Wednesday, April 30, 2014

New MacBook Air. Faster, cheaper

The main feature of the newcomers was the increase clock frequency and reducing prices. Total, as explained in the company were issued four basic configurations.

MacBook Air has a 11 inch or 13 inch diagonal display. All configurations has a Intel Core i5 1,4 GHz processor, able to overclocking up to 2,7 GHz in turbo mode, SSD 128 GB or 256 GB, 4 GB RAM.

Also you can order notebook with Intel Core i7 1,7 GHz processor, able to overclocking ou to 3,3 GHz, 512 GB SSD, 8 GB RAM.

As can be seen, the line MacBook Air has not yet undergone any major changes. However, they are not excluded soon Apple will introduce a completely new notebooks.

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

HP SlateBook 14. Based on Android

Classic notebooks has no Android operating system on a board. Now only Lenovo IdeaPad A10 has Android.

Android widespread in transformers, tablets, smartphones.

But HP is designed classic notebook SlateBook 14, based on Android. This notebook has a 14 inch multitouch Full HD display, processor  NVIDIA Tegra, 2 GB RAM, 16 GB drive, Beats Audio, ports USB and HDMI, cardreader microSD.

For users is available Google Play Store, this means that the operating system is original Android, but not special assembly for this notebook. Of course, you can install another operating system.

Floating in the air 3D display from Apple company

A few days ago Apple has received a patent for a three-dimensional display, the image being projected in the air.

Users do not need  the 3D-glasses, because the picture is generated by a special projector system of mirrors and lenses. A built-in laser sensors allow you to control the hologram by gestures.

Apple developers have used various existing playing technologies of creating pseudo hologram.

Technology is contains of 3 parts: display system, which creates a primary 3D-image; an optical system that converts it into a 3D-image of the second level in the air; set of sensors that record data input by the user. The support system includes a data processing unit and control circuits to provide feedback.

Before it, Japanese developers have created a screen, which is float in the air, and you can move, touch  objects that are on the screen. The technology is based on sensors that are sensitive to the movement of hands, and the movement is automatically transferred to the processing. It's similar technology.

Monday, April 28, 2014

Asus C200 Chromebook announcement

This new chromebook has a Chrome operating system, Intel Celeron N2830 2,16 GHz processor, 11,6 inch display with 1366 x 768 pixels resolution, 2GB RAM, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, eMMC drive 16 GB.

According to the manufacturer, lithium-ion battery with 48 Wh provides up to 10 hours working with Chromebook.

Chromebook has a HDMI, cardreader, 3,5 mm audio jack, USB 2.0 and USB 3.0.

Then Asus will be present Asus C300 Chromebook with 13,3 inch display.

This device designed primarily to web surfing, view videos, games.

Sunday, April 27, 2014

How to view video in Linux console

How to view video without X in console? Here some tricks about it.

View video in ASCII mode. Mplayer with aalib
Mplayer has a library AAlib, allows you to display graphics in a tabular format using ASCII renderer. The library, by the way, not only supports mplayer, but some games.
Type in console:
mplayer -vo aa file_name.avi
If you will see not whole video try it:

mplayer -vo aa -monitorpixelaspect 0.5 file_name.avi
You can adjust the brightness and contrast using the keys:

1 - decrease contrast;
2 - increase contrast;
3 - Reduce brightness;
4 - increase brightness;
7 - invert image.
You can tune these parameters to best quality.

View video in color ASCII. Mplayer with libcaca
This library supports 16 colors and 256 color pairs.
But libcaca doesn't support adjusting brightness and contrast.
Type in console:
mplayer -vo caca file_name.avi







View video in Matrix mode.Mplayer with matrixview

Library allows you to watch almost ASCII graphics - instead of pixels - matrix.
Support of adjusting brightness and contrast is unknown in this library.

Type in console:
mplayer -vo matrixview file_name.avi
Good view has only videos with contrasting colors sharp transition.

View video in console without X in Framebuffer
These variants has not good view. To get better quality use Framebuffer.
Type in console:
mplayer -vo fbdev2 file_name.avi
For fullscreen mode:
mplayer -vo fbdev2 -zoom -xy 1920 file_name.avi
Here type you display size instead of 1920 parameter, in pixels.






