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Не совсем понятно, как называть Sony DSC-QX10, это ведь не объектив, а, по сути, камера. Да, тут есть все, кроме видоискателя - батарея, сенсор, оптика, но для съемки нужно использовать смартфон...

Somewhere, your life depends on boxes and cables.

When all else fails, we always assume our favorite Web sites will be there.

We feel reassured that we'll have the comfort of sitting on our sofas, clutching our little iPads and communing with the same outside world that doesn't always like us in person.

Yet, for one reason or another, sites are going down. Sites are being attacked. Servers go down for reasons that don't always seem understandable.

Which means that Americans are beginning to realize that the fundaments of their lives are being assaulted and insulted.

I lean on my exclusive possession of new research that asked Americans whether outages were upsetting them and why.

You will end this post prostrate at the way respondents bared their souls. Did they declare that server outages were hurting them because this was a serious threat to their way of life?

In a way.

Fifty-two percent said that their biggest ...read more...

The "Spinal Tap" reference to the volume control that goes to "11" notwithstanding, there's a lot of confusion surrounding volume controls. There shouldn't be; the volume control setting has nothing to do with how loud an amp can play. Some folks mistakenly think that if you don't have to turn the knob up very far from the minimum setting to achieve high volume, that "proves" it's a powerful amp. No, not at all; the maximum volume level of any amp is determined not by how far you turn the knob, but by the amp or receiver's power output. The position of the volume control doesn't indicate the amount of watts driving the speaker; the only real concern is whether the amp can play loud enough to suit your needs, and it doesn't matter in the least whether the volume control is at 9 o'clock, 12 o'clock, or 3 o'clock.

Here's another volume control/output power myth: The lower position for ...read more...

A scene from move-in day at the University of Florida, a school that lets its thousand of incoming freshmen find a roommate on Facebook.

In 2007, Facebook had been open to the public for less than a year, but a troublesome tendency -- now commonplace among nearly every college-age teenager in the country -- had already begun emerging: The moment incoming students received their roommate's name, they would type it into Facebook to learn all they could.

That singular action -- which often inspires overbearing parents and judgmental teens to flood housing offices with complaints -- led Robert Castellucci to co-found RoomSync, a pre-eminent roommate pairing service that operates right within Facebook.

"We looked at the landscape and we're like, 'Everyone's going onto Facebook to research their roommate after they're assigned," said Castellucci, acting CEO of the Gainesville, Fla.-based company. "So we said, 'Instead of fighting this trend,' -- which frankly housing offices ...read more...

Компания iRU представила новые модели школьного нетбука под длинным названием iRU School Netbook transformer 10,1’’ на базе сертифицированной платформы Intel Education Solutions. Уже в августе ожидаются поступления новинок в продажу.

iRU School Netbook transformer 10,1’’

Нетбук iRU School Netbook transformer 10.1” создан на основе процессора Intel Celeron 847. Устройство представлено в легком ударопрочном корпусе темно-серого цвета с выдвижной ручкой для переноски, что немаловажно для модели, которая должна быть способна перенести все тяготы школьных будней. Поворотный сенсорный экран диагональю 10,1 дюйма – удобная опция для работы как со специальным стилусом (поставляется в комплекте), так и от прикосновения ...read more...

Разработчики социальной сети ВКонтакте выпустила большое обновление клиента для мобильных устройств Apple.

Редактирование собственной записи

В новой версии ВКонтакте для iPhone заявлены десятки новых возможностей. В числе самых важных новшеств - появление возможности редактирования своих записей и комментариев, что давно ожидалось пользователями, а также прикрепление фотографий к комментариям. Среди менее "революционных", но от этого не менее приятных нововведений можно отметить следующее:

• Пересылка нескольких сообщений другим пользователем.
• Мульти-выбор фотографий. Работает при загрузке на стену, в фотоальбомы и личные сообщения.
• Автоулучшение фотографий в одно касание.
• Черный список. Блокировка из его профиля или из настроек.
• Моментальный предпросмотр статей на внешних сайтах. 
• Изменение порядка фотографий, прикрепленных к сообщению или записи.
• Новый интерфейс просмотра внешних ссылок (браузер) с альбомной ориентацией.
• Новая фотолента. В разделе "Фотографии" отображаются обновления друзей, но не сообществ.
• Пересылка оригиналов фотографий и видеозаписей в виде документов. Работает и для настенных записей.
• Копирование фотографий в "Сохраненные фотографии".
• Фотографии-обложки групповых бесед.

