Increasing Laptop Bty Life : Few ways

1. Hibernate: Hibernating the laptop is always a tidier option than putting it on standby, or shutting it down. This is because the laptop’s hibernate mode saves it in the state it was hibernated in, and does not require the laptop to reboot all applications, thereby using much less power.

2. Get some extra RAM: Whenever a laptop runs short of RAM memory it end up shifting to the virtual memory which results in hard disk use, which is a much less efficient option in terms of power consumption. Putting in extra RAM does use more power, so don’t get too much extra, but when compared to the use of virtual memory it’s a more efficient option.

3. Apply energy saving options on the OS

4. Bring down the brightness of the screen

5. Shut Down External devices: Most USB devices and other external devices like external hard drives or USB lights or even USB mice should be switched off and removed if not in use.

6. Shutdown background apps

7. Amend battery cycle: For a healthy Lithium-ion based battery, it is always suggested to keep the electrons that are present inside in motion occasionally. That means it’s never a good idea to keep you laptop plugged in or on charge all the time as the electrons lose their ability to store energy. One should let it discharge fully and charge it completely at least once a month to keep the battery as good as new.

8. Switch-off unused wireless radios

9. Try to reduce multitasking: When using the laptop on battery power, one should try as much as possible to use one application at a time, and should ideally shut one application completely before opening another, to reduce consumption of both processing and battery power.

10. Defrag on regular intervals

How Google detects Invalid clicks?

More often then not,most of the registered Google Ad sense users are always tempted to increase their clicks on the ad to generate some monetary benefit....this one comes specially for all those who try tricks of trade....believe it or not their are none... Google is tooooooooo smart...read down below and links below :

1. IP Address

If those clicked on their own ads multiple times from the same IP address means you will sure get banned.

2. Sabotaged by third party

Sometimes, you may also be sabotaged. A third party may decide to do a series of illegal clicks on your advertisements for the purpose of getting you banned. If you notice any suspicious clicks of this nature, Google encourages you to report it to them.

3. CTR

The normal CTR ratio must be in between 0.5% – 15%. Anything more then 15% will be flagged.

4. Cookies

Few Adsense users, use the trick by using the dynamic IP address but it falls flat as cookies in computer can be used to track our cookies and help identify the invalid clicks.

5. Physical Location

Google has many software and bots to trace. They will trace the IP address of the small town and city. So do not click your own ads in different internet cafe and also in friend’s home. If you do this, your account will flagged.

6. Fake Web Traffic

Fake web traffic is anything that generates false impressions on your Google AdSense advertisements, including participating in link farms or link exchange directories.

7. Search Engine Ranking

If you got many clicks without the help of search engine ranking, social media traffic means Google will easily smell it.

More veri useful info here at https://www.google.com and http://www.ambabo.com

Augment your regular desktop with a FACE RECOGNITION feature

1. Face recognition technology although has been compromised earlier on various times and occasions which have been mentioned at this blog here,here and here.But again things are improving with more complex algorithms being used for processing and allowing a person to Log In.Now suppose an online exam is being conducted which requires students to login with their accounts; anybody could login with anybody’s account as long as they knew their username and password.So for regular window OS users,Luxand Blink allows an alternative to traditional Windows login and a solution to problems. It provides its users with a different way to login to Windows: through Facial Recognition.

2. Luxand Blink is a free application comptable with 32 bit version of Windows Vista and Windows 7. The download size of the application is 8MB and installs in a standard way. A webcam is required to be installed in the computer...(did I need to tell that?)

3. So just look into a webcam for a moment, and you’ll be logged into your account before you notice. Blink! employs advanced face recognition technologies to provide automatic, quick and reliable login to one or many computer users. It uses its advance image recognition algorithms to recognize our face. Such is the competence of this application, that whether the lighting is different or our hair are different, Luxand Blink will still recognize our face and log us in.So a regular old desktop becomes ready with the FACE RECOGNITION feature.

4. Thanks http://www.luxand.com/blink/

SAMSUNGs GALAXY BEAM - Projector meets Mobile

1. Imagine one single mobile handset offering the following features :

(a) Miniprojector at 640 x 480 pixel resolution.

(b) 3.7-inch Super-AMOLED (Active-Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode)

(c) An 8-megapixel camera.

(d) Can be used as a wireless access point.

(e) FM.