So there are some ways to see video in console.

Linux tricks

These tricks are helps you to work in Linux. These commands need to type in console.

Convert video in gif:
mplayer input_file_name -nosound -vo gif89a:fps=15:output=output_file_name

If you work with remote server by SSH and communication often breaks, type after login:

screen -d -m
screen -S <session_name>

Then you can work. If you lose communication with server login and type:
screen -r <session_name>

If you want to delete files, that more than N bytes:

find /dir -size +N -exec rm \{\} \;

To delete files, that not changed more than N days:

find /dir -ctime +N -exec rm \{\} \;

Also find command has many other parameters.

Saturday, April 26, 2014

Next generation MacBook Air soon

Assumed that the new items will have a diagonal displays 11 and 13 inches. Current generation model has the same diagonals.

What components are will be in new models? It is likely that the modification will be equipped with basic recently running processors Intel, including a 1.4GHz i5-4260U, 1,4 GHz i5-4350U or 1.5GHz i5-4360U. There is no information about component in more powerfull notebooks.

Later will be presented model with 12 inch display. Model will be has passive cooling system, new trackpad, as well as high-resolution Retina display.

Friday, April 25, 2014

Useful tips when working with Linux

How to determine external IP from console:
wget -q -O - checkip.dyndns.org|sed -e 's/.*Current IP Address: //' -e 's/<.*$//'
or

curl -s checkip.dyndns.org|sed -e 's/.*Current IP Address: //' -e 's/<.*$//'

Remove the old lock of serial port in Linux.

Often, after using minicom program the lock-file was not deleted. You can delete it manually in /var/tmp or /var/lock.

How to copy compressed files safely.
If the SSH server does not support data compression:
ssh username@host "gzip -c9 /backup/source.file" | gzip -dc > ~/target.file
If the SSH server supports data compression and encryption algorithm supports blowfish:

scp -C -c blowfish username@host:/backup/source.file

How to find process, that  prevents to unmounting partition:

fuser -muv /dev/sda5 (write this right name of partition).

How to make fast system backup:
tar -cvpf /backups/fullbackup.tar --directory=/ --exclude=proc --exclude=sys --exclude=dev/pts --exclude=backups

Also there are many other tips for Linux operating system.

New design of iPhone 6

New information about design of iPhone 6.

Smartphone specificationa are previously described. Also was noted, that the release is delayed. In this article will be described case shape.

Apple iPhone 6 will receive a rounded edge of the case, making it more comfortable grip grown significantly compared to the iPhone 5/5s/5c smartphone. Its shape will resemble the cover of the Japanese company Squair for existing iPhone models.

Also new iPhone 6 will get something similar to the Samsung GALAXY S III design features. He is slightly curved at the edges of the display glass - for greater harmony with the new body.

Apple will refuse glass inserts on the back surface, that is used here is a new type of antennas for wireless modules.

Don't forget, that design can change before official release of phone.

But manufacturers are made a covers for this phone, so we can assume that the design will not change dramatically.

Phone specifications likely remain the same.

Thursday, April 24, 2014

Apple has released iOS 7.1.1 update

Apple has released next update to its mobile operating system iOS.
Following the release of iOS 7 there were many unhappy users not only an unusual design, but also noticeable flaws and bugs in the software. Rectify the situation was called update 7.1, however, he decided not to all problems.

The size of new update is 26 MB.

This update fixed bugs, improve the security system and has an other improvements.

How to distinguish fake Google Play App

Users of Google play faced with the fact that the Google play market has a fake apps. How to distinguish it?

Some of fake apps are disguised as brand apps. The part of them not working, other part of them has a malicious code.

If the application came before the official release date, it's likely a fake app, also experts recommend treated with caution to the free versions of popular paid applications. Before buying check worth of application and try to find other applications and website of developers, ratings and reviews. Select the application on known sites: Google Play, Amazon, App Store.

If an application requests access to a list of contacts or text messages to users, it is better to refuse to install this application.

Experts also recommend to read reviews about the application.

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

What's new in iOS 7.1

Apple has released a new build of  iOS 7.1. This build is intended for developer testing, registered in the real estate development corporation programs.

