The largest catalog of photos to the world? It Face book

The number of pictures taken each day is growing: the advent of digital (with a resulting drop in analogue photography, as we said in this story) the amount of shots in the world has more than quadrupled, reaching an estimated figure for the 2011 to 375 billion photos. Some of these numbers is to be credited to the camera phone (there are more than 2.5 billion outstanding), which besides having contributed to increasing the number of shots, they have also radically changed the way in which the photographs are stored and consumed.

If you think a collection of images Flicker is one of the first names that comes to mind, but surprisingly, the numbers of what until recently was best known service photo sharing are a pittance compared to the catalog of images collected by Face book , a true giant when compared with other types of libraries. With the direct upload and social club that is established on social networking site, Face book's catalog has been enhanced with more than 6 billion prints per month.

Services with a long history (like Flicker) or very trendy (as Instagram ) are peanuts compared to the Face book, which in many cases even incorporates them, as the photos stored in the two services are often automatically shared on Face book. Once everyone had the classic shoebox full of photos, the revision of which was accompanied by the classic questions 'Who is this?' or 'Here, where were we?' No one would have thought that in a few years would be spent in an endless catalog Online, shared with thousands of people, geo-referenced and with facial recognition.

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Mac OS X 10.7: a Lion in Apple systems Technical considerations

Goodbye PowerPC

To install Mac OS X 10.7 "Lion" Apple requires a system that is at least equipped with Intel Core 2 Duo, Core i3, i5, i7 Core, Xeon, or, at least 2GB of RAM, version 10.6.6 Snow Leopard (recommended to 10.6.8) and 7GB of free space on hard disk .
As was the case in Snow Leopard, Lion also only reclaim systems equipped with Intel processors. However, when the previous operating system allowed the installation of the emulation "Rosetta" for applications written for PowerPC, Lion does not support in any way to run PowerPC applications: it is an important feature to consider with due careful when you are considering moving to Lion, especially if you already have a large fleet of PowerPC-compliant application.

Automatic termination applications

Lion introduces a new management application that allows their automatic termination when they are deemed "inactive" by the system. According to Lion the definition of "inactive application" is an application that has no windows open, which has no hidden windows, and that is not currently used by the user (in background). If these conditions are met and if the application supports the automatic termination, the operating system will close the application if it has bison go resources for other tasks.

The ultimate goal of this solution is to eliminate the boundaries between applications closed and inactive applications, again conforming to the mechanisms of their use of IOS. In fact, the automatic termination of the application results in a behavior quite misleading: in fact, we checked with some applications (Preview, Text Edit, Snapshot, while Safari does not seem to support this feature) that when you close the last window of the program and you switch to the Finder or any other program, the application disappears from the Dock and is no longer accessible even by the selector multitasking Command-Tab. However, observing the processes through Activity Monitor, the process is still active.

It is unclear whether this behavior is to catalog the item "Work as Intended" or whether this is a bug in the youth of the operating system: you must wait until the next maintenance update for more information.

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Mac OS X 10.7: a Lion in Apple systems Document management: auto-save, versions, Resume

A number of features designed to simplify file management have been introduced in the new Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, with special attention to the activities of saving files. First was the introduction of the auto-save feature throughout the operating system (of course for third-party applications will need to make the appropriate API) that allows you to automatically save any open documents, or in the background to which you are working, at intervals of time set. The user still retains full control on bail, having the ability to lock a document where you want it to be accidentally saved over it unauthorized changes. The moment a locked document is changed, the operating system asks the user to unlock it, to copy or use it as a template for a new document. Also in this context is the command "Revert" that restores the conditions under which the document was at the time of its opening.

Versions

A completely new feature introduced in the Lion, who works in tandem with the auto-save, is the ability to record different versions of the same document, in other words, to understand the concept of the historic Lion automatically keeps track of changes to the document currently in progress. It is a more comprehensive review of the well-known commands "undo" and "redo".

The creation of the automated version is managed by the operating system: Lion generates a new version of the document each time it is opened at intervals of one hour when you're working on it. New versions are created even in the presence of significant changes to the document when it is sent by email or when it is blocked, duplicated or reset. It 'can create new versions manually by choosing the appropriate command from the File menu, or with the key combination "Command-S", equivalent to the old "Save" command.

By implementing a graphical interface similar to that used for Time Machine backup feature, you can see all versions of the document visually comparing them together, and also by copying parts of the document between them, if there is to retrieve some items an earlier version, maybe later in the work written off, and copy them into the current version.


In order to avoid unnecessary waste of disk space, version management system records only the changes made to the document. The version management plans to maintain the versions hourly for a day, every day for a month versions, and versions for all the months preceding week. Deleting a file also removes all versions associated with it. Sharing a document with third parties will share only the final version and all previous versions.
All versions are integrated in Text Edit and Preview. Support it iWork applications under Mac OS X versions Lion, with a small update. Even in this case for third-party developers are available APIs to implement versions within their programs.
This is definitely a very useful feature, which allows you to leave behind any kind of psychosis resulting from saving the document. The rescue system does not provide any possibility of releases management and configuration from the user would not mind to have the opportunity to decide their own rules about saving and maintenance of versions over time.

