Creating the next Nokia Tune: Listen & Vote

Introducing the Nokia Tune Remake.
You may have heard about this little competition that Nokia are running at the moment. There’s something ever so slightly special about it – namely the prize

The Nokia Remake gives you the opportunity to create the next version of the Nokia ringtone. To put that into perspective, your work could be featured on over 100 million phones around the world! That isn’t all either, the winner will also take home a cool $10,000. Got your attention? Good 

The competition launched over a week ago and, needless to say, there have been some awesome entries! These will eventually be whittled down to 10 finalists. Five chosen by the number of public votes (“Likes”), and five by the specialist judging panel.

As we can see below The Five Most ‘Liked’ Entries are currently as follows – but that could all change.

1. The Great Marvelous – 35,976 likes

2. Progressive Nokia – 11,993 likes

3. Nokia tune China Classical Ver – 8,470 likes

4. Nokiorchestra – 4,829 likes

5. NOKIA CHINESE – 3,381 likes

Have a listen and vote for your favorites!

Remember, if you feel like being a music maestro, you have until the 2nd October to submit your entry on the competition page

The Future of Skin

Of all our human organs, skin is arguably one of the most abused — yet it’s also arguably the most reliable. It protects everything inside us, helping us avoid harm by sensing obstacles in our way, making sure we stay hydrated, and ensuring we keep ourselves at the right temperature. It constantly replenishes itself, sloughing off former layers that we’ve either burned or dried out or scraped or ignored, while new ones grow in their places.

Many of skin’s properties would be useful in other applications — like helping people with artificial limbs regain some of what they’ve lost. And an electronic skin, or at least some tactile sensory ability, could help machines understand the delicate differences in force that are required to grip an apple, a hand or a piece of steel.

Researchers trying to duplicate its beneficial properties are building teeny stretchable electronics that can give artificial limbs a real sense of touch.

And scientists are making several changes to human skin itself, turning it into a 21st century interface capable of much more than feeling another person’s caress. From conductive tattoos that turn skin into a human-machine communications device, skin is getting plenty of upgrades.

Download Now Windows 8 (DP)

    As promised earlier today at the Build Conference,The developer preview is up for grabs now on the newly launched Developer site.There are two kinds of builds available over the Developer site.First is with Developer tools and a 64 Bit version while the other version is Without the Developer tools in 32 bit as well as 64 bit version.

BUILD is a new event that shows modern hardware and software developers how to take advantage of the future of Windows. Learn how to work with the all new touch-centric user experience to create fast, fluid, and dynamic applications that leverage the power and flexibility of the core of Windows, used by more than a billion people around the world.

Hear how the UI was designed to work seamlessly with a diversity of devices and form factors. Go behind the scenes and learn all about the new app model that allows you to create powerful new apps. All while retaining the ability to use your existing apps. Web-connected and web-powered apps built using HTML5 and JavaScript have access to the power of the PC. Touch-optimized browsing, with the full power of hardware-accelerated Internet Explorer 10 transforms your experiences with the web. BUILD is the first place to dive deep into the future of Windows.

Here are the details of the Developer Builds and Windows 8 Videos that are up now on the site http://channel9.msdn.com/events/BUILD/BUILD2011

Windows Developer Preview with developer tools English, 64-bit (x64)

64-bit Windows Developer Preview

Windows SDK for Metro style apps

Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Express for Windows Developer Preview

Microsoft Expression Blend 5 Developer Preview

28 Metro style apps including the BUILD Conference app

Download Now

Windows Developer Preview English, 64-bit (x64)

Includes a disk image file (.iso) to install the Windows Developer Preview and Metro style apps on a 64-bit PC.

Download Now

Windows Developer Preview English, 32-bit (x86)

Includes a disk image file (.iso) to install the Windows Developer Preview and Metro style apps on a 32-bit PC.

Download Now

Building "Windows 8" - Video #1

Windows 8 Hands-on at Microsoft Build 2011

Samsung Tablet

ANDROID – THE MOST ATTACKED MOBILE OS: MCAFEE

Malware attack on mobile devices, especially on Android platform, has surged in recent times, the computer security software maker McAfee said.

