Posts Tagged ‘iPod’

Apple iPadApple is expected to add features iPad camera for the next edition. They have announced that they are looking for a camera technician to work with a team of developers iPad.”We are looking for technicians with the ability to test the capture image, video, and audio, and playback, for its iPhone, iPod, and the iPad,” writes Apple in their official page Daily Telegraph quoted pages.

This vacancy further fueling speculation that the iPad next generation will have a camera. Technology observers have also found a slot in order to load the right iPad iSight camera.In addition, the developers found the code in the iPad software that allows users to save the image, select images, or take a new picture.

The absence of this camera is one weak point iPad which went on sale in the United States (U.S.) in early April. This tablet computer enthusiasts in Europe, Japan, and Australia must wait until the end of May to get the iPad.Apple iPad sales internationally postpone for a month because of high demand in the U.S.. Although it has been distributed more than 500 thousand units during the first week sales iPad, Apple claims could not satisfy all consumer demand in the U.S..

iPod and iPhone, iPad predictable emergence would greatly affect the history of the world’s electronic devices. According to Henrik Brogaard, Head of Network Systems Sales, Nokia Siemens Networks Indonesia, the iPad would shift the role of portable computers to replace its role in the next few years. “I think, because of the emergence iPad, the existence of the netbook will be missing two or three years,” said Henrik Thursday, April 1, 2010.

According to him, ipad own more than a handheld mobile computing devices. “For me, iPad is a large cell phone,” said Henrik. Smartphones are also experiencing a significant increase in growth, so that growth will also cause the surging consumption data. around the world. In 2009 and 2010, Internet traffic originating from mobile handhelds is still around zero coma at a percentage of the total data traffic across the world.

But later in 2015, data traffic from the mobile handset has managed to take the portion up to nearly 50 percent of the total mobile traffic and laptops, which amount approximately 23 exabita. “Although mobile laptops are still continuing to grow, but growth will be greater over the phone,” explains Henrik. According to him, smart phones has changed the habits of people in connecting to the internet.

Once a very rare person who will be accessing the internet via mobile phone. But now many Indonesian people who update Facebook via mobile. In Indonesia, the smartphone also grew rapidly. According to Hastings Singh, Regional Director Distribution, RIM Asia-Pacific, the growth of smartphones in Indonesia last year reached 9 percent increase from the previous year which is only 4 percent.

That growth is also accompanied by increased consumption of customer data telecommunications operators who achieve a growth of 426 percent. At the same time, consumption dropped by voice instead of minus growth. RIM estimates, the growth of smartphones in Indonesia would continue to increase to 16 percent in 2012.

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“Speak to one another in psalms, hymns of praise and spiritual songs. Singing and making melody to the Lord with all my heart.” (Ephesians 6:48)

When visiting a grandmother, I asked him what he usually did every day. Among the activities that he mentioned was “read the biblical” and “play a musical instrument”. At the dinner table there is a wooden box with eight wooden pipe hanging in it. With shaking every pipe like a bell, a tone sounded. I’m not really interested in the tunes he played, or really listen to him, until when in the middle game of that song I realized what is actually being sung by my grandmother with the instrument.

That is the song “praying”. Then he played a few notes with the harmonica. “Jesus was crucified”, “Go to Heaven”, and several other songs. It’s all chant songs. I can guess that the only songs who chant in his head and he once played a song power of God.

Music is a form of expression in our lives, either through an iPod in our time evening walk or from the radio in our cars. What kind of music you would normally have in our heads and sing with our mouths? Where do we put the word of God in the songs that we listen to?

Music is an important part in the worship of God in the lives of many saints in the past. David is a talented musician, who often create songs for the Lord, singing and writing many songs for praise and glorify, and rejoice in the truth of God. In Psalm 119:54, David writes, “the decrees of thy psalm is a song for me at home stay as strangers.”

For those of us who only sing hymns of the time once a week go to church, involve God more in everyday life is something we need to do. We must learn to prefer the spoken word of God and reducing the lyrics are inspired by humans.

Meeting with the grandmother has revealed the value of music inspired by the word of God. Moreover, the lyrics of this song are the words that will bring us joy and peace in our day. The lyrics also is that we will sing forever in heaven.