Resume

The "Resume" (or Resume, in the original English version) allows an application to reopen and find it exactly as it was left: to find the document to which we were working on, plus any other documents left open, the tool palette instead where we had left, the position of the cursor and any text selections we made to the document. The same concept applies to the whole system: you can turn off the computer knowing that every time the windows and all programs will be available again just as we left them. There is of course the possibility of a "clean start" option in choosing the appropriate dialog box when you reboot.


While Resume function may be particularly useful, especially combined with self-rescue and releases, as it can leave all the concerns arising from the non saving documents, by contrast we are convinced that it can be a trinket a little 'annoying for users accustomed to working in a traditional manner. The Resume feature, in fact, also operates in the event that an application is invoked by opening a document related to it: it follows that by clicking on a document will cause the opening of the program show that in addition to the document of interest to us, will also display all other active documents at closing generating probably a bit 'of confusion on the desktop.

The Resume function applied to the operating system is only useful in specific situations rather than as a regular habit. For example, when you need to upgrade your system without having to worry about saving documents and closing programs: once the machine rebooted after the updates will all meet again as it was before, ready to continue our work and our activities entertainment. On the other hand we noticed that the resume of the system if there are different applications and open windows causes a considerable (and understandable) extension of time to boot.

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Mac OS X 10.7: a Lion in Apple systems The management of the finest: Mission Control and full screen applications

The window management of Mac OS X has been gradually improved and simplified with the introduction of a number of features in previous editions of the operating system. The first and most crucial in improving the management of space on the desktop has been Expos in 2003 with Mac OS X 10.3 "Panther" with the push of a button or moving the cursor into a specially designated area of the screen (typically One of four corners) it was possible to obtain an "overview" of open windows, with their representation in miniature.
With the release of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, Apple has instead introduced the Dashboard and widgets: small applications and tools that could be called overlay again with the push of a button. Arriving in 2007 with the marketing of Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard" operating system users can now make use of the Apple, in a native virtual desktops that go under the name space.


Lion takes all these features introduced over five years and puts them under one umbrella: Apple has decided to raise the capabilities of Exposé, the Dashboard and Spaces in Mission Control. In one screen you can have a glance of the windows open, and manage access to the Dashboard Spaces, and see which applications are open in Full Screen mode (each of them will be assigned a Space). Through the Mission Control will also be possible to move application windows from one Space to another.

While it appreciated the decision of Apple to gather under one umbrella three of the most interesting feature about the management of the windows, the other must find that the management of Spaces is to be a bit 'more limited compared with that in previous versions of the operating system: where to Leopard on it was possible to organize the location of its user-configurable Spaces in a grid, in the Lion Spaces are placed in a sequential manner.

In terms of window management Lion also sees the extension to all the native applications (and those of third parties through the appropriate API) of the possibility of being open to full screen as was the case in the past with iPhoto and Aperture 3. In this way will be hidden from view, and Dock menu, leaving the application available to all operational area of the screen. For each open application in full-screen mode, the operating system will assign a dedicated Space and, conversely, when an application will be resized will be reallocated to the previous desktop space.

A new function in the small window management is the ability of being able to resize by dragging any corner and edge, while in earlier operating systems scaling was only possible to act on the appropriate tab on going to the bottom right corner.

With the introduction of full screen Apple has also added new four-finger gestures to scroll, which allows switching between applications and the other, and the ability to access the Mission Control.

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Mac OS X 10.7: a Lion in Apple systems Application management: Launch pad and Mac App Store

Mac OS X 10.7 Lion introduces a new approach to application management, anticipated with the release of the beta version of Mac App Store last January, and is completed with the Launch pad features integrated into the operating system.




If the release of Mac App Store Apple wanted to offer the public a point of reference where to find, free of charge or for a fee, applications for the operating system, the purpose of Launch pad is to some extent, equal: put at the disposal of 'a reference point where you can find all the applications installed on your system. This is a solution that fits above the less savvy users, who may find it difficult to identify when there are no applications on the Dock because, perhaps, have no idea where to look.
Clicking on the icon shows a graphical representation of the Lion did the same wing of IOS springboard through which they appear, in one or more screens, the applications on the system. It 'best to make clear, however, that Launch pad only lists the applications in the "Applications" folder of your user and any subfolders, but is unable to detect any applications that have been installed in other locations, such as the Downloads folder . In this regard it would be better able to tell Launch pad to go into which folders to locate applications.


Just like you can with IOS, according to user needs, to group similar applications together into folders. In this case, each folder can contain up to 32 applications. The position is fully customizable applications and folders, similar to what you can do on the Apple mobile devices.

