Tech World : 2010

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Canon 1000d Camera

Acer Stream Android SmartPhone

First look at the Acer Stream Android smartphone

I have to admit I have never been an admirer of the PC giant Acer. Despite how ever long the company has been around, it was never a first choice for me for any type of device, however, I do see a massive potential for the Acer Stream. The Android smartphone recently arrived the phone experts at GSMArena and the phone does look impressive.

Saturday, August 14, 2010

Ventura Sigma Wrist-Watch

Designed by Paolo Fancelli, the v-tec Sigma is the newest addition to the stunning Ventura range of high-tech fashionable and all digital wristwatches.

ventura sigma wristwatch

Bowers and Wilkins P5 wallpapers

Monday, August 9, 2010

SAMSUNG Reality Wallpapers

Samsung Reality™ features a slide-out full QWERTY keyboard – shoot off texts and emails with total ease. A finger-friendly full touchscreen gives you fast access to your favorite applications, while One Touch Zoom lets you instantly enlarge pics and web pages.

samsung reality pics

SAMSUNG Vibrant Wallpapers

samsung vibrant wallpapers

SAMSUNG Impression

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Sony Vaio P-Series Laptops

Saturday, July 24, 2010

Drupal Garden getting ready-bloom

Hosted version of the open source CMS moves to public beta stage

Drupal Gardens, the planned cloud version of the open source Drupal content management system, went into a public beta stage Thursday, thus making it widely available for tryouts , said Drupal founder Dries Buytaert.

The technology previously had been available through a controlled, private beta program, said Buytaert, founder and CTO of Acquia, in an interview at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) in Portland.

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"As of today, everybody can go to our Web site, drupalgardens.com," to get the beta release, he said.

The long-term vision for Drupal Gardens calls for setting up a marketplace where developers can offer application templates for the CMS. "It's a little bit like an app store," said Buytaert.

Drupal 7, the next major version of the CMS, still is in development, with developers still needing to fix about 44 critical bugs before it can be released, Buytaert said. A beta version of Drupal 7 is anticipated for August, with the general release eyed for the third quarter of this year.

Drupal 7 will add support for the Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle databases, said Buytaert. Support of these databases should make it easier for large organizations to adopt Drupal, he said.

Also at OSCON, a Microsoft official cited Microsoft's efforts with cloud computing via its Windows Azure platform. But there are no plans to offer the technology via open source, said Jean Paoli, general manager of interoperability strategy at Microsoft. "We're not going to be open-sourcing Azure," said Paoli in an interview.

Azure, he said, will work with open source technologies, such as Java and PHP. Also, developers using Eclipse open source tooling can build applications for Azure, he said.

During a keynote presentation, Paoli cited Microsoft's launch Thursday of a Web site devoted to conversation about cloud interoperability, at www.microsoft.com/cloud/interop. He cited four key interoperability elements of a cloud platform: data portability, standards, ease of migration and deployment and developer choice.

Thursday's brief series of keynote presentations at OSCON also featured David Recordon, senior open programs manager at Facebook, who suggested possible additions to the popular LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP/Perl Python) technology stack. Additions could be considered for caching and data analysis, he said, noting Facebook's extensive network and its use of technologies, such as the Hadoop distributed computing platform.

Facebook has seen its data storage level increase by about 70 times in the past two years, Recordon said.

This article, "Drupal Gardens getting ready to bloom," was originally published at InfoWorld.com.

Apple admits iPhone 4 antenna issues

Since the iPhone 4 went on sale Thursday, numerous reports have begun to appear online about consumers having strange issues with the antenna. Namely, that if they put their hand over the new steel band that encases the iPhone, they lose reception.

Apple has responded with a statement:

"Gripping any mobile phone will result in some attenuation of its antenna performance, with certain places being worse than others depending on the placement of the antennas. This is a fact of life for every wireless phone. If you ever experience this on your iPhone 4, avoid gripping it in the lower left corner in a way that covers both sides of the black strip in the metal band, or simply use one of many available cases."

We did a test call today, and found that yes, indeed, put your hand on the bottom of the iPhone (something most people tend to do) to hold it while chatting, and reception takes a nose dive. Then we tried putting one of Apple's new "Bumper" products, similar to a case, over the phone, and reception improved. The bumpers come in several colors, and sell for a whopping $29.99 each. All it is is a plastic strip that goes around the iPhone. But if it lets you hold the phone while speaking, it is worth considering as an investment.

Friday, July 23, 2010

HyperShot 3d Rendering Software

Hyper Shot is a strong tool for 3d rendering and editing. It was initially developed for mac systems. However, nowadays, it's versions for different operating systems are also available.