tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85861786754674306992024-03-18T20:08:17.444-07:00Knowledge PostAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16057692792999252106noreply@blogger.comBlogger242125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8586178675467430699.post-10144440860379840602013-06-19T13:08:00.000-07:002013-08-15T19:52:06.793-07:00Gary McKinnon: The Extraordinary Hacker<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/10136_468434169906935_553207185_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><b><img border="0" src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/10136_468434169906935_553207185_n.jpg" style="cursor: move;" /></b></a><u><a href="http://knowledge93.blogspot.com/2013/06/gary-mckinnon-extraordinary-hacker-gary.html" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Gary McKinnon:</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 17px;"> The Extraordinary Hacker</span></a></u><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 17px;">Gary McKinnon (born 10 February 1966) is a Scottish systems administrator and hacker who was accused in 2002 of perpetrating the "biggest military computer hack of all time," In 2002, an exceptionally odd message appeared on a US Army computer screen: “Your security system is crap,” it read. “I am Solo. I will continue to disrupt at the highest levels.” It was later identified as the work of Scottish systems administrator, Gary McKinnon. McKinnon suffers from Asperger’s syndrome, which is the least severe form of autism. The symptoms of Asperger’s syndrome certainly match Gary’s actions: that is, highly intelligent with an exceptional understanding of complex systems. Though sufferers often have difficulty reading social cues and acknowledging the impact of their often-obsessive behavior, they tend to be geniuses in one particular subject. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 17px;">For Gary, it was computers. Gary has been accused of executing th</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 17px;">e largest ever hack of United States government computer networks including Army, Air Force, Navy and NASA systems. The court had recommended that McKinnon be apprehended to the United States to face charges of illegally accessing 97 computers, causing a total of $700,000 in damage. Even more interesting are McKinnon’s motives for the large scale hackings, which he claims were in search of information on UFOs. He believed the US government was hiding such information in its military computers.<br /><br />On 16 October 2012, after a series of legal proceedings in Britain, Home Secretary Theresa May withdrew his extradition order to the United States.<br />----------------<br />References:<br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_McKinnon" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block;"></span>Gary_McKinnon</a><br /><br />BBC:<br /><a href="http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fuk-20730627&h=1AQHdx3qyAQE3fXgDzYiWnfTe11omithAOwsKcLveOhKltQ&s=1" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block;"></span>uk-20730627</a><br /><a href="http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fuk-19946902&h=kAQFp1ySkAQF9JPXw5KGC9qXD8mjuW2suBTGMllsjFRAoEA&s=1" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block;"></span>uk-19946902</a><br /><br />Guardian:<br /><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/05/gary-mckinnon-pardon-obama-administration" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.guardian.co.uk/<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block;"></span>world/2013/feb/05/<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block;"></span>gary-mckinnon-pardon-obama-admi<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block;"></span>nistration</a><br /><br />Free Gary McKinnon:<br /><a href="http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ffreegary.org.uk%2F&h=zAQFAedmMAQHpkx3gtCkfkx1csQgC3xJ0zQKKz6TK4qAY7w&s=1" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://freegary.org.uk/</a><br />----------------<br /><br />Do you have a story, photo, suggestion, complains or comments for us? Send in your entry at storiesthatshockedtheworld@gma<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block;"></span>il.com and we will feature the story with your name.<br /><br />STSTW 2013</span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16057692792999252106noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8586178675467430699.post-14376728848286640042013-06-14T23:06:00.000-07:002013-08-15T19:52:06.804-07:00What Are the Biggest Rumors About the iPhone 5S?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><h1 class="galleryHeader" style="background-color: #f0f0f0; color: #17acef; font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://knowledge93.blogspot.com/2013/06/what-are-biggest-rumors-about-iphone-5s.html" target="_blank">What Are the Biggest Rumors About the iPhone 5S?</a></h1><div class="gallery-image clearfix" style="background-color: #f0f0f0; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 10px 0px; max-width: 629px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; zoom: 1;"><br /><figure style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="Holding and using iPhone " id="galleryImage" src="http://web-images.chacha.com/images/Gallery/5680/what-are-the-rumors-about-the-iphone-5s-2140123145-mar-14-2013-1-600x400.jpg" style="border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; margin: 0px; max-width: 629px; padding: 0px; z-index: 0;" width="500" /><figcaption style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></figcaption></figure></div><h2 style="background-color: #f0f0f0; font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">New Display</h2><div class="gallerySummary truncated" style="background-color: #f0f0f0; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><div style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">Another year means another new iPhone model, and people have already started to predict what Apple's new device will do. Keep reading to check out all of the most popular rumors about the iPhone 5S.</div><div style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">Apple's famed Retina display is quickly becoming old news as new technologies are emerging. It won't be a big surprise if the new iPhone introduces a higher resolution screen. It may even utilize <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sharp's brand new IGZO (indium gallium zinc oxide) display</strong>. This amazing new technology uses extremely low amounts of power and offers higher resolutions.</div></div><span style="background-color: white;">========================================================================</span><br /><div class="gallery-image clearfix" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 10px 0px; max-width: 629px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; zoom: 1;"><br /><figure style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="Fingerprint scanning technology" id="galleryImage" src="http://web-images.chacha.com/images/Gallery/5680/what-are-the-rumors-about-the-iphone-5s-124489902-mar-14-2013-1-600x400.jpg" style="border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; margin: 0px; max-width: 629px; padding: 0px; z-index: 0;" width="500" /><figcaption style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></figcaption></figure></div><h2 style="background-color: white; font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;">Fingerprint Sensor</h2><div class="gallerySummary" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">A popular rumor is that the iPhone 5S will add a fingerprint sensor. This new feature has been expected ever since<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Apple acquired a company that specializes in this technology</strong>. Apple will supposedly use the new sensor to improve the security of mobile transactions.</div><div style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">========================================================================</span></div><div class="gallery-image clearfix" style="font-size: 13px; margin: 10px 0px; max-width: 629px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; zoom: 1;"><br /><figure style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="Woman taking picture with phone" id="galleryImage" src="http://web-images.chacha.com/images/Gallery/5680/what-are-the-rumors-about-the-iphone-5s-1906131427-mar-14-2013-1-600x400.jpg" style="border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; margin: 0px; max-width: 629px; padding: 0px; z-index: 0;" width="500" /><figcaption style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></figcaption></figure></div><h2 style="color: black; font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;">Super-HD Camera</h2><div class="gallerySummary" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">The iPhone 5 already has a great camera that takes HD photos and works well in low-light situations. However, a popular rumor is that the iPhone 5S will improve the camera further. It's expected to have a "Super-HD" resolution of around <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">13-megapixels</strong>, which a big improvement over the current iSight camera.</div><div style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">========================================================================</span></div><div class="gallery-image clearfix" style="background-color: #f0f0f0; font-size: 13px; margin: 10px 0px; max-width: 629px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; zoom: 1;"><br /><figure style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="Circuit board cpu" id="galleryImage" src="http://web-images.chacha.com/images/Gallery/5680/what-are-the-rumors-about-the-iphone-5s-1885291902-mar-14-2013-1-600x400.jpg" style="border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; margin: 0px; max-width: 629px; padding: 0px; z-index: 0;" width="500" /><figcaption style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></figcaption></figure></div><h2 style="background-color: #f0f0f0; color: black; font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">Quad-Core Processor</h2><div class="gallerySummary" style="background-color: #f0f0f0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><div style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">Everyone figured that the iPhone 5 would be powered by a quad-core processor, but it contained Apple's dual-core A6 chip instead. It's rumored that the iPhone 5S swap out the A6 for the <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">A6X quad-core processor</strong>. This computer chip should be more energy efficient and will deliver much more power to the device</div><div style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;"></div><div class="gallery-image clearfix" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #f0f0f0; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 10px 0px; max-width: 629px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; zoom: 1;"></div><div style="font-size: 13px;"></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1em; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">========================================================================</span></div><div class="gallery-image clearfix" style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; margin: 10px 0px; max-width: 629px; padding: 0px; position: relative; zoom: 1;"><br /><figure style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="Pastel chalk colors" id="galleryImage" src="http://web-images.chacha.com/images/Gallery/5680/what-are-the-rumors-about-the-iphone-5s-773851436-mar-14-2013-1-600x400.jpg" style="border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; margin: 0px; max-width: 629px; padding: 0px; z-index: 0;" width="500" /><figcaption style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></figcaption></figure></div><h2 style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">More Colors</h2><div class="gallerySummary" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">Apple already offers the iPod in multiple colors, so why not the iPhone? It's likely that the iPhone 5S could come in more colors than just black or white. The <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">most likely colors to be offered are blue and pink</strong>, but its unknown whether these models will have plastic or metal casing.