Rising Technology : Google Glass

Google glass is a very responsive and connected device of Google which has advanced the use of Augmented Reality for day to day work. In simple terms Augmented Reality(AR) means a live view of real world environment where the elements are augmented by computer generated sensory input such as audio, video, graphics and GPS data. Google glass enables you to keep in touch with the latest updates, happenings around the world. You can view socail media feeds, text, news weather updates, Google Maps, navigate with GPS, take photos,access environmental data, traffic updates etc.

This device is available to some developers at the price of $1500. As a part of the promotion, one of these was sent to each country in celebration of Google I/O Extend.

Peculiar Devices

ISmile  - Selfie In style

ISmile   - Selfie in Style

This device is connected to the shutter of your smart phone where you can press the button of this device and just take the photograph. No need of selfie sticks.

This ISmile bluetooth selfie remote is IP67 waterproof rated and very thin which is just 4cm square and 4mm thick.

It has an internal battery which cannot be recharged but it is said that can last 730 days. The button on it is the only control which can be used to set bluetooth pairing with your smart phone and then as your remote shutter. This supports bluetooth 4.0.

New Web Services- Part 2

New Web Services

Manualslib

This is a web service where you could find a user manual for a specific equipment. This is the world’s largest online user manuals library with a huge collection of user manuals.

 manualslib.com

Terms of Service, Didn’t Read

When you request for a service or download an application, most of the times the web service provider forces you to agree to the terms and conditions to acquire that service. Unless they will not allow you to continue to download it. This ‘Terms of Service Didn’t Read’ web service categorizes the level of risk you will face if you accept the agreement. Hence prior to accept the agreement you can check the level of risk through this web service and decide whether to accept that or not.

tosdr.org

‘;--hibp?  -  have I been pwned?

Are you using an online account? You feel your account has been hacked? There go, this web service can check whether your online account has been hacked or not by unauthorized party/parties.

haveibennpwned.com

New Web Services

New Web Services 

GetPocket

This is a web service where you can save any web page you surf so that you can access those web sites or pages later. Yes , It's similar to the bookmarks on our browser. To register this service all you have to do is to create an account. Another special thing is to access those saved web pages , you don't need an internet connection to your desktop or smart phone. You can use following link to get this service for free. 

https://getpocket.com/

Just Paste It

Once you access this service page you will see an interface looks like a document editor where you can paste any text and edit it. Just paste the text from another web page or a word processor. The text formatting and images will be preserved.The free site also works with right-to-left languages, such as Arabic; there's no requirement to register an account; and it's fast and works well with mobile devices. Another feature is that you can share it with any one around the world so that several persons can edit it at once.You can use following link to get this service for free.

https://justpaste.it/

MacBook Air 2015

MacBook Air 2015

MacBook air 2015 the latest product of Apple was launched on 10th April (yesterday) which consisting of a number of new features.

Key Board - The keyboard is also all-new, with keys 40% thinner, yet with 17% bigger keycaps. They use a butterfly mechanism which makes them less wobbly when typing.

Force Touch Trackpad - The trackpad is another new component which has the usual glass surface but is otherwise redesigned. There are four force sensors and a 'Taptic Engine' just like the Apple watch for feedback when you click. You can now adjust the stiffness in software.

The sensors are pressure sensitive so you can have a light touch or a ‘Force click’. These can be used to achieve tasks in different apps such as bringing up a preview of a file when you ‘deep click’ in Finder. Or you can scrub faster in video by pressing harder.

Display - As for the Retina display, it has edge-to-edge cover glass and a resolution of 2304x1440, which equates to roughly the same 227ppi. It's also an aspect ratio of 16:10 which is already used for the 13in MacBook Air and MacBook Pro. The display is just 8.8mm thick and the pixels have a ‘wider aperture’ and uses 30 percent less energy.

