Microsoft Windows 8 Rumored To Launch in 2012, Perhaps After The Doomsday Parody!
While most of us haven’t even tasted the Windows 7 pie to the fullest, there are rumors that the next release of Windows OS, shall we call it “Windows 8” is being dealt as an “underwork project”.
It was October 22nd, 2009 when Windows 7 was officially launched and it would be some good day in 2012, when Microsoft Windows 8 is launched, hopefully.
Taking three years leap into the future, (and ignoring the doom that 2012 spells over the world) as the roadmap suggests, we would be seeing Microsoft launch another operating system, a successor to Windows 7, to delight us.
Tags: Microsoft, Microsoft Roadmap, Microsoft Windows 8, windows 7, Windows 8, Windows OSHow to Install Chrome OS on Windows Vista, Windows XP and Windows 7 Using VirtualBox or VMware
Chrome OS was released for developers, just yesterday. Iit didn’t take too long for the uber techies to compile it and make it available for us to try the new OS.
Chrome OS is now installable using VMware (VMfusion for Mac) or Virtualbox for Windows/Mac/*nix flavors. My current setup is Windows Vista Home Premium and I’ll be running VirtualBox 3.0.12 for Windows hosts x86/amd64. There are two installation copies available at the moment one made available at Gdgt and the other one available on Torrents.
I downloaded both, worked with the install image available at Gdgt with no luck then tried the one from the Torrents which worked like a charm! Click here to download the copy available at Gdgt and here to download the copy from torrent.
Before you read too much into the whole Chrome OS thing, you should know that at this opint its nothing more than a browser, a Chrome browser. Even eventually it will remain just a browser but one that will be capable of doing a lot within a browser.
Alright, with that out of the way let’s jump right into installing the Chrome OS on Windows Vista VirtualBox. (Click here to download VirtualBox)
Tags: Crome OS on Windows 7, Install Chrome OS on Mac, Install Chrome OS on VMWare, Install Chromium on Windows Vista, VirtualBoxTop 5 Concept Phones That May Hit Reality – Flavor Four
Everybody loves mobile phones and the ones with trendy designs and heart-racing appeals are, in most of the cases, far from reality and demonstrate the geeky levels of idiosyncrasy a human mind can ever reach . Well, that’s what we are talking about, concept phones.
Believe me, they are more appealing than any other phone that’s actually on the market shelves at a given point of time. I started writing the article, then quit and went on repeating this because there were actually no good concept phones to write about. Just then I came across some good stuff, which I felt was worthy enough to make the recipe for our next flavor.
Most of these concept phones definitely embark an aura of appeal at first sight, however, it would be interesting to consider revision of your perspective, logically. The article will drive you through some interesting ingredients that make up our next flavor of the top 5 concept phones
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Google Chrome OS WAS MY IDEA! – OS Goes OpenSoruce Today!
Google just announced that the Chrome OS is ready to be kicked out in the open for the developer community to get involved.
Yes, just for the developers for now. The final release will be available same time next year. This release invites the developers to join the open-source community and build the Chrome OS. The project currently includes the latest code base, designs and user interface experiments.
It’s obviously too early to predict what the Chrome OS will look like but be sure that it will be one of the fastest OS you’ve ever used! So how are they doing that?
Google Chrome OS is laser targeted at users who heavily work on the internet so the most important thing for them is a browser. This gives them the flexibility to look at the existing technologies and get rid of the process and technologies that are not required and improve the ones that are required.
For example – Google claims that the OS can come back from sleep in almost 1 second! NOW that’s crazy!
I wrote an article about a DOS based Browser which make Operating Systems like Windows less meaningful. The article suggests creating a technology which is ONLY capable of running a browser and within that browser lies your Operating System.
Tags: Chrome Operating System, Chrome OS, Chromium, Google Chrome OS, Google Operating System, Google OSCalifornia Expects to Cut Down 49% of Energy Consumption by TV Sets and Save $8 Billion!
If you thought California is only serious about legalizing marijuana, think again!
California became the first state to impose energy consumption restrictions on BIG and small screen Televisions.
This is not only done to keep the carbon footprint in control but also to bring down the cost of energy consumption for consumers. The California Energy Commission made it mandatory for TV manufacturers to reduce electricity consumption by 33% by 2011 and 49% by 2013.
