Oct 27

Special Exposé Software Only For Windows Vista

Posted in: Freeware, Software, Today's Chili

This article was written on October 29, 2006 by CyberNet.

Vista Expose

About a week ago I discovered a program, called WinExposé, that clones the Mac Exposé feature very well. There have been several new releases of that software since I mentioned it which is really nice to see. In fact, it is one of the most updated pieces of software that I have ever seen. Many of the releases since that time have been for bug fixes and they are surely paying off, because it continues to get better and better.

Windows Vista has the built-in Flip-3D if your computer can handle all of the cool Desktop Window Manager (DWM) effects. The Flip-3D feature is very neat but I still don’t think it is as useful and productive as Mac’s Exposé is. There is an awesome program called My Exposé which someone created and works only in Windows Vista with DWM enabled. That’s because it uses the DWM API in order to do all of the cool transitioning and transparency effects.

Unfortunately my laptop doesn’t support DWM but my desktop does, and that is how I took the screenshot above. The program does seem to be a little graphics intensive because the animations are a little jittery, even though Flip-3D works flawlessly for me on my ATI x300 graphics card. I know it isn’t the best graphics card but it handles itself great with other Vista features.

The other thing that I don’t like at this point is that there is no tray icon or any confirmation that the program is actually running (except the classic Ctrl+Alt+Del, which is how you have to shutdown the program as well). To configure what buttons it uses to activate the Exposé feature you’ll have to edit a text file, and the default button is set to be F9. It can also be configured to activate itself when your mouse moves over a certain part of the screen and the default for that is the upper-left corner.

Overall I think it is a really great program but there is some work that needs to be done before it will feel usable to me. I’m not quite sure why the animation is so jumpy when the built-in Flip-3D works great. Hopefully the developer will continue to work on the program and fine tune it.

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Oct 27

iHome iW1 AirPlay wireless audio system finally available now, again, sort of

Posted in: airplay, Apple, audio, available, ipad, iPhone, ipod touch, IpodTouch, minipost, Music, review, sound, speakers, streaming, Today's Chili, Wireless
Remember back to September 26th when iHome’s iW1 AirPlay speaker was supposed to be available? Curiously, the company’s website continually listed the $300 system as “coming soon” (at least the times we checked), leaving iOS and iTunes users yearning for this cable-free audio ware in the proverbial dust. Now, a full month later, iHome has again announced the release of this flagship wireless speaker, even though it’s still out of stock itself. According to the company, a quick trip to an Apple Store, Best Buy or Crutchfield should let you snag one, although, the latter’s site won’t have any until November 3rd. Here’s to hunting — and waiting for the smaller iW2 and iW3 units to get proper release dates. Full details in the press release after the break.

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Oct 27

Samsung’s Q3 2011 overall profit falls despite incredible phone sales

Posted in: earnings, financials, hdpostcross, mobilepostcross, samsung, Today's Chili

Ready for more dollars and cents earnings news? It’s Samsung’s turn, and when it comes to phones the news couldn’t be better, where it notched an operating profit of $2.3 billion on record sales. Unfortunately, other parts of its massive business selling displays, memory chips, appliances, and more weren’t as profitable, leading a quarterly profit of $3.8 billion, down 13% from the same period last year. We’ll wait for a press release in English for more details, for now you can paw through bar graphs and figures in the accompanying slides.

Update: Now with English language press release included after the break.

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Oct 27

Microsoft cracks open a window to the future, anticipates our laziness (video)

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In the future, we’ll all be slaves to rectangles. No, really. Well, at least that’s the prognosis, albeit sanitized, Microsoft has slickly pieced together in its Productivity Future Vision concept video. It’s a mostly seamless world where all of our interactions are made to be mobile, virtual, efficient and white-washed, but it actually just reads as too darn fussy and overcomplicated. Sure, we could get behind contactless payment, tablets with holographic displays and eyeglasses that translate conversations when you’ve just stepped off a red eye into some foreign destination — that’s all incredibly useful. But car windows with agenda overlays and transparent refrigerator door displays? Some things are better left lo-tech. For Redmond’s part, the company’s merely aiming to project ways these various implementations of “real technology” will intersect and “actively assist” us with our harried lives. Take a peek at MS’ sanctioned tomorrow land and its sparse piano soundtrack after the break.

