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Apple has been rumored to be developing a smaller version of its popular iPad tablet…

Apple has been rumored to be developing a smaller version of its popular iPad tablet…

With over 100 million iPad’s sold and Microsoft releasing their own tablet, Surface, this holiday season, Apple has been rumored to be developing a smaller version of its popular iPad tablet…

…and on October 23rd they announced it to the world.

The iPad mini’s tech specs include:

• 7.9″ IPS Display (1024 x 768 px)
• 16/32/64 GB Storage
• 7.87 x 5.3 x 0.28 inches (height/width/depth)
• 10.86 ounces
• A5 Dual Core Processor (Same as iPad 2/iPhone 4s)
• 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi & Bluetooth 4.0
• LTE 4g on Cellular Models
• New Lightning connector (replaces old dock connector)

You may be wondering why I titled this article “This apple fell far from the tree”, because the specs list seems pretty good (the processor and screen resolution are exactly the same as the iPad 2).

The reason is simple: relative price, and design.

Relative Price

If the iPad Mini was the first tablet to come out in this size you could argue that $329 for the base 16GB Wi-Fi model ($459 with cellular) was a reasonable price, but the Amazon Kindle HD 7″, Google Nexus 7″ and a host of other 7″ tablets are available for $199. Additionally, the screen resolution is lower than the competitors, the processor is slower and the device features less connectivity/expandability than the competitors. Normally the Apple premium price is rewarded by a device with some of the best specs, but this time you pay a lot more and get a lot less.

Design

When Steve Jobs introduced the original iPad he made it clear the bezel (the black space around the screen) was designed to perfectly fit the human thumb so you can hold the device easily. The iPad mini doesn’t appear to follow that design, with a very thin bezel meant to be held in a claw grip from behind. Why is this such a big problem? Well, the sides of the screen register touch so you’ll be flipping pages, accidentally clicking links and doing all other manner of annoying things if you try to hold the Mini like a full size iPad.

The picture to the left below shows the claw grip Apple expects you to hold this nearly 8″ by 5.5″ device in. I have large hands, and it was a challenge for me to hold it. The picture below to the right shows a person trying to hold the iPad Mini as you would hold other tablets, but clearly your thumb ends up over content and on the touch screen.

It’s not that the iPad Mini is the worst tablet ever made – it is amazingly thin, it’s made out of aluminum, has Apple’s fantastic app store and iOS operating system, which means it is sure to be a commercial success. But in my opinion, it has a serious design flaw and is too expensive. This is a rare miss on some pretty basic aspects from a company which redefined the tablet market from bulky, overpriced, hard-to-use devices into sleek simple and affordable tablets.

The iPad Mini will be available for pre-order on Friday October 26th, with retail availability starting on November 2nd. Expect long lines and the traditional camp outs at Apple stores to be one of the first to purchase, but I would consider one of the cheaper alternatives for a 7″ tablet – or if you want an Apple device, the full size iPad (refurbished iPad 3 available for only $379 right now at Apple’s online store and new iPad 2′s starting at $399)

P.S. Apple also announced the iPad 4, which is identical to the iPad 3 with an upgraded A6X processor featuring 2x the performance, new lightning connector and faster 4g LTE service on cellular models. Not an Earth-shattering upgrade, but just enough to upset everyone who bought the brand new iPad 3 which was released a little more than 6 months ago.

Google changes SEO forever with it’s Disavow Link Tool – What you Need to Do Right Now…

Google changes SEO forever with it’s Disavow Link Tool – What you Need to Do Right Now…(copyhttp://www.noblesamurai.com)

On April 24th Google unleashed the biggest change to its search engine algorithm in over 8 years – the dreaded “Penguin” update. In a nutshell, they began PENALIZING websites that obtained poor quality links, and websites that had too many “SEO Optimized” anchor text links.

For the first time ever, links can POISON your site, negatively impacting your rankings.  Because links are very difficult to remove once they’ve been built, Penguin makes it almost impossible for websites to recover from link-based penalties.