Apple wanted to tie in glove Mac App Store and Launch pad as soon as you start to download an application from the store, its icon appears in the window Launch pad accompanied by a progress bar to a representation of the file transfer. The application, once installed, will appear directly in Launch pad. If you want to uninstall an application downloaded from the App Store will be sufficient to hold the right mouse button and click on the little X that appears in the upper left corner of the icon, or drag the application to the trash.

Launch pad is, de facto, the first official Apple launcher (in the past similar functions were performed by third-party applications, we recall the most famous open source and Quicksilver), though savvy users use the search function time of Spotlight as quick launcher applications. Launch pad does not, however, is the only way to access the applications installed on your system, because the user can continue to operate in traditional ways. Still remains to be seen what the plans are evolving from Apple for this new feature, which visually represents the most obvious meeting point between the family Mac OS X and iPhone OS family.


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Mac OS X 10.7: a Lion in Apple systems Graphical interface and the Finder, some new

The new Mac OS X 10.7 "Lion" introduces a new series of "cosmetic" in the GUI, even those who follow their own style of IOS. All buttons, pull-down menus, dialog text input, sliders and so the same approach modeled graphics that Apple has used for the operating system of their mobile devices. The result is a graphical interface, although not disrupted compared with that with Snow Leopard, even more simple and minimalist than found with previous versions of the system.

A Finder window in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion

A Finder window in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
From the images we see how the new GUI has decreed the demise of the scroll bars permanent because the bars are displayed in the overlay when you make a scrolling content, and then disappear when you stop the operation. Also notice how the small icons on the sidebar being treated "monochrome".

The Finder is enriched by a new display mode: when the user decides to sort your files and folders according to a certain criterion, the Finder creates groups within the window corresponding to the policy, thus facilitating the identification of files.

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Mac OS X 10.7: a Lion in Apple systems Distribution and installation

Distribution and installation

The first truly new in Mac OS X 10.7 is in the mode of distribution to the public: Lion is the first of the Apple operating system to be distributed in the form of digital downloads. The platform chosen by Apple is obviously distribution Mac App Store, launched last January. The decision to sell the house in Cupertino also an operating system through its virtual store, is to explain clearly what the future vision in the software distribution: ban the physical media and digital delivery to the open road, with the likely consequence of seeing any optical drive disappear from the systems (at least the consumer, we believe that the optical drive on the professional machines will stand for some time) that Apple will begin selling soon.



The package of Lion is quite large: it is a download size of approximately 3.70 GB, which may be intractable by those who do not have a broadband connection from adequate performance. Apple tries to cater to these users in two ways: one version of Lion commercialized on USB drive (though at a higher price, as we shall see in the conclusions), and a custom installation service to be carried out at an Apple Store in the area of.

Once finished downloading the package, the screen will automatically appear with which to start the installation of Lion. And 'advisable, before proceeding with the actual installation, make a backup of your system to prevent the accidental loss of important data and documents.

The installation procedure will create a hidden boot partition size of 650MB which will take place through the actual installation of the operating system after a short reboot the machine. The same partition is then used later by the means appropriate to the activities of system recovery or to reinstall your operating system. Booting the machine from this partition you will have the usual installer's operating system already used by Apple in previous versions of Mac OS X.

It 'important to note that at this stage of the update the user interaction is not required, if not for the hard drive selection and acceptance of license terms. Disappears so any opportunity to customize the installation (such as the choice not to install certain items, perhaps not necessary for our activities in order to save disk space), since everything is conducted in a completely automatic. Finally, note that for the installation of Lion must have the latest version of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.


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Mac OS X 10.7: a Lion in Apple systems Introduction

Introduction

Announced at a special event last month of October 2010, officially presented to the public during the last edition of the Worldwide Developer Conference in early June and is available on the market since July 20, 2011: we are talking about Mac OS X 10.7 "Lion", the last so-called "major release" of the operating system made by Apple.
He continues the tradition of the big cats: after Cheetah, Puma, Jaguar, Panther, Tiger, Leopard and Snow Leopard comes to what is recognized as the king of the iconography big cat, the lion, as if to indicate the achievement of the apogee Series Mac OS X, as we will explain in the article and summarize the conclusions, there is more of a clue pointing in this direction.



But let's see where he is going to fit the new Mac OS X 10.7 in the timeline of the major releases: Lion comes two years after the release on the market of Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard", a decidedly atypical in pattern of release of the Apple updates. The snow leopard fact represented the first major release of Apple without introducing any new features, making rather a series of major upgrades and changes behind the scenes. It was, in fact, a "tech releases" that, looking in hindsight, has paved the way for the development and release of Lion.

