Monday, October 5, 2009

TECH - WATCH

Abstract

Tech-Watch is the combination of a touch screen cell phone and a watch, so you can key in the phone number on the touch screen, or you can play the MP3, or movies and others. It is a four band GSM cell phone built into a high quality water resistant smart-tech watch and solar powered. This is a fully functional unlocked GSM mobile phone with a 1.5-inch touch screen where you can also watch Movies, Bluetooth, 3G, Wifi ready, with 4GB internal memory and 8GB micro SD card, dual-sim and rich selection of multimedia functions.

Calls are made with the supplied Bluetooth headset or simply use the built-in MIC and speaker to talk/listen directly from the phone. It also has a 5-MegaPixel camera to enjoy taking pictures and videos, and a voice recognition. This model is weatherproof which means it can be used in most weather conditions, its outer casing is made up of shock resistant polyurethane. This Tech-Watch has built-in emails, with 300 SMS and MMS messaging features.

Another exciting feature of this gadget is that it has mapping service application wherein you can view and navigate places you want to check out.

Since we support the campaign conservation of energy, we thought of using the solar energy to charge the cell phone watch instead of using electricity. The straps of the Tech-Watch is made up of materials that absorbs the energy that comes from the sun.

This gadget is great for students, employees, cyclists, computers, and anyone who wants to stop carrying round bulky in their pockets or backpack. Tech-Watch has a very stylish and elegant design so you can wear anywhere you want.




Introduction

Do you want to have a wrist watch that comes with a cell phone’s features, if so, Tech-Watch would be the best choice for you.

We offer you a stylish and user-friendly, and environmental-friendly design and a broad range of features including Bluetooth, camera, touch screen and of course the watch.

There are not many choices for a watch wrist cell phone on today. But Tech-Watch would be the one satisfying your needs.

Thursday, August 27, 2009

VMWare Wrokstation

VMware Workstation is a virtual machine software suite for x86 and x86-64 computers from VMware, a division of EMC Corporation. This software suite allows users to set up multiple x86 and x86-64 virtual computers and to use one or more of these virtual machines simultaneously with the hosting operating system. Each virtual machine instance can execute its own guest operating system, such as Windows, Linux, BSD variants, or others. In simple terms, VMware Workstation allows one physical machine to run multiple operating systems simultaneously. Other VMware products help manage or migrate VMware virtual machines across multiple host machines.

Besides bridging to existing host network adapters, CD-ROM devices, hard disk drives, and USB devices (including USB Isochronous devices such as webcams, microphones etc), VMware Workstation also provides the ability to simulate some hardware. For example, it can mount an ISO file as a CD-ROM, and .vmdk files as hard disks; and can configure its network adapter driver to use network address translation (NAT) through the host machine rather than bridging through it (which would require an IP address for each guest machine on the host network).

VMware Workstation also allows the testing of live CDs without first burning them onto physical discs or rebooting the computer. One can also take multiple successive snapshots of an operating system running under VMware Workstation. Each snapshot allows you to roll back the virtual machine to the saved status at any time. The ability to use multiple snapshots makes VMware Workstation useful as a tool for salespersons demonstrating complex software products, and for developers setting up virtual development or test environments. VMware Workstation includes the ability to designate multiple virtual machines as a team which administrators can then power on and off, suspend, and resume as a single object — making it particularly useful for testing client-server environments.


ADVANTAGES/FUNCTIONS:

1. Rehost Legacy Applications

2. Evaluate and Test Software

3. Develop and Test Multi-tier Configurations and Networks

4. Run Applications in Multiple OS’s

5. Demonstrates complex software applications on a single laptop in a repeatable, reliable manner

6. Create virtual classrooms for education and training run more effective help-desk operations



VMware software provides a completely virtualized set of hardware to the guest operating system. VMware software virtualizes the hardware for a video adapter, a network adapter, and hard disk adapters.
The host provides pass-through drivers for guest USB, serial, and parallel devices. In this way, VMware virtual machines become highly portable between computers, because every host looks nearly identical to the guest. In practice, a system administrator can pause operations on a virtual machine guest, move or copy that guest to another physical computer, and there resume execution exactly at the point of suspension. Alternately, for enterprise servers, a feature called VMotion allows the migration of operational guest virtual machines between similar but separate hardware hosts sharing the same storage. Each of these transitions are completely transparent to any users on the virtual machine at the time it is being migrated.

VMware Workstation, Server, and ESX take a more optimized path to running target operating systems on the host than emulators (such as Bochs) which simulate the function of each CPU instruction on the target machine one-by-one, or dynamic recompilation which compiles blocks of machine-instructions the first time they execute, and then uses the translated code directly when the code runs subsequently. (Microsoft Virtual PC for Mac OS X takes this approach.) VMware software does not emulate an instruction set for different hardware not physically present. This significantly boosts performance,[10] but can cause problems when moving virtual machine guests between hardware hosts using different instruction-sets (such as found in 64-bit Intel and AMD CPUs), or between hardware hosts with a differing number of CPUs. Stopping the virtual-machine guest before moving it to a different CPU type generally causes no issues.