Yesterday, on October 17th, Google announced the much anticipated “Disavow Links” tool in Google Webmaster Tools.

This tool finally gives webmasters the much-needed ability to tell Google to “ignore” specific links and domains from poor quality link-sources.

Google’s new Disavow Links Tool allows any site owner to upload a list of URLs (or entire domains), with the promise that (in most cases) links from that site will be excluded from ranking algorithms within a matter of weeks.

Here’s what the interface looks like:

sexy woman in mutilation(mutilasi)

sexy woman in mutilation(mutilasi) තරුණියක් මරා මස් කන චීන්නූ 

http://toothfloat.blogspot.pt මෙය උපුටා ගත් ලිපියකි නොදුටු අයගේ දැනගැනීම පිණිස නැවත පලකලෙමි ,,,තොරතුරු සොයා මෙම ලිපිය සකස් කල http://toothfloat.blogspot.pt  බ්ලොගයේ හිමිකරුට මෙහි ගෞරවය ලැබිය යුතුය ,,

sexy woman in mutilation(mutilasi)

Meat eater cannibal society Women in China, a remote village in the country of China, every year before Chinese New Year, they will make cuts of meat on a large party-besaran.Karena for them, meat is a luxury food who inaccessible. So that they can only eat it once a year only and only on the day of Lunar tersebut.

Desa this secluded in the country of china. Although remote, but every tourist who wants to one of the tourist attractions in china, will pass through the village. If any single travelers who do travel, they will usually ride villagers staying at home page.

If they find a female traveler, they would arrest the woman was then tied and forbidden to leave the house. The woman will be given food and shelter free of charge by residents. If the woman is still virgin, they may approach other men ga. Because for them, the sensitive woman who will be more fragrant than not a virgin. So that should keep them in order not oppressed by other men.

When before the Chinese New Year, she will be killed and her body will be sacrificed by their citizens. Women who had been kidnapped by the residents would be washed clean prior to the fur dibadannya revoked.

Then the woman in the nude and feet tightly bound his hands and was taken to place their offerings, will then continue cutting ceremony. Here are some photos of the cutting process:

The village has a rule, if a man wants to marry, they must marry a woman from the village itself. Because women are just used to eat out alone. TSB assumption villagers, a woman from the outside should only be eaten in nikahin ga. Haram for them.

Women over this at the time will be cut, she just cried and cried and cried. Because he has no org know who will congratulate him. The woman would cut her throat earlier in order to stop breathing.

The woman who cut in his 20s. He apparently was an employee in the city. Since he quit his job and after 1 / 2 years still do not get a suitable job, so he intends to enjoy life while on vacation

Speech Recognizer කටින් කියනදේ ලියවෙන හැටි බලන්න

Speech Recognizer

Offline speech recognizer for chrome.

This app uses the new built in speech feature in chrome 11+ to create a useful powerful tool to use voice to do the normal typing jobs . 

The app is essentially an in the browser speech recognizer using which you can dictate sentences , edit the output and add them together to form paragraphs. 

This app is best used along with Voice In chrome extension [ also developed by me ]. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gjkogfbjkfchelfjonefnnenhfgglpnn

Please Note : 
Speech Recognition is a statistical model . You cant expect a 100% accuracy rate . But not to worry recognition is rate is good enough to use :) 

I'd appreciate if you'd rate it with ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ and tell your friends! :-) 

Use the new support interface to post your valuable comments/feature requests https://chrome.google.com/webstore/support/aomjekmpappghadlogpigifkghlmebjk

*** Change Log ***
Ver 3 : 
* Brand new design .  

Ver 4 : 
* Multiple language support
* Automatic edit box addition
* Edit box stretchable 
4.1 : 
* Add a g+ and fb like buttons

