Tuesday, June 30, 2009

The Walkman, the technology of the past

I have long believed that children and young people, probably many today would be absolutely incapable of using a telephone record of a lifetime, and other similar gadgets that have been falling into disuse or have been modernized so that its mode of operation has changed dramatically, so it made me thank you very much what the BBC Giving up my iPod for a Walkman, an article which you can read about the adventures and misadventures of Scott Campbell , an English lad who was proposed to change your iPod a Walkman for a week.

Nobody was as explained, so Scott took three days to discover that the tape has two sides and that he could turn around. Also confused the normal setting / metal type band equalization with an adjustment, and his father had to explain that using the rewind button as a kind of random function and is not a good idea for the life of the tape.

The only advantage that he found Scott about his Walkman to iPod is that the former has two headphone jacks, while the iPod need to buy an adapter to listen to music while another person.

I am glad that most progress

LiberKey : 200 Free Programs for Your USB Stick

Should you like to have all programs in 1 USB, this program is for you, LiberKey is a portable suite of programs with more than 200 applications, has everything, from programs to watch videos, open documents, compressed files , view images, download torrents, among many others.

The best part is that this suite is open source, so no need to worry about limitations, it allows for downloading and updating the programs on the USB stick, or even from the external hard drive.

These are versions of the suite:

01. LiberKey Ultimate: 202 applications (Setup 179MB and 575MB of space)
02. LiberKey Standard: 106 applications (Setup 144MB and 410MB of space)
03. LiberKey Basic: 28 applications (Setup 56MB and 179MB of space)

Firefox 3.5 Ready To Download

Download the latest update of Firefox is now available. Among other improvements, the new version offers:

New menu to re-open windows closed. Option to delete cookies, history and everything related to a specific page. Separation of tabs that allow a new window just by dragging out of the current. Filters that improve the suggestions in the navigation bar. Smarter session restore, which lets you choose which tabs and not recover. Private browsing mode for the paranoid and want to hide their bad habits. Better handling of colors. New Java engine, with significant improvements in speed. Geolocalizador for those who want to share your location in the world. Native support for video playback without need for flash, thanks to HTML5.

2.21 ccleaner, optimize and maintain in good condition Windows

There are people who do not care if the computer is slow or not, whether or not viruses, it is sometimes uncomfortable, especially when we are how (or we are dedicated to this work). Yet the first thing we do is pass ccleaner, in my case, so how are the temporary files, the system registry, and other aspects of the system.

Ccleaner is without doubt the best program to keep in good repair Windows from the point of view that you see have much to gain in the first instance the program will not cause problems in Windows, makes it more stable, proven by thousands of users.

Yesterday came the new version 2.21 ccleaner, which brings the following features:

  • Better support for the new system Windows 7
  • Added support for the following programs: Adobe Reader 9, Photoshop CS3, Illustrator CS4, Nero 9, OpenOffice 3.1, AVG Antivirus 8.0, AntiVir Desktop Vuze
  • Fixed some problems with Windows 98
  • Improvements in the system log analyzer with 64bit processors
  • Added support for selecting multiple items in Windows Startup Manager
  • Fixed problem with scheduled tasks in Windows 7
So as you can see is friends ccleaner is improving day by day, so if you want to give preventive maintenance to your system, so to get better performance, the program is completely free, in Spanish, it supports Windows XP, Vista, 7, 2003 , 98, and so on.

Monday, June 29, 2009

Google would be ready to Launch Google Flipper

We get some reports from the laboratories of Google, which already are thinking about launching Google Flipper, a new service that will change the way dizque read the news. In the image that appears is showing the news with images of the cover, as we shall see if this progresses, but what is certain is that it is generating enough expectations around the world.

HP released iPhone Versions of Their Classic Calculators

Macworld says the incursion of HP in developing applications for iPhone, and is a bit nostalgic for fans of the calculator, and an interesting from the standpoint of price:

When running in landscape mode, each application uses the original ROM code and provides an exact visual replica of the calculator in landscape format, making it familiar to users of the original. The HP 12c cost $ 15 and HP 12c Platinum costs $ 20 to provide the same functions and the formulas for models of hardware, the HP 15C and it costs $ 30, includes all the algorithms and scientific computing original sequences, including the matrix, the root, and number of complex functions. The three applications are also, like their counterparts in programmable hardware. Cool!

This is the summary again:
* HP 12C Financial Calculator [$ 14.99 - iTunes link]
* HP 12C Platinum Calculator [$ 19.99 - pending]
* HP 15C Scientific Calculator [$ 29.99 - iTunes link]

It will be interesting to have the power of these calculators into the iPhone.
I love HP calculators, especially my HP 50g of which I use quite at the University.

VideoBay: The "YouTube without censorship" from the creators of The Pirate Bay

Apparently, the guys from The Pirate Bay have occupied his last years in a project that insurance will speak at the appeal of his current trial VideoBay, or an alternate version of YouTube without censorship that has just entered its period of " Beta Far. "

This is an experimental playground, and as such, is subject to (de) coding in vivo and drunk, so please do not bother us if the site is not working properly

However, after running around like Neanderthals at porn on your disk that we see that, momentarily, the variety is limited to a couple of demos of audio and video from the homepage (and is apparently able to navigate between the the content has been disabled for now).

And making one of the undisputed weeping Copyright Protection Squad, this is but one notable example, to witness the first steps (and implementing significant) of HTML5, and the new latest revision of HTML that has to eliminate the need Plug-ins like Adobe Flash.

Precisely with this in mind, we only need a boat capable of handling HTML5 (including the system of audio and video labels) such as Firefox 3.5 (currently in its 4th beta), Opera 9.52, Safari or Chrome 3 and 4 ... await the announcement predicted that the official premiere, of course.

Sunday, June 28, 2009

Are already available Internet Security 2010 and Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2010

The famous security solutions company Kaspersky has released its latest version Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 and Anti-Virus 2010. These programs offer an effective protection against cyber threats today that we can find on the internet. As these products have incorporated innovative technologies as follows:

Advanced Host-based Intrusion Prevention System (HIPS) or Spanish prevencion advanced system based on the host which is based on assigning a safety rating to unknown threats or malware.

Technology box testing (Sandbox) which creates a virtual environment within our computer and try to run a safe program to which the virus is a threat cree.

Kaspersky Security Network (Kaspersky Security Network) which provides information for millions of users to dramatically reduce response time to new threats and keeps the database updated with the latest information about infected and clean files . Also the graphical interface (GUI) has been improved and simplified.