Friday, March 27, 2009

Speech Controlled Computer in car


You can ask the computer for which there is heavy traffic and long traffic jams, or the cheapest gas station. You can not lift a finger to activate your address book or select tracks.


Microsoft's speech-based system Commuter UX is a follow-on research from the Sync system that Ford Motors has built into many Ford models. Sync system was built on the Microsoft Auto platform. The following link to a video demonstrating the system makes it possible, through talking, to select a song title, or call someone from your mobile phone address book from the car.


Commute UX is still in the research, the main requirements for such systems is to reduce driver distraction, and therefore tested the product in the simulator.

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

HP 2133 Mini-Notebook PC


The first time you start the HP 2133, its similar to an ordinary Windows computer, but it is thus equipped with the free operating system Linux. It quickly becomes evident when you open the Start menu.


The interface is both easy and logical to navigate and feel most as a little clumsy version of Windows. The computer comes with a reasonable selection of software that allows you to handle mail and address book, surf the web and do everything else you expect to with a computer. HP has also put OpenOffice on your machine for word processing, spreadsheets and so on.


The machine comes with a big six cell battery which can provide a reasonable battery life, but also ends a few centimeters from the rear of the computer and thus raise the keyboard to a just legal oblique angle that is not comfortable to write in. The angle also makes it difficult to tilt the screen far enough back.


On the other hand, the computer equipped with a very good keyboard, as in the right angle is comfortable to type on.


HP has unfortunately chosen not to include a card reader in the machine, making it slightly more difficult to pull files in and out of the computer.

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Facebook admits mistake


In just a few days, over 108,000 Facebook users signed up in protest to the group "People Against the new Terms of Service" because Facebook took ownership of all uploaded material. Now pull Facebook change back. It is a great victory for consumers.


A few weeks ago, Facebook revised their "Terms of use" and it meant that when you put pictures on your profile in Facebook, so you surrendered the rights to Facebook. Even if you deleted your profile, Facebook will retain rights to all of the content on your page. There has been so large protests that Facebook pull the changes back and return to the past "Terms of use."


Facebook has obviously noticed that many have removed their profile on the page where you disable the profile, now you get a message that changes in "Terms of use" was a mistake that has now been corrected.


In the official response from Facebook's Spokesman BARRY Schnitt states:


"It was never our intention to confuse people or make them afraid in the context of sharing files on Facebook. I would say very clearly that Facebook will not, nor ever, have claimed ownership of people's content. Your content belongs to you .