ඔයාල කැමතිද අතින් ටයිප් කරනවට වඩා වෙනසක් කරලා බලන්න .මම කිව්වේ මේ අපි කියන දේ නිකම්ම අපේ කොම්පියුටර් එකේ ලියවෙන විදිහේ වැඩක් කරලා බලන්න .අහා ,,,,,ආස  ඇති නේද ?මේකෙන්  ඔයාල කියනදේ නිකම්ම මේකේ  type වෙනවා හැබැයි එතින් දැනට ඉංග්‍රීසි විතරයි ,එත් මදිද  නේද ?ඒ වගේම මේක ගොඩක් වැදගත්  වෙයි ඉංග්‍රීසි ඉගෙනගන්න අයට ,මොකද තමන් කියන දේ හරියටම උච්චාරණය වෙනවද කියල බලාගන්න වගේම ,අපි කියනදේ සුද්දෙකුට  තේරෙනවද කියලත් බලාගන්න පුළුවනි . මේක තවම අත්හදා බලමින් පවතින එකක් ,එතින් අපිට නොමිලේ තමා  ලැබෙන්නේ.ඒ වගේම මේක ගූගල් ඇප් සෙන්ටර් එකෙන් අපිට දෙන වැඩසටහනක් නිසා බයවෙන්න දෙයක් නැහැ වැඩ කරන විදිහනම් හරිම ලේසි ,මුලින්ම මේක ඉන්ස්ටෝල් කරගන්න

 එතකොට ඔන්න ඔයවගේ එකක් එයි ,එතන ඔය මයික් එකක් වගේ එකක් තියන්නේ අන්න ඒක ක්ලික් කරලා ඔයාල කියන දෙයක් කියන්න ,,එයිට එහා තියන බාසාව තෝරාගන්න තැන ඔයාලට ඕන බාසාව තෝරලා දෙන්න සිංහල නැතුව අනිත් හැම එකක්ම තියනවා ...එයිට පස්සේ ඔයා කියපු දේ පහල තියන හිස් තැන වදිනවා ඔයාලට ඕනනම් ඒක කොපි කරලා ඕන තැනකට දමාගන්න    හරිනේ ,,,,,,,,,,එහෙනම්  ඔන්න කරලා ම බලන්නකෝ  ආආ,,,,, අමතක උනානේ කියන්න ,,මේක ඕෆ්ලයින් වැඩකරනවා හොදේ ....

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ඔයාල හොදට බැලුවොත් හොයාගන්න පුළුවන් මේක ගූගල් එක්ස්ටෙන්ෂන් වල තියනවා කැමතිනම් මම ඔය දාල තියන ලින්ක් එකෙන් ගිහින් ගන්න launch app කියන ඒක ක්ලික් කලාම මේක  ගූගල් ක්‍රෝම් ඒකට එකතු වෙනවා

Password successfully changed skype email scam [Phishing Attack]

Password successfully changed skype email scam [Phishing Attack] Attacker find a smart trick to theft people's skype password, for this attackers send an email with this subject Password Successfully changed. Obviously, you can't prevent your self to open this email, while in actually, you can't changed your skype account password and you followed the emailrestore password link, which leads you to Skype Phishing Page and ask to submit your current details on the phishing page. Below is the Skype Password successfully Changed Phishing Email, The email looking very legitimate because attackers are using same formating with skype logos. But don't be trap on their attack, Skype never ask you to restore password on their password changed email, below isoriginal skype password successfully changed email. Check the differences between both original and fake emails and you can easily understand the intentions of attackers, means steal skype password. What to Do? Here, I am not saying ignore this email. By checking above screenshot you have enough idea that skype never asked you for your password via email. If you received this type of malicious email or want to change the password/restore password then go to direct skype website and then followed the necessary steps, instead of any other email link. For more information about the skype security you can check the skype Security page for Protecting your online safety, security and privacy. [via: Hoax-slayer]

the difference among the Android OS (from 2.0 to 4.0)?

The difference among the Android OS (from 2.0 to 4.0)?

Android has a lot of great features, including customization, open development, and tons of devices to choose from. One thing that’s a problem though is something called fragmentation. Fragmentation means that instead of most Android devices running the same basic operating system software, there are many, many versions. So which Android version is best and what should you avoid?

