IFA in Berlin, Germany is underway, and Samsung just rolled out the red carpet for what might be the star of the show — the Galaxy Note 3. It’s certainly a very impressive device, but just how well can Apple’s iPhone 5 compete with it? Being a bunch of Android geeks, that might be very easy to answer, but the comparison is actually pretty interesting.
Let’s see what device comes out on top, shall we? In a rush? Jump straight to the video, otherwise, stick with us as we take a closer look at these two devices.
Design and build quality
Right out of the gate, these are two very different devices. We have the Note 3 with its massive screen, and then the iPhone 5 with its 4-inch display. Putting the two devices side by side, you can see just how small the iPhone 5 is compared to the Galaxy Note 3.
Smartphone owners have expressed a lack of satisfaction in plastic clad devices, and it seems that Samsung listened, to an extent. Opting for a faux leather type of plastic, the Galaxy Note 3 is very comfortable to hold, and it gives an easier grip. It’s not metal like the iPhone 5, but it certainly is different, not to mention stylish. It also feels quite durable, even more so than that old, glossy plastic.
The iPhone 5 is made out of metal, and it’s very durable as long as the device doesn’t fall on one of its corners. While it’s certainly not a very unique device, the metal material is very comfortable to hold in the hand, and most of all, it’s a pretty slick looking device. However, with 5-inch screens becoming the standard, the iPhone 5′s biggest flaw is that 4-inch display — it’s just too small.
Verdict: The Galaxy Note 3 features a new material that not only feels comfortable in the hand, but durable, too. On the other hand, we have the iPhone 5. Opting for a metal material, it feels easy to grip and is very durable. It’s a tie.
Display
The Galaxy Note 3 features a 5.7-inch Full HD Super AMOLED screen capable of 1,920 x 1,080 resolution, rated at a really impressive 386ppi. It has one of the most beautiful and color rich displays you’ll find on the market. Viewing angles are great, and colors really pop, thanks to the high saturation in that Super AMOLED panel.
Apple’s iPhone 5 sports a 4-inch IPS LCD display capable of 640 x 1,136 resolution, rated at 326ppi. It’s a pretty impressive display — everything is very clear, the colors look nice, and text is sharp. Viewing angles are really good, and as for brightness, well, it’s alright, but it’s nothing to brag about.
Verdict: The iPhone 5 features a nice display, but it’s hard to beat the Note 3′s superior 5.7-inch Full HD Super AMOLED screen.
Camera
Samsung’s Galaxy Note 3 features 13-megapixel optics, and it’s essentially the same camera strapped on the back of the Galaxy S4. Picture quality is very good — colors are reproduced fairly accurately, and there’s a lot of detail captured. There’s also a nice level of vibrancy and sharpness to the photos, however, it’s pretty average when it comes to low light shots.
There are a slew of extra scenes and modes in the Note 3, though there isn’t much that’s new. Most of it is various options that can be found in the Galaxy S4′s camera app.
The iPhone 5 has an 8-megapixel rear shooter. Picture quality is actually pretty great — a lot of detail is captured and color reproduction is accurate. Like a lot of smartphones out there, the iPhone 5 isn’t that great with low light shots.
As for software features, well, in this case, you could compare the iPhone 5′s camera app with a Nexus’. There isn’t any extra features like you’d find in Samsung phones, it’s very clean and minimalist in this area. However, you do get a few things, such as HDR, Panorama, and face detection.
Verdict: The Galaxy Note 3 takes the cake here. With 13-megapixel camera optics and a slew of features inside the camera app, the Note 3′s camera package is leagues ahead of the iPhone 5.
Battery
Samsung’s Galaxy Note 3 is equipped with a removable 3,200 mAh Li-ion battery. There’s also been quite a few optimizations done, so it’s very likely that the Galaxy Note 3 will last much longer than the iPhone 5, though that all depends on just how much you use the device.
The battery is definitely a shortcoming in the iPhone 5. You get a non-removable Li-po 1,440 mAh unit. It’s not a whole lot compared to what’s been packed into most Android phones, but it’ll get you through the day easily. Just don’t expect to get much more than that out of it.
Verdict: The Galaxy Note 3 comes out on top with a battery that is a little more than double the capacity of the iPhone 5′s battery.
Software
Just like we expected, the Note 3 has a whole arsenal of features in the software department. It has most of the features that can be found on the Galaxy S4, such as S Translator, S Health, Group Play, and etc. It also has additional features specifically for the Note 3, such as Air Command and Pen Window. Despite the amount of features in the Note 3, it still runs very smoothly and quickly.
As you know, the iPhone 5 is running iOS 6, so naturally, there just aren’t as many software features loaded on the iPhone 5 as there is on the Galaxy Note 3. In some respects, this makes the iPhone 5 a whole lot more responsive, as it isn’t bogged down by software features and bloatware that you may or may not use.
Verdict: The Note 3 comes out on top by offering a bevy of useful features while keeping things generally fast.
Source : Android Authority
Google's Vice President of Android Hugo Barra said this week that Google is now in the early stages of creating real-time translation software that it hopes to perfect within the next "several years," according to The UK Times.
