Apple iOS 4.2 could grease grinding iPhone 3G gears

Attention all forlorn and bitter iPhone 3G users: Apple might actually have a fix for that ill-fated iOS 4 upgrade your phone was subjected to. IPhone 3G users have been complaining that the purportedly improved software is incompatible with the older models’ hardware. Actually, they are more than complaining; one iPhone 3G owner is suing Apple and accusing the company of purposefully creating software that would leave users no choice but to upgrade to the iPhone 4.

Many iPhone 3G users are echoing her accusations, so they could all be somewhat wary about trusting this supposed iOS 4.2 upgrade that could restore their phone’s former functionality. IOS 4 more or less destroyed it, and 4.1 was a mild improvement that didn’t deliver a complete fix. Not to mention that 4.1′s failure to improve issues with the iPhone 4 did little to boost consumer confidence. But now sources are claiming Apple is making amends, and 4.2 delivers.

IOS 4.2 is primarily intended for the iPad, but is compatible with the iPod touch and iPhone as well. TiPb, an Apple blog, tested the Golden Master seed (released last week to developers) of 4.2 on the 3G to vastly improved results. In a video of the demonstration, TiPb shows that the phone is overall much more responsive – text entry and browsing capabilities are quicker and reminiscent of the phone’s promised performance.

Apple’s site reports the upgrade will be available in November, and there are claims it could be as early as this week.

The question for iPhone 3G users clinging to pre-iOS 4 firmware will be: Do you take the leap of faith and upgrade to 4.2, or are you too critical of Apple and bent on avoiding the dreaded “iBrick”? The imminent release of iOS 4.2 should yield the answer.

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RockMelt Offers a Browser for Social Networking

There have been smartphones, an iPad magazine, and digital cameras designed specifically for social networking. Now a start-up has released a browser optimized for that popular activity.

During the weekend, Mountain View, Calif.-based RockMelt announced the limited beta availability of the new browser. It's built on Chromium, the open-source project that underpins Google's Chrome browser. The company said the new browser "enables you to interact and share with friends on Facebook, Twitter and other sites instantly from anywhere on the web."

'Does More' Than Navigating Pages

The company was founded two years ago by Tim Howes and Eric Vishria, and is backed by Marc Andreessen, who, as the developer behind Netscape, knows something about browsers. Howes, the chief technology officer, is a former Netscape executive.

Other backers include Bill Campbell, an Apple Board member and former CEO of Intuit; Ron Conway, a key investor in Google, Facebook and Twitter; and VMware cofounder and former CEO Diane Green.

Friends are directly available through the browser, so chatting, sharing a video, or keeping up with news updates are relatively quick. Sharing is also built directly into the browser, providing a one-click ability to update a status, tweet or share content. The company said this avoids having to copy and paste web addresses or deal with various sharing widgets on different sites.

Icons for social-networking sites and services appear on one side of the browser, and feeds from those sites and services are displayed in a layer over the main browser. Friends' icons appear on the other side, and sharing can be accomplished by dragging and dropping.

Push Notifications

The company also said RockMelt is the "first browser with push notifications." This allows it to track favorite sites, providing alerts if new information is posted, such as when a new item, picture or video is posted by a friend. Open application programming interfaces will allow integration with services and add-ons provided by Facebook, Google, Twitter and others.

There is also a new approach to search, which, the company said, enables a user to reach "the right search result radically faster." With the same results and suggestions as a regular Google search, RockMelt lets users flip through the pages rather than just click back and forth through URLs.

The business model for the new browser is based on advertising related to web searches. Additionally, interaction with the social-networking sites will be through the RockMelt-run cloud, which will allow the company to acquire a user base since users must register and log in. Capturing a large market share is going to be very challenging, but the company's technology could make it a prime acquisition target.

RockMelt is not the first browser designed specifically for social networking. That distinction falls to Flock. Released three years ago, it has never achieved a large following, arguably because it was released before the social-networking craze really got going.

