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The Ease of Using a USB Modem
By Gabriel at 18 April, 2012, 7:05 pm
The USB modem is the fastest way to subscribe and instantly connect to the Internet. USB Modems or USB Mobile sticks are plug and go devices that let you access the Internet on your laptop wherever there is 3G, EDGE or HSPDA coverage.
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By Gabriel at 18 April, 2012, 11:22 am
One question we get pretty often is “why is my dell so slow?”. We look at the top reasons why your dell laptop or desktop might be slow.
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By Gabriel at 18 April, 2012, 11:22 am
Knowledge of Microsoft Office 2010 is important for pretty much everyone. We look at how to secure your documents to prevent unauthorized users from viewing your docs.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Hackers Threatening to Release Symantec Source Code
By Gabriel at 18 April, 2012, 11:22 am
A group of hackers who call themselves ‘Yama Tough’ are threatening to release Symantec’s source code. Symantec is the maker of the popular Norton antivirus software.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Free up PC disk space with Disk Space Fan
By Gabriel at 15 June, 2010, 8:26 am
Disk Space Fan is a freeware and it is a nice disk space analysis tool for Windows. It helps you to free up disk space by quickly finding and deleting big, useless files. It displays disk space usage with a nice chart. You can navigate the folders easily with the chart. It is also intergrated with Windows Explorer to open, delete and browse files or folders.
Once download and install the utility, users will be brought to a simple interface. On high level, it will display the full capacity, usage as well as the free capacity of the particular drive. In order to figure out the details, just select the desired directory such as C:\ or specific folder by browsing directly followed with a single click on ‘Scan’ button to activate the scanning.
Features:-
Scans directories and drives to find out the useless and larger files.
Diagram of a flower show in the form of free disk space
Browse/open/delete files on ringschart
Preview a picture on ringschart
Support for Unicode
Save scan history
Network path support
Full compatibility with 32 and 64 bit Windows
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Google @ Intel ISEF 2010
By Gabriel at 9 May, 2010, 8:21 am
“On Monday, several thousand high school students will descend on San Jose for this year’s Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF). A project of the Society for Science & the Public, Intel ISEF brings together more than 1,500 high school students from over 50 countries to showcase and discuss their research and compete for millions of dollars in prizes. We’re particularly excited about this event because this year Google is the Premier Sponsor and Silicon Valley Host of the event.
We’re getting ready to launch an action-packed week of events and activities that celebrate the accomplishments of the Intel ISEF finalists and the role that technology plays in the future of science. Our schedule includes:
- Ongoing speaker series at our booth
- Interactive booth with product demos (the Street View car will be there!)
- Welcome Party on Tuesday evening for Intel ISEF participants
- $10,000 prizes for the three winners of our Google Special Awards
If you’re attending the fair, check out our Science Fair Portal to keep up-to-date with any changes to our events schedule. We look forward to seeing you there!
Posted by Josh Weaver, ISEF alum and Tech Lead for Street View
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Intel’s Moorestown Atom Opens New Front in Smartphone Competition
By Gabriel at 9 May, 2010, 8:18 am
Intel yesterday officially announced its Atom Z600 family of processors, along with the platform that supports it, known as Moorestown. It’s a big and long-awaited move, one Intel hopes will help it compete in the high-end smartphone and tablet market. But although Moorestown is a step in the right direction, Intel still faces a lot of challenges in its competition with ARM-based processors for the smartphone market.
The Moorestown platform is based around the Atom Z600 family of processors, which Intel calls a “system-on-chip” (SoC). This processor (known as Lincroft) is a 45nm chip that combines a single CPU core with integrated 3D graphics, video encode and decode, memory, and display controllers. The platform also includes an I/O Controller Hub (MP20, known as Langwell) along with a power management chip called a Mixed Signal IC. Makers of smartphones or tablets would then have to add to it various wireless options, depending on the types and networks they want to support, along with a screen, antennas, memory, and so on.
In other words, Moorestown is more integrated than Intel’s previous Atom-based platforms, but it still involves a number of chips to create a full system. Pretty much every smartphone relies on separate chips for applications processing and for wireless options, but many of today’s chips are more integrated, and some are available with the memory as part of the package. In other words, this still isn’t quite as integrated as some of the competitors, so it’s more suited for larger smartphones and tablets than for smaller units. Intel hopes to address this with the next version, codenamed Medfield, which will integrate the controller hub onto the processor.
Intel says the new platform requires significantly lower power to run than the previous-generation Atom, including a 50-times reduction in idle power, 20-times reduction in audio power, and a 2-to-3-times reduction in browsing and audio. The company says it delivers higher performance, particularly for JavaScript and graphics, and support for 1080p video decoding and 720p video recording. Intel says it provides a ‘PC-like visual experience’ while operating in a smaller power envelope.
The Z600 family is available at a number of frequencies, ranging up to 1.5 GHz for high-end smartphones and 1.9 GHz for tablets and ‘Mobile Internet Devices.’ That high-end part in particular should be faster than the ARM-based designs we’ve seen to date–but even Intel’s own positioning points out that it is destined for larger machines.
