Digital Labs
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Latest Announcement: Miranda IM v0.6.3 Released
Miranda IM is a smaller, faster, easier instant messenger with support for multiple protocols. Miranda IM is designed to be resource efficient and easy to use while still providing many features including support for AIM, Jabber, ICQ, IRC, MSN, Yahoo, and more. Supplemented by hundreds of plugins and other content, Miranda IM is very flexible and provides many avenues for customisation.
This release fixes some critical issues with the AIM protocol that prevented users from receiving messages. Improved UPnP support along with several bug fixes are also included. If you are using Miranda IM 0.6.2 or earlier, this is a required upgrade to ensure proper functionality.
Download:
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This release fixes some critical issues with the AIM protocol that prevented users from receiving messages. Improved UPnP support along with several bug fixes are also included. If you are using Miranda IM 0.6.2 or earlier, this is a required upgrade to ensure proper functionality.
Download:
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Thursday, January 18, 2007
More safety from MySpace parent tool
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Social-networking giant MySpace plans to offer free software enabling parents to keep tabs on their children's online identities.
Code-named Zephyr, the software tracks the name, age and location that children are using on MySpace.
With the software, parents can determine whether their kids have profiles and validate the age listed in it, Hemanshu Nigam, chief security officer of MySpace, said in a statement.
MySpace, which has an estimated 135 million users, said much of the site's safety features are age-based and depend on people providing their true age.
"This really is an age-verification tool," Yankee Group analyst Jill Aldort told internetnews.com.
"It's a fantastic tool for engaged parents" to monitor their child's online behavior, John Sheehan, Cybertip line manager for the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.
Sheehan said the software won't be a silver bullet for online predators, but said Zephyr is part of the "arsenal of child safety tools.
'Hey kids, download this software and have your parents spy on you,'" the analyst joked.
Whether the plan will spark user protest similar to what Facebook encountered last year remains to be seen.
" MySpace said it would add new staff to provide 24-hour monitoring, including matching new users against a database of 550,000 convicted offenders, internetnews.com reported at the time.
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Skype switch on Internet TV
A decade-long partnership between the co-founders of Skype yesterday blossomed in the shape of Joost– an online TV service to “deliver the perfect broadcast experience” without scheduling.
Unveiling their beta product, Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis said Joost, formerly codenamed The Venice Project, was their reaction to “a critical gap in the online video entertainment arena.
” Just as free net telephony became their goal in the pioneering days of Skype, back in 2005, free TV today is an “equally attractive proposition,” Mr Friis said in a v-log last week.
However the Skype founders hope that the success of the video-sharing website, which attracts over 100,000 new clips every day, is proof that now is the right time to focus on net-based video entertainment.
A similar message came yesterday from Fredrik de Wahl, the chief executive of Joost.
He said: “People are looking for increased choice and flexibility in their TV experience, while the entertainment industry needs to retain control over their content.
"His comments refer to Joost’s heavy marketing as a “piracy-proof Internet platform that enables premium interactive video experiences, while guaranteeing copyright protection for content owners and creators.
”Warner Music and Endemol, the makers of Celebrity Big Brother, have agreed to provide content during the trial, with other major content providers and user-generated content expected to follow.
Writing on the Joost portal, they added most of the development work took only about 12 months thanks to some of the world's best engineers, Web gurus and media visionaries, striving toward the common goal of ‘Goodbye Television, Hello Joost. ¶ 2:57 AM 0 Comments
Unveiling their beta product, Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis said Joost, formerly codenamed The Venice Project, was their reaction to “a critical gap in the online video entertainment arena.
” Just as free net telephony became their goal in the pioneering days of Skype, back in 2005, free TV today is an “equally attractive proposition,” Mr Friis said in a v-log last week.
However the Skype founders hope that the success of the video-sharing website, which attracts over 100,000 new clips every day, is proof that now is the right time to focus on net-based video entertainment.
A similar message came yesterday from Fredrik de Wahl, the chief executive of Joost.