The new standards are expected to save more than $8 billion in over 10 years and given the current state of California’s economy $8 billion is HUGE money.
As expected Consumer Electronics Association disagrees with the Commission’s findings and issued the following statement.
Tags: California Energy Comission, California TV Energy Consumption, Consumer Electronic AssociationYouTube Adds Automatic-Captions/Subtitles and Automatic-Timing for Videos
Youtube can only get better by the day. Google just announced two new features which will be of tremendous help to the hearing impaired. It will also help the video uploaders gain more global exposure for their content.
The two new features are Automatic-Captions and Automatic-Timings. These features let the video uploaders add captions automatically or simply upload the transcript of the video and let Youtube figure which text goes were in the video.
Automatic-Captions: Once the video is uploaded choose “Transcribe Audio” from the captions menu, that’s it! This will add captions to your video automatically. Not just that but once the automatic-captions are created for the video, these captions can later be translated to other languages.
Imagine how great it would be if the browser detects the default language and delivers captions on the video in the same language as default. I am quite certain we will see that feature on Youtube soon.
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Microsoft Talks About IE9 Just 8 Months After the Release of IE8, its Serious!
As major companies eye the browser market it is important for Microsoft to constantly upgrade its browser to keep ahead of its competitors in terms of technology and performance.
Just after 6 months of releasing IE8, the company starts talking about its upcoming version IE9. Keeping in mind that there was a 5 year gap between IE6 and IE7 this tells us that Microsoft is serious about beating it’s rivals in the browser drag race.
Microsoft claimed that the JavaScript performance gaps between IE and Firefox and Chrome are almost closed. In the current phase of development the browser scores an impressive 32/100 on the Acid3 test against 24/100 on IE8, however, not as impressive when Chrome, Opera and Safari score a 100!
Tags: IE 9 Performance, IE 9 Videos, Internet Explorer 9 Interviews, Internet Explorer 9 Videos, MicrosoftMicrosoft Office Professional Plus 2010 Beta Released – How Different is it From the Tech Preview?
I just uninstalled the buggy but promising Microsoft 2010 Technical Preview and Installed Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 Beta. Click here to register and get your own Office 2010 Beta.
I am yet to see if this version is buggy but improved performance is one of the first things that you will notice the moment any of the office applications is launched.
This beta version comes with some obvious UI tweeks. The technical preview was color packed where as the beta version goes back the old Microsoft way of keeping it simple.
Couple of notable changes between office 2010 technical preview and Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010…
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Lost $2000 (Almost) – Google Should Take More Responsibility for its Advertisers!
I saw an irresistible offer on Google ads while browsing through my blog today. It stated “Canon 5D Mark II – $2049 – Huge Weekend Blow Out Act Know While Supplies Last”. At the risk of getting into problems for clicking on the ads on my own website I clicked on it to get to the advertisers site.
I was taken to Supreme Camera (http://www.supremecamera.com). The site looked nicely designed has all the features an authentic site would have.
Then I noticed most of the gadgets and other things available there are unbelievably priced cheaper than any other site on the internet. For example EOS 5D Mark II is offered at $1909 (body only). The suggested retail price on Canon.com is $2699 and Amazon is selling it for $2629.
Following images give you a good idea of the deals available on this website.
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EX-G1 – Casio Unveils The Slimmest Ruggedized Camera On Planet, Packs in 12MP and Elements of Beauty
Until today, ruggedized gadgets looked creepily muscular, indefinitely shapeless and took comfort in wicked, gray non-attractive form factors (except a handful of them). Casio introduced its newest smart digital camera, the Casio Exilim EX-G1, to bring this long-worshipped universal psychology a remarkable end.
Casio first introduced the shock-resistant G-SHOCK® timepiece to the world in 1983. Since then, it has pioneered numerous devices and satisfied customers with all the marvelous products it could throw in.
The Casio Exilim EX-G1 is the first model of the new Casio EXILIM G series. It’s got a powerful 12.1 MP sensor covered by a resin cover and a resin near the shutter to protect the lens. The outer body is made of stainless steel to withstand shocks and falls and makes use of polycarbonate cover for the purpose.
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