</div><div style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;"></div><div class="gallery-image clearfix" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 10px 0px; max-width: 629px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; zoom: 1;"></div><br /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1em; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">========================================================================</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;"><br /></div><div class="gallery-image clearfix" style="background-color: #f0f0f0; font-size: 13px; margin: 10px 0px; max-width: 629px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; zoom: 1;"><br /><figure style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="Man placing phone on NFC pad" id="galleryImage" src="http://web-images.chacha.com/images/Gallery/5680/what-are-the-rumors-about-the-iphone-5s-74462669-mar-14-2013-1-600x400.jpg" style="border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; margin: 0px; max-width: 629px; padding: 0px; z-index: 0;" width="500" /><figcaption style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></figcaption></figure></div><h2 style="background-color: #f0f0f0; color: black; font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">NFC</h2><div class="gallerySummary" style="background-color: #f0f0f0; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><div style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">Near-field communication is the ability for one device to <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">automatically communicate with another nearby device</strong>. NFC has been a buzzword in the mobile sector for years, but it hasn't caught on like most people expected. Still, some people suspect that the iPhone 5S will add NFC capability.</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"></div><div class="gallery-image clearfix" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 10px 0px; max-width: 629px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; zoom: 1;"></div><br /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1em; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">========================================================================</span></div><div class="gallery-image clearfix" style="font-size: 13px; margin: 10px 0px; max-width: 629px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; zoom: 1;"><br /><figure style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="Tangled cables and wires" id="galleryImage" src="http://web-images.chacha.com/images/Gallery/5680/what-are-the-rumors-about-the-iphone-5s-1285793705-mar-14-2013-1-600x400.jpg" style="border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; margin: 0px; max-width: 629px; padding: 0px; z-index: 0;" width="500" /><figcaption style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></figcaption></figure></div><h2 style="color: black; font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;">Wireless Charging</h2><div class="gallerySummary truncated" style="font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">Wireless battery charging has been around for a couple years, but Apple may end up making the technology go mainstream with the iPhone 5S. Other devices require a special case to enable wireless charging, but the iPhone could have it built-in. While it would <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">still offer plugged-in power</strong>, it would also be able to be recharged via a wireless charging pad.</div></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1em; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"></div><div class="gallery-image clearfix" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 10px 0px; max-width: 629px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; zoom: 1;"></div><br /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1em; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">========================================================================</span></div><div class="gallery-image clearfix" style="font-size: 13px; margin: 10px 0px; max-width: 629px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; zoom: 1;"><br /><figure style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="Girl using smartphone" id="galleryImage" src="http://web-images.chacha.com/images/Gallery/5680/what-are-the-rumors-about-the-iphone-5s-1895269415-mar-14-2013-1-600x400.jpg" style="border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; margin: 0px; max-width: 629px; padding: 0px; z-index: 0;" width="500" /><figcaption style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></figcaption></figure></div><h2 style="color: black; font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;">iOS 7</h2><div class="gallerySummary" style="font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">It feels like Apple just worked out the kinks with iOS 6 (and there were a lot of them), but there are already rumors of iOS 7. A new release is always <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">a convenient time to update your operating system</strong>. Even if this new operating system doesn't offer many new features, it would be a good PR move to get away from the old version.</div></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1em; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"></div><div class="gallery-image clearfix" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 10px 0px; max-width: 629px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; zoom: 1;"></div><br /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1em; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">========================================================================</span></div><div class="gallery-image clearfix" style="font-size: 13px; margin: 10px 0px; max-width: 629px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; zoom: 1;"><br /><figure style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="Hand holding phone stylus" id="galleryImage" src="http://web-images.chacha.com/images/Gallery/5680/what-are-the-rumors-about-the-iphone-5s-2136160945-mar-14-2013-1-600x400.jpg" style="border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; margin: 0px; max-width: 629px; padding: 0px; z-index: 0;" width="500" /><figcaption style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></figcaption></figure></div><h2 style="color: black; font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;">Stylus Pen</h2><div class="gallerySummary" style="font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">Many smartphones, such as the Samsung Galaxy S3 and Galaxy Note, are bringing back the stylus pen for <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">precision writing and drawing</strong>. It's rumored that the iPhone 5S could be following <span style="background-color: #f0f0f0; line-height: 1.4; text-align: center;">suit. An onboard stylus could also mean a larger screen, but a major design change like that is not likely in an "S" version.</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">========================================================================</span></div><div class="gallery-image clearfix" style="margin: 10px 0px; max-width: 629px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; zoom: 1;"><br /><figure style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="Woman showing off new smartphone" id="galleryImage" src="http://web-images.chacha.com/images/Gallery/5680/what-are-the-rumors-about-the-iphone-5s-456552246-mar-14-2013-1-600x400.jpg" style="border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; margin: 0px; max-width: 629px; padding: 0px; z-index: 0;" width="500" /><figcaption style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></figcaption></figure></div><h2 style="color: black; font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;">Release Date</h2><div class="gallerySummary" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">The iPhone 5 came out on September 21, 2012, so it's reasonable to assume that the iPhone 5S will come out around one year later. Rumors originally pegged the release for as early as May or June, but thanks to a production delay people are settling on <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">August or September</strong> of 2013.</div></div></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1em; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">========================================================================</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1em; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1em; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><br /></span></div></div></div></div></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16057692792999252106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8586178675467430699.post-34902078344472678312013-06-14T21:59:00.000-07:002013-08-15T19:52:06.816-07:00CONSIDERING LARGE Iphone<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> <a href="http://knowledge93.blogspot.com/2013/06/considering-large-iphone.html" target="_blank">CONSIDERING LARGE Iphone</a> </span></b></span></div><br /><blockquote style="border: none; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: small; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">Apple is looking into creating iPhones with </span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">bigger screens, specifically 4.7 and 5.7-inch</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">models, as early as next year according to a</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">report from Reuters. There are also rumors</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">that cheaper iPhone models will be offered in a</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">range of colors.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">While Apple has not yet commented on the</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">speculation of larger-screened models, it's not</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">inconceivable to believe that such a device will</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">come out eventually. The Cupertino company</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">is currently facing a pretty had battle against a</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">host of 4.7" to 5" high-end droids, which are</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">eating into the iPhone's market share. And last</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">years' iPhone 5 chose that the company is</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">willing to leave the 3.5-inch comfort zone it</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">has been inhabiting since the its first</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">smartphone debuted in 2007.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">Apart from the anticipated iPhone 5S, Apple is</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">also expected to launch a cheaper plastic</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">model with 5-6 different color options, to</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">differentiate it from the mainstream iPhone,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">which traditionally only comes in black or</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">white. Pricing of the cheaper iPhones could be</span></b></div></blockquote><a href="https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/1011046_392733400844314_1173266889_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><b><img border="0" height="255" src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/1011046_392733400844314_1173266889_n.jpg" width="400" /></b></a><b>as low as $99, although any expected release<br />date could be pushed back to 2014.