OS X 10.7 is actually proposed to the public with a fair number of new features (and without any distortion technology under the shell) connected by one common thread, that the ex-CEO Steve Jobs summed up very well during the presentation of last October with the slogan "Back to the Mac." Slogan, which then had a double meaning: first, bring attention to the operating system after months of Apple's spotlight on other areas (iPhone and iPad in particular), and secondly, the will to carry on the Mac developed a series of evolutions of IOS , specifically for the Apple portable devices, which can be effectively extended the scope desktop .

The article will gather the news of the latest release of Apple's operating system, trying to discover what connection there is with the "little brother" IOS and, above all, trying to figure out what the future path that Apple has begun to outline with the new Lion.


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New range of keyboards, headsets and mouse for Corsair

The American Corsair announced a new family of peripherals for the PC world; the goal is to make undeclared Corsair, over time, a company that becomes a reference point for the user looking for enthusiastic members for their system, with the only exception to the processor, motherboard and video card.

The range of solutions, Corsair has in fact already expanded a lot over the last few years: the memoirs, historical core product company, has in fact passed to the chassis and power supplies, adding more recently, speakers and headphones.

The new courses cover new headphones, developed specifically for gamers, as well as keyboards and mice. The models Vengeance 1100, 1300 and 1500 have different technical characteristics, although accumulate by the presence of a microphone. Vengeance 1500 and 1300 has similar structure, proving to be the most voluminous because of the ear by 50 mm in diameter. We also find microphone with noise reduction device. Vengeance 1500 uses a USB connection and allows you to handle the Dolby Headphone technology, then simulate playback in 5.1 and 7.1. Vengeance has 1300 connections instead of traditional jack. The first solution is proposed at $ 99 list, $ 79 while those required for Vengeance 1300.

The third model of headset, Vengeance 1100, using 40 mm headset microphone with noise reduction maintaining and wired jack with the supplied USB adapter. In this case, the fastening system is back with a headband.

Vengeance in the new range are also two new mice and two keyboards. Vengeance M60 mouse is a proposed $ 69.99, with 8 programmable keys; Vengeance M90 , at a price of $ 79.99, offers 15 programmable buttons and a memory which can store up to 6 distinct profiles. Both are laser sensor, 1.8-meter cable with USB connection and 5,700 DPI.

K60 and K90 Vengeance keyboards are equipped with mechanical switches, with the top surface of metal. K60 Vengeance is proposed to be $ 109.99 list; Vengeance K90 , at a price of $ 129.99, includes as many as 24 extra G keys, and can store game profiles due to an internal memory.


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Vulnerabilities in control systems of power plants, military and production

There is a report that shows the last hours in the emergency created by Styx net memory, a sophisticated threat that last year has raised many important concerns about the possible repercussions. Several sites reported the news abroad that the researcher Luigi Auriemma would have detected and reported multiple vulnerabilities of products called SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition).

This kind of device is used in industrial management and control of processes and notes from Auriemma also find a list of manufacturers involved in the problem: Beckh off Measure Soft, Rockwell, Carrel, Progea Azeo Tech and Cogent. These devices are used for the management of energy networks, to aerospace or military projects, so in scenarios of use are far from the end-user and highly strategic.

The vulnerabilities would allow the third parties 'execution of remote code and in some cases the construction of a Do S attack. As we wrote at the beginning, as identified by Luigi Auriemma reported Stux net the mind but also reflect on what makes computer security has strategic importance. Various online sources, citing major stakeholders, emphasize how embarrassing it is to discover similar problems of such systems is delegated to a task so critical and delicate.

Often it is assumed that the SCADA solutions are made to operate in an environment made safe by other infrastructure, but the problem arises when the system itself is exposed. Stux net has certainly brought attention to the problem, but as noted by Luigi Auriemma could be of concern, when some manufacturers have already solved the problems detected and is still waiting for official statements, discussions and explanations.


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In 2011, 375 billion photos will be snapped, almost all digital

The blog 1000memories.com has launched an interesting calculation on the number of images taken since the dawn of photography to ogi, using many different bases to estimate. Interesting is the method used to estimate the number of images taken between 1901 (date of birth of the first consumer camera, the Kodak Brownie) and 1984 from which time PMIA Silver Institute and began to publish detailed annual data: analysts created a function that relates the number of pictures taken on the number of employees at the giant Kodak, and the production of cameras and rolls of film has done for years, the real part of lion.

Certainly it is not a reliable estimate of absolute numbers, but can give a measure of plausible trends, assuming that most pictures are taken more necessary it is being produced films and cameras. As we said the data are more accurate after 1984, and bear witness to an almost exponential growth in the number of shots taken over the world.



Interesting is the breakdown of film photography after 2000, when there was the record high of 85 billion photos taken on film. The advent of digital, much of which for Kodak was a pioneer but then missed the train more importantly, supporting a real explosion of the phenomenon: it is estimated that the current year will close with 375 billion shots.

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HP-PC, this is the name of the spin off of the PC business?

