Venturi Mini Sets Your Music Free

THE VENTURI MINI streamscalls and music from yourcell phone to your car audio system, as long as your mobile phone supports stereo Bluetooth and is compatible with the $129 device.the Mini performed well with Nokia’s 5300 XPressMusic phone controls were responsive, and music stopped for in coming calls, resuming aft erward. Overall, the Mini is a solid device for streaming tunes and chatting hands-free, but you should check the phone compatibility list first.

HDTVs: Don’t Overlook Overscan

WHEN WATCHING highdefinition cable programming on an HDTV, you may notice that the set crops outtext and station logos. This effect is the result of overscan, which HDTV makers often enable by default to eliminate the visually displeasing, fl ickering white bar of digital information that appears above HD programming. TV manufacturers choose the setting because most set-top boxes—cable and satellite alike—don’t hide the digital information well. However, it’s important to turn this feature off at times, especially when you’re using a Blu-ray Disc player to watch 1080p content on a 1080p HDTV. If you don’t see every pixel you should see, you’re not viewing a true 1920 by 1080 progressive-scan picture. The name of the viewing mode differs from brand to brand, but it’s commonly called Dot-by-Dot, Point-to-Point, Just, or simply Overscan Off. If you’re shopping for a new HDTV, make sure that the set you want has the option to disable overscan mode; not all sets do.

Drobo: An Alternative Approach to NAS

TECHNICALLY, DATA ROBOTICS’ Drobo falls outside the scope of what we consider a NAS device—namely,an integrated box with at least one hard disk and an ethernet connection so you can share thedevice on a network. Nevertheless, the Drobo deserves mention. Priced at $500, this USB direct-attached storage applianceprovides a four-bay enclosure for adding your own drives to the unit. The Drobo uses datavirtualization in lieu of RAID to provide data redundancy over multiple drives, as well as tomonitor drives for disk failure. Rather than release a dedicated NAS, Data
Robotics came up with the DroboShare. This $200 add-on lets you link up to two Drobo units to your network (Linux support is still in beta).

The Drobo’s simple dashboard software automates the network configuration process. Since
it’s not a native NAS device, you don’t get features like FTP, Web server, print server, or even
Web-based drive management. But you can unplug the Drobo from your network.

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Sprint, Samsung Work on Instinct iPhone Clone

JUST IN TIME for the Apple iPhone’s first anniversary, Sprint and Samsung plan to deliver the most serious competing productyet: the Instinct. A bit taller, narrower, and thicker than the iPhone, with a resistive touch screen (versus the iPhone’sSprint, Samsung Work on Instinct iPhone Clone more-sensitive, capacitive display), the Instinct has some features that the iPhone doesn’t—mobile broadband (EvDO Rev.A), GPS, a platform for third-party apps (BREW on Java), and (likely) a more wallet-friendly price tag.

DimDim: No-Hassle Web Meetings

DimDim lets you share your desktop, presentation, or whiteboard for free—and it does so quickly. As a presenter, you must install a browser plug-in, but on my PC that took only about a minute. People joining your meeting don’t have to install anything, if they already have Flash. You can chat with participants via text or include audio and video in the meeting. DimDim worked so well in my tests that I can’t imagine paying for a service like WebEx again. dimdim.com

