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Product: Smart Phone
Brand: Apple 3G
Dimensions (HxWxD): 4.5 inches (115.5 mm) x 2.4 inches (62.1 mm)x 0.48 inch (12.3 mm); 4.7 ounces (133 grams)
Cellular and wireless
• UMTS/HSDPA (850, 1900, 2100 MHz)
• GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz)
• WiFi (802.11b/g) and Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR
Capacity: 8GB or 16GB flash drive
Display: 3.5-inch (diagonal) widescreen multitouch display; 480-by-320-pixel resolution at 163 ppi
Audio
• Frequency response: 20Hz to 20,000Hz
• Audio formats supported: AAC, Protected AAC, MP3, MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 1, 2, and 3), Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV.
Camera: 2.0 megapixels camera located on back of iPhone.
Video format supports:

H.264 video, up to 1.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, low-complexity version of the H.264 baseline profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; H.264 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, baseline profile up to Level 3.0 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, simple profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats

Mail attachment support: .jpg, .tiff, .gif (images); .doc and .docx (Microsoft Word); .htm and .html (web pages); .key (Keynote); .numbers (Numbers); .pages (Pages); .pdf (Preview and Adobe Acrobat); .ppt and .pptx (Microsoft PowerPoint); .txt (text); .vcf (contact information); .xls and .xlsx (Microsoft Excel)

Connectors and input/output
• 30-pin dock connector
• 3.5-mm stereo headphone minijack and microphone
Sensors
• Accelerometre, proximity sensor and ambient light sensor
Power and battery: Built-in rechargeable lithium-ion battery
Talk time: Up to five hours on 3G; Up to 10 hours on 2GStandby time: Up to 300 hours
Features:
• Photo geotagging
• User-configurable maximum volume limit
• Support for display of multiple languages and characters simultaneously
• Charging via USB to PC or power adapter
• Stereo earphones with built-in microphone also built-in speaker
• Colour: 8GB model: Black; 16GB model: Black or white

System requirements:
• PC with USB 2.0 port
• Windows Vista; or WindowsXP Home or Professional with SP 2 or later
• iTunes 7.7 or later
Current retailing price: Rs52,000
Estimated selling price soon: 350 dollars = Rs25,000(approximately)

On July 11, 2008 Apple launched its new and improved version of the gorgeous iPhone worldwide. Unfortunately, Pakistan was not included in the list of 70 countries where the iPhone 3G was to be launched this year even though Mali and Niger were. This was a big disappointment. Given the fact that we are just as hard-core fanatics of Apple here as the Africans, we decided to change our review here from comparison of phones, to a review of the 3G and how fast it will be available in Pakistan.

The good news is that, it should be available pretty soon, ‘officially.’ Unofficially, it is already being retailed in selected stores in Karachi and places like Hafeez Centre in Lahore for a whopping price tag that ranges from Rs48,000 to Rs52,000.

How amazing is this new phone, however? The iPhone 3G has come with bearing a mildly tweaked design and a load of new features. The killer applications, of course, are the access to a faster 3G wireless network (which we will have to wait a bit for, unless Warid launches it with the phone), Microsoft Exchange server e-mail, and support for a staggering array of third-party software from the iPhone App Store. This really is the new iPhone we have been waiting for and in all honesty, which the first-gen phone should have been like.

Firstly, if you have seen the last Apple phone, you would be hard-pressed to notice any design differences on the front of the iPhone 3G. The minor changes — the silver rim is thinner and the silver mesh behind the speaker — are so minimal that they are hardly noticeable. Turn the phone on its side, however, and you will see more changes. Apple has replaced the aluminium silver back with a plastic face in either white or black, which will attract fingerprint smudges faster than a bear to honey.

Performance-wise, with the iPhone 3G, Apple appears to have fixed some call-quality performance issues that the last generation phone had. The volume in this one is louder with less background buzz than before.

Most of the other features are the same. The iPhone 3G has the same 2-megapixel shooter as in the original model, although with a slight improvement in the photo quality. Music and video quality are largely unchanged. Apple again has stubbornly left out multimedia messaging, stereo Bluetooth, and video recording though.

Conclusion:
The Apple iPhone 3G offers critical new features including support for high-speed 3G networks and compatibility with EDGE networks, third-party applications, and expanded e-mail. Its call quality is improved and it continues to deliver an excellent music and video experience.

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The plea to harness the creativity of the internet and apply it on mobile phones was made by Mitchell Baker the chair of Firefox developer Mozilla. All of this functionality “should be the same if I am on a laptop or phone, at home or on a train,” says Baker.