Также появились отображение закрепленных записей в сообществах, иконки замка в записях только для ...read more...

Информация, опубликованная источником, позволяет развеять слухи о том, что развитие операционной системы Tizen прекращено. Совместный проект Samsung и Intel продолжает жить, о чем свидетельствует начавшаяся рассылка прототипов устройств с новой ОС разработчикам. Факт рассылки подтверждается записями об импорте устройств под обозначением Samsung SM-Z9005, предназначенных для исследований и разработки.

В таблице не сказано, что Samsung SM-Z9005 работает под управлением ОС Tizen. Однако такая информация есть в исходном тексте GitHub, где строка «SM-Z9005 prototype» соседствует с кодовыми именами Melius и Redwood, под которыми устройства с ОС Tizen то и дело «светятся» в новостях .

Напомним, в прошлом месяце компания Intel опровергла домыслы о прекращении разработки ОС Tizen .

Ожидается, что первый аппарат с ОС Tizen, прототипом которого, возможно, является SM-Z9005, появится в розничной продаже в октябре.

Источник: Tizenblog.de

iPhone season is upon us once again. And that means that anxious Apple fans are plotting their best options for selling their old devices to buy the new one.

In this edition of Ask Maggie, I offer some advice to a reader about the best time to sell an old iPhone to get the best trade-in value or price from an individual buyer. But not everyone is in the market for the brand new iPhone.

Some savvy wireless customers see the launch of a new iPhone as an opportunity to get a bargain on older models of iPhones. And as people resell their used devices, there are also deals to be had the used iPhone market as well. But savvy shoppers also have to careful of scammers. So in this edition of Ask Maggie, I also offer some tips on buying a used iPhone.

Tips for selling a used iPhone

Компания Nokia объявила о начале продаж в России смартфона Nokia Lumia 625 на базе операционной системы Windows Phone 8 с большой диагональю экрана 4,7 дюйма и поддержкой стандарта LTE.

Nokia Lumia 625

Nokia Lumia 625 стал смартфоном с самым большим дисплеем в линейке Nokia Lumia, при этом разрешение у него небольшое - WVGA (800 х 480 пикселей), что обеспечивает плотность 201 ppi. Также можно отметить 5-мегапиксельную основную камеру с автофокусом и светодиодной вспышкой, фронтальную VGA-камеру, двухъядерный процессор с тактовой частотой 1,2 ГГц, 512 оперативной памяти, 8 ГБ встроенной флеш-памяти для хранения данных и поддержку карт памяти формата microSD с максимальной емкостью 64 ГБ.

Питание производится от аккумулятора емкостью 2000 мАч. Размеры составляют 133,2 х 72,2 х 9,2 мм, а вес - 159 граммов. Ориентировочная розничная цена Nokia Lumia 625 составляет 11990 рублей, модель доступна в ...read more...

For a very brief few minutes on Friday you may have noticed some Google services, most notably search, appeared to be down. If not, maybe you noticed the ensuing freak-out across Twitter and the rest of the Internet.

At first glance the flash outage was little more than an opportunity for a few good one-liners and a chance to actually stand up from the keyboard and walk around for a few minutes. If we had connected nanobots floating around in our bloodstreams, certainly they would have registered a worldwide uptick in caffeine intake during those few moments.

As it turns out though, Google's downtime did appear to have global, measurable repercussions according to analytics firm GoSquared, which estimates that it caused a 40 percent drop in global traffic during a five-minute window: Google.com was down for a few minutes between 23:52 and 23:57 BST on 16th August 2013. This had a huge effect in the number of pageviews ...read more...

Apple's mid-2011 iMacs.

Apple has reportedly begun a new program to replace faulty graphics cards found in some mid-2011 to late-2012 iMacs.

