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Microsoft Courier – Digital Booklet “Journal”

March 8th, 2010 by B@D

While we’re holding our breath to get hands on the Apple iPad, Microsoft has been working in their dark room to develop the user experiences and design concepts that are NEW and exactly opposite of what Apple iPad brings us. It seems like we’ve all been ranting about the wrong device.

Microsoft-Courier

 

Along with Book Reading, Listening to music & Taking photos, Courier will allow users to scribble notes, manipulate clipped photos and text, and sketch images.

Here are some of the key features:

 

Dual Same Size Screens

Less than an Inch Thick

Each Screen Measured 5 inches x 7 inches

Stylus & Multi-Touch Capability

Built in Camera

Headphone Jack for Audio

Built in Calendar, Contacts Organizer, To-Do List

Wi-Fi enabled

Nvidia Tegra 2 Chipset Processor

Windows CE 6 [ Same system used on Zune HD & upcoming Windows Phone 7 Series ]

 

Check out the videos below to have a peek into this marvel of Innovation.

Courtesy: Engadget

Pricing and release date are still not known, but if Microsoft can keep costs down, the Courier can become a trouble for a Apple’s iPad.

AFE

Author: B@D Categories: Design, News, Reviews, Technology

1001 Inventions – Muslim Heritage Exhibition

March 2nd, 2010 by sT*rchi1Ð

I am not surprised by watching the short film coz’ I already know what brightest gifts Muslim Scientists/Engineers offered (introduced) to this world. It is for those people who are trying to brainwash/manipulate the past and rewrite it for themselves (especially the biased media and so called social societies).
Have a look, yo~:

To watch a complete Video: 1001 Inventions and The Library of Secrets

For More Info, Visit:
1001 Inventions
&& Book:
1001 Inventions Book

Author: sT*rchi1Ð Categories: Life, Technology

Bioshock 2 – A little Startup

February 19th, 2010 by sT*rchi1Ð

Alright, I am playing as a big daddy… unknown relative of some Sofia LAMB who is now the controller of Rapture (stood against Ryan in elections or something etc).

What actually happened at the beginning shots; my big daddy was saving the little sister (Eleanor Lamb) from splicers and there came Lamb and BD (aka Big Daddy) shot himself using the pistol given by her majesty (Lamb Lady). The sister BD was saving actually is the daughter of the lady… Read more…

Author: sT*rchi1Ð Categories: Entertainment, Gaming, Reviews

Mobile OS Wars – Invaded by Touch Screen Devices

February 16th, 2010 by Kryptic

Back in March last year I shared an article Mobile Os Wars: Symbian leads globally.  According to recent Canalys press release 55% of cellphone are now touchscreen with apple having 33.1% followed by Nokia with 29.5% market share.  Symbian still leads overall market with 47.2 % share but with only 4.8% growth last year. Currently Android has 4.73% market share but in 2009 7.7 million Android based handsets were sold and predictions are that by 2013 Android will be world’s No.2 mobile OS followed by Symbian.

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Author: Kryptic Categories: News, Technology

Symfony 1.4 – Doctrine Timestampable Behaviour

February 13th, 2010 by Kryptic

Recently Symfony released their LTS 1.4 branch. Unlike previous versions Symfony 1.4 comes with Doctrine as default ORM.  If you have worked with Doctrine’s you will be familiar with its Timestampable behavior.

actAs:
  Timestampable: ~

Timestampable behavior  automatically adds a created_at and updated_at column and automatically set the values when a record is inserted and updated.  I mostly use Symfony Admin Generator to generate Backend. This behavior worked fined till Symfony 1.2, but in Symfony 1.3 / 1.4 for unknown reasons this behavior adds created_at and updated_at fields as required and their value must be filled during creation of new record in admin generator.

