Recently, PsyStar appeared again on the news, this time we learnt that they only sold 768 Mac clone in a year. Since we know that Apple sold over 10 million Mac this year, why a company selling an identical product would only sold 768 unit of their product.

People Want an Apple, not a clone

The answer is simple, Psystar thought that people wanted computer with Mac OS X installed on it, it seems the data pulled by Matthew Lynde (Cornerstone Research) from Psystar account proved otherwise.

They wanted an Apple, not a Apple clone.  400 $ for a name, for an image and for this I must congratulate Apple’s marketing department for doing such a great job

According to a report issued by British games magazine MCV, Microsoft’s much-heralded Project Natal hands-free gaming control system could hit store shelves as soon as November 2010 and cost as little as 80 USD.

Only 80$ for  something the TIME magazine’s list as #5 of the 50 best inventions of 2009, this is not a lot. Imagine playing with you whole body.  Rumor says that Fable 3 would be using this innovative system.

We don’t know if it works as good it does on the video, but if it does it could be a big revolution in the video game world. If it doesn’t, Sony’s PS3’s motion-sensing wand peripheral could help the PS3 in the console war.

The first of the short films will be available October 26, with the final film to arrive ahead of the game’s release date on November 17

When the Duke of Milan is brutally murdered, the Assassin Giovanni Auditore is dispatched to investigate. The answers he uncovers implicate Italy’s most powerful families reaching all the way back to the Vatican itself. As Giovanni draws closer to the truth, he becomes hunted himself. He must expose the conspirators before he joins their ever growing list of victims.

Ubisoft revealed that Assassin’s Creed 2 will start at the moment part 1 ended.

iPhone statistic

Number of iPhone and iPod Touch sold : 40,000,000[WWDC 2009 Keynote]

Number of iPhone App in Apple AppStore : 100,000

Number of iPhone App downloaded : over 2 billion.

Price to buy for all the iPhone apps :  140 000 $US

No. of days to sell the first million iPhones : 74

Average money spent on apps per iPhone : $45

Average cost of a paid app : $1.56

Percentage of free apps : 65%

Percentage users with ONLY free apps : 7%

Approval rate for App Store submissions : 96%

75% of iphone users are male and the majority are aged between 18-44

iPhone is used for

• browsing – 80%
• email 76%
• mobile music 66%
• social networking 55%
• web search 55%

iPhone 3G Launch Analysis: Growth of iPhone Owners by Annual Household Income

• Under $25,000 – 16 percent
• $25,000 to $49,999: 48 percent
• $50,000 to $74,999: 46 percent
• $75,000 to $99,999: 3 percent
• $100,000 or more: 16 percent

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Update : The google logo of the 6/09/2009

Yesterday, Big Bird’s legs reined supreme as Google’s theme logo. Today, Cookie Monster’s eyes make up the two ‘O’s ‘ in the popular search engine’s logo.

The American educational children’s TV series, which is well known for its Muppets characters created by Jim Henson. It premiered on November 10, 1969 and is the longest running children’s programme in the U.S.

Celebrities as varied as Jim Carey, James Blunt, Michael Jackson, Ben Stiller, Hilary Clinton and Destiny’s Child have made guest appearances.

Cookie Monster is notorious for his love of cookies, particularly those that have chocolate chips. His character was created by Jim Henson in the mid 1960′s

Try Google Chrome beta 4 : here

Flash drives and portables hard drives are available on the market for many years by now but USB flash drives are way more used. Is Flash drives is the best choice for you? Maybe not,  portable hard drives have many advantages that users don’t know about. For the comparason, the Western Digital My Passport Essential 250 GB USB 2.0 WDME2500TN will be used because it is right in the middle of the price and the performance range of portable hard drives

Portable hard drives are as small as some phones!

With small dimensions of around of   0.6″h x 3.1″w x 5″l for  the Western Digital My Passport Essential 250 GB, it can easily fit inside a pocket . True, it is bigger then a flash drives but it is small enough for the performance it can give you back.

Bigger capacities

Portable hard drives are available is bigger format then USB keys, for instance a 32 GB flash drive is enourmous and cost more then

Cheaper Gigabyte per dollar ratio | Bigger capacities

The hard drive we are using in this comparison has 250GB and we can buy on amazon.com it at around 69$ US. If we do the calculation, you have a little more then 3.5GB per $ at this price, a 16 GB flash drive should cost you less the 5 dollar.

Also, portable hard drives are available different size like 80Gb, 120Gb, 160Gb,320Gb and 500Gb(wow).

True not everybody need so much Gigabytes but when you have it you surprisingly find new way to full it(OS, pictures, videos, games, work).

Work with usb 2.0

Before, portable hard drive needed to plug their hard drives in the wall for it to work. Now the power cord is no longer necessary, it’s taking the energy from the USB 2.0  plug of your computer so it’s perfect with your laptop everywhere.

Faster read and write then most USB keys

Yes !  For this comparison to mean something, i choose one of the fastest USB flash drive I knew about the Patriot Xporter XT Boost 32GB High speed USB (74$US). This flash drive claim it can go as fast as 200x, knowing that one x = 150Kb/s and that a Mb/b = 1000Kb/s, we can convert this value as 30Mb/s. But when we look at the speed of the WD hard drive we see that its transfer rate is of 60Mb/s, 2 times the speed a fast USB key goes.

Conclusion

I’ve been using the WD portable hard drives for 3 years now and I must say it saved me quite a lots of time. When i needed to transport big amount of data,  It was faster then burning a dvd. When i needed to do a backup  it could contain the whole backup ! Also it’s detected by windows without installing anything. By my opinion it’s the best choice someone can do.

The only reason you could prefer a USB flash drive is because you don’t need  more then 4 GB, you need something very tiny  or because you have less then a 20$ budget.

