Dell Streak 5' inch ANDROID Tablet

Hardware-wise, the Dell Streak features the following:

>> A sharp 5-inch capacitive multi-touch WVGA (800x480) display for a great full-screen experience watching video or browsing the web.

>> Fast 1GHz Snapdragon ARM-based mobile processor from Qualcomm.

>> 5 MP autofocus camera with dual LED flash that offers easy point & shoot capability and quick uploads to YouTube, Flickr, Facebook and more.

>> VGA front-facing camera enables video chat functionality down the road.

>> A user-removable (and replaceable) battery.

>> A 3.5mm headphone jack means many of you can use the Dell Streak as the music source (and more) in your car.

>> Integrated 3G + Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) + Bluetooth 2.1 (think headsets, external keyboards, stereo headsets, etc.)

>> UMTS / GPRS / EDGE class 12 GSM radio with link speeds of HSDPA 7.2 Mbps / HSUPA
A user-accessible Micro SD slot expandable up to 32GB. That means you can store lots of movies, music, photos or other kinds of files.

On the software side, here's what you can expect:

>> A customized multi-touch version of the Google Android operating system that features Dell user interface enhancements.

>> Access to over 38,000 apps (and growing) via the Android Marketplace.

>> Microsoft Exchange connectivity and integration through TouchDown
Google Voice support.

>> Integrated Google Maps with voice-activated search, turn-by-turn navigation, street and satellite views.

>> Quick access to activity streams via integrated social network app widgets like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube.

Solve compatibility issues in Windows 7

After Windows Vista launch many people faced problem with compatibility issues with programs which use to run in windows XP very well, therefore even after launch of windows 7 people have not migrated to it having a thought of facing compatibility problems with it.

But today in this post, i will be showing you how to set compatibility for a program to run in windows 7, which was actually meant to run in Windows Vista or XP.

This method will also be applicable in installing certain type of drivers of old windows.

1.> This trick is very short and simple, all you have to do is just right click over the Executable file of a program/application and choose its "Properties" option.

2.> Now you should see a window with loads of tabs such as security, icons etc. There's one another tab in the second row called "Compatiblility". Click over it and tick mark over the dimmed box to enable, "Run this program in compatibilty mode".



3.> Now Just below it you should see a drop down list having all the operating systems with thier service packs listed, for ex. windows xp sp2, sp1 windows vista sp1, sp2.

4.> Select the operating system with which your program may run (you can change this property any time) and apply these settings and run it as administrator.

5.> The Program should now run sucessfully, if it doesn't then try another serpice pack or another operating system from the list, else download a newer version of it which maintains compatibility with newer OS.

Enjoy multi-video conference with new SKYPE 5 BETA

1.> DOWNLOAD the new skype 5 loaded with an amazing feature called "multivideo conference" with which you now can see all the friends and family members in conference.

2.> The new Skype is faster to use and gives better sound quality than ever.

3.> Note that you can make /receive video conference calls only if you and the caller have Skype 5 version only, otherwise only audio would be heard.

Microsoft creates a one trillion pixel, 802 GB image of the night sky

Look at the picture above. It is a toned-down, 500x500 pixel version of an iconic picture. Had we had the audacity (or the facility!) to put up the full blown picture that this actually is, it would have taken you a couple of years to load this page on your normal broadband connection. One terapixels, yes, 1,000,000,000,000 pixels displaying the sky in all its glory and taking up a whopping 802 GB of disk space.

A gigantic effort (literally!) by Microsoft, this picture of the night sky is the largest and the clearest ever. Under the Terapixel project, 1791 pairs of complementary red-blue captures were stitched, thanks to image data from telescopes in California and Australia collected under the Digitized Sky Survey during the past 50 years.

To know the extent of the huge-ness of this picture, gulp this - To view it in all its glory (read pixels), you would need 500,000 High Definition TVs in a grid. Even if you take the higher-DPI route of printing, the photo would be the size of a soccer field.

According to Microsoft, this is the recipe behind the Terapixel photo:

1.> Image data was computed, or digitized, from the plates that were created directly from the telescopes. This raw data was processed by a computer cluster using 512 computer cores (How many does your ‘ultimate gaming-rig’ use? 4 huh?). According to Microsoft, this took about half-a-day. Sounds deflated, if you ask us.

2.> The red and blue complementary pictures were then combined and the pictures were then touched up to correct the variations in brightness, colour saturation, noise and vignetting (darkening of corners). Three hours. Impressive again. We bet those computers weren't running Vista.