VMware's products use the CPU to run code directly whenever possible (as, for example, when running user-mode and virtual 8086 mode code on x86). When direct execution cannot operate, such as with kernel-level and real-mode code, VMware products re-write the code dynamically, a process VMware calls "binary translation" or BT. The translated code gets stored in spare memory, typically at the end of the address space, which segmentation mechanisms can protect and make invisible. For these reasons, VMware operates dramatically faster than emulators, running at more than 80% of the speed that the virtual guest operating-system would run directly on the same hardware. VMware claims an overhead as small as 3% to 6% for computationally-intensive applications.

VMware's approach avoids some of the difficulties of virtualization on x86-based platforms. Virtual machines may deal with offending instructions by replacing them, or by simply running kernel-code in user-mode. Replacing instructions runs the risk that the code may fail to find the expected content if it reads itself; one cannot protect code against reading while allowing normal execution, and replacing in-place becomes complicated. Running the code unmodified in user-mode will also fail, as most instructions which just read the machine-state do not cause an exception and will betray the real state of the program, and certain instructions silently change behavior in user-mode. One must always rewrite; performing a simulation of the current program counter in the original location when necessary and (notably) remapping hardware code breakpoints.

Although VMware virtual machines run in user-mode, VMware Workstation itself requires the installation of various drivers in the host operating-system, notably to dynamically switch the GDT and the IDT tables.

The VMware product line can also run different operating systems on a dual-boot system simultaneously by booting one partition natively while using the other as a guest within VMware Workstation.


Thursday, July 23, 2009

STORAGE DEVICE



My example of storage device is the ASUS USB-N11 wireless and USB Adaptor.

This Adaptor was made for users who require a convenient way to quickly create a protected wireless network that allows fast data transfers and for users to simply push a button on the adapter then router to create a protected wireless environment without the complicated setup. It is much recommended because it supports a whole range of different operating systems like windows, linux and Mac OS. It is a 802.11n wireless standard that can provide data transfers of up to 5 times faster throughtout 90mbps than 11g standards. The ASUS USB-N11 comes with a WiFi Protected Setup (WPS) button to simplify setup for allowing the users to setup a protected networking environment with ease.


The USB-N11 will support the following formats:

Windows: Windows 2000/XP/Vista 32/64bit versions;
Linux – source code provided for driver build;
MAC: WiFi Utility (Mac 10.3/10.4/10.5) and drivers.

INPUT DEVICE



I chose this as an example for my input device because it is unique.. A trackball with bluetooth? Isn’t it amazing..


Let me introduce to you the Kensington SlimBlade Trackball Mouse with Bluetooth, This is a full-featured laser mouse that allows you to navigate your documents and gives a control when there's no room to move a mouse, then switches to mouse mode with the push of a button. It gives your cursor control in tight spaces and sufaces. Yes, It has a unique scroll ball that provides easy and intuitive 360 degrees scrolling Bluetooth wireless. The Bluetooth connectivity offers a 30 feet of range and it doesn't use up a USB port. The trackball offers an excellent, precise, and smooth motion. The ball can be operated with a mere single finger. You can use this motion to zoom in on images and/or control audio volumes. The trackball proves to be good for general-purposes and for browsing, it might be difficult to be operated for gaming and graphic editing. This trackball is advisable for those professional’s whose working in a big computers like in a power stations and etc.

ATI Radeon RV740 Video Card


ATI Radeon RV740 video card has been kind enough to put the thing through its paces. This is the company's first 40nm video card and while the review should all be taken with a grain of salt -- being "done with beta drivers and an early engineering sample board" -- preliminary results are quite positive. The card performs "fairly close to a Radeon HD 4850," something you don't often hear about in cards retailing for less than a hundred bucks. In fact, the reviewer was so taken by the card's performance at this price point that he predicts that this thing will be responsible for nothing less than "another shift in current mid-range pricing." But don't wait until the April release date to see this thing in action -- hit the read link for the big review.

Friday, July 10, 2009

500GB Micro-holographic Disc




a 500 gigabyte micro-holographic disk, which measures just like the traditional DVD disk. Although the product was created for the archive industry, the company looks forward to sell it to the general customer.

It is worth mentioning that micro-holographic discs outrun the storage capacity even of a Blu-ray disc due to the fact that they store data in 3D instead of pits used on the traditional disc's surface. In recent times the company managed to come up with significant improvements in the new material that considerably expands the amount of light that can be mirrored by the holograms.

With an increase in reflectivity, the storage capacity of the disc increases as well. The new technology will facilitate players to be developed which are backwards compatible with the current technologies such as those of DVD and Blu-ray.