He said: “People are looking for increased choice and flexibility in their TV experience, while the entertainment industry needs to retain control over their content.
"His comments refer to Joost’s heavy marketing as a “piracy-proof Internet platform that enables premium interactive video experiences, while guaranteeing copyright protection for content owners and creators.
”Warner Music and Endemol, the makers of Celebrity Big Brother, have agreed to provide content during the trial, with other major content providers and user-generated content expected to follow.
Writing on the Joost portal, they added most of the development work took only about 12 months thanks to some of the world's best engineers, Web gurus and media visionaries, striving toward the common goal of ‘Goodbye Television, Hello Joost. ¶ 2:57 AM 0 Comments
Monday, January 15, 2007
Apple's announcements IPHONE
Apple's announcements at 9th Jan 9AM San Fransisco Steve Jobs KeyNote
1.
AppleTV - Oops Symbol(Apple) TV - See the difference :-)
2. iPhone - No - iPhone is copyrighted by Cisco - so
Symbol(Apple)iPhone - See the difference
iPhone combines three products — a revolutionary mobile phone, a widescreen iPod with touch controls, and a breakthrough Internet communications device with desktop-class email, web browsing, maps, and searching — into one small and lightweight handheld device. iPhone also introduces an entirely new user interface based on a large multi-touch display and pioneering new software, letting you control everything with just your fingers. So it ushers in an era of software power and sophistication never before seen in a mobile device, completely redefining what you can do on a mobile phone.
Technical Specifications
Screen size
3.5 inches
Screen resolution
320 by 480 at 160 ppi
Input method
Multi-touch
Operating system
OS X
Storage
4GB or 8GB
GSM
Quad-band (MHz: 850, 900, 1800, 1900)
Wireless data
Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) + EDGE + Bluetooth 2.0
Camera
2.0 megapixels
Battery
Up to 5 hours Talk / Video / Browsing
Up to 16 hours Audio playback
Dimensions
4.5 x 2.4 x 0.46 inches / 115 x 61 x 11.6mm
Weight
4.8 ounces / 135 grams
iPhone is a widescreen iPod with touch controls that lets you enjoy all your content — including music, audiobooks, videos, TV shows, and movies — on a beautiful 3.5-inch widescreen display. It also lets you sync your content from the iTunes library on your PC or Mac. And then you can access it all with just the touch of a finger.
· Music
Scroll through your songs, artists, albums, and playlists with just a flick of a finger. Album artwork is dramatically presented on the large display. And now use Cover Flow to browse your music library by album artwork for the first time on an iPod.
Video
iPhone's stunning 3.5-inch widescreen display is the ultimate way to watch TV shows and movies from the iTunes Store on a pocketable device. Just tap the touch controls for play/pause, chapter forward/backward, and volume.
Music
Scroll through your songs, artists, albums, and playlists with just a flick of a finger. Album artwork is dramatically presented on the large display. And now use Cover Flow to browse your music library by album artwork for the first time on an iPod.
iPhone is a revolutionary new mobile phone that allows you to make a call by simply pointing your finger at a name or number in your address book, a favorites list, or a call log. It also automatically syncs all your contacts from a PC, Mac, or Internet service. And it lets you select and listen to voicemail messages in whatever order you want — just like email.
Receiving and making a call
With iPhone, making a call is as simple as touching a name or number. In addition, you can easily construct a favorites list for your most frequently made calls, and quickly merge calls together to create conference calls.
Visual Voicemail
An industry first, Visual Voicemail allows you to go directly to any of your messages without listening to the prior messages. So you can quickly select the messages that are most important to you.
SMS
iPhone includes an SMS application with a predictive QWERTY soft keyboard that prevents and corrects mistakes, making it easier and more efficient to use than the small plastic keyboards on many smartphones.
Photos
iPhone features a 2-megapixel camera and a photo management application that goes far beyond anything on a phone today. Sync photos from your PC or Mac, and you're ready to browse or email them with the flick of a finger.