Google Proposes Fast National Wireless Service

GOOGLE IS PUSHING hard to launch a national wireless service that promises superfast
national data access using the so-called white spaces on the analog TV spectrum. In a letter to the Federal Communications Commission, Google suggested that the spectrum could deliver “faster, longer-range, higher data rates” than are available now from telecoms and national Wi-Fi hotspot services. White spaces consist of the unused wireless spectrum between TV channels. Those spaces serve to prevent one analog channel from interfering with a neighboring channel. Broadcasters have long argued that the spaces can’t be used because that would create interference with TV broadcasts. After the February 2009 transition to digital TV, however, that position makes less sense. This portion of the spectrum (the 700-MHz band) can travel long distances and penetrate obstacles such as buildings and walls, making it very desirable to various would-be developers. By using white spaces, Google could off er wireless Internet access to many portable devices, in cluding new mobile phones that run Googlebacked Android soft ware, now being developed by a consortium of companies. Richard Whitt, Washington telecom and media counsel for Google, wrote the March 21, 2008, letter to the FCC. He called the new wireless technology “Wi-Fi 2.0” and touted its ability to deliver “data rates in the gigabitsper-second range.” If the FCC gives Google the green light, Whitt said, the service could be available to consumers as early as next year. Whitt’s letter also suggested that the new broadband could serve the needs of people in rural areas. And he asserted that the plan would provide “much-needed competition” to current broadband service providers. Microsoft and the White Spaces Coalition, whose members include Dell, Intel, and Philips Electronics, are backing Google’s plan.

New Ubuntu Version8.04, nicknamed Hardy Heron Is Improved Under the Hood

[Code-named Hardy Heron, the latest Ubuntu

Linux distribution includes new ways to try it
without adding a partition to your Windows PC.]


UBUNTU 8.04, nicknamed Hardy Heron, may not look much different from previous versions of the leading Linux distribution, but beneath the hood the OS has improved considerably. What with a new kernel, a new version of the Gnome Desktop, improved windowing and graphics layers, and various default confi guration tweaks, nearly everything about Hardy Heron feels snappier and more re sponsive than the previous edition, Gutsy Gibbon.



Installation Options

Hardy Heron’s biggest breakthroughmay be in the installationprocess. This release offers a new, optional installation utility called Wubi, which promises to lower the barrier to getting started
with Linux. Wubi runs as a Windows application and can install a complete Ubuntu system as a single file on a Windows PC’s hard drive.There’s no need to repartition your drive and no risk of wiping out your existing data. When you boot into Ubuntu, the system reads and writes to the OS’s file folder as if it were a standalone drive. Later, if you decide that running Linux isn’t going to work out, you can uninstall it just as if it were any other unwanted Windows application.
Ubuntu has updated its own application suite for version 8.04 of the OS, as well. Most notably, Firefox 3.0—which is still in beta itself—will be the default browser that ships with Ubuntu 8.04, and it appears to be a promising upgrade

In contrast, other new applications, such as the Brasero CD/DVD burning soft ware, feel lackluster when matched up against similar programs for Windows or Apple’s Mac OS X. Overall, however, Ubuntu continues to provide a good selection of apps for most purposes, without overloading the system with excessive and redundant soft ware options (as some Linux distributions do).


Work in Progress

Other new features of Ubuntu 8.04 are likely to be overlooked by desktop users though appreciated by systems administrators. Among the security improvements are better memory protection and a fine-grained access control systemcalled PolicyKit. In addition, Hardy Heron is the first Ubuntu distribution to offer easy integration with Active Directory environments, thanks to a new soft ware package called Likewise Open. Some longtime users will question this version’s inclusion of certain advancedfeatures, such as the new PulseAudio sound layer, which is not yet compatible with a lot of existing Linux audio software.

Microsoft, OLPC officially team up

So, I guess this makes it Two Operating Systems Per Child.

The One Laptop Per Child project and Microsoft announced Thursday that indeed the XO laptop will be available in both Linux and Windows varieties. The companies plan to sell a Windows-powered XO in five or six countries starting next month, with a broader release in August or September.

"We view it as a major opportunity for OLPC to expand and expand in a couple of ways," OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte told CNET News.com in an interview Thursday. "One is to have a broader acceptance in the community and the other is to have more software and software developers available."

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Facebook suspends participation in Google's Friend Connect

A post Thursday on Facebook's developer blog explains that the social network has suspended participation in Google's "Friend Connect" project, citing a violation of its internal terms of service.

"Now that Google has launched Friend Connect, we've had a chance to evaluate the technology," the post by Facebook employee Charlie Cheever read. "We've found that it redistributes user information from Facebook to other developers without users' knowledge, which doesn't respect the privacy standards our users have come to expect and is a violation of our Terms of Service."

