Microsoft Talks Portrait Mode For Windows 8!

Most people right now think of Windows 8 as Microsoft’s big tablet effort. But I wonder whether it will ever actually be installed on more tablets than traditional laptops and desktops. After all, it’s not just Windows 7 Tablet Edition — it’s the next version of Windows, period.
But there’s an wrinkle on tablet systems that has to be addressed that rarely, if ever, comes up on laptops: orientation. While very few people use their display in portrait mode, it’s extremely common to do so on tablets. Many apps and webpages work better when displayed vertically. So far, so normal for a tablet interface, but it must be just a little demoralizing to be working on something that a majority of users will never once encounter. Still, it must be done and they seem to be doing it well.
The stylized look of the Metro interface means it’s no small task to redo some apps, but they understand the usage scenarios and make things work. I like that things are optimized for thumb work in portrait mode, since it’s more likely you’ll be holding it with both hands in that situation (as opposed to it sitting in a stand or on a table, when it is more likely to be in landscape).

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Toshiba Shows Mobile LCD With 2,560 × 1,600 Resolution And 498PPI Density

If you thought the 4.5-Inch LCD screen with 720×1,280 pixels resolution Hitachi showed three weeks ago is cool, think again: Toshiba today took the wraps off a mobile LCD that’s even better. Sized at 6.1 inches, it boasts 2,560×1,600 pixels resolution and 498 pixels-per-inch density.
Needless to say, the direct-view-type screen is the first of its kind. It has a contrast ratio of 1,000:1, displays 16.7 million colors and offers a 176° viewing angle (horizontally and vertically).
Here’s how a set of Japanese characters looks like with different PPI:
Toshiba plans to showcase the LCD next week at the FPD International 2011 exhibition in Yokohama, Japan.

Back Up Your Data on a Mac!!!!!!!!!

Nothing you do with a computer will ever be as important as making a solid backup.
Hard drives fail, it's a fact of life. When yours does, unless you have a backup, you'll find yourself facing expensive data recovery services or worse: lost data.
Ideally, your backup system should be redundant. In other words, create at least two backups on two forms of media. At the very least, you should have a clone of your hard drive handy should your primary system go south.

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The battle over the mainstream tablet market all but over, smart competitors are turning to a familiar tactic to attempt to compete with the iPad juggernaut: Slashing prices.


Velocity Micro — a brand better known for its ultra-pricey, high-end gaming rigs — is getting there. Its first tablet product, the 7-inch Cruz T301, was met with general disdain, and VM went back to the drawing board to upgrade its offerings. The Cruz T408 (8-inch) and T410 (10-inch) tablets are more grown-up.




VM also throws in a few preinstalled apps, namely Angry Birds and the full version of QuickOffice, for whatever business users might snap up a Cruz.

Apple Misses Q4 Earnings Estimates, Blames Excessive Rumors

For the first time in six years, Apple’s quarterly earnings missed analyst estimates. Apple’s explanation? iPhone sales slowed down as consumers entered a holding pattern in anticipation of Apple’s next smartphone release. In an earnings call Tuesday afternoon, Apple blamed rumors for the drop in sales, saying that product speculation “reached extreme highs.”
Apple reported profits of $28.27 billion this quarter, or $7.05 per share. Analysts predicted that Apple’s profit per share would reach $7.31, making this the first “disappointing” quarter in the company’s past 64. Apple sold 17.07 million iPhones during the quarter, notably short of predicted sales of about 20 million.
During the call, CEO Tim Cook said, “We can’t tell you with precision how many units we would have sold without the rumors, if people hadn’t been expecting a new iPhone. But I would say it’s substantial.”


Apple expects to hit new company records for both the iPhone and the iPad as the holiday season begins. With a successful iPhone 4S launch under its belt, those expectations don’t seem far-fetched.

NASA's Falling UARS Satellite Found in Remote South Pacific

The Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, September 1991 NASA

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NASA’s Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) has finally returned home after two decades in orbit, and it couldn’t have crash-landed in a better place: a 500-mile-wide swath of the South Pacific. The falling six-ton satellite--which had been expected to re-enter the atmosphere for a couple of weeks, causing some degree of worry--plunged into a part of the world that is virtually uninhabited, mere minutes after reports said it might come crashing down in North America, NASA officials said yesterday.

See our gallery of the space race's greatest falls to Earth. (List compiled by Jonathan's Space Report.) NASA has been tracking UARS for some time now as the decommissioned satellite’s orbit has been decaying. Much of the satellite was expected to burn up on re-entry, but experts estimated that roughly two-dozen pieces of the massive satellite would survive and could potentially be a threat to people or objects on the ground. Given UARS’s speed and the many variables involved (this is a decommissioned satellite, after all, so re-entry was completely uncontrolled) there was no telling exactly when or where UARS might land.

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On Saturday, when the final descent began, previous calculations had placed the crash window across a large swath of northwestern North America. The Internet rumor machine fired up and sightings across Canada and the Pacific Northwest proliferated. But by that point updated U.S. Air Force calculations placed the satellite thousands of miles away in another hemisphere, and NASA has confirmed those calculations. UARS is now resting peacefully in the South Pacific, somewhere southwest of Christmas Island were small islands are scattered across a lot of water. The difference between Seattle and Samoa? Just a few minutes. NASA said UARS came in for its rough landing several minutes earlier than they had projected. What they won’t say is how they know this--they referred those questions to the USAF, which also isn’t talking. Were DoD missile tracking assets employed in tracking UARS? The Air Force would rather not say at this point, but one would think something like this would be good practice.
UARS is not the first piece of man-made space hardware to come crashing back to Earth, and it won’t be the last. In late October or early November a German astronomy satellite will make its uncontrolled final plunge back to Earth. Though smaller than UARS, more pieces are expected to survive re-entry (a total of 30 are expected, possibly including sharp pieces of mirror). Let’s hope that one finds a nice stretch of uninhabited ocean as well.

NASA UARS Satellite Crashes Into Earth: Location Unknown

The Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) is deployed from the Space Shuttle Discovery in this Sept. 14, 1991 file photo in space. (NASA/Getty Images)

The abandoned 6-ton Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) satellite entered the earth's atmosphere early this morning but where it crashed remains unknown according to NASA.
In an update posted on NASA's website, the "decommissioned Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite fell back to Earth between 11:23 p.m. EDT Friday, Sept. 23 and 1:09 a.m. EDT Sept. 24."
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Is this the Nokia SeaRay ?

The folks over at TheNokiaBlog(unofficial) have got their hands on a purported image of the Nokia SeaRay in what looks like marketing material of  T-Mobile Germany. Highlights include a 3.7 inch AMOLED display and 3D navigation and Windows Phone Mango 7.5.We are not sure if SeaRay could be the final name of the device as it sounds more like a codename.The device does look attractive and looks very similar to the Nokia N9.We are not sure about the legitimacy of the image , so do take this news with a pinch of salt. Nokia is expected to announce it’s first Windows Phone device before the end of 2011.

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Samsung Galaxy S II Now Available on AT&T

Fans of the Samsung Galaxy S II can now rejoice. The AT&T version of the handset is now available to users in USA.
The phone is available at a price of 549.99 US $ sim-free i.e. without any contract. For those who would prefer a contract, you can purchase the handset for 199.99 US $ on a 2 year contract.
This price however requires you to take a monthly data plan of at least 15 US $. You also get free shipping with online purchase.

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