<br />Other Reuters' sources indicate that test<br />production of both the iPhone 5S and plastic<br />multicolor models will be beginning next<br />month, with production being ramped up in<br />August for an anticipated September launch<br />date. Some 20 million plastic iPhones are expected to ship in Q4 of this year, according to a source in Asia.</b><br /><b><br /></b><b>visit our Facebook fan page >>>>>>>>> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/knowledge93?fref=ts" target="_blank">KNOWLEDGE93 BLOG</a></b></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16057692792999252106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8586178675467430699.post-59834656195899800492013-06-12T12:59:00.000-07:002013-08-15T19:52:06.824-07:00Online gadget deals hurting retailers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><h1 class="title" style="background-color: white; color: #353535; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 36px; font-weight: 100; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://knowledge93.blogspot.com/2013/06/online-gadget-deals-hurting-retailers.html" target="_blank">Online gadget deals hurting retailers: Future Group, Reliance Digital and others seek strict pricing policies</a></h1><div class="bylineFull" style="background-color: white; background-image: url(http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/photo/17954381.cms); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 10px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 12px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="byline" style="background-color: transparent; float: left; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div></div><div class="articleImg" style="background-color: white; clear: right; float: right; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 15px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 310px;"><figure style="background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Chains such as Reliance Digital and Future Group have asked brands like Apple, Samsung and Nokia to impose strict pricing policies on shopping websites" border="0" class="test" height="300" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" pg="StoryPic" src="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/thumb/msid-20357186,width-310,resizemode-4/online-gadget-deals-hurting-retailers-future-group-reliance-digital-and-others-seek-strict-pricing-policies.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Chains such as Reliance Digital and Future Group have asked brands like Apple, Samsung and Nokia to impose strict pricing policies on shopping websites" vspace="0" width="400" /><figcaption style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(154, 154, 154); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 4px; color: #757575; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chains such as Reliance Digital and Future Group have asked brands like Apple, Samsung and Nokia to impose strict pricing policies on shopping websites</figcaption></figure></div><a data-track="newETspl1" href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/etmobileapps.cms" style="color: #024d99; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><br /></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">KOLKATA: Electronics retail chains such as Future Group's eZone and Reliance Digitalsay heavy discounting by online retailers on popular smartphones and tablets such as theiPhone 5, Galaxy S4 and iPad is hurting them, and have asked manufacturers to take measures to stop such deals.</span><br /><div class="artText" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="Normal" style="background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><br style="background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Chains such as The Mobile Store, Reliance Digital, Future Group and Next Retail have approached brands like Apple, Samsung,Nokia and BlackBerry, asking them to impose strict pricing policies on shopping websites such as Flipkart, Infibeam and Snapdeal.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">"Indiscriminate discounting by online stores affects our sales to quite an extent," says Rajan Malhotra, president at India's largest listed retailer Future Group, which runs 38 eZone stores. "If we get pushed due to such discounting, we definitely have to push back with the brands," he says, confirming that the firm has taken up the issue with manufacturers.</span></span><br /><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><br style="background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></div><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="3" style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><tbody style="background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><tr style="background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Online gadget deals hurting retailers: Future Group, Reliance Digital and others seek strict pricing policies" class="gwt-Image" src="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/photo/20357147/brands-versus-modern-trade.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Online gadget deals hurting retailers: Future Group, Reliance Digital and others seek strict pricing policies" /></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="background-color: transparent; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">The Apple iPhone 5 16GB, for example, is available online for Rs 40,950 while at retail chains and Apple stores it is sold forRs 45,500. The BlackBerry Z10 is selling at less than Rs 40,000 online against the retail price of Rs 42,499. Such discounts are available on products such as the iPad,Samsung Galaxy S4 and Nokia Lumia.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><br style="background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><br style="background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Brian Bade, CEO at Reliance Retail's electronic retailing format Reliance Digital, says brands have to take a tough stand against such online deals that hurt the business. "Consumers often come with the online discounted price in mind and leave the store without concluding the purchase," he says.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><br style="background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">As per industry estimates, modern retail contributes around 12% of the Rs 37,000-crore mobile phone and tablet market in India while online retailers make up around 4-5%.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><br style="background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">BRANDS VERSUS MODERN TRADE</strong></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><br style="background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Brands say they follow the same pricing and trade promotional schemes for online and offline retailers while online retailers say lower operational costs allow them to offer higher discounts than offline retailers.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><br style="background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">But modern trade is not convinced. The chief of a leading electronics store says the firm has questioned brands on their margin structure.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><br style="background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">"With wafer-thin margins of 4-7% in mobile phones and information technology (IT) products like tablets, it is not possible for any retailer to offer the discounts which the online stores offer. Something is wrong somewhere and unless the brands take corrective action, we may have to stop stocking the latest models whose sales are usually hit the most," he says on condition of anonymity.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><br style="background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Apple, whose products seem to carry maximum discounts online, declined comment on the issue.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><br style="background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Samsung India's head of mobile phone business, Vineet Taneja, says the brand offers uniform MRP for its products, with the trade partners free to offer consumers their own pricing within the MRP.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><br style="background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">"Market dynamics ultimately dictate pricing and discounts in the market," he says.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><br style="background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">BlackBerry India spokesman Varghese M Thomas, too, said the brand follows uniform pricing and product service policy for its products across markets.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><br style="background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Online retailers say they can offer lower prices because they don't have to invest large amount of capital on prime real estate and maintain stock at all locations.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><br style="background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">"Practically, one can serve an entire city in online retail with a single stockroom," Vishal Mehta, founder and chief executive officer of Infibeam.com, says. "The savings for online retailers come from lower inventory costs, which get passed on to end-customers in the form of great offers," he says<br />.</div></div></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16057692792999252106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8586178675467430699.post-91980892320835285322013-06-12T12:06:00.000-07:002013-08-15T19:52:06.837-07:00Android 5.0 Tipped to Come in October, Could Run on Phones with 512 MB of RAM<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><h1 class="post_title_single" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 29px; line-height: 36px; margin: 14px auto 5px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://knowledge93.blogspot.com/2013/06/android-50-tipped-to-come-in-october.html" target="_blank">Android 5.0 Tipped to Come in October, Could Run on Phones with 512 MB of RAM</a></h1><div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.technologytell.com/gadgets/files/2013/06/Android-5.0-Key-Lime-Pie.jpg" style="border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Android-5.0-Key-Lime-Pie" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-122703" height="254" src="http://www.technologytell.com/gadgets/files/2013/06/Android-5.0-Key-Lime-Pie-300x191.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: inline; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 4px 24px 12px 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="400" /></a><b>With Android 4.1 Jelly Bean closing in on its first anniversary and 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich already a year and a half old, everyone expected 5.0 Key Lime Pie to be official by now. And yet it isn’t and rumor has it it’s not coming very soon either.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Or I should probably say rumor <i style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">had</i> it, since the latest word around the street is 5.0 will be unveiled come October. That leaves me a little puzzled as to the entire recent <a href="http://www.technologytell.com/gadgets/121667/android-4-3-powered-nexus-4-caught-in-the-wild-official-intro-likely-coming-soon/" style="border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Android 4.3-Powered Nexus 4 Caught In The Wild, Official Intro Likely Coming Soon">4.3 JB rumor bonanza</a>, but who am I to challenge <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Vr-Zone</em>’s usually reliable anonymous sources?