Samsung Galaxy Tab Tech specs

The Tab has GSM/GPRS/EDGE along with HSPA-enhanced 3G connectivity. Both for voice and data, SMS and MMS too. The Android Froyo powered Galaxy tab is not much inferior to the iPad. Galaxy Tab is lightweight and more plastic in design. The Galaxy tab enables with the same AMOLED screenwhich is already used in Galaxy S -again which would be for reducing the price.

Its 7 inch TFT display with 1024 x 600 resolutions is made for the best browsing of HD Videos. This tablet having 3 MP camera with auto-focus snapper with LED flash at the back side and 1.3 MP camera at the front side. The main function for 1.3 MP is for Video Telephony.

There are two options for the built-in memory – 16GB or 32GB, which is expandable using microSD cards up to 32GB. The connectivity of the Samsung Galaxy Tab is rounded off by Bluetooth 3.0, Wi-Fi b/g/n and 30 pin data connector same as that of Apple.

The Galaxy Tab having 1GHZ possessor with 512MB RAM which can make the background task work faster and smoother. There are some basic applications added for the users basic needs like Adobe Flash player, document editor, Microsoft Exchange.

FIFTH GENERATION OF COMPUTER

Fifth generation computers are the future generation computers. The fifth generation computers will be under Artificial-Intelligence. The idea of fifth generation computer was introduced by Japan’s Ministry of International Trade and Industry in 1982. The term fifth generation was stretched out to convey the system as being a leap beyond existing computer machines. But the fifth generation computer system (FGCS) project of Japan was failed since the Ministry of International Trade and Industry ( MITI ) of Japan stopped funding for it.

Many advances in the science of computer-design and technology are coming together to enable the creation of fifth generation computers. Two such engineering advances are give below

1. parallel processing, which replaces von Neumann’s single central processing unit design with a system harnessing the power of many CPUs to work as one.
2. the technology of superconductors which is another great advantage, allows the flow of the electricity with very less or even no resistance, greatly improving the information flow speed.

Some of the advanced computers that we use today have some qualities or characteristics of fifth generation computers. For example, an expert computer machine system assist doctors to distinguish or identify a disease by diagnosis.

"SINGLE CLICK" ACTIVATE "TAB CANDY"

Tabbed browsing has arguably had a significant impact on the way that people use the Web, but the feature hasn't really scaled to accommodate the increasing complexity of the average surfing session. The existing tab management and overflow handling mechanisms that are present in modern browsers are dated and suffer from some fundamental limitations that significantly detract from user productivity.

As more software shifts into the cloud and users increase their reliance on the browser for daily computing tasks, browser tabs will have to evolve from a primitive mechanism for switching between documents into a full-blown task management system. The mainstream browser vendors have been slow to address this issue and haven't applied much innovation to the problem over the past few years. Mozilla has stepped up to plate and is aiming to hit the ball out of the park with some unique and truly compelling improvements to the tab concept.

Tab Candy project, which is led by talented designer Aza Raskin, offers a simple and intuitive new twist on tab management. It allows users to visually manage tabs by organizing them into spatial groups. It's far from being a complete solution to tab overflow, but it's a very good step in the right direction.

Mozilla has made available some experimental prerelease builds of Firefox4 that have the Tab Candy enabled. The only major noticeable difference is an icon with black squares that appears in the tab bar. When you click the icon, the Tab Candy mode will be activated. The browser will show you a thumbnail view of all of your tabs in rectangles that represent groups. You can drag a tab from one group to another or drag it out into the field to create a new group. Like wise these project is still under building, these complete project will come soon.

Making the switch to Apple? Get the perfect setup here

With the undeniable popularity and success of iPhone 4 (despite the antenna debacle), iPad, and ever-increasing Mac sales, Apple is seeing more consumers switching than ever. If you're thinking about taking the dive, this could be your perfect setup.

