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Mobile OS Wars – Invaded by Touch Screen Devices
February 16th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Faizan
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.
Symfony 1.4 – Doctrine Timestampable Behaviour
February 13th, 2010 / 13 Comments » / by Faizan
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.
Google Nexus One: The Story
February 11th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Faizan
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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FORMULA 1 – 2010 Season.
February 4th, 2010 / 10 Comments » / by Faizan
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
3D Printing
January 21st, 2010 / 4 Comments » / 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)
Apple’s Latest Creation – A Tablet?
January 20th, 2010 / 4 Comments » / by AF8AB
Apple is holding a main event on 27th January called “Come See Our Latest Creation” – The event is confirmed by Fox News.
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.
Google Chrome OS – The Introduction
January 16th, 2010 / 4 Comments » / by AF8AB
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.
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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