Evolution of Apple's Computers

The evolution of most all Apple products created over the past 30 years.

This was created to show the evolution of the form factor and industrial design of the products, not to show every single model or upgrade Apple has launched .

-----picture created by Edwin Tofslie

Amazing pictures of the history of Apple! The Apple 1, Jobs, Wozniak

50 pictures from the history of Apple, from the Apple 1 to Iphone, Bill Gates at Apple-meeting in 1984, Wozniak cuddling his dogs, Lisa, Newton - it's all here!

http://www.bloggpix.no/my_weblog/Bildespill/apple/index.html

New WiFi Record: 237 Miles

A Venezuelan techie apparently has set a new record for longest WiFi link. Networking guru Ermanno Pietrosemoli established a wireless connection between a PC in El Aguila, Venezuela, and one in Platillon Mountain, a distance of about 237 miles, mostly using off-the-shelf equipment and a few hacked parts.
The previous record was 193 miles, between a balloon and an Earth-bound PC, which rather cuts down on the risk of signal-bouncing obstacles.
Pietrosemoli notes in the project description that one of the benefits of doing this kind of work out in the Latin American boonies is you don't have to worry much about signal interference.
And yes, I now feel a whole new kind of stupid for not being able to get a reasonable signal between home office and bedroom.

Reformat your Gmail address with dots

You can reformat your existing Gmail address by inserting dots (periods) anywhere within your Gmail username. The Gmail Help pages explain:

"Because Gmail doesn't recognize dots as characters within usernames, adding or removing dots from a Gmail address won't change the actual destination address. Messages sent to yourusername@gmail.com and y.o.u.r.u.s.e.r.n.a.m.e@gmail.com are all delivered to your Inbox, and only yours."

Sounds puzzling !!! Ofcourse ... There may be lot of quizzical questions popping out of ur geeky mind now .... It s same with me too .. What the hell is Google doing ??
See this Gmail help page(Yes , ofcourse , it s google's page).

https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?ctx=%67mail&hl=en&answer=10313

Hamilton wins US Grand Prix

British rookie Lewis Hamilton won the US Grand Prix on Sunday to take his second victory in a row and forge 10 points clear of McLaren team mate Fernando Alonso in the Formula One championship.

Hamilton crossed the line 1.518 seconds ahead of the double world champion for his seventh podium finish in seven extraordinary starts.

Brazilian Felipe Massa was third for Ferrari ahead of teammate Kimi Raikkonen.

Another Finn, Heikki Kovalainen, was fifth for Renault and Italian Jarno Trulli finished sixth in a Toyota.

It was McLaren's third win in a row (after Hamilton in Canada and Alonso in Monaco last month), their third 1-2 in a row and their 152nd grand prix victory.


Provisional results:

1. Lewis Hamilton (Britain) McLaren 1hr 31min 09.965

2. Fernando Alonso (Spain) McLaren +00:01.518

3. Felipe Massa (Brazil ) Ferrari 00:12.842

4. Kimi Raikkonen (Finland) Ferrari 00:15.422

5. Heikki Kovalainen (Finland) Renault 00:41.402

6. Jarno Trulli (Italy ) Toyota 01:06.703

7. Mark Webber (Australia) RedBull-Renault 01:07.331

8. Sebastian Vettel (Germany ) BMW Sauber 01:07.783

9. Giancarlo Fisichella (Italy) Renault 1 lap

10. Alexander Wurz (Austria) Williams-Toyota 1 lap

11. Anthony Davidson (Britain) Super Aguri-Honda 1 lap

12. Jenson Button (Britain) Honda 1 lap

13. Scott Speed (U.S.) Toro Rosso-Ferrari 2 laps

14. Adrian Sutil (Germany) Spyker-Ferrari 2 laps

15. Christijan Albers (Netherlands) Spyker-Ferrari 3 laps

16r. Nico Rosberg (Germany) Williams-Toyota 5 laps

17r. Vitantonio Liuzzi (Italy) Toro Rosso-Ferrari 5 laps

r. Nick Heidfeld (Germany) BMW Sauber 18 laps

r. Takuma Sato (Japan [Images]) Super Aguri-Honda 60 laps

r. David Coulthard (Britain) RedBull-Renault 73 laps

r. Rubens Barrichello (Brazil) Honda 73 laps

r. Ralf Schumacher (Germany) Toyota 73 laps

(rank: r = retired, nc = not classified)