3.> It took four hours then as the images were converted into the seamless panorama of beautiful stars.

Save any video from any website which has video contents to stream

This trick is for those who wish to watch youtube/metacafe videos without logging onto internet to stream it again and again, or want to make collection of videos from youtube or metacafe. This trick will always work without any 3rd party softwares such as youtube downloader or IDM.

1.> The very first step is to use a firefox browser or a chrome browser for ease for watching streaming videos.

2.> Watching the video until it completely buffers (light red colored line finishes).



3.> Now open a new tab or window, and on the address bar type: "about:cache" (without quotes) and hit enter key to see the following window.



4.> This window displays location of cache directory, where our video lies. Sort the list of cache files by "date" and "size" by clicking over them respectively. The higher sized file is our buffered video. Copy this scarily named file to your desktop.



5.> Now its time to change the name and extension of this file as "anyname.flv"
the .flv stands for flash video. Note that you must remove tick-mark from the "view folder options" which says "hide extensions of known file types".




6.> Enjoy the video as many no. of times you want.
7.> If you use the Google chrome browser dont worry, you can directly paste this following path into windows address bar:

C:\Users\varun\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Cache

How to enable compiz desktop in Ubuntu 9.10

Compiz is a compositing window manager that uses 3D graphics acceleration via OpenGL. It provides various new graphical effects and features on any desktop environment, including Gnome and KDE. Compiz Fusion is a collection of plug-ins and a configuration system for the Compiz compositing window manager. It was created from the re- emerging of Beryl into Compiz.
Compiz truely and honestly redefines user desktop experience and desktop/window management.



1.> Pre-Requisites

In order to make life easy, let us go through a few pre-flight checks to ensure all is well once we enable Compiz/Desktop Effects and start using it.

Proper drivers installed for your Intel,ATI or nVidia or Intel Graphics card.
If you are using ATI,Nvidia Display cards you can install drivers from System--->Administration--->Hardware Drivers to detect the graphic card and to install associated drivers.

Install CCSM on Ubuntu

2.> After installing graphics card drivers you need to install compiz fusion using the following comamnd in the terminal:

sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager compiz-fusion-plugins-extra compiz-fusion-plugins-main compiz-plugins emerald

3.> Now you need to enable Visual effects for this go to System--->Preferences--->Appearance



4.> Now you will get this window on your screen, here you have to choose "Extra" and close the window.



5.> Now you have to open a terminal from Applications >> System tools >> Terminal, and type "ccsm"
(without quotes), and hit enter.

You will get this large window in front of you:



6.> This window contains several desktop enhancements such as fire on screen, rain drops , wiper effects, Desktop cube, desktop cylinder, MAC osX styled window changer and lots more.

here's one of the enhancements called Desktop cube.

FREE CLOUD ANTI-VIRUSES

Panda Cloud Antivirus – Free Cloud Antivirus Software



Panda Cloud Antivirus is a something different free antivirus, which use cloud computing technology to protect faster against the newest malware variants without impacting PC performance. Meanwhile, this free cloud antivirus can works with other desktop antivirus software simultaneously provide better level security protection for your computer.

DOWNLOAD Panda Antivirus.

Once you installed Panda Cloud Antivirus, the main windows will scan through your computer and lets you know whether you’re safe or not with a big red or green icon. It also offering a Quick Scan and a Custom scan for specific folder, files, and drives, but its ancillary features are exceptionally light. You can opt out of contributing anonymous data to the cloud, but that also opts you out of automatic threat management. There’s a network connection proxy option should you need it, and a reporting feature that will show you what kind of threats have been detected and removed from your computer.

With the cloud-based scanning from PandaLabs’ servers, it has shorten the virus scanning time to 6 minutes, thus becoming the lightest and fastest antivirus service. It supports Windows 7, Vista and XP (32bit) operating systems. Plus more, the latest Panda cloud antivirus version is Version 1.0.

Immunet Pro – Free Cloud Antivirus Software




Free cloud anti virus software based on four fronts such as Cloud computing, Community based protection, Collective wisdom and Coincidental with installed antivirus provides virus prevention and malware protection on your computer.

DOWNLOAD Immunet Antivirus.

Beside that, Immunet protect consume very less computer resources while running and it can run on support Microsoft Windows XP (SP2 or later), Vista and Windows 7 (RC 32Bit only.

