Thursday, 12 December 2013

Mozilla Firefox is a fast, light and tidy open source web browser. At its public launch in 2004 Mozilla Firefox was the first browser to challenge Microsoft Internet Explorer’s dominance. Since then, Mozilla Firefox has consistently featured in the top 3 most popular browsers globally. The key features that have made Mozilla Firefox so popular are the simple and effective UI, browser speed and strong security capabilities. The browser is particularly popular with developers thanks to its open source development and active community of advanced users.
Easier Browsing
Mozilla put of a lot of dev resources into creating a simple but effective UI aimed at making browsing quicker and easier. They created the tab structure that has been adopted by most other browsers. In recent years Mozilla has also focused on maximizing browsing area by simplifying toolbar controls to just a Firefox button (which contains settings and options) and back/forward buttons. The URL box features direct Google searching as well as an auto predict/history feature called Awesome Bar. On the right side of the URL box there are bookmarking, history and refresh buttons. To the right of the URL box is a search box which allows you to customize your search engine options. Outside of that a view button controls what you see below the URL. Next to that you have the download history and home buttons.
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Mozilla Firefox boasts impressive page load speeds thanks to the excellent JagerMonkey javascript engine. Start up speed and graphics rendering are also among the quickest in the market. Firefox manages complex video and web content using layer-based Direct2D and Driect3D graphics systems. Crash protection ensures only the plugin causing the issue stops working, not the rest of the content being browsed. Reloading the page restarts any affected plugins. The tab system and Awesome Bar have been streamlined to launch/get results very quickly too.
Security
Firefox was the first browser to introduce a private browsing feature which allows you to use the internet more anonymously and securely. History, searches, passwords, downloads, cookies and cached content are all removed on shutdown. Minimizing the chances of another user stealing your identity or finding confidential information. Content security, anti-phishing technology and antivirus/antimalware integration ensures your browsing experience is as safe as possible.
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One of the best features of the Firefox UI is customization. Simply right click on the navigation toolbar to customize individual components or just drag and drop items you want to move around. The inbuilt Firefox Add-ons Manager allows you to discover and install ad-ons within the browser as well as view ratings, recommendations and descriptions. Thousands of customizable themes allow you to customize the look and feel of your browser. Site authors and developers can create advanced content and applications using Mozilla’s open source platform and enhanced API.

Wednesday, 11 December 2013

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Sunday, 8 December 2013

Get A HUD For Your Smartphone’s GPS

Posted by Dead Skull on 11:43 with No comments
If you would like to have a futuristic navigation HUD on the windshield of your ride, then you should check out Sygic’s GPS app!  Almost all smartphones offer free GPS navigation nowadays, but unless you have a smartphone mounted to your dashboard, looking down at your phone for navigation can be awkward, not to mention, potentially very dangerous.
Sygic HUD
The very popular GPS navigation app Sygic, has a solution: Reflect the navigation data onto your windshield. Sygic is launching a heads-up display (HUD) interface on its iPhone and Android applications, with no external gadgets required.
You just need to place your smartphone underneath your windshield and the high-contrast HUD interface on Sygic’s app will be reflected on it, giving it the illusion that your car has a futuristic, smart windshield. The app highlights the most important navigation information, like the distance to your next turn, and it works in combination with the app’s voice navigation system.
Garmin has released a $150 gadget that enables a similar HUD feature on its $50 mobile app. Sygic’s HUD, in comparison, weighs in at just $5 (plus extra for more features).
Sygic is one of the most popular navigation apps in the world, with 33 million users and $18 million in revenue this year.  The Bratislava, Slovakia based Company has been around since 2004 and while the company has a 3 million+ user base in the U.S. it is not as well known as other GPS solutions fromTomTom and Garmin or the free apps from Apple and Google.
HUD
Unlike most GPS apps, Sygic downloads its maps onto your phone so you can use its navigation features even without a cellular connection, then the app just relies on your phone’s GPS. The company also differs from many of its competitors by taking a freemium approach: Basic navigation is free, but you have to pay $29 for voice guidance and other premium features. Michal Stencl, Sygic’s founder and CEO, said in a recent interview, “We have a different strategy [from competitors], our business model is very transparent…We don’t want to collect info about the users, that’s why we ask for micropayments.”
All in all, for only a few bucks you can get a pretty cool piece of tech for your transport.  I for one, may just give it a try.
The U.S. law that currently prohibits amateur gunsmiths from producing undetectable guns, is due to expire on Monday, 9 December.
There is much speculation as to what will happen because the lawmakers are struggling to renew the law for yet another time. The Undetectable Firearms Act was passed in 1988 due to fears of functioning plastic or ceramic guns. Since then it has been renewed twice, once in 1998 and again in 2003. Some people want to extend this law, making it harder for gunsmiths to produce guns like theLiberator.
Liberator plastic 3d printed gun
New York representative Steve Israel is campaigning, not to just reauthorize the law but also to change it. He plans to reintroduce is reform bill just at the time when the House plans to vote on renewing the old one.
He explains his stance saying: “I am a huge fan of 3D printers. I think that they will transform our economy and technology, I just don’t want to make it easier for criminals and terrorists to get guns through metal detectors.”
According to Israel’s spokesperson, his bill requires that two or three major components of a gun be made from metal, steel or some other detectable material.
However this bill is not popular with everyone, with some feeling that an extended law would just regulate hobbyist gun makers or even 3D printing in general.
Cody Wilson, the founder of 3D-printed guns organization Defense Distributed and creator of the Liberator gun said: “The Undetectable Firearms Act was always a kind of a fake law that never really affected anyone’s activity, now it’s just used for bad faith roundabout gun prohibition, just because these people are scared that digital manufacturing makes more people have guns.”
In response Israel said: “That’s just a ridiculous stretch. Nobody is regulating 3D printers in this bill. Nobody is regulating the ability of people to acquire digital blueprints in this bill. All this bill does is to stop, to make it harder for people who want to do us harm to get guns through metal detectors.”
So as the House and Congress both work on bills to reauthorize the Undetectable Firearms Act of 1998, let’s just hope the law doesn’t expire without renewal or reformation. Otherwise anyone would be legally allowed to possess, produce or sell an undetectable 3D printed plastic gun, capable of firing bullets.