Component 1: iPhone 4

Now in its fourth iteration, Apple's iPhone has forever changed the mobile phone landscape, thrusting touchscreen technology to the tips of every tech geek's tongue and every consumer's wish list. Despite early (and somewhat overblown) issues surrounding iPhone 4, sales have proved to be record-setting and with the exception of a loud minority regarding antenna issues, critics love it.

Think of iPhone 4 as your mobile communications component in this setup. Text, call, email, instant message, tweet, Facebook post, and foursquare check in. Of course you can add games and other Apps to iPhone to round out what it does, but component two in this setup may be your best bet for that part of your Apple experience.

Component 2: iPad

What many bloggers called "just a big iPod touch" has turned out to be so much more. iPad--Apple's self-described magical touchscreen tablet device--is not just a gadget for geeks. It is a major turning point in the direction of personal,consumer computing and the numbers back it up.

iPad is the perfect mobile media consumption and (perhaps surprisingly to some) productivity device. Out of the box, iPad is an amazing way to watch movies, listen to music, and surf the Web. Adding a few choice Apps like Apple's own Pages, Numbers, andKeynote make iPad an incredibly effective way to get work done on the go. And if you're not ready to buckle down to finish those projects, gaming on iPad is the perfect way to procrastinate (and have tons of fun).

Component 3: iMac

The first two components take care of all your mobile habits (and perhaps give you a few more). But now, you need something to tie it all together in a nice, neat Apple-shaped bow. iMac is just that.

The new iMac makes a perfect home base for your Apple lifestyle.

(Credit: Apple)

The newly updated all-in-one desktop from Apple is the perfect machine to be your home base. The fastest iMac ever can be upgraded to the 27-inch, quad-core Intel Core i7 2.93Ghz processor, and up to 16GB of RAM, which is terms of computing speeds roughly translates to "obscenely fast".

Aperture, Adobe CS5, or Final Cut Studioyou're all set. But perhaps the most impressive thing about iMac is the incredibly clean workspace you'll have. With the wireless Magic Mouse, Bluetooth keyboard, and the new Magic Trackpad all running on batteries (now available from Apple via the new Apple Battery Charger) the only cable you need to worry about is the power cord.

Mousless Mouse- Sixth sense fame PRANAV MISTRY'S project

Mouseless is an invisible computer mouse that provides the familiarity of interaction of a physical mouse without actually needing a real hardware mouse.

As the computer mouse has remained largely unchanged over the last decades, we have become increasingly proficient at operating the two-button mouse. Recently, various multitouch and gestural interaction technologies have been explored as means to implement alternative methods to interact with a computer. Despite these advances in computing hardware technologies, the two-button computer mouse has remained the predominant means to interact with a computer. The Mouseless invention removes the requirement of having a physical mouse altogether but still provides the intuitive interaction of a physical mouse that we are familiar with. Mouseless consists of an Infrared (IR) laser beam (with line cap) and an Infrared camera. Both IR laser and IR camera are embedded in the computer. The laser beam module is modified with a line cap and placed such that it creates a plane of IR laser just above the surface the computer sits on. The user cups their hand, as if a physical mouse was present underneath, and the laser beam lights up the hand which is in contact with the surface. The IR camera detects those bright IR blobs using computer vision. The change in the position and arrangements of these blobs are interpreted as mouse cursor movement and mouse clicks. As the user moves their hand the cursor on screen moves accordingly. When the user taps their index finger, the size of the blob changes and the camera recognizes the intended mouse click.

As we improve our computer vision algorithms, an extensive library of gestures could be implemented in addition to mouse movement and mouse clicks. Typical multitouch gestures, such as zooming in and out, as well as novel gestures, such as balling one’s fist are all possible. In addition, the use of multiple laser beams would allow for recognition of a wider range of free hand motions, enabling novel gestures that the hardware mouse cannot support.

We implemented a fully functional working prototype system of 'Mouseless' that costs approximate $20 to build.

Google ethos speeds up Chrome release cycle

What's better: short trains that leave frequently or longer trains that leave less often?

Given Google programmers' philosophy of releasing products early then iterating often, it's no surprise that higher frequency is their preference: thus the announcement Thursday that Google will speed up the release cycle of its Chrome browser.