The company already has prototype phones that can translate speech in real time, so that a user speaks into the device in one language and the person on the other end hears it in a different one, like the fictional Babel fish in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" or the TARDIS in "Doctor Who."
"That is where we're headed," Barra told the publication. "We've got tons of prototypes of that sort of interaction, and I've played with it every other week to see how much progress we've made."
Same old hurdles
Google's speech-to-speech translation project is reportedly being developed as part of Google Now, Google services suite that's being designed to predict your needs before you know them.The real-time translation is reportedly better for certain language pairs, such as Portuguese and English, but accuracy remains an issue.
Anyone who's tried to use Apple's Siri or Android's voice-to-text services knows that a little background noise can cause a lot of inaccuracies, and that's something Google is wrestling with still.
Google said that on that service alone it translates a billion entries per day in 71 languages, and it just added new languages from places like the Philippines, South East Asia and Indonesia.
Don't stop me now
Google discussed voice translation software back in 2010, when Google Distinguished Research Scientist and head of machine translation Franz Och offered this:"We think speech-to-speech translation should be possible and work reasonably well in a few years' time. Clearly, for it to work smoothly, you need a combination of high-accuracy machine translation and high-accuracy voice recognition, and that's what we're working on.
"If you look at the progress in machine translation and corresponding advances in voice recognition, there has been huge progress recently."
It would have been nice if he was right - we'd probably have real-time voice translation on our Galaxy S4 right now. But at least we know they're still working on it.
source [[ techradar ]]
Canonical is heading into the weekend with about $6.6 million (about £4.29m, AU$7.14m) raised for the Ubuntu Edge, not a shabby number for the superphone's five-day old Indiegogo campaign.
We chatted with Mark Shuttleworth, the software company's founder, on the day Edge was announced, discussing this "concept car" device and the potential of crowdfunding as a mechanism for spurring innovation. We also dived into converging computing, which the Edge aims to accomplish by having serving as the "brain" of a PC.
The Edge dual-boots Android and Ubuntu for smartphones, but when users plug into a monitor, Ubuntu for desktop kicks in. The Edge's proposed specs - 4GB of RAM, a multi-core processor and 128GB of storage - are built to take on the task of transforming into a PC manageable and seamless.
Having a shared thread among various devices draws comparisons to Microsoft's Windows 8, but Shuttleworth said there are some important distinctions.
"I think our story scales a bit more smoothly from phone to tablet to PC," he said, drawing up Ubuntu's strengths over the Softies' offering.
"I think we have an advantage in that our core OS is much lighter in a way. Because it works on phones it makes it to the PC faster - we're stripping out all the fat on the phone."
Still...
Canonical is clearly trying to draw its own path with Ubuntu and the Edge, but Shuttleworth wasn't without a degree of deference for Microsoft's efforts."Microsoft has clearly articulated a design vision that's designed to expand across platforms," he said. "As much criticism as the [Windows 8] has taken, I have to agree with them. It recognizes it needs to make a bold foundation. It's very difficult to make bold transitions like that without tickling somebody's nose hairs."
Ubuntu is in its early mobile device days - the Edge won't even be out until May 2014 - but we could be in for an interesting OS war that's for once not Android and iOS.
source [[ techradar ]]
Even though it's a professional-level app that's used by a number of pro DJs, what makes djay 2.0 compelling is that it's extremely approachable and has an extremely low barrier to entry. It's as easy as picking tracks from your music library for deck 1 and deck 2 and then scratching and cross-fading one track into another. And when your done spinning, simply touch the Automix button to have two playlists mixed automatically so that you can grab a drink and mingle with your guests.
Onto what's new.
Djay 2.0 is a complete rewrite from the ground up. Although it looks like djay 1 at first glance, it's improved in almost every respect. The main "vinyl" view (above) -- which is still my favorite -- is skeuomorphism done right. Nothing beats the tactile interface of a record on a turntable, it's such a simple and natural interface that both my kids (ages 6 and 3) take to it instantly. Just drop a record on the turntable then spin it, drag it around, and move the needle. Algoriddim took it up a notch by adding realistic grooves in the vinyl which show where tracks start and end and where the pitch changes in individual tracks — just like real vinyl.
The Sync button, which syncs the BPM of two tracks, got a major upgrade too. Instead of a one-time sync, djay 2.0 keeps both tracks in perfect sync throughout your crossfade, continually stretching tracks so that they stay in sync and sound smooth across your mix.
source [[ zdnet ]]
Internet Download Manager has a smart download logic accelerator that features intelligent dynamic file segmentation and safe multipart downloading technology to accelerate your downloads. Unlike other download accelerators and managers that segment files before downloading starts, Internet Download Manager segments downloaded files dynamically during download process. Internet Download Manager reuses available connections without additional connect and login stages to achieve better acceleration performance. Internet Download Manager supports proxy servers, ftp and http protocols, firewalls, redirects, cookies, authorization, MP3 audio and MPEG video content processing. IDM integrates seamlessly into Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape, MSN Explorer, AOL, Opera, Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Firebird, Avant Browser, MyIE2, and all other popular browsers to automatically handle your downloads. You can also drag and drop files, or use Internet Download Manager from command line. Internet Download Manager can dial your modem at the set time, download the files you want, then hang up or even shut down your computer when it's done.
