3 Must-See Video Presentations About HTML 5
Posted by: 7ntinos7 on: December 26, 2009
Here is a must-see collection of three interesting video presentations about HTML 5 by Google. If you are a web developer you can’t miss them!
Red Hat heads back to the desktop with SPICE
Posted by: 7ntinos7 on: December 26, 2009
Red Hat is the number one Linux company, but they haven’t been interested in the Linux desktop for years. With the open-sourcing of SPICE (Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environment), that’s changing.
SPICE, like Microsoft’s RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) andCitrix’s ICA (Independent Computing Architecture), is a desktop presentation services protocol. They’re used for thin-client desktops, and SPICE will be too. In 2010, you can count on Red Hat returning to the Linux desktop.
But they won’t be doing it as a competitor to traditional desktops like Ubuntu 9.10 or Windows 7. Thin clients are meant for corporate desktops, like those in a company where Red Hat is already powering the servers. Remember, it’s in Linux servers, not desktops, that Red Hat has found its riches.
On the server side, SPICE depends on KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) for its horsepower. Guess what virtualization software Red Hat focuses on? That would be KVM. So if you have a company that’s already invested in Red Hat on the servers, wouldn’t it make sense to offer them a complementary Linux desktop option as well? And perhaps sell a few more server licenses along the way? I think so, and Red Hat thinks the same way.
A few months back, I asked Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens if Red Hat was going back to the desktop. “Yes, Red Hat will indeed be pushing the Linux desktop again” with KVM, he told me.
The open-sourcing of SPICE is a step in that direction. Indeed, by the timeRed Hat bought Qumranet, the company that was behind both KVM and SPICE, Qumranet had already released a complete KVM/SPICE virtualization program, Solid ICE).
Red Hat hasn’t announced a re-release of a now completely open source-based Solid ICE, but that’s only a matter of time. It’s the next step, and it will be a smart one.
I say that because, unlike RDP, ICA or Unix/Linux’s VNC (Virtual Network Computing), SPICE isn’t a “screen-scraper.” With these protocols, the server has to do all the heavy lifting of rendering the graphics. But with Solid ICE and SPICE, each SPICE session can access local system resources. In other words, a SPICE Linux virtual desktop user can use their PC’s graphics. This means SPICE users get close to stand-alone desktop video performance and at the same time the servers aren’t being overloaded.
As Stevens explained in a statement about the open-sourcing of SPICE: “The SPICE protocol is designed to optimize performance by automatically adapting to the graphics and communications environment that it is running in, so vendors have a terrific opportunity to enhance it for their specific applications.”
What all that means for you is that, some time in 2010, you can expect to see the release of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops. I expect to see it arrive sometime before another thin client-like take on the Linux desktop, namely Google’s Chrome OS, arrives.
As I’ve said before, we’re in for some interesting time in 2010 with desktop operating systems.
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Google Goggles
Posted by: 7ntinos7 on: December 10, 2009
Google Goggles is a visual search app for Android phones. Instead of using words, take a picture of an object with your camera phone: we attempt to recognize the object, and return relevant search results.
Goggles also provides information about businesses near you by displaying their names directly in the camera preview.
Apple scraps 1,000 iPhone apps
Posted by: 7ntinos7 on: December 10, 2009
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Apple has booted Molinker and its products from the AppStore, following complaints that the developer was posting fake reviews.
The Chinese company had more than 1,000 apps in the store, mainly cheap travel guides for the iPhone. The products actually represent about one percent of the apps available in the app store.
Molinker was caught out by the iPhoneography blog, which noticed that a good 90 percent of reviews on Molinker products came from the same 50 people – most of whom had pretty poor English too. Even more suspiciously, these users only seemed to use Molinker apps, as they never reviewed anything else.
The implication was that the reviews were being posted by staff at the company itself. The owners of the blog contacted Phil Schiller to draw Apple’s attention to the scam.
How to Change the Carrier Name On Your iPhone
Posted by: 7ntinos7 on: December 4, 2009
If jailbreaking an iPhone alone does not make you happy enough and you are looking to pimp your iPhone much more, how about changing your carrier name?
Here is a short guide that will help you customize the carrier name that is displayed on status bar of your iPhone.