Iron Man Suits Coming To US Army

Posted by Dead Skull on 11:37 with No comments
As one of the many fans who watched Iron Man 3 over the last summer, I wondered after leaving the theater how long it would be until someone actually developed a suit based off of the invincible Iron Man armor. Well, it only took me about 6 months to get my answer. Apparently, the US Army is already designing their own version of Tony Stark’s armor. I guess the whole Iron Patriot idea in the movies wasn’t so far fetched after all.
The US Army hopes to create a wearable exoskeleton that can be attached to soldiers before they leave to carry out their marching orders. They are calling this armor TALOS, which stands for Tactical Assault Light Armor Suit. Something tells me the suit will be anything but light.
Iron Man Suits Coming To US Army
Just What All Can This “Iron Man” Armor Do?
To begin with, the Army wants the armor to drastically increase and augment the strength of human soldiers. Lt. Col. Karl Borjes, who serves as a Science Advisor in the US Army, had this to say regarding the armor:
“The requirement is a comprehensive family of systems in a combat armor suit where we bring together an exoskeleton with innovative armor, displays for power monitoring, health monitoring, and integrating a weapon into that…It’s advanced armor. It’s communications, antennas. It’s cognitive performance. It’s sensors, miniature-type circuits. That’s all going to fit in here, too…”
If this armor is successful, soldiers would theoretically be able to walk through gunfire and not be stopped – unless of course a bullet hit a main circuit or something. Surely they will have all those kinks worked out, though.
The Army plans to work with MIT and other organizations to help them perfect this armor. If all goes according to plan, the Army hopes to have the suits ready for battle in 3 years.
It certainly sounds as if the US Army will have a completely different look and feel in the coming decades. Techbeat recently reported that robotic soldiers might very well outnumber human soldiers by 2023, and this news of Iron Man like armor makes that seem like a real possibility.
Whether only certain soldiers will wear the armor in special situations is a question that will have to be answered at a later time. Another question that remains to be answered is if this armor will allow soldiers with physical disabilities to participate in the military, since it would be the suit doing most of the work.
What are your thoughts? Do you think this is a step in the right direction, or is the US Army focusing entirely too much on advanced technology?

Wednesday, 14 August 2013

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Thursday, 1 August 2013

First 3D Printred Rifle Test Fired

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Missed all the controversy surrounding 3D printed weapons and their potentially disastrous effects or not, depending on who you’re asking? Rest assured, for we now have what is believed to be the world’s first 3D printed rifle being successfully test fired.

Well, okay, maybe not 100 percent successfully, given that its barrel split after it fired the first round, but it did fire instead of just blowing up, so that should count for something. The rifle, named the Grizzly, is shown in action in a video posted on YouTube.

