Tech World

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.

If you like my posts then subscribe to the rss feed by providing your email address.

Finally google has integrated its gtalk in orkut which enable orkut users to chat directly while they are in orkut.

All orkut users will like this feature, Before they used to send scraps and it takes lots of time to get ur friend`s reply. you also the freedom to set your chat status updates to available, busy, invisible or offline. You can chat with your Google Talk contacts and Gmail contacts from orkut.



Changing ur chat settings in orkut:

• Go to the Google Talk Settings page to set and configure your options.
• You can either allow all orkut friends to chat with you or can select selected friends who are able to chat with you on orkut.
• If you do not wish to integrate google talk with orkut, there is an option to disable google talk integration with orkut.

Nokia unveiled its next Nseries successor Nokia N97 in Barcelona, Spain on this tuesday(2nd december). The world's most advanced mobile computer. Nokia N97 comes with a large 3.5" touch display with a full QWERTY keyboard, providing an 'always open' window to favorite social networking sites and Internet destinations. Its memory is extendable upto 48 GB. Its has got excellent music capabilities with a continous playback time of 1.5 days. It has got 5-Megapixel camera high-quality Carl Zeiss lens, also 16:9 aspect ratio and DVD quality video capture capability. Its detailed specifications are given below.

Manufacturer: Nokia
Screen: 640*360 px (16:9 aspect ratio), 3.5 inch with sliding tilt TFT LCD display
Camera: 5 Megapixel Carl Zeiss.
Operating System: Symbian OS with S60 5th Edition UI.
Input: QWERTY Keyboard
Memory: Up to 48GB (32 GB on-board memory, plus up to 16 GB
expansion via microSD memory card slot).
Memory card: MicroSD
Networks: HSDPA(3.5G) Quad band GSM / GPRS / EDGE GSM 850, GSM 900,
GSM 1800, GSM 1900.
Connectivity: USB 2.0, Bluetooth 2.0, WLAN IEEE 802.11b/g with UPnP support.
Battery: Nokia Battery BP-4L, 1500 mAh
Physical size: 117.2 x 55.3 x 15.9 mm (L x W x H), 18.25 mm at camera area.
Weight: 150g
Media: MP3, AAC, eAAC, eAAC+, WMA.

The Nokia N97 is expected to begin shipping in the first half of 2009 at an estimated retail price of EUR 550(Around 34,000 INR) without taxes and subsidies.
Watch this cool video and still do you think iphone is the best???
Pls post your comments here.

In one of my previous post i had written about Windows 7. If ur Confused by the name windows 7. Here`s ur answer(This answer was given by Mike Nash, Microsoft's vice-president of Windows product management)

“ The very first release of Windows was Windows 1.0, the second was Windows 2.0, the third Windows 3.0. Here's where things get a little more complicated. Following Windows 3.0 was Windows NT which was code versioned as Windows 3.1. Then came Windows 95, which was code versioned as Windows 4.0. Then, Windows 98, 98 SE and Windows Millennium each shipped as 4.0.1998, 4.10.2222, and 4.90.3000, respectively. So we're counting all 9x versions as being 4.0. Windows 2000 code was 5.0 and then we shipped Windows XP as 5.1, even though it was a major release we didn't want to change code version numbers to maximize application compatibility. That brings us to Windows Vista, which is 6.0. So we see Windows 7 as our next logical significant release and 7th in the family of Windows releases...There's been some fodder about whether using 6.1 in the code is an indicator of the relevance of Windows 7. It is not. Windows 7 is a significant and evolutionary advancement of the client operating system. It is in every way a major effort in design, engineering and innovation. The only thing to read into the code versioning is that we are absolutely committed to making sure application compatibility is optimized for our customers ”

Well this post is about the some of the exclusive features which are not present in current windows vista.

So here are some of its exclusive features:



*SIDEBAR: Sidebar is removed in Windows 7 but gadgets can be directly placed on screen. Also aero glass transparency settings can be modified.



*Auto Window Arrangement: Two windows can be simultaneously viewed side by side by dragging window to the far left or far right of the desktop. If u drag a window to the top it is maximized.



*New device icons: Devices are now represented by photo icons
*Libararies: Libraries can be used to store and search across a variety of data.



*Streaming media: Windows 7 Systems can be managed via Homegroups, designed for home networking. With Homegroups one PC can stream media to another PC or to a media player.



*Easy Device Management: A new way to manage devices and drivers. Possibilities are endless for vendors to create their own device stage in XML format.