Monitor the Energy Power Requirements of Your PC

Joulemeter is a simple application created in Microsoft Research Labs designed to measure the energy used by your computer. Its purpose can be extended to calculating the power required by virtual machines, servers, desktops and noteboks. Even individual software running on the computer can be measured in terms of electricity usage as each program comes with specific stress on the system’s hardware components.



Installing the app does not require too much effort from your part. There are no extra programs pushed in, just Joulemeter all way through. It will install as a service on the system and immediately start monitoring the main components of the system that fluctuate in power usage.

Its free to download from this link.

Main application window is as simple as can be. It shows three tabs, but only one is of continuous interest to you: the one displaying the power usage statistics. There is nothing scary about it except for the values it draws from monitoring the components. Depending on their current load, the values for the CPU and disk fluctuate in Joulemeter. We noticed that a simple file copy or move operation automatically impacts on the power usage of the disk increasing the watts in the application (proportional with the speed of the job). The same behavior was recorded the moment we started to stress the central processing unit.

Four Ways with IPv6 Will Save the Internet

The world is almost out of IP addresses--or at least it's almost out of the IPv4 addresses that IT admins and users are most familiar with. Fortunately, IPv6 has been developed to exponentially expand the pool of available IP addresses while also providing a few other benefits.
To address issues with the current IP protocol in use (IPv4), and to add features to improve the protocol for the future, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has introduced IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6). Let's look at a few ways that IPv6 will come to the rescue and save the Internet.

1. More Addresses: IPv6 uses 128-bit addresses rather than the current 32-bit addresses allowing for an exponential increase in the number of available IP addresses. Network routing experts have been aware of the limitations of IPv4 addressing since the 1980's--before most of the world even knew the Internet existed, and before the Web became ubiquitous.

With 32-bits, IPv4 only allows for approximately 4.3 billion IP addresses. Since every Web-connected device--server, desktop, notebook, smartphone, tablet PC, and more--must have an IP address, and since the Web has exploded in countries like China and India, the world is rapidly approaching the end of the available IPv4 addresses.

2. Backwards Compatible: IPv6 is backwards compatible with IPv4 so that different networks or hardware manufacturers can choose to upgrade at different times without disrupting the current flow of data on the Internet. Given the world's dependence on the Internet and Web for news, commerce, public safety, national security, and more this is an important feature of IPv6.

Eventually, all IPv4 equipment will be replaced by attrition and IPv6 will be the only address protocol in use. But, that could take decades, so backwards compatibility will be crucial for the foreseeable future.

3. Better Security: IPv6 was designed with encryption and authentication in mind. IPsec is an optional security component of IPv4, but in IPv6 it is mandatory. With IPsec each individual data packet is encrypted and authenticated, making many of the malicious attacks plaguing the Internet today impossible--or at least substantially more difficult.

4. Better Performance: Changes have been made to the way IP packets and headers are formed, and to the way IPv6 routers process the packets to improve performance--resulting in fewer missed or dropped packets, and more reliable and efficient connections. With more people and devices sharing the Internet, and higher demands for VoIP (voice over IP) and video streaming, performance will be more critical than ever.

India's $35 tablet--How Low can it go?

India on Thursday unveiled a prototype tablet computer that would sell for a mere 1,500 rupees, or $35, with the price possibly dropping even further as R&D efforts continue.

Kapil Sibal, the country's Minister for Human Resource Development, showed off the super-cheap touch-screen device in New Delhi as part of a push to provide high-quality education to students across the country. The tablet also comes with a solar-power option that could make it more feasible for rural areas.

The Linux-based computer at first glance resembles an Apple iPad and features basic functions you'd expect to see in a tablet--a Web browser, multimedia player, PDF reader, Wi-Fi, and video conferencing ability. It has 2GB of RAM (but no hard disk, instead using a memory card) and USB ports and could be available to kids from primary school up to the university level as early as next year.

Students from several branches of the Indian Institute of Technology co-designed motherboards for the computer, which the ministry would like to see dropping to $20 and possibly getting as low as $10.

Sibal called the as-yet-unnamed device India's answer to MIT's famed OLPC laptop aimed at children in developing nations, which started off five years ago with a projected cost of $100, but ended up going for $200. In May, Marvell Technologies announced that it would partner with the OLPC foundation to create the hardware for a proposed OLPC tablet, currently named the XO-3, that would go for around $100.

But while the extremely low price of India's newly unveiled tablet is generating much hoopla, the gadget still faces hurdles before it lands in the public's hands.

