SPB MobileShell V3 7 2 673 S60v5 S 3 SymbianOS9 x Signed Free Download

A wonderful program for your smart phones, which can do the following:
- Create a realistic 3D animation in the menu
- Huge selection of widgets
- Ability to change styles and design
- Beautiful and realistic graphics
- Widget weather like SPB Weather is already included in the kit
- Ease of use

SPB MobileShell V3.7.2.67

SPB MobileShell V3.7.2.673 :
Developer: SPB Software
Language: English / Russian
Platform: Symbian OS 9.4

Changes:
- Fix full screen mode
(Increased icon
battery)
- Modified contact card
- Fixed a problem with displaying operators name
- Sped up the gallery
- Fixed a bug in the slideshow
Click Below To Download :

SPB MobileShell V3.7.2.673 S60v5/S^3 SymbianOS9.x Signed Free App Download

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The Sublime Abstract Art of Mary Lea Bradley

American Abstract Artist Mary Lea Bradley

Hello, Everyone! Todays post features the sublime abstract art of Mary Lea Bradley.

Mary Lea Bradleys art is immediately striking. Her abstract paintings are characterized by a sense of mystery that invites the viewer in. The paintings transport you from reality to a vibrant, mystical world where you are the story teller, creating and interpreting your own stories.

Excited about her newest work, yet unpretentious about her artistic flair and sophisticated eye, Bradley and her work are very approachable and accessible.

American Abstract Artist Mary Lea Bradley from DiscoveredArtists on Vimeo.

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Samsung Galaxy Tab 10 1 3G Wi Fi 32 GB Warna Putih

Spesifikasi | review | Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 3G + Wi-Fi - 32 GB - Putih | handphone Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 | harga ponsel | Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10 terbaru harga murah | kelebihan kekurangan

Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 3G + Wi-Fi - 32 GB Warna Putih. Samsung Galaxy 10.1 menampilkan layar 10.1” widescreen HD dan prosesor Dual-core dengan detail menakjubkan, Galaxy Tab 10.1 memberikan film yang lebih tajam, permainan grafis lebih baik, dan tampilan yang jernih untuk video chatting. Jelajahi web dengan kompabilitas Adobe Flash, WiFi dan konektivitas Bluetooth. Android 3.2 Honeycomb OS menyediakan akses terbuka ke lebih dari 200.000 aplikasi Android Market, memberikan Anda kebebasan untuk menyesuaikan Tab Anda.

Desain Tipis & Ringan: Samsung Galaxy 10.1 hadir dengan berat 1,25 pound, dengan kerampingan 0,34”. Dengan ketebalan yang dipuya tablet ini dirancang untuk komputasi mobile premium di mana saja.

Performa yang Bertenaga: Didukung dengan Dual-core prosesor Tegra 2 dan 1 GB RAM memberikan Anda kecepatan seperti kilat saat sedang surfing web, menonton video HD, atau bermain game terbaru.

Android™ 3.2 Honeycomb: Tablet pintar ini telah dibekali Android 3.2 Honeycomb yang telah merupakan pembenahan bug-bug dari versi sebelumnya sehingga menghadirkan akselerasi hardware yang lebih baik. Android versi ini telah disempurnakan dan dioptimalkan memberikan pengalaman pengguna yang canggih pada berbagai perangkat tablet yang lebih luas termasuk tablet 7 inch. Kompatibilitas baru pada mode Zoom mengoptimalkan aplikasi yang tidak dirancang berjalan pada ukuran layar yang lebih besar, sehingga mereka cocok di seluruh layar tanpa distorsi.

Komunikasi Tanpa Batas: Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 memungkinkan Anda untuk dapat selalu terhubung dengan kerabat karena tablet ini dilengkapi dengan fasilitas 3G dan WiFi sehingga Anda juga dapat melakukan panggilan telepon serta mengirim pesan singkat dan juga terhubung dengan internet.

Konektivitas Terbaik: Tablet ini mendukung WiFi 802.11 a / b / g / n dan koneksi Bluetooth v2.1. Kompabilitas dengan 30-pin IF konektor dan transfer USB 2.0 menawarkan kemudahan pengiriman file dan pengisian daya.

Samsung Live Panel: Dengan Samsung Live Panel, Anda dapat mengkustomisasi layar awal sehingga Anda dapat mengakses konten secara instan melalui layar awal termasuk e-mail, galeri gambar, website favorit dan feed jejaring sosial. Keiunggulan dari Live Panel adalah update yang begitu real-time, setiap saat selalu ter-update saat mengaksesnya.

Teknologi Full HD: Teknologi Full HD juga telah tersedia pada Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1! Tablet ini dapat memutar berbagai format video dengan ukungan Multi-codec dan kompatibilitas penuh. Tak hanya itu, tablet ini juga sudah dilengkapi dengan kamera 8 MP dan kamera sekunder berkekuatan 2 MP. Abadikan momen berharga Anda di mana saja dan setiap saat!

Fitur Social Hub: Dengan fitur khusus Samsung Social Hub, memungkinkan Anda untuk mengintegrasikan dan memiliki akses ke email, instant messaging, dan akun jaringan sosial secara real-time melalui satu portal dengan lebih mudah.