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Google announces 'Instant Previews' search feature

NEW YORK – People searching on Google will soon be able to see previews of websites before clicking on them.

The "Instant Previews" feature announced Tuesday is meant to help people bypass websites that are either irrelevant or simply too visually cluttered for their tastes. It works for Google Web searches, as well as searches for news, video and local businesses.

After clicking on an icon of a magnifying glass, people will see a picture of the website in the white space to the right of the search results within a tenth of a second. Although the preview photo will vary in size, just as Google Inc.'s image results do, Google designed the previews so that they'll never eclipse the search results and clutter the page.

Google will also show a box above the picture zooming in on the section of the website where the search terms appear. The search terms will be highlighted in that box.

While someone looks at a picture of a website, Google will load visual previews for other search results in the background so that people can quickly compare websites by rolling the cursor over the results on the page.

The feature is a follow-up to Instant Search, a feature Google unveiled in September that updates search results as people continue typing. Last week, Google said that people who own an iPhone or a smart phone running Google's Android software can use Instant Search too.

Google said it is introducing visual previews because word-based search results can only tell someone so much about what a website holds in store. People who use Google can already read short snippets from a site before they click on it, as well as, say, the date a news story or article was published.

All told, Google claims that people who use Instant Previews are 5 percent more likely to feel satisfied with the website they chose.

Google will roll out Instant Previews in 40 languages over the coming days.

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Nvidia takes the graphics speed crown — from itself

 

Nvidia is delivering the world’s fastest graphics chip, taking the title from its previous graphics chip.

The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company is announcing the GeForce GTX 580 GPU (graphics processing unit) today as the latest must-have graphics chip for PC gamers who have to have screaming performance. But the best thing about the chip is that it doesn’t scream at all. The chip is more power efficient than its predecessors, so it can be the heart of a quiet computer that doesn’t need an arm of whirring fans to keep it from melting down.
The new Nvidia chip will put the ball firmly in the court of rival Advanced Micro Devices, which will have to come up with an answer soon or suffer embarrassment about failing to dominate the high-end of gaming. (Actually, AMD is moving in a different direction, combining a GPU and a CPU, or central processing unit, in a single chip. AMD will be talking more about its Fusion family at its analyst meeting today).The previous fastest-chip was the Nvidia GeForce GTX 480, launched six months ago. The chip can be anywhere from 20 percent to 2.6 times faster than the fastest available AMD chips, Nvidia said, depending on which game is being played.
Justin Walker, product manager at Nvidia, said the company re-engineered its Fermi architecture (which was first used in the GeForce GTX 280 graphics chips) from the tiniest component upward to deliver better power efficiency. The chip is 35 percent better in terms of performance per watt of power consumed — a common measure of design efficiency. That’s why a desktop with two 580 graphics boards can operate silently and still play DX11 games, or those that support Microsoft’s DirectX 11 graphics standard.

To cool off the chip, Nvidia created a new way to get heat out using a “vapor chamber thermal solution” that has a built-in liquid-cooling system. The GeForce GTX 580 chip has 512 processing engines known as cores. It exploits a new feature known as tessellation, delivering performance that is 10 times better on tessellation processing than AMD’s fastest graphics chips, Walker said.

The GPU can process a theoretical

 maximum of 2 billion triangles per second; that means it’s incredibly fast at painting animations on a screen. I watched a demo at Nvidia that showed Ubisoft’s latest state-of-the-art PC game, Tom Clancy’s Hawx 2, running in stereoscopic 3D across three monitors. The visual effects on the 3D monitors were stunning, giving the game player a wide field of view that would amount to an unfair advantage over a player who was using a more limited graphics card. As you can see in the pictures here, the mountain imagery is much more realistic and sharper using the new Nvidia graphics, which includes the advanced tessellation feature.
Nvidia’s new chip can also do a great job running Endless City, a graphics demo where a city seems to stretch on forever (pictured at top).
The graphics chip will be available in cards that cost $499. It is shipping today at 17 different graphics card vendors. The new Nvidia GPU is made with a 40-nanometer process in factories owned by contract chip manufacturer Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. The 480 GPU also used the 40-nanometer process. Nvidia’s next major Fermi-based GPU is due to be shipped sometime in 2011.