Reflection:
Take a moment to look at the songs like what you hear often. How many of it all, which centered on God?

Sony VAIO VPC L117FX B

Sony VAIO VPC L117FX B

Among the all in one all-in-one desktop PC, the Sony VAIO VPC-L117FX/B ($2,000 list) is certainly one of the best looking. It has the look of a 24-inch HDTV, an intentional design choice. Inside that sexy shell is the heart of a power user’s PC: quad-core Intel processor, 6GB of memory, 1TB hard drive, Blu-ray burner, and a decent Nvidia graphics card. Placement in the kitchen, den, home office, and living room come to mind, but like its Sony VAIO all in one predecessors, it will even work in the most design critical room in the house: the bedroom.

Design
The VAIO VPC-L117FX/B looks like it could be a Sony Bravia HDTV. That is one of its greatest strengths, since it can blend in anywhere a smaller (20- to 36-inch) HDTV fits. It can even replace a TV in the bedroom, since it has a built-in Blu-ray drive, ATSC tuner, and HDMI-in ports. Viewing Blu-ray videos on the VAIO give you that “view through a window” effect that makes it seem like the action is happening on the other side of the display glass. We tested the system with films made before (Coming to America, The Warriors) and after the advent of CGI (Star Trek, Mission Impossible II). All of the films looked great. The picture is vivid, accurate, and noise-free. The HDMI-in port lets you connect a game system like a Sony Playstation 3 or a set-top box like the one from you cable TV company. The built-in tuner grabs over the air HDTV signals and displays them in Windows 7’s built-in Media Center interface. There’s a slot built into the base of the unit, so you can stow the wireless keyboard out of the way when you’re not using it, and the keyboard and mouse can easily reach a bed or couch 10 to 15 feet away. The system is wall mountable with a kit you can buy separately.

The all-in-one comes with five USB ports, a FireWire/i.Link port, and that 24-inch 1,920 by 1,080 resolution screen (which is true 1080p HD). This is truly a power-users’ system, and it better be one for $2,000. The system also comes with 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi and an IR remote control so you can work almost completely wireless.

Features
The system’s touchscreen is responsive, though it takes a few seconds for your finger to learn exactly where to point to get the screen to recognize your commands. The HP TouchSmart systems are a little more forgiving with finger placement, but both the Sony and HP all in one PC’s screens are multi-touch enabled and can use standard Windows 7 touch command functions like swipe, flick, pinch, and rotate. The system’s quad-core processor makes the Sony VPC-L117FX/B just a little more responsive than the TouchSmart 600, but you’re unlikely to notice the difference unless you have the two side by side. Aside from the usual Windows 7 apps, the VAIO VPC-L117FX/B comes with VAIO Media Gallery, a unified multimedia viewing interface that lets you quickly view all your music, photos, and videos on a variety of formats, including neat calendar-organized formats. This serves a range of users from the “messy but organized” types to the obsessive compulsives that have to have their photos organized by time stamps. Media Gallery allows you to group photos arbitrarily or via searchable criteria; then you can create a quick slideshow with a couple of touches, then export to VAIO Movie Story. VAIO Movie Story is a quick way to create well, if not edited, then concatenated home movie made of your pictures, clips from your digital camera, and clips from your cell phone. Movie Story can either use music you choose, or it will check the videos with an algorithm and automatically suggest or add music. You can then burn the resulting movie to DVD or Blu-ray disc, save the file in a variety of media formats (including MPEG-2, MP4, etc.), or export your file to a Sony Media device like a PSP or a Mylo. I’d like to see an integrated export to iTunes/iPod or better yet an export to Facebook or Youtube, but you could of course do that manually after you create a file.

The VAIO VPC-L117FX/B comes with Google’s Chrome as its default browser, but like all Windows 7 PCs, it also comes with Internet Explorer 8. I found that touch navigation works better in IE8, since I couldn’t scroll slowly in Chrome—it only recognized flick commands like page forward/back and page up/down. Scrolling up and down in IE8 using finger gestures was smooth and worked as expected. I’m sure Google will improve the interface over time, but for now IE8 is the better touch-enabled browser on the VAIO.

