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!

What’s Apple up to now?

A lot of buzz has been circulating concerning Apple’s new gadget. Supposedly, it will be some sort of tablet. However, Apple has done an excellent job of concealing news of its details. Some people believe it will be an e-reader like the Kindle. Other people believe that it will be almost like a phone-or small, handheld, computer.

The only definite rumor that has been circulating is that it’s going to be a tablet of some sort. So, in my opinion, I think Apple’s going to mix the best of all worlds.
I think Apple’s new gadget will be a tablet that you can use for a phone, a computer, or even as an I-reader.
I suppose we’ll just have to wait and see, but for the most part, Apple always surprises us, and they’re rarely dissapoint, so keep your eyes and ears out for the newest gadget to hit the stores.

Review of Amazon’s Kindle

My sister in law gave me an earlier Christmas present, and I was thrilled to see that it was a Kindle. I opened it immediately, and I’ve already started using it. Unfortunately, I’ve never owned any of the other similar products, so I can’t compare it to the others. However, I absolutely love the kindle.

The greatest feature about this device is that you set up your account with amazon, and you use a credit card to set up your account. Then, you can search and download books directly from your Kindle. It uses wireless technology, kind of like a cell phone. You don’t have to be connected to the internet or have a wireless internet connection in your home.

I also love that you can download and read free samples before you buy a book. That way, you can analyze the writer’s style and themes before you commit to buying a book. I’m absolutely hooked.

There’s also some new, “experimental” features in which you can navigate the internet and listen to MP3 files. I find these features helpful because I am one of the few people in the US who doesn’t own an I-Phone. However, I’m well aware that I’m in the minority in that sense.

Overall, I’d say that a kindle is the PERFECT gift for book lovers. Many book lovers are like me in the fact that they’re running out of book shelves to store books. Plus, I can’t wait to travel with my new Kindle. In the past, I packed a separate bag full of books alone. Now, I can thrown my Kindle in my purse, and I’ll have endless hours of reading!

Why Macs are more secure than Windows

While we are on the subject of Windows, I would like to discuss the topic of computer security; something that Microsoft’s Windows operating system is known to perform poorly on. It has often been claimed that the Apple Mac operating system is a lot safer security wise than its Microsoft made counterpart Windows, and to an extent this is true. However, it is important to look at reasons why people may say this. Firstly, the Windows operating system is used by a vast majority of computer users, so any virus spreader or hacker would want to target his malware towards Windows computer users. Take voting as an analogy. Usually, the election candidate targets election advertisements towards the majority and spends little time on the minority (with some exceptions, of course!). Likewise, virus spreaders would want to concentrate most of their time trying to crack the Windows operating system as cracking Apple Macs would result in a lower return for these nasty computer hackers! However, you should not buy an Apple Mac just because it is the least used (and hence the least targeted in malware attacks). Consider the features of both operating systems; I am sure they both have something for you!

Windows 7 controversies

Windows 7 is scheduled for release on October 22, 2009 and is one of the most avidly awaited releases of an operating system ever, due to the potential it has to make up for some of the perceived flaws found in Microsoft’s earlier offering, Windows Vista. However, there have been a number of controversies surrounding its release, and in this HyperGadget post I will do a quick rundown of these so you can be better informed when making a purchase. Firstly, the concept of a separate Europe edition must be explored. Originally, Microsoft had planned to release a Windows 7 ‘E’ edition in Europe to avoid falling foul of European Union antitrust regulations. This ‘E’ edition would come packaged without Internet Explorer and a number of models were considered to decide how internet browsers would be installed on the computer (whether it was by a random drawing or through the computer user’s choice). This was scrapped when Microsoft decided that the confusion surrounding the release of the ‘E’ edition would be too much for consumers. Secondly, will the initial Windows 7 edition be 100% safe? I doubt it. Those in the computer industry always say never to buy Windows when it first comes out… so, I might not!

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