“The breadth of the new ideas floating around and the different ways that people are thinking about information and using the web further away from browsing into more personalised information is exciting,” she said. She is convinced that mobile phones will be one of the forces that will help people make better use of information pertinent to them. “Information that matters to me is what the future is about,” she said.

Transforming experience

For Marc Davis, Yahoo’s social media guru, there’s no doubt that the future is about mobility - with the numbers of handsets about to hit four billion there’s plenty of evidence of their popularity. “The mobile web is not just about accessing the web from your phone. Mobile phones that are location aware, temporarily situated and socially connected will transform our experience of the web, the world and ourselves.”

“The next web,” he says, “will be about place and time.” He suspects that we are near the point at which more people will be able to access the web via their phone than their desk top computer.

Open strategy

Echoing Mozilla’s call to developers, Davis is urging them to get involved in being part of Yahoo’s mobile future. As a way to convince his audience he highlighted the company’s earlier announcement at the Expo called Yahoo Open Strategy (Y!OS).

“Openness is deeply in our DNA and we are coming out as an ‘open company’ now in a big way. So we are making it possible for developers to write an application, to write a widget and open this up.”

Yahoo is not the only one championing widgets. Mobile giant Nokia has announced the next stage of its Widget platform for Symbian Series 60 smartphones.

The new stage will give developers access to GPS, contacts book, communications stacks, e-mail and SMS functions on the phone.

“These are the kinds of things that really make a phone unique,” says David Rivas, Vice President for Nokia’s Series 60 technology management devices group.

“We are at a real crossroads in terms of mobile phone technology and it is this availability of web technology on the mobile device that signals that crossroads.”

But when can consumers expect results? Not for a while said Mike Butcher from technology blog TechCrunch.

“We are not there yet,” he said. “We are about 18 months from an incredible boom in mobile applications and mobile adoption.”

“I think there are two things that are going to happen,” he said. “Firstly the mobile platform is being opened up for other people to create interesting applications. And the second is the handsets are constantly improving which means the overall experience promises to be good.”

Technology

Convergence has been the Holy Grail for mobile phone makers, software and hardware partners, as well as consumers, for more than a decade. And for the first time the rhetoric of companies like Nokia, Samsung and Motorola, who have boasted of putting a multimedia computer in your pocket, no longer seems far fetched.

“Converged devices are always with you and always connected,” said Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, Nokia Chief Executive. Last year Nokia sold almost 200m camera phones and about 146m music phones, making it the world’s biggest seller of digital cameras and MP3 players.

In the coming year the firm predicts it will sell 35 million GPS-enabled phones as personal navigation becomes the latest feature to be assimilated into the mobile phone.

Form and function

Nigel Clifford, Chief Executive of Symbian, said, “all of those single use devices - MP3 players, digital camera, GPS - are collapsing onto the phone.”

“We are going past the point where this was a phone with a few other things,” he said.

Symbian’s operating system shipped on 188 million phones last year and a third of those came with GPS. “We see mobile phones evolving into multi-functional devices that now support consumer electronics, multimedia entertainment and mobile professional enterprise applications; all converging,” said Luis Pineda, from mobile phone chip firm Qualcomm.

Convergence is being driven by a combination of software, services and hardware.

The first phones powered by a chip running at 1Ghz will hit the market later this year, seven years after the first desktop chip broke the gigahertz barrier.

Qualcomm’s 1Ghz Snapdragon chipset will debut inside a number of handsets, including some from Samsung and HTC.

“It’s a first in the industry for a wireless chipset,” said Pineda. As well as raw horsepower Snapdragon also features a dedicated application processor, as well as the ability to handle 12 megapixel digital photos and up to 720p high definition video imaging.

Clifford from Symbian said that the mobile industry had to deliver multi-function devices which did not compromise.

He said, “when we look at what is collapsing on to these devices and people’s expectations with their experiences on single-use specialised devices there is going to be rising expectations.”

Chip shop

More than 90 percent of the world’s mobile phones are powered by technology created by British firm Arm. It designs chip architectures that it licenses to semiconductors makers such as Qualcomm and Broadcom. Ian Drew from Arm said that future mobile phones demanded ever more processing power.

But building chips with greater processing was not a straightforward, he said.

“If you look at a typical phone the first thing you have got to do is get within the half a watt envelope. It needs to get into your pocket. And there’s no fan. It needs to work for days rather than hours.”

He added, “when you start adding multi media experiences - such as 3D graphics, video, and games - there are two ways to do that: you can get bigger and bigger processors or you have multi core where you can switch off a processor when you don’t need it.”