Requirements
Before you start, please note that this guide only works on iPhone OS 3.0 or above. Also, you need to have a jailbroken iPhone with Cydia installed. If you have not jailbroken your iPhone yet, click here for the jailbreaking guide.
Instructions to Change Carrier Name
Step 1: Tap on the Cydia icon on the Springboard to launch the application.
Step 2: The carrier name is changed with the help of an app called ‘FakeCarrier‘. Tap on the ‘Search‘ option in Cydia and type ‘Fakecarrier‘ to find the app.
Step 3: Select the app by tapping on the name and click on ‘Install‘. Follow the instructions to install the app. Finally, click on ‘Return to Cydia‘ to finish installation.
Step 4: Once the installation is completed, you will be able to find a ‘Carrier‘ icon on the iPhone Home Screen. Tap on the ‘Carrier‘ icon to launch the FakeCarrier application.
Step 5: You are now given three options – ‘Fake Carrier‘, ‘Fake Time‘ and ‘Show BatteryLevel‘. Tap on the ‘Fake Carrier‘ option to change the carrier name.
Step 6: You are now prompted to enter your Carrier text. Enter the text of your choice and tap on ‘Set‘.
Step 7: Similarly, you may replace the time banner on top with your customer text using the ‘Fake Time‘ option. Tap on ‘Set‘ to confirm the change.
That’s all, the carrier name on your iPhone should change to the one of your choice. Please note that if you would at any point like to get back to the default Carrier and Time text, you may follow the same steps and at the final text input, tap on ‘Reset‘ to get the text back to default.
Important tips & tricks for iPhone/iPod touch
Posted by: 7ntinos7 on: December 3, 2009
1. Flip between pages by tapping
Many iPhone apps feature a paging system with dots at the bottom of the screen, such as: the Home screen, safari, weather.
You probably know that you can flip between pages in these apps by swiping left or right across the screen. As an alternative, you can also tap the areas either side of the row of dots at the bottom of the screen.
2. Save drafts in Mail
With the Mac OS X Mail app, it’s easy to save your currently-edited message as a draft by clicking the Save as Draft button in the toolbar. Saving a draft in the iPhone Mail app is a bit counter-intuitive. First, from the message editing screen, tap the Cancel button. You can then tap Save to save the current message as a draft, or Don’t Save to scrap the message altogether.
3. Domain Resolution
When typing a URL in Safari, you don’t have to type the “www” or the “.com”. For exmaple, you can type “iPhoneToolbox” in the URL box in order to view “iPhoneToolbox.com”.
4. Jump to the top of the page
Flicking up and down to scroll through a Web page, an email message or a list of messages is fairly quick; however if you’re near the bottom of a long page or list it can take ages to scroll back up to the top. Thankfully there’s a quick way to return to the top: just tap the status bar at the top of the screen.
5. Customize the iPod dock icons
iPhone ships with 5 icons in the iPod’s dock – Playlists, Artists, Songs, Videos and More – for quick access. However, let’s say you hardly ever watch videos on your iPhone, but you do listen to a lot of podcasts. iPhone lets you change the default dock icons, replacing the Videos icon with a Podcasts icon. This trick also works in the YouTube app.
6. Surfing Internet while talking
You can get on the internet DURING a call. You can only do this if your connected to a WIFI network (it wont work via edge), just hit the home key and click on Safari. Now your surfing while talking! The person on the other end can’t hear the keyboard clicks either.
7. Save an image in a web page or email
If you want to keep an image you see in a web page or email message, tap and hold your finger on the image for 1 second to get a Save Image button:
Tap the button to save the image in your Photos library, in the Camera Roll album.
8. Put your iPod (the one in your iPhone) to sleep
If you like falling asleep while listening to music, this tip is perfect for you. The Clock application on the iPhone doesn’t only tell time. You can also use its timer feature to sleep stop music from playing.
1. Go to the Clock application.
2. Tap Timer at the bottom of the Tab Bar.
3. Tap “When Timer Ends >”, and choose “Sleep iPod”. Tap “Set” on the top right.
4. Then, just use the scroll wheels to set the time to when you wan your iPod to sleep.
9. Access the scientific calculator
Did you know the iPhone has a scientific calculator as well as the normal calculator?
