THIS year Microsoft Corp has made a shocking breakthrough. After releasing its latest search engine Bing to the market, Microsoft is preparing to launch its latest security suite called Morro. The new antivirus software will be out in the market soon, and surprisingly will be given free for private user.Microsoft Spokesman said now they are testing Morro on their own employees. Microsoft will shortly make a trial version or beta product that can be taken on their website. Morro will be available as a standalone download and offer malware protection for the Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems. The security offering will provide comprehensive protection from malware, including viruses, spyware, rootkits and trojans.
Investors and analysts are very regardful for this free service. The software code-named as Morro has been taken from Brazil’s Morro de Sao Paolo beach. Morro estimated will threaten sales of the products such as Symantec and McAfee. However, unlike other free offerings from security vendors such as AVG, Morro will be delivered as a hosted service.
The availability of Morro will mark the end of Windows Live OneCare subscription service effective on June 30, 2009. Three years ago Microsoft has entered the market with Windows Live OneCare free antivirus, which was changed to paid service. The company announced will shut off the service and replaced with a free version called Morro at the end of 2009.
DVD disk now can be found easily in everywhere. Usually, DVD disk comes in 4.5 gigabytes and 8.5 gigabytes capacities. However, in five years later we will see a revolution in DVD disk. Min Gu, an Australian academic and professor of Optoelectronics at Swinburne University of Technology claims that a single DVD disk named Ultra-DVD that able to store 10,000 times than the current DVD will be discovered soon. This particular disk will support the three-dimensional TV, and ultra high definition image.
The Ultra-DVD has the size and thickness as the conventional DVD disk. The main difference is the disk using nano technology in order to be able to store large amounts of file. Scientists believe such disk can be sold in five years and will be a revolution in storing film, music and data.
Professor Min Gu, who led this research in Melbourne Australia said the disk can contain 200,000 movies. "Materials with nano structure can be paired to the disk to increase the data capacity without the need to increase the size," he said.
Nowadays, a single DVD disk has an ability to store 4.5 - 8.5 gigabytes data for a sufficient length movie, with its additional features, and the soundtrack. Fortunately, DVD disk technology has start been shifted by a Blu-ray disk, which has a 50GB capacity. Five years from now, according to Professor Min Gu, it will be shifted to Ultra-DVD which has a 10 terabyte or 10,000 GB capacity.
The Ultra-DVD has the size and thickness as the conventional DVD disk. The main difference is the disk using nano technology in order to be able to store large amounts of file. Scientists believe such disk can be sold in five years and will be a revolution in storing film, music and data.
Professor Min Gu, who led this research in Melbourne Australia said the disk can contain 200,000 movies. "Materials with nano structure can be paired to the disk to increase the data capacity without the need to increase the size," he said.
Nowadays, a single DVD disk has an ability to store 4.5 - 8.5 gigabytes data for a sufficient length movie, with its additional features, and the soundtrack. Fortunately, DVD disk technology has start been shifted by a Blu-ray disk, which has a 50GB capacity. Five years from now, according to Professor Min Gu, it will be shifted to Ultra-DVD which has a 10 terabyte or 10,000 GB capacity.
TECHNOLOGY is intended to ease our work. People use a cell phone, for example, to simplify their communication with others in anytime and anyplace. Moreover, when using a cell phone, people always utilize cell phone’s Bluetooth technology. As you may already know, Bluetooth technology is being very popular with wireless. There are many applications today designed to suit this technology. Below, you'll find several applications where Bluetooth applied inside it. - Wireless networking between laptops and desktop computers, or desktops that are in a confined space and little bandwidth is needed.
- Peripherals such as mice, keyboards, and printers.
- Cell phones with Bluetooth technology have been sold in large numbers, as they are able to connect to computers, PDAs (Personal Data Assistant), and various other devices. The standard also includes the support for more powerful and longer range devices.
- The transfer of files, images and MP3, between mobile phones.
- Certain MP3 players and digital cameras to transfer files to and from computers.
- Bluetooth technology headsets for smart phones and cell phones.
- Data logging equipment that transmits data to a computer via Bluetooth technology.
- Sony Playstation 3 and Nintendo Revolution will both use Bluetooth technology for their wireless controllers.
There are many other applications for Bluetooth in development now, many of which plan to take the wireless age to the next level. Video game systems are using Bluetooth technology as well, for their wireless controllers. This is great news for gaming fans, as Bluetooth offers the best in wireless data transmission.
If you still curious about Bluetooth development, you may search it on the internet. You can find all sorts of information, especially when it comes to Bluetooth. As the future arrives, you can expect Bluetooth to bring bigger and better things.