Obviously, we’ll have to wait to see final device to really tell battery life and to see how it performs in the real world, but this should be a step in the right direction. However, since I saw the first demonstration of Moorestown a year ago, we’ve seen a number of more powerful ARM-based processors running at up to 1 GHz, including the Qualcomm Snapdragon, Nvidia Tegra 2, and the Apple A4. In addition, a number of chip designers are working on ARM-based processors with two or more cores.
More important may be the question of software, particularly in the smartphone market. Intel has made a big deal of the fact that the Atom is an Intel Architecture (x86) processor, that there are huge numbers of applications designed to work on this architecture, and that indeed virtually every Internet site works on x86. But the vast majority of those applications are designed for Windows or Macintosh computers, not phones. Meanwhile, the phone vendors and the applications makers are all pretty used to writing for ARM-based phones, and this is something different.
Intel says the new platform is designed to work with its Moblin version of Linux, MeeGo OS http://blogs.pcmag.com/miller/2010/02/mwc_smartphone_platform_compet.php (an open source combination of Moblin and Nokia’s Maemo), and Android. But of course, even applications written for Maemo and Android will need to be tested on the new platform.
Now these are indeed big challenges. But Intel has some unique advantages as well, including that huge base of x86 software compatibility, its advanced manufacturing technology, its relationships with many hardware makers, and of course, the performance of the parts.
I can easily imagine Atom Z600-based tablets running Android or even full Windows that could be smaller than today’s tablet PCs but that run faster than the iPad or the other ARM-based tablets we’ve seen. I expect we will see at least a few smartphones, likely fairly large devices, aimed at the very high end of the market. Still, if the software issues are resolved and the battery life really is as good as Intel claims, such machines could be more powerful than today’s smartphones. However, it seems unlikely any large smartphone maker will make a
Moorestown-based the focus of their line this year.
Over the next few months, we should see devices based on the new platform. It’s only then that we’ll be able to judge how well it really works.
Here’s ExtremeTech’s take and a more detailed history from AnandTech.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Twittelator: Best Twitter app for iPad
By Gabriel at 9 May, 2010, 8:17 am
Twittelator is a new twitter app for iPad with lots of new features. Twittelator’s iPad version offers support for multiple Twitter accounts, in-line viewing of linked images, conversation view, the ability to view nearby tweets on a map, and auto-splitting of longer tweets, among other features. Also new in this update is a “Channels” area that collects must-follow Twitter accounts into various categories and subcategories like “Business,” “Health,” “Sports,” “Tech,” “Coffee & Tea,” “Cloud Computing,” and, of course, “Apple.” This Channels feature is a killer way to help new Twitter users find good accounts to follow, and it’s built right into the app.
See Also: 59 Twitter Mobile Apps
See Also: 110+ Best Twitter Tools
Features:-
Auto-ReTweet or editable ReTweets
Twitter Lists: create, edit, load – see other’s too
Geotag tweets and get maps of users
Video: record, edit and tweet video
Create and tweet audio clips and photos
Unlimited drafts and offline tweeting
Create lists of friends
Follow lists and see who’s following you in their lists
Post map of your location
Built-in browser to view links, movies, audio
Get details and follow any user
Find nearby tweeters and map their location
Advanced searching (save them too)
Email, ReTweet, and copy tweets
Trending Topics
Stock Portfolio
English, Español, Deutsche and ???
Download Twittelator for iPad here
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Make your PC more energy efficient with Granola
By Gabriel at 3 May, 2010, 8:06 pm
Granola is an intelligent software power management solution for x86 servers, laptops, and PCs running Linux and Microsoft Windows. Granola automatically optimizes a system to use energy more efficiently without compromising performance or availability. The Granola Power Management Daemon when installed on a server, laptop, or PC, matches the energy consumed by the system to the load on the system automatically.
Granola typically lowers total system energy use by 10-35% even when a system is 100% utilized. Granola also tracks the energy saved for use in estimating cost savings and carbon emission reductions.
Features:
* FREE for personal use
* Energy savings without compromising performance and availability
* Supports x86 platforms running Linux and Microsoft Windows on physical/virtual servers
* Immediate energy saving for most deployments <5 years old
* User-level max, min, and auto energy and performance policy management
* User-level reporting of energy savings without additional hardware required
* No measurable overhead (<1%).
* Energy savings and software complimentary to consolidation techniques such as virtualization
* Installation takes less than 5 minutes on average
* Little to no maintenance
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...USB Guardian: Protect your PC against USB viruses and worms.
By Gabriel at 3 May, 2010, 8:04 pm
USB Guardian is a special software application that prevents your computer from getting infected with nasty viruses an worms like Conficker (aka Downandup, Downadup and Kido!) The software allows you to safely enjoy file sharing using just an USB thumb drive for copying the files . Movies, mp3s, documents and pictures can be copied from one computer to another without worrying of getting infected with worms and viruses trough USB drive.
The interface is very clean and well organized so that one can access all functions with minimum effort. You can find more details about how USB Guardian protects your PC against worms and viruses on this page. It is possible to give a USB flash drive / USB memory stick a behaviour that is very similar to autostarting CD’s and DVD’s.
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