Pixar’s Wall-E Movie Trailer

The trailer for Pixar’s 2008 movie Wall-E is attached to Ratatouille. But you don’t have to wait until June 29th to see it. Check it out after the jump.
Official plot synopsis: The year is 2700. WALL•E, a robot, spends every day doing what he was made for. But soon, he will discover what he was meant for. From Academy Award®-winning director, Andrew Stanton (Finding Nemo), WALL•E is the story of one robot’s comic adventures as he chases his dream across the galaxy. Wall-E will hit movie theaters on June 27th, 2008.

Pixar movies have featured a several composers.

Randy Newman
Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2, Monsters Inc., & Cars

Michael Guciani
The Incredibles & Ratatouille

Thomas Newman
Finding Nemo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJVsCmI99QQ
http://www.apple.com/trailers/disney/walle/
Largehttp://images.apple.com/movies/disney/wall-e/wall-e-tsr1_h640w.mov
480phttp://images.apple.com/movies/disney/wall-e/wall-e-tsr1_h480p.mov
720phttp://images.apple.com/movies/disney/wall-e/wall-e-tsr1_h720p.mov
1080phttp://images.apple.com/movies/disney/wall-e/wall-e-tsr1_h1080p.mov

Apple's iPhone Website: Demonstrations in 3D

The new Apple.com website has quite a bit of surprises. While looking though the its iPhone technology section I learned they updated their 3D demonstrations. Pretty cool.!!!!!!

http://www.apple.com/iphone/technology/

SanDisk inks agreement to support DivX

DivX and SanDisk have announced a licensing agreement allowing SanDisk to include DivX technology in SanDisk’s Sansa line of video-enabled products.

As a result of the partnership, future SanDisk video products can include interoperability with the DivX Stage6 video website. This partnership is designed to provide SanDisk consumers with seamless access to the growing library of professional and user-generated video content available today in the popular DivX format, according to the companies.

Products that bear the DivX Certified logo have undergone a rigorous testing program to ensure a high-quality DivX media experience, including reliable video playback, interoperability with other DivX Certified devices and the visual quality users expect from DivX.

SanDisk expects to announce plans later this year for DivX support in its product lines.

Nintendo Wii sales hit 8 million worldwide

The sales of Nintendo's Wii console have now passed the 8 million mark worldwide. With Xbox360 sales just 2 million ahead on 10 million sold through and PS3 on 3.5 million. DS, meanwhile, is fast approaching the 45 million mark, with PSP sales around half that.

For more statistical details and chart like presentations click the link below

http://www.vgchartz.com/?w=8m

Mininova's Landmark .

Mininova, one of the most popular BitTorrent search engines, experiences a massive growth in the first half of 2007, and yesterday they served the 2 billionth .torrent download.

I personally recommend(use) mininova among the public torrent sites besides using some non-public torrent sites like demonoid,desitorrents,tamiltorrents .. (yeah !! i ve account in all of em !!)

What American accent do you have?

Want to know the depth of American English accent u speak ??!!!... Then check this link ... Its puts u thru some 16 questions .. and tells the results based on ur answers .. cool ??? !! is'nt it ?

This is version 4 of the famous quiz that tells you what accent you have

http://www.youthink.com/quiz.asp?action=take&quiz_id=9827

How Google Earth Works ??

Google Earth - Almost everyone of us is familiar with it .. we ve seen the satellite imageries of our college(SSNCE), !! and perhaps somebody of you could have had a pretty good look at their house even .. in google earth !!(How many ve seen ur house in google earth ??).Well , ever wondered how all these are possible .. ?? and how these work ?? (Nope ??) . Then , plunge into this article before something more attractive in the web distracts you ..(Yeah,i get distracted too much . My level of distraction in web is well above the observed limits of normal people .. Sounds too much ?? ) ..