SOME people like a calm and quiet situation while watching their favorite movies, or listening favorite song, and even maybe playing videogames, and so on. In order to achieve such situation one may utilize their headphones. Headphones, obviously, are great to use while enjoying music, watching television or viewing a movie, using PC/Mac/notebook, and etc. There are thousands of applications where you can use headphones. There are a lot of brands and types that you can choose from nowadays, depending on the application.Basically, a headphone has three parts: the driver, the earpiece and the attachment system. The driver is the ‘sound producer’. It is a transducer which converts electrical signal to the audio sound that you hear once you place the headphones on your ears. The earpiece is the physical part which you put to your ears. There are a lot of types of earpiece that you can choose from. Finally, the attachment system is the part which holds everything together. This can either be the headbands - for types which have one - or the wires which hold two ear buds together. The job of the attachment system if to make the earpiece somehow fit your ears.
Headphones can be attached to any music player, to mobile phones, to game consoles or to PC/Mac/notebook. If you want to get rid of the outside noise and you just want to concentrate on the sound, there are noise-canceling variants that you can choose from. The open-type headphones generally have better sound quality than the noise canceling type.
When it comes to the design of the headphones, then you can choose one that will best suit your application. Clip-on headphones do not have headbands, the earpiece can easily be attached to your ears. There are also wireless headphones that are available. Ear buds are made up of earpieces that can fit the inner part of your ear. Headsets combine the functionality of a microphone and an earphone. Street style headphones are best used for music-listening purposes. Ear pads have two flat pads as earpieces. With all the designs and brands available in the market now, you will surely find the type of headphones that will best suit your need and lifestyle. The choice is in your hand.
COMPUTERS now are everywhere. Take a moment to think and ask to yourself for this simple question: is there a place in a business area where you did not see at least a computer? Today, it is very common to see people use computers e.g. in the small local corner store, hospital, gas station, grocery store, bank, restaurant, beauty shop, and doctor’s office, etc. From a consumer’s point of view – you may not think that’s much to worry about. But along with computers, we have also been infiltrated with a little thing called “self-service.” Recently, there are more self-serviced resources than ever and in an effort to synchronize them with headquarter databases, they’re provided via your inescapable computer.Here are some examples. Banking is self-serviced through the desktop-clad ATM machine. Gas stations are self-serviced through a menu-clad touch screen kiosk. Most cash registers are Windows XP or Vista machines that send purchase details back to headquarters via the Internet (or a small Intranet). Having your weight, blood pressure, and heart rate measured and recorded is now a digitized process. Even ordering a pizza is now a simple effort of dialing from a wireless cell phone and making a few selections from series of pre-programmed menus. What an easy life!
The important thing to realize here is that this phenomenon is not a new convenience – it is a new requirement. And if you haven't jumped onto the binary wagon, you’re going to face a few problems. For just as this new lifestyle was once predicted, we’re going to predict that “the old ways” slowly but surely will extinct.
We’re going to predict that all paper-based transactions (checks, money orders, etc.) and documentation (think of the old filing cabinet system) will extinct. We’re going to predict that chips will replace everything that was once transported from one location to another through the trusty post office. And we’re going to predict that homes will become less cluttered with stacks of paper and that our natural resources will flourish as a result of it.
This all sounds fine and dandy of course, but if you’re not computer savvy, you’re going to feel a little lost once the choice has past and the revolution is 100% complete. Luckily, computer systems now are designed in a way that even a child can operate (and manipulate) them. In fact, if you can remember that most systems are designed along the line of menus and the selection of a few options on these menus, you’ll do just fine no matter how many buttons there are to push.
For example, when you’re faced with an electronic system, look for a main menu. Most main menus display themselves as soon as a device is turned on, so chances are that if you’re standing before a device that shows a bunch of choices to do something, you’re looking at a main menu. The buttons on these main menus of course take you to additional menus, which in turn give you even more choices to make. And all of those choices will eventually bring you to the service that you need. One very important choice you’ll want to keep your eye on is the option to return to the main menu. This way, you can return to the beginning of a system and start over in case you get lost among the way.
Another important choice that you want to keep your eye on is the choice to get help! This option may not be available on every device that you encounter, but when it is available, be sure to employ it.
There’s just no way around it. Computers and computerized systems are here to stay. There’s no need to fear them – but you surely can’t avoid them. Get used of it! Just remember the menu system and you’ll soon discover that you can approach and use these things as if you designed them yourself. Welcome to the digital world :)