First 3D Printed Rifle Test Fired
The video was uploaded by a user named ThreeD Ukulele, who apparently is passionate about creating 3D models of musical instruments and especially, you guessed it, of the ukulele. The clip shows the Grizzly clamped to a workbench and a man, who is presumably the YouTube user, firing it from a safe distance, with a piece of string.
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Tuesday, 23 July 2013

Motorola Moto X first press images leaked

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The press render images for the highly anticipated handset from Motorola are featured above after leaking online, tech site TheUnlockr reports.
as well as rumoured specs of a 720p 4.5-inch display, 1.7GHz dual-core Snapdragon S4 processor, 2 GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage.
According to pocket-lint, Evan Blass - the man behind @evleaks has stated the Moto X is, "Designed not as an early adopter's phone, but instead as an everyman phone, the X is the new Motorola's first attempt to push some serious volume under the new-ish owner Google."
Motorola have sent out press invites this week for a private event in New York on August 1st.
The event for the Moto X, expressed as being "No sSage. No Crowds," will be held in five separate sessions and the news given at the sessions will be released from embargo at 3PM.

It has been rumoured for several months now that Apple is looking to implement the technology. However, the rumours have rarely been backed up by hard facts, until now.
The US Patent and Trademark Office on Wednesday published a patent application filed by Apple. It identifies a way of scanning fingerprints using a sensor that is embedded into a device’s screen.
The technology is based on the work of mobile security firm AuthenTec. Apple acquired the company in July 2012.
The filing suggests that the scanner would be embedded into the LCD display and used as a secondary input method.
In recent months, Apple and the other major smartphone makers have all been requested by US authorities to make their devices less attractive to criminals.
The iPhone 5s is also rumoured to include a faster A6 processor, improved graphics, 2GB of RAM, an upgraded LTE radio and a 12-megapixel camera with dual-LED flash.

Apple buys two mapping companies

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On Thursday, the company bought Locationary, a crowd-sourced local data company. Then on Friday, the company acquired city-navigation app HopStop.
Both companies were bought for an undisclosed sum by the the iPhone maker.
Apple has been criticised in recent months for its weak mapping app Apple Maps. It replaced Google Maps as the standard map app when the company introduced iOS6.Locationary focuses on ensuring that business listing data is accurate. That includes that the business listed is where it says it is, as well as that it is still open.
Its rivals currently acquire business listings from the likes of Yellow Pages and Yelp.
The company likely bought HopStop in order to improve Maps’ navigation and mapping tools.
Apple refused to comment on the acquisition, saying in a statement: “Apple buys smaller technology companies from time to time, and we generally do not discuss our purpose or plans”.

Monday, 22 July 2013

These 3D Printer FFVIICharacters Are Badass

Posted by Dead Skull on 08:51 with No comments
While 3D printers might be coming on leaps and bounds in the quality that they're able to output, we're still a far way off from them becoming the way that most people produce figures or models - because the level of detail just isn't there yet. However, when it comes to late 90s video game characters, 3D printing is more than capable.
Take for example, these fine Final Fantasy VII characters, complete with paintbrush hands and all.


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It's ironic really, that while the battle sequences of the game were far superior in graphical quality and the cut scenes even more so, it's the crude (by modern standards) chararacter models that are most memorable - perhaps because they told the story so well despite their lack of detail.
And it's that lack of detail that lends them perfectly to 3D printing. It would be great to see some larger builds based in the Final Fantasy VII universe. Perhaps a chocobo or one of the weapons?
Really, I would love a set of these. If any of you has a 3D printer, want to hook me up with a few?
These days you get less and less for your money, sadly that seems to also be the case with games. Most current releases retail at extortionately high prices whilst only delivering 8-10 hours of gaming, that’s not exactly bang for your buck. Thankfully there are some quality titles out there that can supply you with literally hundreds of hours of gaming, if you like to get value for money out of your gaming habits (let’s be honest, who doesn’t) then read on.

Monday, 15 July 2013

Google Making Android-powered Gaming Console?

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Although there has been no official confirmation, the Internet is abuzz with reports that software giant Google aims at getting a slice of the hardware market, first by releasing an Android-powered gaming console.
The rumor was first reported by the Wall Street Journal and has been spreading across the world wide web, yet Google refuses to confirm or deny the story, which also mentions plans to develop a smartwatch.

Google Making Android-powered Gaming Console?
The Wall Street Journal cited unnamed sources as saying that besides an Android-powered gaming console and a smartwatch, Google is also planning to release a revamped, improved version of the Nexus Q. The Nexus Q set-top media streaming device was first announced at last year’s I/O conference but was never released for sale.

Mozilla’s Smartphone OS Launches in Spain

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One of the world’s leading Internet browser providers has joined the smartphone business with a new operating system. Mozilla’s smartphone OS was officially released in Spain.
First details about the operating system emerged at the Barcelona Mobile World Congress in February and Mozilla has just released the first two smartphones equipped with the new Firefox operating system.