Main Features:
- All popular browsers and applications are supported! Internet Download Manager has been tested with the following browsers: Internet Explorer, MSN Explorer, AOL, Netscape Communicator, Netscape 6, Netscape 7, Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Firebird, Opera, NetCaptor, UltraBrowser, Slim Browser, Avant Browser, MyIE2, Optimal Desktop, Ace Explorer, Advanced Browser, 27 Tools-in-1 Wichio Browser, WindowSurfer, 550 Access Browser, FineBrowser Freeware, Kopassa Browser, Fast Browser Pro, Enigma Browser, GoSuRF, K-Meleon, Smart Explorer, The Off By One Web Browser, Smartalec Voyager, CrystalPort AppCapture, The Family Browser, XANA Web Browser, Bluto, AutoSurf, 32bit Web Browser, BrowseMan, WrestlingBrowser, Eminem Browser, UltraBrowser, Cygsoft LDAP Browser, and Net M@nager. Internet Download Manager supports all versions of popular browsers, and can be integrated into any 3rd party Internet applications.
- Easy downloading with one click. When you click on a download link in a browser, IDM will take over the download and accelerate it. IDM supports HTTP, FTP, HTTPS and MMS protocols.
- Download Speed Acceleration. Internet Download Manager can accelerate downloads by up to 5 times due to its intelligent dynamic file segmentation technology. Unlike other download managers and accelerators Internet Download Manager segments downloaded files dynamically during download process and reuses available connections without additional connect and login stages to achieve best acceleration performance.
- Download Resume. Internet Download Manager will resume unfinished download from the place where they left off.
- YouTube grabber. Internet Download Manager can grab FLV videos from popular sites like YouTube, MySpaceTV, and Google Video.
- Simple installation wizard. Quick and easy installation program will make necessary settings for you, and check your connection at the end to ensure trouble free installation of Internet Download Manager
- Drag and Drop. You may simply drag and drop links to IDM, and drag and drop downloaded files out of Internet Download Manager.
- Automatic Antivirus checking. Antivirus checking makes your downloads free from viruses and trojans.
- Advanced Browser Integration. When enabled, the feature can be used to catch any download from any application. None of download managers have this feature.
- Built-in Scheduler. Internet Download Manager can connect to the Internet at a set time, download the files you want, disconnect, or shut down your computer when it's done.
- IDM includes web site spider and grabber. IDM downloads all required files that are specified with filters from web sites, for example all pictures from a web site, or subsets of web sites, or complete web sites for offline browsing. It's possible to schedule multiple grabber projects to run them once at a specified time, stop them at a specified time, or run periodically to synchronize changes.
- IDM supports many types of proxy servers. For example, IDM works with Microsoft ISA, and FTP proxy servers.
- IDM supports main authentication protocols: Basic, Negotiate, NTLM, and Keberos. Thus IDM can access many Internet and proxy servers using login name and password.
- Download All feature. IDM can add all downloads linked to the current page. It's easy to download multiple files with this feature.
- Customizable Interface. You may choose the order, and what buttons and columns appear on the main IDM window.
- Download Categories. Internet Download Manager can be used to organize downloads automatically using defined download categories.
- Quick Update Feature. Quick update may check for new versions of IDM and update IDM once per week.
- Download limits. Progressive downloading with quotas feature. The feature is useful for connections that use some kind of fair access policy (or FAP) like Direcway, Direct PC, Hughes, etc.
What's new in version 6.17 Build 5 ? (Released: July 19, 2013)
- Added support for new youtube changes
- Added support for Google Chrome 30
IDM is multilingual. IDM is translated to
Albanian, Arabic, Azerbaijan, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Farsi, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, and Uzbek languages.
Homepage : http://www.internetdownloadmanager.com
http://rapidgator.net/file/f1e0028a40fc577617142204b6d5d48d/Internet_Download_Manager_6.17_build_5_Final_Retail_[ChingLiu].rar.html
From Dizzcloud (Premium Recommend)
http://uploaded.net/file/ry3nkyqe/Internet%20Download%20Manager%206.17%20build%205%20Final%20Retail%20%5BChingLiu%5D.rar
From Secureupload (Premium Recommend)
http://www.secureupload.eu/a3z2w57nvnb7/Internet_Download_Manager_6.17_build_5_Final_Retail__ChingLiu_.rar
This new build technology makes use of some recent breakthroughs in my research and experimentation into how the brain, mind and body work and interact with subliminal suggestions. It also takes advantage of some extremely important breakthroughs arising from my research and experimentation into what the subconscious mind can actually do, as compared to what is commonly believed to be possible. To say that the results of that research stunned me would be an understatement; I literally could not believe my eyes for the first three weeks of experimenting. But the results held, and have shown their worth. The results speak for themselves. 5th Generation subliminal build technology isn't just the most powerful and effective subliminal build technology in the entire world - it is literally the most powerful, effective and advanced subliminal build and scripting technology possible.
So what makes this the most powerful, effective and advanced subliminal build and scripting technology possible? The fact that it can literally scale to any level of power, and in fact can scale far past the limits of the human nervous system to actually be able to handle. This program is therefore designed not just to be safe, effective and useful, but to function at the very limits of peak effectiveness for the human nervous system. In other words, if I made it any more powerful than it is, your body could not handle such massive data inputs well, and the results would actually begin to deteriorate, instead of improving further.