Layanan Google Mobile™: Lakukan banyak hal dengan Google ™! Aplikasi familiar termasuk Google Talk ™, Gmail ™, Google Calendar ™, YouTube ™, Google Maps ™, Google Places ™, bekerja mulus padatablet ini.

Fitur Mini Apps: Anda dapat menjadi lebih efisien dan produktif dengan memanfaatkan Mini Apps, yang merupakan fitur multitasking sesungguhnya. Mini Apps memungkinkan Anda untuk mengakses fitur yang umum digunakan seperti kalender, PenMemo, Jam Dunia, Kalkulator atau Task Manager dengan mudah - yang akan ditampilkan pop up diatas layar aplikasi.

Fitur Voice Call Receiver: Fungsi panggilan pada Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 semakin diupgrade untuk memungkinkan Anda melakukan dan menerima panggilan suara secara pribadi dengan mengaktifkan Receiver Mode saat di tempat umum. Tidak perlu lagi menggunakan headset atau Bluetooth.

Berselancar di Internet Tanpa Batas: Ribuan website saat ini menggunakan aplikasi Flash yang kaya, jadi apakah Anda browsing web atau melihat konten multimedia online, Anda akan dapat melihat semuanya dengan dukungan Adobe Flash Player.

Spesifikasi Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 3G + Wi-Fi - 32 GB - Putih

SKU	SA848EL73DPIALID-2426
Model	Tablet
Ukuran (L x W x H cm)	25.67 x 17.53 x 0.86 cm
Berat (kg)	0.566 kg
Warna	Putih
Tipe	P7100
Ukuran Layar (in)	10.1
Hard Disk	32
RAM	1
Kapasitas Penyimpanan	32
Kecepatan CPU	1.00
Megapiksel	3.2
Sistem Operasi	Android
Fitur Tampilan	HD
Fitur	GSM|Music Player|Email|Touchscreen|GPS|Dual Core|MP3|Internet Ready
Garansi produk	1 Tahun Garansi (Spare-part dan Servis)
Input	USB
Output	3.5mm jack|USB
Koneksi Nirkabel	Bluetooth|WiFi|EDGE|3G
Tipe Grafis	Tegra 2 T2
Kamera	Ya
Kamera Belakang	3.15 MP
Kamera Depan	2 MP
Resolusi Layar	800 x 1280
Tipe Baterai	Li-Po
Kapasitas Baterai	7000 mAh
Format Foto	JPEG
Video HD	Ya
Resolusi Video	1280 x 720
Built in Memory	1 GB RAM
Fitur Kamera Lainnya	Geotagging
Tipe Layar	PLS TFT
Kedalaman Warna	16 juta warna
Versi Sistem Operasi	Android OS 3.1 Honeycomb
SIM	Single SIM
Kapasitas Penyimpanan	32 GB
Kecepatan Processor	1 GHz
Waktu Bicara	Hingga 9 jam
Waktu Siaga	Hingga 2120 jam
Tipe Processor	Cortex-A9
Sistem Operasi	Android

Harga pada bulan februari 2013 sekitar RP 6.189.000

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Live Stream Think Mobile event for mobile marketers

Looking to reach out to your customers on mobile? Join us for our live streamed discussion on February 10th, 1:05pm EST with Mary Meeker, Partner at Kleiner Perkins, Google’s Dennis Woodside, SVP of Americas Operations, and Jason Spero, Head of Americas Mobile Advertising on the future of mobile and mobile marketing. To learn more about the event and live stream, please visit the Google Mobile Ads blog.

Posted by Suzanne Mumford, Google Mobile Ads Marketing Team

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MicroApps from The Guardian and Google AppEngine Both ready for business

This post is another entry in our on-going series of guest posts from App Engine developers. Today we have the Guardian reporting in on how theyre using App Engine as part of their Open Platform.

There has been a lot of debate recently about the future of news online, some people like The Times of London and New York Times think paywalls are the answer, others are not so sure. At The Guardian we have a clear alternative and vision, we call it mutualisation. Its all about reducing the barriers between our journalists and readers and between our organisation and our partners. For software developers and online businesses we have a product sitting just in this space which we call the Open Platform.

The Open Platform has been in beta for the last year and now, today it is officially "Open for Business". Open for developers to take and co-monetize our content with us, building new applications for distributing and consuming news. It is also open for partners to build new experiences which blend content from The Guardian and their own functionality and in some cases brands into the heart of The Guardians award winning website.

Today were launching a brand new product and framework called MicroApps which the diagram above describes. However, just as Google dogfoods its new products before launch, so do we, and we wanted to share some of the things weve been building as MicroApps using Google AppEngine for the storage and application development part.

With 36 million unique and very engaged readers, everything we make has to scale, which is why AppEngine is ideal. With its highly scalable architecture and features such as task queues, built for creating loosely coupled apps, and memcache, AppEngine makes an excellent companion platform for MicroApps in which the apps can run anywhere in the cloud. The examples presented here range from new ways to find content which others are finding exciting or interesting, to live responses to the TV debates to ways to bring together all of the tweets of our journalists on specific subjects.

