Friday, September 30, 2011

GOOGLE+ is GOOGLE itself


Until now, every single Google property acted like a separate company. Due to the way we grew, through various acquisitions and the fierce independence of each division within Google, each product sort of veered off in its own direction.

… But Google+ is Google itself. We’re extending it across all that we do—search, ads, Chrome, Android, Maps, YouTube—so that each of those services contributes to our understanding of who you are.”

- Bradley Horowitz(VP of Google)







Google is going plan longggggg. Like a FACEBOOK they have own ads & publicity(ad sense) to make revenue(money) but still Google not make that with Google+, they never started any advertising on Google+ until now. 
                                                                    (you have cake in hand but not even trying to eating it)

Why? you logged in one account of Google & it will become open id for other services like blogger, gmail, reader, you tube  picasa. Google take long way on social networking. it will leave Facebook & twitter behind but not right now. Company's goal clear about it:  

Marge all the things & Getting it on one platform for the Users.


So, who are not joining Google+ now, they will sure become a part of this one day. So, wait for that day.

Thursday, September 29, 2011

TABLET: Market will go on war..............

confused?            why i am this...................          just look at a list.
                  
ipod 2    
Manufacturer: Apple, Inc.OS / Version: iOS 4

Screen Size: 9.7 inches
Screen Resolution: 1024 x 768
Processor Type / Speed: Apple A5 / 1.0 GHz
Storage: 16, 32, 64 GB




Blackbarry playbook
Manufacturer: RIM
OS / Version: BlackBerry Tablet OS
Screen Size: 7 inches
Screen Resolution: 1024 x 600
Processor Type / Speed: TI OMAP 4430 / 1.0 GHz
Storage: 16, 32, 64 GB




Samsung galaxy tab 10.1
Manufacturer: Samsung
OS / Version: Android 3.1 Honeycomb
Screen Size: 10.1
Screen Resolution: 1280 x 800
Processor Type / Speed: Nvidia Tegra 250 / 1.0 GHz
Storage: 16, 32, 64 GB




Lenovo ideapad
Manufacturer: Lenovo
OS / Version: Android 3.1 Honeycomb
Screen Size: 10.1 inches
Screen Resolution: 1280 x 800
Processor Type / Speed: Nvidia Tegra 250 / 1.0 GHz
Storage: 16, 32 GB




HTC flyer
Manufacturer: HTC
OS / Version: Android 2.3 Gingerbread
Screen Size: 7 inches
Screen Resolution: 1024 x 600
Processor Type / Speed: Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8255 / 1.5 GHz
Storage: 32 GB




& now

Kindley fire
Manufacturer: Amazon
os/version: not specify
screen size: 7 inches
storage: 8 GB








                                                                                Tablet market is not going much bigger and in short time this all and more other companies' lunched already. So, people have more choice to select. all these companies have different are of mastery.

e.g. Amazon has lot of informational data & online store facility, or Samsung has their amazing feature. soon apple launches iPod 3, HTC, Blackberry are telecom typhoons. so,

war is begin in era of Tablets.   See who will be king.......................

Saturday, September 24, 2011

REVIEW: TV Serial = Movie "MAUSAM"


STORY:- Harinder Singh aka Harry (Shahid Kapoor), whiles away his time in his native village, waiting for the letter to join the Indian Air Force. But before the letter arrives, he falls in love with Aayat (Sonam Kapoor), the displaced Kashmiri girl who lands up in the village when Kashmir falls prey to insurgency. However, the ill-fated romance gets disrupted by the political events like the Ayodhya dispute, the Mumbai bomb blasts, the Kargil war, the Gujarat riots.... The world simmers, violence spreads, but love never dies as Harry and Aayat keep hoping for a re-union, despite the passing years and the turbulent landscape.

PERFORMANCE:- Harry(Shahid Kapoor) & Rajjo(Aditi Sharma) is brilliant. All others are ok. Sonam Kapoor is not suit in her character.

MUSIC(by Pritam):- Three songs are really good. Rabba, Shaj dhaj ke & Tu hi tu. Background score is quite ok.