Hardware - Has Intel Core M processor, up to 1.3GHz, Intel HD graphics 5300 card, onboard Bluetooth 4.0 technology, 8GB RAM, 256GB / 512GB SSD. 

USB Port - USB C Type port which is the the only port on the entire laptop, so is used for everything from charging and data through to video output. There will be adaptors available from Apple and third-parties. As well as being smaller, the new USB port (which is roughly the size of microUSB) is also twice as fast as USB 3.0 with theoretical transfer speeds of 10Gbps.

This new MacBook is objectively astonishingly thin, measuring just 13.1mm thick when closed. It weighs just over 900g, making it the lightest MacBook ever made, and 24 % thinner. It’s an all-metal enclosure with antennae integrated into the chassis. It has strong metal as much as it is thin. There’s a new backlighting system, with one LED per key. Also there is a new logic board and a fanless design, making it again the first fanless MacBook. The backlit logo is omitted in this design, so here it's just a normal logo. Battery life is increased by 35 % that of a previous MacBook Air which leads to all-day battery life – up to 9 hours browsing the web on Wi-Fi. It is achieved by residing more batteries in a smaller space. It has good stereo speakers. It is available in three colors silver, blue and gold.

Smart Ubuntu

Smart Ubuntu - A Smart Phone with Ubuntu Operating System

A smart phone with the mobile edition of Ubuntu OS( operating system) was launched on 19th of February 2015.This is a production of BQ , a Spanish company who produces mobile phones. This smart phone model is BQ Aquaris E4.5.

Aquaris Smart Phone features

• Display of  4.5 Inches
• Tek Quad core processor with 1.3GHz of speed
• 1GB RAM
• 8GB Storage
• Dual SIM slot with Micro SD card

This Mobile OS of Ubuntu is special because none of the existing smart phones have this structure. It has the ability to launch apps using HTML5 programming language or QML code which is inherently on Ubuntu OS. Unlike other smart phones it does not display the icons of those apps as tiles they remain hidden. Instead of displaying them it has swipe-based themed card system which are called Scoops.

Home screen of this Smart phone is called Today Scoop which contains frequently used widgets by the user. By swiping this scoop user can switch to other scoops or dial a number. Producers of this device or service providers can build their own scoops. But there are number of default scoops.

Nearby - User can keep frequently used maps such as google maps.

Music - User can keep a preferred list of music tracks provided by services such as Sound Cloud Online service.

Video - User can store a list of video links provided by video sharing services such as YouTube.

Photos - User can store a preferred list of image links where you can directly access those images which are on social media such as flicker, Picasa, Facebook.

Apps - User can keep all the other apps downloaded from other providers as well as camera and calendar.

The canonical, a company in Britain which currently distributes the Ubuntu OS for free, does not expect a higher scale income from this launch. The founder, Mark Shuttleworth says that the existing Ubuntu users know the nature of this OS so that they will tend to use this smart phone too. Currently there are about 20 million Ubuntu users around the world.

Ponoplayer

Ponoplayer - penetrating music player

This is a new innovation which we can use to play music tracks.In shape this looks like prism. One  interface here is a digital display which shows a list of four songs at a time.This List has two previously played songs ,currently playing songs and the next song.This device has three buttons. If you press + button it will go to the previous song and if you press - button it will go to the next song.If you want to play a song press o then it will play the selected song.There are several ports such as headphone jack,USB port on a triangle surface of the prism.

Technically this device is called High fidelity audio player. This device can only play FLAC audio files so that it can  play penetrating music tones that we cannot ever hear from a normal MP3 song file.Any user can pay and download the songs from Ponoplayer music store. These files are large in capacity because this file format can contain any kind of music tones.This player has 128GB of memory which can store at least 100 song files.This device is working from a long lasting battery which resides in the prism.

This is a kick starter project  by ponoMusic company and they raised a fund to complete the project.They have innovated this player which now costs only 400 dollars and it will be released to to the market by this June.