(f) Wi-fi.

(g) Bluetooth 3.0

(h) GPS

(j) Inbuilt 16 GB storage

(k) TV out

(l) MP3,MPEG4,WMV,DivX & H.264

(m) Touchscreen

(n) 3G/EDGE Connectivity

(o) 530 hours Stand By

(p) 7 hours talktime

2. Thats Samsung Galaxy Beam to be launched on 17th July 10

3. More at www.samsunghub.com

MOST AMAZING TECHNIQUE TO TRANSFER DATA:SLURP

1. This is by far the most amazing thing I have seen in recent years....we have all seen ways to transfer data from one PC to other including bluetooth,wifi,cable and so on.....but this one involvesslurping up (extracting) information and squirting out (injecting) pointers to digital objects. Hence, information can be transferred from machine to machine without any kind of wired or unwired connection.It will be really clear when you see the above video.....you use a dropper like object to pick up a folder from one desktop to other......AMAZZZZINGGG!!!!!!

2. This clever innovation comes in from a former MIT Media Lab student, Jamie Zigelbaum.

3. Thanks http://zig.media.mit.edu/Work/Slurp

IT meets HIGH TECH TAPS : Renshui Faucets

1. Water Taps with in-built chips , the Renshui high-tech faucets, allows customised control of the flow and temperature of the water . All it takes is a simple touch and one can change these parameters to prepare a perfectly tailor-made lovely bath.The water’s temperature is also displayed on the cool body of this faucet that’s totally different in style and form.

2. With a simple touch, one can go from hot to cold water, on or off. Another great feature is the intelligent light, which shows the water’s temperature to cut down the risk of scalding accidents. All these features come wrapped in a contemporaneous design that will add sleek , style in additions to reducing your wallet weight.

3. Thanks http://www.trendir.com/

Intel meets Car : Makes it SMART CAR

1. In an earlier post here about Intel's Bike,I discussed about how Intel had plans to get IT into Bike.Now they have gone a step further.....I mean from Bike to Car...yess..they have graduated to Car.

2. Intel is currently working on a smart car that will register desired information about the speed, steering, braking while also recording video footage from the outside.This would work well enough as a black box since all the information can be used in case of crashes and if possible, even thefts. Safety features like an on-board camera system, sensors to monitor the road condition, distance sensors to warn the driver of closing in distances and mobile control to lock or unlock the car.

3. Thanks http://www.newlaunches.com

COWS & DATA CENTRES : LINKED!!!!

1. Cows and data centers ???Whats the link.......any guesses....strange you may find but this has come from HP who feel that both entities are connected...read on for the link///

2. According to HP Labs, the estimate dairy cow produced is about 55 kg of manure per day, and thus 20 metric tons per year. The manure that one dairy cow produces in a day can generate 3.0 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electrical energy.A medium-sized dairy farm with 10,000 cows produces about 200,000 metric tons of manure per year. This farm can fulfill the power requirements of a medium sized 1 megawatt (MW) data center.The heat generated by the data center need not be wasted. Instead, it can be used to break down animal waste which results in the production of methane.Methane can then be used to generate power for the data center.HP Labs researchers say that this symbiotic relationship allows the waste problems faced by dairy farms and the energy demands of the modern data center to be addressed in a sustainable manner.

3. Actually HP should have not just come up with the idea...with the strong hold they have in the market..it would have more suited them to actually attempt the same on ground rather then advising and making statistical data of the dung!!!!

4. Thanks http://www.informationweek.in

Why not leapfrog 3G TO 4G?

1. It has actually been veri long hearing about Indian Government trying/deciding to start the 3G Spectrum allocation. Finally few decisions have been made in last few weeks and something has been done in a limited capacity.Now till the time this limited capacity becomes ready to take on fully operational 3G Services across India,3G will be without doubt an obsolescent and old technology at global level.The amount of infrastructure,investment,time and loads of effort that will be sucked in by this 3G setup is likely to go in waste considering the thirst everywhere to be at par with the latest in communication.3G may look good today when we are not aware of 4G Technology.For those who are interested to know about 'G' family in brief,pls click here.

2. So,still when the exhaustive details on spectrum auction are awaited,why not leap frog to 4G thus vamoosing the extraordinarily delayed 3G for attaining higher data speeds to finally allow users in India to experience the "state of art speeds".