The size of this version is 87 MB, release can be downloaded in Dev Center or users can upgrade iOS in wireless mode, called OTA. But this release intended for developer testing, only who registered in the real estate development corporation programs.
 
Release iOS 7.1 beta 2 contains some changes and bug fixes. In particular, were markedly increased the speed and quality of the animation and in the main Settings menu appears Touch ID and Passcode.
Settings fingerprint scanner iPhone 5s now in a separate section of the main menu.
Fixed the bug with audio.
In the calendar view mode appeared mixed: while you can view the current month and events highlighted the day.
In the settings you can enable Universal Access "backlight" buttons.
In the setting of restrictions has appeared a new item "Screen car."
Also other changes are in this version.

Apple iPhone 6 release is delayed

Release of iPhone 6 with the 5,5 inch display can be delayed. Apple is not satisfied with the batteries for a large iPhone 6, which currently offer manufacturers. The fact that the standard thickness of batteries of 2.8-2.9 mm, but for iPhone Air need to reduce this parameter to 2 mm. Now this task is unsolvable.

Expected that the problem will be solved only next year.

But iPhone with 4,7 inch display can be released on time.

If you want to know about release date continue to follow the news.

Expected trends of Sony

Sony has announced the start of sales several of its mobile innovations - the smartphones Xperia Z2, Xperia M2 Dual and smart bracelet SmartBand.

Sony Xperia Z2 has a waterproof housing, 4-cores processor Qualcomm Snapdragon 801, 2,3 GHz, 4G LTE module, 3 GB of RAM, Full HD 5,2 inch display, 16 GB ROM and microSD support.

















Sony Xperia M2 dual has a 4,8 inch display with 960 Ñ… 540 pixels, 4-cores Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor, 1 GB RAM, 8 GB ROM, LTE module.
















Bracelet Sony SmartBand has a waterproof housing SmartBand and can track your sleep cycle and will be able to wake up at the optimal time. It notifies you of incoming calls, SMS and social networking. Bracelet can also be used to control Walkman music player.

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Internet coffee cup

It's no surprise that every year the number of so-called "connected" devices becomes more and more. Already looks quite normal when internet can connect air conditioners, refrigerators and washing machines. Finnish engineers went ahead and offered a coffee cup that goes to the Internet.

Connect with smartphone comes with a built-in Bluetooth-module. In this way, on the small screen of a cup transmitted pictures, photos and messages from social networks and other information.

If there is no connection, screen displays the current temperature of coffee. But functionality not finished, buyers may offer their ideas, which can then be incorporated into this cup. Also instead of coffee and maybe another drink.

Cup transform heat to electricity and feeds the display and not need additional power elements.

Currently creators of the cup preparing to the testing, which can be seen on the Internet.

Useful tricks of Android phones

Now Android is most popular operating system for mobile devices with touch screen. But a few know about tricks of Android devices.

Reboot.

There are cases when the phone does not respond any action. In this case phone need a reboot. Push simultaneously Power on + Home Key + Volume up button.

Quick access to Google search.
Press for a few seconds Menu button.

Face unlock.
This trick is only available in Android 4.2 Jelly Bean and newer. Go to menu: Settings, Security, Display lock, Face unlock.

Move application to a SD-card.
Often application is installed in phone memory, but this memory is small. Move application to a SD-card, go to menu: Settings, Applications, Application manager. Here you can choose the application an you will see Move to memory card menu.

These tricks are just some of a big quantity tricks of this operating system.

Monday, April 21, 2014

How to properly charge the iPhone and iPad


Charging of mobile devices for active users has become a daily necessity. Sellers are advised to charge accumulators only when the battery is completely exhausted. Is it right?

Actually needed to charge battery not more than 50%. Always hard to keep an eye on this, so identified optimal range of 40-80% charge level. Each rechargeable battery cell has a particular load. This load is directly proportional to the level of charge: the higher the charge - the greater the load. A load is known to lead to depletion of the productive resources. It is therefore desirable to charge mobile devices up to 100% charge.

Battery is constantly charged at 100% charge level works only 300-500 cycles, while battery charge up to 40-80% will working about 1200-2000 cycles. Also don't forget about type of battery, because different types of batteries needed to threat differently with it's. These advices are usable for most types of batteries for electronics.