</b></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>And besides, who says 4.3 can’t be released this month and then 5.0 four months from now? At the same time, I see myself forced to underline this is just the latest piece in a long and convoluted rumor string, so do what you will with that info, just don’t take the report for granted.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Assuming the new “sources” are in fact in the know, Key Lime Pie will apparently be optimized to run even on older Android devices featuring just 512 MB of RAM. That sounds almost too good to be true, since I don’t think there are more than a couple such gadgets running 4.1 Jelly Bean smoothly nowadays.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Between now and then, Google will probably be looking to make that <a href="http://www.technologytell.com/gadgets/121866/moto-x-confirmed-as-coming-this-summer-first-smartphone-assembled-in-the-usa/" style="border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Moto X Confirmed as Coming this Summer, First Smartphone Assembled in the USA">mythical Moto X</a> official (with Android 4.3?), which means either Key Lime Pie will be coming solo, or a Nexus 5 intro is in store for the fall as well. Plenty of exciting things to come, right?</b></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16057692792999252106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8586178675467430699.post-18983751880565613152013-06-12T12:04:00.000-07:002013-08-15T19:52:06.845-07:00Nokia down with Symbian !!! LOOKS AHEAD WITH WINDOWS TO RE CONQUER TECH MARKET<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="background-color: #fff1e0; padding: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">Nokia will finally stop shipments of its once-mighty Symbian smartphones this summer and throw its future wholly behind Microsoft’s Windows platform.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: #fff1e0; padding: 0px 0px 20px;"><a href="http://freshgear.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/686px-symbian_logo.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="159" src="http://freshgear.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/686px-symbian_logo.png" style="background-color: transparent;" width="400" /></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">The Finnish group will bring to an end deliveries of its last homegrown smartphone platform, which had looked unassailable as the world’s leading operating system before the launch of Apple’s iPhone.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: #fff1e0; padding: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: #fff1e0; padding: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">Symbian still accounts for a small, single-digit share in many major markets, and was surpassed by Nokia’s Lumia range of Windows-based smartphones only in the past year. The latest Lumia device, the 925, will go on sale around Europe this week.The subsequent failure by Nokia to keep pace with innovations from Apple, and then match the rise ofGoogle’s Android, caused a sharp decline in sales of devices using Symbian even as the overall smartphone market grew rapidly. This forced Nokia into a drastic leap from the self-proclaimed “burning platform” on toMicrosoft’s rival software.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: #fff1e0; padding: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">The final shipment means the Finnish group’s fortunes in the smartphone market now rest entirely on Microsoft’s fledgling Windows Mobile software.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: #fff1e0; padding: 0px 0px 20px;"><a href="http://www.gurucom.com/UserFiles/image/smartphones-images-belle-png.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="227" src="http://www.gurucom.com/UserFiles/image/smartphones-images-belle-png.png" style="background-color: transparent;" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">Kantar Worldpanel estimates that Symbian held a European market share of about 1.8 per cent in the three months to April, down from 8 per cent in the year before. It still accounts for about 2 per cent of the vast Chinese market.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: #fff1e0; padding: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">However, Nokia sold just 500,000 Symbian units in the first quarter of 2013, much less than the 5.6m Windows-based Lumia phones, which meant that the operating system accounted for less than 5 per cent of overall smartphone sales.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: #fff1e0; padding: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">Nokia developed the last new Symbian device in 2012 – the 808 Pureview – although it has continued to ship handsets using the operating system given its enduring popularity in some countries.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i1-news.softpedia-static.com/images/news-700/Nokia-Pulse-Gets-Discontinued-on-Symbian-and-MeeGo-Nokia-N9.jpg?1359797499" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="219" src="http://i1-news.softpedia-static.com/images/news-700/Nokia-Pulse-Gets-Discontinued-on-Symbian-and-MeeGo-Nokia-N9.jpg?1359797499" style="background-color: transparent;" width="400" /></a></div><div style="background-color: #fff1e0; padding: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">Nokia said: “It took 22 months to get a Symbian phone out of the door. With Windows Phone, it is less than a year. We spend less time having to tinker with deep-lying code and more time on crafting elements of the experience that make a big difference, such as around photography, maps, music and apps in general.”</span></span></div><div style="background-color: #fff1e0; padding: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">Nokia is not expected to announce it has stopped shipments, in part because there will still be stocks of the devices that need be sold in parts of the world. It will still make cheaper phones that use its own proprietary operating system.</span></span></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16057692792999252106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8586178675467430699.post-30252088289653120742013-06-12T11:54:00.000-07:002013-08-15T19:52:06.853-07:00Maersk Triple-E – A Detailed Look At The World’s Biggest Ship<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://knowledge93.blogspot.com/2013/06/maersk-triple-e-detailed-look-at-worlds.html" target="_blank">Maersk Triple-E – A Detailed Look At The World’s Biggest Ship</a></span></b></span><br /><br /><img height="365" src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/954869_268823353255972_1647980981_n.jpg" width="640" /><br /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;" /><br /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;" /><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px;"><b style="font-size: 11px;">Forty-thousand alarm clocks buzzed as one, waking an equal number of workers for work at Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME), the world’s second-largest shipyard, just before dawn on Geoje Island, along South Korea’s southwest coast. As the sun rose, they marched out for another day’s labor at the company’s immense dry docks, dominated by the soaring arc of a Brobdingnagian hull. Giant barge mounted cranes float past the docks, where they had laid each mega-block section, enormous, pre-fabricated ship segments onto a blacktop larger than a Walmart parking lot.<br /><br />The enormous ship, due for launch on June 28, is the world’s biggest. A behemoth even in a world of behemoths, and the first sibling in a new fleet of 19 sisterships. The vessel will have the ability to carry 18,000 twenty foot shipping containers and will weigh-in at 165,000 metric tons, the equivalent mass of all the gold ever mined.<br /><br />Sheer size is her most distinguishing feature. At 400 meters, the M/V Maersk Mc-Kinney Møller, as she’ll be called, is significantly longer than any aircraft carrier or even the Titanic, and only slightly shorter than the Empire State Building is high. Standing on her bridge is like peering over the rim of the Grand Canyon. From her highest deck, shipyard workers resemble overgrown ants and officers needing to walk the bridge’s width, wing-to-wing, will wish they had packed roller skates.</b><b><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 11px;">Visit our Facebook page >>>>></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/knowledge93?fref=ts" target="_blank">KNOWLEDGE93</a></span><span style="font-size: 11px;"><<<<<</span></b></span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16057692792999252106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8586178675467430699.post-92075311160560289562013-06-11T08:31:00.000-07:002013-08-15T19:52:06.862-07:00Is the new iOS 7 better than Android 4.2 Jelly Bean? We investigate<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="primary-image" style="background-color: white; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; float: left; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 0; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="lightbox-processed" href="http://static.knowyourmobile.com/sites/knowyourmobilecom/files/styles/gallery_wide/public/jbvsios7.jpg" rel="lightbox[][]" style="border: 0px; color: #004a6b; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img src="http://static.knowyourmobile.com/sites/knowyourmobilecom/files/styles/article_main_wide_image/public/jbvsios7.jpg" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" typeof="foaf:Image" /></a></div><h2 class="short-teaser" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: CabinMedium, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.8em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://knowledge93.blogspot.com/2013/06/is-new-ios-7-better-than-android-4.html" target="_blank">Is the new iOS 7 better than Android 4.2 Jelly Bean? We investigate</a></h2><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 1.167em; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="field-items" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">How does Apple's iOS 7 compare to Google's <a class="lexicon-term" href="http://www.knowyourmobile.com/glossary/android" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 136, 0); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #004a6b; cursor: help; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Android is the name of a smartphone operating system (OS) developed by Google and used in a variety of handsets.">Android</a> 4.2 Jelly Bean? We take a look at both to check the lay of the land.</div><h3 style="border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: CabinMedium, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.5em; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Interface</h3><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Android’s interface has utilised a similar look and feel since version 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (and to an extent 3.0 Honeycomb) which was introduced by Mathias Duarte. This comprises a black notifications bar and black or grey menu backgrounds, but the rest of the interface elements are largely either translucent, white or cyan throughout and use Google’s unique Roboto font. Google’s app icons use a very simplified art style, similar to vector art with bold, flat colours and some selective highlights and shading in some places.</div><ul style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em 2em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">iOS 7 release date & features confirmed</strong></li><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Google Play Music All Access service launched at Google I/O</strong></li></ul><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Overall it’s very clean, cohesive and minimalist, which I rather like.