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Posted by : Shekhar™ Thursday, 2 June 2011

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Pen PC - Pen Shaped Miniature Personal Computer
Mozilla Firefox 4 Tweaks
Angry Birds Enter Facebook

Pen PC - Pen Shaped Miniature Personal Computer

Posted: 01 Jun 2011 06:39 AM PDT

Outline

Email claims that attached photographs depict a revolutionary new pen-shaped personal computer that operates via a projected virtual keyboard and monitor.

Brief Analysis

The photographs are genuine but they show only a prototype computer. These devices are not yet available to consumers. It is currently unclear when or if personal computers of this type will become available to the public.

Detailed analysis and references below example.

Example:

I must have one of these!!

Look closely and guess what they could be...

Are they pens with cameras?

Any wild guesses? No clue yet?

Ladies and gentlemen... congratulations!
You've just looked into the future... yep that's right!
You've just seen something that will replace your PC in the near future!!

Here is how it works:

In the revolution of miniature computers, scientists have made great developments with bluetooth technology...

This is the forthcoming computers you can carry within your pockets

This "pen sort of instrument" produces both the monitor as well as the keyboard on any flat surfaces from where you can carry out functions you would normally do on your desktop computer

Can anyone say, "Goodbye laptops!"
Looks like our computers are out of date..again!!

Detailed Analysis:

According to this email forward, a series of attached photographs show a new concept in personal computing - a pen-shaped miniaturized PC that users operate via a virtual monitor and keyboard that the device projects onto any available flat surface. The message suggests that these handy pen-sized computers may be set to replace existing PC's and laptops in the near future.

However, although a conceptual prototype of the "pen" computer was built in 2003, such devices are not yet available to consumers. The prototype device, dubbed the "P-ISM", was a "Pen-style Personal Networking Gadget" created in 2003 by Japanese technology company NEC. The P-ISM was featured at the 2003 ITU Telecom World held in Geneva, Switzerland. An article about the device published on the Wave Report website in 2004 explains:

At ITU Telecom World we got a sample of another view by NEC. It is based on the pen and called P-ISM. This concept is so radical that we went to Tokyo to learn more.

The design concept uses five different pens to make a computer. One pen is a CPU, another a camera, one creates a virtual keyboard, another projects the visual output and thus the display and another a communicator (a phone). All five pens can rest in a holding block which recharges the batteries and holds the mass storage. Each pen communicates wireless, possibly Bluetooth.

A write-up about the P-ISM that was previously available on an NEC website notes:

A Pen-style Personal Networking Gadget Package

It seems that information terminals are infinitely getting smaller. However, we will continue to manipulate them with our hands for now. We have visualized the connection between the latest technology and the human, in a form of a pen. P-ISM is a gadget package including five functions: a pen-style cellular phone with a handwriting data input function, virtual keyboard, a very small projector, camera scanner, and personal ID key with cashless pass function. P-ISMs are connected with one another through short-range wireless technology. The whole set is also connected to the Internet through the cellular phone function. This personal gadget in a minimalistic pen style enables the ultimate ubiquitous computing.

However, the prototype displayed at ITU Telecom World was apparently the only sample that was built and reportedly cost $30,000. Thus, while the prototype may have proved that such technology is feasible, it is currently unclear when - or even if - personal computers of this type will become available to the public. Several years on from the initial launch of the P-ISM conceptual prototype, there seems to be little information available about future plans for such products. Saying "goodbye" to our current laptop computers might therefore be just a tad premature at this point.

While consumers can not yet purchase "pen" computers like the P-ISM, virtual projected keyboards like the ones shown in the photographs are already available from various companies including Lumio and Virtual Devices Inc.

It should be noted that the last two virtual keyboard photographs in the sequence were apparently added later and do not depict the original P-ISM set up.

Mozilla Firefox 4 Tweaks

Posted: 01 Jun 2011 06:16 AM PDT

Instructions:

Open Firefox.
Type about:config in the address bar and press Enter
Click "I'll be careful, I promise!
Apply the following:

HTTP PIPELINING

HTTP is the application-layer protocol that most web pages are transferred with. In HTTP 1.1, multiple requests can be sent before any responses are received. This is known as pipelining. Pipelining reduces page loading times, but not all servers support it.

In the filter bar type network.http.pipelining. Make sure under the value field is says true. If not double-click to set it.

Return to the filter bar and type network.http.pipelining.maxrequests. Double-click this option and set its value to 8.

HTTP PROXY

Go to the filter bar and type network.http.proxy.pipelining. Once it opens double-click it to set it to true.

DNS

IPv6 was designed in part to solve the problem IPv4 will soon be facing: the exhaustion of all possible ip addresses. Mozilla implemented IPv6 support in early 2000, but that support did not receive widespread testing until recently as IPv6-capable OSs and network software/equipment became more common.

One particular bug that has appeared exists not in Mozilla, but in IPv6-capable DNS servers: an IPv4 address may be returned when an IPv6 address is requested. It is possible for Mozilla to recover from this misinformation, but a significant delay is introduced.

Type network.dns.disableIPv6 in the filter bar and set this option to true by double clicking on it.