Zeitgeist

Many people are interested in what is hot in the news and what is trending. We think this is interesting, but something a bit more interesting is in the things which are unexpectedly popular. Dan Catt used AppEngine to pull together signals from sources such as OneRiot, Twitter, comments in our system and our own internal stats to create an index of Zeitgeisty-ness. For the full "science bit" please see this overview article. Were using AppEngine for the storage and processing of a lot of data, with several task queues in play to create a page which responds over time during the current day showing you what peoples attention think is the most interesting content. At the end of the day these are all archived and available so you can see what the Zeitgeist was on a particular day. The MicroApp framework allows us to host all of the application on AppEngine and display it in the network pages as if it were coming out of the content management system. This allows us to build data heavy applications using the economy of scale of cloud computing platforms while not affecting the scalability of the core site. If you want to see exactly how we made Zeitgeist, Dan talks about it here.

Election Debate Live Poll

There was recently a general election in the UK and for the first time in the UK there were a series of debates about the party platforms from the leaders of the three main parties. We felt that it would be good to capture the mood of the nation by allowing people to simply click a "+" or a "-" as to whether they liked or disliked what a leader said. This was then to be displayed as a sentiment "worm" alongside the video. Michael Brunton Spall created an AppEngine app which allowed us to scale rapidly and sustainably for the duration of the debates. At one point in time in the second debate the AJAX calls from the buttons were peaking at around 750 requests per second with an average of 454 requests per second. In total over the hour and a half of the debate over 2.7 million requests were made on the AJAX voting services which made heavy use of memcache and sharded counters. This sort of temporary load would have required a vast amount of additional temporary infrastructure for us and planning. AppEngine made that simple.

Twitter Collation

Just before The Edinburgh Festival, a really rather huge arts festival in the UK, we had a hackday and Stephen Abbott made a suggestion for something that it would be nice to see was an app that would allow the tweets about the festival of a collection of journalists and performers we trusted to be pulled together in one stream. This would need a double white list to be created, one where only if they were in the collection and they mentioned the keyword would your tweet make it into the stream. This is clearly to avoid spam and unwanted messages and to filter out journalists from talking about what theyd had for breakfast (unless it was festival related). In 24 hours using AppEngine Chris Thorpe had built a machine which fanned out queries from regular cron job which hauled in the stream of each journalist and performer (each in a single task queue action) and then processed each tweet asynchronously (again each in a single task queue action). The app performed well and was then industrialized as a MicroApp by Michael Brunton Spall and Lisa van Gelder and has been used throughout the general election and to bring together tweets from journalists within sections. Were now following and processing the streams of a large number of our journalists and are creating views of those streams with multiple watched keywords. The view of the stream can then be inserted into pages just like the one below using AppEngine and our MicroApp framework with memcache used to keep the response time fast.

Random Guardian

A flippant comment, in a serious question from Chris Thorpe to Clay Shirky, when he visited us recently at The Guardian, about where the new serendipity was in news, contained the phrase "should we just build Chatroulette for news?" He said that yes, we should definitely do that and in about 2 hours and using the beta of our new APIs, Daniel Vydra had done just that in AppEngine. The application has been hugely successful at introducing people to parts of the site theyve never visited before and has led to people being mildly addicted to discovering things they never knew they needed to know, just at the click of a button. Were open sourcing the code for it very soon, so you too can start experimenting.

The MicroApp platform wouldnt exist without the hard work and brilliance of a team including Matthew Wall, Matt McAlister, Stephen Dunn, Mike Bracken, Graham Tackley, Stephen Wells and Simon Willison. Were now open for business and to prove it were holding a hackday where were making some very rapid prototypes for media agencies. Who knows, they may like them so much as concepts they commission them and well have to put them into production. Thatll be fine for us, with the tools we use and the platform we have we know we have an environment to scale.

Photo by Dan Catt

Posted by The Guardian team

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MT657x MT6515 MT6575 MT6577 flashing tutorial

Now that the new MediaTek SoC has been released, it is time to publish the instructions on how to flash your MT65x5 (MT6515 and MT6575) based phone. Please note that the images shown on this tutorial are just examples and that you must flash your phone with the correct ROM files.

Make sure that you read everything carefully and know what you are doing. Dont blame me for any damage that may occur on your phone.



Update: By the time that this tutorial was written only MT65x5 was available. Current MT6577 based phones can also be flashed using the exact same method, so this has just been updated with references to that most recent SoC.

Whats needed:

• USB data cable
• MediaTek USB VCOM drivers 
• SP Flash Tool (v3.1206.01 or higher for MT6575 / v3.1222.00 or higher for MT6577)

Note: SP Flash Tool is backward compatible, which means you can (and should) use the most up to date version.

And now the tutorial...

• First of all, make sure that you have MediaTek DA USB VCOM drivers installed.

Flashing the whole ROM

• First of all open SP Flash Tool, then click Scatter-loading button to load the correct scatter file (MT6575_Android_scatter_emmc.txt or MT6577_Android_scatter_emmc.txt, depending on which phone you have)  for your device and ignore any message that may appear.

• Turn off your phone, remove the battery and replace it after some seconds (and dont turn on the phone).
• Press F9 (or hit Download button) and connect your phone into the computer via USB data cable. The process will start and a red progress bar will appear.

•  After the red progress bar is complete, there will appear a purple progress bar.