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I wouldn’t be the first to suggest that with iOS 7, Apple has taken some ‘inspiration’ from Android for the new look. Admittedly though, in some ways it has gone one better. The top bar is no longer black and is now transparent, rather like Google’s persistent search bar widget. It actually looks nicer than Google’s black bar in my view.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The app bar at the bottom is no longer a reflective ‘pane’ for the apps to sit on and is instead another translucent section and this is distinctly different from Android – which doesn’t have a bar and simply features a grey dividing line.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Apple has revamped folders in iOS 7 which can now be packed full of app shortcuts and scrolled through. However, I don’t find the implementation as compelling as Android’s system. In iOS 7, tapping on a folder zooms you in on it and takes you, effectively, to a whole new homescreen. For me, this isn’t what folders are about and I think Android’s system where the folder expands over part of the screen as a temporary overlay is much better.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Apple’s app icons have been tweaked in a similar fashion to Google’s with that ‘flatter’ aesthetic which was rumoured. They still have gradient colours but there’s less shadowing, less gloss and everything is generally much more simplified. Text is also flatter with no shadowing underneath.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">While it’s fair to say that Android has its share of bright and clashing colours I think Apple has taken it to a whole new level and there’s something very retina-searing about iOS 7’s colour scheme which, to me, sits at odds with that theme of soft white text and translucent menu elements. This was calling out for a more nuanced palette, in my opinion.</div><h3 style="border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: CabinMedium, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.5em; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Multitasking</h3><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Multitasking has been completely overhauled on iOS 7 but to say it takes a leaf out of Android’s book is an understatement. It’s pretty much a wholesale copycat affair, complete with a scrollable carousel of active app preview panels of the kind we’ve seen since Honeycomb 3.0 and, importantly, the same ‘swipe-to-close’ gesture Android has been using since version 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It scrolls side-to-side in ‘portrait’ orientation (similar to Windows Phone 8, in fact) and the swipe to close is upwards, as opposed to Android’s up-and-down carousel and swipe to the side to close, but for all intents and purposes it’s the same setup with a slightly different skin (ie: Apple’s new ‘everything is translucent’ approach).</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I really love Android’s multitasking so I have mixed feelings on the subject. On the one hand, it’s great to see that I can get that same interaction style elsewhere, but on the other: this isn’t the only way multitasking could’ve been implemented, as BlackBerry 10 proved. In fact, BlackBerry 10 has largely convinced me there are better approaches than Android. There is more than one way to multitask well.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">As a result, Apple’s straight-up burglary is pretty shameful on all fronts –it’s blatant copying and is both unimaginative and unoriginal where the firm had a chance to show its creativity.</div><h3 style="border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: CabinMedium, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.5em; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Notifications</h3><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Both iOS 7’s and Android’s notifications centres drop down from the top bar with a swipe gesture.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">With Android you have a black background which you can just about see app icons behind. The clock appears bigger than in the closed bar and shifts to the left-hand side while a toggle on the right corner lets you switch back and forth Quick Settings menu. Individual notifications appear in little boxes and can be swiped away to dismiss.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">On iOS 7 you have a translucent background, the top bar remains as it is on the homescreen and there are three categories at the top for ‘Today’, ‘All’ and ‘Missed’. Notifications appear as a continuous stream only separated by a small icon and text showing what app they’re relevant to, such as ‘Calendar’, for example.</div><h3 style="border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: CabinMedium, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.5em; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Quick Settings</h3><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Quick Settings on Android can be opened by swiping down from the notifications bar with a two-fingered gesture and presents you with a grid of square button toggles for things like brightness,<a class="lexicon-term" href="http://www.knowyourmobile.com/glossary/wi-fi" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 136, 0); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #004a6b; cursor: help; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Wi-Fi is a way of wirelessly connecting to the internet over a broadband connection.">Wi-Fi</a> and <a class="lexicon-term" href="http://www.knowyourmobile.com/glossary/bluetooth" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 136, 0); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #004a6b; cursor: help; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Bluetooth is a short-range networking protocol used to connect electronic devices wirelessly.">Bluetooth</a> – there’s also a shortcut to the full-fat Settings menu.</div><div class="file file-image file-image-png" id="file-25567" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="content" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="lightbox-processed" href="http://static.knowyourmobile.com/sites/knowyourmobilecom/files/styles/gallery_wide/public/phpwo3savscreenshot2013-06-10at19.22.23_1.png" rel="lightbox[][]" style="border: 0px; color: #004a6b; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" src="http://static.knowyourmobile.com/sites/knowyourmobilecom/files/styles/insert_main_wide_image/public/phpwo3savscreenshot2013-06-10at19.22.23_1.png" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" typeof="foaf:Image" /></a></div></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Google’s take on the Quick Settings menu, something pioneered by third-party manufacturer UIs and launcher apps on its <a class="lexicon-term" href="http://www.knowyourmobile.com/glossary/platform" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 136, 0); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #004a6b; cursor: help; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title=" A mobile platform is also described as an OS or operating system.">platform</a>, was a long time coming from when the concept first emerged and still hasn’t quite lived up to what the ‘Android community’ came up with first, in my view. It’s not so instantly accessible.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Conversely, Apple appears to have actually done a really good job here. The ‘Control Centre’, as it’s called, swipes up from the bottom and continues the translucent theme.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">You’ve got a standard set of toggle shortcuts for Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and the like, but more importantly an actual brightness slider, which is annoying absent from stock Android even now. There’s also a handy music player widget, er, thing, for any current track you’re listening to, a button for AirPlay and AirDrop and a set of shortcuts for calculator, flashlight and camera functions.</div><h3 style="border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: CabinMedium, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.5em; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Core apps and services</h3><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">iTunes Radio vs Google Play Music: All Access</strong></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">One of Apple’s big announcements for WWDC was iTunes Radio, the much-rumoured music streaming service which expands on Apple’s existing iTunes setup to allow ‘featured stations’ of streamed content.</div><div class="file file-image file-image-png" id="file-25569" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="content" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="lightbox-processed" href="http://static.knowyourmobile.com/sites/knowyourmobilecom/files/styles/gallery_wide/public/php05vblpscreenshot2013-06-10at19.51.12_1.png" rel="lightbox[][]" style="border: 0px; color: #004a6b; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" src="http://static.knowyourmobile.com/sites/knowyourmobilecom/files/styles/insert_main_wide_image/public/php05vblpscreenshot2013-06-10at19.51.12_1.png" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" typeof="foaf:Image" /></a></div></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Google Play Music: All Access is pretty much exactly the same setup, as we wrote during Google’s announcement:</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">‘All Access has a wide-ranging catalogue of music using Google Play’s existing setup, but you can stream tracks instantly. It also features ‘expert curated’ genre lists showing iconic genre tracks and allowing you to discover new music.’</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">If you tap on a track to play it you can turn it into a radio station - All Access will pull in a ‘never-ending’ playlist of related tracks and stream them to your device. You can swipe to peek at what track is coming next or access the playlist completely - if there’s anything on there you don’t like you can swipe it away or you can re-oder the playlist as you like.’</div><div class="file file-image file-image-jpeg" id="file-25568" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="content" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="lightbox-processed" href="http://static.knowyourmobile.com/sites/knowyourmobilecom/files/styles/gallery_wide/public/playmusic_1.jpg" rel="lightbox[][]" style="border: 0px; color: #004a6b; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" src="http://static.knowyourmobile.com/sites/knowyourmobilecom/files/styles/insert_main_wide_image/public/playmusic_1.jpg" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" typeof="foaf:Image" /></a></div></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">iTunes Radio does include a few extra perks, such as Siri integration, as Apple’s Eddie Cue outlined at the launch:</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">‘Let Siri make your listening experience even more fun. Ask Siri ‘Who plays that song?’ or ‘Play more like this’ and Siri will make it happen. Say something like ‘Play Jazz Radio’ or ask for any of your existing favourite stations and genres. Shape your stations by telling Siri what you like and don’t like, or tell Siri to pause, stop or skip. You can also have Siri add songs to your Wish List to download later.’</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Both services are coming in later then entrenched competitors such as Spotify and both have massive collections of licensed music to offer.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">As usual, it’s simply a case of selecting one ecosystem or another to become entrenched in, and such a decision should probably centre around other software and hardware considerations more than anything else.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Like the iPhone’s design? Go with iTunes Radio. Prefer the Android interface? Pick Google Play Music: All Access. It really makes little difference.