Forever Techie

It was in 1971 that IBM introduced the first floppy disk, invented by a team led by Alan Shugart. The name inherited due to its characteristics of flexibility. Had eight inches and the information was written and read from the surface of the disc.

On August 27 a new system of verification of content at The Pirate Bay will allow the copyright holders identify their content and choose one of two hypotheses. Remove them, if not at all interested in an agreement or leave a request to be compensated by providing online and start the negotiation process with the new owners.

In 1970 the Xerox Corporation has developed a local coaxial network that supported data transfers at a speed of 3Mbps. So far the connections were very slow.

WMP12: GREATER SUPPORT FOR VIDEO FORMATS :

Windows Media Player 12 (WMP12) was very fresh. One of the big news is a mode of reproduction and the other library. A small button placed on the bottom, right, allows you to navigate between the two. It is best support for video formats. For the first time, Microsoft natively supports formats other than their own. Thus, the popular DivX / XviD, MPEG4 (H.246) are played without difficulty.
Taking advantage of the technology created for homegroups the WMP12 do streaming of files stored on other computers within the same group. It is also possible to control peripheral devices that are connected in that network.


WORK IN NETWORK:

For anyone who is working on a home network, there is a new way to simplify the creation of groups. These are designed to simplify the sharing of files between authorized members of the network / group. You can access it from the Control Panel or from the Network and Sharing Center. Then you can just create the homegroup for all existing computers in your home can share the data. Something much simpler the process that existed in Vista.
Also in the Network and Sharing Center, emphasize the fact that the management of wireless networks is a little different. Now, when you click to look at the available networks, there is a popup menu and can connect to the network selected by pressing a new button Connect. Again, the process is simplified.

The integrated circuit, also known as the microchip was invented by Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments in 1958.
It was the chip that opened the doors to the miniaturization of components and allowed us to move the computers that occupied a room for the existing PC.

Board system less confusing:

Many users complains of having the system tray full of icons. Microsoft has listened to these complaints, and now Windows 7 carries only by definition, five icons.
The icons shown are: Language, Action Center, Network and Sound
But do not think that in spite of these icons only appear that the other programs are not working. Just click the right mouse button on the system tray and select customize notification icons to access a dialog box where you can set the behavior of programs that are working in the background. For example, if you want the antivirus icon appears in the system tray you just select it from the list of applications and choose the option Show icon and notifications.

Customization:

FASTER INSTALLATION:
Microsoft has reduced the number of tables that require the intervention of utilizador.Programas as the Messenger, Photo Gallery and Movie Maker are now offered as a download optional package within the Windows Live Essentials.
Now, there is also the possibility of creating Workgroups, define the word-pass giving access to that group and set which folders and printers you want to share.

NEW TASK BAR:

In visual terms, is more transparent, the start button is associated with brightness, the shortcuts have a small shadow. As part of the board system has a new button that lets hide all open applications and show the desktop.

In terms of features, the main changes there are shortcuts to the applications. Contrary to what happened, are now provided shortcuts to the programs most used, and for those who are open at this time.

Another of the novelties is a preview of the programs that are open on the taskbar. Now, just move the mouse over to a small window appears to show the application.

In 1947, Walter H. Brattain, William Shockley e John Bardeen created the first transistors. Which led to the idea to create chips for use in the PC.

The news is given by the site IntoMobile and has the potential to create a wave of criticism directed at the Palm.
The new smartphone from Palm seems to collect information on various types of user behavior in relation to applications and used the same geographical location.

There is code in the operating system that requires a Pre collect information on the location of the smartphone, use of applications, applications that block and a list of installed applications. This information is sent to the Palm on a daily basis.

The discovery was made by Joey Hess, developer of Debian, which operated the operating system when webOS noticed that there was information to be sent to Palm once a day.

The Palm reacted to the news, saying it takes "the privacy of users very seriously, and offers ways to disable the services for the collection of information.

In a fight for conquest of a growing number of fans, the most popular brands of consoles have bet heavily on the development of devices able to recognize the movements and voice commands for users.

This time the news comes to the PlayStation 3. A camera and a microphone are the equipment that will interpret the emotions of the user. The details are still little known, but the patent system in relation to the viewing of programs through the PS3, via a DTT receiver.