• Right after the purple progress bar is complete, a message will appear underneath it: “Please insert USB cable in x seconds” and then the download will start right away (you will see the yellow progress bar filling up).

• When the yellow bar is complete, youll get a popup with a green circle and Download OK message, which means that the process has been successfully terminated.

• You can now safely disconnect your phone and turn it on. The process ends here.

Flashing only part of the ROM

• In case you want to flash just one part of the ROM, that is also possible. In the shown example, only recovery image will be flashed. Deselect all parts except the one(s) you want to flash and then press F9 (or hit Download button).

• The tool will immediately show a warning because not all parts are selected, but you should continue anyway. Safely press Yes to continue.

• The download of the chosen partition image will start and after the yellow bar is complete, the popup with the green circle should appear.

• Please note that, even though it isnt mandatory to select it on the list of images to flash, preloader file must be present in the same folder as the other partition(s) that you want to flash, or else phone will not be able to enter into download mode.

Attention: Please follow the instructions carefully. I will not take any responsibility on whatever may happen with your phone.

Very important warning: Always make sure that you trust the sources of the ROM you download and know that it is meant for your phone. After flashing a wrong preloader, your phone will be completely dead (cant be powered on, it will not charge and wont be detected anymore by the computer) and there is no way to recover it.

Last note: All needed tools and drivers can be downloaded from my MT65xx Tools 4shared folder. The password to login is bm-smartphone-reviews.blogspot.com. Have fun!

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Kaplan builds online education platform KAPx with Google App Engine

Todays guest post is from Charlie Ward, VP of Platform Development at Kaplan Inc., a global educational services company that operates in 170 countries and serves one million students annually. Charlie describes why Kaplan chose Google App Engine as the foundation for a scalable, flexible, and robust education platform that allows anyone to easily deliver learning content in both live and recorded formats.



The Drivers for Change

Ongoing disruptions in the Higher Education space -- including open courses, free content, regulatory pressures and protests over the increasing cost of education -- have spurred students to look for alternative paths to achieving their education and career goals and have driven institutions to look for innovative ways to lower the cost of education.



In response, Kaplan launched the KAPx initiative, whose original objective was to develop a scalable and robust platform for delivering content effectively to large audiences, using only low-cost and open components. Initial prototypes relied on traditional development technologies or required significant investments in infrastructure. When developers began to load-test these prototypes, the team recognized that Google App Engine could scale faster and further than the other products being used. So the decision was made to port the whole thing to Google App Engine.



First impressions with Google App Engine

Our initial introduction to Google App Engine was a real-time commenting service that we designed around the Channel API. While load testing our prototypes, we immediately saw that Google App Engine could scale faster and further than the rest of our solution. At that point we decided to port the entire application to the Google App Engine platform.



Using HTML templates, the NoSQL datastore, and memcache for dynamic web content, three engineers with zero python experience were able to port the application and go from prototype to production in just three weeks. The team also leveraged task queues to manage message distribution and the channel API for real-time message delivery. It was App Engine’s tight integration of these components and associated Python libraries that simplified typically tedious tasks and allowed us to flatten out the learning curve.

Adding on Google Hangouts & Google Apps

With Google App Engine powering the scalable foundation for KAPx, we leveraged Google Hangouts on Air for live streaming video and built a Hangouts App for the presenter to interact with participants. We also turned to Google Apps -- Docs, Presentations, and Drawings -- and the Google Drive Picker API to allow the presenter to select, share, and incorporate lecture materials into the live experience

App Engine provided us with the tools to rapidly go from concept to production at lightning speed, without the overhead of managing a traditional infrastructure or the need to wire up disparate technologies. After starting out with live lecture delivery on KAPx, the flexibility and ease of development on Google App Engine has allowed us to expand quickly, tackling structured learning with our first set of open courses for Kaplan University and a completely new online institution, Mount Washington College.



Tips for getting started with Google App Engine

1. There are many excellent examples of App Engine solutions in the GoogleCloudPlatform repository on GitHub to get you started.


2. Use webapp2 and the jinja2 template engine for serving up content unless you need something heavier. This lightweight but flexible combination is simple to use and provides an easy way to deliver MVC style HTML templates as well as raw data for RESTful APIs.


3. Use the NDB datastore libraries to get memcache for free. NDB was experimental when we first launched our platform, so we went with GAE’s DB datastore having to write our own handlers for front loading DB queries with memcache. With NDB, this is provided for you, dramatically improving performance and shortening development time.


4. Plan ahead if you are going to need to aggregate data (join, counts, etc). Operations that you would typically rely on in a relational database (joins, groupings and aggregate functions) are not as straightforward when working with the NoSQL DB or NDB datastore. You’ll want to plan out your models with the appropriate keys / properties to support aggregation in code foregoing joins and grouping when possible.


5. When relying heavily on the built in datastore and memcache implementations, you’ll want to understand their upper limits and design around them. There are excellent articles available on eventual consistency, sharding data, reducing datastore contention, async task queues, and MapReduce in the developers.google.com/appengine site that can provide you with techniques to work within the boundries of service quotas and the constraints of a highly scalable environment.