PANOPTICLICK : Your Browser Finger Print

1. The development and growing interest in hacking and retrieving info from browsers has been gaining significant importance today when security is BAAP of all priorities in any IT field.Today surfers are warned that even with cookies deleted and disabled,advanced fingerprinting techniques could be used to identify them.In an attempt to check and test browsers,THE ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION has come up with a site at http://panopticlick.eff.org/ which tests your browser to see how unique it is based on the information it will share with sites it visits.

2. Check out at http://panopticlick.eff.org/

INTEL : UPCOMING PROCESSOR'S

1. At an earlier post here, I had discussed about the upcoming OSs incl Barrelfish,Midori,Helios etc likely to be introduced by Microsoft in near future.....now some thing from leaked (which valve actually faltered …no one knows?) source on the net about processors from INTEL,three quad-core Clarksfield processors, the i7-720QM, i7-820QM and i7-920XM, clocked at 1.6GHz, 1.73GHz and 2GHz can be expected by the end of this year

2. Low voltage chips including 25W 2.26GHz Core i7-660LM,1.46GHz Core i7-680UM and 1.33GHz Core i5-560UM with an overall aim to enhance the battery life while end Dec 2010 will see high-end Core i7-680UM that starts at 1.46GHz and speeds up to 2.53GHz and a 1.33GHz / 2.13GHz Core i5-560UM, plus a 25W 2.26GHz Core i7-660LM low-voltage chip will also see the year 2010. All these will have on-die Intel HD Graphics .

3. Another 32nm "Huron River" is likely to make it to the user shores by early 2011 which will single handedly handle WiMAX, WiDi and Intel Bluetooth alongside new concept dubbed Zero Power ODD which promises a power-saving sleep mode for optical disks drives.

4. Thanks http://www.theinquirer.net

'Microrings' - Ultimate Wireless Communication

1. Researchers based in Purdue University have developed a miniature device capable of converting ultrafast laser pulses into bursts of radio-frequency signals, a step toward making wires obsolete for communications in the homes and offices of the future.Such an advance could enable all communications, from high-definition television broadcasts to secure computer connections, to be transmitted from a single base station, said Minghao Qi, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering.The team fabricated tiny silicon "microring resonators," devices that filter out certain frequencies and allow others to pass. A series of the microrings were combined in a programmable "spectral shaper" 100 microns wide, or about the width of a human hair. Each of the microrings is about 10 microns in diameter.

2. Thus a single base station would be sort of a computer by itself, perhaps a card inserted into one of the expansion slots in a central computer. The central computer would take charge of all the information processing, a single point of contact that interacts with the external world in receiving and sending information."There is no end to improvement......as i say.....just when we thought WiFi is the end of home trouble shootings for easy connectivity...this goes many steps ahead.....

3. Thanks http://www.new-technology-world.com

WiFi Amplified 10 times : Here comes WiGig™

1. WiFi,the term that has revolutionised our lives at home with ease of access and mobile internet connectivity is all set to receive a major boost in speed when the 60GHz frequency band comes into operation. Wi-Fi Alliance® confirmed an alliance with WiGig™ to expand the current WiFi band range. Current WiFi technologies will remain, with the new 60Ghz range coming in to compliment these already existing technologies. 60 GHz device connectivity will be an exciting enhancement to the capabilities of today's Wi-Fi technologies. It will expand the utility of Wi-Fi, used by hundreds of millions of people every day.The goal - to bring 7Gbps wireless connectivity to users!!!!

2. How does this happen? Basically transfer speeds that are 'turbo boosted'. Today maximum data transfer speeds are in the region of about 150 Mbps. Bringing in this new technology will boost that figure to anywhere between 1 Gbps to 7 Gbps. That is about 10 times faster than the norm today. On the flipside, higher frequency waves don't have the range of current lower frequencies, and the 60 Ghz band travels in a straight line, meaning one would need line of sight between two devices to transfer data.

3. Estimates are that this technology will be available in devices that have dual-band or tri-band capabilities, in approximately two years. These devices will most likely have the ability to switch between the current 2.4 Ghz or 5 Ghz, and the 60 Ghz band.