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How to Improve Your Google Page Rank

To increase the Google PR (Page Rank) is not easy but not hard, depending on your strategy for managing a website / blog. The higher the level of the Google PR of a site, means that site is more important and more popular in the eyes of Google compared to other similar sites.

In terms of search, Google will give more priority sites that have a higher PR to be placed in the search results. For example wikipedia site that has a PR 9 (PR Google has a scale of 1-10) then when we find an article by using certain keywords such as "Albert Einstein" is the first to appear was an article from wikipedia and then followed oelh other sites.

Concept

Many ways to use search engines to determine the quality / ranking of a web page, from the use of META Tags, the contents of the document, the emphasis on content and many other techniques or combination of techniques that may be used. Link popularity, a technology developed to improve the shortcomings of other technologies (Meta Keywords, Meta Description), which can be rigged with special pages designed for search engines or so-called doorway pages. With the algorithms 'PageRank' is, in every page will be counted inbound links (incoming links), and outbound links (links keuar) of any web pages.

PageRank, has the same basic concept of link popularity, but not only considers the "amount" of inbound and outbound links. The approach used is an important supposed would page if another page has a link to that page. A page will also become increasingly important if other pages ranking (PageRank) of high refers to the page.

With the approach used by the PageRank, the process occurs recursively, where a ranking will be determined by the ranking of web page ranking is determined by the rankings of other web pages that have links to those pages. This process means a process that is repeated (recursive). In the virtual world, there are millions and even billions of web pages. Therefore a web page ranking is determined from the overall link structure of web pages that exist in cyberspace. A process that is very large and complex.

Algorithm

From an approach that has been described in articles PageRank concept, Lawrence Page and Sergey Brin made PageRank algorithm as below:

Initial algorithm PR (A) = (1-d) + d ((PR (T1) / C (T1)) + ... + (PR (Mr.) / C (Mr)))

One of the other algorithms published PR (A) = (1-d) / N + d ((PR (T1) / C (T1)) + ... + (PR (Mr.) / C (Mr)))


* PR (A) is the Pagerank page A
* PR (T1) is the Pagerank T1 pages that refer to page A
* C (T1) is the number of outgoing links (outbound links) on page T1
* D is a damping factor which can be between 0 and 1.
* N is the total number of web pages (which is indexed by google)

From the above algorithm can be seen that the PageRank is determined for each of your pages is not the whole web site. Pagerank PageRank of a page is determined from the page that refers to him who is also undergoing the process of determining pagerank in the same way, so this process will be repeated until the correct results were found. But the pagerank page A is not directly given to the target pages, but the previously divided by the number of links that existed at T1 pages (outbound links), and the PageRank will be divided equally to every link on that page. Likewise with every other page "Mr." which refers to the page "A". After all pagerank gained from other pages that refer to the page "A" are added, the value is then multiplied by the damping factor is a value between 0 to 1. This is done to avoid a total sum distributed pagerank T page to page A.

How to Improve PR

To increase your PR you need is effort and patience. Efforts should also give priority to the principles of honesty and not doing things that can actually deviate a bad impact on your site, such as by hacking tricks and all, patience is also needed because the new results will be seen after three months because it's Google PR updated 3 months, so you are required to always continue. Here are the things that can be done to increase the Page Rank:

1. Always make 1-2 new articles a quality (ie: fishing keywords are hot and the discussions that are popular) with the consistent scheduling, for example, every Monday and Thursday, you publish a new article. The goal is more and more that Google indexed, then chances are your website address found on search engines for specific keyword searches bigger.