The President of HD, Ray Lane, has provided some information on the future of the PC division of the U.S. . The fate of this group, responsible for an annual turnover exceeding 40 billion dollars, is now clearly defined: to become an independent company through a spin off from HP.

What name will be adopted for this new company? A choice has not yet been made but it would make sense to include in each case that HP at home, so as to give continuity to customers and partners. HP-PC may therefore be an estimate of valid, even if it does not seem to be the best brand dell appeal.

During an interview conducted with the site CRN Lane has also provided some interesting information about some of the motivations that drive investors to operate in the company of HP. At the base of some innovation, history and structure that HP has always sought over the years, as a simple and direct return on investment. This is not surprising: an investor, by its nature, is in search of maximum profit and this is before any consideration linked to the goodness or otherwise of products that are developed or in the case of a company like HP as much innovation to be developed inside.

The PC market, however, Lane has increasingly become a second so-called commodity business, where in the face of high volume and turnover is very high due to serve extremely low margins. And 'the rest is this motivation that prompted HP to the decision to separate the activities related to the PC from its other businesses, thus attempting to maintain in-house only the divisions that can ensure a high marginal


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New net book with Atom CPU Expected in December

When we see the debut of the next generation of net books based solutions on Intel architecture family Cedar Trail? During the month of December, so with a slight further shift forward in relation to the timing initially outlined.

The basis of this new schedule will include some of the new technologies that allow new proposals to be more interesting net books. First Rapid Start, through which a system can be restarted in less than 7 seconds from Status hibernation. Following Smart Connect, a technology that automatically updates your system with the new operating system updates while the system is in suspend mode.

Cedar Trail is the code name by which future architectures are indicated with an Intel Atom. Built for the first time with 32-nanometer production technology, these new CPUs will be offered initially in two versions: Atom N2600 with clock frequency of 1.6 GHz Atom N2800 clocked at 1.86 GHz for both'll also integrated component GPU with hardware support for DirectX 10.1 as well as video playback up to a resolution of 1920x1080 pixels.

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8 Developer Preview and Windows virtualization software

Microsoft devotes an entire post 8 Building Windows the ability to install Windows Developer Preview 8 within a virtual machine. The argument has been ignored until now by the Redmond, even though the use of virtualization in software development is not an uncommon practice. Indeed, Microsoft itself points out how when one third of the installations of Windows Developer Preview 8 are implemented on the virtual machine.
The developers, however, invite caution in judging and simply try the new operating system in the virtualized environment only: guaranteed benefits, responsiveness and smoothness of the interface graphics are often placed in difficulty by limitations related to running as Guest OS right. By having a system to be dedicated to Windows 8 is therefore recommended that a clean install of the operating system, possibly in multi-boot.

For those who want to pursue the path of virtualization of Microsoft in the post the following programs are suggested:

Hyper-V in Windows Developer Preview 8
Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 R2
VM ware Workstation 8.0 for Windows
Virtual Box 4.1.2 for Windows

The above list has been built not by direct evidence of Microsoft, but rather by collecting feedback from users who have already installed Windows 8. In the case of Virtual Box can confirm having used for some tests in a direct way. There are other consumer software that currently does not offer the ability to run Windows virtualized 8, the list indicated that Microsoft is as follows: Microsoft Virtual PC, Microsoft Virtual Server (all versions), Windows 7 XP Mode, VM Ware Workstation 7.x and earlier.
It is likely that in the coming weeks for updates to be released virtualization software that does not allow the proper use of Windows 8. For those who had not yet tried Windows Developer Preview 8 point out that the download link, and this article about Virtual Box virtual machine to create your own test.


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New problems for Sony NEX-5N: 'clicks' in audio video?

Sony in its latest update of the range mirror less has introduced two new models: Sony NEX-7 top of the range for those who want the highest quality photographic and Sony NEX-5N update of the previous model NEX-5, addressed to those who love to record movies. NEX-5N Sony introduces the new format AVCHD 2.0 Progressive, which brings Full HD movie recording at frame rates of 60fps in progressive mode, compared to previous models which could generate only the interlaced format.



From the first reviews appeared on the net but it seems that the field of video is really the Achilles heel of this EVIL : We already talked about the overheating problems highlighted by some tests, but are creating even more havoc on the network of the problem ' Click 'clearly audible in the video tracks.

This is a problem faced by many users, for example En gadget (who posts a video in which the defect is clearly audible) the signals of all specimens tested: during the video recording at full resolution, the rapid movement of the machine leads to hearing, both at the time and then in the video clips, clear 'click' very clear that disturb the audio being recorded. According to reports En gadget, Sony would be aware of the problem and working to find the cause of the problem and its possible solutions.