CINEMATOGRAPHY(by Binod Pradhan):- 
                                                                                Site scening of village of Panjab, is awesome. Scotland, Switzerland are also excellent. Ahmedabad is ok. As according to story Cinematography is good.

EDITING:- Movie is too lengthy. Story has nothing to tell but still frame is going to stretchy.

DIRECTION(by Pankaj Kapoor):- Taking a very good story but development of story is quite unnatural. It is love story but nothing is for public that they feel like a love story.



AT MY OPINION:-
                                  Why you have to done with actor paralyzed when at the end he will being well & fit? Some questions raised against role of actress which is full of miscommunication and confusion. At some moment you hates off for direction(e.g at Scotland harry giving a glass of water to aayat for put that note in water but she slide that note into her cloth and drink the water.) and in next scene you give *** word to him. Reality is not shown like they have done publicity.

RATING:-  2.5 / 5


Friday, September 23, 2011

Facebook Timeline: New interface with profile page



You’ve been hearing about all the wonderful new Facebook features, and like us, you’re probably super-eager to get started with them.

If you’re willing to go through a series of eight steps, you can get into the brand-new Facebook Timeline right now.
Simply follow the instructions in our gallery below, and suddenly you’ll be basking in a new world of Facebook goodness, just like the developers are. Follow the instructions carefully, and good luck.
First, you’ll need to go to the Facebook developer page, which is a part of your Facebook account. Make sure you’re logged into your Facebook account, and then simply follow this link to get started.


Step 1




1. When you get here, click "allow."


Step 2




2. Click "create new app"

Step 3




3. Name it whatever you want, and give it whatever namespace you'd like -- it doesn't matter. Click the checkbox "I agree to the platform privacy policy." And then click Continue, pass the security check by filling in the Captcha, and you'll be ready for the next step.

Step 4




4. After you've verified yourself as a human, you'll reach this screen, where you'll need to click "Open Graph" on the left side.

Step 5




5. You'll see the next screen, entitled "Get Started with Open Graph" -- fill in anything you want (it doesn't matter) in those fields under the heading "start by defining one action than one object for your app." Click Get Started.

Step 6




6. On this screen, do nothing except scroll to the bottom and click "Save Changes and Next." Do the same thing on the next screen.

Step 7




7. You'll be taken to this screen. Wait a few minutes, and then go to your Facebook homepage. That's where you'll be invited to enable Timeline. Be patient at this point -- sometimes it requires you to wait before the changes take effect.

Step 8




8. When you go back to your Facebook homepage, you'll see this. Success! Click Get It Now, and you're in!

You've Done It!




Here's where you fiddle with your timeline, set it up the way you like it, and when you click Publish Now, your Timeline goes live. Or, you can wait until Thursday, September 29, 2011, and it'll go live on its own. If you want to get into your timeline from another computer, the address for this developer's version is located at this URL:

http://www.facebook.com/[yourusername]?sk=timeline and of course [yourusername] is your own Facebook user name.

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Biomedical Innovation: Ultrasound used for better Brain Computer Interface