10. Screenshots
Simultaneously press the Home and Sleep/Wake buttons to take a screenshot of your current screen. You’ll hear a camera shutter sound, your screen will flash white, then the screenshot will appear in the “Saved Photos” library of the Photos app.
12. Select Icon for Bookmarked Webpage
When you are browsing a web page on Safari and add its icon to your home screen by pressing the “+” button and select “Add to Home Screen”. The icon is a screenshot of the page you were on. You can have a different icon by zooming in a particular item on the page. It can be the website’s logo or any picture.
13. Extra keys
Do you need to type an umlauted-u (ü) but you’re not using the German keyboard? Touch and hold the U key and you get a set of additional keys to choose from. This works for several of the alphabetic keys, enabling you access to letters such as éîçåß, etc.
14. Shift Key
Apple with its vast iMac experience has featured the shift key press option on the iPhone multi-touch screen. This is especially relevant if you want to capitalize few letters without pressing the CAPSLOCK option.
15. Home button options
A very underused, yet convenient feature is that you’re able to set the function for double-clicking the Home button. By default, this just brings you to the Home screen, meaning no different function than clicking the Home button once. But if you go to the Settings app then navigate to General then Home Button, you’ll find a few handy options. I have mine set to go to my Phone Favorites but you can also set it to open the iPod app, or just show the iPod controls when music is playing.
16. How To Create A WebClip Icon For Your Site
This is a good tip for those of you who design web sites and applications geared toward the iPhone. Dan Dickinson posted instructions for creating the icon for your site that shows up on the springboard when someone creates a web clip for it.
Create a 57×57 PNG.
Name it “apple-touch-icon.png”
Throw it in the root folder of your website. (Not the root of your server ,the root of your web documents.)
You can also place the image in a link tag in the head of your document, like so:
You can get more info at the iPhone Dev Center.
17. Register your Wi-Fi
Skyhook WPS is the service that, via Wi-Fi, enables your iPhone and iPod touch to locate where you are if GPS isn’t available. It generally gets you more accuracy than the cell tower triangulation method. The big issue with this method, though is that if the router that you’re currently connected to isn’t in the Skyhook database, you’re out of luck. But after a ton of digging I was able to find the web page where you can add your router to its database. After a few simple steps and an “up to 7 days” waiting period, the router should be available to help you and others get improved location positioning. This helps us all so do your part and register your router, especially if you live outside a major metropolitan area (since Skyhook usually has the big metro areas covered already).
18. Get URL Hints
In Safari, you can press and hold any links in order to see the URL and site name of the link.
19. Scrolling with Two Fingers
Some web pages contains separate text boxes with their own scroll bars. If you are trying to move around in one, you can scroll it with two fingers instead of one. That will let you scroll just inside the box and not affect the position of the entire page.
20. Maximize Battery Life
There is a separate sensor situated right above the earpiece, that detects ambient light. The iPhone uses this sensor only once per session, just as you unlock the handset. But if you cover the sensor as you unlock the phone, you will trikc the handset into thinking it’s in a dark room, and it will power down the screen brightness. You can Also turn off Bluetooth and WiFi if you don’t expect to use them for a while. You can also set email fetch time to “Hourly” or “Manually”, and turn the “Push” off in order to save energy.
21. Double tap space bar for a period
When typing on your iPhone, double tapping the space bar at the end of a sentence automatically enters a period followed by a space. No need to press “123″ to get to the numbers and symbols page where the period typically resides. I use this trick daily and it heavily increases my typing speed (especially when texting).
22. Automatically capitalize and add apostrophes
The iPhone automatically capitalizes certain words (”I” when you type “i”). It also automatically adds apostrophes (”I’m” when you type “Im”).
23. Double tap a column on Safari to fit-to-page
When browsing the Internet on your iPhone’s Safari browser, double tap any column, word, or picture to fit it’s width to your iPhone’s screen. This is extremely useful for reading blogs.
24. The magnifying glass
The magnifying glass is a nice iPhone tool when you are typing an email or any other text. If you tap once and hold, a magnifying glass will pop up showing you a zoomed in view of your words and cursor. You can now easily place the cursor wherever you want. This makes editing your writing very easy.
