Microsoft’s claim- “Windows is better for photos than a Mac”

Microsoft announced a lot of improvements to Windows Live to include new suite of applications for better management of photos and videos and sync for files. Scheduled for beta release in the coming months, the updated suite will bring a boat-load of new features. Windows Live Essentials which is available for free includes Messenger, Mail, Photo Gallery, Movie Maker, Writer, Sync and Family Safety. Among the touted application is the new version of live photo gallery.

The new Windows Live Photo Gallery of Microsoft highlights following features:

1. Auto Adjustment: - one click that fine-tunes exposure, color balance, angle, and sharpness.

2. Retouch: - remove blemishes, or even entire person.
3. Batch Editing: - do same action to a number of photos at once.

4. Photo Fuse: - use similar photos to create a perfect picture (i.e. closed eyes).

5. Sharing: - the ability to publish your photos directly to social media sites, online storage locations, and send via email or chat.

6. Sync: - the ability to have all of your files on the go, as well as synched across all of your PCs.
7. Slide Shows: - in a few clicks, create and share slide shows with transitions and visual effects.

All the above looks like Windows is all geared to take on Mac. Looking at what Live has to offer, looks like Brian Hall, General Manager was very serious when he said “Windows is better for photos than a Mac, hands down.”
You can view the preview of Microsoft Windows Live on Microsoft’s site. If you can’t view may be Microsoft will put trial for that in next few days.

How Companies Got their Name?

Compaq – Com from computer and paq from “pack” to denote a small integral object or Compatibility and Quality.

Acer- Original name was Multitech, the company changed it’s name to Acer which is the Latin word for “sharp, acute, able and facile”

Konika - From Konishiya Rokubetiten, was the first company established by Rokusaburo Sugiura.

Epson - From the Japanese printer and its equipments manufacturer which was named from” Son of Electronic printer”

Motorola- Founder is Paul Galvin Came up with this name when his company started manufacturing radios for cars Many audio equipment makers of the era used the "ola" ending for their products, most famously the "Victrola" phonograph made by the Victor Talking Machine Company. Then he had changed name to Motorola.

LG - From the combination of 2 popular korean brands, Lucky and Goldstar.

Dow - founder of dove soap is Herbert Henry Dow. Name Cames from the named after its founder.

Apple - come from Apple, a favorite fruit of co founder- Steve Jobs.

Casio - From the name of its founder- Kashio Tando, who had set up the company Kashio sersakujo as a subcontractor factory.

Sony – From the Latin word 'sonus' meaning- sound, and 'sonny' is a slang word used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster, "since we were sonny boys working in sound and vision", said Akio Morita. The company was founded as Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation in 1946, and changed its name to Sony in 1958.

Fuji - Name of highest mountain in Japan.

Oracle - From the name of project made by Larry Ellison, Ed Oates and Bob Miner for the CLA.

Coca-Cola - derived from the coca leaves and kola nuts used as flavoring. The creator of Coca-Cola John S pemberton then changed the ‘K’ of Koka to ‘C’ to make name look better.

Virgin – from the autobiography of founder Richard Branson

Toshiba - to from the merger of consumer goods company Tokyo Denki and shiba from electrical firm Shibaura Seisaku-sho.

Kodak - From the founder George Eastman. The letter "K" was a favorite with Eastman; he felt it a strong and incisive letter. He tried out various combinations of words starting and ending with "K". He saw three advantages in the name. It had the merits of a trademark word, would not be mis-pronounced and the name did not resemble anything in the art. There is a misconception that the name was chosen because of its similarity to the sound produced by the shutter of the camera.

Nokia - From the finish city of Nokia.

TCL - From Today China Lion.

Dell - From the surname of founder, Michael Dell. The company changed its name from Dell Computer in 2003.

Pepsi - From the digestive enzyme pepsin.

BSNL - From Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited

Dual screen laptop

You might hear about dual screen desktop pc, now this is related to laptop. Gscreen, an Alaska based notebook designer & manufacture has found a dual screen laptop.



This laptop is meant for designers, filmmakers, and others that often need two monitors to get work finished and basically to solve a problem of screen. if your browser, Word, Photoshop, IM, video editing tools, folders and other open at the same time it takes up a lot of screen real land and on a 15.4″ laptop, you can only fit so much before your screen is piled with program after program. In this laptop both monitor slides, so that you can move the gscreen around compactly. For more information about the hardware, software and the price you can refer site
www.gscreencorp.com

Things you probably never knew your Mobile phone could do

There are a few things that can be done in times of grave emergencies. Check out the things that you can do with it:

If you find yourself out of the coverage area of your mobile; network and there is an emergency, dial 112 and the mobile will search any existing network to establish the emergency number for you, and interestingly this number 112 can be dialed even if the keypad is locked.

Have you locked your keys in the car?
If you lock your keys in the car and the spare keys are at home, call someone at home on their mobile phone from your cell
phone. Hold your cell phone about a foot from your car door and have the person at your home press the unlock button, holding it near the mobile phone on their end. Your car will unlock. Saves someone from having to drive your keys to you.