Arm is demonstrating a chip architecture, called Coretex A9, that will offer four cores, or processors, on a single chip. Symbian has been working with Arm on future uses for multi-core mobile phones.

“You can use massive amounts of processing if you need it. But if you don’t you can power down the cores that aren’t required,” said Clifford. Symmetrical Multi Processing will drive the next generation of applications on a phone, he added.

“Silicon vendors are looking very seriously at how they integrate SMP.”

Clifford added, “the future of the internet and computing applications is not going to be in the home or at the office; it’s going to be mobile.” He said that gaming would be the next feature to collapse into phones.

“That is one of the next single usage devices that will start feeling the pressure from the mobile device,” he said. 3D graphics acceleration is becoming standard on many of today’s mobile phones and specialists like Nvidia have joined the market.

Clifford said that today’s most powerful mobile phones, such as Nokia’s N96 and NTTDoCoMo’s 905 series have the same power as a laptop from 2000.

Nvidia’s APX 2500 chip has enough 3D graphics acceleration to handle Quake 3, a PC game from 1999, on a mobile phone.

Handset owners were also beginning to expect the same online experience they have on their desktop PCs on their mobile phones. “Web 2.0, social networking and video sharing; that’s a real driver of horsepower,” said Mr Drew from Arm.

He added, “but you need to be able to get data in. The next generation of mobile phones need high performance radios - they will have high data rates that will enable this content to be streamed to you.”

Symbian is working on technology called Freeway to give phones the ability to move seamlessly between wireless networks, like wi-fi and cell networks like 3G and 4G. “We don’t want people to feel the mobile web is a second class experience.”

Technology

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Active@ Hard Disk Monitor is a freeware disk utility that checks and monitors the status of your hard drives to help prevent data loss. The system is based on the Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T).

This software utility monitors the HDD SMART status.
For example: hard disk parameters such as Temperature, Head Flying Height and Spin-Up Time to notifies a user if critical conditions occur. Disk Monitor also displays hard disk drive information, current S.M.A.R.T. attributes and the overall status of the hard disk’s health.

Advanced disk scan allows you to detect bad sectors on a disk’s surface. The software can be launched automatically at Windows startup and monitor the system in the background. An icon in the System Tray can display the temperature for selected HDD(s).
Main Features:

* Hard Disk performance monitoring and control
* Based on Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (or S.M.A.R.T.)
* Able to scan and display bad sectors on a disk’s surface.
* Displays current S.M.A.R.T. attributes
* Can be launched automatically at Windows startup and monitor the HDD(s) in the background
* Provides standard hard disk information such as Serial/Model Number, Number of cylinders, and so on.
* Sends an email or a popup notification automatically if critical conditions appear.
* Includes System Tray icon temperature status
* Can generate event log and S.M.A.R.T reports
* The software has an easy to use user interface

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The trial version can be down loaded from: Downlad Here

SMART Utility is an application to scan the internal hardware diagnostics system of hard drives. SMART (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) is a system built into hard drives by their manufacturers to report on various measurements (called attributes) of a hard drive’s operation. The attributes can be used to detect when a hard drive is having mechanical or electrical problems, and can indicate when the hard drive is dying. This allows time to hopefully backup, and then replace the drive. Run this utility once a week or more to ensure your HD, and your data, are okay.

NOTE: The demo runs for 30 days or 15 launches, whichever is later. SMART Utility is an application to scan the internal hardware diagnostics system of hard drives. SMART (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) is a system built into hard drives by their manufacturers to report on various measurements (called attributes) of a hard drive’s operation. The attributes can be used to detect when a hard drive is having mechanical or electrical problems, and can indicate when the hard drive is dying. This allows time to hopefully backup, and then replace the drive. Run this utility once a week or more to ensure your HD, and your data, are okay! Comparison of this version with the previous ones is given below:

•               Added better error handling for unexpected SMART data

•               Added model family to debug output

•               Added ability to run with “verypermissive” setting if SMART support was ambiguous

•               Now checks to see if debug messages are enabled before sending log, if not prompt to enable and rescan drives

•               Now checks Mac OS X version for less than 10.4.11 and displays warning message

•               Fixed bug where application would hang if error log was truncated

•               Fixed bug where application would hang if SMART support was ambiguous

•               Fixed bug where “Enter smartctl options” would not pass the options properly

•               FIxed bug where main window values would not update after running “Update SMART information” (they would only update after “Rescan Drives”

•               Fixed model family display in Drive Information window

Operating System Requirements: This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

* Mac OS X 10.5 Intel

* Mac OS X 10.5 PPC

* Mac OS X 10.4 Intel

* Mac OS X 10.4 PPC

Additional Requirements:

* 10.4.11, 10.5 or later

* Mac OS X Client or Server

* PPC and Intel processors

If you find it satisfactory and intend to purchase the regular version; it costs 20 USD.