Receiving and making a call
With iPhone, making a call is as simple as touching a name or number. In addition, you can easily construct a favorites list for your most frequently made calls, and quickly merge calls together to create conference calls.
iPhone features a rich HTML email client and Safari — the most advanced web browser ever on a portable device — which automatically syncs bookmarks from your PC or Mac. Safari also includes built-in Google and Yahoo! search. iPhone is fully multi-tasking, so you can read a web page while downloading your email in the background over Wi-Fi or EDGE.
Safari Web Browser
With its advanced Safari browser, iPhone lets you see any web page the way it was designed to be seen, then easily zoom in by simply tapping on the multi-touch display with your finger.
Mail
iPhone uses a rich HTML email client that fetches your email in the background from most POP3 or IMAP mail services and displays photos and graphics right along with the text.
Google Maps
With Google Maps and iPhone's amazing Maps application, you can view maps and satellite images, or get directions and traffic information, all from iPhone's remarkable, easy-to-use touch interface.
Widgets
iPhone even has widgets: small applications that give you helpful information like stock reports, weather reports, and more in real time.
Safari Web Browser
With its advanced Safari browser, iPhone lets you see any web page the way it was designed to be seen, then easily zoom in by simply tapping on the multi-touch display with your finger.
Multi-touch
iPhone features the most revolutionary user interface since the mouse. It's an entirely new interface based on a large multi-touch display and innovative new software that lets you control everything using only your fingers. So you can glide through albums with Cover Flow, flip through photos and email them with a touch, or zoom in and out on a section of a web page — all by simply using iPhone's multi-touch display.
Intelligent Keyboard
iPhone's full QWERTY soft keyboard lets you easily send and receive SMS messages in multiple sessions. And the keyboard is predictive, so it prevents and corrects mistakes, making it easier and more efficient to use than the small plastic keyboards on many smartphones.
Wireless
iPhone uses quad-band GSM, the global standard for wireless communications. It also supports Cingular's EDGE network, 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR, which links to Apple's new, remarkably compact Bluetooth headset
Built-in Advanced Sensors
iPhone's accelerometer detects when you rotate the device from portrait to landscape, then automatically changes the contents of the display, so you immediately see the entire width of a web page or a photo in its proper landscape aspect ratio.
The proximity sensor detects when you lift iPhone to your ear and immediately turns off the display to save power and prevent inadvertent touches until iPhone is moved away.
An ambient light sensor automatically adjusts the display's brightness to the appropriate level for the current ambient light, thereby enhancing the user experience and saving power
at the same time.
¶ 10:17 AM 0 Comments
1.
AppleTV - Oops Symbol(Apple) TV - See the difference :-)2. iPhone - No - iPhone is copyrighted by Cisco - so
Symbol(Apple)iPhone - See the difference
iPhone combines three products — a revolutionary mobile phone, a widescreen iPod with touch controls, and a breakthrough Internet communications device with desktop-class email, web browsing, maps, and searching — into one small and lightweight handheld device. iPhone also introduces an entirely new user interface based on a large multi-touch display and pioneering new software, letting you control everything with just your fingers. So it ushers in an era of software power and sophistication never before seen in a mobile device, completely redefining what you can do on a mobile phone.
Technical Specifications
Screen size
3.5 inches
Screen resolution
320 by 480 at 160 ppi
Input method
Multi-touch
Operating system
OS X
Storage
4GB or 8GB
GSM
Quad-band (MHz: 850, 900, 1800, 1900)
Wireless data
Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) + EDGE + Bluetooth 2.0
Camera
2.0 megapixels
Battery
Up to 5 hours Talk / Video / Browsing
Up to 16 hours Audio playback
Dimensions
4.5 x 2.4 x 0.46 inches / 115 x 61 x 11.6mm
Weight
4.8 ounces / 135 grams
iPhone is a widescreen iPod with touch controls that lets you enjoy all your content — including music, audiobooks, videos, TV shows, and movies — on a beautiful 3.5-inch widescreen display. It also lets you sync your content from the iTunes library on your PC or Mac. And then you can access it all with just the touch of a finger.
