Apple just released the iOS 3.2.1 for the iPad which comes with a fix to address the WiFi issue that has plagued a number of iPads (both the iPad WiFi only and 3G capable version).
However, As there is no Jailbreak available yet that works with the new iPad update unlike the iOS 4.1 Beta and 4.0.1 so its better not to use this update if you already have an jailbreaked iPad. So you can update your iPad with this iOS until a jailbreak is available for it.
Zowie Gear in cooperation with the legendary Counter-Strike 1.6 player Emil ‘HeatoN’ Christensen have developed a new series of gaming mice named EC-Series.
Emil has taken all of his gaming experience into account when creating the best competitive gaming mice on the market, the EC-series so that players can get a comfortable experience in games.
The EC-series consist of two mouse, EC1 and EC2 which are available in two different shapes and two different colors. The EC1 is a normal sized mouse while the EC2 is 5% smaller.
It took the guys 12 months to complete the gaming mice and here are the features they offer:
HP has yet again revolutionized Internet and mobile use, by actually allowing mobile users to harness the power of the cloud, and browse sites via SMS. This is called SiteonMobile, and as the name suggests, it allows maximum Web experience by compressing the Web into simple SMS-voice driven interactions. Here is an example taking Amazon:
Amazon, for example, could package book-buying into a simple SMS message: ‘buy harry potter 4
The only downside of this is that not everyone in the world has a mobile phone, although 50% of the people in India do so, and a lot of people in Pakistan have been the victim of a mobile phone also. Just thinking of the knowledge that could be gained, and in turn could benefit the country itself by improving its literacy rate, and by allowing a larger audience to get the “warning” message or anything.
Microsoft has said that the Kinect users can input controls into Xbox games just as fast as players using joypads and that the lag of Kinect should be judged in terms of experience, not in “milliseconds”.
Alot of questions have been raised regarding the lag as revealed in Microsoft’s full on-stage E3 demo a year later after it was announced.
MGS general manager Kudo Tsunoda told the August issue of Edge: “It’s funny, because when we measure lag, it’s a very technical way of doing things: ‘Hey, it’s this many milliseconds.’
“I mean, controllers have lag. The great thing with Kinect is that we can receive an input just as fast. Let’s say we’re playing a game in which we’re gonna see a bell go off, and whoever can enter an input faster wins. You’re going to press a button and I’m going to [gesture]. We can do it as fast with Kinect as with a button.
“… the way we measure ‘lag’ is by putting people in front of the experience and measuring their thoughts. Either it feels good or it feels sloppy. It’s not how many milliseconds, it’s: ‘Does it feel good? Does it react fast? Does it feel as if you’re in control?’
“We were down here last E3 and we bought a racing game for that reason. At high speed, if there’s any lag, the controls will feel bad. Kinect Joy Ride feels really tight – you feel like you’re in control and the game’s doing what you want, and that’s the important stuff.”
This afternoon was quite a blow for World of Warcraft users as Blizzard said that due to its new Forum plans, The real names of the users will be displayed on the Forum rather their usernames.
It revealed that users who will post on the version of its forum that will launch with the new StarCraft, their real name will be shown instead of the usernames.
This whole phenomenon may turn Blizzard.net in a social networking site rather than a competitive matchmaking service, as it says itself:
“It’s important to us to create a new and different kind of online gaming environment – one that’s highly social, and which provides an ideal place for gamers to form long-lasting, meaningful relationships. All of our design decisions surrounding Real ID – including these forum changes – have been made with this goal in mind.”
Our colleagues at PC Gamer UK call the plans “foolhardy” and “asking for trouble”.
“The gamers that live and breathe their service, at every level, from the bottom, to the super-hardcore pro-gamers, simply don’t identify themselves by their real name when they play,” the mag says. “They live by their identity or handle. Battle.net isn’t a social network. It’s a fight club.
“According to Blizzard’s announcement, all StarCraft II and Cataclysm forums will display your real name. That means even the tech support forums. And the roleplaying forums. I’m not sure why I need to identify myself when I’m trying to figure out why Warcraft crashes. Or when I’m pretending to be a druid.”
One angry reader said of the plans: “I don’t want all the world to know my real name. More social it might be but it’s very intrusive to my privacy… In this day and age when most social websites are being pushed for more privacy functions they decide to open it up in one of the worst possible way.”
Frankly, we don’t give a monkey’s who knows our real names. We post stuff on the internet all day with our names on the bottom. But we can see how this could be a problem for MMO fans.
You might have thought at first that the iPad IPS panel is pressure sensitive?. Well the answer to your question would be easily solved by 1 word: No!.
However, the folks over at Ten-One-Design created a very unique software using special software and stylus that allows the iPad to become pressure sensitive. This would be a major feature for the iPad, as it would be a great help to designers and artists alike!. According to the folks, over @ Ten-One-Design the stylus front tip would act like a brush head. If pressed hard, it would exert a much more pressure making the brush or line stroke thicker.
All that is left is for the software to be allowed by the folks over at Apple. If that happens, expect to see the software and hardware available very soon!
via: Ten-One Designer
VLC v1.1 was just released and comes with hardware acceleration compatible with Windows 7, Vista and Linux while no official support with MAC. The new version also brings a general 40 percent speed boost from a massive code cleanup. VLC v1.1 includes a new addon and script framework which enables extensions and the VP8 and MEPG-4 lossless codecs have been added to it along with container support for MKV HD and Google’s open-source WebM format. The new VLC seems to offer improvements over the previous ones due to hardware acceleration support and the new Codecs.
VLC 1.1 can be downloaded here.
All of you Windows users must be familiar with “Windows Rot” where an OS becomes slow and unstable after frequent install/uninstall of applications. To get rid of this problem, the best way is to install a Fresh copy of windows again.
Well to make it a bit easier, Microsoft could be bringing a new Re-install feature with its Upcoming Windows 8. Some leaked presentation slides show that the windows 8 will have a recovery option to “reset windows” while keeping all you personal data safe and also the option of reinstalling all of the app purchases from the Microsoft App Store.
Nokia The dying King released new firmware for their E and N series cell phones. A new firmware for E71, E66, N97 Mini and N97 offers general improvement, Improved Nokia Messaging, WLAN enhancements, & improved Mail for Exchange.
in E71 the new firmware offers Ovi maps 3.3 with free integrated navigation, updated version of music player and new version of quick office.
As for N97 and N97 mini owners the new firmware version 22.0.110 will optimize RAM usage and C: drive usage.
Remember those days, when you uploaded around 50 photographs to your Facebook account to let your friends/family to see them. But then you had to go through the hassle of tagging them all. Well, a recent update by Facebook has automated the steps of actually clicking Tag and drawing the box. Facebook automatically detects the faces and asks you to enter their names only. This is a great update as it will speed up the process of uploading and publishing those photographs.
via: Engadget
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