Ultrasound is good for more than monitoring fetuses and identifying heart defects. According to engineers in Canada, it can help tell what people are thinking as well. Their research suggests that ultrasound-based devices could lead to a new kind of brain-computer interface.
Brain-computer interface technology allows users to control devices with brain activity alone. Researchers have focused primarily on clinical applications for people with severe disabilities who would otherwise have difficulty interacting with the outside world.
In addition to brain-computer interfaces that involve electronics inserted directly into a patient’s head, researchers are also developing a number of noninvasive methods. For instance, electroencephalography (EEG) relies on electrodes attached to a person’s head; functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) uses powerful magnetic fields to measure blood flow in the brain that telegraphs brain activity;magnetoencephalography (MEG) detects the magnetic fields generated by clusters of thousands of neurons; and near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) uses light to scan for changes in blood hemoglobin concentrations.
Yet practical use of these methods has so far been limited due to a number of drawbacks. For instance, EEG faces “noise” from electrical signals sent by the muscles and eyes; fMRI and MEG are very expensive and require large equipment; and NIRS, while still early in development as a brain-computer interface technology, has a low data-transmission rate.
Now biomedical engineer Tom Chau and his colleagues at the University of Toronto reveal that ultrasound can also monitor brain activity, suggesting that it could be used for brain-computer interfaces.
The researchers used lightweight ultrasound headgear to measure blood flow in the brains of nine able-bodied adults as they alternated between relaxing and performing two mental tasks. One task required them to think of words that began with a letter displayed on a video screen, and the other asked them to compare two objects rotated to different angles and determine whether they were the same object or mirror images of each other.
Using this new technique, researchers could see with 82.9 percent accuracy whether people were performing the word-generation task and they could tell with 85.7 percent accuracy if they were doing the mental-rotation tasks or just relaxing. Word generation usually led to an increase in blood flow in the left middle cerebral artery, while mental rotation caused increases in both the left and right middle cerebral arteries.
Myrden, Chau, and their colleagues reported their findings online on 7 September in the journal PLoS ONE.
With some adjustments, results could be even more accurate, Chau says. For instance, if subjects had time to train in these exercises, or if they were given instantaneous visual or auditory feedback during the tasks, they could better adjust their efforts toward their goals.
“The results reported are encouraging,” says Rajesh Rao, a computational neuroscientist at the University of Washington, in Seattle, who did not take part in this study. “The approach offers a potentially cheaper alternative to more traditional EEG- and fMRI-based noninvasive brain-computer interfacing.”
With this approach, it can take as long as 45 seconds before researchers can tell what participants are concentrating on. However, Chau notes that they could speed this up by improving the algorithms used to recognize each task in the brain.
There are also other problems to solve. There are only a few spots on the skull thin enough for the ultrasound to scan through, which limits the amount of brain activity it can monitor. Also, Chau says, “our measurements reflect changes in blood-flow velocity secondary to neural activity in the brain—it will thus always be slower than, say, the detection of electrical activity due to neuronal firing.”
Still, even if it takes 10 seconds for an ultrasound scanner to register what a patient is thinking, it may be worthwhile for someone who is severely disabled, Chau says. The researchers are now looking into combining ultrasound with NIRS to achieve greater speed, accuracy, and detail in monitoring brain activity than either approach could provide alone.
“We hope to soon apply this brain-control interface to the target population—individuals with severe and multiple disabilities,” says Andrew Myrden, a graduate student at the University of Toronto who led the research.
courtesy : biomedikal.in

High Speed Charging Device


Professor Jie Tang, Group Leader of the 1D Nanomaterials Research Group of the Materials Processing Unit, National Institute for Materials Science, and Mr. Qian Cheng, a doctoral student and NIMS Junior Researcher in the same Group, have succeeded in dramatically increasing the energy density of supercapacitors, which are used to store electrical energy. This was realized by developing a new electrode in which graphene nanosheets are stacked in a layered structure with carbon nanotubes sandwiched between the graphene layers.

Various new batteries, such as nickel metal hydride batteries, are currently being developed with the aims of achieving higher efficiency and higher energy storagefor electric power supplies. In comparison with batteries, capacitors have a larger output power density to enable rapid charging, excellent durability to allow operations in both higher and lower extreme temperatures, better cyclicity for recharging repeatedly over a long period, and are also safer. However, it has been as a great technical challenge to realize high energy density due to the relatively low specific capacity of the conventional capacitor devices.

In order to achieve a revolutionary increase in density of energy storage, Professor Tang and her team, in collaboration with Professor Lu-Chang Qin of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States, have designed and developed a graphene-based composite structure, in which graphene is used as the base material of the capacitor electrodes and carbon nanotubes (CNT) are inserted between the graphene sheets. In this structure graphene offers a far larger specific surface area (2630 m2/g) than the conventional materials and the CNTs function as spacers as well as conducting paths to enable adsorption of a larger quantity of electrolyte ions on the graphene surface. With this graphene-CNT composite as the capacitor electrodes, Professor Tang has obtained a high energy density of 62.8 Wh/kg and output power density of 58.5 kW/kg using organic electrolyte. By using an ionic liquid as the electrolyte, they have achieved an energy density of 155.6 Wh/kg, which is comparable to that of nickel metal hydride batteries.

Among the many industrial applications of capacitors, the new capacitors developed in this research offer promises as power sources for electric and hybrid vehicles, which require high energy density. As the current production processes are also inexpensive and can be scaled up, large expectations are placed on practical applications.