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Everyone with even a minor experience in computers knows what Linux is? It is a remarkably  complete operating system and is one of the most prominent examples of free software and open source development. It has, in fact, more than one beautiful ëDesktop Environmentí (DE) available, that gives it the point and click capabilities that one expects from a graphical operating system. Actually, Linux is just a ‘kernel’ (a core base) around which the operating system (OS) is built. This means that, unlike the popular Microsoft Windows OS, there is no single distributor of Linux. Many companies and developers use it to build operating systems known as ‘distros’ (short for ‘distributions’). Spearing a thrust that aims to make Linux available to the average end user are the major distros. So why would the common home user choose one of these distros over the much more common Microsoft Windows (and Mac OS, which is itself a close relative of Linux)? One of the major reasons would be that Linux is Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). This means that the full software is not only available for free, but the code used to make the OS is also openly available to everyone to view and modify. This translates into unbelievable stability and security: no more crashes, hang-ups, or viral threats. Linux is faster than Windows, more adaptable, and highly customisable.

It was always that much. These are the reasons large and powerful companies like Google, Yahoo, IBM and others adopted it. These are the reasons nearly all higher end network servers are run on Linux. But these reasons are not enough to entice the average user to start using Linux.

The clinching point now is the manner in which the Linux DEs and Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) have evolved. They are in no way lesser than their Windows or Mac cousins. They are fully functional, powerful, intuitive, and to top it all off, can be stunningly stylish. They can mimic the behaviour of the Windows OS, or work in absolutely unique ways. Gone are the days when the command line text was necessary to use. Even the installation procedure, once the most intimidating part of the Linux experience, is now so easy, that the Windows installation seems downright complex by comparison.

That would mean the Linux is finally ready to take over the average Desktop. A very recent adoption of Ubuntu by the French National Assembly is an indicator of how things are going. After the phase over, the politicians are unanimous in their opinion of how much better the new system is.

However, one is tempted to ask, “if I’m paying big money for something (Windows, Mac OS), there must be a reason.” And there is. Unless you get a commercial version of Linux (which indeed is available), you do not get any official support, even though there is plenty of community support available. Moreover, everything ñ from Microsoft Office to professional development tools to graphical software to web browsers to media players ñ has its fully functional (and often even more powerful) equivalent in Linux, yet the fact remains that most of the Windows software you are familiar with will not run in Linux.

But the biggest obstacle in large scale common Linux adoption is the hesitation in getting used to an entirely new way of thinking. Not much in Linux works in the same way as Windows. You do not double-click an executable to install something, you use a package manager. You do not have a C: and a D: drive, you have a structured filing system. Softwares do not usually come on a CD or DVD, you usually download them from online ‘repositories’. Window management is spread across ‘workspaces’. Not that the Linux Desktop is difficult to use, it’s just different.

In the end it comes to down to how ready the common user is to accept something new. Those who manage to get a Linux system up and running never look back. The now legendary unreliability and clumsiness of Windows is just a reason to change over. Also note that most distros can be easily installed alongside Windows in ‘dual-boot’ configuration ñ Linux is perfectly happy with that. You can get a ‘LiveCD’ and actually try out the OS without even touching your hard disk.

Linux is ready to take over the Desktop ñ of that, there is no doubt. The ever increasing number of users adopting Linux is testament to that. Whether it can complete the takeover, is something only time will tell.

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XP AntiSpy 3.96-6

Download URL:Download Here

OS: Windows XP/Vista

File Size: 320kB

Microsoft Windows is notorious for “bloatware” and this small tool helps you disable some of these unnecessary services and security features that are often unnecessary. Users can disable the annoying error reporting service that pops up as often as Windows crashes (which is quite often), the Windows Media Player update service, Windows Auto Update service, Remote Desktop Connection service and many more services that even Microsoft admits to being the cause of many security flaws. XP AntiSpy also supports Windows Vista. The user interface lists many potentially flawed features native to Windows XP and Vista. Moving the mouse cursor over the checklist items will display a description of the service, benefits or flaws and recommendations. Users can enable or disable the services and apply the changes across the operating system. The software has the potential to ensure that not a single piece of sensitive data on or about a user’s computer goes beyond its hard disk, including the seemingly innocuous automatic codec/license download for Windows Media Player files.

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