According to Joystiq the site, new technology to recognize all kinds of emotions. Joy, sadness, and bored may be sent to the console via this new system.

The technology could reach the market in the form of downloadable software, as is already the Playstation Eye for PS3 and microphone.

A Texan judge prohibited Microsoft from selling in the U.S. the Word program, considering that it violates a patent the company's Canadian i4i.

The patent relates to a feature of XML included in some versions of word processor, which according to the Canadian company violates its patented a technology in 1998.

The judge's decision means that Microsoft will stop selling the program within 60 days, time which the multinational is considered short and trying to halt the process with the use, to remove the function concerned.

On appeal, quoted by CNET News portal, Microsoft argues that "is spending an enormous human and financial capital to meet the deadline imposed by the court.

The company complaint is that this decision may leave the Word and Office suite out of the market for several months, even claiming that both Microsoft and its distributors may suffer a "massive fall in sales.

The event took place this week when Joseph Shepherd was speaking with surfers from Wales in the chat room with video and said he was depressed and would kill himself.

Shortly after he appeared lying on his bed motionless, which led some of the participants in the conversation thinking that he had even carried out his plan.

Some users decided to alert the authorities that tried to identify Joseph Shepherd through the images and to prevent its death. The searches involved the authorities in Wales and the state of New York and the Interpol, which identified his identity through the IP address of Shepherd.

When the authorities reached the house and saw that he was well, the New York police arrested him. Joseph Shepherd will now be taken to court by the end of the month where it will be accused of reporting a false incident.

The Street View in the cities of Lisbon and Porto was yesterday launched by Google. The application allows, in conjunction with Google Maps, go to these cities pictures taken at street level.

Most of the faces of people and registrations of vehicles that appear in the application are blurred, not to violate the privacy. However, with only 24 hours of availability to the public the most recent update of the implementation of Google, we found several examples of images that are clearly expensive and registrations of people - without being blurred - in Lisbon.

Google explains that its software is not infallible and that such cases can happen. Therefore, a link at the bottom left of each image, so users can report a problem, particularly concerning the violation of privacy. Some of the images is possible to identify people in a neighborhood of the capital much frequented by addicts, some plates visible in several places in Lisbon, or even workers and passersby without the blurred face.


According to the release of Google, Street View "only contains images gathered on public areas." "We respect the fact that people might not like that some images are available on this service. Therefore, we offer simple tools and easy to use to identify and remove inappropriate images or images sensitive", refer to the company.

If a user wants to report certain image, you only need click the corresponding link which opens a form for the complaint. Google says that the image will be removed after the complaint and, if deemed inappropriate or sensitive is removed permanently.

Google also informed that during the preparation of the project in Portuguese cities - in the coming months should be available new locations, including Águeda, Barcelos, Évora, Alverca do Ribatejo, Amadora, Portalegre, Maia, Paredes, Rebordosa, São Salvador do Lordelo, Barreiro and Costa de Caparica - the work was done with the knowledge of the National Commission for Data Protection.

SCREENS ARE MAGNETS FOR EVERYONE'S EYES

Beware of anyone who says that they're "just going to talk to some slides" - because that's exactly what they'll do - without realising that they're spending most of their time with their backs to the audience.
Yet eye contact plays such a fundamental part in holding an audience's attention.
So remember that the more slides you have and the more there is on each slide, the more distracting it will it be for the audience - where as the fewer and simpler the slides are, the easier it will be to keep them listening.

If there's nothing but text on the screen, people will try to read and listen at the same time - and won't succeed in doing either very well.

If the print is too small to read, they'll get irritated at being expected to do the impossible. Nor does it help when speakers say "as you can see", or the equally annoying "you probably won't be able to read this".

Few speakers are willing to open their mouths until they have their first slide safely in place. But all too often the slides are verbal crutches for the speaker, not visual aids for the audience.

Projecting one slide after another might make it look as though you've prepared the presentation. But if you haven't planned exactly what you're going to say, you'll have to ad lib and, if you start rambling, the audience will switch off.

