EXTERNAL DRIVES : ARE THEY REALLY FAST?

1. When one goes for buying a external hard disk,how important is for him/her to give due importance to speed that is mentioned as spec....like 7200 rpm and 5400 rpm?Does it really matter in this case?

2. Well not much and as a matter of fact the difference is ZERO = NULL = NIL.The faster the hard drive ,the better : this generally stands true for the internal drives that remain connected to IDE/SATA.In most of the cases pertaining to external drives the interface of connectivity is none other then USB which is significantly slower equated to SATA/eSATA/IDE on any day.USB drives at the most support a transfer speed of 33-37 MB/s...and thats all...whether u connect a 5400 rpm or a 7200 rpm..

HOW IS UR FAVORITE USB MADE?

WORTH A DEKKKO

PRINT A BATTERY : PRINTABLE BATTERY

1. Before I get into the meaning lemme tell you that this is again astonishing discovery.you can take a print out of something as shown in figure and use it as a battery..I mean as a source of power.....read ahead to find out.

2. A new type of low-power battery that does not require a case and is thin enough to be printed on paper is all set to venture on ur laps and desktop tables.The power source relies on an undisclosed mixture of chemicals to produce 20 milliamp-hours at a terminal voltage of 1.5 volts for every square centimetre that is printed. The battery material is roughly 0.5 millimetres thick and would, if mass-produced, cost just a few cents per square inch, according to Israeli-based company Power Paper.

3. The subject battery has been developed by a team led by Prof. Dr. Reinhard Baumann of the Fraunhofer Research Institution for Electronic Nano Systems.

4. As this is a printable battery so the characteristics of this battery differ significantly from those of conventional batteries. As the name suggest it must have very less weight.It weighs less than one gram on the scales, is not even one millimeter thick and can therefore be integrated into bank cards.It's voltage is 1.5 V, which is general.The battery weighs less than one gram on the scales, is not even one millimeter thick and can therefore be integrated into bank cards, for example. The battery contains no mercury and is in this respect environmentally friendly. Its voltage is 1.5 V, which lies within the normal range. By placing several batteries in a row, voltages of 3 V, 4.5 V and 6 V can also be achieved. 

5. It is composed of different layers: a zinc anode and a manganese cathode, among others. Zinc and manganese react with one another and produce electricity. However, the anode and the cathode layer dissipate gradually during this chemical process. Therefore, the battery is suitable for applications which have a limited life span or a limited power requirement, for instance greeting cards

6. The new battery consists of three different layers. It has conventional zinc manganese-dioxide components as anode and cathode. Sandwiched in between, the cell's chemical power source remains a closely guarded secret.

7. Paper Power claims the material is non-toxic and non-corrosive, making the battery safe to use without casing."Technically it will work like any other battery, but you can cut the battery into any size and shape for your product."

8. Thanks www.newscientist.com,Digit.

SATA 1.0 vs SATA 2.0 vs SATA 3.0 : The hunger for speed

1. Today technology runs faster then u blink. Today when someone has not even come to terms from IDE TO SATA 1.0 and when mostly have not even heard of SATA 2.0,in comes with a bigul siren SATA 3.0.YESSSSS!!!!with a whooping 6 Gb/Sec, and a range of new features for bandwidth intensive users, a much rapider future lies ahead. SATA 3 is bound to increase the interface speed but to fully realize its potential the viscera of a hard drive need to get quicker. 

2.   SATA 3 introduces changes including "a new Native Command Queuing (NCQ) streaming command to enable isochronous data transfers for bandwidth-hungry audio and video applications, better power management, and the connection mechanism for compact devices with connectors designed for the smaller 7mm optical drives in laptops and a Low Insertion Force connector for 1.8-inch drives.