CONTENT INTERRUPT PARSING

This preference controls whether the application will interrupt parsing a page to respond to UI events. It does not exist by default.

Right-click (Apple users ctrl-click) anywhere in the about:config window and select New and then Boolean from the pop-up menu.

Enter content.interrupt.parsing in the New boolean value pop-up window and click OK.

You will be prompted to choose the value for the new boolean. Select true and click OK.

CONTENT MAX TOKENIZING TIME

Rather than wait until a page has completely downloaded to display it to the user, Mozilla applications will periodically render what has been received to that point. This preference controls the maximum amount of time the application will be unresponsive while rendering pages.

Right-click (Apple users ctrl-click) anywhere in the about:config window and select New and then Integer from the pop-up menu.

Enter content.max.tokenizing.time in the New integer value pop-up window and click OK.

You will be prompted to enter a value. Enter 2250000 and click OK.

CONTENT NOTIFY INTERVAL

This preference specifies the minimum amount of time to wait between reflows. Right-click (Apple users ctrl-click) anywhere in the about:config window and select New and then Integer from the pop-up menu.

Enter content.notify.interval in the New integer value pop-up window and click OK.

You will be prompted to enter a value. Enter 750000 and click OK.

CONTENT NOTIFY ONTIMER

This preference specifies whether to reflow pages at an interval any higher than that specified by content.notify.interval. Right-click (Apple users ctrl-click) anywhere in the about:config window and select New and then Boolean from the pop-up menu.

Enter content.notify.ontimer in the New boolean value pop-up window and click OK.

You will be prompted to choose the value for the new boolean. Select true and click OK.

CONTENT NOTIFY BACKOFFCOUNT

This preference controls the maximum number of times the content will do timer-based reflows. After this number has been reached, the page will only reflow once it is finished downloading. Right-click (Apple users ctrl-click) anywhere in the about:config window and select New and then Integer from the pop-up menu.

Enter content.notify.backoffcount in the New integer value pop-up window and click OK.

You will be prompted to enter a value. Enter 5 and click OK.

CONTENT SWITCH THRESHOLD

The user can interact with a loading page when content.interrupt.parsing is set to true. When a page is loading, the application has two modes: a high frequency interrupt mode and a low frequency interrupt mode. The high frequency interrupt mode interrupts the parser more frequently to allow for greater UI responsiveness during page load. The low frequency interrupt mode interrupts the parser less frequently to allow for quicker page load. The application enters high frequency interrupt mode when the user moves the mouse or types on the keyboard and switches back to low frequency mode when the user has had no activity for a certain amount of time. This preference controls that amount of time. Right-click (Apple users ctrl-click) anywhere in the about:config window and select New and then Integer from the pop-up menu.

Enter content.switch.threshold in the New integer value pop-up window and click OK.

You will be prompted to enter a value. Enter 750000 and click OK.

NGLAYOUT INITIALPAINT DELAY

Mozilla applications render web pages incrementally - they display what's been received of a page before the entire page has been downloaded. Since the start of a web page normally doesn't have much useful information to display, Mozilla applications will wait a short interval before first rendering a page. This preference controls that interval. Right-click (Apple users ctrl-click) anywhere in the about:config window and select New and then Integer from the pop-up menu.

Enter nglayout.initialpaint.delay in the New integer value pop-up window and click OK.

You will be prompted to enter a value. Enter 0 and click OK.

UI SUBMENU DELAY

This preference controls the time a menu takes to open a sub-menu. Right-click (Apple users ctrl-click) anywhere in the about:config window and select New and then Integer from the pop-up menu.

Enter ui.submenuDelay in the New integer value pop-up window and click OK.

You will be prompted to enter a value. Enter 0 and click OK.

PLUGIN EXPOSE FULL PATH

This preference shows full path to plugins in aboutlugins. Right-click (Apple users ctrl-click) anywhere in the about:config window and select New and then Boolean from the pop-up menu.

Enter plugin.expose_full_path in the New boolean value pop-up window and click OK.

You will be prompted to choose the value for the new boolean. Select true and click OK.

BROWSER CACHE MEMORY CAPACITY

When a page is loaded, it can be cached so it doesn't need to be rerendered to be redisplayed. This preference controls the maximum amount of memory to use for caching decoded images and chrome (application user interface elements). Right-click (Apple users ctrl-click) anywhere in the about:config window and select New and then Integer from the pop-up menu.

Enter browser.cache.memory.capacity in the New integer value pop-up window and click OK.

You will be prompted to enter a value. Enter 65536 and click OK.

Angry Birds Enter Facebook

Posted: 01 Jun 2011 02:02 AM PDT

Angry Birds is a puzzle video game developed by Finland-based rovio Mobile. Inspired primarily by a sketch of stylized wingless birds, the game was first released for Apple's iOS in December 2009. Since that time, over 12 million copies of the game have been purchased from Apple's App Store,^[2] which has prompted the company to design versions for other touchscreen-based smartphones, such as those using the Android operating system, among others.

Since then, it has been adapted on various platforms including PC games and mobile java games. Keeping in mind its increasing poplularity, game has been launched on Facebook. Yes, its true!

Lets Play!!