6. Invest time upfront to set up automated extracts of your log data to Google BigQuery on a regular basis. This will pay huge dividends the first time you need to track down a bug in production, as the dashboard tools out of the box are cumbersome to work with at scale.


7. Use the --datastore_consistency_policy=random option on dev_appserver.py when developing locally to identify potential problems with delayed datastore writes before deploying.

-Contributed by Charlie Ward, VP of Platform Development, Kaplan

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Sears Closing Flagship Chicago Store

Along with McDonald’s, Sears is one of the biggest national brands most associated with the city of Chicago. Many people still refer to the soaring Willis Tower as the Sears Tower, even though the company fled the building for the suburbs nearly 20 years ago and gave up the naming rights in 2009. Now the once-great retailer is set to distance itself further from the Loop with news that it will shutter a flagship store in the city it once called home.

Sears announced yesterday that it will close its five-story location at 2 N. State St, which it opened in opened in 2001 after an 18-year absence in the area. The company had hoped at the time that it could cash in on the growing urban retail market, but in spite of the fact that other brands like Target have been able to make a go in the Loop, shoppers did not support Sears.

“(We) can no longer continue to support the store’s operating losses,” a company rep explains to Crain’s Chicago Business. “The State Street store’s operational performance has been poor through much of its existence.”

Liquidation of the store merchandise will begin on Jan. 26, with 160 employees set to lose their jobs because of the closing. Sears says it will allow these workers to apply for jobs at other Sears and Kmart locations.

[via Chicago Tribune]

by Chris Morran via Consumerist

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AMD releases new Radeon R7 240 R7 250 and R7 260X GPUs

Late last month AMD officially announced two new Radeon GPU series including the R9 and R7. At the time AMD didn’t offer a lot of details on its new R7 series of GPUs, but AMD has now come clean with all the details for several new R7 products. AMD says that this new series is ideal for everyday gamers looking for better graphics performance from their computers.

The R7 family also supports AMD Mantle technology allowing game developers to take advantage of GCN-powered cores on the PC and console for a streamlined development process. The graphics card family supports DirectX 11.2 and is designed to unlock improved graphics performance and features in the Windows 8.1 operating system.

The R7 260X is the high-end part of the family and integrates high-quality audio technology along with graphics performance. This GPU has 896 stream processors within engine clock operating at up to 1.1 GHz. The GPU promises 1.97 TFLOPS of compute performance and has 2 GB of GDDR5 RAM with a price of $139.

The entry-level GPU in the family is the R7 240 selling for $69 and featuring 320 stream processors. That GPU has an engine clock of up to 780 MHz and compute performance of 499 GFLOPS. The GPU can be paired with 1 GB of GDDR5 or 2 GB of DDR3 memory. The R7 250 is the midrange card priced at $89 and featuring 384 stream processors. It has an engine clock of up to 1.05 GHz and compute performance of 806 GFLOPS. It can also be fitted with 1 GB of GDDR5 or 2 GB of DDR3 RAM. The video cards will all be available on October 11. SlashGear

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App Engine Community Update

One of the best things about App Engine is our lively developer community. This week, we’re officially moving technical and development questions to Stack Overflow and retiring the language-specific App Engine Google groups. With this week’s move, we wanted to take a moment to highlight some of the best ways to engage with the community.

Technical & Development Questions
For technical and development questions big and small, add the google-app-engine tag to your App Engine questions on Stack Overflow. You can also join our hangouts or office hours to talk directly with App Engine team members.

Google+
Many community and team members are active on Google+, using the #appengine hashtag. Our weekly community updates and chats with App Engine community and team members are a great source of tips and tricks and to learn more about what our community members are up to.

Google Groups
For general discussion about the platform, use the Google App Engine group.

Happy coding!

- Posted by the App Engine Team

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Plant versus Zombies Released For Android Finally

For a game like Plant versus Zombies that was a total hit on iOS to not show for Android? That is just rip off. However, the game finally hit the Google Play Store few minutes ago.

For some, its not a worthy game to have on their devices but for some, it is. If you are on of those that have been waiting to play Plants versus Zombies on your Android, well you have the chance to do that now.

Unlike other zombie games, Plants vs Zombies 2 takes you throughout time and doesn’t just keep you in what feels like end days. Gameplay wise, you’ll know the score if you’ve played the original but, there are some tweaks and whatnot to make this a worthy sequel. There are some reports of the game not working on all devices so, if that’s the case for you – leave a comment in the Play Store. That way, PopCap can start fixing things, knowledge is power.

If fans of the series were worried about in-app payments creeping in and ruining things well, depending on how you feel about in-app payments, you were right to worry. The game will frequently ask for money for more plant types and of course, more collections of levels. We can’t blame them wanting to charge for their work – who wouldn’t want to earn money on their hard work – but we still wish that EA would realize people will pay full-price if a game if they have good reason to.

Fans of the series however, will be pleased to note that this is very much like the first game, but more of what you love. It may have taken longer to get to Android than it should have but, it’s finally here and as the title suggests, many gamers will be thinking “it’s about time”. If you’re looking for a simple yet addictive game to play over the weekend then you’re going to love this.