To give you some idea how truly powerful this program is, consider the average subliminal you can buy elsewhere to be the standard, and as such, it would be 1x power. By this measurement, my 1st Gen programs were 1x. 2nd Gen was 3x. 3rd Gen was 7x. 4th Gen is 14x. And 5th Generation? 5th Generation is a nearly unimaginable 128x! Yes, that's right - it's one hundred twenty-eight times more powerful than the average subliminal anyone else offers. 5th Generation build technology isn't just unmatched in power... it's literally miles beyond anything else on the market. There is simply no comparison! It's more than nine times more powerful than even the famous mind-bendingly powerful 4th Generation build technology! I was actually worried that it might not be safe to make programs this powerful, at first.
And how did I manage to accomplish this incredible feat? Simple. Not only do I constantly research and develop how to make my programs better, but I think outside the box when I do it, and I test them under conditions others don't. The results are incomparable. Even the next best thing, multi-session hypnosis, only achieves a 66% success rate. It's not even close.
Of course, building a program this powerful and complex takes a rather ridiculous amount of time, work and skill - which is much of why this program is so expensive. (Part of it is that it is also specifically designed to work for smokers of the new electronic cigarettes as well as "real" cigarettes. This is one of the first programs to be specifically designed to deal with smoking electronic cigarettes also.) Not only can you get this technology nowhere else, but this program took me almost 60 (sixty!) times longer to build than the previous version did.
This program is designed to be so easy to use that you might not even believe it could work, if it weren't for the price tag. It's designed to be nearly effortless to use, and to trigger smoking cessation automatically, and without effort on your part. You can actually keep smoking while using the program!
The end result is that as long as you don't intentionally resist the program, you simply stop smoking without trying, without effort, without cravings, without irritability, without frustration. But 5th Generation technology is also designed to deal with resistance. However, if you're resisting, you really don't want to stop smoking in the first place, and while the program is designed to help you prepare and be ready to quit if you aren't already, it is possible (under certain circumstances) for one rare personality type to resist the program. I estimate, based on past results, tests and experiments, that more than 95% of people who use Stop Smoking Forever Version 5.0 will succeed in quitting as long as they use the program according to the directions.
http://uploaded.net/file/rlpwsgfw/Stop%20Smoking%20Forever%205.0.part1.rar
http://uploaded.net/file/c82rf9f9/Stop%20Smoking%20Forever%205.0.part2.rar
http://uploaded.net/file/4c0sqmrc/Stop%20Smoking%20Forever%205.0.part3.rar
http://uploaded.net/file/oqx3qd3x/Stop%20Smoking%20Forever%205.0.part4.rar
http://uploaded.net/file/t7wixf8z/Stop%20Smoking%20Forever%205.0.part5.rar
http://uploaded.net/file/e8isgw5u/Stop%20Smoking%20Forever%205.0.part6.rar
http://uploaded.net/file/cmlqbf1z/Stop%20Smoking%20Forever%205.0.part7.rar
http://uploaded.net/file/ri3ogezv/Stop%20Smoking%20Forever%205.0.part8.rar
From Rapidgator (Premium Recommend)
http://rapidgator.net/file/9fcb7a3be6f7cd047dc335d0e75cbf3f/Stop_Smoking_Forever_5.0.part1.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/a89d632b307beb8974002ca31fdbcfd9/Stop_Smoking_Forever_5.0.part2.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/65b93c051a4a0cbc5adf293955f2420c/Stop_Smoking_Forever_5.0.part3.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/4363bd6eeefc6ebd62a98724fb708272/Stop_Smoking_Forever_5.0.part4.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/02ef9a3e9467496f553470c5078c6273/Stop_Smoking_Forever_5.0.part5.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/14bb6c3f0f9ad81bb44b764e835e218f/Stop_Smoking_Forever_5.0.part6.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/a334eae41c0ccfef0824d6658b58bcf6/Stop_Smoking_Forever_5.0.part7.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/f989f381137029cf28827352b083e710/Stop_Smoking_Forever_5.0.part8.rar.html
From Dizzcloud (Premium Recommend)
http://dizzcloud.com/dl/163z7ht/Stop Smoking Forever 5.0.part1.rar
http://dizzcloud.com/dl/163z77s/Stop Smoking Forever 5.0.part2.rar
http://dizzcloud.com/dl/163z77q/Stop Smoking Forever 5.0.part3.rar
http://dizzcloud.com/dl/163z77o/Stop Smoking Forever 5.0.part4.rar
http://dizzcloud.com/dl/163z772/Stop Smoking Forever 5.0.part5.rar
http://dizzcloud.com/dl/163z771/Stop Smoking Forever 5.0.part6.rar
http://dizzcloud.com/dl/163z76y/Stop Smoking Forever 5.0.part7.rar
http://dizzcloud.com/dl/163z76w/Stop Smoking Forever 5.0.part8.rar
From Secureupload (Premium Recommend)
http://www.secureupload.eu/ytwjqqgxcupz/Stop_Smoking_Forever_5.0.part1.rar
http://www.secureupload.eu/88ht95rh4la7/Stop_Smoking_Forever_5.0.part2.rar
http://www.secureupload.eu/cc9u0igflwh4/Stop_Smoking_Forever_5.0.part3.rar
http://www.secureupload.eu/9krwe3gyky88/Stop_Smoking_Forever_5.0.part4.rar
http://www.secureupload.eu/dvmm67p53ls8/Stop_Smoking_Forever_5.0.part5.rar
http://www.secureupload.eu/bcfi62bgkuz0/Stop_Smoking_Forever_5.0.part6.rar
http://www.secureupload.eu/5h0ekqqs47do/Stop_Smoking_Forever_5.0.part7.rar
http://www.secureupload.eu/n6s0xi62ezor/Stop_Smoking_Forever_5.0.part8.rar
Navigate the streets with confidence. This product provides detailed road maps and points of interest for your device, so you can navigate with exact, turn-by-turn directions to any address or intersection.