· Music
Scroll through your songs, artists, albums, and playlists with just a flick of a finger. Album artwork is dramatically presented on the large display. And now use Cover Flow to browse your music library by album artwork for the first time on an iPod.
Video
iPhone's stunning 3.5-inch widescreen display is the ultimate way to watch TV shows and movies from the iTunes Store on a pocketable device. Just tap the touch controls for play/pause, chapter forward/backward, and volume.
Music
Scroll through your songs, artists, albums, and playlists with just a flick of a finger. Album artwork is dramatically presented on the large display. And now use Cover Flow to browse your music library by album artwork for the first time on an iPod.
iPhone is a revolutionary new mobile phone that allows you to make a call by simply pointing your finger at a name or number in your address book, a favorites list, or a call log. It also automatically syncs all your contacts from a PC, Mac, or Internet service. And it lets you select and listen to voicemail messages in whatever order you want — just like email.
Receiving and making a call
With iPhone, making a call is as simple as touching a name or number. In addition, you can easily construct a favorites list for your most frequently made calls, and quickly merge calls together to create conference calls.
Visual Voicemail
An industry first, Visual Voicemail allows you to go directly to any of your messages without listening to the prior messages. So you can quickly select the messages that are most important to you.
SMS
iPhone includes an SMS application with a predictive QWERTY soft keyboard that prevents and corrects mistakes, making it easier and more efficient to use than the small plastic keyboards on many smartphones.
Photos
iPhone features a 2-megapixel camera and a photo management application that goes far beyond anything on a phone today. Sync photos from your PC or Mac, and you're ready to browse or email them with the flick of a finger.
Receiving and making a call
With iPhone, making a call is as simple as touching a name or number. In addition, you can easily construct a favorites list for your most frequently made calls, and quickly merge calls together to create conference calls.
iPhone features a rich HTML email client and Safari — the most advanced web browser ever on a portable device — which automatically syncs bookmarks from your PC or Mac. Safari also includes built-in Google and Yahoo! search. iPhone is fully multi-tasking, so you can read a web page while downloading your email in the background over Wi-Fi or EDGE.
Safari Web Browser
With its advanced Safari browser, iPhone lets you see any web page the way it was designed to be seen, then easily zoom in by simply tapping on the multi-touch display with your finger.
iPhone uses a rich HTML email client that fetches your email in the background from most POP3 or IMAP mail services and displays photos and graphics right along with the text.
Google Maps
With Google Maps and iPhone's amazing Maps application, you can view maps and satellite images, or get directions and traffic information, all from iPhone's remarkable, easy-to-use touch interface.
Widgets
iPhone even has widgets: small applications that give you helpful information like stock reports, weather reports, and more in real time.
Safari Web Browser
With its advanced Safari browser, iPhone lets you see any web page the way it was designed to be seen, then easily zoom in by simply tapping on the multi-touch display with your finger.
Multi-touch
iPhone features the most revolutionary user interface since the mouse. It's an entirely new interface based on a large multi-touch display and innovative new software that lets you control everything using only your fingers. So you can glide through albums with Cover Flow, flip through photos and email them with a touch, or zoom in and out on a section of a web page — all by simply using iPhone's multi-touch display.
Intelligent Keyboard
iPhone's full QWERTY soft keyboard lets you easily send and receive SMS messages in multiple sessions. And the keyboard is predictive, so it prevents and corrects mistakes, making it easier and more efficient to use than the small plastic keyboards on many smartphones.
Wireless
iPhone uses quad-band GSM, the global standard for wireless communications. It also supports Cingular's EDGE network, 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR, which links to Apple's new, remarkably compact Bluetooth headset
Built-in Advanced Sensors
iPhone's accelerometer detects when you rotate the device from portrait to landscape, then automatically changes the contents of the display, so you immediately see the entire width of a web page or a photo in its proper landscape aspect ratio.
