Tech Ambient
Archive for January, 2010
Hidden Camera
Jan 16th
Hidden Camera is a sophisticated device that anyone can get easily nowadays. It improves our life by keeping us safer in certain situations. You can find this device almost everywhere like in ATM, banks, malls, financial departments, offices, and even homes. On the other hand, unfortunately, there are many people that misuse this technology. Instead of using for protection, they use it to spy on other people or even place it in girl’s changing rooms. This is definitely not an appropriate use of hidden cameras.
However, despite your needs of having such a device, you can find a lot of types only if you visit a website called as BrickHouse Security. This website contains numerous hidden cameras that undoubtedly will interest you like Peephole Door Cameras or Body-Worn Spy Cameras. Most similar websites might have bad navigation designs that makes it difficult for you to browse the products, but not this one. The site’s navigation is pretty well-designed that you will find no difficulty at all to find the product that exactly meets your specific need. You can also find out who the people behind the company by visiting the About Us page in case you want to make sure more that it is the place where you can find reliable products for a hidden camera.
Google & Mobile Service
Jan 8th
Over the past few years Google has been amassing a large amount of technology that can successfully change the way phone service is provided to millions of households, mobile phones and company phone systems. You may remember the days of only having one phone provider in your area (usually called something Bell). Then you would have to pick a long distance provider such as AT&T, Sprint, MCI etc. Well, the game has certainly changed in recent years. Now there are a large number of different phone service providers in local areas and then there are the VoIP service providers that pretty much overlap and cover 800% of the world now. How is it all possible then you may ask? Well FIBER is the secret. Fiberoptic cables cover a large portion of the USA and other countries around the world. And guess which company owns TONS of FIBER? Hopefully from the title of this article you can guess – yup – its Google.
A few years ago there was a phone service that came out called GrandCentral. Basically the service gave you a phone number that you could setup to forward calls when people called it. You could forward them to your home, your cell, work or pretty much anywhere you wanted. Google bought that company and launched Google Voice. With this service Google added voicemail, multiple phone number forwarding (i.e. you can ring every phone you own by calling one number) and pretty much created an amazing program with which you can save tons of money on your phone bill. If you have a cell phone with a friends or favorites program, you can set your Google Voice number up as a favorite so all calls from it are free. Then you dont give out your cell number, you give out the Google Voice phone number. Now whenever anyone calls you, its a free inbound call. Brilliant. Now you can sit on the phone for hours late at night while you ask your girlfriend what she is thinking about and then she can reply, nothing much what are you thinking about and go on and on for hours. Its free, so why not fall asleep listening to each other breath over the phone.
Most recently Google made another interesting purchase of a company called Gizmo5 which is a very similar online calling system to Skype. This system also lets you setup some friends lists etc. and there are rumors that Google is setting up a massive phone network that will essentially make phone calls free. Now we know that Google has to make money on it somehow, so lets setup a way to show (listen) to advertisements each time a call is made and presto! Free phone calling is on its way to the masses. I personally cant wait to ditch the annoying amounts of money it costs just to have a device that telemarketers and survey companies can use to reach me on. Anyone important already knows my cell phone. Yet for some reason, I just cant bring myself to cut off the rest of the world.
New versions for Firefox 3.0 and Firefox 3.5
Jan 7th
The foundation Mozilla just upload two new versions of its web browsers: Firefox 3.0.17 and Firefox 3.5.7. These updates can correct any security problems, but only found bugs in the software operation.
The first concerns name resolution Who could fail when you use certain proxy servers. The second, related only to Firefox 3.5, affecting the JavaScript engine. On some sites, the JavaScript could crash the application. A defect that remains neutral in terms of security.
The last bug is more annoying to the Mozilla Foundation. It concerns the way whose major updates of the browser are presented to users. In this area, Firefox 3.0 uses the same method with the updated classic that is to say, display an informational message discreet. However, to avoid incompatibilities with certain add-ons, the update is not automatic.
This choice that many users – minimizing the importance of the message — still have not switched to Firefox 3.5. The developers have fixed this problem by proposing a more visible message. The fix applies to both Firefox 3.0 than Firefox 3.5. This phenomenon does not happen again at the exit of the milling 3.6 browser.
Future versions of Firefox will adopt a multiprocess model
Jan 7th
Firefox 3.7 and Firefox 4.0 will allocate separate processes at the interface to web pages and plugins. This will improve the stability and security of all.
Benjamin SmedbergDeveloper at Mozilla tells it is a true jack of all trades, which currently focuses on the problem of segregation of duties within the browsers of the foundation. It is the project manager ElectrolysisWhich aims to allocate different processes at the interface of Firefox, the minutes of each page and the transplants. A whole program.
This separation of tasks will influence positive stability and security of the browser. Using multiple processes will also increase Firefox performance (especially when multiple pages open simultaneously) and reduce delays sometimes observed.
The Code Project Electrolysis is not yet sufficiently stable to allow testing seriously. Benjamin Auffarth nevertheless managed to achieve results quite promising. Gains recorded seem higher than those won by a daily compilation of classic Firefox.
The results of this work will appear gradually in Firefox. The milling 3.7 separate grafts rendering the HTML page, eliminating many sources of deadlock. With Version 4.0Each page will function in a different process. Firefox will then adopt a modus operandi similar to that used for Chrome and Internet Explorer 8.
Microsoft would unveil its own tablet PC with HP
Jan 1st
Steve Ballmer should make at CES 2010 a new generation of Tablet PCs, multi-touch open and eBooks.
What will be Microsoft at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2010) Las Vegas (January 7 to 10)? If the Redmond giant is expected to discuss the market entry of Office 2010, which he announced pricesThe publisher could submit a new generation of tablet PCs.
According New York Times, Steve Ballmer should, on the occasion of his lecture, presenting a tablet PC developed with HP. One way to toast the politeness that Apple will, according to rumors, its own tablet January 26 next. A snook that is sure to delight probably not the CEO of Microsoft.
Also according to the New York daily, the combination of Microsoft-HP (whose name was not released) should support multicast (probably on Windows 7) and integrate functions of electronic book reading light. Characteristics similar to the features mentioned on the side of Apple.
If the arrival of Apple may well revive the market for Tablet PC addressed early in the decade by Microsoft, the two giants must also contend with another major player: Google. HTC, the manufacturer Nexus One, Joined in Mountain View to launch a Tablet PC OS Chrome. Freescale is at least convinced of the viability of this market. The manufacturer offers its side of design shelf under ARM processor.
Probably inspired by the success of Amazon KindleIt will be interesting to verify that the landing of the Tablet PC does not come at the expense of netbooks. Not according to Gartner, which suggests that the share of ultra-portable will be to 12% of total sales of PC in the world this year against 10% in 2009. Netbooks which will also depicts at CES 2010, including the Skylight Lenovo.