Displays more than 10 million points of interest, including hotels, restaurants, parking, entertainment, fuel and shopping.
Includes postal code support for Canada.
Gives turn-by-turn directions on compatible devices.
Speaks street names (example: "Turn right on Main Street").
Includes navigational features, such as turn restrictions, roundabout guidance and speed categories.
Contains traffic data for compatible devices with traffic receivers.
Extras. Information:
In this distribution there unlock the card, separately for each country of the North American continent as a file gmapsupp.img, rassortirovanye the following folders whose names define georgrafiyu cards:
* Full North America NT 2014.10 Unlocked IMG
* USA-Hawaii-Alaska NT 2014.10 Unlocked IMG
* Canada NT 2014.10 Unlocked IMG
* Mexico NT 2014.10 Unlocked IMG
* Islands CNNANT 2014.10 Unlocked IMG (Grand Bahama, Cayman Island, Martinique, Saint Barthelemy, Puerto Rico, New Providence, Jamaica, Guyana (FR) and Guadeloupe).
To update the maps, they just need to copy to your GPS device, just copy, do not need to razlochivaemye. For some devices, you may have to rename the file gmapsupp.img in gmapprom.img
If the internal memory of your device has available capacity of 2 GB or more, then copied directly into the GPS, if not - then copied to an SD card after creating there garmin folder and copy the file you selected in the folder.
Then, insert the memory card into your device, and it PREZAGRUZHAEM selection menu or menu information cards installed - litsezreem the fruits of our labors. Without a reboot, in 90% of cases, you will see an old map, so do not forget to reboot your device.
System Requirements: Works on all GPS Garmin, that support NT maps.
Coverage:
* USA
* Canada
* Mexico
* Puerto Rico
* U.S. Virgin Islands
* Cayman Islands
* The Bahamas
* French Guiana
* Guadeloupe
* Martinique
* Saint Barthélemy
* Jamaica
FID: 2920
Home Page : www.garmin.com
Buy a Premium Account Rapidgator or Uploaded = High speed+parallel downloads!
http://www.secureupload.eu/wnad7jreo08p/GarminNoth4.part1.rar
http://www.secureupload.eu/xr3r57hrofyk/GarminNoth4.part2.rar
http://www.secureupload.eu/pw2oricqp1dc/GarminNoth4.part3.rar
http://www.secureupload.eu/uffu8bzwfw6c/GarminNoth4.part4.rar
http://www.secureupload.eu/6en71s0bqryy/GarminNoth4.part5.rar
http://rapidgator.net/file/876b4f60bc382d25da34c301f8511bd4/GarminNoth4.part1.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/c7c87f7e783d865de302143d1245faae/GarminNoth4.part2.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/8a7329c821ade1187e35968ba0153467/GarminNoth4.part3.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/7d1cd1b3e3fcb7b7060527fb65473bee/GarminNoth4.part4.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/cb32db1409815436cb5f0e8382a629ab/GarminNoth4.part5.rar.html
Additional Information:
With this solution you can on a single computer to conduct processes of development, testing, debugging and running multi-tier browser-based applications that exploit the new operating systems and legacy applications on one computer, install new or upgrade existing operating systems without performing partitioning operations drive and restart your computer.
The new platform offers enhanced capabilities for application developers, engineers, quality control, sales of technology solutions and IT-administrators. One of the most notable innovations package VMware Workstation 7 has enhanced support for 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows. To display the status of virtual machines are now fully use functions Flip 3D and Aero Peek, implemented in the interface of Windows 7. VMware Workstation Package 7 was the first product with full Aero GUI in Windows 7. Enabling a single application-based technologies DirectX 9.0c Shader Model 3 and OpenGL 2.1, which can be run in virtual machines running Windows.
Key features:
Running multiple guest operating systems on one computer
Running a virtual machine in windows desktop core operating system and full screen
Installing virtual machines without re-partitioning
Starting already installed on your computer operating system without reinstalling or re-configure
Running applications on the Windows computer running Linux, and conversely
Creating and testing applications simultaneously for different systems
Running is not tested applications without the risk of endangering the stability of the system or lose critical data
Sharing files and applications to different virtual machines by using a virtual network
Running a client-server and Web-based applications on a single PC
Running on the same PC multiple virtual machines, and modeling of network
Download
VMware Workstation Technology Preview May 2013
Download from Secureupload.eu
Download from LetitBit.net
Download from Vip-File.com
Download from TurboBit.net
It is too early to have a true “Versus” article, as too much is unknown. We can however take a deeper look at the currently known hardware and features to help you better decide which system you believe is right for you.
