Nintendo 3DS (no Glasses required!)

Features:

Size (when closed):

Approximately 5.3 inches wide, 2.9 inches long, 0.8 inches tall.

Weight:

Approximately 8 ounces.

Look:

Final design is TBA.

Top Screen:

3.53-inch widescreen LCD display, enabling 3D view without the need for special glasses; with 800x240 pixel resolution (400 pixels are allocated for each eye to enable 3D viewing).

Touch Screen:

3.02-inch LCD with 320x240 pixel resolution with a touch screen.

Cameras:

One inner camera and two outer cameras with 640x480 (0.3 Mega) pixel resolution.

Pre-Installed Software:

TBA

Nintendo 3DS Game Card:

2 GB Max. at launch.

Wireless Communication:

Can communicate in the 2.4 GHz band. Multiple Nintendo 3DS systems can connect via a local wireless connection to let users communicate or enjoy competitive game play. Systems also can connect to LAN access points to access the Internet and allow people to enjoy games with others. Will support IEEE 802.11 with enhanced security (WPA/WPA2). Nintendo 3DS hardware is designed so that even when not in use, it can automatically exchange data with other Nintendo 3DS systems or receive data via the Internet while in sleep mode.

Game Controls:
Touch screen, embedded microphone, A/B/X/Y face buttons, + Control Pad, L/R buttons, Start and Select buttons, "Slide Pad" that allows 360-degree analog input, one inner camera, two outer cameras, motion sensor and a gyro sensor.

Other Input Controls:
3D Depth Slider to adjust level of 3D effect (can be scaled back or turned off completely depending on the preference of the user), Home button to call system function, Wireless switch to turn off wireless communications (even during game play), Power button. The telescoping stylus is approximately 4 inches when fully extended.

Input/Output:
A port that accepts both Nintendo 3DS game cards and game cards for the Nintendo DS™ family of systems, an SD memory card slot, an AC adapter connector, a charging cradle terminal and a stereo headphone output jack.

Sound:
Stereo speakers positioned to the left and right of the top screen.

Battery:
Lithium ion battery details TBA.

Languages:
TBA

Parental Controls:
Parental controls similar to the Nintendo DSi system will be included.

Note: It is not suitable for kids below age 6!

Nintendo has issued a warning that their new Nintendo 3DS due out in February (March in the US) is not intended to be played by kids under the age of six because looking at 3-D images for a long period of time could have an adverse effect on the eyesight development of young children.

There isn’t a whole lot of evidence indicating that any danger exists but Nintendo isn’t the first company to warn of dangers associated with 3D viewing. The Sony PlayStation3 carries a similar warning. A spokesperson for Sony said they had no medical evidence of negative effects but issued the warning anyway because children’s bodies can be sensitive. In other words, there’s a small chance that something could possibly happen and they don’t want to be vulnerable to lawsuits. Sounds like a good plan in our litigious society.

As 3D technology becomes available in more devices, these gaps in medical studies will have to be taken care of. The Nintendo 3DS doesn’t require 3D glasses, while the PlayStation3 does. If there is really a risk, is it greater or smaller depending on if 3D glasses are used, or does it make no difference at all?

Check out the whole article at the Washington Journal or find out how to pre-order the Nintendo 3DS.

Chitika is Hiring-India branch office

Chitika’s new office in Hyderabad, AP, India is now hiring! The many current openings include, Engineers/ Jr. Engineers. (These positions include working with large scale/all forms of internet systems and data).

Minimum requirements for Engineering positions:

• 0 – 2 years of PHP, Perl, Python or Ruby experience
• 0 – 2 years of Javascript experience
• 0 – 2 years of MySQL experience
• Knowledge of Data Structures and Algorithms

About Chitika
Founded in 2003, Chitika (pronounced CHIH-tih-ka), is a full-service on-line advertising network serving over 3 billion monthly impressions across more than 100,000 websites. For advertisers and media buyers, Chitika is a proven channel for targeting on-line consumers and qualified buyers. For all publishers, Chitika is an easy-to-use platform for earning daily ad revenue.