*Quick Connect: Users can quickly connect to various networks from the System Tray.



*New look of Task bar: Opened programs reside on the Taskbar as graphic thumbnails.



*Jump list: Every program in Windows 7 has a jump list. It's a quick way to access files and recently visited Web sites.



*Paint with Office 07 look: The enduring Paint application now has the ribbon interface of Office 2007.


This is not the end of the list. Actually list is very big, I will soon write one more post covering some more of its exclusive features.

On tuesday Microsoft released the Windows Vista SP2 Beta for Technet and MSDN Subscribers to download. Service Pack 2 includes lost of improvements that will help security and performance. Among the improvements the most notable are Bluetooth 2.1 feature pack, Windows Connect Now wireless configuration, Windows Search 4 and increased reliability.

Intel Corporation has launched its most advanced desktop processor ever called the Intel Core i7 processor. Intel Core i7 is a family of three Intel Desktop x86-64 processors, the first processors released using the Intel Nehalem microarchitecture and the successor to the Intel Core 2 family. All three models are quad-core processors.It was officially launched on November 17, 2008.

Intel Turbo Boost Technology automatically adjusts the clock speed of one or more of the four individual processing cores for single- and multi-threaded applications to boost performance. The Core i7 processor more than doubles the memory bandwidth of previous Intel “Extreme” platforms, speeding the transfer of computer bits and bites in and out of the processor with Intel Quickpath Technology. Intel’s Hyper-Threading Technology allows multiple computing threads to run simultaneously, effectively enabling it to do two things at once, so the Core i7 quad-core processor delivers 8-threaded performance.

Each Core i7 processor has an 8 MB level 3 cache and three channels of DDR3 1066 memory to deliver the best memory performance of any desktop platform. Intel’s top performance processor, the Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition, also removes overspeed protection, allowing further increase in the chip’s speed.


(Click to Zoom)

A 2.93 GHz Core i7 940 system has been used to run a 3DMark Vantage benchmark and gave a CPU score of 17,966.[15] The 2.66 GHz Core i7 920 scores 16,294. An earlier generation Core processor, the very expensive 3.20 Ghz Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770, scores 13,182. Another one, the 2.66 GHz Core 2 Quad Q9450, scores 11,131.

Over-clocking will be possible with the 900 series and a motherboard equipped with the X58 chipset. In early October 2008, reports surfaced that it will not be possible to use "performance" DDR3 DIMMs that require voltages higher than 1.65v, because the integrated memory controller within the Core i7 will be damaged.[18] Some tests, however, have demonstrated that the voltage limit does not apply, like on a MSI board, and manufacturers can choose to bond CPU voltage to memory or not. By the end of that month, performance memory vendors had announced 1.65v DDR3 memory kits with clock rates up to 2GHz.

he Intel Core i7 is also a very good match for extreme gaming platforms, especially heavy Multi-GPU environements that require a tremendous amount of CPU power, so the Core i7 965 Extreme Edition can provide incredible gains over Intel's previous fastest CPU: the Core 2 Extreme QX9770.Now play Crysis like never before.

Intel Core i7- 920 starts at $284, Intel Core i7-965 Extreme Edition will cost $999. But the prices are expected to come down in next 4 to 5 months.
And OEM`s may start shipping systems with core i7 extreme by the end of 2009.

Keyboardr is a new way to search for your queries over the web. It searches as and when u type(It shows u the search result after u entered each character and u need not to press enter). U must have noticied it in the Windows Vista, Its a bit slower in vista but faster in apple`s mac.


The best part of the keyboardr is that it shows u the results of google search engine, google blogsearch,youtube and google imagesearch and wikipedia in a single page and u can use arrow key to navigate among the results

U can see the screenshot of keyboardr when i tried for the keyword "RVCE"

(click to zoom the picture)

R u puzzeled to see those ratings.
Yes,, its the rating shown by windows vista in my computer.

U can hack it and and change them to the watever numbers u wish.
Just follow the steps given below

1. Navigate to C:\Windows\Performance\WinSAT\DataStore.
2. Open up the most recent file in that folder. Make sure that your account has write access to that file. If not change the file permissions.
3. Parse the file looking for the WinSPR entry. These are the items you want to edit. The maximum value you can use is 9.9.



4. Save the file and you just turned your 2.1 system into a supercomputer.

Many people who got disappointed with vista(not really me) are hoping that Windows 7 will bring dramatic changes to Windows, they may well be disappointed. More and more evidence shows that Windows 7 may only be the equivalent of a Vista SP2.