So let’s jump right in:
The Hardware specs
Honestly, the hardware between the Xbox One and Sony PS4 seem rather comparable, at least based on what we currently know. Both run on 8-core x86 processors, with Sony’s PS4 confirmed to have an AMD Jaguar chip. Both systems also have Blu-ray optical drives.The PS4 does one-up the Xbox One when it comes to RAM, though. Both have 8GB, but the Playstation 4 equips GDDR5 RAM, as opposed to the X-One’s DDR3. Will this make a noticeable “real world” difference? Maybe, maybe not.
As far as the HDD is concerned, we only know the Xbox One will have 500GB of storage space. No word on the PS4 yet. It’s also worth noting that Xbox One will REQUIRE all your discs to be copied over to the drive. This is nice because you can simply store away the game disc. It’s also annoying because it makes lending and selling games harder (though there will still be a way..).
Motion Control
Both the PS4 and Xbox One make next-gen motion technology a major part of the console experience, they just go about it in very different ways.For the Xbox One, you get the next-gen Kinect that can recognize heartbeats, tons of different joints and has extremely accurate voice control technology (or so the demo leads us to believe).
As for the PS4? It ships with a new Playstation Eye that will work with the DualShock 4 controller to allow special tracking and motion features.
Which method is better? Honestly, that depends on your own tastes.
The Cloud and Multiplayer
Next-gen game consoles are going to rely on net connectivity more than ever. In fact, Microsoft’s Xbox One REQUIRES a connection to the net. That said, it does have an offline mode for those times when your net is down for whatever reason.Both systems will also promote features like cloud saving and syncing. This should also mean that it will be easy to pull up your profile and saves on your friend’s game systems.
As for the online experience, Xbox will continue evolving its Xbox Live and plans to boost its servers from 15,000 to 300,000 by the time its next system launches!
Sony also wishes to continue adding abilities to its own online network, though it will likely continue down the “free to use” model, as opposed to Xbox Live’s charge model.
Second Screen Experience
Almost everyone has a smartphone or tablet these days, at least that is the case for the folks willing to drop big money on a game console from day one. That’s why both consoles will work nicely with mobile devices for controlling some aspects of the menu – or even some games. This is particularly true when it comes to using the PS Vita as a controller on the PS4.Connectivity
Both consoles have USB 3.0 technology.The Xbox One, however, seems to ditch RCA components and goes with just an HDMI input and output. The PS4 will still have RCA and optical, though.
Additionally, both consoles will fully support 4K TV signals.
The Big Differences
While we likely don’t have the “full picture” of features for the PS4 or Xbox One – we can tell you that there are a few areas of direction where each system seems to be focused.PS4 – Social Aspects
For the PS4, there is a dedicated share button on the controller. You can send snippets of recorded video straight to a friend and even invite them to watch your game, or even perhaps participate in it in some minor way (that includes singleplayer games from the sounds of it).There are likely other big features that we will learn about at E3.
Xbox One – TV Integration
The Xbox One is clearly aimed at bringing TV and the Xbox One together. In their demo, Microsoft showed off how its next-gen system could quickly bring up TV and even change channels, all from the Xbox interface (using HDMI tech).Even more exciting, the system could change channels through voice. Saying “Switch to MTV” would switch to MTV, for example.
Additionally, the Xbox One has “snap mode”. This makes it easy to multi-task by running more than one app at the same time. Sony’s PS4 also has some of these abilities, but the big difference is that the X-One will also bring this experience to the TV – allowing you to watch a show all while browsing the net in a snapped box on the side of your TV screen.
Backwards Compatibility
Unfortunately backwards compatibility is all-but dead with both consoles. The Xbox One won’t work with Xbox Live arcade titles or Xbox 360 content. The same pretty much goes for the PS4 in regards to the PS3.Gaming
I don’t want to compare gaming announcements too much right now. Why? Because we really won’t see the whole picture until E3. Sony’s reveal event showed tons of exclusives and special titles.For the Xbox One event, we were mostly shown off the console and its TV integration features. We do know games like Forza 5 will be a launch title, and the company has promised 15 Xbox One exclusives will be shown at E3.
Really, expect much of the same kinds of games as seen in the last-gen for the two consoles. So if you currently prefer PS3 exclusives – you’ll probably feel the same about the PS4. And same goes for Xbox 360 to Xbox One.
And the winner is….
Again, I’m not talking winners or losers here. Partially because Microsoft or Sony could give us extra “OMG that’s freaking awesome” features at E3 that could change everything. Second, because console preferences play a HUGE part here.So instead of Mobile Magazine giving out a verdict, it’s up to you, the readers. Which console do you think looks better and why?
[[ source ]]
Samsung has chosen Intel's Clover Trail+ mobile chip for at least one version of its Galaxy Tab 3 10.1, which competes with Apple Inc's iPad, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Thursday, speaking on condition of anonymity because the specifications have not been announced.