Head over to Google Play Store to get yours

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Microsoft Surface 2 and Surface 2 Pro unveiled

Microsoft has just announced its second generation Surface tablets – the Surface 2 and Surface 2 Pro. Both slates are thinner, faster and lighter, with better displays, USB 3.0-enabled, and powered by the latest 8.1 version of Windows 8 RT and Windows 8 Pro.

As expected Microsoft is also launching a new lineup of Surface accessories including a new Type Cover with backlit keys.



Microsoft Surface 2

The new Surface 2 slate is powered by NVIDIA’s latest Tegra 4 chipset with a quad-core 1.7GHz Cortex-A15 processor, GeForce 72-core GPU and 2GB of RAM. The display also got a major upgrade: it’s now a 10.6″ ClearType 1080p display with 5-point multi-touch support. According to Microsoft the Surface 2 is up to 4x faster than the original Surface slate, offers 25% more battery life (10 hours of video playback, 7-15 days on stand-by), and features a 5x better camera and 2x faster bus and Wi-Fi speeds.


The rest of the Surface 2 specs include Wi-Fi a/b/g/n support, Bluetooth 4.0, an USB 3.0 port, microSD card support, HDMI port and a 3.5mm audio jack. There are also a 3.5MP front-facing camera (1/3″ sensor size) plus a 5MP rear camera, both capable of 1080p video recording (stereo audio).

The Surface 2 features an even better 2-stage kickstand.

The Surface 2 is made entirely of Magnesium and should endure a few drops on the ground.

Microsoft is giving you 1-year of free international calls and Wi-Fi through Skype, 200GB SkyDrive storage for two years with instant sync of your files, and, of course, Microsoft Office 2013 RT edition (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote and Outlook).

The new Surface 2 is thinner and lighter and will be available in 32GB and 64GB version. The suggested retail prices are $449 for the 32GB model and $549 for the 64GB one and it will hit shelves worldwide on October 22.

Microsoft Surface 2 Pro

The Surface Pro also got a proper upgrade. It uses the same 10.6-inch 1080p display the Surface 2 utilizes, but runs on fourth-generation Intel Core i5 chipset with a dual-core 1.6GHz processor (max turbo clock 2.6GHz) with multi-threading, Intel HD Graphics 4400, and 4GB or 8GB LPDDR3 RAM. There is also support for pen-input and the Surface Pen is included within the Surface 2 retail package.

As advertized by Microsoft the Pro 2 slate has 50% faster graphics, 20% better performance, 75% more battery life and 50% more color accuracy on the display compared to the previous generation Surface Pro.

The rest of the Surface 2 Pro specs include 3xUSB 2.0 ports, one USB 3.0 port, a microSD card slot, mini DisplayPort, Wi-Fi a/b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0 and a 3.5mm audio jack. There are also two 720p cams – one at the back and one at the front, and stereo speakers. Finally, the new 2-stage kickstand is also here.

Microsoft will be selling the Surface 2 Pro in 64GB, 128 GB, 256GB, and 512GB versions. All Surface 2 Pro models run on the latest Windows 8.1 Pro version, with 1 year of free international calls and Wi-Fi via Skype, 200GB SkyDrive storage for two years and one-month free trial of Microsoft Office 365 package.

Surface 2 Pro will go on sale on October 22. The 64 GB model costs $899, 128GB price is $999, the 256GB edition is $1299 and t
he 512GB Surface 2 Pro is priced at $1799. We guess these prices are for the 4GB Surface 2 Pro slates, and you’ll have to add a good $100 more if you want 8GB of RAM.Both devices can be pre-ordered right now and they will be shipping for international markets on the 22nd of October
via - GSMArena , TheVerge

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Nokia MWC 2014 event scheduled for February 24

Nokia has pinpointed the date for its Mobile World Congress 2014 press event. You can mark your calendars for Monday, February 24 when the event will start at 8:30AM (7:30AM GMT).

Reading "Meet us under the tree," the press invite carefully keeps Nokias cards close to its chest and doesnt reveal anything. Its possible for the company to be having a word play with "tree" standing for three smartphones.



In fact there are rumors floating about for three new additions to the Lumia family: the 1520V, 1525 and 1820. The Lumia 1520V is rumored to be a 4.3" smartphone with a design similar to that of the Lumia 1520 (hence the name). With a 1080p resolution, 2GB of RAM and 32GB of storage, the Lumia 1520V is set to rival the Sony Xperia Z1 Compact and will feature a Snapdragon 800 chipset like its bigger brother, the Lumia 1520.

The mini Lumia 1520V is also said to pack a 14MP camera at the back with a 3,000mAh battery capable of wireless charging. Moreover, its believed to debut the Windows Phone 8.1 operating system, but for now those remain unfounded rumors.

Onto the Nokia Lumia 1820, which is expected to feature the latest Snapdragon 805 chipset with 3GB of RAM and a 5.2" display of 2K resolution. The juicy configuration is going to draw power from a 3,400mAh battery. The internal storage is going to be 32GB with no microSD card to be making its way to the rumored phone just yet.

The rumor mill reckons the Lumia 1525 phablet is going to be the third phone of the family thatll make it to MWC 2014. At this point, there arent much rumors to paint a picture for it, but its believed to be a 6" phablet.