3. Thanks Digit again!!!!

INTEL vs THE SEVEN SAMURAIs

1. The old story of  “MUTTHI MEIN TAQAT" has come up with a new version in the 21^st century in the form of SEVEN SAMURAI

2. Dysphoric with Intel’s dominance in the sector, the conglutination of processor designers and manufacturers has teamed up to develop a revolutionary new microprocessor. The coalition is led by the recent merger of NEC, Renesas , Hitachi, Toshiba, Fujitsu, Panasonic and Canon. Nickname for the group: THE SEVEN SAMURAI

3. The new microprocessor will be based on innovative energy-saving software. The final, commercial CPU will run on solar cells; it will be smart enough to use only as much power as is needed for the data being processed at the time; and it will remain switched on even during power cuts. A prototype is reported to be running at 30 percent of the power of current CPUs and remains ON even when mains power is cut. This new standard, along with the CPU is likely to be introduced in 2012.

4. Come on ….come on brains of the world…fight more with each other  for consumers like us who wish to get the best!!!!!!!!!!!

5. Thanks www.thinkdigit.com and http://www.osnews.com

xB Browser - Makes you anonymous

1. xB Browser is a free and open-source anonymous web browser in the world which is just a click away from anonymous surfing right now! With xB Browser you can securely and anonymously surf the internet, and bypass firewalls and website censorship.

2. The main advantage compared to other anonymous web browsers is that xB Browser requires no configuration or technical knowledge in order to achieve anonymity. xB Browser is open-source so you can feel safe knowing what goes into our code. Additionally, it is even portable on a USB stick .

3. xB Browser was previously known as Torpark. It does not store a cache on the user hard drive, nor does it store cookies, so there is no mess to clean up with eraser programs. xB Browser also has advanced features such as SSL MD5 RSA certificate vulnerability detection, DOM object and flash cookie protection,cross-site scripting attack prevention, user-agent cloaking, and java proxy control. xB Browser also detects and disables malicious browser addons that are hidden in the windows registry.

4. I recently downloaded the same from http://download.cnet.com/windows/3055-2144_4-10660326.html?tag=pdl-redir and I am really impressed with the same......the only thing I got perturbed was with the speed.Having ridden on chrome for over a year...the speed is not a match.It is about 45 Mb in size...isn't that heavy...well any way...CHROME rules still.

E mail a Web Page : http://www.emailtheweb.com/

1. This one also comes as a pretty handy tool when u expect your friends to open a web page by clicking the link you had sent to them on e-mail.It may open....and it may not open....the thing is ensured and guaranteed if u use the feature given at http://www.emailtheweb.com/

2. A few advantages this will be able to ensure are :

- will saves your recipients time by not making them click a link to read your web page. For busy people, this improves the likelihood that they will read the linked web page.

- All scripts and dynamic elements of a web page is stripped out. This protects your recipients from popups and other annoying activity that may be malicious.

- Allows you to email a page to someone who doesn't have access to the the web page (either because the page was dynamically generated or the page is password-protected.)

- Today's web is more dynamic than ever and web pages are changing all the time. By emailing the entire web page, you ensure that your recipient is seeing the same web page as you—even if the original web page is changed.

- Many people need to have a archive record of a web page and use.

3. I have tried the same and find it pretty okay.....you need to have a new account or you can simply access the same using your Google/Gmail account.

Use KEYBOARD for MOUSE

1. This one is a small worth a look trick which you can use to impress anyone.This trick allows you to move your mouse pointer using your keyboard ie Numeric keypad.

2. Press your left alt+shift+numlock in your keyboard to enable this feature.

3. Now press ok.

4. Use the keys 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 7, 8, 9 of numeric keypad to move the mouse pointer.

5. To perform mouse click use the key 5

6. To perform double click use + sign.

7. To disable this feature click on NumLock.

8. Got this one from http://informativetipz.blogspot.com/

WiMAX - THE POWER

For so long ....may be about two weeks I have not been able to upload any posts on this blog...courtesy an opportunity to slightly dig deep into WiMAX...and I am really happy to have finally got deeper into this.I got to know about various Wireless Technologies and terms viz OFDM, MMDS, LMDS, Blue tooth,WiFi,EVDO, the 'G' family, HSPA, 802.16M, 802.20, Cable modem, broad band over power line, LTE, FTTH, spectrum bands, base stations, CPEs, NOCs, EDGE,Gateways,Back haul links,Security aspects of WiMAX.....a lot of learning...gr8888...will share brief on all these aspects in days to come....

