Tech World

Nokia N86 Was Officially unveiled on Second day of GSMA 2009 this week. This is the nokia`s first 8MP phone and its nokia`s answer to Samsung Memoir. This phone has resemblance with other N8x phones and its a slider phone. It has 6.6 inch OLED screen with scratch resistant display with a resolution of 240X320. It Comes with Symbian Series 60 Operating system.

The N86 8MP has a Carl Zeiss Tessar lens for High quality pictures and variable aperture to helps you get better pictures in very-bright or low-light environments. There is also a dual-LED flash and the camera phone claims to have a fast mechanical shutter that should reduce motion blur. Photos can be geotagged with help of GPS, and you can even uploaded them to Flickr like services. The N86 has video-out Capabilities, So that you can show off your pictures on a larger TV or Computer Screen.

Google Came out with the new version 2.0 of 'Google Maps for mobile', its innovative mobile mapping and local search application called "My Location" (beta) finds the user's location by measuring the distance of his phone from a nearby base stations. Unfortunately, it isn't as precise as using GPS, but takes out less battery for this, This can be used with a model that doesn`t support GPS.

Google is hoping to get within one-quarter to three miles of a user's location. Google says that they “use various algorithms to approximate your location relative to the cells nearest you. The accuracy of this information depends on how big an individual cell is. Thus, areas with a denser concentration of mobile towers allow for a more accurate My Location reading. Additionally, as our database of cell locations continues to improve, so too does the
accuracy and coverage of the My Location feature.”

"My Location" technology is claims to be faster than GPS, besides it is able to cover the inside of buildings unlike GPS, and results in slower drainage of batteries when compared to GPS.
Unfortunately this feature is still not available in INDIA and currently available in the fallowing countries: U.S., U.K., France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Austria, Switzerland, Lichtenstein, Portugal, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway, The Netherlands, Russian Federation, and Taiwan. Hope Google release this feature soon in India.

You can checkout this video on Youtube to see how it works.
Google now has your emails, GTalk conversations, search queries, personal info and now your location, Wat could be the Google`s next release? Pls post in your views below.

Turn your browser in to a visually stunning 3D Multimedia wall. Cooliris(previously called piclens), is a firefox addon which provides these interactive slide shows for you.This unique ever expansive 3D wall lets you to zoom in to your picture among many pictures. This is a fastest way to search internet for images. You can search Google,Youtube,Flicker,Photobucket,DevianArt,Yahoo and Hulu for images and videos using cooliris.


The plugin is available for Safari and Internet Explorer. At present, the software is compatible with Google Image Search, Yahoo! Image Search, Ask.com Images, Live Search Images, AOL Image Search, Flickr, Photobucket, Picasa, Fotki, FotoTime, deviantART, SmugMug, Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, hi5, Friendster, YouTube. It is also compatible with any website which implement mediaRSS on thier HTML pages.The Addon places a small icon in the corner of an image thumbnail when the mouse moves over it, which launches into a full-screen photo viewer when clicked.

You can download this addon here.
(Open this page in firefox)

Microsoft windows vista service pack 2 update has been released only for MSDN and technet members for testing and it is not available for public and also not avialable in microsoft download center. But it is leaked and avialable for you to download. You can download it from the link given at the end of this post. But before you install it go through the complete post for complete instructions and details.


Microsoft does not provide telephone and e-mail support since it is a beta release.
The service pack 2 beta is time-limited software and this will no longer work after May 1,2010. You must uninstall this before this date. I strongly recomend you to install the complete version of service pack when it is released. For this u need to uninstall the this beta version. Also Note that you must have service pack 1 installed before u install SP2.

After u install service pack 2 beta, The following text may be displayed in your desktop
"Evaluation Copy"
This doesn`t mean that your windows is not genuine. This only indicates that you have installed a test version of windows which is time limited.
This evaluation copy text may be displayed after the second startup after you install SP2. And this may remain during first restart after you uninstall the service pack. This wont appear after second restart.

To uninstall Windows service pack 2 beta:

1)Click Start button

2)Copy and paste(or type) the following command in start search box and then press enter
appwiz.cpl

3)Click view installed updates

4)click Service pack for microsoft windows(KB948965) and then click uninstall

5)Follow the instructions and complete process


You can view the release notes of this beta version release here.

Click here to download the Service pack 2 beta.

Or you can right click to select your download manager.

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