More information: This research is published in the latest issue of Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, a scientific journal published in London by the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

What the **** !!! OS is not Hardware...


WINDOWS 8 SUPPORTED PC CAN'T RUN OTHER OS !!!

After years of trying to cut off Linux growth as a desktop platform on x86 and x64 PCs, Microsoft may have actually figured out a way to stop Linux deployments on client PCs dead in their tracks.
At the very least, Linux deployment will be hindered on any Windows 8-certified machines to come, as new requirements for the Windows 8 logo come to light.
Red Hat's Matthew Garrett was one of the first to notice that according to the new logo rules, all Windows 8 machines will need to be have the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) instead of the venerable BIOS firmware layer. BIOS has been pretty much the sole firmware interface for PCs for a long time.
The EFI system has slowly been making headway in recent years, and right now EFI firmware is compatible with Windows supporting the GUID Partition Table (GPT), OS X/Intel, and Linux 2.6 and beyond machines. EFI is seen as a better hardware/software interface than BIOS, since it is platform-agnostic, runs in 32- or 64-bit mode, and GPT machines can handle boot partitions of up to 9.4 zettabytes. (That's 9.5 billion terabytes to you and me.)
EFI, and the later UEFI specification, is not the problem for Linux. The problem is Microsoft's other requirement for any Windows 8-certified client: the system must support secure booting. This hardened boot means that "all firmware and software in the boot process must be signed by a trusted Certificate Authority (CA)," according toslides from a recent presentation on the UEFI boot process made by Arie van der Hoeven, Microsoft Principal Lead Program Manager.
The slides, posted on Garrett's in a blog Tuesday afternoon, reveal Microsoft's plan to lock down the boot process, which Microsoft rightly points out has become a high-value target vector for injecting malware onto Windows PCs. To combat this, Microsoft is requiring all Windows 8 devices to have a hardened boot. Right now, even though there are EFI-ready Linux bootloaders and distros available, none of them are signed, Garrett reminded me.
It's not just a matter of replacing the UEFI system on the device with other, unencrypted, firmware. If all parts of the chain need to have a CA signature, then swapping out a machine's signed EFI layer with, say, an unsigned BIOS or EFI would not work. Garrett described the problem in more detail:
"Microsoft requires that machines conforming to the Windows 8 logo program and running a client version of Windows 8 ship with secure boot enabled. The two alternatives here are for Windows to be signed with a Microsoft key and for the public part of that key to be included with all systems, or alternatively for each OEM to include their own key and sign the pre-installed versions of Windows. The second approach would make it impossible to run boxed copies of Windows on Windows logo hardware, and also impossible to install new versions of Windows unless your OEM provided a new signed copy. The former seems more likely."
The upshot? Any device that ships with the manufacturer's keys and Microsoft's keys will not be able to boot a vanilla version of Linux.
The obvious solution--getting Linux distros signed so they can load on these machines--is clouded with uncertainty.
"Firstly, we'd need a non-GPL bootloader. Grub 2 is released under the GPLv3, which explicitly requires that we provide the signing keys. Grub is under GPLv2 which lacks the explicit requirement for keys, but it could be argued that the requirement for the scripts used to control compilation includes that. It's a grey area, and exploiting it would be a pretty good show of bad faith. Secondly, in the near future the design of the kernel will mean that the kernel itself is part of the bootloader. This means that kernels will also have to be signed. Making it impossible for users or developers to build their own kernels is not practical. Finally, if we self-sign, it's still necessary to get our keys included by ever OEM."
That's a whole lot of unsavory options to look forward to.
Garrett, for his part, is not panicking about the new requirement. He's hopeful that OEMs will be able to include an option in their UEFI firmware to disable the secure booting feature. Even if that is allowed by Microsoft, one thing is clear: dual-booting systems will be out of the picture if Windows 8 boots always require a hardened boot environment. It may very well be that once you turn off secure boot (if you can), you won't be able to run Windows 8 again on that machine, until you re-secure the boot process.
Microsoft is spinning this as a way to finally lock down the boot process, but I can't help but wonder if the side-benefit of blocking Linux boots was something expected as well.
Something to which we need to pay attention, that's for sure.