The new replacement program, which was reported by 9to5Mac, affects systems with AMD Radeon HD 6970M video cards. Those were found in the 27-inch iMac models with either the 3.1 or 3.4GHz quad-core Intel i-series chips.

According to support language, the video cards could fail "causing the computer display to appear distorted, white or blue with vertical lines, or to turn black." Apple has listed 13 different possible serial number suffixes that are a part of that group, which are eligible for the replacement.

That iteration of iMac was sold between May 2011 to October 2012.

Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the program, which is not posted to its support site, though was reportedly sent to Apple Support employees on Friday.

Contrary to popular thinking, Google doesn't always get its way when it comes to all things Internet -- at least, not if the latest pronouncement from ICANN is any indication.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the organization in charge of a major overhaul of Internet addresses, ruled this week that it's passed a resolution prohibiting so-called dotless domain names, essentially putting the kibosh on Google's plans for a dotless "http://search" domain.

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Google outlined its interest in the dotless search domain in a letter it sent to the ICANN board in April. The idea behind a dotless domain is that a top-level domain name ...read more...

Researchers have once again pulled a fast one on Apple's app approval process, getting malware onto the App Store to prove it's still a possibility.

A group of researchers from Georgia Tech developed an app that masqueraded as a news reader that would phone home to reprogram itself into malware -- something that was apparently not picked up in Apple's security screening procedures, reports the MIT Technology Review.

Once configured remotely, the software was able to do things like send texts, e-mails, post Tweets, take pictures, dial phone numbers, and even reboot the system.

Apple only ran the app for a few seconds during its testing process, the researchers said. And once published to the App Store, the researchers quickly removed it after they were able to successfully install it on their phones.

The methodology and results of the test, which occurred in March, were published this week at the UNSENIX Security Symposium in Washington, D.C. ...read more...

Компания Nokia сообщила, что для смартфонов Lumia на базе Windows Phone 8 стартовало распространение нового обновления программного обеспечения Amber, которое принесет ряд новых и усовершенствованных функций и приложений, таких как экран блокировки Nokia Glance и повышенное качество фотосъемки.

Обновление Amber

В основе Lumia Amber лежит последнее обновление для Windows Phone 8 от Microsoft. Само по себе оно уже предполагает целый ряд существенных дополнений: появится поддержка FM-радио, внесены доработки в Xbox music и браузер Internet Explorer.

В области фотосъемки обновление несет усовершенствованные алгоритмы обработки изображений, включающие более эффективное шумоподавление, воспроизведение цветов, контроль над экспозицией и автофокус. Владельцы модели Lumia 920 смогут делать более качественные снимки при слабом освещении благодаря возможности настройки значения ISO от 800 до 3200.

Приложение Nokia Smart Camera для ...read more...

Do you like presents? Of course you do -- and a new service lets you send geeky surprise gifts to yourself.

Nerd Block is a subscription-based nerd care package service which, for $19.99 a month (plus shipping), sends out a monthly package of geeky goodies. Partners so far for the fledgling service include Marvel, Nintendo, DC, "Adventure Time," Disney, "Doctor Who," and "Star Wars."

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Each package contains a limited-edition T-shirt and a selection of five or six nerd-themed toys (which is pretty great for the price!), sent out around the 15th of every month and shipped all around the world. And, if you sign up and hate the packages, you can cancel at any time.

Payment options are ...read more...

He's going to get you.

A dog might be a man's best friend.

A cat, not so much.

It's not merely that cats can be mercilessly self-centered beings. It's that their hair might help convict you, should you be accused of a heinous crime.

In what's said to be the first ever case of cat hair helping to catch a U.K. killer, scientists in Britain worked using a cat DNA database to identify cat hair found on a corpse.

As the Associated Press reports, the dismembered torso of David Guy was found stuffed in bag on a beach in July 2012. The Hampshire police worked hard to match the cat hair found around Guy's body with a cat that belonged to a suspect, David Hilder.

But the DNA drawn from the cat hair was mitochondrial DNA, and lots of cats share this DNA.

Jon Wetton, a geneticist with the University of Leicester who ...read more...

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