Your Choice?

My favourite example of a “Crapware” is Norton anti-virus, it spam you to install it every start-up to install the 30day trial. Theses software are simply annoying and mostly useless, they make your computer boot slower, they use your RAM , they take place on your hard drive and they are a pain to remove. They somehow remind me of an annoying roommate.

You want to remove most of the “bloatware” on your brand new pc? Well let me tell you that there is an app for that. The program up for this task is called PC Decrapifier. Just In case you couldn’t tell from the name, it was made to handle exactly this kind of situations. Just like an all exterminator, here is a list of all the crap he can get rid of.

After using the this crap removal service, you may need to replace that crap with good free software that will never expire. That’s why I recommend you http://www.ninite.com.

I hope this post helped you getting rid of all the crap on your computer.

Browser ranks

According to w3school.com Browser Statistic, the word of the browser is dominated with 2 big players, Firefox being used by 46.6% of the web surfer and Internet Explorer with 39.6%, then come in third place Google Chrome with 7.1%. However, even if it is still far from the head, Google Chrome has gotten more popular every month over the last 11 month. Being powered by Google has helped the 13 month old browser to quickly become more popular then Safari, Mozilla and Opera.

Faster JavaScript = More interactive web

Google Chrome is different from other browsers; it is optimized to execute JavaScript fast, this will make it a very good alternativebrowser for the future. To give you an overview of the difference of performance the browser gives, here is a JavaScript NES emulator ; on Firefox, Tetris works at around  6 FPS and uses 50% of my CPU and it’s too slow to play, while on Internet Explorer it is simply not loading at all. On the other hand, Chrome aces it with 60FPS and uses around 40% of my CPU. So not only is Chrome running JavaScript 10 times faster, it makes JS  also lighter on the processor .

SunSpider benchmark results show Google’s Chrome is the fastest of the top five Windows browsers at rendering JavaScript. (Lower scores/shorter graph bars are better.) www.computerworld.com/

If you need more benchmark go take a look here

Speed is essential to the future of internet especially when everybody is talking about a more social web with more interactive content. Interactive content means more JavaScript (Ajax) and we previously saw that there was a limit of what the current browser could do without lag and without hammering the processor.

Chrome is fast but is it secure?

Speed is important but so is security, Google Chrome sandbox makes surfing more secure, even thought flaws are found, there is no real threat to the files on the computer because the sand-box isolates the browser from the system . Chrome proved itself more secure than the other browsers by being the only one standing in the Pwn2Own hacker contest.

You don’t care about what security expert says? Here’s a page where you can make crash all the browsers, the only difference is how they react, Chrome is the only one to not completely crash.

Chrome’s bad points

Google Chrome doesn’t have the most user friendly interface and functionality or the customizability of Firefox, neither does it has the tons of excellent plug-ins Firefox has. Many critique complained about the fact that it was only compatible with Windows. But Chrome doesn’t even have 2 years, I’m sure that they will find way to make everything simpler and when it’s going to become more popular, plug-ins will be developed for Chrome. Also I was taking a look at Google Chrome 4 Beta and it looks like there will be a Mac and a Linux version as well.

Why will Chrome be a strong challenger in the browser wars

Having gained 3.2% of popularity over the last 8 month, Chrome has everything it needs to continue to grow. Google optimise each of their own products and services for it, and they have a LOT of products, like Google Search, Gmail, Google Map, Blogger, Google Group, etc.

Since Google’s products are used by millions of people every day Google can easily attract users to their browser.Also with the near release of Google Wave, optimised for Google Chrome, some users might find their browsers slow and heavy on Wave and then change to the only browser on witch it runs perfectly : Chrome.

Google Wave will become very popular  because of its reactivity and real-time execution(lots of AJAX), Wave will make the web evolve of the Web 2.0 to Web 2.5 : where the web looks more like a normal application and this is in what Chrome most excel with.

This year, Google announced they were adding another string to their bow, after Android, they are working on Google Chrome OS. This OS based on Linux kernel, will be focusing on the web surfing and will most likely come for free with Google Chrome installed on it. the good image of Google and its strong partner( Acer, Adobe, ASUS, Freescale, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo and others) will make people consider it a good option .

Conclusion

The performance of a browser like Google Chrome is essential for the future use of the internet, that’s why Chrome is going to be a strong competitor in the browser war. Its a very secure browser, light, open fast and has great themes.

The more and more people will use Chrome and without knowing it, Chrome will join the fight between Firefox and Internet explorer and put some action in the browser world.

Step 1

Press the center button on your iPhone to engage it. Find the “Settings” buttons. Press the Settings button.

Step 2
Once you have pressed the Settings button, it will take you to a General screen and that screen will have a vertical list, which starts with About, Usage, Network, etc. Scroll down until you see Passcode lock.

Step 3
Press Passcode lock. At the top of this screen you will see something that says “Set Passcode” and the option to enter a four digit passcode beneath. Enter your four digits. Re-enter them.

Step 4
Now you will be taken back to the Passcode lock, where it will say “Turn Passcode Off” at top. This indicates that it is on. Below you can adjust the settings… ideally, the Require Passcode can be adjusted to turn on after 1 minute, 5 minutes, 15 minutes, 1 hour or 4 hours.

Step 5
I set mine for 5 minutes because it is annoying having to constantly engage the passcode and yet, assuming you lose your phone, you want that protection on. The way to do this is by pressing “Require Passcode” and pressing the “Five minutes” button. A check will appear on the right side of five minutes to show that this amount of time has been engaged.

Step 6
Press “Passcode lock” at the upper left hand to get back to your Passcode Lock Screen. Press General to return to your main security screen. Press the center button on your phone to return to your phone’s main screen.

source : http://www.ehow.com/how_4713316_password-lock-iphone.html