In other words, while Facebook users would manually opt in to Friend Connect, they would not have control over the third-party sites that would then use Friend Connect through Google's API. "Our terms of service, for privacy reasons, have always forbidden redistribution of other Facebook information that an application takes," Facebook chief privacy officer Chris Kelly said in an interview with CNET News.com Thursday. For example, "where applications have tried to use Facebook data and pass it to third-party ad targeting networks to target their ads, we've shut down those applications."

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Yahoo responds to Icahn

Yahoo late Thursday posted a letter in response to Carl Icahn's move to unseat the company's board of directors.

The letter can be briefly summarized as Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock telling Icahn "Nuh-uh."

But, since some people like details, the full letter (sans dozens of exclamation points) is below.

Dear Mr. Icahn:

We are in receipt of your letter with regard to your intention to seek control of Yahoo's board of directors.

Unfortunately, your letter reflects a significant misunderstanding of the facts about the Microsoft proposal and the diligence with which our board evaluated and responded to that proposal. A fair-minded review of the factual record leads to one conclusion: that Yahoo's ten-member board, comprised of nine independent directors along with Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang, remains the best and most qualified group to maximize value for all Yahoo stockholders.

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Fedora 9 Gives Ubuntu a Run For Its Money

The Fedora Project has released Fedora 9, a significant upgrade for the popular Linux distribution. Fedora 9 packs in a number of new features including an improved package management system, KDE 4 and more.

Perhaps the best part of Fedora 9 is the new live USB options. Fedora has always made it easy to go from a live CD to a bootable USB stick, but the new options allow for a non-destructive install and persistent data. The non-destructive part means that, provided your USB stick has space, you can install Fedora 9 and none of your existing files will be lost.

Thanks to the persistent data features, booting from a live USB install isn’t just a temporary trial experience like the live CD — any changes you make or files you create are stored and available the next time you boot up, and that includes system files as well.

Fedora 9 introduces a nice upgrade to PackageKit which allows you to treat all your updates the same whether they’re RPG, UM or Apt. There’s also a new feature that detects when you’re missing a piece of software needed to open a file. PackageKit will pop up a window offering to install what you need (provided there’s a free software package available).

Fedora continues its long tradition of strong Java support with OpenJDK6 and IcedTea (an implementation of OpenJDK, released in Fedora 8) included by default.

As always Fedora ships with both GNOME and KDE desktops available. The GNOME version comes with the 2.22 and all its assorted goodness like GVFS and more . On the KDE side Fedora 9 makes a leap of faith and defaults to KDE 4 with all the latest and greatest eye candy and new features.



You can grab a copy of Fedora 9 from the Fedora Project download site.

HOW TO HIDE BLOGGER NAVBAR

There are Blogger NavBar on every blog you created on the blogger . So some people don't want it on the top of their blog this NavBar . So how to hide this NavBar on the blogger .



Just copy this below code and paste this anywhere in your template

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Just preview your template after copying this code in your Blogger template . Now you see the Blogger NavBar is gone . Now just save your template .

HOW TO GET FREE LINUX CDS FOR UBUNTU AND KUBUNTU

The Ubuntu one of the very popular linux based on GNOME and Kubuntu the KDE version of Ubuntu. The Canonical ltd. , the company which supports the Ubuntu ,its responsible to the development,distribution and promotion of open software products and to provide tools and support to the open source community.Ubuntu is one of the project of this company .Ubuntu is developed as free and open source software and can be used , modified and resdistributed without permission and completely free of charge.

AS a part of its promoting Ubuntu ,Canonical ltd. sends CDS completely free of charges through the mail to the users who request them. The software on the CDs can also be downloaded at no cost through their website .

The website for Ubuntu is http://www.ubuntu.com/
and for ordering your free CDS for Ubuntu the site address is https://shipit.ubuntu.com/

I myself request on their site for 5 CDS of Ubuntu and i got my CDS in 2 weeks after ordering on thier site . Not only that its a great linux i used myself also , Its a Live CD and there is a option of install on your hard disk after you run it .