Being BUSYYYYY

For last few days...have not been able to upload anything new since i have been busy with a real task on hand......will get back soon....!!!

SSDs vs HDDs : WHO is GOOD?

1. Off late few notebook manufacturer's have been seen promoting their product for being the first to introduce SSDs. Now at the first glance they really seem to be promising since they offer less energy consumption, less weight, no mobile parts and also offer better speed in some ways than regular hard disk drives. But the question is whether they are strong enough to deliver the performance through out their life span. This puts a question mark????????????

2. If you have just bought a shiny new SSD, it isn’t likely to continue performing at blazing speeds after some usage. An empty drive will always perform better than one written to. The good news is that after an initial dip in performance, SSDs tend to level off. Even if they do drop in performance over time -- undercutting a manufacturer’s claims -- consumer flash drives are still vastly faster than traditional hard drives, because they can perform two to five times the input/output operations per second of a hard drive.

Why does performance drop?

3. Unlike a hard disk drive, any write operation to an SSD requires not one step, but two: an erase followed by the write. When an SSD is new, the NAND flash memory inside it has been pre-erased. But, as data is written to the drive, data management algorithms in the controller begin to move that data around the flash memory in an operation known as wear leveling. These algorithms are used to more evenly distribute data across flash memory so that no one portion wears out faster than another, which prolongs the life of whole drive. Even though wear-leveling is meant to prolong the life of the drive, it can eventually lead to performance issues. SSD performance and endurance are related.

4. Generally, the poorer the performance of a drive, the shorter the lifespan. That’s because the management overhead of an SSD is related to how many writes and erases take place. The more write/erase cycles there are, the shorter the drive’s lifespan. Consumer-grade Multi-Level Cell (MLC) memory can sustain from 2,000 to 10,000 write cycles. Enterprise-class Single- Level Cell (SLC) memory can last through 10 times the number of write cycles of an MLC-based drive.

What Matters ?

5. ALGORITHM : A read-modify-write algorithm in an SSD controller will take a block about to be written to, retrieve any data already in it, mark the block for deletion, redistribute the old data, then lay down the new data in the old block.

6. Some manufacturers use algorithms that combine writes to more efficiently use NAND flash memory space; others use cache to store writes in order to lay them down more efficiently.

7. BUGS : Bugs Can Cause Slow-Downs, Too Intel’s X25-M SSD had a firmware bug that led to major fragmentation problems that dropped throughput dramatically . But what’s clear is SSDs need more development to address these long term performance issues.

8. Thanks PC WORLD!!!

FREE UPGRADATION - ONLY A TRICK!!!

1. This trick comes for those who wish to upgrade their processors in the respective computers for free.......(only the name)

2. Start -> run -> type regedit.exe -> press ok

3. In registry editor -> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System\CentralProcessor\0

4. On right Pane Select ProcessorNameString and change the value to Pentium 5 or as you desire!!

Note: For those PC bugs only who just use the machine and don't worry of whats inside?Of course,they can be content with the name they give....viz an old celeron be renamed to QUAD CORE......and so on!!!!

5. Thanks again to http://www.technotips24x7.co.cc/

WHO ESPIED MY COMPUTER?

1. How many times would you be able to know who logged in or who used ur computer in your absence?NOt much most of the times!!!An easy to find out the details is a one liner solution......

2. So,here is the trick for that ..Simply type as given below in the RUN bar ie

Start - Run - TYPE eventvwr.msc

3. All details of login will be in front of your eyes.SIMPLE!!!!!!!

4. Thanks http://www.technotips24x7.co.cc/

DATA STORAGE IN BACTERIA : ASTONISHING-MUST READ

1. I had read about this about 2 months back but could not get any thing rock solid about what is the concept like actually?Although still not much detail is available,the crux from various sites is reproduced below for one to just imbibe the idea.