It’s pretty simple:

(The higher the number, the more recent the version of Android. The codename (the words in parentheses) is a name Google assigns each version and is named after a snack)

Below Android 2.3: (Froyo, Eclair, Donut) Avoid it like the plague. While there is nothing inherently wrong with lower versions, the ones below 2.3 won’t support many modern applications. Besides, you don’t want to spend money on something already so far out of date.

Android 2.3: (Gingerbread) With a redesigned UI and support for integrated social networking and voice over IP calling, this is the lowest version of android I’d accept. This version includes 2.3, 2.3.x (x represents small improvements like 2.3.3)

Android 3.0: (Honeycomb) This version of android features another redesigned UI, primarily focused on tablet computers. This version also added USB support for plug-in devices like keyboards, joysticks and other devices. This version includes Android 3.0/3.1/3.2.x (once again, x represents small improvements like 3.2.6).

Android 4.0: (Ice Cream Sandwich) This is the latest version of Android, and includes an improved UI, optimized dual and quad core processor support. This is the version of Android you want, as it offers the latest Android experience. This version includes Android 4.0.x (x represents small improvements like 4.0.1).

Check with your device manufacturer to see if they offer any upgrades for the version of Android you have installed on a device. HTC and Samsung both have been pretty good about offering upgrades when possible, but the latest versions of Android can usually only be found on the newest hardware as many lower cost device manufactures see no benefit in offering free upgrades once the product’s replacement is out.

Fine art nature photography

Backcountry Gallery

Backcountry Gallery

So, ready to shoot some fall color are ya? Not so sure where to start? Well, take a gander at the 10 tips below and you’ll be well on your way to snagging yourself some wall hangers!

1. Timing is EVERYTHING!

I’ve said it before, but it’s even more important for fall color – shoot when your subject looks best! A quick Google search for “Fall Color Report” will provide an avalanche of links with helpful information. I personally like both the Weather Channel’s  fall color report and the Foliage Report website.

Just FYI - Sometimes I find that the best colors seem to be just a day or two after what the websites list as “Peak Color”. Not sure why, but (again, sometimes) it seems like their “peak color” still has a lot of green foliage in it – I like to try and get as many reds and oranges as I can, so I wait juuuussst a bit (again – usually a day or two – hesitate too long and you’ll miss it – D’oh!).

Another big thing to look for is a “leaf drop” map. You know you still have time if there’s peak color but LOW leaf drop. On the other hand, you know you’re missing out if there’s moderate to high leaf drop with peak color. The Foliage Report site mentioned above has maps for both color and leaf drop and is exceedingly helpful.

For this shot I had to keep checking for over a week before the trees were “ripe”!

One word of caution – strong winds and rainstorms are not your friend. If you have a place in mind and you’re waiting for the right moment to pounce with your camera, it’s always a good idea to watch the weather for the area you’re planning to photograph. I’ve timed trips for perfect fall color – only to have all the leaves scattered before I arrive.

2. Use a Polarizing filter.

This is my secret weapon for getting great fall color (and great color in general). A lot of people think of a polarizer as a filter that makes blue skies bluer (LOL – the only thing I don’t use it for), but its main purpose it to take away reflections.

Even though you normally don’t notice it, vegetation - leaves in particular – tend to reflect a lot of light. When you photograph this reflection, it “masks” the color of the object under it. By removing the reflection, you allow the true color to show through – you know, like all those brilliant reds, yellows, and oranges.

To see a real world example, you needn’t go any further than a pair of polarized sunglasses. We’ve all been driving along in the car and did the whole “with and without” sunglasses thing. Polarized sunglasses always seem to make the colors pop – and it’s all because they eliminate the little reflections present on leaves (and rocks, vegetation, etc).

Oh, and no – there really isn’t a photoshop way to duplicate the effect no matter what you may have read on the internet. If you photograph the reflection instead of removing it with a polarizer, you never captured the underlying color information to begin with, so no way to recover it.

3. The color isn’t (usually) the subject.

A big mistake people make when shooting fall color is getting all caught up in the color and forgoing everything else.

