Monday, February 28, 2011
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Sunday, February 27, 2011
Rumor: New Image Hints Four-Inch Screen on iPhone 5
The rumor-mill is once again a-churning over the possibility of a larger-sized iPhone that could compete against its beefier Android cousins. Although Apple CEO Steve Jobs has previously stated his thoughts on the matter — “No one’s going to buy” a larger iPhone—a new picture from an unidentified Chinese iPhone parts reseller offers a tantalizing tease for a larger iPhone to come.
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If the picture holds true, then the iPhone 5 would retain the same external look and feel as its predecessors—at least, in terms of how its user-facing panel is constructed. The home button might not be going anywhere, but it would now be centered beneath a screen that’s been increased from 3.5 inches across to 4.
Said unidentified company might throw more pictures up, including shots of the rear casing for the allegedly larger iPhone—there’s just no indication as to what the timeline for the leaked shots might be. Or, for that matter, just how accurate they are.
Digitimes has previously reported that Apple is planning on bulking up to a four-inch iPhone (screen size, that is) for its fifth-generation device.
“The component suppliers noted that the production lines for Apple’s next generation iPhone have begun testing, and Apple is interesting in expanding the screen size to 4-inches to support the tablet PC market as the vendor only has a 9.7-inch iPad in the market,” Digitimes writes.
However, we’ve analyzed these claims previously, and DisplayMate’s President Raymond Soneira notes that a larger-sized iPhone 5 would drop the “Retina Display” resolution of the device below the 300 pixels-per-inch (PPI) that Apple uses as a qualifier for the description.
“I think for marketing reasons Apple would not drop down to 285 ppi after making the big stink about 326 ppi,” Soneira says. “If they stayed with 326, they’d have to increase the [horizontal] resolution to 1,097 as opposed to 960 to preserve that same pixels per inch, but a lot of apps would not be happy with that.”
But the question begs: How long would Apple be content with a 3.5-inch device when its chief competitor, Android, lives on mobile devices far larger? Jobs might not think size is everything in the mobile market, but what about consumers?
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Android Offline Google Maps
Evidently, people love Google Maps more than other Mapping services like Bing maps, OpenstreetMap.
I travel around 70 miles to work and use Google maps extensively for finding out best traffic conditions for my journey. Apart from that when I travel in the capital region, its hard to find routes, as I’m new to the city. Obviously, my data plan was going way above the limits, and I was ending up paying high royality.
I started to look out for Google Maps Offline for Android, and finally settled with RMaps, that work with a charm. Other Alternatives: AndNav, Maverick, TrekBuddy.
Google Maps Offline on Android
Pre-requisites:
* RMaps (from Android Market, free)
* Mobile Atlas Creator
* sqlite_jni.dll
How To get Offline Maps on Android
Step 1. Go to Android Market and Install RMaps.
Step2. Install/Unzip Mobile Atlas Creator and keep the dll file in the same directory
Step 3. Open the Mobile Atlas creator and Choose map source as “Google Maps”, and use following controls to select a desired areas:
* Right click to Drag
* Scroll to zoom In/Out
* Left click to select downloadable area
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Step 4. Once the area is selected, you need to specify the zoom level. I personally prefer Zoom level of 18 since its detailed enough and not as detailed as Zoom level 19.
Note: zoom level 18 is the highest available for most non-US cities.
Step 5. Once you are satisfied, go ahead and select “add selection” with a name mentioned. Then select “BigPlanet SQLite” from “Atlas Settings”.
Note: If you plan to use another Application for Android Offline maps, say Maverick, AndNav, the default settings would be “Maverick atlas format” and “AndNav atlas format” respectively and maps source can be any.
Step 6. Go ahead and click “Create atlas” and the downloading would start. The duration of download is directly proportional to the area you selected in step 3.
Step 7. Once done, open the download folder mount SD card and copy the “BigPlanet_maps.sqlitedb” to /sdcard/rmaps/maps and disconnect USB.