Apple product line 2014

This article describes a prospective line of Apple products.

Stylish clock iWatch should be on sale in the 3rd quarter. This watch may be have display of 1,3 inch or 1,5 inch display with sapphire glass.

New iPhone 6 will be have two sizes of display: 4,7 inch (1334 x 750 pixels) and 5,5 inch (1920 x 1080 pixels). Apple iPhone 6 has been described here.

Also expected new 12-inch MacBook Air with a Retina-display, new iPad, iMac and Apple TV console.

Sunday, April 20, 2014

Smartphone Google Nexus with good price

Google smartphones are popular because has a good quality and price. However, increasing competition from Chinese manufacturers may deprive this Internet giant that advantage.

Smartphones from China has a MediaTek processors, but Google Nexus are Snapdragon processors. With small cost of Qualcomm, they are begin to approach the Snapdragon performance.
Therefore Google will be release a new smartphone with MediaTek processor.

This fact will be good for price of a new smartphone.

Saturday, April 19, 2014

ZTE Grand S II with 4 GB of operating memory


ZTE company has announced a new Grand S II with 4 GB of operating memory.

Presented at the international exhibition of electronics CES-2014, held January, this smartphone appeared in all sources as a device that offers 2 GB of RAM. But new information from the web the fact that this new product could be the first smartphone on the market with support for 4 GB of RAM.
 
Smartphone also has a 5,5 inch Full HD display with resolution of 1920x1080 pixels, 4-cores Snapdragon 800 processor with 2,3 GHz frequency, 13 Mp camera and 3000 mah battery.

Official comment from the company ZTE has not yet been reported, also no data about size of RAM of the smartphone.

Friday, April 18, 2014

The updated Facebook app allows you to monitor the whereabouts of friends

Sometimes people wants to meet with friends, drink a cup of coffee with them, talk, but don't know who of them is situated nearby. New app helps to you in it.


This application is similar on Apple Find My Friends app. When you friend will be near to you, iPhone receive notification. All time application will be aware of the location of your friends.

You can select friends from whom you want to receive notifications by tuning the application. But GPS sensor must be always-on, it discharges the battery. Maybe will be convenient to use this function sometimes.

How to check before buying defective pixels on the display of smartphone

Do you want to buy a new phone or smartphone? A manufacturer can't guarantee the absence of defective pixels on display. How to determine it? This article helps to make it easy.

Before you go to the store, prepare a few monocromic images of different colours. For example, blue, red, black, green, white.

This is due to the fact that dead pixels can be different colors, so you can experience a smartphone. Carefully look on the display. Then open next image, also carefully look on the display.

If you don't have images you can photograph monocromic objects, like a paper, furniture.

Thursday, April 17, 2014

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Discovery of revolutionary method of producing graphene transform the electronic industry

Graphene is a semiconductor, which has better properties, than silicon (better electron mobility, better thermal and electric conductivity, and finally, very flexible, which suggests its use for the production of flexible displays).


Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, SAIT announced the opening of a revolutionary method production of graphene - a unique material basis new generation of electronic devices.

Corporation has developed a method for the production of big single-crystal graphene wafers. Before it, the leading engineers of whole world can't invent similar technology. Because use of old technologies lead to bad electric and mechanic properties of graphene. New technology does not have these insufficients.

Commercial use of graphene is aimed at reducing dependence on silicon industry, it was extremely important to develop a new method for obtaining big solid crystal of graphene.

Maybe soon will be mobile devices with flexible displays. Company's philosophy: make world better.

Information about new iPhone 6

New generation of Iphone will be released in about a 5 months. But in Hong Kong, some of manufacturers of accessories for mobile devices already showed bags and other accessories for Apple iPhone 6.

Also you can find alleged photo in the web. New smartphone become thinner and bigger. 


There are two sizes of display: 4,7 inch (1334 x 750 pixels) and 5,5 inch (1920 x 1080 pixels).

Hardware configuration: processor A8, 1 GB RAM, up to 64 GB ROM, 8 Mp camera. Apple don't want to increase Megapixels of camera, because want to focus on quality of photo.

Thickness will be approximately 7 mm. Only most expensive 5,5 inch model with 64 GB ROM will have sapphire glass.