To inquire about all available positions in Chitika’s Hyderabad branch office | Email: india@chitika.com |
Telephone: +91-40-403-39651

Mac OSX Lion- A sneak peak

The Mac App Store. Coming soon to a Mac near you.

Introducing the best place to discover and buy new apps made just for Mac, right on a Mac. Just like shopping the App Store on iPad, the Mac App Store offers endless possibilities to browse and purchase apps. And it simplifies the way you install apps on the Mac. Just click once, and your new app is downloaded, installed, and ready to go. More here.

Launchpad: A home for your apps.

The Launchpad gives you instant access to your apps — iPad style. Just click the Launchpad iconin your Dock. Your open windows fade away, replaced by an elegant, full-screen display of all the apps on your Mac. It takes just a swipe to see multiple pages of apps, and you can arrange apps any way you like by dragging an app icon to a new location or by grouping apps in folders. Downloaded an app from the App Store? Your new app automatically appears on the Launchpad, ready to blast off.

Full-screen apps. A better way to enjoy the apps you love.

On iPad, every app is displayed full screen, with no distractions, and there’s one easy way to get back to all your other apps. Mac OS X Lion does the same for your desktop. You can bring an app to full screen with one click, switch to another full-screen app with a swipe of the trackpad, and swipe back to the desktop to access your multi-window apps. And systemwide support for full-screen apps makes them bigger and more immersive. So you can concentrate on every detail of your work, or play on a grander scale than ever before.

Mission Control. Mac command central.
Mission Control is a powerful and handy new feature that provides you with a comprehensive view of what’s running on your Mac. It gives you a bird’s-eye view of everything — including Exposé, Spaces, Dashboard, and full-screen apps— all in one place. With a simple swipe gesture, your desktop zooms out to Mission Control. There you can see your open windows grouped by app, thumbnails of your full-screen apps, Dashboard, and even other Spaces, arranged in a unified view. And you can get to anything you see on Mission Control with just one click. Making you the master of all you survey.

For full details refer here

Addictive HTML 5 games

1.Entanglement:

Create the longest line possible. The more segments your line has, the higher the score you can achieve.

Use the arrow keys or the mouse scroll-wheel to rotate your tile. Click with the mouse or press the spacebar to place your tile and watch your line grow.

Avoid the walls for as long as you can. Once you have placed as many tiles as you are able, your game will end.

2.Lines

To move a ball, click on it with the mouse (circle will appear) to select it, then click on a free cell in a field. To deselect a ball just click on another. If movement is possible, ball will go to the specified empty field. After each turn, 3 new balls are placed on a field (random colours & positions). Preview panel shows colours of the next 3 balls. You can always force the next turn without moving anything. Click on preview panel. If the game field is full, game is over.

Game goal is to arrange balls of the same colour in a straight lines (every direction). 5 or more balls on a straight line are removed and points are given. Longer lines give more points to you. Crossing lines count together.

3.Torus.

It is similar to the old Tetris game but it is rather a circle

How to play..

Use the arrow keys to guide the falling blocks, spacebar and the up-arrow will rotate the block in opposite directions. Alternatively the keys A,W,S and D can be used as arrow keys for the same purpose.

When a complete horizontal ring of 15 blocks is occupied by pieces the row will collapse and earn 100 points. If multiple rows are cleared at a time you will earn bonus points.

These games can be played in HTML 5 supporting browsers like IE9 and Safari 5.0.3

Note: Smartway7 original post.

Sony Launches Subscription Internet Music Service

Sony launched a subscription streaming music service on Wednesday, furthering its plan to offer a range of content via the Internet to its consumer electronics devices.

The service, called "Music Unlimited powered by Qriocity," will initially be available in the U.K. and Ireland, but Sony plans to expand it to more countries in 2011. It expects to add at least Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, New Zealand and the U.S. next year.

Consumers will need a 2010-model network-enabled Bravia TV, Blu-ray Disc player, personal computer or a PlayStation 3 games console to access the service, which will offer 6 million songs at launch, said Kaz Hirai, who runs Sony's network services division and also heads its game business. He was speaking in Tokyo.