Aside from the useful software above, there’s very little in the way of bloatware on the VAIO VPC-L117FX/B. There’s a copy of Microsoft Works, which is useful. Then there’s an installer for a 60-day trial of Microsoft Office, which is the right way to both satisfy Microsoft’s agreements with Sony, and to avoid the dreaded “pre-installed Office” syndrome. Likewise, there’s a link to Quicken’s Website for offers on QuickBooks and Quicken, but you have to download and install them. Believe me, this is a good thing. You don’t have to install Office or Quickbooks unless you want to, so there’s nothing to clean up and therefore no stray .DLL files or leftover detritus to muck up your hard drive. If there’s any drawback to the Sony VAIO Media software, it’s that it’s not as modular as HP’s TouchSmart interface, with its widgets and iPod Touch-style apps. On the other hand, VAIO Media Gallery and Movie Story are some of the most intuitive and easiest to use pack-in multimedia apps outside of Apple’s iLife (iMovie, iDVD, etc.).

Performance
The VAIO VPC-L117FX/B’s performance is very good, thanks to its Intel Core 2 Quad 8400S processor and Nvidia GeForce GT 240M graphics, though it’s tied for the class leader in only one of our standard benchmark tests. The VAIO is speedy at the PhotoShop CS4 test with a class-leading 1 minute 39 seconds, tied with the Gateway One ZX6810-01. It’s also only one second behind the Gateway FX6810-01 at the Windows Media Encoder test (43 seconds), which makes the VAIO VPC-L117FX/B an excellent choice for the multimedia enthusiast. It’s other scores are competitive in the field of multimedia all in one desktops, including the dual-core powered Apple iMac 27-inch (Core 2 Duo), Lenovo IdeaCentre A600 (3011-4BU), and the Editor’s Choice HP TouchSmart 600-1055 PC. The VAIO VPC-L117FX/B can be used for light gaming: it played World in Conflict at a smooth 39 frames per second (fps), but is a little too slow playing Crysis at our standard settings (30fps). If you push the quality levels and/or resolution down you can likely get a playable frame rate in Crysis. The GPU does help with programs like Microsoft’s Virtual Earth and HD video playback from the web.

As a high-end all-in-one desktop PC, the Sony VAIO VPC-L117FX/B is a little pricey at about $2,000, but you can just about rationalize the added expense if you consider the system has one of the best quality screens in the business, Blu-ray burner (as opposed to just a player for the Lenovo A600 and HP TouchSmart 600), and its looks more like an HDTV than a PC, unlike the iMac, Gateway One, Lenovo IdeaCentre, and HP TouchSmart. That said, these other four are a lot less expensive, especially in the case of the Gateway One and Lenovo A600 (both $1,399 list). The Gateway One is the performance leader overall, with a speedy Solid State Drive (SSD) helping its quad-core processor take five wins out of the seven benchmark tests. However, the Editor’s Choice winning HP TouchSmart 600-1055 has the most polished implementation of touch technology in Windows 7, along with the best bang for the buck ($1,599 list) out of all the multimedia all in ones. The Sony VAIO VPC-L117FX/B is a “better quality” choice if you’re willing to spend the bucks, but you’d have to be a individual who’s really hard to please to justify an almost $500 price premium.

Fujitsu P1610 tablet

Fujitsu P1610 tablet

About 18 months ago, a technology blogger got fed up with the industry and forged an alliance with a start up to make his dream computer. It almost worked.The touch-screen “tablet” device will be available for pre-order Saturday – from the start up. The blogger is out of the picture, back to producing posts rather than PCs.But this is Michael Arrington, the often caustic front man of the Tech Crunch blog, and he’s determined not to let the story end there. He filed suit in federal court on Thursday, saying the $500 JooJoo tablet is the fruit of his Crunch Pad project.

For its part, start up Fusion Garage says Arrington’s contribution was minimal, and he didn’t manage to fulfill his commitments to the project. Tired of waiting for him to come through, the start up went ahead on its own.
The story begins in July 2008, when Arrington, one of Silicon Valley’s best-connected bloggers, posted a manifesto on Tech Crunch.”I’m tired of waiting – I want a dead simple and dirt cheap touch screen Web tablet to surf the Web,” wrote Arrington, calling for collaborators to step forward.