2. Make sure there are no links broken pages / broken links in your website. That is when Google re-visited and could not find the links you previously exist in the list of Google's database, then your website will experience a 'Google dancing ", which is Google's attempt to re-index the links on your website again, so the position of the SERP (Search Engine Result page) you will not be stable. It's been our experience when we upload a new template, re mengkategori our articles as well as change the writing SEF (Search engine friendly) our website, so that about 2-3 months, our SERP chaotic for our popular keywords, sometimes there can be in position 2, 5, 6, 8, 9 and even 10 on the first page of Google Search Engine.

3. Create a link page link, eg display a link page A page B, page B displays the link page C and page C displays a page link from your website. This should not be underestimated by us, because it had become a means of collecting pagerank values between pages of your website.

4. Sometimes a new website can appear suddenly in the SERP that previously did not exist. If you think this is fair, because Google prioritize indexing new websites, but certainly not last long, if the website is not frequently updated.

5. If there are similarities in the content of two or more different websites, Google prioritizes higher pagerank websites (usually: a high PageRank is directly proportional to the large number of web pages indexed and the number of quality inbound), and Google will provide the value of a penalty (currently banned or a black- list) for other websites.

6. Redirection (301 redirect) or transfer to the domain / other pages will be a large decrease in value.

7. Your website loading speed affect overall speed of Google indexing your site. So began the end of 2009 is not surprising then, Google facilitates us to analyze your website loading speed and compression of css and javascript. Google only provides a time limit to index all pages and links to your website. Programming that relies on memory, such as loops and arrays can be slow Google's sort through the script to your website. Read the article How to optimize your website.

8. Do not use javascript as your navigation menu, because javascript ignored by Google, so the navigation menu link, you will not be indexed.

9. Pick a good hosting server, the server is stable speed and toughness.

10. Better to have the inbound (incoming links) from the ABC websites are low but not a lot berpagerank outboundnya (outbound links from the ABC website), rather than having inbound from the DEF website which has a high PageRank, but his big outbound.

11. Blogspot subdomain website seems to be prioritized by Google compared to a subdomain of WordPress.

Good luck: D

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Install Android on your iPhone Directly from your Device with BootLace

Remember iPhodroid which installs Android OS on your iPhone? Well, some hackers could make it even easier than before, you can now install Google's Android OS on your iPhone directly from your device without using computer thanks to the updated version of BootLace.

We have got full step by step guide and thanks to guys over iSpazio for spotting this shoots. Follow the steps below to install Android OS on your iPhone.

Supported devices:

• iPhone 2G on iOS 3.1.2 or 3.1.3 jailbroken with Blackra1n, Redsn0w or PwnageTool.
• iPhone 3G on iOS 4.x jailbroken with Redsn0w or PwnageTool.

STEP 1: Once your device is jailbroken, tap on Cydia, touch Manage then choose Sources and add http://repo.neonkoala.co.uk. Now, search for BootLace and install it.

STEP 2: After installing the app, launch it, tap on OpeniBoot and hit the Install button as shown in the screenshot:

STEP 3: BootLace will check your compatibility and an automated process will take place to download and install some important files to install iBoot to run Android OS.

STEP 4: Now give your device a reboot, and you will be able to choose between iOS and Android OS through the QuickBoot tab.

STEP 5: Although, through the iDroid tap, you can remove BootLace whenever you want and get back to the normal iOS.

By the way, you can watch a quick video guide below to watch it in action:

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Price and Review "ZTE My Tab" Touchscreen Android Tablet

The Android Tablets ZTE My Tab present in Australia

Pri $ 2790

The popularity of the more powerful Tablet, the device began to colonize in every state. This time it is started to flood these exclusive portable devices is an Australian . Adlah manufacturing company called Optus offers an artificial android Tablets ZTE. Products under the name "ZTE My Tab" running with OS Android 2.1 and supported touchscreen with a resolution of 800x480 pixels.

In addition, the device also supports the specification of GPS, WiFi and 3G, while to the multimedia needs have been provided specification 3 Mega Pixel camera, front VGA camera. To support the performance of artificial Googhle OS has been prepared 512MB RAM, 512MB ROM and 2GB memory card (pre installed).

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