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55 years and not hear them: happy birthday, hard drive

As reported by Hard OCP, in these days celebrating a birthday very important that the hard disk, the most common and popular data storage device. In the field of computer science are really very few components, while considering the technological evolution, have been able to maintain unchanged its basic philosophy for 55 years (the same age, month over month less, actors Tom Hanks and Mel Gibson and guitarist Joe Satriani).



To give birth to the hard disk, in that distant 1956, was IBM, with a device that looks a lot like the old jukebox. The weight of the entire system, the disks were only a small part, passed over a ton, it cost 38,400 dollars (at that time were very many) and allowed to store 5MB of data.

The dishes were well-used 50, with a diameter of 24 inches (approximately 60cm). 0.1 MB flat, well, really nothing compared to the specific capacities of today. But you will have to wait 70 years to give the name of the unit disk (the first was fixed disk), to better distinguish it from revolutionary removable floppy disk and flexible.

At 55 years of age the hard disk is still alive and well, despite recent attacks by the NAND Flash chip: for storage capacity and price per GB is the "old" technology is not afraid of any rival, and is expected to have in front him still a lot 'of time. Congratulations hard drive!

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PlayStation Life region free and new Android SDK / Life (PSP)

Shuhei Yoshida, president of the international study of Sony Computer Entertainment has confirmed on his Twitter profile that will be region free PlayStation Life. The news was anticipated by the rumors, but now comes the official confirmation of one of the top executives of Sony.

PS The fact that life will be region free will allows users to buy the software for the handheld, regardless of its source: a European user will then buy the games sold in Japan or North America. Same goes for the console itself: European consumers will buy PlayStation Life in Japan on December 17, day of the launch in this territory, and use it with the European games that will arrive from 2012.

PS The other news of life spread over the weekend about the specifications of the new PlayStation Suite SDK (software development kit) that Sony will release in November. The suite will develop software for all devices simultaneously PlayStation certified. This group not only apart PlayStation Life, but also mobile Xperia Play based on Android.

PS Suite, according to the press release, is a solution that allows you to expand the world of PlayStation Android. The development tools are part of the SDK are based on C # and allow you to develop games and other types of applications and instantly make them compatible for Life and for Android without additional development costs.

"By supporting the development for different devices to create libraries and adopting a wide range of content that go beyond gaming, PS Suite SDK will help developers not only to contain costs, but will allow them to be more efficient at work without needing SDK to learn several "special Sony in its statement.

Starting from October Sony will start to move content from PlayStation Store to devices PS Suite, and the procedure starts with PSone games. Starting next spring, the PlayStation Store will be optimized to allow easy access devices with PS Suite.

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Samsung Wave 3 on the market in October

The Korean company Samsung has in recent weeks as an important signal about its mobile operating system officially announcing the release of Mind to version 2.0. In conjunction with this announcement Samsung has also introduced a series of new terminals that will bring a dowry native OS updated to the latest version.

Among the devices announced is also the successor of Wave 2, which until now worked as a top of the range between terminals equipped with Mind in its first version. The Mind 2.0 takes so new smart phone called Wave 3 and beyond the new version of Samsung's proprietary operating system among its specific display Super AMOLED 4-inch, 1.4 GHz single-core processor and 3GB of memory dedicated to storage.



According to spread these hours Sammy Hub, the Samsung novo terminal should be available since the early days of October. The first generation of Wave had generated substantial public interest and, thanks to a price below the competition had recorded the excellent sales figures.

We just have to wait to see if the new solution will have the success of its predecessors or the increasingly fierce competition, even within the range Samsung has the better and not leave room for the new Wave.

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The party of the pirates make their way in Germany

It is not our business to talk about politics but when, as in this case, the IT world and the political can not be met without it. Yeah, because in Germany the pirate party collects, exit poll data, the 8, 5% of the vote, gaining access to the regional council. One thing great.

This is a major surprise in the German political scene: already announced in the polls, the vote yesterday in Berlin for the renewal of the parliament of the city-state has confirmed that this party cures the emerging popular interest.

The German Pirate Party was founded five years ago and, since its foundation, now has about 13.000 members. The growth of the party exploded in 2009 during a national political debate about the blocking of sites containing material on the Internet pedografico. Many have read in the decision to block a form of censorship and actively fought to prevent the presence of a "precedent".



As reported by several German newspapers to the success of pirates of the party there would be a disrespectful campaign that captured the imagination of the youngest group of voters. Among the principles brought forward by this party there are those of freedom of copyright and data protection. According to Holger Liljeberg, polling institute of info: "This party focuses a lot on liberalism and freedom."

The result has, however, earlier in Europe: the first Pirate Party to collect votes to enter parliament was that of Sweden, who during the 2009 elections, gathering about 7% of the votes.


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Windows media and Flash 8, Adobe speaks

Last week we dealt with this news, to analyze the operation of the new browser interface optimized for Metro. As we have stated on numerous occasions, and it should be remembered, in Windows 8 there are two versions of the browser: an optimized interface and an underground classic for the Desktop. The two browsers behave like two different components. The browser interface is optimized for Metro HTML5 and supports, in any way, additional third-party plug ins. Translated into practical terms: no support for the Flash player.