Lastly, theres the highly anticipated Android smartphone from Nokia codenamed Normandy. Its been leaking extensively with live photos and UI screenshots, but nobody knows if Nokia will unveil it at MWC 2014. The Mobile World Congress saw Nokia make a bang in 2012 with the 808 PureView cameraphone, so why not shock the world again in 2014 with an Android phone?

The Nokia Normandy is said to run Android 4.4.1 KitKat and pack a 854 x 540 resolution display. Its also hinted by the leaked UI screenshots to boast dual-SIM functionality.

You can bet well be there to cover everything that Nokia has to offer in Barcelona this February. Tune in for extensive coverage from the MWC 2014 showroom floor next month!

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Free Mac Software

The people at MacHeist put together bundles of software at a low price. This time its VERY low: $0. All you have to do is visit their site and sign up. For FREE you get...

• ShoveBox (for storing information snippets, though I prefer Evernote)
• WriteRoom (a nice little writing program)
• Twitterific (very useful if you use Twitter at all)
• TinyGrab (for sharing screenshots over the internet)
• Hordes of Orcs (game)
• Mariner Write (a very nice word processor)

For free, why not give these things a try? Thats what Im going to do. The offer expires on Wednesday the 11th, so get going and click this link.

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How To Update Your Blackberry OS Simplified

How to update your blackberry OS

One common task that smartphone owners would always like to do issue updating of new operating system for their devices.

Blackberry device owners can update their device by following the step by step guide below. Please make sure you back up your device before doing this.

Needed Items

1. Internet Connection

2. A computer

3. Blackberry Desktop Manager software installed on the computer

4. Connection cable

5. New operating system higher than the one installed on your device.

Assuming you have all needed items, proceed as detailed below.

Step 1

Download the blackberry desktop manager onto your computer and install it. Once installed, launch it

Step 2

Plug in your device into the computer and let it install the drivers needed for your desktop manager to identify your phone.

Step 3

Download the new Operating System you want on your phone to the computer and install it.

Step 4

Once you have installed the new OS into your computer, go to this folder: local disk C:/program files/Common files/Research In Motion/App Loader

Once in this folder, delete the file Vendor.xml file completely from your computer and recycle bin.

Step 5

Once its deleted, plug in your phone into the computer again. Once plugged in, you will be notified of an OS update. Click Update now for the update process to begin.

Please DO NOT DISCONNECT your DEVICE when doing this as it could brick your device if you do.

Step 6

When done, your device will reboot and it would be updated.

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Microsoft Board names Satya Nadella as CEO

REDMOND, Wash. — Feb. 4, 2014 — Microsoft Corp. today announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Satya Nadella as Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors effective immediately. Nadella previously held the position of Executive Vice President of Microsoft’s Cloud and Enterprise group.

“During this time of transformation, there is no better person to lead Microsoft than Satya Nadella,” said Bill Gates, Microsoft’s Founder and Member of the Board of Directors. “Satya is a proven leader with hard-core engineering skills, business vision and the ability to bring people together. His vision for how technology will be used and experienced around the world is exactly what Microsoft needs as the company enters its next chapter of expanded product innovation and growth.”

Since joining the company in 1992, Nadella has spearheaded major strategy and technical shifts across the company’s portfolio of products and services, most notably the company’s move to the cloud and the development of one of the largest cloud infrastructures in the world supporting Bing, Xbox, Office and other services. During his tenure overseeing Microsoft’s Server and Tools Business, the division outperformed the market and took share from competitors.

“Microsoft is one of those rare companies to have truly revolutionized the world through technology, and I couldn’t be more honored to have been chosen to lead the company,” Nadella said. “The opportunity ahead for Microsoft is vast, but to seize it, we must focus clearly, move faster and continue to transform. A big part of my job is to accelerate our ability to bring innovative products to our customers more quickly.”

“Having worked with him for more than 20 years, I know that Satya is the right leader at the right time for Microsoft,” said Steve Ballmer, who announced on Aug. 23, 2013 that he would retire once a successor was named. “I’ve had the distinct privilege of working with the most talented employees and senior leadership team in the industry, and I know their passion and hunger for greatness will only grow stronger under Satya’s leadership.”

Microsoft also announced that Bill Gates, previously Chairman of the Board of Directors, will assume a new role on the Board as Founder and Technology Advisor, and will devote more time to the company, supporting Nadella in shaping technology and product direction. John Thompson, lead independent director for the Board of Directors, will assume the role of Chairman of the Board of Directors and remain an independent director on the Board.

“Satya is clearly the best person to lead Microsoft, and he has the unanimous support of our Board,” Thompson said. “The Board took the thoughtful approach that our shareholders, customers, partners and employees expected and deserved.”

With the addition of Nadella, Microsoft’s Board of Directors consists of Ballmer; Dina Dublon, former Chief Financial Officer of JPMorgan Chase; Gates; Maria M. Klawe, President of Harvey Mudd College; Stephen J. Luczo, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Seagate Technology PLC; David F. Marquardt, General Partner at August Capital; Nadella; Charles H. Noski, former Vice Chairman of Bank of America Corp.; Dr. Helmut Panke, former Chairman of the Board of Management at BMW Bayerische Motoren Werke AG; and Thompson, Chief Executive Officer of Virtual Instruments. Seven of the 10 board members are independent of Microsoft, which is consistent with the requirement in the company’s governance guidelines that a substantial majority be independent.