"This is just a prototype," education expert Zubin Malhotra told Newsxlive. "We need to find people who will be able to manufacture these devices at these price points and continue to develop them going forward."

How to make your own Windows 7 themes.

You can make your own themes in windows 7 itself, theres no need of any third party software to do this task.

1.> The first step in making a theme is to create a folder and dump all the favorite wallpapers into it. See image below for example.



2.> Now on the desktop, Right clik on mouse to choose "personalise" option.



3.> Now see below to choose "desktop back-grounds" button, here you have to specify the folder in which you have dumped all the wallpapers, you can also set time and alignment of the picture in the same window, and clik "save changes".

4.> Now its about choosing the task bar and the windows color. after making changes you can click over the "windows color" button next to "desktop backgrounds". Again save changes after choosing a theme color of your choice.



5.> Now its up-to you whether you wish to also change the windows sounds at every event of closing or error events.



6.> Now there are two options to save a theme, a.) save only to your computer b.) save the theme for sharing.

7.> I prefer option b. because you can share your own made theme with your friends as a file.



8.> For saving a theme made by you, you should now "Right" click on the "unsaved theme" button in "personalize" options.

Change "Logon screen" or "welcome screen" in Windows 7

Bored with the old welcome screen of your windows 7 ? then lets change it to our own favorite wallpaper.

1.> Download this software called "Logon studio" from here.


2.> Install it and press start button to open start menu to search for "logon studio"
(a desktop icon is not installed), to get this screen below.



3.> Press "create" button on the left hand side to open a browse window, where you can specify the path of the desired wallpeper.



4.> And click "save" button to save this wallpaper in to your collection.

5.> When you want to apply a wallpaper as a welcome or log-on screen, you should first select the wallpapers in the collection and hit "apply" button.

6.The logo-on studio will bring you to the log-on screen with your own wallpaper of choice.



7.> Congratulate yourself, you now have your own welcome screen in windows7.

8.> Note that this software works with Windows 7, Xp and Windows Vista.

Hack your Internet Service Provider to use internet on other Pc / Laptop at your home.

1.> What if you wished to update an antivirus program or use internet on other pc when one pc or laptop is not available or just got a new lappy or computer at your home?

2.> An ISP, always locks a MAC address of a pc to which internet service has been provided.

3.> A MAC address is an Unique identifier of any networking device such as wifi card in your laptop or a wired ethernet card in your pc. This Mac address is unique in the world.

4.> The format of a mac address is 00:11:22:33:44:xx:yy.

5.> To view your MAC address in windows, open command prompt, and type "getmac" (w/o quotes). or type "ipconfig /all" (w/o quotes).

6.> These commands will list all the mac addresses of the networking devices in your computer.



7.> Copy the mac address of the device with which you use internet on a paper.

8.> and,on "Another computer" open "network and sharing center" for vista/windows 7 users and "network connections" for win xp users.

9.> windows 7/vista users will then select "network adapters" to view network connections window.





11.> Now press "configure" button to view this window and choose "Advance" tab.

12.> Now find "network address" or "address" like words in the column. Here
you have to click over the "value" button to see a insert field like this.



13.> Now in this blank field, type down the mac address you noted from the 1st computer, without the ":" colon mark. For example, 00112233xxyy.

14.> Now you are done. Your network card will restart with new spoofed MAC ADDRESS.

15.> Now you can easily login into internet on another pc / laptop computer at your home.

16.> Note that if you and your friends have same internet service provider, you can also do this trick at thier place too and login into your account.

A compatibility pack for MS OFFICE 2003 users to support files of MS 2007 and MS 2010 with .docx or .pptx extensions.

Users of the Microsoft Office XP and 2003 programs Word, Excel, or PowerPoint—please install all High-Priority updates from Microsoft Update before downloading the Compatibility Pack.

The package can be downlaoded from here.
Download size 37mb.

By installing the Compatibility Pack in addition to Microsoft Office 2000, Office XP, or Office 2003, you will be able to open, edit, and save files using the file formats in newer versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint . The Compatibility Pack can also be used in conjunction with the Microsoft Office Word Viewer 2003, Excel Viewer 2003, and PowerPoint Viewer 2003 to view files saved in these new formats.

Update: The Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack has been updated to include SP2. Additionally, with the updated Compatibility Pack, if .DOCX or .DOCM files contain custom XML tags, those tags are removed when the file is opened in Word 2003.