Step 8. Open RMaps and Menu > More > Settings > User defined maps > BigPlanet_maps.sqlitedb > Enabled Maps. return to main maps screen and then Menu > Maps > BigPlanet_maps.sqlitedb.
The downloaded maps will now become active.
Now on, you can navigate around the downloaded area with GPS alone, without a need for data connection :D
Note: However, for directions, it will fetch data from Google, but the data usage is trivial.
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Speedup [TurboCharge] Web browsing on Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
Most of the modern day web browsing speed is limited by the peeks of the IO of your hard disk drives. High seek times and relatively slow transmission rates when compared to RAM speeds can add up to actually gives out slow browsing experience. Even switching to a SSD harddrive won’t help you much as SSDs are more helpful when writing/reading large data files.
The Problem: Forcing apps to run on Virtual memory (swap partition) was necessary when our PCs were actually limited in the amounts of physical RAM available.
The Solution: Let he IO hungry apps run in RAM using RAM Disks.
With something of the order of 4G RAM on laptops and 8GB+ on desktop, its perfect time to shift the IO read/write hungry apps to RAM, and achieve splendid results. Since we’ve sufficient control over apps runtime, this Tweak is actually efficiently possible on most OSes like Linux desktops (Fedora, Ubuntu), Mac OS X, and on Windows.
Speedup Browsing on Linux: You can create large RAMdisks which is then used by your favorite browser: Chrome or Firefox. You can follow instructions over here for Fedora, Ubuntu.
Speedup Browsing on Mac OS X (Leopard, Snow Leopard): Esperance DV allows you to create RAMDisks on a OSX machine and is available for configuration on “Preferences” pane.
Just select how much space you want to dedicate to the disk and create it. You can have Espérance DV recreate the RAM disk on start and even have it automatically restore from a disk image. There is a check box for moving Safari’s Web Cache to the RAM disk, which creates the necessary symlink. In addition, you can use this trick to speed up anything e.g. Xcode builds.
You can move Firefox’s cache directory to speed it up :
$ rm -r ~/Library/Caches/Firefox
$ ln -s /Volumes/RamDisk/Firefox ~/Library/Caches/Firefox
Speedup Browsing on Windows:
Here’s how to speedup Firefox without using RAMdrive on windows:
* Open firefox and goto about:config in your address bar and type “browser.cache” into the fileter bar.
* For browser.cache.disk.enable set the value to false
* Search for: browser.cache.memory.enable and set it to true.
* Right-click anywhere, in the menu select New > Integer. Name: browser.cache.memory.capacity and press OK button. In the next window, enter the size you want the cache in kilobytes (for example, typing 200000 would create a cache of 200 mb). A value of -1 forces Firefox to dynamically determine the cache size depending on the available system RAM.
Alternatively you can create a RAM disk on windows, and then move cache directories of Firefox, Chrome to it.,
How much is the speed improvement?
Enormous!!! On my Laptop running running Chrome in Ubuntu, the memory read speed jumped from 1.2 MB/s to 95MB/s (90x times approx) which is huge. (This hard disk gives 30MB/s for large file copies). And on my mac running Snow Leopard on SSD drive, it jumped by around 10x times.
So if you are on a broadband that has speeds around than 8mbps (or higher), you should start seeing improvements immediately after applying this tweak. However, the tweak still works for slower connections, especially if your HDD isn’t that new or badly fragmented.
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
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Monday, February 21, 2011
Microsoft Pulls a Fast One on Google
Using the logic behind this sort of strategy, I should develop a search engine that's free of actual web crawlers and servers and any sort of infrastructure. It will just have ads to make money.
No wait, that's already out there. They're called Dogpile and Beaucoup and half a dozen also-ran engines that some people like to use. At least, those engines credit Google, whereas Microsoft does not.
This, of course, brings the nasty little habit that Microsoft has of lifting other people's ideas and good works and "embracing" them back to the forefront.
Hey, all they are doing is embracing the Google results so you, the customer, can benefit.