Google Earth is currently available for download as a desktop application, although you need to be connected to the Internet to use it. Every time you open Google Earth, it automatically connects to Google's servers, giving you access to terabytes of geographical, political and social data. For instance, you can view a city with certain "layers" turned on, including topographical information, population data and crime statistics for the area. The layers and all of the map navigation buttons, including zoom, tilt and rotate, are all located in the Google Earth frame.

Google Earth comprises an array of features that would probably take months to fully utilize, the basic features fit loosely into the following categories:
Mapping/directions
Local search
Sightseeing

Let's find out where Google Earth gets its data.

Google Earth was once a premium program called Keyhole that cost about $90. When Google purchased Keyhole, it inherited terabytes of digital mapping data and set about creating a basic version of the software that would be available for free download. Now you're all caught up.

The photographic maps available on Google Earth come primarily from two sources: satellites and aircraft. Google gets this imagery and other digital mapping information from sources such as TeleAtlas and EarthSat, both of which compile photographs and maps into digital form for commercial applications. Because the data comes from different sources, it's provided at different resolutions, which is why some areas of the globe appear crisp even at street level while others are blurry from a great distance. Google is striving to have as much high definition coverage of the world as possible. When you use Google Earth, you're not viewing the imagery in real-time: according to Google, the information is no more than three years old and is continually updated as new data becomes available.

Google Earth has several countries like the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom covered to street level, meaning you can zoom in and view road names and local businesses and get directions from here to there. The database has a good amount of information on other regions like Western Europe, India and Japan as well, but the rest of the world is hit or miss. While you can zoom in and get a pretty good look at the Egyptian pyramids, you can't see street names or find a grocery store in the area. Google is constantly adding more information to its databases, though, and the maps are getting better with each update.

This brings us to another source of Google Earth's data: the Google search engine. Part of what makes Google Earth so addictive is its collaboration with Google search. When you're viewing a city, you can search for coffee shops, restaurants, grocery stores, bars and tons of other businesses in the vicinity, and you can click on them to get detailed information from the Google search engine. Users can also add a business location to a map by clicking on "Add/Edit a Business Listing" in the Google Earth toolbar.

Authors : Julia Layton and Jonathan Strickland

Here is another game --- test ur mouse handling capability

Use ur mouse to play this game ...


Military Helicopter

RAID - Wat s it ???

In the last few years RAID has become really quite popular. Once purely in the domain of high-end enterprise servers, today, any self respecting enthusiast motherboard had better have onboard RAID if it wants to be taken seriously. The abundance of onboard RAID controllers mean that it’s not unusual to see small arrays in today’s home computers. The reasons for this can be for increased speed, increased reliability or simply for bragging rights. After all, two (or more) disks are better than one, right?

Depending on whom you ask, RAID can stand for either Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks or Redundant Array of Independent Disks. Technically, the former was the original name given to the use of arrays of more than one drive. The term ‘inexpensive’ was used as RAID was used as a substitute to proprietary disk solutions that, while they offered acceptable performance and fault tolerance, were prohibitively expensive.

RAID was a way to increase performance and add fault tolerance whilst using off-the-shelf disks, reducing costs greatly. There are many different types of RAID and each has their own strengths and drawbacks, no single level of RAID is ‘the best’ and it is important that one picks which RAID level best suits their particular situation.

The different types of RAID can offer a multitude of benefits, whether it’s for an oracle database being accessed by thousands of users simultaneously, for a high performance HD video workstation or simply for a home user storing photos. Each different case obviously has a different set of requirements, and a vastly different budget. Deciding on which level of RAID to use is always a balance between the pros and cons of each. The main aspects to consider are performance, redundancy and of course cost.

Some RAID levels are more focused on getting all out performance without bothering with redundancy, others provide redundancy as a foremost concern and performance can suffer accordingly. Certain types of RAID require a powerful hardware controller to give acceptable performance, resulting in high costs, whereas others can give adequate performance using a software solution.

So what exactly can RAID offer?