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Author: Kryptic Categories: Programming

Google Nexus One: The Story

February 11th, 2010 by Kryptic

Google recently launched their Android phone named Nexus One.  I’m sharing series of short films showing the story behind Nexus One.  Most prominent features of this phone are 1Ghz processor, 512 Mb ram, 4GB Micro SD Card (Expandable to 32 GB), Digital compass, Accelerometer, 5 megapixels Camera with Flash, Multi-Touch capacitive touchscreen and unlike iPhone it can do Multitasking and is cheaper than Apple’s iPhone. Click here to see detailed technical specs of the phone.

Episode 1: Concept & Design

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Author: Kryptic Categories: Inspiration, Technology

FORMULA 1 – 2010 Season.

February 4th, 2010 by Kryptic

Here it comes, Fast Paced Sports. Pple Say “Its just a waste of Money and Fuel, Expensive Sports is No Sports @ALL”. Its True, but there is nothing compared against Enthusiasm, Extremism and Excitement of Speed with teh Power of Acceleration revealing Latest AeroDynamical God Gifted Human Technology!

Starting on 12 March at Bahrain (Sakhir) and ending on 14 Nov at (Yas Marina Circuit) ABU DHABI.

Yay! I love and I Support Ferrari with Red. Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa will be driving this Ferrari F10


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Author: Kryptic Categories: Entertainment, Technology

3D Printing

January 21st, 2010 by sT*rchi1Ð

A rapid prototyping technique that involves “printing” three-dimensional objects with plaster or resin & Stuff. Many typo materials used in printing, most common technos like SLS, FDM, SL, Lamination systems, EB, 3DP, 3D Ceramic Printing etc are nowadays used @ commercial level. Every techno relies on specific material as per industrial demand while it helps a lot for an abstract model of specified object or stuff like that..

Resolution: Given in layer thickness and X-Y resolution in dpi. Typical layer thickness is around 100 micrometres (0.1 mm), while X-Y resolution is comparable to that of laser printers. The particles (3D dots) are around 50 to 100 micrometres (0.05-0.1 mm) in diameter. (wiki)

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Apple’s Latest Creation – A Tablet?

January 20th, 2010 by B@D

Apple is holding a main event on 27th January called “Come See Our Latest Creation” – The event is confirmed by Fox News.

 

LatestCreation

This event is expected to include the introduction of Apple’s much-anticipated tablet device and iPhone OS 4.0, as well as iLife 2010.

We’re very exited about the rumored Tablet device. Apple revolutionized the Cell Phone industry when iPhone was launched back in 2007. But a handheld device between iPhone and a notebook PC, Will it work? How productive it could be?

WE’RE CURIOUS!

 

Here are some of the rumors & expectations covering the design, features and functionality of the upcoming iSlate – iPad – iTab – Whatever it might be called! But one thing is for sure. Apple is seriously cool when it comes to new hardware & devices.

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Author: B@D Categories: News, Reviews, Technology

Google Chrome OS – The Introduction

January 16th, 2010 by B@D

Once upon a time, Google’s Chrome operating system was an exciting idea that offered far more questions than answers. But now we now know much more about what the company is working on and have even seen the OS in action. Basically, there are some important things you need to know about the Google Chromium operating system.

Chrome OS Screenshot 

It’s not available yet.
So far, Google has launched only the open-source development project. This means developers and third-party partners (including hardware manufacturers) can download, compile, and install the code. Most important, they can change and enhance it. All those changes could pour back into what will become the first shipping product late next year. The rest of us will have to wait until then.

Every app. in Chrome is a Web app.
This means there are literally no desktop apps. Google execs reiterated this point by adding, "third party apps will work as long as they’re Web applications." This fact could— and maybe should—scare you. All the application CDs you currently have sitting on shelves are useless with the Chrome OS. If you have a favorite drawing or scrapbooking application, you might as well throw it out if you plan on devoting your life to Chrome. On the other hand, it’s likely that you’ve started using more and more cloud-based applications to get work done.

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Author: B@D Categories: News, Reviews, Technology