Hey, I’ve been there and done that myself – only to be disappointed when I reviewed the images on the computer. So, nowadays I tend to treat color more as an added element of the photo instead of the end all and be all.

So, my #1 job when seeking out fall color shots is to find a really great scene first – and then try to setup a composition that uses the colorful vegetation to enhance what would have been a great photo even withoutthe color.

Had I been there in summer, I would have done the same composition – autumn just added some color:

4. Wet leaves are AMAZING!

Sure, shooting on a nice, sunny day can be fun, but you’re far more likely to find me trudging through the woods looking for fall lanscapes in wet, foggy, or drizzly conditions.

Why?

No, no, it’s not because I’m a bad weather masochist or anything. Ever pick up a colorful rock from a beach that’s been in the water? Ever notice it doesn’t look so hot after it’s dried off? Same thing applies to leaves. Shoot ‘em when they’re wet, add a polarizer, and you’ll find yourself cranking the saturation slider DOWN in photoshop!

5. Shoot under cloud cover.

I know, another blow to sunny days, but the soft, diffused light that an overcast sky provides can really give you some incredible colors. A bright sunny day can easily overcome the punchy colors your trying so hard to capture (and even a polarizer can be hard pressed to save you), whereas an overcast day allows for a larger palette of subtle colors to come through.

You know, more of a moody photo than one that smacks you across the face and yells “SUNNY DAY!!!”

This, like many of of the shots in this article, is under soft cloud cover

6. Get great sunlight.

Of course, there’s always room for some sunlight – you just need to leverage it to your advantage.

First, start off when the sun is low – the “golden hour” that’s often mentioned in photographic circles. We’re talking one hour after sunrise and one hour before sunset. The angle of the light is much better, rendering textures that a high sun conceals. The light is also much warmer in color, augmenting those warm colors in the foliage and causing ‘em to pop even more.

Look for compositions where you can showcase the light. In conditions like this, I’m usually looking for side light options or even backlight opportunities.  (Backlight can really make the colors of the leaves pop!)

Keep in mind that no matter what you’re trying to photograph, I very seldom (read: almost never) come across a scene that looks better at mid-day – those first and last hours of light will, 99% of the time, make your subjects look better than mid-day light ever could.

7. Look for color contrasts.

Another great piece of advice is to keep an eye out for color contrasts. A patch of yellow trees in a sea of evergreens, a single red leaf on a mossy log, or even a green tree in a batch of red ones.

The yellow leaves stand out against the deep greens in this photo

8. Remember to try different focal lengths!

When it comes to fall colors, it’s tempting to try to include everything you see. However, wide angle isn’t the only tool in your arsenal.

Try all the focal lengths at your disposal – as well as varying distances from your subjects. Maybe a closeup of a red leaf is more compelling than the entire tree. Perhaps a wide angle of a stream is just right. Or maybe zooming in on a group of trees on a hillside makes the best photo.

My advice it to use your lens to include everything that adds to your photo and crop out everything that doesn’t. Look at every part of your composition and decide if that area is adding to the shot – or taking away from it. Let the landscape dictate your focal length.

9. Try adding water

OK, I’m a waterholic and I freely admit it. I love flowing water in my shots and I happily use it with fall color every chance I get.

From flowing streams, to lakesides, to waterfalls, I’m game. In most cases, I’m still taking the exact same shot I would have otherwise captured, I’m just using fall color to enhance the scene.

This stream in the Smokies just begged for a photo!

Also, keep an eye out for fall color reflected in the water. Sometimes the reflection combined with a good subject can be pretty magical.

10. Don’t forget the critters!

Most mammals are looking their best in fall, so make sure you take advantage of it. Naturally, you don’t have total control of where you’re going to find an animal, but I promise you, they do sometimes find themselves surrounded by fall colors.

So, in addition to your wide angle, grab that telephoto and see if you can get a critter in the colors!

Sometimes, they do cooperate!

There ya go – happy shooting and maybe I’ll see you out there!

 Fine art nature photography by Steve Perry

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