Samsung has previously used chips designed with energy-efficient technology from the UK's ARM Holdings for its best-selling mobile devices. It employs Intel processors for its line of Microsoft Windows "ATIV" tablets -- a much smaller market compared with devices based on Google Inc's Android.
Samsung will unveil new ATIV tablets using Intel chips at a June 20 event in London, said the source, as well as an additional person familiar with the event. It was unclear whether the Galaxy Tab would debut at the same event.
The Asian electronics giant's decision to begin using Intel in a marquee Android device counts as a coup for the US chipmaker as it races to establish itself in a mobile market it was slow initially to recognize and invest in.
It was unclear whether the Samsung, the world's largest manufacturer of tablets after Apple, plans other versions of the 10-inch Galaxy Tab carrying its own, or other companies', processors.
A spokeswoman for South Korea-based Samsung declined to comment. An Intel spokesman also declined to comment.
The use of an Intel Clover Trail+ chip in the upcoming tablet was first reported on by VentureBeat and other blogs last week.
Intel has called the shots in the personal computer industry for decades, but was slow to make chips that appealed to makers of smartphones and tablets as the market boomed following Apple's iPhone in 2007 and iPad in 2010.
Applications processors based on technology from ARM and designed by Qualcomm Inc, Samsung and Nvidia now dominate a market that research firm Strategy Analytics estimated could hit $25 billion by 2016 versus $9 billion in 2011.
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich, who took the helm this month, has stated that one of his top goals is to expand the Silicon Valley chipmaker's footprint in mobile devices.
WAKING UP TO MOBILE
Booming sales of tablets have also eaten away at Intel's core PC-based market. IDC estimates that tablet shipments worldwide will eclipse laptops this year, and personal computer sales will slide 8 percent in 2013.
Intel is rushing to adapt its powerful PC chips to use less energy and work more efficiently in mobile devices. It has so far scored a few minor "design wins", getting its processors into a few mobile devices.
[[ source ]]
According to a leaked screenshot, which comes to us courtesy of Engadget, a purple version of the 16GB Samsung Galaxy S3 will be available from Sprint on April 12 with a price tag of $99 on a new two year contract with a $50 mail-in rebate.
The 4.8 inch Galaxy S3, as you might know, has been available in a variety of colors including red, white, grey, brown and black. We have our doubts regarding how the customers will think about the color purple. Other than that color, there is of course nothing new under the hood to make the device better than the S4. But maybe that low price might pull in shoppers.
What do you think about this edition? Find it appealing? Or are you saving to get the S4, which will be available as Black and White versions on Sprint?
[[ source ]]
As you might remember, Sony showed off a prototype of the media player at CES back in January. Now, at NAB 2013, they have announced that the device will be available sometime this summer with a price tag of $699. The device will arrive bundled with 10 films: Bad Teacher, Battle: Los Angeles, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Salt, 2010′s The Karate Kid, Taxi Driver, That’s My Boy, The Amazing Spider-Man, The Other Guys, and 2012′s Total Recall. Those are certainly not too exciting for that price.
As for the company’s 4K video distribution service, Sony says that FMP-X1 owners will have to wait until fall. When its available customers will be offered a whole library of 4K movies, with titles from Sony Pictures and “other notable production houses”, and there will be a fee of course.
So, are you interested in getting an LED TV along with the FMP-X1? Or does the staggering price tag of $4,999/$6,999 for the TV and $699 for the media player turn you off?
Intel's "Haswell" chip is now shipping to major PC makers, a source close to the company told CNET today.
Intel's fourth-generation core, aka Haswell, is "shipping to customers now and will launch later this quarter," the source said.
Intel is expected to make a statement to this effect at the IDF Beijing conference next week
Haswell, expected by June, is the next-generation mainstream Intel processor that will power ultrabooks and a variety of hybrids that straddle tablet and laptop designs. Haswell's new microarchitecture will deliver "the single largest generation-to-generation battery life improvement in Intel history," according to a recent statement from Intel CEO Paul Otellini.
Intel is also expected to reiterate that its next-generation Atom chip for smartphones, "Merrifield," will be shipping to customers by the end of the year.
And "Bay Trail," its next-gen Atom chip for tablets, will be in products by that time too.
The quad-core Bay Trail chip is Intel's "most powerful Atom processor to date" and "doubles the performance of the current tablet chip, 'Clover Trail+,'" according to recent statements from the company.
Both Bay Trail and Merrifield are based on an overhauled Atom microarchitecture that uses out-of-order execution, not unlike Intel's mainstream Core processors.
Update: Intel sent out the following note to the media Friday afternoon. Note that chipsets with the bug, aka errata, will be "in production" during the initial ramp, which is taking place this month.
4th gen Core is on track for a mid-year launch. Intel issued a PCN documenting a chipset USB errata and stating that chipsets with the errata will be in production during the initial ramp. But Intel has confirmed that there is no chance of data loss or corruption. This issue has only been observed with a small subset of USB SuperSpeed thumb drives and does not affect other USB peripherals. We take all customer issues seriously and should any customer have a question or concern they can always contact Intel customer support.
