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iPhone 4S Camera Review

When Apple unveiled the new iPhone 4S, one of the new features they took the time to exhibit was the newly improved camera. And temporal noise reduction helps you take great videos in low light. So night’s not too dark and candles look like candles. And you’ll see faces, places, and significant details.

The iPhone 4S camera has been completely redesigned on the inside, so everything you shoot outside looks better than you remember.

Sporting 8 mega pixels worth of, well, pixels, the new shooter is also capable of capturing 1080p video, an improvement over the already remarkable 720p, 5 mega pixel camera in the iPhone 4. The advanced backside illumination sensor and larger aperture let in even more light. Improved auto white balance makes color even more accurate.

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How to find awesome photographs on Internet

Stumple upon this small and very informative article on American Photo Magazine. Thought should share it with you guys. It’s worth a read.

There are now over 60 billion photographs on Facebook. To put that in perspective, from the dawn of modern photography in the mid-1920s through 1990, it’s estimated that around 57 billion photographs were made.

Photography is everywhere on the internet: personal snapshots of friends and family; professionally produced photojournalism; high and low fashion; cellphone snapshots from protests around the globe; intimate photographs depicting every imaginable aspect of human sexuality; banal scenes of street life; party photographs; photographs of celebrities in the club and in the bedroom; photographs of breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Photographs are everywhere and all of us are looking at them every day. It’s unavoidable. And while many photographers might gripe that the majority of these images aren’t very good or interesting (they’re probably right), the proliferation has had a positive impact on how I personally experience photography.

The combination of affordable digital cameras, camera phones and the ease of sharing photography online has made “everyone a photographer” and more importantly, made everyone involved in the photography conversation whether they realize it or not. A by-product of this is that more and more people are becoming seriously interested in improving their photography, and seeking out high-quality work for inspiration or enrichment.

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Steve Jobs Worked On Apple’s ‘Next Product’ Until His Last Day [VIDEO REPORT]

You may remember the news about Steve Jobs’ last project not being the iPhone 4S but instead being, possibly, the next iPhone 5. Well it has been confirmed that Steve worked on that project all the way until the day before he died.

During a meeting on the day of the launch for the iPhone 4S between Apple partner and CEO of Softbank Masayoshi Son and Tim Cook, Cook had to excuse himself from the meeting after a phone call. Son stated the following:

He [Tim Cook] said that Steve is calling me because he wants to talk about their next product. And the next day, he died.

Regardless of how you feel about Apple products, this should inspire all of us to chase what we love so much. If Steve didn’t care so much about Apple and their customers, he would have taken leave from work weeks, if not months before his departure. And rightfully so! He knew, and so did everyone else, that his time left on this planet was very slim. Jobs knew that he had unfinished business and dedicated his days to influencing the next device from Apple. At this point, we expect it to a newly revamped fifth-generation iPhone but with how tight lipped Apple is about their products, we won’t really know until closer to the release date.

Steve died due to an unfortunate illness, the cause of death however as noted by his death certificate is; respiratory arrest caused by a pancreatic tumor. Today Cupertino Headquarters is holding a special ceremony for Steve. Apple stores outside of Cupertino are also reportedly closing for three hours to participate in the tribute to the man who had so much drive and influence in the technology community. You can visit the Apple site dedicated to Steve here and read individual contributions from around the world from people whom Steve inspired. If you feel like these many people who have already shared their feelings, you can also send in some thoughts of your own.

You can see a scrolling wall of personal thoughts shared by those who cared for Apple almost as much as Jobs himself. Steve was the definition of a role model and Apple is set on keeping his legacy alive.

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Apple creates Live Blog like page as tribute to Steve Jobs using mails sent by fans around the world

When Apple Co-Founder Steve Jobs passed away on Oct. 5, Apple established an email address where fans could send their thoughts and appreciation: remembersteve@apple.com.

This is what I had sent.

 Love you Steve. Waiting for your reply like you used to during your keynotes.

- Kuldeep
Sent from my iPhone

On Wednesday, Apple created a page on its website to put some of those sentiments on display.

The page, headed simply “Remembering Steve.” and hosted at apple.com/stevejobs, features a perpetually scrolling column of messages from fans and Apple lovers around the world. Apple says that “over a million people” have sent messages commemorating Jobs so far, and encourages people to continue sending more in to the email address dedicated to the purpose.

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New Features in Android 4.0 – Ice Cream Sandwich and Download Links

Well I am not an Andriod fan but there is no harm in keeping a track of what is happenning around the world. Google recently released a new version of their Android software. Its called Ice Cream Sandwich, Version 4.0

Update 1 : On the eve of tonight’s Galaxy Nexus announcement, Google has released the Android 4.0 SDK. The platform promises a bevy of new features for users and developers alike including extended sharing and social integration and unified calendars. You can download a copy of the SDK here.