The proximity sensor detects when you lift iPhone to your ear and immediately turns off the display to save power and prevent inadvertent touches until iPhone is moved away.
An ambient light sensor automatically adjusts the display's brightness to the appropriate level for the current ambient light, thereby enhancing the user experience and saving power
at the same time.
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Monday, January 08, 2007
Embed a photo gallery with Picasa Web Albums
As webmasters (and web users), you know that images can liven up text-heavy pages and help engage readers. Maybe you keep a personal blog and you'd like to share a holiday photo album. Or maybe you manage a knitting tutorial site, and you'd like to post photos with step-by-step captions. Well, Picasa Web Albums can help you do all of these things. Just upload photos to your own Picasa Web Albums page, then embed a link to that album on your site. Because your photos will be stored on a Google server, you can let us worry about hosting your files while you concentrate on creating a great looking gallery that will enrich your site.
After signing up and creating a web album, simply click the Embed in Blog/MySpace link in that album. Just like with AdSense, you'll then need to copy and paste the provided HTML into your site's source code. Republish your site, and the cover photo of that album will appear on your site, already linked to your web album. When embedding your photos, please keep the AdSense image guidelines from last month in mind.
Your Picasa Web Albums account is free and comes with 250 MB of storage space -- enough room to store about 1000 photos (at 1600 pixels each). It's also possible to upgrade and order additional space (up to 250GB) as your photo storage needs grow. And unlike some other photo sharing sites, Picasa Web Albums retains the quality of your images so you and your site's visitors can download those same high resolution photos off the web and to their computers.
Finally, you can now also upload video into any web album -- a nice touch to really make your content come alive. And while you can't currently customize the look of your Picasa Web Albums page to match your site, we hope you'll find that its clean, uncluttered look complements your site's design. ¶ 2:45 AM 0 Comments
After signing up and creating a web album, simply click the Embed in Blog/MySpace link in that album. Just like with AdSense, you'll then need to copy and paste the provided HTML into your site's source code. Republish your site, and the cover photo of that album will appear on your site, already linked to your web album. When embedding your photos, please keep the AdSense image guidelines from last month in mind.
Your Picasa Web Albums account is free and comes with 250 MB of storage space -- enough room to store about 1000 photos (at 1600 pixels each). It's also possible to upgrade and order additional space (up to 250GB) as your photo storage needs grow. And unlike some other photo sharing sites, Picasa Web Albums retains the quality of your images so you and your site's visitors can download those same high resolution photos off the web and to their computers.
Finally, you can now also upload video into any web album -- a nice touch to really make your content come alive. And while you can't currently customize the look of your Picasa Web Albums page to match your site, we hope you'll find that its clean, uncluttered look complements your site's design. ¶ 2:45 AM 0 Comments
Window Vista a line of proprietary graphical operating systems
Windows Vista offers substantial new capabilities in security, performance, reliability, and manageability. It was built from the ground up with a focus on secure development, an enhanced user experience, and optimization around hardware advancements. This article explains why Windows Vista is the ideal platform for your applications.
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Tuesday, January 02, 2007
Microsoft Expression -Build Your Web Site Your Way
This new age is built on standards. There are design standards, such as Cascading Style Sheets; meta data standards, such as XHMTL; data transfer standards, such as XML; and accessibility standards for the visually impaired. Design tools for the Web artist are needed to support these standards.
For the last nine years one tool has dominated the Web design world: Dreamweaver. Now, Microsoft is poised to release a competitor.
Microsoft expression. We looked at the latest beta release (CTP), released at the end of last week, to examine what they're prepared to deliver.
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For the last nine years one tool has dominated the Web design world: Dreamweaver. Now, Microsoft is poised to release a competitor.
Microsoft expression. We looked at the latest beta release (CTP), released at the end of last week, to examine what they're prepared to deliver.
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