According to McAfee report, malware threat on Android device raised to 76 per cent since last quarter, making it the most vulnerable OS in the market. The report noted Android as the ‘most attacked mobile operating system.’

“This year we have seen record breaking numbers of malware, especially on mobile devices, where the uptick is in direct correlation to popularity,” Vincent Weafer, senior vice president of McAfee Labs, said in a statement.

Android over took Nokia’s Symbian OS as the most popular target for mobile malware developers. The rise of malware attack on Android may help cyber criminals to steal personal data from Android users.

The security firm added that these malwares may appear in “everything from calendar apps, to comedy apps to SMS messages to a fake Angry Birds updates”.

Interestingly, the report revealed that the hacker groups LulzSec and Anonymous were some of the prominent cyber news generators in 2011 Q2.

CASIO In-Camera GPS Features

Pros

• Excellent in-camera GPS and mapping
• Ultra-wide-angle 24mm lens with 10X optical zoom
• 14.1 MP CCD Sencer
• Phenomenal battery life
• Green-screen-like Dynamic Photo feature
• Very good image quality in well-lit situations
• 360-degree Slide Panorama mode

Cons

• No manual controls
• Mediocre macro mode
• Digital zoom only in video mode
• No burst mode

Bottom Line

The vacation-friendly EX-H20G has a 10X-optical-zoom lens, great GPS features, and in-camera mapping. It's a top performer in daylight, but it lacks manual controls and a few key features.

How To Choose Best Hosting for Your Website

     If you are starting a website the first thing you should do is find a good hosting provider.If you select the right hosting provider it will not only save you from future hassles but it is also beneficial for SEO of your website.There are too many hosting provider available in the market and many of them will give you fake promises like unlimited bandwidth ,connections,space etc.But as your website start gaining decent traffic they will ask you to upgrade your hosting plans as they cannot support that much traffic under your current plan.

Then most of us have no other option but have to upgrade the hosting plan as moving the website to new host is not an easy task. Moreover there is no guarantee that the new host will not play the same tricks.So selecting the best hosting can be really difficult.

Each webhost usually provides three types of hosting services

• Shared Hosting
• Dedicated Server Hosting
• Virtual Dedicated Server or Virtual Private Servers

Shared Hosting:-.In shared hosting same server is shared by multiple websites and the resources (bandwidth,space,connections) are limited.Most of the companies don’t guarantee high performance in shared hosting. It is recommended for new webmasters

Dedicated Server Hosting:-In dedicated server hosting you will have your separate server.It is recommended if your own a blog network (20-30 blogs),high bandwidth website (like streaming websites,image hosting) or if you want to run advanced softwares on your server.Dedicated servers assure you peek performance and high reliability.

Virtual Dedicated servers :-In virtual dedicated servers there will be many customers on the same server (like shared hosting) but you will be given separate privacy and resources (like dedicated hosting)

While selecting a any hosting Plan you will have to choose between Windows Hosting or Linux Hosting

Windows Web Hosting:- The biggest advantage of windows web hosting is that you can run Microsoft softwares such as Access and MS SQL databases.If you are a developer then you can also use Microsoft programming technologies like Active Server Pages (ASP), Visual Basic Scripts, MS Index Server

Linux Web Hosting:-Linux web hosting is cheaper than windows hosting and it is also known for high speed and less frequent crashes.But you cannot run Microsoft softwares on your Linux hosting

So choose your hosting plan as well as hosting provider wisely as it will benefit you in the long run.

Google Voice Users Can Now Export Texts, Voicemails & Phone Numbers

An update to Google Takeout, the search giant’s data export service, now allows Google Voice users to retrieve all of their account data.

“We believe that our users should be able to export any data that they create in (or import into) one of our many products,” Google engineer Anthony Jawad writes in a post on the news.

“This means that all of the data associated with your Google Voice account, from your call history to voicemail messages, greetings and call recordings, is now available for download,” he adds.

The Google Takeout update, also announced by way of the quirky YouTube video below, comes courtesy of The Data Liberation Front, a team of in-house engineers building products to help users move their data in and out of Google.

Google Takeout was first released in July. The service launched with the ability to export data from Buzz, Contacts and Circles, Picasa Web Albums, and your Google profile.