25. Delete spam
If you get a lot of spam e-mail or other unwanted e-mail, pay attention to this time saving feature. Add a link to Yahoo mail in Safari bookmarks. From there you can check ‘delete all’ to remove all unwanted e-mails. This is much easier than deleting hundreds of spam e-mails one at a time.
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Facebook reached 350 million monthly active users
Posted by: 7ntinos7 on: December 2, 2009
Facebook announced tonight that it has grown to more than 350 million monthly active users worldwide. This is the first official statement the company has made since it reached 300 million users and became “free cash-flow positive” in mid-September. So, by Facebook’s own count, that’s 50 million more users in around two and a half months.
This is a slightly slower rate of growth than Facebook has seen in recent months, but obviously still a huge number. A slowdown in growth is bound to happen, anyway. Consider that the company started the year with 150 million monthly actives, and has gained near 50 percent penetration levels in some countries.
The announcement, in the form of a blog post by founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg, also reiterates that the company is planning to remove regional networks, something it has discussed in more detail over the summer. This change had previously been slated for late September; now, it’s coming within the next two weeks, according to the post. More about the change, from our previous coverage:
- Regional network filters will no longer be available in the home page stream (Facebook says few people were using them anyway).
- Regional networks will no longer appear in privacy settings (though you can still share content with everyone or a school or work network).
- Groups or events that are only open to members of regional networks will now be open to everyone.
- If your current regional network is a city, that information will be moved to the “Current City” field of your profile.
- If your current regional network is a region, a new “Current Region” field will be listed on your profile.
Zuckerberg also said that new per-item privacy controls, like the ones enabled for status updates this summer, will be going live within the next couple weeks as well. Details on what this will look like, from the post:
Since this update will remove regional networks and create some new settings, in the next couple of weeks we’ll ask you to review and update your privacy settings. You’ll see a message that will explain the changes and take you to a page where you can update your settings. When you’re finished, we’ll show you a confirmation page so you can make sure you chose the right settings for you. As always, once you’re done you’ll still be able to change your settings whenever you want.
Download Free Microsoft Office 2010 Beta Software
Posted by: 7ntinos7 on: November 29, 2009
Now you can download a copy of Free Microsoft Office 2010 beta right now and preview the latest version of this Microsoft software. Office Professional 2010 combines all you need to create, edit and share documents from virtually anywhere.
It is available in 2 formats – Microsoft Office Home and Business 2010features new photo, video and text effects for creating stand-out documents and presentations – you can download the Office 2010 beta if you’re a student, running a small business, or using Office at home. The second typeMicrosoft Office Professional Plus 2010 is for enterprise and mid-sized business – download if you’re an IT professional or a developer or want to use Office at work. Check out the top 10 benefits of Office 2010 beta.
The Microsoft Office Home and Business 2010 suite contains Word 2010, Excel 2010, PowerPoint 2010, Outlook 2010 and OneNote 2010. Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 in addition contains InfoPath, Access, SharePoint Workspace and Publisher 2010.
Download Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 Beta
Download Microsoft Office Home and Business 2010
Check out some of the system requirements before you get started
- Processor – 500 megahertz (MHz) processor or higher.
- Memory – 256 megabyte (MB) RAM or higher.
- Hard Disk – 1.5 GB; a portion of the disk space will be freed after installation if the original download package is removed from the hard drive.
- Display – 1024×768 or higher resolution monitor.
- Operating System – Windows XP with Service Pack (SP) 3 (32-bit operating system (OS) only) or Windows Vista with SP1, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003 R2 with MSXML 6.0, Windows Server 2008, or later 32- or 64-bit OS.
- Graphics hardware acceleration – requires DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics card with 64 MB or higher video memory.
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Free Google Wave invites
Posted by: 7ntinos7 on: November 29, 2009
Okay, so I got my google wave invites today, I have 7 left so I wonder if there is anyone without a GW account.
Reply to the comments below with your e-mail, and I will send you a free Google Wave invite;-)
What are you waiting for?:D
Also you can send a DM to my twitter account.
