Wondering how you could cut mp3 files online? Use Cloud Computing!

So you suddenly fall in love with this song, and you absolutely need it on your phone right now as your ring tone. The only problem is that there is a long music sequence in the beginning that you wouldn't really want your ring tone to begin with. So you want to cut the mp3 but you don't have a software installed on you PC that does that. Welcome to the 21st century! In come Cloud Computing. You can simply go to this website, upload your song, cut it exactly where you want to, and download the cut file. All this without downloading or installing a software on your PC! This is one of the simplest and most helpful utility that you can find provided by vendors who are progressively shifting their business to the cloud!

What is Microsoft Windows Phone 7 and how is it different from Windows Mobile?

Lets begin this article with a little history of Microsoft operating systems. As some of you would remember, just a few years ago we had devices in Pakistan from manufacturers like Imate, O2 and Acer called PDAs. These devices were usually for niche audiences and a normal mobile user rarely came across someone using these. Mostly people in business environment or tech-savvy people would be seen with these. Almost all of these used Microsoft Windows Mobile operating system which according to its User Interface was somewhat like a stripped down version of Microsoft's Windows for desktop PCs. This OS wasn't that user friendly and navigating the menus and the applications was a pain, but since this was the only OS present at that time, there was nothing people could do and they just learned to accommodate. At this time Microsoft was an absolute leader in the mobile OS space. From the year 2000 till 2010, Microsoft enjoyed a monopoly with little competition for a solid 10 years.

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What is Cloud computing and how can it can change the way you use the internet!

You are probably wondering if crowd computing is so far off a technology that it wont affect you in a long time to come. Well nothing could be further from the truth. The last time you shared your photos on flickr, kodak or picasa online. Or you used an online converter to convert the video you just found into audio, or you just simply like to store your data online on Microsoft's Skydrive so they can be safe from problems that can occur while storing them in your own hardware. Guess what? These are all the most basic forms of computing on the cloud!


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Drinking water for Disaster hit areas powered by the Solar Energy!

The biggest problem that has been reported from areas which have been hit with a natural disaster or otherwise is that due to the block of the supply chain there is usually a severe shortage of drinking water! Melissa Mahony from Smartplanet has reported that researchers from MIT have created a method of making clean drinking water from sea water powered completey by the Sun in a cost effective and safe way. This technology is bound to help out many as there is a potential to supply water to 10,000 people from an $ 8000 unit!

What is Quantum Computing and its relevance!

Quantum computing is something that most people will feel is right out of a science fiction book rather than reality. By many scientists it is seen as the future of computing where processing power can be increased exponentially. This sort of technology is essential to keep Moore's Law true which states that

Moore's law describes a long-term trend in the history of computing hardware. The number of transistors that can be placed inexpensively on an integrated circuit has doubled approximately every two years. The trend has continued for more than half a century and is not expected to stop until 2015 or later.

So while conventional computers process data at a nano scale, quantum physics is all about subatomic scale! Lets see what wikipedia has to saw about Quantum Computing,

A quantum computer is a device for computation that makes direct use of quantum mechanical phenomena, such as superposition and entanglement, to perform operations on data. 

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Real world application of Augmented Reality - Military

Remember what we discussed here about augmented reality a couple of days ago? Well we have come across a very practical implication of the technology. Where else can such a technology be invaluable than in the military. Imagine military head wear that has built in projections in front of the eyes of the soldier. When the soldier looks at a building these projections can point out where friendly or enemy forces are located by highlighting the windows in different colours! Also maps of and area or blueprints of buildings can be seen right in the goggles of the soldier! How effective this technology can be, and how efficient it will make war by reducing civilian casualties can only be seen after this technology is implemented. As far is Pakistanis are concerned, no matter how badly we don't want drone strikes on out soil, what is even more important to us is the cessation of civilian casualties that take place with them. What we can say for sure is that this technology is VERY promising !

The Chevrolet Volt!

The Chevrolet Volt is the first plug in hybrid vehicle announced by General Motors in July 2007. This announcement fundamentally changed the landscape of hybrid cars! It got all the other auto companies into a race that was basically for the benefit of the consumer in the end!

It got all the companies to release highly efficient versions of their existing models and when that was not enough, they started using Hybrid ( battery plus engine) technology to improve fuel efficiency even further. In the meantime all of them were developing plug-in hybrids of their own. As history has it, the Nissan Leaf, the Tesla Roadster and other cars beat GM to the finish line but the most anticipated car was the Volt due to numerous press releases as well as unofficial news leaks made by the company which kept the car in the spotlight for so many years.

Preview of Nokia E5!

The Nokia E5 is an indirect successor to Nokia E71. An E71 for the masses, if you will. It runs on symbian and has a large 5 MP camera with WiFi and full QWERTY keyboard. This will seal the deal for many while others will not consider this device at all. Allow me to explain. I say this because of the design, unlike the sleek elegance of the E71 or even E63, this phone has a somewhat funkier look in its design and will not appeal to many such as business users, they would most likely want to wait for the Eseries version with a more business look or switch to a much more contemporary Blackberry. As for others its a slam dunk. I would like to admit that I stand in the latter but that is only because I fall in the younger demographic. As for the rest, the phone has selected metal accents which give it a slightly more expensive feel overall. One other thing i would highlight here is the phenomenal 13 hours of talk time that the company boasts for this device which would really be a big plus for the device.
At the price of Rs. 21,000/- this is a good replacement for your E71 especially because it runs an upgraded version of symbian!

The NOKIA C3!

The Nokia C3 is an inexpensive alternative to the E5 which runs on nokia S40 operating system rather than its much more feature rich symbian operating system. This is done obviously to keep costs low. In my view, the only major disadvantage that this OS robs you of is the absence of multi-tasking which can be a major deal breaker for some customers, while the majority of customers wont really have this feature on top of their priority list, especially the target market. This phone offers the cheapest Nokia QWERTY candybar to date. I believe that the target market here is teenagers and early 20 somethings as apparent due to the options of colors available and the general design of the phone. Also it will be a delight for heavy texters (again,teeneagers) and people who use email regularly, although using email on S40 wont be very comfortable. As for the built quality, its made of plastic rather than metal to keep costs low so it will give an impression of a cheaper device. Still, considering Nokias reputation the built quality will be better than competing models from Samsung.

A introduction to Augmented Reality!

It is exciting to live in a time where technological advancements are taking place at a breathtaking pace and science fiction seems to come true everyday. Here is one of the things that will amaze you. As you can see in the picture above, just holding a display in front of the real world object gives you an image of the object in real time as well as addition of information such as the name of the building, its details like the number of floors or perhaps the blue print. All this is done right there in real time. This mythical device isn't a piece of science fiction and the truth is that such devices have not only been made but are commercially available for everyone to buy. Nokia has a portfolio of softwares in their OVI store where augmented reality can be used on your smartphone to maybe point at historical buildings with the camera and the information comes on the screen regarding historical significance and such. Google as always will not let anyone outsmart them and has introduced a product called Google Goggles. It comes as an application that is available for all android phones and the iPhone. What this application does is, it attaches the search function to augmented reality. In essence, you point you camera at a Snickers bar in a grocery store and it will search online for all the close locations where the chocolate is available and will let u know through GPS the nearest and cheapest location!