Microsoft, of course, says this assertion is bogus. It may well be, since we always suspect the worst when it comes to Microsoft and its business practices. Google claims to have spotted this practice some time back, so it began to plant bogus information in its search results. Then Microsoft magically had it in its search results. Busted!
The bigger question that nobody wants to answer is whether or not this is legal and what is Google going to do about it, except grouse.
Google could steal the Google-augmented Bing results and have uber-results, but then Microsoft could grab those results, which would only create a vicious cycle of ripping each other off.
Google is going to have to sue Microsoft and humiliate the company by exposing the fact that Microsoft doesn't really want to compete with Google. Microsoft doesn't have the server farms, the bots, or the inclination to load up the company with search wonks, working on search algorithms all day and night.
By the way, has anyone wondered exactly where Yahoo fits into this picture? It did a deal with Microsoft to use Bing. Has Yahoo been out scammed? If true I'd love to hear the shouting match between Ballmer and Carol Bartz.
If I was Microsoft, I'd argue that it was merely monitoring Google results to compare them to the Bing results as a service to the user. The bad planted information was some sort of horrible mistake, and the company don't know exactly what happened. You know, like the early explanations about how various hidden Digital Research copyright notices somehow ended up in DOS 1.0 back in the day.
"These things happen, your honor."
Ethics aside, where's this headed? And how important is it? To me, if this is happening—I believe it is—then Microsoft should just admit defeat and shutter Bing or license the Google engine and be done with it. "Bing! Powered by Google" works for me. At least, it would be honest.
In the meantime, Microsoft should be ashamed of itself. Let's hope the company doesn't blame some rogue employee who meant well. Nobody is going to buy into that.
Microsoft Phone 7 Is Dead in the Water
I haven't even seen one of these phones, but people who have seen one tell me that it's actually a very nice device. The problem it seems to have is that it's the odd man out in a two man race. It's number three, or maybe four, or maybe five.
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To fix this, Microsoft should bite the bullet and embrace Linux and should even take the Android OS, which is Open Source, and simply use it with various modifications.
Microsoft, like many other big commercial software companies, is scared to death of Open Source just because of the possibility that one of the many Open Source licenses will thrust everything the company does into the open source stew pot. They think that suddenly, because of some error in distribution or usage, Word, for example, could become Open Source. Microsoft is scared to death this will happen.
At least, that's what I assume because there is no other rationale for the refusal to use Open Source to benefit the company. After all, Microsoft is notorious for lifting ideas and designs from other vendors and putting them in its products. The company loses lawsuits over this practice. But here we have a huge cache of wide open products and source code and Microsoft stays away like a bear confronted by a skunk.
You'd think Microsoft would have completely raided and exploited the Open Source scene by now, but no.
I'm actually shocked that more MSFT shareholders haven't made a fuss about this. Why spend all that R&D and marketing money to develop and sell Phone 7 when people are buying Androids phones at an alarming rate.
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer made this observation: "A month ago, Microsoft said 1.5 million Windows Phones had shipped in the first six weeks—from the Oct. 21 Europe-Asia launch until around Dec. 2. That means from then until the end of December, just about 500,000 more Windows Phones were shipped."
And as Preston Gralla from Computerworld points out, this is shipped to stores, not people. Compare this to the 300,000 Android phones activated daily!
The fact is Microsoft is zigging when it should be zagging. It needs to open a new division that has nothing to do with the rest of the company, so Open Source code can't come into contact with its commercial code. Here it can evolve an Open Source and Linux policy with products for sale and support services. The company needs to get back to an even footing with Google in the phone and, soon, the pad business. It may not catch up with Apple insofar as innovation is concerned, but it can't afford to languish and constantly be humiliated by seemingly pointless and dead-end rollouts.
It will be a huge embarrassment for the company to pull the plug on Windows Phone 7, but that's the direction this is headed. I'm sure there have been a lot of meetings about this with a lot of shouting and bogus excuses for yet another failure. Plus, all of this is right on the heels of a ridiculous flop called the Microsoft Kin phone.