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Each is also initially only available in the US, however, and we’ll have to wait a little while before either makes its way across the pond.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Apple Maps vs Google Maps</strong></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In terms of updates for Apple Maps we were once again shown all the ‘amazing’ 3D stuff again. As far as more useful stuff is concerned Apple demonstrated how you can now select a location, find points of interest, see reviews for said POIs and share the location via social networking, messaging or to your phone from a computer. So far, so playing catch-up to Google Maps.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Apple didn’t really demonstrate much in the way of improved location data and accuracy though. Sure, there weren’t any gaping voids in the big-screen demonstration, but then, there wouldn’t be. For now, we know from experience that Google Maps is excellent, the standard by which others are measured, because the company has invested a lot of time, money and effort over the years to literally re-map a massive chunk of the planet, on the ground and in the air. Until more extensive use tells us that Apple Maps has caught up in this regard, I’ll continue to trust Google Maps first.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">On a related note, Apple did explain how it was working with car manufacturers to integrate both Apple Maps and Siri voice commands into in-car systems. Quite how far-reaching this will be in terms of participating manufacturers and supported car models isn’t clear.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">At first I’d guess this will have a US focus, but in any case given Apple Maps’ recent history I’m not exactly champing at the bit to have it guiding me while driving and I’m sure plenty of Australians can say the same.</div><h3 style="border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: CabinMedium, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.5em; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lock screen</h3><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">As this side-by-side screenshot shows, the two lock-screen interfaces are alarmingly similar, right down to the stock wallpaper. Android got here first, of course.</div><div class="file file-image file-image-jpeg" id="file-25565" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="content" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="lightbox-processed" href="http://static.knowyourmobile.com/sites/knowyourmobilecom/files/styles/gallery_wide/public/iosvsandroidlock.jpg" rel="lightbox[][]" style="border: 0px; color: #004a6b; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" src="http://static.knowyourmobile.com/sites/knowyourmobilecom/files/styles/insert_main_wide_image/public/iosvsandroidlock.jpg" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" typeof="foaf:Image" /></a></div></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In terms of functionality both offer the same deal. Notifications appear on the screen, you can access the camera from the lockscreen and both feature swiping gestures to unlock (although of course you can replace these with passcodes and the like.) Both also allow you to access their respective quick settings and notifications screens from the lockscreens with the same gestures you’d use on the normal homescreen.</div><h3 style="border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: CabinMedium, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.5em; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Conclusion</h3><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">As I’ve hinted at earlier in the comparison, it’s difficult in many ways to see iOS 7 as anything other than Apple playing catch-up to Android, while snagging a few choice morsels from Windows Phone and BlackBerry 10 along the way.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In many respects that’s fair enough, but these things are not revolutionary in the broader sense – massive bonuses for people already entrenched in iOS, of course, but Apple and its followers are in no position to be crowing about revolutionising the <a class="lexicon-term" href="http://www.knowyourmobile.com/glossary/smartphone" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 136, 0); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #004a6b; cursor: help; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="A smartphone is a wireless device that runs an operating system so you can install apps and games just as you would with a PC">smartphone</a> space. Though that won't stop them from doing so anyway.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But this is all politics, what about if you’re sat there wondering which platform to invest in? And to be clear, when I say invest, I really do mean invest – if you’re going to be buying films, music, games and apps on either of these platforms then making a switch later with your collection intact is going to be difficult at best and in some cases impossible at worst.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Such profound wisdom on which is the better long-term bet would require some kind of crystal ball and the clairvoyance to see where both companies and their ecosystems are headed, so I’m afraid I can’t help you there. I left mine at home.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">What I can say is that I prefer most of Android’s overall aesthetic, mainly as the colours are less offensive to my delicate eyeballs, however I do also prefer iOS 7’s translucent menu elements and in particular the Control Centre has utterly schooled Google on how it should be done. I’d also reiterate that I don’t trust Apple Maps any further than I can throw it, and I’m rubbish at throwing stuff.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Both platforms have massive, thriving ecosystems packed with app and multimedia content, both also now have streaming services built-in and both have slick, multitasking-friendly interfaces.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">You could argue you get more choice in terms of hardware on Android, that’s very true and in many ways is a good thing, but on the flip-side Apple doesn’t get treated to lots of annoying UI overlays sullying the experience and there’s one clear choice of the ‘best’ handset when it comes to the platform.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In short: ‘you pays your money, you takes your choice,’ as they say.</div></div></div></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16057692792999252106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8586178675467430699.post-11638191491279361322013-06-08T22:03:00.000-07:002013-08-15T19:52:06.875-07:00Monkey Shows Humanity<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://knowledge93.blogspot.com/2013/06/monkey-shows-humanity.html" target="_blank">Monkey Shows Humanity</a></span></b><br /><img height="482" src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/971449_603473463011234_1545892948_n.jpg" width="640" /><br /><br /><b><span aria-live="polite" class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoPageCaption" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; outline: none; width: auto;" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Two blind persons wanted to drink water at the RagiGudda temple, Bangalore.<br />When they were unable to operate the tap, this mother monkey opened the tap for them, allowed them to drink water, drank some water herself and then closed the tap before leaving the scene<br /><br />PS: Do share this pic with your friends. 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The two dinosaurs are located on either side of the main highway, their long necks stretching to the other, until the two dinosaur's mouth meet as if to share a kiss. Each dinosaur statue is 34 meters wide and 19 meters high. The span of the two together reaches 80 meters. The ground near the kissing couple is littered with many dozen smaller statues of dinosaurs of all shapes and sizes.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">Erenhot is located in the Gobi Desert, in the Xilin Gol league of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The city was established as the only train trade route between Inner and Outer Mongolia back in the 1950's, but the area has been gaining international attention since the 1920's with the discovery of dinosaur fossils in the Erlian Basin.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><img alt="erenhot-dinosaurs-7" border="0" height="392" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/--yf2bsZOZEU/Ua7F-Tpyi8I/AAAAAAAApMg/U2CRh33EsSo/erenhot-dinosaurs-7%25255B10%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="erenhot-dinosaurs-7" width="789" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">Called the "Dinosaur City", Erenhot was once the home of dinosaurs. In the Cretaceous Period 70 million years ago, Erenhot was a paradise of lakes, marshes, and thick forests. More than 20 kinds of dinosaurs flourished there but the most famous is<em>Gigantoraptor erlianensis</em>, an 8 meter-long birdlike predator that was discovered in 2005.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">Many fossils have been discovered in the area, including the biggest and best-preserved dinosaur fossil in Asia. Besides the scenic boulevard, the city also has a dinosaur museum and a theme park called “Dinosaur Fairyland”. The arch of the kissing dinosaurs was built in 2007 to showcase the region's reputation as a fossil hot-spot.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><img alt="erenhot-dinosaurs-13" border="0" height="528" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-CqM1qlsGl1U/Ua7GAMY43SI/AAAAAAAApMo/IWdF1XZjQHI/erenhot-dinosaurs-13%25255B6%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="erenhot-dinosaurs-13" width="790" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><img alt="erenhot-dinosaurs-11" border="0" height="445" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-c9E4ioPinow/Ua7GBwpIkLI/AAAAAAAApMw/bObgjv1v4Wg/erenhot-dinosaurs-11%25255B6%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; 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font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><img alt="erenhot-dinosaurs-8" border="0" height="525" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-f8SFIpehYD0/Ua7GHAIYA4I/AAAAAAAApNA/4ShS_D4hsVI/erenhot-dinosaurs-8%25255B5%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="erenhot-dinosaurs-8" width="790" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><img alt="erenhot-dinosaurs-9" border="0" height="525" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-6MnDjHp-K-A/Ua7GJDM68uI/AAAAAAAApNI/l0BAF54QpJA/erenhot-dinosaurs-9%25255B5%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="erenhot-dinosaurs-9" width="790" /></div><div style="background-color: white; 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border: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="erenhot-dinosaurs-3" width="790" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><img alt="erenhot-dinosaurs-4" border="0" height="592" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-bdpE8t3w550/Ua7Gbs8YhXI/AAAAAAAApOI/TEYata77nQ8/erenhot-dinosaurs-4%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="erenhot-dinosaurs-4" width="790" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><img alt="erenhot-dinosaurs-6" border="0" height="445" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-UXUPJHbKAc0/Ua7GeWmhjRI/AAAAAAAApOQ/OhTB_RK1sls/erenhot-dinosaurs-6%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="erenhot-dinosaurs-6" width="790" /></div><a href="" name="more" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"></span><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br /></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16057692792999252106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8586178675467430699.post-69277709244228097912013-06-08T12:24:00.000-07:002013-08-15T19:52:06.986-07:00World's Highest Tennis Court: Burj al-Arab<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://knowledge93.blogspot.com/2013/06/worlds-highest-tennis-court-burj-al-arab.html" target="_blank">World's Highest Tennis Court: Burj al-Arab</a></span></b><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">The world’s highest tennis court stands atop the fourth highest hotel in the world - Burj al-Arab at Dubai. The tennis court is circular in shape and when no session is at play, it doubles as a helipad. The exact height of the tennis court is not known, but the hotel is 321 m (1,053 feet) tall and the court is located very near the top. My guess is, it’s close to 1000 feet.