Grumpy Boy

Mozilla Releases Firefox 3 Web Browser

grumpyboy — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:37:16 +0000

Mozilla announced the launch of the Firefox 3 web browser today. Firefox 3 is said to incorporate over 15,000 improvements and claims to be over two to three times faster than its predecessor.

“We’re really proud of Firefox 3 and it just shows what a committed, energized global community can do when they work together,” said John Lilly, CEO of Mozilla.
Firefox 3 offers enhancements to its user interface, increased performance, security and customization. Top new features listed include:

- One-Click Bookmarking
- Improved Performance
- Full Zoom
- Smart Location Bar
- Platform-Native Look & Feel
- Password Manager

Canonical makes Ubuntu Netbook Remix official at Computex

grumpyboy — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:43:43 +0000

Not like we weren’t totally expecting this or anything, but Canonical has chosen Computex as the expo where it will officially showcase Ubuntu Netbook Remix. Hailed as a “reworked desktop image of Ubuntu built specifically for a new category of portable internet-centric devices,” the operating system will probably not be too foreign for those familiar with the standard Ubuntu Desktop Edition. We are told that this flavor will feature a launcher that enables users to “get online more quickly and have faster access to their favorite applications,” and that it “leverages Moblin technologies optimized for the Intel Atom processor.” Unfortunately, devices pre-loaded with UNR aren’t apt to ship until “later in 2008,” though OEMs interested in getting in while there is still room on the bandwagon are encouraged to hit up Canonical. Full release waiting after the jump.

كيف تجعل Google Calendar ينبهك على مواعيدك بـ(SMS)

grumpyboy — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:07:18 +0000

قوقل دائماً تجدها تقرأ أفكارك في تسهيل الحياة بوجود خدمات رائعة ومميزة ومجانية مع أنها مكلفه مثل المساحة الكبيرة التي أتحفتنا بها قوقل في خدمة البريد Gmail وبعدها بدأت الشركات تحبو حبوها

فلو لا الله ثم بداية قوقل لزيادة المساحة الكبيرة لكنا الأن ننشغل بمسح الرسائل التي ملأت بريدنا بها مثل تجربتي مع Hotmail سابقاً قبل طرح خدمة Gmail

عموماً أعجبتني هذه الخدمة الرائعة حيث قمت بتجربتها في السعودية وتعمل لدي بنجاح وبشكل جميل جداً.

وهي إرسال رسالة SMS بالمواعيد التي لديك لتذكيرك بها , صراحه أرى أنها من الخدمات الرائعة في Google Calendar

ولذالك أحببت شرح طريقة إستخدامها وهي سهلة جداً.

قم بفتح Google Calendar توجه مباشرة إلى Settings.

تابع معنا …

إضغط على Mobile Setup مباشرة

الأن نختار الدولة التي ننتمي إليها ونكتب رقم الجوال ثم نضغظ على Send Verification Code لتصلنا رسالة بالجوال بكود التفعيل ونقوم بكتابته ونضغظ على Finish Setup

إضغط على الصورة لتكبيرها

الأن جوالك جاهز لتلقي تنبيهات المواعيد ولنعمل تنبيه جديد للتجربة بالضغط على Create Event

نقوم بكل بساطه بتعبئة بيانات الموعد الجديد , سنجد في أسفل النموذج خيارات التنبيه

بإمكاننا جعلها تنبيه عادي عن طريق نفس الموقع أو تنبيه بالبريد الإلكتروني أو تنبيه برسائل الجوال كما في الصورة التالية وبالإمكان أيضاً إضافة أكثر من تنبيه بالضغط على Add a reminder

وبإمكانك تحديد الوقت للتنبيه كما تريد من هنا

وتمتع بروعة Google Calendar.

source: عالم التقنية

Explosion at theplanet knocks out 9000 servers

grumpyboy — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:54:28 +0000

Neowins previous web servers host, ThePlanet based in Dallas Texas, suffered a major setback yesterday as an electrical fire allegedly caused an explosion, knocking out around 9000 of their customers hosted websites.

Marcus Langenveld writes: “Apparently there was an electrical fire at ThePlanet’s H1 data center in Houston Texas. According to some sources there was an actual explosion powerful enough that it knocked down walls in an equipment room. So far there are no reports of damage to servers or networking equipment but power is offline at the facility and approximately 9000 websites are affected. This will surely be all over the tech news websites by morning.

Samsung plans 256GB SSD drive this year

grumpyboy — Thu, 29 May 2008 17:46:51 +0000

Samsung Electronics plans to launch within this year a flash memory-based solid-state disk that boasts a 256GB capacity and high-speed interface, it said Monday. The drive, which was unveiled in prototype form at a Samsung event in Taipei, has the same form factor as a 9.5-millimeter high 2.5-inch hard-disk drive for which it is designed to be a drop-in replacement. Solid-state disks (SSDs) are an emerging type of storage device that use flash memory chips in place of the spinning magnetic disks used in hard-disk drives.