Microsoft should swallow its pride and look at Linux and Android. That decision can't be any more humiliating that what it has already been doing. In fact, it may be seen as a stroke of genius.
Sunday, February 20, 2011
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Friday, February 18, 2011
Hands On: Microsoft's Windows Live Essentials II
How? Well, with this version you can sync your folders not just from computer to computer, but also to the free Windows Live SkyDrive Web-based storage service, where you get 2GB of free storage space. That means that Windows Live Sync doubles as a simple backup service. It also means that you'll be able to get access to your files from any Internet-connected computer.
You can also synchronize your Internet Explorer Favorites and a variety of Microsoft Office settings, including templates and e-mail signatures, among multiple computers.
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An especially useful new feature, taken from an older Microsoft service, Windows Live Mesh, is the ability to take control of one of your Windows computers via a remote Internet connection. I tried it out and found that it was quite easy -- I was able to control a remote PC as if I were sitting at its keyboard. Anyone who has struggled with setting up Windows' built-in Remote Desktop Connection will welcome this new tool.
Windows Live Sync is so useful that it's surprising that Microsoft hasn't baked it into all of its products, such as Microsoft Office and the Web-based Microsoft Office Web Apps. Perhaps that will come in the future.
Windows Live Mail
When Microsoft decided to kill the Windows Mail desktop client back in 2007, not everyone was pleased. Windows Mail had been an update to Outlook Express, was built into Windows Vista and was a nice piece of work, although not as powerful as full-blown Outlook. Microsoft subsequently made it available as a free download under the name Windows Live Mail.
This latest version of Windows Live Mail represents a significant improvement over the previous version. The big change here is the addition of the Ribbon interface, found in Office 2007 and 2010 applications, and a calendar pane (which gives you access to the calendar that is in Windows Live Mail). This makes Windows Live Mail much more Outlook-like. In fact, at a first, quick glance, you could almost mistake it for Outlook.
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Also useful is the new Conversation View, similar to the one introduced in Outlook 2010, which makes it easy to follow threaded conversations with one or more people. Every e-mail with more than one message has a small triangle next to it. Click the triangle to see a chronological list of every message in the conversation; click any message to jump to it. It's a fine time-saver.
Windows Live Mail also lifts several features from Hotmail. As with Hotmail, if you want to share photos with others via e-mail, you can send a photo album.
Create your e-mail, click the "Photo album" icon, and choose your photos. Windows Live Mail then formats your images into a nice-looking album (using thumbnails) in your e-mail, and also stores the photos on your Windows Live SkyDrive account. Recipients can click the thumbnails and be sent to the full-size images on SkyDrive. This solves the problem of ISPs blocking messages with too-large attachments.
Also welcome are Quick Views, which appear on the left-hand side of the Live Mail screen, and which are especially useful for people who use Windows Live Mail for multiple e-mail accounts. For example, if you want to see all of your unread mail from all accounts combined, click "Unread e-mail." To see unread mail just from your contacts, click "Unread from contacts." And to see all the RSS feeds you haven't read yet, click "Unread feeds."
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Whether you'll be impressed with this newest version will depend on whether you view it as a single, coherent product line or as a group of disparate applications. As a coherent product line, there's no clear theme tying everything together. But the individual products are useful, solid pieces of work and often quite powerful, given that they're free. In fact, they're some of the best free applications you'll find anywhere and are well worth the download.
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The Wave 4 release of Windows Live Essentials comes about a year and a half after the Wave 3 release. The new release has a lineup of applications that is almost identical to that of its predecessor: Windows Live Mail, Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Photo Gallery, Windows Live Movie Maker, Windows Live Sync, Windows Live Writer, Windows Live Family Safety and the Bing Bar (which replaces the previous Windows Live Toolbar).