Increased Performance
There is a limit to the rate at which data can be read from or written to a hard disk platter. Unfortunately due to the mechanical construction of hard drives this limit is considerably slower than the rate at which data travels around every other part of a computer. The platters and actuators inside a hard drive can only move so fast and are bound to mechanical constraints and tolerances that solid state storage (i.e. ram) does not suffer from.

Most implementations of RAID offer increased performance over a single disk by reading from or writing to many disks at the same time. In theory, data can be retrieved from two disks in half the time as from a single disk, from eight disks four times as fast as from two disks and etcetera. Of course in practice this is not exactly true, as RAID controller overheads and calculations for redundancy slow down the process, but whether it’s an array of two disks or two thousand disks, RAID can certainly increase performance.

Data Security
Data security is the concept that an array can suffer the complete failure of one, or sometimes many hard drives and not lose any of the data contained on the array. This is done through data redundancy, i.e. some disk capacity is sacrificed for the sake of keeping extra data. Redundancy can be provided via mirroring, that is, a duplicate copy of all of the data is held through parity information, which we’ll come to later.

Data Availability
Data availability, not to be confused with data security, is when an array can sustain a disk failure with neither data loss nor interruption to service. While this feature may not be especially important to a home user, it can be vital to a business. Sometimes it’s simply not acceptable to shut down a service, a website for instance, simply to replace a failed disk. Data availability must include data security, but data security does not necessarily constitute data availability. Hot-swapping and hot-sparing are features implemented in many RAID controllers that allow recovery of a failed disk without taking the array offline.

Increased Capacity
When you need a lot of space on a single volume, sometimes the largest hard drives available are not large enough. If you wanted to record several hours of uncompressed 1080p video even the latest and greatest 1TB drive wouldn’t be large enough to hold all of that information. An array of several 500GB disks would not only create a single ‘drive’ with sufficient space, but would also be far cheaper per GB than the flagship 1TB models. It isn’t just necessarily extreme space requirements that can benefit from this. If you need an ultra high-performance database, it makes sense to use ultra high-performance drives. Currently 2.5” 15k RPM drives are the crème de la crème of high I/O performane, and you’re going to need more than one of them as the largest available is a mere 73GB.

Author: Joshua Moore
Published: 11th Jun 2007

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EA Brings its Games To Apple Mac OS X

In a recent press release from EA Games, the company has decided to bring it's line up of hit titles to the Mac OS X platform.

EA has announced a deal with Apple to develop and port many of its best PC games to Apple's Mac OS X.

Now coming soon to an OS X based system near you will be a few new EA titles:
Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars
Battlefield 2142
Need for Speed Carbon
Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix
Madden '08
Tiger Wood's PGA Tour '08

Apple iPhone Tech specs

Screen size -------------- 3.5 inches

Screen resolution---------320 by 480 pixels (160 ppi)

Input method------------Multi-touch

Operating system--------OS X

Storage------------------ 4GB or 8GB

GSM--------------------- Quad-band (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz)

Wireless data------------- Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) / EDGE / Bluetooth 2.0+EDR

Camera -------------------2.0 megapixels

Battery
Talk / Video / Browsing --Up to 5 hours
Audio playback----------- Up to 16 hours

Dimensions ---------------4.5 x 2.4 x 0.46 inches / 115 x 61 x 11.6mm

Weight------------------- 4.8 ounces / 135 grams

Motorola ROKR E6 - It's a Linux phone !!

We have seen the future of cell phones, and it’s Linux. This phone bring the flexibility of Linux to the portable world.

This Linux-powered Smartphone boasts a 2.0-megapixel camera w/8x digital zoom, a 2.4-inch QVGA touchscreen display, 8MB built-in memory, an SD/MMC card slot, two “3D Surround” speakers, Bluetooth, and USB connectivity.

One of my favourites !!

swf game . the one that i love most ....... VIRTUAL CHAMPIONS LEAGUE .........



this is a flash game embedded in the page .. it s just a script adding an object ..

hey try this !!!

Super Free Kicks

good game .. give a try .. and u ll get addicted ..

Memory card developed to work with USB

A flash memory card standard which promises removable media that can be inserted into either a USB 2.0 port or a MMC reader has been developed.

miCard is designed to make it easy to transfer data between devices such as digital cameras and computers without the need for a card reader. The card will initially come with an adaptor to fit standard MMC slots.