The memory chips mean the drives are more sturdy and typically have a higher performance but the per-byte storage cost is also much higher, so they are generally more expensive. That has largely restricted them to niche applications but as flash prices come down they are expected to become more widely used. The prototype drive announced today by the company has a read speed of 200M bytes per second (Bps) and a sequential write speed of 160M Bps, said Samsung. Samples of the drive will be available to customers from September with mass production due by the end of the year. A version with a similar form factor to a 1.8-inch drive is also expected to be available in the fourth quarter of the year, the company said.

Wii fit .. new way of gaming .. new way of sport ..

grumpyboy — Sun, 18 May 2008 11:32:05 +0000

Last week Nintendo lunched the new Wii fit into international market .. new and amazing gaming and sport style .. it uses a wireless board with high sensitive sensors to measure balance and weight and build a visual picture of you on the screen playing or doing sport and indicates if you doing it wright or wrong .. see the video .. its amazing !!

Google starts to blur faces in StreetView Maps

grumpyboy — Thu, 15 May 2008 17:11:15 +0000

After privacy complaints, Google Inc. is beginning to automatically blur faces of people captured in the street photos taken for its Internet map program. Rolling it out will take several months, however. Although Google’s Street View service was not the first to augment online maps with photos, the detail and breadth of images on the site surprised and unsettled many users when it launched last year. As specially equipped Google vehicles cruised city streets snapping panoramic images of homes and businesses, the resulting photos revealed people falling off bikes, exiting strip joints, crossing the street, sunbathing — everyday, in-public things but nonetheless, things they might not have wanted preserved for posterity.

Some privacy advocates, including the influential Electronic Frontier Foundation, suggested that Google blur the images of people. That move, the critics pointed out, would not inhibit Street View’s goal of helping people become familiar with the look and feel of a location before they travel there. This week, Google revealed it had indeed begun deploying a facial-recognition algorithm that scans photos for mugs to blur. The changes are happening first in scenes in New York, before slowly expanding to the other 40 cities in Street View. Google spokesman Larry Yu said the company is still tweaking the system. For now it tends to err on the side of blurring too many things — things a computer erroneously interprets as faces — but that is better than leaving too many faces unblurred, Yu said.

HTC Touch Diamond

grumpyboy — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:45:14 +0000

The new HTC mobile Touch Diamond which considered as a competitive to the Apple iPhone

nice mobile specially the the weather thing

Features:

2.8-inch VGA display
WinMo 6.1 Pro
WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0
eGPS, FM tuner
Quad-band HSDPA 7.2
4GB internal flash, microSD slot
528MHz CPU
3.2 megapixel camera with autofocus
10.7mm (0.47-inches) thick
Supposedly also features an orientation sensor / accelerometer

Super 3G Technology realizes 250 Mbps Downlink Rate

grumpyboy — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 13:55:51 +0000

Just when you thought the 7.2Mbps downlink speeds of HSDPA (which are usually only available in limited number of urban areas) was impressive, NTT DoCoMo have revealed that they’ve recorded a 250Mbps downlink using the new Super 3G technology they’ve been trialing in Yokosuka, Japan since February.

Super 3G, which is also known as LTE (Long Term Evolution), has been in theory earmarked for several carriers in a variety of locations, but NTT DoCoMo’s are some of the first results from an actual wireless environment. They expect the network – which has a theoretical maximum downlink of 300Mbps and uplink of 75Mbps – to be technically ready for launch by 2009.

Super 3G uses four MIMO (Multiple Input, Multiple Output) antennas on the base station and makes use of the 20MHz frequency band. The carrier has been performing indoor tests since July 2007, and will now concentrate on the verification and validation process, including base station handover, while Super 3G undergoes standardisation by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP).

Save the Developers! Stop Using Internet Explorer 6

grumpyboy — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:18:25 +0000

There is a scourge on the Web. It is called Internet Explorer 6. Even though the more recent version of Microsoft’s browser, IE7, has been around for more than two years, IE6 still represents 31 percent of all browsers out there (versus only 22 percent for IE7 and 36.5 percent for Firefox). This upgrade lag is simply unacceptable—to programmers, that is, who find it a real pain to make sure their Web apps work on five different browsers. Not only that, but IE6 supports some non-standard features and functions that are not compatible with other browsers. The security vulnerabilities aren’t too much fun either.It’s too much work and, quite frankly, it is driving some programmers batty. Which is why a group of them have created SaveTheDevelopers.org, an organization dedicated to making the Web a better place for developers (and thus for users as well). Web developers can grab a piece of code to put on their Websites which will detect if a visitor is using an outmoded browser (IE6, cough). When the offending browser is detected, a pop-down window will appear (assuming those aren’t blocked) which will direct the user to a page where they can upgrade to IE7, or the latest version of Firefox or Safari.More campaigns are planned for the future to whip those laggard Web surfers into shape, and once again make the Web safe for developers.