Thursday, 12 September 2013

Google updated Gmail interface for feature phones



An update to Gmail for users of traditional mobile phones has released and it simplifies navigation by reducing the number of steps to perform an action. Like Facebook, Google has not forgotten that millions of users around the world access to its services from standard mobile or the so called "feature phones." Hence there is a new version of Gmail to improve significantly the use of the interface. In addition to a faster operation, the update reduces the number of buttons to press to read, reply or compose email. You can more easily respond to a message directly from the main thread and navigate in a conversation with the arrows "before" and "after." The interface thus one step closer to that of Gmail for Smartphones but it still requires reloading the page for each new share.

Going Crazy In Colorful Campbelltown, Sydney


The city of Sydney is not just any modern city. It is the hotspot of global tourism. People come in large hordes to see the city's famous attractions including the Harbour Bridge and the Opera Building. Other that, there are also amazing attractions and cultural sites to check out as well. However, if one was to pick the most amazing place in the whole of Sydney, it would be the district of Campbell town. This amazing place, whose name reminds us of delicious Campbell Soup, is a pretty place located in the Western corner of the city. Here are some great attractions that you can check out, provided you have a good car rental service at your disposal.

The Campbell town Arts Center

 It is possibly one of the most famous art places in the whole of Australia. Annually, it ends up drawing thousands of visitors and enthusiasts to marvel at the ground-breaking collections that it hosts. This is a place where you can watch some fantastic concepts emulated into pretty art that grabs your eyeballs. The Campbell town Arts Center is a place where you can find your creative juices flowing fully. You can also find some nice restaurants and leisure places inside the Arts Center's innovative building. As a result, the Campbelltown Arts Center emerges as a fantastic place that has something for everyone.

Japanese Gardens and Teahouse

It is always so comforting to find a little piece of peaceful Japan in a city like Sydney. If you have a good car rental service, let it drop you at the Japanese Gardens and Teahouse at Campbell town. This is the kind of place where you can find some peaceful and amazing Zen gardens, elaborate fountains and more. This is also where you can sip on some genuine quality Japanese tea and sake which is the traditional wine made of rice. You can choose to slip into a kimono and even binge on the famous Japanese dishes to further get the flavor right in this place. Therefore, to know something more about Japan, visit this place.

 Dredges Cottage

Given that Australia has been an active part in many a famous war, the Dredges Cottage turns out to be a great place to savour those fond memories of heroism and sacrifice. This is a place which has been created especially for the Veterans who had served different countries in the last century's greatest wars. Right from memorabilia of the wars like the Boer War to the first-hand accounts of the two World Wars and more, this is a place for those who love to get an unusual and fi

Wednesday, 11 September 2013

Apple announces 'Touch ID' for iPhone 5S



The emergence of a fingerprint reader allows the new Apple Smartphone to improve its security. This is the main and almost the only real innovation of the iPhone 5s by adding a fingerprint reader, which is quietly inserted into the new Home button on the device. “Touch ID” which will unlock your Smartphone by simply waving your thumb to the button without pressing. The user can also validate his purchases on the App Store and iTunes but not elsewhere, since this iPhone does not support NFC. It is also an additional protection against theft or false manipulations. But it is the business that is referred to this component. We know employees use more and more of their personal devices for work tasks, connect to their corporate network, this is the BYOD (bring your own device) trend. The iPhone is obviously well placed in this field, but IT managers who need to manage this new type of fleets sometimes regret the lack of security of the terminal, especially when faced with competing solutions.

With Touch ID, Apple clearly meets this requirement of securing BYOD with a powerful biometric solution that could bury those pesky passwords. Powerful because Apple says the A7 chip in the terminal, a 64- bit processor, is especially dedicated to the management and the strength of the encryption. The iPhone can also now boast of offering two-factor authentication. The most riding on the security companies can indeed impose fingerprint reading AND a password to unlock the device. So the apple climbs its upscale terminal to a new level of security and intends to strengthen its presence in business when BlackBerry is sinking. As for Android, it does not really favor with CIOs.

 It is also necessary that its technology is really developed. Biometrics is a technology and Touch -sensitive ID must demonstrate its reliability in a professional sense. According to the first taken in hand, the Touch ID configuration takes only 30 seconds. The function will also demonstrate its robustness against attacks. Because these technologies are fragile; it will be recalled that the facial recognition of Android 4.0 was diverted in two shots ladle. Again, with the help of the chip, Apple promises a maximum shielding. The issue of databases generated by Touch ID also raises questions. Where and how these data will be stored? Apple ensures that they will not be stored in the cloud.

Nokia Lumia 1520 A full-HD mobile phone


Nokia apparently intends to present the Lumia 1520 Smartphone with a 6 -inch display and full HD resolution and a 20 - megapixel camera. The device may be the last Smartphone under the brand name Nokia. The Twitter user evleaks has now posted a picture of the Smartphone. The supposed 6 -inch screen with full HD resolution is good to see. Apparently Nokia is planning for this year is still for a Smartphone with 6- inch display and full HD resolution. Under the name of the currently circulating device Lumia 1520 photos are now surfaced at wpcentral.com first. On the comparison Lumia 1520 appears much larger than the Lumia 1020 next to it. The red skin seems to be made of polycarbonate. In addition, a cover in the style of induction chargers from Nokia can be seen. The processor is the source called a Snapdragon CPU with four cores. Windows Phone 8 is probably installed in the latest stage of GDR3 for full HD resolution. Instead, the 20- megapixel camera is available in Lumia 1520. In September, the Lumia 1520 could be presented.

Sunday, 8 September 2013

Transparent speaker made from artificial muscle



Jeong- Yun Sun and Christoph Keplinger have found an ion conductive material stretchable, transparent and biocompatible. It is made up of gel and rubber. This speaker is completely made of a transparent thin film of rubber sandwiched between two layers of gel, consisting, inter alia, saltwater and the latter act as electrodes. When the gel layers are traversed by an electric signal, the rubber disc shrinks and expands successively, and very quickly. This vibratory movement then emits high frequency sounds in the same way as would a speaker can do. This transparent model can reproduce all the sounds in the audible range of human hearing, i.e. 20 Hz to 20 kHz, as shown in this video. They are not yet to come into your living room next to equip a stereo. Jeong- Yun Sun and colleagues at SEAS (Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences) built this prototype primarily as a technology demonstrator. Their goal is to show that it is possible to transit electric charges and therefore produce a stream of pulses by using not by electrons as usual, but the ions. This experience of Harvard University, Massachusetts is a major step in the development of the technology of ionic conduction. Indeed, researchers have managed the feat twice to develop a device that not only withstand high voltages, but also is able to change its structure very quickly.


The ions are much heavier than electrons and bulky chemical species, and therefore they move more slowly. Compared to conventional electrical conductors, ion conductors have several advantages. First, they can stretch to several times their length without changing their resistivity. Then their transparency opens the door for many optical applications. Finally, they are biocompatible, making them prime candidates for the implementation of artificial skin or muscles. Among other applications, the researchers believe such a high transparent speaker glued directly on a TV screen, Smartphone or tablet, and directly emit sound from the entire surface of the device. Such a device attached to the windows of an apartment could be used to actively cancel sound from outside. But researchers are also thinking of glasses able to adapt their length or even the “soft machines."