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

How to: Create a Transparent Screen Illusion


If you’ve already checked out our gallery of transparent desktop wallpapers, you know that this little trick is just full of awesome.
The only thing better than perusing the web’s creativity is getting creative yourself. That’s why we asked our palJeremiah Warren to whip up a step-by-step guide on how to turn your own screen into a window on the world.


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Have you had success creating this digital illusion? Share snaps of your best transparent screens in the comments below

Monday, September 19, 2011

Linux goes 20th Birthday: 10 Cool Devices That Embrace You





The Linux operating system is not just for nerds. Even though you may not realize it, chances are you probably have a version of Linux running right under your nose. It’s found its way into a multitude of devices, both large and small.

Today, Sept. 17, 2011, is the 20th anniversary of the date when the first Linux kernel (version 0.01) was released and uploaded to an FTP server by Linus Torvalds in Helsinki. Although Torvalds had been working on the code since April, 1991 (recognized by some as the birthday of Linux), it wasn’t until September of that year that he released the first Linux kernel to the world. That early iteration consisted of a mere 10,239 lines of code.
Fast-forward to the present day, where the Linux kernel 2.6.35 contains more than 13.5 million lines of code, and controls gadgets, devices and instruments you might never have expected. Take a look at our gallery below and be surprised by the ubiquity of this useful, versatile and compact operating system on its 20th birthday:


1. TiVo



Underneath the digital video recorder TiVo's user-friendly and popular interface is a modified version of Linux. We have a hunch that those Linux underpinnings are responsible for TiVo's snappy response and smooth video playback.


2. Android



The Android operating system is showing up in multitudes of handheld devices. It was created by the Open Handset Alliance, headed up by Google. Lots of smartphone providers place their own brand of user interface enhancements on top of Android, and there's a lot of tricky programming called middleware in between, but underneath? Good old Linux.


3. AT&T MiFi



This pocket-sized device gives users a mobile access point that makes it so multiple people can use a single 3G connection. That gives any Wi-Fi device the ability to go online practically anywhere. What's in it for you? Imagine never having to pay a $12.95 Wi-Fi charge in a hotel again, thanks to Linux.


4. Large Hadron Collider



When it's time to answer big questions, physicists are turning to Linux to run the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator. Just what questions are they trying to answer with this $9 billion scientific instrument? They're trying to understand some of the deepest and most fundamental laws of physics, such as the structure of space and time.


5. Refrigerator (Electrolux Infinity I-Kitchen)



Why would you need Linux in your refrigerator? How about running a touchscreen on the front, storing your contacts and calendars, recipes and reminders, and letting you keep your family organized with electronic Post-it notes? And, some refrigerators are smart enough to remind you that it's time to buy more milk.


6. Sony Bravia HDTV



We tested the latest Sony Bravia connected TV, which brings you your favorite video-on-demand service from Netflix or Amazon and a lot more. That's thanks (in part) to its Linux underpinnings. Of course, it can show you the latest 3-D video, and the one we tested was even smart enough to turn itself off if there was no one sitting in the room.


7. Chumby



This little supersmart alarm clock runs more than 1,000 apps, and it's all made possible by Linux under the hood. Don't let its diminutive size fool you -- this gadget can display video, call up your favorite Pandora Radio channels and remind you of appointments. Best of all, it's fun.


8. GPS (Tom Tom)



Bet you didn't know that GPS unit on your car's dashboard was running Linux. Humming away inside many Garmin, Tom Tom (and other) GPS navigators are versions of Linux. Now if the accuracy of the maps could measure up to that sharp Linux code running inside, we wouldn't have to recalculate so often.


9. Kindle



The electronics reader that made e-reading famous is the Amazon Kindle, and displaying its E-Ink screen with enough speed to make it a pleasure to use is -- you guess it -- starts with an "L."


10. Self-Driving Car





Self-driving cars, otherwise known as autonomous vehicles, are not perfect yet, but they're getting there. Many of them are running Linux, and researchers are using the operating system to find their way toward someday eliminating the need for traffic signals, driver's licenses, and maybe even rules of the road.