Adobe, on its official blog, by 'an explanation and explains how technology will flash does not cut off. As reported by the company, in fact, flash will be supported by Metro through Adobe AIR development platform makes it possible to manage content on multiple platforms without compatibility issues. As is true today for Android, iPhone OS and Blackberry tomorrow will be for Windows 8.

Adobe takes an example Machineries, one of the most downloaded app from the App Store of Apple and that has been developed in Flash. In his post Adobe try this to explain why the company is going to provide solutions that allow developers to create interactive content that are highly compatible: for this to work with companies like Microsoft and Apple, as well as HTML with the community, continues.

What emerges, on balance, is the abandonment of the flash player: optimized solutions with little computing power contained, is not able to provide a proper user experience. Adobe has to adapt so well and follow HTML5.

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Windows notebook: good sales back-to-school in the U.S.

According to market analyst firm NPD Group , sales of the period known as "back-to-school" are describing the situation better than what was found during the first half of 2011, when retail sales of notebook solutions in the United States been decreasing over 12% over the previous year. During the months of July and August, sales of Windows notebooks have seen a decline of 4% from a year ago, but the only sales in August showed a slight increase of 4%.

"The results recorded on a sequential basis by NPD show that after a small decline at the beginning of the year, mostly due to concerns that followed the release of Windows 7, Windows notebook systems market remains solid. The last two weeks of August are the most important period for back-to-school purchases and these weeks have seen an increase of more than 8% compared to retail sales last year, "said Stephen Baker, vice president of Industry Analysis for NPD.

A first factor to the increase in sales volumes was the decline in average selling prices of systems (ASP - Average selling price). During July and August 2011, the ASP for Windows notebooks has settled on the figure of $ 477, which represents a decrease of 7% over the same period last year. The decline in ASP has meant that 65% of all sales of notebook computers have been in the products sold under $ 500. In this segment, sales rose 12% over the previous year, while sales for the Windows notebook systems above $ 500 have fallen by 23%.

"The triggering of a number of promotions has brought consumers into stores for the last half of the season back-to-school. The positive response of consumers to a policy of aggressive pricing for notebook PCs, despite the persistent demand for tablet systems, indicates that the upcoming holiday season will probably be characterized by a number of promotional initiatives, "said Baker.


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The second edition of AIDS T-shirt by Maison Martin Margiela

Return the AIDS T-shirt by Maison Martin Margiela, these shirts are pretty good and have come to the second edition and have a clear, indeed not very clear indeed, and effective way to motivate people to dialogue. Once again the writing on t-shirts do not read well because a part is out but the other is inside then you need to know what it means to dialogue, to seek, to respond to exchange two words, Martin Margiela, at the base everything there is dialogue and seeks to promote t-shirt with his charities.

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Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe for Vogue October 2011

Michelle Williams is an American actress I have always liked since the days of Dawson's Creek water has passed under the bridge, his career took off, has become a mother, lost a mate and now he has another, has become more beautiful, has figured out how to enhance its look. He got to the point that looks like Marilyn Monroe for Vogue U.S. October 2011 photographed by Annie Leibovitz, but not an idea of Anna Wintour, she simply rides the wave of the upcoming movie “My Week with Marilyn, "film Michelle plays in their own Marilyn.

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Vogue Fashion Night Out Rome 2011: The first time the capital (first part)

Fashionblog for us to fashion is a real passion, so we could not make us miss the wonderful opportunity this year: a double date with Vogue Fashion Night Out. Here then after the report from Milan, a chronicle of the first time in the capital crowned with success, perhaps most unexpected.

Rome, we already knew, is a city no less accustomed to the fashion world than they are on the streets of Milan, but in no way marred the occasion of this inauguration, as evidenced by the huge number of spectators (the city has literally gone haywire ) and the numerous events. In fact we had already reported several appointments before the event and we confess that follow the overwhelming agenda of the evening was not easy.

We start from the event official, the Campari Red Passion Prize, which has seen the talent award and Dante Ferretti Elio Germano, besides the beauty of Bianca Balti, elegantly wrapped in a gown of Ferragamo’s. Of course, other great protagonist of the event was Franca Sozzani, godmother of the whole event. The setting of Piazza di Spagna was instead occupied by the installation of bright lance, which presented its new Lancia Ypsilon and elegant.


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Happy Birthday Twiggy

At only 16 years he was elected "the first international supermodel," was the early '60s, London was the epicenter of the trends of art, fashion and music, the capital of young people who flocked here from all over the world. The small, thin Twiggy (born Lesley Horn by), which today makes 62 years, became the star of this world, embodying the spirit of the time, strongly influenced by the culture for the first time teen-agers.
And teen-ager was his body, in contrast with the buxom beauties of the '50s, Twiggy fact the word means something like "stick" Twiggy was May Quanta’s muse and ambassador of the revolution of the miniskirt, high forehead, eyes wide open, is the forerunner of another British supermodel, Kate Moss, famous for her excessive thinness, especially in the early years of his career.