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">In 2005, when Roger Federer and Andre Agassi were at Dubai for a tournament, they were invited to play a few rounds at the Burj’s helipad-converted-tennis court.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><img alt="burjalarab-tennis-court10" border="0" height="527" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-NSrENdrXj-E/TiaxIHlGxfI/AAAAAAAAPDs/ZDy634zw8w4/burjalarab-tennis-court10%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="burjalarab-tennis-court10" width="790" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><img alt="burjalarab-tennis-court1" border="0" height="527" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-JVZxI5YzWcs/TiaxKQX0gdI/AAAAAAAAPDw/XOWFcmC77qw/burjalarab-tennis-court1.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="burjalarab-tennis-court1" width="790" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><img alt="52225212DC012_Dubai_Tennis" border="0" height="1185" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-VAmqTeDU5Wk/TiaxQSQU7pI/AAAAAAAAPD0/DxVML8pXwSQ/burjalarab-tennis-court4.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="52225212DC012_Dubai_Tennis" width="790" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><img alt="burjalarab-tennis-court9" border="0" height="592" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-3tcluGRh6V0/TiaxUGdg-NI/AAAAAAAAPD8/Pg1Is4c5ut0/burjalarab-tennis-court9%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="burjalarab-tennis-court9" width="790" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><img alt="burjalarab-tennis-court2" border="0" height="534" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-eQ2I-B-YvfI/TiaxW_NN80I/AAAAAAAAPEA/ISf-nLTIKN4/burjalarab-tennis-court2.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="burjalarab-tennis-court2" width="790" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">Looks like they lost the ball.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><img alt="burjalarab-tennis-court5" border="0" height="514" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-mzNt-OEZlAk/TiaxZcDb4ZI/AAAAAAAAPEE/ISk2FmTGRgU/burjalarab-tennis-court5%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="burjalarab-tennis-court5" width="790" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><img alt="burjalarab-tennis-court3" border="0" height="1000" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-dKfne1I6-B4/TiaxcOC7oTI/AAAAAAAAPEI/cE6dH99uaFw/burjalarab-tennis-court3%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="burjalarab-tennis-court3" width="666" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><img alt="52225212GI003_Dubai_Tennis" border="0" height="556" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-qEm3Gmohb1A/TiaxdzF5KhI/AAAAAAAAPEQ/OKjqfABPxSg/burjalarab-tennis-court6%25255B3%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="52225212GI003_Dubai_Tennis" width="790" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><img alt="burjalarab-tennis-court7" border="0" height="1024" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-s9RAxjr150I/Tiaxg9L-gcI/AAAAAAAAPEY/jwpoQHGjZs4/burjalarab-tennis-court7%25255B3%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="burjalarab-tennis-court7" width="714" /></div><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5765084000678485826" name="more" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"></span><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><img alt="burjalarab-tennis-court8" border="0" height="520" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-f8MgKO3dzqQ/Tiaxi3HcxaI/AAAAAAAAPEg/pWnWwtkCdMI/burjalarab-tennis-court8%25255B3%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="burjalarab-tennis-court8" width="790" /></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16057692792999252106noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8586178675467430699.post-78242536452686128882013-06-08T09:50:00.000-07:002013-08-15T19:52:07.084-07:00A SHIP SHIPPING SHIP SHIPPING SHIPPING SHIPS ~~~ BWAHAHAHAAHAHA<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b> <a href="http://knowledge93.blogspot.com/2013/06/a-ship-shipping-ship-shipping-shipping.html" target="_blank"> A SHIP SHIPPING SHIP SHIPPING SHIPPING SHIPS ~~~ BWAHAHAHAAHAHA</a></b><br /><br /><img height="361" src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/p75x225/936890_576229385760659_878659409_n.png" width="640" /></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16057692792999252106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8586178675467430699.post-28880334311754053752013-06-08T09:28:00.000-07:002013-08-15T19:52:07.174-07:00Avoid Mini skirt.. Chinese Police<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://knowledge93.blogspot.com/2013/06/mini-skirt.html" target="_blank">Avoid Mini skirt.. Chinese Police</a></span></b></span><br /><b><br /></b><b><img height="360" src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/947107_266543390150635_2026135702_n.jpg" width="400" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br /><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Nudity escalates molestation, rapes etc. To avoid such circumstances and problems with women the Chinese Police intimated them not to wear such kind of dresses in public place first time. Such types of Rules and Prohibitions are only followed in Arabian and Islamic country. And according to Islam it is strictly Embargoed Nakedness.<br /><br />When women come on the road with Shorts and Skirt mostly Roadside Romeo molest them. If women avoid such dress codes the situation will change. Police Department advices women to carry News Paper or Purse which can be easily kept on naked legs. They also suggested them to sit at as lower position as possible.</span></b><br /><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><b><br /></b></span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><b>REFERENCE:<br />Afaqahmed Jamadar<br /><a href="http://afaqahmedjamadar.blogspot.in/">afaqahmedjamadar.blogspot.<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block;"></span>in</a></b></span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16057692792999252106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8586178675467430699.post-16052763760447628622013-06-08T07:45:00.000-07:002013-08-15T19:52:07.264-07:0014 years before the Titanic sank<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://knowledge93.blogspot.com/2013/06/in-1898-14-years-before-titanic-sank.html" target="_blank"><img height="401" src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/s403x403/943153_463681507048868_423730021_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></b><br /><b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">In 1898, 14 years before the Titanic sank, Morgan Robertson wrote a book about Titanic</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">American author Morgan Robertson wrote a book called Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan, about the sinking of an "unsinkable" ocean liner. When you see the cover, you figure you're pretty clearly looking at a fictionalized version of the Titanic story. No surprise there; it's a story that's been told over and </span></span></b><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">over (there were 13 Titanic movies before Cameron's, including one by the Nazis) but Robertson's book was first.<br /><br />Where it Gets Weird:<br />He was so eager to be first, apparently, that he didn't bother to wait for the Titanic to actually sink before writing about it. The Wreck of the Titan was published in 1898, 14 years before RMS Titanic was even finished being [cheaply] built.<br /><br />The similarities between Robertson's work and the Titanic disaster are so astounding that one has to imagine if White Star Line built Titanic to Robertson's specs as a dare. The Titan was described as "the largest craft afloat and the greatest of the works of men," "equal to that of a first class hotel," and, of course, "unsinkable".<br /><br />Both ships were British-owned steel vessels, both around 800 feet long and sank after hitting an iceberg in the North Atlantic, in April, "around midnight." Sound like enough to keep you up at night? Maybe that's why Robertson republished the book in 1912 just in case enough people didn't know that he wrote it.<br /><br />Where it Gets Even Weirder:<br />While the novel does bear some curious coincidences with the Titanic disaster, there are quite a few things that Robertson got flat wrong. For one, the Titanic did not crash into an iceberg "400 miles from Newfoundland" at 25 knots. It crashed into an iceberg 400 miles from Newfoundland at 22.5 knots.<br /><br />----------------<br />References:<br /><a href="http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cracked.com%2Farticle_18421_6-insane-coincidences-you-wont-believe-actually-happened.html&h=KAQFjWT5p&s=1" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.cracked.com/<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block;"></span>article_18421_6-insane-coin<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block;"></span>cidences-you-wont-believe-<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block;"></span>actually-happened.html</a><br /><br />Wikipedia:<br /><a href="http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FFutility%2C_or_the_Wreck_of_the_Titan&h=9AQHFKK1R&s=1" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block;"></span>wiki/<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block;"></span>Futility,_or_the_Wreck_of_t<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block;"></span>he_Titan</a><br />----------------</span></b></span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16057692792999252106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8586178675467430699.post-53170077444053973692013-06-05T13:25:00.000-07:002013-08-15T19:52:07.390-07:00Data Conversion<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> <a href="http://knowledge93.blogspot.com/2013/06/data-conversion.html" target="_blank">Data Conversion</a></span></b><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">1 Bit = Binary Digit</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">8 Bits = 1 Byte</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">1024 Bytes = 1 Kilobyte</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">1024 Kilobytes = 1 Megabyte</span><br /><a href="https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc1/580456_646763695337749_1665522938_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="234" src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc1/580456_646763695337749_1665522938_n.jpg" width="400" /></a><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">1024 Megabytes = 1 Gigabyte<br />1024 Gigabytes = 1 Terabyte<br />1024 Terabytes = 1 Petabyte<br />1024 Petabytes = 1 Exabyte<br />1024 Exabytes = 1 Zettabyte<br />1024 Zettabytes = 1 Yottabyte<br />1024Yottabytes = 1 Brontobyte<br />1024 Brontobytes = 1 Geopbyte<br />1024 Geopbyte=1 Saganbyte<br />1024 Saganbyte=1 Pijabyte<br />Alphabyte = 1024 Pijabyte<br />Kryatbyte = 1024 Alphabyte<br />Amosbyte = 1024 Kryatbyte<br />Pectrolbyte = 1024 Amosbyte<br />Bolgerbyte = 1024 Pectrolbyte<br />Sambobyte = 1024 Bolgerbyte<br />Quesabyte = 1024 Sambobyte<br />Kinsabyte = 1024 Quesabyte<br />Rutherbyte = 1024 Kinsabyte<br />Dubnibyte = 1024 Rutherbyte<br />Seaborgbyte = 1024 Dubnibyte<br />Bohrbyte = 1024 Seaborgbyte<br />Hassiubyte = 1024 Bohrbyte<br />Meitnerbyte = 1024 Hassiubyte<br />Darmstadbyte = 1024 Meitnerbyte<br />Roentbyte = 1024 Darmstadbyte<br />Coperbyte = 1024 Roentbyte</span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16057692792999252106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8586178675467430699.post-49843549121981498672013-06-05T12:52:00.000-07:002013-08-15T19:52:07.481-07:00Indian Bull Frog<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"> <a href="http://knowledge93.blogspot.com/2013/06/indian-bull-frog.html" target="_blank"> Indian Bull Frog</a> </span><i class="_4-k1 img sp_3hvnuf sx_258977" style="background-color: white; background-image: url(https://fbstatic-a.akamaihd.net/rsrc.php/v2/yA/r/s-hHk4Lp1ba.png); background-position: -17px -638px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: auto; color: #333333; display: inline-block; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; height: 16px; line-height: 18px; vertical-align: -3px; width: 16px;"></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"> </span></span></b><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">-----------------------</span><br /><img src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/970656_646809095333209_1182760263_n.jpg" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Found in Myanmar, Bangladesh, Pakistan and India, the Indian bullfrog is renown for its large size (some can be up to 15cm in length!)