Windows Live Essentials works only with Windows Vista and Windows 7, so Windows XP users are out of luck. Some features have been optimized for Windows 7 -- for example, Windows Movie Maker can make use of codecs built into Windows 7.
Some of the offerings in Windows Live Essentials are applications that originally shipped with Windows but were stripped out in Windows 7, such as Windows Live Mail, Windows Live Photo Gallery and Windows Live Movie Maker. Other applications, such as Windows Live Sync and Windows Live Writer, are unique to Live Essentials.
In this review, I'll look at the changes in this beta version of Windows Live Essentials compared to Wave 3.
Windows Live Sync
The sleeper of the group that has gotten very little notice is Windows Live Sync. That's a shame, because for people with multiple PCs, this little app may be the best of the bunch. Beyond that, it could provide an important syncing foundation for many other Microsoft products in the future, including the Web version of Office.
Windows Live Sync does exactly what the name implies -- it synchronizes files and folders among multiple PCs, Macs as well as Windows PCs. (Note: While previous versions of Windows Live Sync do work with Macs, I was unable to get the Mac version of this beta to work.)
As with previous versions of Windows Live Sync, you install the software on each computer that contains folders you want to synchronize. The application finds other computers that have Windows Live Sync installed; you can then choose the folders that you want to synchronize, and on which computers you want them synchronized. The software does its magic in the background as you work.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
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Saturday, February 12, 2011
Can you rise in a company without being a strategic thinker?
If you want to make sure all your t’s are crossed on a project, then he is definitely a person you want in your corner. I think that this is recognized and appreciated by his boss, to the point where he’s the go-to person for that kind of thing.
However, he is also the first person to admit that he is not a strategic thinker. This got me to thinking if someone can reach an executive position in a company without being strategically-minded. Also, I wonder if strategic thinking can be taught or if it is something ingrained in the personality.
I’d like to get your opinions on this in a poll. Please take a second to take the poll below and we’ll talk about the results once they’re in.
Monday, February 7, 2011
11 smart career tips for 2011
Andy Warhol said, “Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art.”
As a passionate executive recruiter, I couldn’t agree more, particularly when it comes to professionals being good in managing their careers. Here, for the New Year, are 11 career tips for 2011:
1. Look out for #1. Take responsibility for your own career development. Many large organizations have scaled back on training and development-a common outcome of the economic downturn-and small companies can rarely provide significant support. Simply put, your career rests in one set of hands: yours.
2. Be strategic. Have a long-term career strategy or, at the very least, a sense for where you’re headed. Ask yourself, “What do I really want to do?” or “Where do I see myself in five to ten years?” Seek people in similar roles and ask for their advice.
3. Work in step with your company’s goals. Connect the dots from your role to your company’s vision and key objectives. How does your work align with the organization’s goals? What can you do to maximize your contributions?
4. Be customer-centric. Whether your customers are internal or external, know their wants and needs, and be fervent about meeting them. Bring the voice of the customer into your day-to-day work and let it enhance your decisions and deliverables.
5. Collaborate. Working with and through others is requisite to innovating, creating, and producing business results. Adopt a mindset for teaming and collaborating, and put it into daily practice.
6. Hone your communication skills. Communication skills can make or break careers. Pick one area that needs your attention-considering skills such as listening, presenting, influencing, persuading, or distilling messages-and commit to improvement. Take a class, practice with a trusted friend or colleague, or join a group such as Toastmasters.
7. Cross over functionally. Many successful executives have risen through the ranks by taking cross-functional roles, such as moving from finance to sales or from marketing to IT. Follow their lead and you can grow your skills, your network, and your political capital.
8. Expand your experience. Volunteer for special projects or assignments that are outside your everyday role. Discuss your goals with your boss, an HR representative, or a senior leader, and ask for help in finding opportunities to broaden your experience base.
9. Find a guide. Mentors can serve as influential role models and provide important guidance for your career. Reach out to a potential mentor within your company or industry and see if he or she would be open to mentoring you for a specific purpose and timeframe.