New stable versions of Chrome today arrive about every three months, but Google wants to double that pace, said Chrome Program Manager Anthony LaForge.

"Under the old model, when we faced a deadline with an incomplete feature, we had three options, all undesirable: (1) Engineers had to rush or work overtime to complete the feature by the deadline, (2) We delayed the release to complete that feature (which affected other unrelated features), or (3) The feature was disabled and had to wait approximately 3 months for the next release. With the new schedule, if a given feature is not complete, it will simply ride on the the next release train when it's ready," he said in the blog.

That could mean, for example that some features such as print preview that Google punted from Chrome 6 to Chrome 7 could arrive in mainstream Chrome users' hands earlier.

Browser rival Mozilla is working on the same idea of more frequent releases. As with Chrome, though, it doesn't mean the pace of advancement doubles, only that new features arrive in smaller doses but more often.

For decades, distribution was a difficult matter for the software industry. AT&T and UC Berkeley Unix programmers mailed tapes to one another. And when personal computers caught on, floppy disks and later CDs also relied on the postal service. Software that dates from this era--Microsoft Office, Adobe Photoshop, Civilization--tends toward major updates released years apart.

Google, of course, grew up in the Internet era, when the network could be used to send software. Google likes its software to be updated silently, behind the scenes, and with no user intervention--in short, the way Google updates its search engine algorithm.

Of course, there's still a lot of overhead in releasing software, even as an online update. New versions must be debugged, tested, packaged up, and sent over the wire. It's often easier to handle one bigger train than two small ones. But Google believes its new release process, to be implemented in coming months, will also make project management easier in many ways.

It remains to be seen how amenable Google's philosophy will be to IT organizations accustomed to testing software and controlling its release. Certainly many employees rely constantly on Google's ever-changing search engine, which corporate IT doesn't get to test. But software that runs on a company's computers brings security risks and compatibility challenges not present when visiting a Web site.

Realistically, a release cycle of six weeks rather than three months won't make too much difference to corporate IT geared for cycles many times that duration, so Google's move to turn the crank faster probably won't change things much.

A broader issue also is involved: how fast can people keep up? User interface changes can leave people clicking around in menus and dialog boxes for commands they once knew how to find.

As Chrome spreads beyond the early-adopter crowd, change gets harder. But that might not sound as much at odds with a faster release cycle as one might think. Many Chrome changes are under the hood, such as improvements to JavaScript processing speed, and many others enable Web programmers to exercise new options.

In other words, Chrome is a window on the Web, and it will often be up to Web site owners to worry about making sure people don't suffer future shock.

When will be the new rupee symbol on our computers?? !!!

Now that the Indian rupee has an identity, the question is: how soon will our computer keyboards start reflecting it? Very quickly, it seems. Vendors say they will roll out the symbol as soon as the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) sets the guidelines, since it takes only a minor software change to incorporate it.

Techies say what is required is simple internal coding to assign an additional function to any one of the existing keys that currently holds a single function. The IT industry is awaiting standards from BIS on where and how the new function has to be allocated. "We are fully equipped to integrate the rupee symbol; it requires only a software code change. It would not take more than a production cycle, or about three months, once the standard guidelines for adoption of the same are introduced," said an HCL Infosystems spokesperson.

It would be interesting to see which single-function key (Insert, Page Up, Page Down, Delete or some function key) will bear the rupee symbol. According to S Rajendran, chief marketing officer, Acer India, technically it's an almost inconsequential issue.

"It requires some simple internal coding. We just have to tell our manufacturers to make the plastic injection moulds with the new symbol. We can bring out a changed keyboard almost immediately. But it's important that the entire ecosystem first accepts it and starts using it." Keyboard supplier Intex Technologies has launched talks with vendors to incorporate the new symbol in their products.

"This will gain momentum as soon as we receive the authenticated design. Similarly, we have asked mobile handset vendors to incorporate the new symbol in their software," said Ramesh A Vaswani, executive VC of Intex.