2. Artificial DNA with encoded information can be added to the genome of common bacteria, thus preserving the data. The technique was developed at Keio University Institute for Advanced Biosciences and Keio University Shonan Fujisawa Campus. So now what would happen to those USB flash memory "thumbdrives" which is claimed as being small!!

3. The technology aims at the succesful development of a DNA memory utilizing living organisms. The researchers proposed a method to copy and paste data within the genomic sequence of a living organism, Bacillus subtilis. Since microbs such as the Bacillus subtilis are very small and they keep gene information for generations, they can be applied for extremely smaller-size, larger-volume memory media that can store data for a longer period of time, compared to electronic or magnetic media including CD-ROM, flash memoryand hard disc.

4. According to researchers, up to 100 bits of data can be attached to each organism. Scientists successfully encoded and attached the phrase "e=mc2 1905" to the DNA of BACILLUS SUBTILIS, a common soil bacteria.The Bacillus itself creates new copies of the data every time it reproduces itself, thus making it an ideal archival storage system.

5. While the technology would most likely first be used to track medication, it could also be used to store text and images for many millennia, thwarting the longevity issues associated with today's disk and tape storage systems -- which only store data for up to 100 years in most cases.It is also claimed by the inventor that unlike optical/magnetic storage, data would be safe for thousands of years!!!

6. However, DNA sequences gradually change as their generations advance and that has been a hurdle in the research of biotic memory media. Changes in the DNA arrangements would make recovery of the stored data impossible, provided that no error correction techniques found at magnetic or optical storage media is available. The research group said its latest development indicated a possible resolution for this problem.

7. The technology proposes a method to copy and paste data within the genomic sequence of a living organism, Bacillus subtilis, thus acquiring versatile data storage and the robustness of data inheritance. Two or more different DNA molecules which carry the encoded data were duplicated into multiple genomic areas for data storage. The encoded data is then retrievable by complete genome sequencing and searching for duplicated coding regions using multiple alignments of all the possible decoded bit-data sequences of the genomic DNA. Therefore, even if the recorded information is partly destroyed, the original correct information can be restored.

8. Thanks http://www.technovelgy.com

HDD DOCKING STATION

1. In a typical IT savvy home,one would expect a desktop and a laptop today.So do Ihave that.I got my present desktop about 6 years back and have been since upgrading as and when I find an opportunity to make up with the race of not being left in obsolesence.Thus today I have about 6 IDE/sata based hard disks at my home that bear the back up and confine themselves to the shelves till they are required.

2. Once required,I attach them with the easily available USB to SATA or USB to the typical IDE port.Now when I do this,the table that I work on becomes a horde of wires with keyboard, mouse,power cable of this conversion kit ging bank intermingling with each other.To make this neater a new thing that I recently came across is the HDD DOCK STATION.More below :

3. The plug-n-play ready, high speed HDD Docking Station provides the user with flexibility, portability and performance. The unit supports both 2.5” and 3.5” SATA drives up to 1TB in size. The docking station is also hot-swappable using the USB2.0 and eSATA interfaces so it can be moved from computer to computer with ease for all your backup needs. If data integrity is your habit, then the HDD Docking is the perfect solution for you.

4. The dock is compatible with Windows and supports HDD upto 1 TB.

5. Thanks http://www.sunbeamtech.com

PC IN A FLOWER VASE : ECS's MING VASE

1. One Taiwanese computer maker has come up with a novel way to camouflage a computer made for your living room: give it the shape and color of a Ming Dynasty vase.

2. Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) put the small blue and white vase-shaped computer on display by a large-screen LCD TV at Computex Taipei 2009, to the effect that it really looked like Chinese art work rather than a gadget.

3. Inside the shapely plastic covering includes

(a) Home media computer complete

(b) A Blu-ray Disc player offering full 1080p high-definition video quality

(c) Intel Atom N230 microprocessor

(d) Nvidia Ion graphics chips and a

(e) 2.5-inch hard disc drive.

(f) Bottom of the vase reveals plugs for an HDMI cable, an Ethernet cable and USB ports.