Google just unveiled their new Nexus phone, the Galaxy Nexus, along with a preview of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, coming to phones next year. Here’s a look at the creamy new update to the Android operating system.

Most of what’s gone into Ice Cream Sandwich is polish, making Android slicker, easier to use, and (finally) more consistent across the board. It’s mostly filled with small improvements and tweaks that Google rattled off pretty quickly, so we’ve listed our favorites here in bulleted form. This isn’t a comprehensive list; this is just what Google demoed at today’s event—so there’s probably even more to come.

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That table salt can help you store more data on your Hard Drive in Future

Traditional hard drives are hitting a capacity wall—they simply can’t physically fit any more data onto their discs. However, a researcher at the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) has discovered a way to significantly sextuple that capacity—using common table salt.

Current data storage technology relies on an unevenly-distributed cluster nanoscopic magnetic grains—each about 7 nanometers wide—to store a single bit of data, resulting in a maximum storage density of about 1 terabit per platter. By integrating Sodium Chloride (NaCl aka table salt) into the platters, researcher Dr. Joel Yang found that a single bit of information can instead be stored on a single 10 nm grain of salt rather than on the multiple-grain clusters, thereby increasing the potential storage density to 3.3TB/inch squared and the total capacity of a plate drive to 18 terabits.

Dr. Yang hopes to first further expand drive capacities to 6TB/sq in before aiming for a whopping 10TB/sq in solution—roughly 54 terabits of internal storage. Impressive, sure, but does anybody actually own 50TB of anything that isn’t porn? I know I don’t.

[Institute of Materials Research and Engineering via Physorg via Geek.com via Gizmodo.com]

Why Apple spends only 2 percent of its Money on R&D of Products

Apple is filthy rich. It sold four million phones in three days. It’s worth more than Exxon. It’s got a staggering stockpile of cash, just sitting around. So why does it spend merely 2.2 percent of revenue on cooking concepts?

ZDNet reports Apple’s R&D funding is miles behind competitors like Google and Microsoft, who doled out 14 and 13 percent of their revenues to internal labs, respectively. So why the gap? Apple’s 2.2 percent marks a ten year low. Even with a commanding presence in the smartphone game, and complete dominance among tablets, why wouldn’t Apple spend more on ideas?

There’s more here than it seems. First, Apple’s R&D spending is actually increasing—it’s just that its massive cash-raking is outpacing its research as a portion of the whole.

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Access Facebook Securely by enabling HTTPS

Although I feel Facebook is really secure apart from one or two hiccups in the past, I have personally not encountered any issues with Facebook so far. But there is no harm in adding additional security to your Facebook account. While not a cure-all, this little check-box will drastically reduce the vulnerability of your account to phishing (hacking) schemes and help keep your brand safer!

Enabling HTTPS ensures that you have a secure connection between you and Facebook when you log in – which makes it much harder for infected stuff to steal your login credentials on the fly.

This is not yet a default setting – but we figure it will become one in the very near future based on Facebook’s other actions. For now, you can very easily enable it for yourself.

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How Science Can Help You to Easily Spot a Liar

I asked this question some time ago, Why do people lie? Well it seems like Pamela Meyer has discovered how to spot a liar. She’s taken look at the most common behaviours of liars, scientifically, and shares her expertise on how to detect them.

Meyer believes that lying is often a two-way act. We willingly let others deceive us because we want to avoid disagreement. We may tell each other an email didn’t receive a response because it ended up in the spam folder or that dinner was delicious (or at least tolerable). This is okay to some extent because we’re all okay with it, but studies show that you may be lied to anywhere from 10 to 200 times per day. Many of those are white lies, but studies have also discovered that strangers lie three times within the first ten minutes of meeting each other. Meyer sees lying as what we do to bridge the gap between fantasy and reality. When we want something to be true, we lie so that it at least appears to be true in the hopes that we may be able to make it that way before any truth is uncovered. We hope it will be true, and so our lies are essentially loans of a desired future.

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Coming Soon – PocketTouch, Control your devices from the pocket

The PocketTouch system, developed by Microsoft Research, employs a custom capacitive sensing grid mounted on the back of a phone to detect multi-touch inputs through fabric—including heavy fleece and jacket pockets. This allows the user to do anything from silence a call to send a text without having to actually pull out the phone. Researchers employed Windows’ stroke-recognition engine to interpret a user’s various swipes though a wide variety of materials. Microsoft researchers have come up with a way to make devices sensitive to touch input through fabric — for silencing a phone or even entering text without taking the device out of a pocket or bag.

The project, dubbed PocketTouch, uses a custom sensor on the back of a Smartphone that can detect multitouch gestures even through heavy fleece or a jacket pocket. Microsoft researchers have developed a working prototype and are slated to present the project this week at the Association for Computing Machinery Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology in California.

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