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Oct 27

$35 Aakash Android tablet gets the hands-on treatment

Posted in: Android, android tablet, AndroidTablet, froyo, government, slate, tablet, Today's Chili

While everyone was in a tizzy about Amazon’s $199 Kindle Fire price point, the Indian government was busily working to help bring out the $35 Aakash Android tablet. The tablet was developed with similarly good intentions as OLPC’s XO laptop before it — an attempt to get low-cost computing devices into the hands of students. One of the tablets landed in the VentureBeat offices this week. The site spent some hands-on time with the Froyo slate, and mostly liked what it saw, noting that seeming compromises made for price and a speedy release date ultimately benefit the whole of the device. The tablet will start hitting India next month, at the $35 government-subsidized pricepoint (actual retail price is a still mega-cheap $60).

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Oct 27

Microsoft Pushes Out a Silent Windows Update

Posted in: Microsoft, Software, Today's Chili, Windows

This article was written on September 13, 2007 by CyberNet.

Microsoft apparently pushed out a Windows Update a few weeks ago of which no one had been notified. There were 9 files, on both XP and Vista, pertaining to the Windows Update process which were modified. The files are listed below, and all of them reside in the Windows\System32 folder on your machine.

So why is this such a big deal? As it turns out this update was sent to all Windows computers, even those that have the automatic installation of Windows Updates disabled. There isn’t supposed to be anything harmful with the files, and it is expected that the update is needed if you want to receive further Windows Updates. But what about those people who didn’t want to receive any updates in the first place?

The reason why this concerns me is that Microsoft was able to get onto my computer and modify my system files without me even knowing. How is that supposed to make me feel safe knowing that some hacker could probably do the same thing?

Here was Microsoft’s response on the matter:

Any user who chooses to use Windows Update either expected updates to be installed or to at least be notified that updates were available.  Had we failed to update the service automatically, users would not have been able to successfully check for updates and, in turn, users would not have had updates installed automatically or received expected notifications.
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Before closing, I would like to address another misconception that I have seen publicly reported. WU does not automatically update itself when Automatic Updates is turned off, this only happens when the customer is using WU to automatically install upgrades or to be notified of updates.

To see if your computer has received the updates just head on over to the Windows\System32 folder and look for one of the affected files listed below. You should see the date that the file was modified (probably around August 24th), and the version number should be 7.0.6000.381:

Silent Windows Update

In Vista, the following files are updated to version 7.0.6000.381:

  1. wuapi.dll
  2. wuapp.exe
  3. wuauclt.exe
  4. wuaueng.dll
  5. wucltux.dll
  6. wudriver.dll
  7. wups.dll
  8. wups2.dll
  9. wuwebv.dll

In XP, the following files are updated to version 7.0.6000.381:

  1. cdm.dll
  2. wuapi.dll
  3. wuauclt.exe
  4. wuaucpl.cpl
  5. wuaueng.dll
  6. wucltui.dll
  7. wups.dll
  8. wups2.dll
  9. wuweb.dll

Source: Windows Secrets [via Slashdot]

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Oct 27

Archon Genomics X Prize offers up $10 million for sequencing 100 human genomes

Posted in: research, science, Today's Chili, video
Sure, we’ve come to love the X Prize for all of its crazy futuristic car building and moon racing contests, but the latest competition is decidedly smaller — at least in one sense. For the Archon Genomics X Prize, the foundation is asking teams to sequence “medical grade” human genomes — 100 of them, in fact — using the DNA of 100 centenarians (folks who’ve made it to the ripe old age of 100), referred to pithily as the “Medco 100 Over 100.” The centenarian DNA may contain secrets to overcoming disease — after all, they made it to 100 for a reason. The competition opens to teams on January 3rd of next year — once completed, the data gathered will be opened up to researchers. Press info can be unlocked after the break.