But many parameters may be changed before release.

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

The secrets of Microsoft Windows 7

Many people work in Microsoft Windows 7. It's good, stable and comfortable operating system. But not everyone knows about secrets of Windows 7. These secrets makes work with system more comfortable. I will tell you about some of them.

 If you are working with several monitors you can easy move window between them. Press Win+Shift+Left or Win+Shift+Right window will be moved to other monitor.

If you are having difficulty with driver of your projector press Win+P and you will see window, where you can switch between different modes.


WordPad can work with OpenDocument (ODF) and Office Open XML formats.

You can reshuffle labels on task panel and system tray by clicking and dragging the mouse.

If you want to run the application from task panel without using the mouse press Win+T, select the application and press Enter, or press Escape to exit.

As part of Windows 7, there is a program for recording user actions that lead to any problem. Program called Problem Steps Recorder and has good functionality. The program not only records all actions performed using the mouse and keyboard, but also takes pictures of all the comments. After recording, the program saves all the information in the zip-file. Then you can send this file to developer.

Don't forget to customize the Clear type text in control panel and select the menu item Fonts.

If you are work in application and you need an another copy of application press Shift and click to the application label on the task panel.

In Windows 7 there is Gabriola font. This font has multiple variations of stylistic writing.

After some time the computer becomes slower. Windows saves data files in C:\Windows\Prefetch folder. This files contains data about applications. But many applications are updated, replaced by other and information becomes outdated. Loading of Windows becomes more slowly. You can delete files in this folder manually periodically or change registry value.
Find the key [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters]
Default value "EnablePrefetcher"=dword:00000003
"EnablePrefetcher"=dword:00000000 – Prefetch is disabled.
"EnablePrefetcher"=dword:00000001 – only application data stored
"EnablePrefetcher"=dword:00000002 – only system processes data stored (optimally)
"EnablePrefetcher"=dword:00000003 – all data stored.

Then restart the system.

Also don't forget clean hard disk drive and run defragmentation. If you have several disk drives or partitions clean all disk or partitions and run defragmentation for all of them.

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

How to install linux easy

Do you know the operating system Linux? May be you tried to install or already work in it. But many people would like to try Linux, but they are afraid to damage the data on the hard drive, and think that they can't install the system.

In this article you will know how to install Linux operating system. It's will be easy.

If you are not sure that you can install Linux on your computer, you can use a virtual machine. This is a program, that emulates a computer inside your computer. In this case, you can not worry about your data on hard disk. What is a virtual machine to choose? You decide.

In this article will be shown the installation Ubuntu linux 13.10 (setup of other versions Ubuntu is similar). Ubuntu is very simple linux.

If you decide to install system on virtual machine you need the virtual machine. If you have not yet installed this program, you can buy or download freeware products.

Then download Ubuntu linux desktop. After that, burn image ISO on DVD, or if you will be use virtual machine after creation machine attache image as DVD drive. Run machine. Don't forget create virtual hard drive and set RAM size about 512 MB (depends of the size on RAM, but less is not recommended).

Insert DVD into drive and set in BIOS boot from DVD. Or, if you use virtual machine, start.

You will see boot menu. Select Install Ubuntu.

You will be prompted to select the language. Continue.



In the next step installer show requirements to hard drive and checks Internet connection. Check the box "Install this third-party software", in this case you can play MP3 and some types video. Continue.


 Then you will see installation type. Select "Sometimes else".


If you have partitions on hard drive it will be shown. In this case hard drive is empty. You can resize, delete or create new partitions. You need free space at minimum 5,9 GB.


This warning means, that partition table will be removed.


Continue.


Create the /home partition. Size depends on size your personal files in home directory.


Create swap area. Size depends on size of RAM (usually 2x size of RAM).


    Create the /home partition. Size depends on size your personal files in home directory.


  Create root partition.


 Then you will see final partition table. If you are not sure back. If you are sure that all right click "Install now".


Select your location.


Select keyboard layout.


Pick your username and choose a password.


 If you want, you can type your e-mail.


And you can register an account if you want or click "Register later".


 Then will be start installing of operating system.


After some time installing will be finished, click "restart now".


System restarted. Type your password and login into system.


 After that you can work in system. Linux was succesfully installed.