We always hope that new generations of young women with diets do not torment for those who may look like is thin in nature. Twiggy has turned because he has been able to find his personal style, the designer right, cutting hair, makeup and lots of curiosity that allows you to learn as much as possible from the professionals around you. In fact, it later became an actress, presenter and co-producer ranging between England and the United States, not bad for the little girl in a suburb of London.


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New clutch handbags from the summer 2012 fashion shows in New York

Proenza Shouler She brings everything by hand, small clutches, but also the larger bag, which has a double loop to slide his hand. The most fun? That inspired by a classic cover of a camera, strictly leather short chain.
Victoria Beckham has designed simple "bag" leather with micro chain to go around the wrist like a folder and bijoux suede rigid closure and side contrast.
30s from the catwalk by Ralph Lauren, where class and romanticism are the masters, behold, a small basket retro, with floral embroidery and braided leather handles, a little at a basket of kindergarten than once. And even micro clutch in raffia with flower patterned suede jewelry and wood embedding the closure.
A cube, a ball and a small folder, all wearing hand, are the ideas of clutch by Marc by Marc Jacobs, pointing especially on big shopping bag.

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Examples of the download speed of Windows 8

At the conference, Build Many of the technical devices with Windows 8 on board run surprisingly quickly, Steve Sinofsky, even some models say how many seconds it takes to run - all this of course is surprising and interesting, but how quickly the system is running in real life? The answer to this question you will learn later in the article.

Indeed, Windows 8 sufficiently nimble system. And has a clever organization of the process, and allows you to include yourself literally in 10 seconds. According to the software giant, their new operating system runs fast, not because of the power provided by computers, but because of the qualities of the system. For example the download speed is not particularly increase if Windows 8 will be on a weaker machine than the ones that were submitted. However, a living example, we can still see on a modern machine - on a Tablet PC Samsung Series 7 Slate, but even this Video allows you to add a general impression of the real speed of loading Windows 8:



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The new file system - Protogon

Windows 8 continues to surprise us. That will reveal that the browser does not support Flash, then leaked information that Windows 8 will support the application of Windows Phone 7 . The new information refers to the file system, called Protogon. We're still in July, saw the future skin short file system, but until recently no one was sure that this is a real file system, rather than some kind of mounted photo, or just a third-party program.



Visually, the system issues a little, but technically it is of great interest. For example, it includes "transaction" operations which are inherent in databases, as well as fields and tables. Remember Win FS project, which eventually failed? Here Protogon is, if not a sibling of the project, it is certainly very similar. Confirmation of the existence Protogon can be obtained by looking at the registry of Windows 8 Developer Preview; there have repeatedly found entries Protogon. Today we know very little about the new file system functionality, one thing is for sure - its potential has not been disclosed, will see in the future, what this beast.

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Browser on Windows 8 not support Flash?

In Windows 8 not only two interfaces, but two of Internet Explorer. Both of the tenth version, however, the first fits into the concept of metro, and the second is more traditional. However, browsers differ not only in the interfaces, but also functional. The main surprise was the fact that IE10, decorated in the style of Metro, can not work with Adobe Flash, but its traditional counterpart retained this ability.

A strange move on the part of Microsoft, after a long time, many sites will not rewrite the code of their pages to suit the new HTML5, which means that users of Windows 8 will be doomed to "static" Internet as the flash is usually made dynamic sites - and time No support for Flash, there is no dynamic resources. Use traditional IE10 navryatli someone wants to, because it looks like the browser of the last century, albeit a new one. Although the argument - that it run Flash files may force users to go from time to time with the Metro IE, on the traditional.



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Features touch control in Windows 8

Those who have already installed Windows 8 on any touch device, in any time to observe the accuracy of your contact. This is not window-dressing; Windows 8 is really an innovative system of determining what you want to be touching the screen. If the system is initially positioned as a "touch" system, it is logical that it should be perfectly suited to the management with the fingers. And Windows 8 is adapted, of course, is not without bugs, but before the official release of their promise to fix.



The novelty lies in the fact that the system is capable of correcting errors. You touch the screen, conditional buttons «YXY», of course, that you will not be the exact center of the letters X, yes, and the thickness of the fingers themselves, users are different, but the touch will be credited it to the letter X, if you want to touch it up. The system analyzes the halo of contact for available actions, and performs necessary. In the screenshot, which is given above, it is noticeable. In addition to the intelligent system during the development of Windows 8, spent a lot of effort on debugging efficiency. As a result, even in the version of the touch functions predreliznogo systems work by 9 out of 10.

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