Microsoft is being remaining silent about what will be in Windows 7, but it looks as if no major changes are in the offing. Microsoft has said that it's not developing a new kernel for Windows 7, and it has said that the hardware, software, and peripherals that work with Vista will also work with Windows 7.

Microsoft has said that Windows 7 will include something called pervasive multi-touch. That's a fancy way of saying that you'll be able to run the operating sytem and its underlying applets via a touch screen.

That certainly doesn't get me excited. Microsoft has been touting touch screens and pen computing for as far back as I can remember, and no one seems to care. Sure, it will help with specialized applications, but for most business and home users, it simply doesn't matter.

Windows 7 may ship with a new version of Internet Explorer such as internet explorer 8(if microsoft is able to release the full version by that time which is currently in beta state) and isn't necessarily tied to the operating system.

No doubt, there will be other changes as well. But if the kernel isn't being rewritten, and if all existing Vista hardware and software will work with Windows 7, there's a good chance you won't see any major changes to Windows.

Windows XP SP2, you may recall, added considerable new features to XP. It finally gave a firewall to Windows, introduced a pop-up blocker, introduced better wireless access and security, and more.

Those are all very significant changes --- and it's not clear that Windows 7 will offer as many new features as even SP2 did for XP.

So why bother giving the new version of Windows a new name, instead of calling it a Service Pack? Because Vista has gotten a tremendous amount of bad press, and this will be a way for Microsoft to put that behind it.

I hope that I'm wrong, and that we'll see plenty of new features in Windows 7. After all, we're still about a year-and-a-half away from shipping. But the signs right now don't look good.

On September 18, 2007, Pat Gelsinger demonstrated USB 3.0 at the Intel Developer Forum. USB 3.0 is targeted at ten times the current bitrate, reaching roughly 4.8 Gbit/s (for a highly theoretical maximum 600MB/s) by utilizing two additional high-speed differential pairs for "Superspeed" mode at a clock frequency of 2.5GHz , and with the possibility for optical interconnect. The two new differential pairs make the cable about as thick as an ethernet cable and provide full-duplex transfers.[32] The USB 3.0 specification was 90% complete as of August 13, 2008[33] and commercial products are expected to arrive in 2009 or 2010.[ USB 3.0 is designed to be backwards-compatible with both USB 2.0 and USB 1.1 and employs more efficient protocols such as 8b/10b encoding to conserve power while increasing the maximum power available for connected devices.

USB 2.0 cables worked off of four lines – a pair for in/out data transfer, one line for power, and the last for grounding. USB 3.0 adds five new lines (the cable is noticeably thicker), but the new contacts sit parallel to the old ones on a different plane, as opposed to being adjacent to them. This means you’ll be able to differentiate between 2.0 and 3.0 cables just by looking at the ends.With USB 3.0, two new lanes will be dedicated to transmit data, while another pair will handle receiving data. This not only accounts for the significant speed boost, but also allows USB 3.0 to both read and write at the same time from your portable storage device. In the old spec, the pair of lanes used for data transfer weren’t split between send and receive – they only could handle traffic in one direction. Bi-directional data transfer will be very useful for syncing up information on PDAs and storage backup. They’ll carry more power, too. The USB-IF recognizes the growing number of portable devices that charge via USB (cellphones, MP3 players, digital cameras), and have bumped the power output from about 100miliamps to 900 milliamps. That means not only will you be able to power more than 4 devices from a single hub, but the increase current will let you charge up heftier hardware as well.

Like the upgrade from USB 1.1 to 2.0, the new 3.0 connectors and cables will be physically and functionally compatible with hardware from the older specs. Of course, you won’t be able to maximize your bandwidth unless you’re using a USB 3.0 cable with Superspeed devices and ports, but at least plugging a 3.0 cable into a 2.0 port won’t blow up your PC. The spec’s compatibility lies in the design of the new connectors

According to electronicdesign.com cables will be limited to 3 m at full speed. The technology is similar to PCI Express 2.0 (5-Gbit/s). It uses 8B10B encoding, linear feedback shift register (LFSR) scrambling for data, spread spectrum. It forces receivers to use lowfrequency periodic signaling (LFPS), dynamic equalization, and training sequences to ensure fast signal locking.

The connector will be divided into two parts. The first part is the USB 2.0 four-wire version with UTP data pair and power with ground. The second part will have five connections: two UTP lane (one is uplink and one is downlink) and a ground. An optical connector and cable will be available in the future.