quotes, links, chat, audio and video posts. When it comes to videos, you can’t upload files directly from your computer to Tumblr, but rather have the ability to embed a video that is already available online.

Tumbleweed supports multiple tumblelogs, and you can add tags and custom urls to your posts when you blog on Tumblr.

Drawbacks: Posts are not automatically sent to your Twitter feed.

AlertThingy

AlertThingy is another Adobe Air client you can use to update your Tumblelog. You can add entries to any of the 7 categories, drag and drop photos, and audio and video files. To post a video, copy and paste the embed code into the body of a new text entry, and it will convert it into a video.

Drawbacks: AlertThingy does not support multiple Tumblelogs, posts are not sent to your Twitter feed, embedded videos are classified as text posts, and some of you might not like the fact that each post is appended with the text ‘via AlertThingy.’

Chrome Tumblr Dashboard

If you’re a Google Chrome fan, you’ll be happy to know the Chrome Dashboard extension allows you to share content easily from within Chrome, and to also check out the latest posts from tumblelogs you follow.

If you’re watching a video online and want to share it the next time you blog on Tumblr, simply click on the ‘Share on Tumblr’ link, and it will automatically embed the video for you and fill out the caption with the video title, and with YouTube videos, it also adds a link to the YouTube member’s profile page. Links and article titles are also automatically filled in for you. If there are several photos on a page, the extension will provide you with a list of thumbnails and choosing one fills in the link to the image from the website.

The Chrome extension gives you access to advanced Tumblr features including publishing options, tags and custom urls, and supports multiple tumblelogs.

Drawbacks: The window can be a little bit slow to load, and copy and paste doesn’t work.

Tumblr Post

The Tumblr Firefox addon Tumblr Post gives you quick access to blog on Tumblr by letting you write a text entry, upload photos or audio files from your computer, as well as posting the link to the current page you are on, by right-clicking the Tumblr icon in the Firefox status bar on the bottom of the page.

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