</span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16057692792999252106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8586178675467430699.post-80813550920311262013-06-05T12:41:00.000-07:002013-08-15T19:52:07.577-07:00A very Rare genetic Mutation<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><img src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/969616_582685831762264_1655019173_n.jpg" /><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://knowledge93.blogspot.com/2013/06/a-very-rare-genetic-mutation.html" target="_blank">A very Rare genetic Mutation</a>: The black parents shocked when their son was born white with blond hair.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">A black couple told of their shock and mystification when their son was born with white skin and blond hair. Francis Tshibangu admitted: ‘My first thought was “Wow, is he really mine?”.’</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">He and his wife Arlette already have a two-year-old boy, Seth, whose features reflect his African parentage. But it is thought that baby Daniel, now 11 weeks old, has a slight genetic mutation. He is not an albino. Congo- born Mr Tshibangu, 28, said his ‘jaw dropped open’ when Daniel arrived at Leicester Royal Infirmary.</span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16057692792999252106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8586178675467430699.post-50639637512216802822013-06-05T12:33:00.000-07:002013-08-15T19:52:07.667-07:00In Japanese schools<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><img height="477" src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/923425_582691935094987_1124283928_n.jpg" width="640" /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px;">In Japanese schools, the students don't get ANY exams</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px;">until they reach grade four (the age of 10)! Why?</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px;">Because the goal for the first 3 years of schools is NOT</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px;">to judge the child's knowledge or learning,but to</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px;">establish good manners and to develop their character!</span></span></b><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; line-height: 18px;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Yes, that's what our scholars taught us: Manners<br />BEFORE knowledge!<br />Should this method be implemented all over the</span></b></span></div><a name='more'></a><br /><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">world?</span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16057692792999252106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8586178675467430699.post-91400497733241029692013-06-05T11:35:00.000-07:002013-08-15T19:52:07.758-07:003D Without Glasses!!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> <a href="http://knowledge93.blogspot.com/2013/06/3d-without-glasses.html" target="_blank">3D Without Glasses!!!</a></span></b><br /><br /><br /><img alt="3D WITHOUT THE GLASSES." height="640" src="http://www.fundope.com/pdata/t/850.gif" width="582" /></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16057692792999252106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8586178675467430699.post-6633485611149255522013-06-04T13:04:00.000-07:002013-08-15T19:52:07.856-07:00The BlackBerry Messenger app is coming to Android and iPhone.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.timeslive.co.za/incoming/2013/05/16/bbm_cross_platf.7eb1e162001.original.jpg/ALTERNATES/crop_630x400/bbm_cross_platf.7eb1e162001.original.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" height="404" src="http://www.timeslive.co.za/incoming/2013/05/16/bbm_cross_platf.7eb1e162001.original.jpg/ALTERNATES/crop_630x400/bbm_cross_platf.7eb1e162001.original.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="640" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div class="clear" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15.59375px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"></div><br /><div id="single_image" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><div class="caption" style="background-color: #eeeeee; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-width: 0px 1px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><a href="http://knowledge93.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-blackberry-messenger-app-is-coming.html" target="_blank">The BlackBerry Messenger app is coming to Android and iPhone.</a>Image by: ©BlackBerry</b></div></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">BBM is one of the reasons why, despite recent misfortunes, BlackBerry still has a firm foothold in the youth market.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The free messaging service is the ideal feature for people who can't afford large data plans and, when combined with a real QWERTY keyboard, the BlackBerry becomes the perfect smartphone for high school students.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A real keyboard means that messages can be quickly and surreptitiously touch-typed.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">BBM – or BlackBerry Messenger – supports group as well as one-to-one chats and supports image and audio as well as text messages.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"For BlackBerry, messaging and collaboration are inseparable from the mobile experience, and the time is definitely right for BBM to become a multi-platform mobile service,” said Andrew Bocking, executive vice-president of Software Product Management and Ecosystem at BlackBerry.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“BBM has always been one of the most engaging services for BlackBerry customers, enabling them to easily connect while maintaining a valued level of personal privacy. We're excited to offer iOS and Android users the possibility to join the BBM community."</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">However, as good as BBM is even without a real keyboard, it is no longer unique. iPhone users have iMessage for sending free text messages, and paid apps such as WhatsApp bring the same features to both iOS and Android phones for a small initial fee.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Therefore, some will argue that BlackBerry's move, though a good one, is coming two years too late.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">However, by offering the app to other platforms, BlackBerry is ensuring that consumers both young and old who are tempted by BlackBerry can buy a handset, knowing that friends and family without BlackBerry devices will be able to message them free of charge.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16057692792999252106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8586178675467430699.post-12790908774018825432013-06-04T08:20:00.000-07:002013-08-15T19:52:07.947-07:00Beautiful Fireflies <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> <a href="http://knowledge93.blogspot.com/2013/06/beautiful-fireflies.html" target="_blank"> <span aria-live="polite" class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" style="background-color: white; 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border: 0px; clear: both; color: #b23f33; font-family: Oswald, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 25px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 7px; vertical-align: baseline; word-spacing: 2.5px;"><a href="http://knowledge93.blogspot.com/2013/05/blackberry-messenger-bbm-coming-to-ios.html" target="_blank">BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) coming to iOS and Android</a></h1><div class="st-text" id="review-body" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-seirf; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; vertical-align: baseline;">The BBM has been one of BlackBerry OS most popular features, years before there was iMessaging, Viber, or WhatsApp. Today, at the company's annual Blackberry Live 2013 conference, CEO Thorsten Heins announced that this summer they will make the trademark BlackBerry messaging service available as a third-party app to the two most popular smart platforms - iOS and Android.</div><img height="360" src="http://cdn.gsmarena.com/vv/newsimg/13/05/bbm-coming-ios-android/gsmarena_001.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /><br /><br /><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; vertical-align: baseline;">Initially, the BlackBerry Messenger or BBM, as it's more commonly known, will only support BBM chats, multi-person chats, voice note sharing, and BlackBerry Groups, where BBM users are able to set up groups to share calendar, photos, files, etc.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; vertical-align: baseline;">However, as Heins stated on stage, they have plans of making BBM as fully featured on those other platforms as possible. BlackBerry has plans to expand the functionality of the iOS and Android apps with some of the new BBM features such as Voice and video calls, Screenshare, and the just announced Channels. These will come as subsequent updates.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; vertical-align: baseline;">BBM Channels is a new way for BBM users to connect with the businesses, brands, celebrities and groups they are passionate about.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; vertical-align: baseline;">The BBM will be available to iPhones, running at least iOS 6.0, and to droids, running at least Android Ice Cream Sandwich.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2012/11/bbm-voice.jpg" /></div></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16057692792999252106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8586178675467430699.post-68904652959867460292013-05-24T15:35:00.000-07:002013-08-15T19:52:08.231-07:00HIDDEN ANDROID SECRET CODES<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://knowledge93.blogspot.com/2013/05/hidden-android-secret-codes.html" target="_blank">HIDDEN ANDROID SECRET CODES</a></span></b><br /><img height="480" src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/q77/s480x480/580295_640997279247141_816320309_n.jpg" width="640" /></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16057692792999252106noreply@blogger.com0