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Oct 27

Nokia N8 clicks its heels three times, finds a Symbian Anna service pack update

Posted in: firmware update, FirmwareUpdate, mobilepostmini, nokia, ota, refresh, software update, SoftwareUpdate, symbian, Today's Chili
What’s a megabyte and is heading to the Nokia N8? Surprisingly, it’s a service pack update for Symbian Anna. It’s not too often wonderful things come in small packages, but we appreciate the fast download so we can move on with our daily grind pretty fast. Among the entries in the update’s change log are performance and usability enhancements, faster email and messaging, better GPS locks and plenty more. It only appears to be finding its way to the N8 for now, though we imagine it won’t be too long before it makes cameo appearances on the other Anna devices. If you want to get cracking on the service pack, it’s available over the air and through the Nokia Suite. Now, if only Belle would come knocking on the door…

Nokia N8 clicks its heels three times, finds a Symbian Anna service pack update originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 27 Oct 2011 19:35:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Oct 27

Google Translate Introduces New Languages

Posted in: Google, Today's Chili

This article was written on May 08, 2008 by CyberNet.

Google Translate has just introduced several new languages to their translation service. Adding to their already impressive list which has included difficult languages like Arabic and Chinese for quite some time, they now add to the list the following languages:

  • Bulgarian
  • Croatian
  • Czech
  • Danish
  • Finnish
  • Hindi
  • Norwegian
  • Polish
  • Swedish

Of course we know that the translations any automated service offers aren’t perfect, and in fact, sometimes they’re way “off.” What they do help with though, is getting the general idea of what is being said. We’ve been able to use Google Translate on several occasions to be able to read websites in other languages. Without a translation service, this would not be possible. Another problem with translation services is that a lot of words change depending on the context that they are used, in every language, and at this point translation services aren’t so good at determining context. Google’s service is impressive, just because there are so many languages that they offer, and in all there are 506 different translation combinations.

Google Translate changes.pngGoogle Blogoscoped also points out how the design has been changed a little. They say, “Instead of a single HTML combo box showing the available language pairs, you now get two DHTML combo boxes each containing a language for more free mixing of source and target languages.” In other words, now you pick your starting language and your ending language in separate boxes. There’s also a “detect language” option for when you’re wanting to translate a web page. For example, I decided that I wanted to translate CyberNet News, so I entered in the URL and told Google to detect the language of the page, and then translate it to Finnish. Google detected that it was English, and then had no problem translating it to Finnish.

Source: Google Operating System

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Oct 27

FCC’s ‘Connect America Fund’ redirects phone fees to provide rural broadband

Posted in: Today's Chili, us, usa

The Federal Communications Commission has just unveiled a new plan that’ll overhaul an $8 billion fund that’s currently used to “subsidize phone service in rural areas and for the poor,” pointing that money towards buildouts in the ambitious rural broadband initiative. Most critics suggest that the existing fee model is severely outdated, and in fact, encourages “perverse schemes by carriers to stimulate certain kinds of phone traffic.” Not surprisingly, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski has said that he “doesn’t expect” phone rates to increase for most consumers, and the agency’s currently estimating a $2.2 billion savings from fees that are currently paid out to phone companies. Politics aside, the goal here is to provide broadband access (however that’s defined) to every American by the end of the decade, with Genachowski quipping: “We are taking a system designed for the Alexander Graham Bell era of rotary telephones and modernizing it for the era of Steve Jobs and the internet future he imagined.” Pretty sure more than just Jobs had visions of a connected future, but we’re following the logic, Jules.

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