Symbian 3 gets new design goes further than skin deep
March 10, 2010
Nokia has made it clear that it will revamp the user interface (UI) of its Symbian phones, and you might have seen the video above during Mobile World Congress. However, what's more interesting is that Nokia has removed a ton of legacy cipher and APIs, to form the clean break that was faraway overdue. We're getting closer to what was available on the N900 and some of the qualities are the same (the app switching UI is excellent), but the new UI is seemingly much faster and more fluid. With the new software architecture, comes new cipher that is not built to deal with last decade's problems such as lack of graphics hardware or horrible memory constraints.
The net conclusion should be much more responsive Nokia phones and interfaces. I'm glad that Nokia (and others) are seeing the light, considering Apple and Microsoft certain did too. Now, we're waiting for the actual hardware that we suspect might come out that summer at Nokia World.
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Energizer Duo USB battery charger has a backdoor
March 9, 2010
Software for the Energizer Duo USB battery can be pretty dangerous - after all, it comes with a backdoor that potentially enables an attacker to remotely take control of a Windows-based computer. Good to know that Energizer and US-CERT (U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team) are aware of the situation and has issued a warning to the masses, with the latter stating that "The installer for the Energizer Duo software places the file UsbCharger.dll in the application's directory and Arucer.dll in the Windows system32 directory. Arucer.dll is a backdoor that allows unauthorized remote system access via accepting connections on 7777/tcp. Its capabilities include the ability to list directories, send and receive files, and execute programs." Energizer on their part has discontinued sale of that product, while removing the site to download the software as investigations are ongoing as to how that Trojan cipher managed to get into the software in the first place.
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Is The Palm Elan A New Device, Or Just A Pixi?
March 8, 2010
Is the “Elan” an upcoming device from Palm, or is it just another (code) name for the Palm Pixi? Screenshots of a site listing the Palm Elan have surfaced, and according to a user who claims to work for AT&T, the examining for the Elan should start in about two weeks and will have a ‘soft keyboard’. That being said, some folks have dug up certain sites listing accessories for the Palm Elan, and based on those pictures, it certain looks like a Palm Pixi, so possibly it’s just a cipher name? The Palm Elan probably belongs in the rumor bin for now, but we’ll keep an eye on it, to see whether anything more surfaces.
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112 LED Coffee Table
March 1, 2010
Joe's come up with the 112 LED coffee table that looks absolutely gorgeous in any living room, particularly for those who want a contemporary touch. that is made possible thanks to the configuration which is explained in the excerpt below in more detail.
Driving that grid is an ATmega328 in i2c slave mode. It listens for display notes from a second ATmega328 and uses that to set the array of TLC5940 driven LEDs appropriately. Separating the processing microcontroller from the display microcontroller allows for fast and smooth display changes that can be seen after the break. Joe's table exhibits exquisite cable management, clean cipher, and an amazing amount of flexibility.
Sounds like the perfect addition to spruce up your living room, eh?
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Sony PSN down
March 1, 2010
Sony's PlayStation Network (PSN) seems to be down and out for the moment, and Sony is aware of the problem just in case you were wondering whether the folks there were sitting on their rear ends doing nothing about the situation. Game-crashing errors seem to spread among the PS3-owning community, and most of it is attributed to a 8001050F error cipher. Among the unlucky drawbacks would be corrupted trophy knowledge and an inability to access the PSN. Hopefully Sony will be able to do something about that, and pronto!
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Quake 3 runs on Android smoothly
February 25, 2010
Who would've thought that the processing capability of smartphones have finally caught up far adequate to run an intense game like Quake 3 (back in its day, anyways) smoothly? Check out what the programmer had to say about his efforts of porting Quake 3 by to the Android platform.
"Over the last two months I ported Quake 3 to Android as a hobby project. It only took a few days to get the game working. More moment was spent on tweaking the game experience. Right now the game runs at 25fps on a Motorola Milestone/Droid. 'Normally when you compile C/C++ cipher using the Android NDK, the compiler targets a generic ARMv5 CPU which uses software floating-point. Without any optimizations and audio Quake 3 runs at 22fps. Since Quake 3 uses a lot of floating-point calculations, I tried a better C-compiler (GCC 4.4.0 from Android GIT) which supports contemporary CPUs and Neon SIMD directions. Quake 3 optimized for Cortex-A8 with Neon is about 15% faster without audio and 35% with audio compared to the generic ARMv5 build. Most likely the performance improvement compared to the ARMv5 build is not that big considering the system libraries of the Milestone have been compiled with FPU support, so sin/cos/log/.. take advantage of the FPU.''
Well, with Quake Live readily available for some duration already, we aren't surprised any more that Quake 3 can run on an Android-powered smartphone pretty smoothly, although it will never fully reproduce the adrenaline pumping moments as experienced on an actual computer.
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LED Wave Display
February 25, 2010
Csaba Bleuer's latest DIY invention would be the LED Wave Display which will display text in mid-air simply by waving it back and forth. that is somewhat reminiscent of the Fan Motor Spinning LED Display, where the spinning display inspired that creation albeit with the addition of a quartet of AA batteries. A tiny circuit board is mounted on the new device alongside a switch which has a motion detector on top. Folks who are adventurous adequate to venture out on their own can always contact Csaba for the cipher.
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