4. See all this in the pictures in set....really amazing!!!

EYE-FI : GETs YOUR CLICK UPLOADED

1. What's the route from the moment you click any pic from your digital camera or your camera phone to the time you upload the selected few.It involves clicking the pic followed by Booting-up your computer, plugging in your camera, uploading pics to the hard drive and finally choosing what to send to the web !!!that has started becoming annoying now...since the number of pics a camera freak clicks is huge....so he generally shams it out and let them remain in the stoarge media by default.

2. SOLUTION : EYE-FI Memory Card. The Eye-Fi camera memory card (Pic in set) not only provides memory as usual for your pictures, but uploads the snaps as you take them.

3. The procedure involves just sync the card to a hard drive or Wi-Fi network, and getting it plugged into a digital camera and start snapping away. Pics are then routed to the hard drive or to one of 17 photo vendors (like Facebook or Flickr.) The card's software deftly handles scaling and compression while privacy settings at the individual sites allow you to filter what gets published. The software handles scaling and compression as well as privacy settings.

4. The Wi-Fi chip uses 70 percent less power than competing products, allowing it to be comfortably nestled in a standard SD card.

5. Thank you http://www.technovelgy.com

E-WASTE : DEPOSIT & GET PAID

1. In an earlier post I discussed about the consequences of e-waste and how few organisations were involved in controlling the issue.

2. Recently I came to know of this site at www.techshop.in/e-cycle which claims to recyle e-waste in a real economical manner.They pay you for the trash that you deposit.More details mentioned below.

3. MGA & Associates is a major organisation for the recovery & recycling of electronic equipments and components based strategically in the deep sea port area of Kandla India. MGA & Associates plans & carries out the collection, transportation, processing & recovery of all base materials from electronic equipments. They offer an environmentally sound and compliant route for organisations for their end of life and obsolete electronic equipments & components with the best available techniques. All MGA & Associates processes and daily operations are backed up by ISO 9001 and ISO 14001Quality & Environmental management systems certified by Bureau Veritas.

4. MGA & Associates was formed in 2003 by a group of dedicated & professional individuals with over 60 years of collective experience in recovery and recycling of electronic equipment and components and is one of the largest professional processors of this type of equipment.

5. Your e-waste can be sent or deposited in person against which you get the coupons at the following locations:

(a) Polytela e-Commerce PVT. LTD.

25, Gaurav Industrial Estate, Bail Bazaar,

Kurla (W), Mumbai 400070.

Tel.: +91 9920213743 , +91 9323699901

Fax: +91 2264501259 E-mail: support@TechShop.in

(b) MGA & Associates

Factory Site

Plot No. 262/263, Sector 4, Kandla Special Economic Zone,

Gandhidham - 370 230, Gujarat, INDIA.

Tel.: +91 2836 252225, +91 2836 253930

Fax: +91 2836 252522 E-mail: info@mgaind.com

(c) Logix Express

37/1945 Om Karam CHS ltd. Gandhinagar. Bandra E. Mumbai. 400051.
Tele: 022 26510708/26510687.
M- 09833175486.
Contact Person: Mr. Abhishek.

(d) DELHI

Logix Express
8908/2 Multani Dnada. Opp. Rangoli Guest House.
Pahargung. 110055.
Tele: 011 32617289.
M- 09999796936.
Contact Person: Mr. Govind.

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Logix Express
Block No. 71 to 76, Sagar Estate Part 3.
Opp. Ekta Hotel. Sarkhej Bavala Road.
Sarkhej- Ahmedabad. 380210.
Contact Person: Govind.
Tele: 079 26890419.
M- 09979865961.

(f) HYDERABAD

Logix Express
C/o Fast Freight Courier
1-10-9/3, Airport Road, Opp. IBP Petrol Bunk,
Begumpet, Hyderabad-500016.
Contact Person : Mr. Anil Reddy
M- 9848017335

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Logix Express
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Contact Person: Mr. Silverraj.
M- 09841418946.

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Logix Express
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6. GOOD WORK...SO FREE PUBLICITY!!