Adding USB 2.0 capability to a memory card provides an interface that is compatible with existing products and widely recognised by general consumers

miCard will have an 8GB capacity, although the MultiMediaCard Association (MMCA) claims that capacities of up to 2TB will be possible. The card measures 12mm x 21mm x 1.95mm.

Vodafone advances website rendering for mobiles

Vodafone has launched its mobile internet strategy, and claims to have made significant advances in rendering web pages for mobile devices.

"What we've done is [to] work with some of our suppliers, such as Novarra, to ensure that pages display properly. [The technology] understands how the web page is put together and repurposes that for mobile," a spokesperson told ,adding that Novarra's technology was able to detect which handset was being used to access the content.

The process involves compressing the content to roughly a tenth of its original size, the advantages naturally are , much lower data usage and higher download speeds, the spokesperson said, while conceding that some Flash-heavy sites may still not render as intended.

Many popular sites, such as YouTube and MySpace, have been difficult to render on a small screen. Vodafone, however, has already partnered with these and several other sites to deliver mobile-friendly versions of their content.

In a further development of Vodafone's mobile internet strategy, users will be able to aggregate up to five email accounts,including webmail and POP3 — into a unified client.

ZFS to become file system in Leopard

Sun's Jonathan Schwartz announced today at Sun event in Washington D.C. that Apple would be making ZFS "the file system" in Mac OS 10.5 Leopard

Rumors of Apple's interest in ZFS began in April 2006, when an OpenSolaris mailing list revealed that Apple had contacted Sun regarding porting ZFS to OS 10. The file system later began making appearances in Leopard builds.

ZFS has a long list of improvements over Apple's current file system, Journaled HFS+. More information on ZFS is available at the ZFS homepage and Wikipedia.

See this apple Ad

This is a fan made commercial and is an interesting combination of the legendary “Think Different” ad campaign and the more current style of iPod advertising. I love this video, and I thought you people might enjoy it…take a look !!!…

http://www.applegazette.com/on-the-web/youtube-find-crazy-ones-think-different-2007/

Mukesh Ambani is building 60 storey house

India's richest man and its first trillionaire Mukesh Ambani(Reliance Group), is building a new home in the financial hub of Mumbai: a 60-storey palace with helipad, health club and six floors of car parking.
The building, named Antilla after a mythical island, will have a total floor area greater than Versailles and be home for Mr Ambani, his mother, wife, three children and 600 full-time staff.

Google acquires FEEDBURNER

Both Google and FeedBurner ve agreed the rumours and said the acqusition has in fact happened .

FeedBurner is a leading provider of feed distribution and management tools. A web feed is a way for online publishers to syndicate their content and deliver it straight to readers. Each day, FeedBurner delivers feeds to millions of users around the world and offers unique and useful tools for publishers to analyze, optimize, and monetize their content. Further, FeedBurner offers a feed advertising platform for advertisers to reach engaged feed readers through targeted in-feed ads and innovative techniques like RSS feed-driven ads.

Google has promised to offer exceptional tools of feedburner to the feed creators,publishers,advertisers .

Mozilla firefox 3 : features

The Mozilla Firefox users ve more things to be proud of .....

Firefox 3 is due for release and it s expected to be lashing out its major competitor
IE 7 with a lot of new features and enhancements ..

It seems it is also going to ve a new cool interface .

It has also made important changes that make it more secure,reliable,stable with high performance .

And more exciting thing is, you can help contribute, by providing feedback on these designs, or creating your own UI mockups.

Check this for more ....

http://blog.mozilla.com/faaborg/2007/06/01/the-user-interface-of-firefox-3-features/

iPhone release date confirmed: June 29th

Ready to pony the cash? the iPhone is yours come June 29th. Now you can finally mark your calendar and get on with your life -- for the next 25 days or so, until you get in line for your spankin' new $600 iPhone (provided you're still willing to undergo that ugly but required two year service agreement).

Update: The ads are up on Apple's site! Check 'em out.

http://www.apple.com/iphone/ads/