HP iPAQ Voice Messenger

The HP iPAQ Voice Messenger supports General 2G Networks of GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 and 3G Networks HSDPA 900 / 1900 / 2100
. The phone was announced in Oct 2008 and was Released in march 2009. Its 114 x 50 x 13.6 mm in Dimensions and weighs 107g.
It has a TFT, 65K color Displat having a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels, 2.4 inches diagonally wide. The phone supports a QWERTY keyboard for ease of typing.
Its got Vibration alertn Downloadable polyphonic, MP3, AAC ringtones for Sound alert and has a Speakerphone of course.
Thee Phonebook’s memory has practically unlimited entries and fields, and supports Photocall . Being a Windows Phone it again keeps Practically unlimited Call records.

Talking about its System, it has an Internal 128 MB RAM and a 256 MB ROM. Expansion is supported via a microSD card slot which can be expanded upto 8 GB.

For wireless connectivity it supports
GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots) 32 – 48 kbps,
EDGE Class 10, 236.8 kbps,
3G HSDPA 7.2 Mbps,
WLAN [Wi-Fi 802.11b/g]
Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP support
and USB v2.0 via microUSB for cable connectivity.
Its got a Primary 3.15 MP Camera clicking still images at a max resolution of 2048×1536 pixels and has autofocus and a LED flash.
Video recording is possible on Qvga and VGA resolutions.
Again no support for a secondary videocall camera.
It Runs Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard Edition on a Qualcomm MSM 7201A 528 MHz processor so there’s no problem processing word and powerpoint presentations.

Messaging system supports SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email and Instant Messaging. Browser supports WAP 2.0/xHTML and HTML (PocketIE).
No Support for radio again.
Available only in Blue, its got GPS with A-GPS support.
Its Java enabled and runs MIDP 2.0 apps.
Pocket Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, PDF viewer), Media player T9, Voice memo come bundled with the software package.
The Phone has a Standard battery Li-Po 1260 mAh

Processing.

Computer animations and graphics are what keeps kids and dults alike glued to the computer screen. No no, I’m not wrinting about a new animation movie. This one is for all those who are interested in CREATING anmations, applications, and games. Interested? Read on.

Processing is more like a customized IDE (Integrated Development Environment) rather than a new programming language. It is built over java and is very easy to learn. If you know basic C or C++, you are good to go! But it shouldn’t be too tough for absolute beginners. What scares most of the students away from programming is that it is fantastically boring, and they can’t really do anything with what they have learned until they learn all those ‘advanced’ stuff. Now processing is not like that! You can create cute interactive applets from your very beginning. No, processing is not some kind of stupid program that lets you create virtual puppets. You will have to actually code to do things. Let me straighten things up : Writing graphical programs is no easy task. Sometimes programmers will have to spend the first two days just laying the base for all those grpahical stuff. I’m not trying to confuse you but let us say that processing makes writing graphical applications way easier. The IDE converts all your code into pure java when you hit the ‘run’ button. got my point? Processing is actually java.
Go see for yourself. They have really good demonstrations at the ‘exhibition’ section.

http://www.processing.org

Just Google it!!

Gooooooogle – a long stretch of O’s, and tiny little page numbers under them – if you see this, you are probably staring at one of those typical, almost-accurate, ‘google’ search results. For almost a decade now, this long stretch of O’s with a ‘G’ at one end and a ‘gle’ at the other end has dominated the cyber world. And the good thing is, it’s continuing to do so. Google was co-founded by Larry page and Sergey brin as a research project at Stanford university, 1996. Today it is a corporate giant, with an annual revenue of 13,174,044  US $ (as of Dec, 2008).

How many of you use google? Many. How many of you use other services offered by google? Many more! Orkut, Gmail, Youtube, Gtalk,Blogger, Picasa – seems like Google owns a pretty large fairyland of its own in the cyber world! These are services we use most often. But there’s this other side of google that an average user doesn’t often come across, or to be more precise, is not aware of.

How many of you use google reader? Not many. As google puts it, “Google Reader helps you find and keep track of interesting stuff on the web. You can subscribe to your favorite websites, and keep up with what’s popular.New content comes to your Google Reader when it’s posted, so you don’t need to visit individual sites.” A pretty useful tool for someone who visits certain sites regularly. www.google.com/reader

Now Google Adsense is an advertising program which lets you place google ads in your blog/website and google pays you a certain amount for a certain number of mouse clicks on that ad! Now what’s a blog? A blog is something like an online diary, a storybook, a local newspaper – write whatever you want, let the world know! Creating a blog is easy, fun and free. Www.blogger.com.
For the official google blog -http://googleblog.blogspot.com/

They even give us a complete replica of Microsoft office!(well, kind of). Google Docs allows you to create, upload, and share documents online. Connect to the net, do your work, save-you can access your documents from any part of the globe – and no more pirated softwares to do your work.! Go to docs.google.com/

Google is definitely the king among search engines – and cyber space. From ‘Google earth’ which shows you the entire world from a top-down view to the yet to be released ‘Chrome’ operating sysem which promises to give you a never-before experience, google has always been innovative and ahead of all others. This was just the tip of the iceberg. Google provides even more services like a web page translator (to view webpages written in languages other than english), a super fast web browser (’chome’), a 3-d modelling tool (http://sketchup.google.com/) and many more, I cannot list everything here. The best thing about google is that, they give you all this for free! (at least as far as I know)

Need to know more/need clarifications about anything discussed above? Google it! Now don’t be lazy, searching for something in google is easier than you think! Oh and by the way, typing in “google” in the search box will give you the entire list of google services – try it, it’s huge! Happy googling!