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

Note to editors: For more information, news and perspectives from Microsoft, please visit the Microsoft News Center at http://www.microsoft.com/news. Web links, telephone numbers and titles were correct at time of publication, but may have changed. For additional assistance, journalists and analysts may contact Microsoft’s Rapid Response Team or other appropriate contacts listed at http://www.microsoft.com/news/contactpr.mspx.

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HP reveals plans to shed another 5 000 jobs worldwide

HP has revealed it is to cut an additional 5,000 jobs worldwide as it continues to try and streamline its business in the face of ongoing financial upheavals.

HP revealed plans in May 2012 to cut 29,000 jobs but in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Committee (SEC) this week, the firm admitted this number is likely to rise due to the need to make further cost savings.
“Due to continued market and business pressures, as of October 31, 2013, HP expects to eliminate an additional 15 percent of those 29,000 positions, or a total of approximately 34,000 positions,” it said.

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Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom Smartphone or camera review tech

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Ford CTO Google auto alliance a step forward even if were not joining

At CES, weve seen new, competing smart-car "standards" announced, and multiple manufacturers tying their data-enabled cars to specific carriers. Ford CTO Paul Mascarenas shares his thoughts on these developments -- and they might surprise you.

Paul Mascarenas has been CTO at Ford for over three years now. Compared to the long history of the automobile thats barely a blip, yet these past three years have seen major advancements in the sorts of technology installed and offered inside a modern car. Many manufacturers have added more intelligence to their cars since 2010 than they did in the 10 years previous.

Not Ford. That isnt to say that the company hasnt made huge progress over the past three years, as it surely has, but the company was well ahead of the curve when it introduced Sync in 2007. While other manufacturers have had some catching up to do with their smart cars, Ford seems to be focusing on filling in the blanks.

At this years International CES the company knocked out a few more, rolling out Sync AppLink capability to 3.4 million cars -- though sadly the service, which allows smartphone apps to talk directly to the car, still isnt compatible with the latest MyFord Touch-equipped vehicles. This update also enhances AppLink functionality on newer cars, allowing smartphone apps to read key data from the car, things like speed and fuel consumption.

(Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET) 

 

This will, in theory, greatly extend the functionality of these apps and Ford hopes this, plus a coder-focused conference this summer, will woo more app developers to support the companys cars. By extension, theyd be supporting the nascent Smart Device Link API, which the Blue Oval has positioned as an industry standard. (A standard strengthened by Fords recent acquisition of Livio). However, its far from the only standard out there, and at this years CES a few more were thrown on the pile.

Far and away the most talked about of these fledgling interfaces came from Google. The Open Auto Alliance (or OAA) is "committed to bringing the Android platform to cars starting in 2014," and while exactly what that means remains unclear, its readily apparent that Ford is not among the initial members of this group (which currently includes GM, Audi, Honda, and Hyundai).

From the outside, this certainly looks like a competing option to Fords Smart Device Link, but Mascarenas isnt bothered. "I dont think in any way its frustrating. If anything its good for the industry. It avoids fragmentation and takes complexity out of things. Just like were promoting AppLink as an industry standard it takes complexity out for the developers...Were very happy with what were doing, with our work with the Livio guys, but were open to work with others as well."

GM signing on to the OAA means that one company offers at least three separate app platforms, a situation that must give its own developers headaches, never mind those on the outside.

 

The areas of smartphone connectivity and smart cars are, you see, still so rough that any attempt at standardization actually managing to bring multiple manufacturers together is a step forward. Thats despite some of these steps creating some interesting internal conflict. General Motors, for example, already relies on Livios API for its Spark and just launched its own Connected by OnStar initiative for HTML5-based in-car apps. GM signing on to the OAA means that one company offers at least three separate app platforms, a situation that must give its own developers headaches, never mind those on the outside.

Read more: http://www.cnet.com/8301-35289_1-57616963/ford-cto-google-auto-alliance-a-step-forward-even-if-were-not-joining/#ixzz2q6f7Qg7g

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About To Break Down And Buy A Snowblower You May Be Too Late

(funny strange or funny ha ha)

Some people plan ahead, and a few people plan way ahead. For example, they go shopping for a snowblower in August, months before snow even thinks about forming. Most regular people don’t have this level of foresight, though, which is why there aren’t any snowblowers left in stores after a massive storm hits your region.

Sure, that seems pretty obvious from the outside, but that’s no help when you’ve got a drifted-in driveway and your local Home Depot says that they’re out of stock. Fortunately, there are always other options.

Our bundled-up colleagues over at Consumer Reports called around the snow-encrusted New York City suburbs to find out who still had snowblowers in stock. Inventory was running low at big-box stores and at Sears, but one category of store that most shoppers might not think of still had plenty of machines. Going directly to the dealers for outdoor-equipment manufacturers like Toro and MTD was fruitful, since dealers supply retail stores and sell directly to consumers. Local dealers had a variety of models in stock and ready to blow through your snow.

Buy a snow blower now before they sell out [Consumer Reports]

by Laura Northrup via Consumerist

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