Two service options are available. The basic plan will offer dozens of genre-specific and era-specific channels of non-stop music, and a premium service will add on-demand access to all songs in the library and additional channels with new music. Sony said music from all four major record companies -- Universal, Sony, Warner and EMI -- and from many independent labels is available.

The basic plan will carry a monthly cost of £3.99 (US$6.18) or €3.99 ($5.25) and the premium service will cost £9.99 or €9.99 per month.

Users on both price plans can also synchronize existing playlists to the service. Sony's software will scan files in the user's music library and digitally fingerprint each song. This data -- and not the audio file -- will be uploaded to the service and, once matched with songs in the database, will be added to the user's own library and be available on demand across all devices.

The service works with most music file formats, except those with DRM (digital rights management). Sony is planning to later add support for protected music files.

This method allows a user to quickly make their music library available across all connected devices, but it comes with one drawback: songs that aren't among the 6 million in the database won't be accessible through the service.

The service needs a continuously connected broadband Internet connection, because all the songs are streamed and not downloaded.

As its name suggests, the service runs on Sony's Qriocity network platform. Qriocity is intended to link all of the company's network-enabled consumer electronics products and shares the same base as the PlayStation Network that links Sony's gaming devices.

At launch the music service is not available via Sony's PlayStation Portable or Sony Ericsson cell phones, but there are plans to roll out the service to those devices, said Hirai.

The music service was developed with London-based Omnifone, which offers consumer electronics and telecom companies a system called MusicStation that they can rebrand. Sony Ericsson's PlayNow service is based on the Omnifone platform.

Sony already offers a video-on-demand service over the Qriocity platform in the U.S. and a handful of European countries.

Download Chrome OS

Download Chrome OS:

Chrome OS is built around the Google Chrome browser, yesterday Google released Chrome OS release candidate, which means all the functionality is finished and looking for bugs to fix before releasing it.

Download : Chrome OS 0.9.576 RC (x86) Live CD [610 MB]

Download by BitTorrent:torrent file

System requirements of Chrome OS:

• Processor: Intel Pentium, Xeon or newer; AMD Duron, Athlon, Sempron, Opteron or newer
• RAM: min. 256 MB
• Hard disk: min. 1 GB
• Graphics card: supports most modern graphics cards

Read more: http://www.techno360.in/download-chrome-os/#ixzz17aIAL1Od
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Cr-48, First Chrome OS Laptop

Google recently release Chrome OS, world’s first cloud based operating system. To use this OS effectively, Chrome made a special kind of notebooks. The first one to come out is Cr-48.

Now let’s come to the features of this laptop:

* No logo on the laptop,simple and plane design.
* 12.1-inch screen.
* Click pad with extra abilities.
* Full size keyboard, no caps lock and function keys.
* Built in Wi-fi and 3G.
* Webcam.
* 802.11n dual-band WiFi.
* 8 hours of active use.
* 8 days of standby.
* Ports for VGA connections, USB mice and keyboards, headsets, and microphones
* Flash storage.
* Google cloud print service to print documents.
* 3.8 pound weight.
* Atom processor powered.
* Dual boot with Windows is not possible.

Looks like Google don’t want to enter into hardware competition by unveiling this simple looking laptop. To public, Chrome OS laptop will be available in mid of 2011 and it will manufacture by Samsung and Acer.

Original Post:
http://www.blogtechnika.com/things-you-want-to-know-about-cr-48-first-chrome-os-laptop

Chrome 8 available

Google just released version 8 of its web browser Chrome. It fixes 13 security vulnerabilities of which 4 got rated “high”ly critical – the people reporting these all got rewarded with 1.000 US-$ and 500 US-$, respectively. Additionally to these security fixes, the update to Chrome 8.0.552.215 contains more than 800 bugfixes and stability improvements according to the Google developers.

The new version officially includes and uses the built-in, stripped-down PDF reader which is additionally secured with a sandbox. This feature, tied together with Googles sandboxing of the browser processes in general and including and updating the Flash Player automatically makes Chrome one of the most secure, yet full-featured web browsers currently available.

Users of Chrome should get the update automatically. To check if the updates are installed already, checking the “About Chrome” menu entry will show the version number and ask to install the update, if that didn’t happen already.

Original Post: Avira-TechBlog