If you have very low battery in your mobile still you want to use your mobile phone in emergency than just *3370#.Your mobile will show a 50% increase in battery. This reserve will get charged when you charge your mobile next time.

* # 0 6 # is a number to check out the serial number of mobile number. After dialing number a 15 digit code will appear on the screen. This number is unique to your handset. Write it down and keep it somewhere safe. When your phone get stolen, you can phone your service provider and give them this code. They will then be able to block your handset so even if the thief
changes the SIM card, your phone will be totally useless.

Interesting fact about the name of the months

January: named after Janus, the god of doors and gates

February: named after Februalia, a time period when sacrifices were made to atone for sins

March: named after Mars, the god of war

April: from aperire, Latin for “to open” (buds)

May: named after Maia, the goddess of growth of plants

June: from junius, Latin for the goddess Juno

July: named after Julius Caesar in 44 B.C.

August: named after Augustus Caesar in 8 B.C.

September: from septem, Latin for “seven”

October: from octo, Latin for “eight”

November: from novem, Latin for “nine”

December: from decem, Latin for “ten”

The human brain runs on computer chip.

Inspired by research in neuroscience, scientists are building a ‘neural’ computer that will work just like the brain but on a much smaller scale.

The human brain is like a computer, but it differs from everyday computers in three significant ways: it consumes very little power, it works well even if components fail, and it seems to work without any software.

The FACCTS groups which makes this possible. A team within FACETS is completing an exhaustive study of brain cells – neurons – to find out exactly how they work, how they connect to each other and how the network can ‘learn’ to do new things.

Mapping brain cells

Colleagues of Heidelberg University are recording data from neural tissues describing the neurons and synapses and their connectivity. This is being done almost on an industrial scale, recording data from many, many neural cells and putting them in databases.

Meanwhile, another FACETS group is developing simplified mathematical models that will accurately describe the complex behaviour that is being uncovered. Although the neurons could be modelled in detail, they would be far too complicated to implement either in software or hardware.

The aim is to use these models to build a ‘neural computer’ which emulates the brain. The first effort is a network of 300 neurons and half a million synapses on a single chip. The team used analogue electronics to represent the neurons and digital electronics to represent communications between them. It’s a unique combination. This system runs 100,000 times faster than the biological equivalent and 10 million times faster than a software simulation. The network is already being used by FACETS researchers to do experiments over the internet without needing to travel to Heidelberg.

Newer type of computing

But this ‘stage 1’ network was designed before the results came in from the mapping and modelling work. Now the teams are working on stage 2, a network of 200,000 neurons and 50 million synapses that will incorporate all the neuroscience discoveries made so far.
To build it, the team is creating its network on a single 20cm silicon disk, a ‘wafer’, of the type normally used to mass-produce chips before they are cut out of the wafer and packaged. This approach will make for a more compact device.

It’s so large so that circuit will certainly have manufacturing flaws.
The chip have faults but they are each likely to affect only a single synapse or a single connection in the network,”

How could we use a neural computer? Meier of Heidelberg University stresses that digital computers are built on principles that simply do not apply to devices modelled on the brain. To make them work requires a completely new theory of computing.
Ones you understand basic principles then you can create hardware also.

Ahead of the mind?

Now the question might arise in your mind that Can natural computer go ahead of the mind?

To do this The first step could be a little add-on to your computer at home, a device to handle very complex input data and to provide a simple decision, It can be an internet search.

The FACETS project, which is supported by the EU’s Sixth Framework Programme for research, is due to end in August 2009 but the partners have agreed to continue working together for another year. They eventually hope to secure a follow-on project with support from both the European Commission and national agencies.

Meanwhile, the consortium has just obtained funding from the EU’s Marie Curie initiative to set up a four-year Initial Training Network to train PhD students in the interdisciplinary skills needed for research in this area.

Meier points out that neural computing, with its low-power demands and tolerance of faults, may make it possible to reduce components to molecular size.

Alien Languages Translated By Computer Program

Alien Languages Translated By Computer Program


A computer program developed by John Elliott of Leads Metropolitan University may be able to discern the structure of an alien language - the first step in understanding visitors from outer space.

Dr. Elliott uses a database of sixty different languages for purposes of comparison.

He believes that even an alien language far removed from any on Earth is likely to have recognizable patterns that could help reveal how intelligent the life forms are.
"Language has to be structured in a certain way otherwise it will be inefficient and unwieldy," he told New Scientist magazine.

Most Americans were introduced to the idea of a machine that could translate any alien language in the popular 1960's television program Star Trek.



 Star Trek Universal Translator



Star Trek Universal Translator
The earliest reference to the idea of machine translation is the language rectifier from Ralph 124c 41+, the 1911 classic by Hugo Gernsback.

He immediately turned the small shining disc of the Language Rectifier on his instrument till the pointer rested on "French."