4. Thanks http://www.new-technology-world.com & http://wirelessgigabitalliance.org/

"GOOGLE STREET VIEW" - FIGHTING PRIVACY ISSUES

1. Ever heard of google's street view application...m sure many of you must have...for those who have not heard of it...in brief it refers to a technology featured in Google Maps and Google Earth that provisions isometric views from various positions along many streets in the world. Launched on May 25, 2007 the application displays images taken from a fleet of specially adapted cars. Areas not accessible by car are sometimes covered by Google tricycles. On each of these vehicles there are nine directional cameras for 360° views at a height of about 2.5 meters, GPS units for positioning and three laser range scanners for the measuring of up to 50 meters 180° in the front of the vehicle. There are also 3G/GSM/Wi-Fi antennas for scanning 3G/GSM and Wi-Fi hotspots.

2. No about the fighting issue that i have reffered in the subject topic.Now whether it is a facility for the world base users to utilize viewing live views of streets world vide or it is an attempt to log in to the private data of the users across.....yess...I repeat it is the private data of the users avaiable from the open WiFi signals from their home computers and laptops.The intresting thing is that Google has accepted this collection of data from unencrypted wireless networks....and they have put the blame on a masoom software engineer.Google says the massive furore over Wifi snooping by Street View cars was all the fault of one software engineer.In an interview ,CEO Eric Schmidt said the whole affair came about because a software engineer inserted unauthorised code into the Street View system software. The man is now under investigation internally by the company as per posts on google blog.

3. Now what ever answer that google may come up with in form a mistake or simply putting the blame on that software engineer(...where was the Software Testing deptt and QC then otherwise?),the point that I intend putting accross is that just take care of envryting your WiFi router.Google has at least accepted the fact and mistake and they are taking measures to rectify it...but it will not be always like that.....there are so many mis adventurists present all around that looking around that unencrypted wireless networks for misuse.....just read this post again to avoid becoming a target like others.

4. Thanks http://tech.blorge.com & http://en.wikipedia.org/

Mobiles & Brain Cancer : WHO Speaks.

1. In an earlier post at http://anupriti.blogspot.com/2009/10/radiation-effects-ur-mobile-quantified.html,wherein the sad and bad effects of using mobiles on brain and health,the quantified SAR ie specific absorption rate were discussed.There is good news for those who always feared using mobile phones for standing at a risk to gain brain cancer in the long run.The WHO study on links between mobile phone use and certain types of brain cancer has proved inconclusive.The researchers said that even though there could be possible health risks from heavy mobile phone use, nothing conclusive has been found as yet.

2. The long ten year study of about 13,000 people focused on both healthy users of mobile phones and those with two types of brain cancer - glioma and miningioma tumors. There were suggestions of an increased risk of glioma, and much less so meningioma, in the users with highest decile (10 per cent) of cumulative call time, in subjects who reported phone use on the same side of the head as their tumor. Strangely though, the study declares these 10 per cent to be people who use their phone to call for more than 30 minutes a day. These stats seem seriously doubtable. Going by it, almost everyone we know is in that 10 percent.

3. However, the study has been criticized, as biased, because mobile phone companies provided 25 percent of the funding.Actually...now it is more then 15 years when the world has been actively using mobiles...more so in india in last 10 years....had it been the other way...how much of the human populi in the world would have been effected by now....

4. More at http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs193/en/

Where does your Website Rank in the web?

1. An interesting free info site for to see what you have done with your website and what you need to do to increase performance of traffic and readers to your website is listed below. The site uses a combination of tools to solve issues or tweak your best techniques used in your web design and content.

2. The name of the site is http://truxtertech.com/siteworth.

Google and Caffeine : The Secret Link

1. A little over year ago ,Google unveiled a “secret project” of “next-generation architecture for Google’s web search“ which was supposed to include crawling, indexing, and ranking changes. While the biggest visible changes in Microsoft’s relaunched search engine, Bing, was user-interface related, Google’s secret project was supposed to be only infrastructure related and proposed no UI changes.

2. Thus after an year of the unveiling,Google is now getting faster and more comprehensive with a new Web indexing system called "Caffeine.As per the Google Blog Post's , the project now stands on completion stage and now "provides 50 percent fresher results for Web searches".