Mozilla’s Smartphone OS Launches in Spain
The two smartphones, a ZTE Open and an Alcatel OneTouch Fire, are only available in Spain for the time being. Mozilla partnered with Telefonica on the project, which aims at making available a series of more affordable smartphones to the general public.

Google Whitespace Broadband

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Google has been granted official permission to develop its plans in the USA to use portions of the unused television broadcasting spectrum for broadband Internet access.  This method is typically used for remote areas where traditional cable hookups cost far too much money.

White Space Database called “TV white space,” are those unused broadcasting frequencies that have been eyed up in the last several years as a potential way to distribute broadband Internet to users who can’t get it because they live too far away from cities and towns where appropriate communication infrastructure and facilities exist.

Google Whitespace Broadband
Google has been seeking certification from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to become a certified database administrator for those segments of  TV white space across the United States of America.  That final certification from the FCC has now been confirmed as Google’s database of white space has recently been accepted by the commission, according to a post by Alan Norman, principal of Google’s Access team, on the Official Google.org Blog on June 28th 2013.  This certification of Google as a database administrator means that the company will be able to provide information to service providers about which areas of the TV white band will be available for providing Internet use.
Unhappy with your current Internet broadband speed? Well, fingers crossed for this new project to succeed: the European Union and Japan have joined forces to build 100Gbps fiber optic Internet, about 5,000 times faster than the average broadband speed in Europe – 19.7Mbps.
The project is called STRAUSS and is just one of a total of six research projects that the EU and Japan have partnered for.

More details about the six projects were recently unveiled by the European Commission. The partnership is aimed at finding ways to increase the efficiency of data transfer networks, given the massive online data explosion. The trend is expected to continue over the next ten years.

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According to a press release from the European Commission, up to 1.7 million bytes of data are generated worldwide every minute. Moreover, the volume of data traffic has already doubled since last year and is believed to grow 12 fold by 2018, but current networks are not able to keep up with this growth rate.

Garmin Produce Sat-Nav App For Head-Up Display

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The satellite navigation firm Garmin has produced a portable head-up display (HUD), that projects directions directly on to a windscreen.
It works by combining a smartphone and a Garmin app to generate navigation information. The HUD projects directional arrows, distances, current speed and speed limits on to the glass.

Garmin portable head-up sat nav
In order for it to work, the HUD’s reflector lens is attached to the glass of the windscreen. Brighness levels are automatically adjusted so that the information is easy to read both during the day and night.
As well as visual directions, the navigation system also provides voice prompts through either a smartphone speaker or the car’s stereo.
Everybody these days seems to want the latest and greatest in new technology and who could blame them? With a banquet of gadgets on the table, there are so many to choose from; but what is the fascination with touch-screens? Maybe we all watched far too much Star Trek when we were younger (in my case, now).  The problem is that touch-enabled surfaces tend to cost more than their non-touch standard counterparts. Well, it appears as though this trend is no more.


STATINA
A low cost system called STATINA developed by Nanyang Technological University (NTU) relies on the principles of vibration and imaging to track the movements of multiple fingers and of objects to achieve the same thing. With this technology it will be possible to retrofit existing flat-panel TVs and transform them into new, touch sensitive displays, at only a fraction of the cost of a new touch-sensitive display screen.
Most of the 3D printers currently on the market are bulky, hard to carry around and rather slow. So it’s pretty hard to imagine one of these gadgets being able to continue printing upside down or in flight.
But the Bukito, from Deezmaker, can do all this and more: this portable 3D printer is sturdy, fast, very light and affordable, making it a promising addition to the personal-use 3D printing market.

Bukito: The Fast, Travel-Friendly Portable 3D Printer
The Bukito portable 3D printer weighs only six pounds and has a printable area of 5 x 6 x 5 inches.  The device is equipped with sturdy aluminum rails, which make for a very stable printing platform. Due to this fact, the device is able to continue printing even when carried around or turned upside down.

Deezmaker president Diego Porqueras said the printer was specifically designed to be lightweight and stable and therefore appropriate for travel. The device will be ideal for classroom use and can be easily shared between teachers or students, he explained.
DARPA has unveiled a new 6-foot robot named Atlas. Although this robot looks as though it has just stepped off the film-set of Terminator, the 330-pound machine has been designed to help us.

Atlas is a testbed humanoid for disaster response. The Petman soldier robot showed it was possible for a humanoid to do pushups and run on a treadmill, designed to test chemical protection clothing but Atlas goes further than that.




Atlas, DARPA Robot
Not only can it walk and carry things but it can also travel on rough terrain and climb using its hands and feet. Its head has stereo cameras and a laser range finder. Thankfully it is tethered to an off-board, electric power supply; no need to worry about it turning against us then!
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