The bug can cause USB 3.0 devices, like thumb drives, to disappear after entering standby. In some cases, removable devices have to be reconnected again, according to a report at BSN
[[ source ]]
The partnership will make it easier to send, receive and manage attachments in Yahoo! Mail. In case you’ve forgotten, Yahoo! Mail is still the No. 3 most-used mail service in the world behind Hotmail and Gmail. But the last time we checked, it was No. 1 in the United States. By acting nimbly, the company can add small tweaks and enhancements thanks to partnerships like this that will give it a potential edge against the competition.
This is good news for both companies, specifically Dropbox. This brings a new audience to the service, which has become a mainstay in the workplace and small teams of collaborators. Yahoo! has fresh users that might not be turned on to Dropbox lined up and waiting to try new things. If users don’t have a Dropbox account, they can simply sign up for one via Yahoo! Mail. That also means more potential revenue for Dropbox once these users fill up their free 2GB.
Here’s what David McDowell, Senior Director of Product Management on Yahoo! Mail had to say about the partnership:
Starting today, Dropbox is available within Yahoo! Mail. This integration allows you to share and store files more easily, whether they are vacation photos or important documents like tax returns and research papers. And, because files can be stored in your Dropbox account online, it’s easy to find the files you want even when you are away from your desktop.
Dropbox is available within Yahoo! Mail for the Web in English, French, Spanish, German and Italian. For those of you new to Dropbox, you can quickly create an account from within Yahoo! Mail.
On the Dropbox blog, the company discusses the advantages of managing all of your attachments using their service, including not having to worry about file sizes. Additionally, you’ll be able to share whole albums of photos to emails, no doubt in a push from the recently acquired Snapjoy team, which is really handy. This will all be rolling out to everyone today.
This is the second major move that Dropbox has made in the email space, the first being the acquisition of popular, and hard to get into, mobile app Mailbox. Interestingly enough, sources tell us that Yahoo! was making a serious push to acquire Mailbox, so it’s fun to see them working together in one form another.
If you can’t acquire them, partner with them.
We’ve asked Yahoo! about whether this replaces the partnership that they have with YouSendIt, which basically allowed users to perform the same tasks that Dropbox does. We will update this post if/when we hear back.
[[ source ]]
Tomorrow, the Cards will be released, and the hope is to get deeper linking and engagement into other apps you may have on your phone. This could be for shopping, taking a poll or just about any other interaction you can think of.
[[ source ]]
Feature Overview and Unboxing
I already posted a BlackBerry Z10 unboxing video a couple of weeks ago, so this is just going to be a quick recap. The BlackBerry Z10 is, of course, powered by the new BlackBerry 10 operating system. It gets a 4.2-inch 335ppi touchscreen, dual core 1.5GHz processor, 2GB of RAM, 16GB storage, 8MP camera, 2MP front camera, and microSD expansion. It also gets both LTE and NFC, as well as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS.
Hardware Impressions
The BlackBerry Z10 definitely feels very solid in the hands. I particularly like the rubbery back that provides a great grip. The profile is remarkably thin and I like how the front face is completely lacking in buttons, leaving a much sleeker overall appearance.
As I have grown accustomed to Android displays of 4.7-inches or bigger, getting back to the 4.2-inch display felt comparatively small. The overall form factor, in this way, is closer to the iPhone 5. The difference is that the word “BlackBerry” on the bottom is not a home button; it really doesn’t serve any real purpose.
BlackBerry 10 Gestures and UI
People who are coming from legacy BlackBerry products may face some confusion with BlackBerry 10. There is no BlackBerry button, for example, nor is there is a hardware back button. Just about everything is done via gestures and many of these originate from off the screen, not unlike webOS. You get back to the home screen, for instance, by swiping up from off the bottom of the display (where the BlackBerry name is). You swipe in from the right side to access functions and swipe in from the top for certain contextual settings.
And speaking of apps, there just aren’t enough at the moment. The pre-installed YouTube “app” is simply a browser shortcut, for example. The native Twitter app, while functional, isn’t nearly robust enough for power users. It doesn’t support lists and your DMs are bundled together with your mentions in a single column. That’s not good enough. The hope is that third-party developers will continue to adopt this platform and, in time, the app selection will improve.
BlackBerry Hub
For instance, when you are within one of the notifications, there is no option to easily move to the next one. Instead, you have to hit back to get back to the list of notifications and then choose the next notification. It should be simpler and faster than that.
Camera and Video
The 8MP camera on the BlackBerry Z10 is decent, but it won’t win any awards either. It seems to have a habit of overexposing, leaving some washed out elements, but this really depends on your lighting conditions. Here is a macro-esque shot that I took indoors under soft incandescent lighting.
Conclusion
BlackBerry 10, as a platform, is an overall improvement over previous versions and it’s good to see that BlackBerry is prioritizing the development of third party apps. The phone itself is solid and it performs well, but it still feels incomplete compared to the more mature Android and iPhone offerings already on the market. It lacks a unique selling proposition that would make me want this instead of what Google, Samsung, HTC, Apple and others are giving us.
If BlackBerry manages to survive and if the Q10 gives them a little boost later this year, then I’m hoping that the BlackBerry Z11 and Q11 will be the real stars that the Z10 and Q10 should have been.
[[ source ]]
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
Recent Comments