The post caught the attention of Chandrasekhar Rathakrishnan, the young founder of Fusion Garage, which had been working for a few months on software that might power such a tablet. Like Arrington, Rathakrishnan envisioned a system that was based on a Web browser rather than a desktop operating system such as Windows. That would allow the tablet to start up quickly and would keep hardware requirements – and thus costs – down.

In September 2008, Rathakrishnan tracked Arrington down after a conference. Arrington agreed that Fusion Garage’s software might solve part of his tablet puzzle, and said he’d want to acquire Fusion Garage. Arrington said they settled on Fusion Garage owning 35 percent of a joint Crunch Pad venture.

“I thought that was exciting. Here we had the guy who had a blog with a lot of reach, suggesting we’re something exciting,” said Rathakrishnan, now 29 years old. “I know how hard building hardware is, how much money you need for that. Having Arrington by our side (would) help us get there faster.”

Between September 2008 and February 2009, the new partners worked on a prototype designed by Crunch Pad’s small team and a circle of consultants, running Fusion Garage’s software.

From here, the stories diverge and the partnership of two scrappy entrepreneurs sours.

Rathakrishnan said in an interview that looking at the February CrunchPad prototype made him think twice about the project.

“It looks like a tablet built in 2000. It is huge, it doesn’t look like it could go to market,” he said. “That’s when we realized this is not going to go where he thought it would go.”

Rathakrishnan said Fusion Garage went back to the drawing board and designed a new prototype with a better touch screen and new software, and brought it to Arrington in April.

By Arrington’s account, for the next three months Rathakrishnan worked out of TechCrunch’s office. Arrington said his team was working on the hardware, talking to potential suppliers, and working directly with Rathakrishnan’s team on the software and user interface. There was no formal contract in place, despite Arrington’s past career as a lawyer, but he was comfortable with the arrangements worked out verbally and over e-mail.

“Did his team do most of the work? Sure. But we were paying a lot of the bills,” Arrington said, estimating Crunch Pad spent between $300,000 and $400,000 for parts and to help build prototypes.

Crunch Pad employees also went to Singapore and Taiwan to work with Fusion Garage and the manufacturers working on the tablet, Arrington said.Arrington had also been in touch with Ron Conway, a seasoned angel investor in the valley who made early bets on companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter.

In an interview, Conway said he put together a small group of investors ready to raise $1 million to $2 million to be used for the first manufacturing run of the CrunchPad. He said was on call all summer, just waiting for Arrington to say the product was ready to go.

Rathakrishnan remembers these months much differently. He said Crunch Pad’s team didn’t contribute a line of code or a dollar of funding. There was never agreement on the terms of an acquisition. Rathakrishnan said he was bewildered that neither the funding nor the buyout deal Arrington promised were materializing, and so he and Fusion Garage were the ones out raising money and finding manufacturing partners.

In late November, the tablet computer was almost ready to make its debut when the project dramatically imploded. It’s impossible to say now what, exactly, went down between the two sides, but Arrington wrote in a Nov. 30 post on TechCrunch that Fusion Garage and its investors had suddenly decided to dump the Crunch Pad team and sell the product on their own, even though Arrington believed neither side owned rights to the product.

Rathakrishnan gave a live press conference by Web video Monday to refute Arrington’s version of the story and to introduce the JooJoo.

Since then, he’s taken the device on a whirlwind tour to show it off to gadget bloggers and technology journalists. The 12.1-inch tablet-style computer boots up into a screen of shortcuts to popular Web services like Facebook and Twitter, boasts a 5-hour battery life and faithfully plays back high-definition video.The device is reminiscent of a giant iPod Touch – something Apple Inc. itself is rumored to be working on.

While Rathakrishnan was showing off the JooJoo, Arrington’s lawyers filed suit in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California to keep Fusion Garage from ever selling it. Arrington says he doesn’t think Fusion Garage has enough money to build the device; Rathakrishnan said he’s on the verge of closing a round of funding not just for the JooJoo, but for follow-up devices.

The drama has cast a pall over what Rathakrishnan had hoped would be a successful launch. But the relationship with the blog, particularly now that it’s turned into a high-tech divorce case, has generated far more buzz than Fusion Garage could have hoped for had it tried to build and launch such a gadget on its own.