To avoid this requires careful planning. Do this before thinking about slides and you won't need as many of them - and the ones that you do decide to use are more likely to help to clarify things for the audience, rather than just remind you of what to say next.

You think bullet points make information more digestible? Think again. A dozen slides with five bullet points on each assumes that people are mentally capable of taking in a list of 60 points. If it's a 30-minute presentation, that's a rate of two-per-minute.

This highlights the biggest problem with slide-based presentations, which is that speakers mistakenly think that they can get far more information across than is actually possible in a presentation. At the heart of this is a widespread failure to appreciate that speaking and listening are fundamentally different from writing and reading.

In fact, the invention of writing was arguably the most important landmark in the history of information technology. Before writing, the amount of information that could be passed on to others was severely limited by what could be communicated in purely oral form (ie not much). But the ability to write meant that vast amounts of knowledge could be communicated at previously unimagined levels of detail.

The trouble is that PowerPoint makes it so easy to put detailed written and numerical information on slides that it leads presenters into the mistaken belief that all the detail will be successfully transmitted through the air into the brains of the audience.

A Microsoft executive recently said that one of the best PowerPoint presentations he'd ever heard had no slides with bullet points on them. This didn't surprise me at all, because we've known for years that audiences don't much like wordy slides and don't find them as helpful as pictorial visual aids.

What does surprise me is that so many of the program's standard templates invite users to produce lists of bullet points, when the program's main benefits lie in the creation of images. If more presenters took advantage of that, inspiring PowerPoint presentations might become the norm, rather than the exception.

To make a 3D movie, we need two cameras, a video editor and 3D glasses. You need to be carefull because the slightest angle difference in the cameras will completely ruin the whole shot so make sure the lenses are level with one another.


After you record the film, make one of the videos (let's say the left camera's video) have a red overlay. Make the right camera's video have a blue overlay. The result should be the same video, twice, in two colors, three inches apart.
You need to place both videos into your editor, on top of each other, so you can see them both at once. The result should be almost purple and you should have a somewhat "double-vision" look to it.
Export this video, and play it, while wearing those Red-Blue 3D glasses and it should work. If not, you should try experimenting with the settings.
If need be, switch the colors to darker or lighter shades. Maybe even try changing the distance of the lenses.
Make sure you can "Place both videos on top of each other" with whatever "simple" editing software you have
When you editing these videos together, it also sometimes helps to remove the audio from one of the videos.

It is the only browser in the last ten years to make serious competition to Internet Explorer. Firefox, developed by the Mozilla Foundation, has already been downloaded one billion times.

Firefox came in 2004 and was gradually gaining users. Currently, controls about a third of the market for browsers - still far behind the leader Internet Explorer, Microsoft, which has a share of about 60 percent and which enjoys the advantage of coming pre-installed with Windows operating systems. The other users are divided almost all the Norwegian Opera, by Chrome (Google's) and Safari (Apple's).

In part because it undermined the empire of Microsoft and as an open-source application, Firefox has early earnest to create a community of users. In late 2004, the eve of the launch of version 1.0, Mozilla bought two pages of advertising in The New York Times, which put the name of ten thousand people who had contributed with donations to the project.

The Pirate Bay is again reported by the world outside the Internet, this time because of being processed by the Holland Foundation Breiner. The court has 10 days only responsible for the Pirate Bay block access to Holland.

The international press reports announced that the Court responsible for the Pirate Bay which should block access to Holland traffic so that nobody can access the content there of. According to the TorrentFreak site CNet, the case was brought against Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunda and Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, that claim was not made aware of the case and seeking now appeal the decision.

If the Court's request is not accepted by the Pirate Bay, the court will impose a fine on those responsible in the amount of 3 million, with an increase of 30 thousand euros per day of delay to be met.

YouTube is developing a new player to show 3D videos.
Now, that anyone can record a video with a simple camera or mobile phone, the largest site for sharing videos of the World, YouTube, launches a new challenge to Internet: produce videos with 3D effects.

The idea is from Pete, an employee of Google (the owner of YouTube), a company that encourages its employees to develop autonomous projects, that video player is a good example. The production of 3D video could be a new challenge for millions of Internet users around the world.