3. The old indexing architecture was based on several layers, some of which were refreshed at a faster rate than others; the main layer would get updated every couple of weeks.To refresh a layer of the old index, entire web was analysed, which meant there was a significant delay between when we found a page and made it available to the user. With Caffeine, the web is analysed in small portions and search index is updated on a continuous basis.Thus more improvement on existing setup....that I say "there is no end to improvement"

4. Thanks http://www.trustedreviews.com

Securelist.com : Informative attempt by Kaspersky Labs

1. Kaspersky has come up with the launch of a veri informative site on IT security with lots of articles and updates on various types of viruses/malwares etc.You can access the same by clicking here.

2. One interesting section by the name of "Internal threats" is available which should prove popular in future and also "Kaspersky Security Bulletin".

What material Laptops are Made of?

1. Ever wondered what a typical laptop is made up of and where does all that material source to.......read on...it is interesting to know the effort......

China: ABS, PMMA, Epoxy, PVC, Polyoxymethylene, PP, SBR, elastomer, PET, Magnesium Germanium, Terbium

Russia: Steel, Ferrite, Ruthenium

Chile: Copper

South Korea: Glass, Cadmium

Australia: Titanium,Nickel

Peru: Indium

India: Barium

Khaidarkhan: Mercury

Canada: Aluminium, Uranium

South Africa: Cadmium, Chromium, Platinum, Manganese

Japan: Stainless Steel, Selenium

Brazil: Silicon, Tantalum

Zimbabwe: Lithium

Congo: Cobalt

Mexico: Bismuth

Tajikistan: Antimony

2. Thanks http://www.sourcemap.org

Prisoners all set to est BPO : A first from Cherlapally Central Jail

1. In a country where media,politicians,government, bureaucrats,actors,sportsman etc etc and most of the citizens are busy baking power and minting money,this is one news that could do HINDUSTAN proud.

2. In a bold & really unique experiment,likely to be the first of its kind in our country,there will soon be BPO units with the inmates as employees. This is a unique development and Cherlapally Central Jail in Hyderabad@Andhra Pradesh is the first prison throughout the country to have such a unique facility in its premises.These BPO units will have educated convicts serving out their terms. A public-private partnership was signed up between the prison authorities and the Bengaluru based IT firm, Radiant Infosystems.As many as 250 inmates will be enrolled in the BPO unit and they will be later shortlisted according to their qualifications. Most of the inmates are matriculates and graduates. The shortlisted inmates will then be given training by experts and then absorbed by the BPO company into their Jail unit. For starters, the convicts working there will not have any access to phones as in the case of a normal call centre. They will be mostly involved in bank-related data entry and transfer work.

3. "We found that large number of convicts are willing to work on computers. So, I thought these prisoners can made use of and they can be put on computer-based jobs," said Gopinath Reddy, Director General For Prisons, Andhra Pradesh.

4. This is really positive contribution I feel....although a percent of readers may tend to opine about QoS etc...but...worth a start and Idea....

5. Thanks Voice & data and http://news.oneindia.in

XINGYUN : World's Fastest Computer

1. "Experts say one second of its work may take a whole day for a dual-core personal computer"

2. Such is the astonishing ..or I say beyond imagination power of this officially disclosed SUPERCOMPUTER named "Xingyun" from China that runs at more than one quadrillion (one thousand million million) calculations per second.

3. XINGYUN is now the server of ‘Dawn 6000’ which has been jointly developed by Dawning Information Industry Co. Ltd, Chinese Academy of Sciences Calculation Institution and the South China Supercomputing Centre. It has been developed for DNA sequencing and for cloud computing.

4. Perhaps there is no end to improvement.....tomorrow will come up with much much higher speeds then XINGYUN......wait and watch.....

SHADOWS IN THE CLOUD

1. First time I heard this term...i thought its abt some movie...some crime thriller or may be some novel or book...but when I actually came to know about this...it was exploring a whole new world....this is abt a 60 pg brief on how cyber security can compromise you and your organisation secrets....wonderfully compiled...easy to understand...easy english....gr88888 ...

2. I got the copy from SCRIBD at http://www.scribd.com/doc/29493199/Shadows-in-the-Cloud-20100406

3. Must read for IT Security enthusiasts!!

I M IN "CHIP"- MAY MONTH EDITION 2010

1. Don't get me wrong for those of you who read only I M IN "CHIP"...i m not inside the regular chip...but have been able to find space in MAY edition of the Chip - India's Most Trusted Guide To Gadgets And Technology.Scanned copy attached.

2. Thanks CHIP