10. Network-now. The best time to increase your network is today. Starting now, get involved in groups such as professional associations, charitable organizations, or even sports leagues. Step into leadership roles and make your expertise known.
11. Specialize. Today, companies look for specialists, not generalists. Develop a personal brand, distinguish your skills and strengths, and determine how to best market yourself.
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Create a new partition with Windows 7 tool
Disk Management
As in the previous post, the first step is to start the Windows 7 Disk Management tool with elevated administrative rights. Click the Start menu button and type diskmgmt.msc into the search box and then right-click the diskmgmt.msc entry to get to the Run as Administrator item in the context menu, as shown in Figure A.
Figure A
Open the Disk Management Tool with administrative rights.
Clicking Run as Administrator will load the Disk Management Tool, which will look something like Figure B. As you can see, we have some empty space to work with after shrinking the volume previously.
Figure B
There is empty space to fill.
Right-click on the empty area to get the context menu and then navigate to the New Simple Volume menu item, which will start the appropriate wizard (Figure C).
Figure C
Start the New Simple Volume Wizard.
Click Next on the Welcome screen (Figure D) to start the process.
Figure D
The Welcome screen starts the process.
You can take the empty space and divide it into several drives, but in our example, I am going to use the remaining space for the new simple volume (Figure E).
Figure E
Specify the volume size.
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On the next screen in the wizard you are asked to assign a drive letter or path to the new volume (Figure F). You have three choices:
* Assign the following drive letter: Windows has suggested the next available drive letter. This is the default and will most often be the preferable choice.
* Mount in the following empty NTFS folder: Instead of using a drive letter you can mount the drive to a folder. This essentially makes the drive look like and operate like a folder in Windows.
* Do not assign a drive letter or drive path: You will have to assign a letter or path later in order to make the drive usable for storage.
We’ll just stick with the default and make a new drive E.
Figure F
Assign a drive letter or drive path.
The screen in the wizard deals with formatting our new drive (Figure G). In general, you should choose to format this drive under the NTFS file system; however, you can also choose to use FAT32. The other default setting should not be used unless you know have a specific reason to change the allocation size.
You should give your new drive a label to help you distinguish the new drive from other drives on your system. A quick format will take less time, but it will not find and mark bad sectors on your drive that could cause problems later.
NTFS drives have built-in compression systems that are essentially seamless to users and can be a good choice if storage space is a premium.
Figure G
Set the formatting options.
The last screen in the wizard (Figure H) gives you a summary of your choices and the opportunity to step back and make changes. When you are satisfied with your choices, click the Finished button.
Figure H
Click Finish to create your drive.
When the formatting is complete, you will have a new drive visible to Windows 7 and ready to store your files (Figure I).
Figure I
A new drive is available.
Thursday, February 3, 2011
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Wednesday, February 2, 2011
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Configuration of each mouse is handled in the main application window that pops up after start. The mouse speed can be configured individually for each mouse with a slider. There is only one additional option, to enhance pointer precision.
There is an additional option to configure hotkeys to quickly switch between mouse speed layouts without having to use the system tray menu. But that’s optional. Most users will probably switch between different mice by clicking on the program’s tray icon.
Mouse Speed Tray Menu
The program has no built in option to automatically switch the speed if the user switches the mouse, e.g. from an USB connected mouse to a laptop’s trackpad.
Verdict
Mouse Speed Switcher is an excellent tool for users who need different mouse speeds for different input devices. The application displays a nag screen every now and then, which can be closed immediately when it appears. Users can register the application for €7.50 to get rid of the nag screen.
Mouse Speed Switcher Download and Compatibility
The download is available at the developer website. It is fully compatible with most Windows operating systems. Mouse Speed Switcher has been tested on a Windows 7 Professional 64-bit system.
Mouse Speed Alternatives
Automatic Mouse Switcher is an Open Source alternative for that purpose. As the name suggests, it detects the active mouse or trackpad automatically and switches speeds accordingly.
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