GOOGLE PHONE AVAILABLE ON FIRST WEEK OF JAN 2010 FOR $530

Thursday, December 31, 2009
With the information obtained from a internet, the Nexus One will be sold unlocked on a Google website for $530




he phone will work on GSM cellphone networks and will be offered at a subsidised price of $180 in the US by fourth-ranked carrier T-Mobile with a two-year talk and data contract costing $80 a month.

The Nexus One will be the first device to be branded and sold directly by Google. 

Google is expected to officially announce the phone's release at a media event Jan 5, and make the device available to customers on the same day.

KRENTO, A 3D APP TOOL FOR WINDOWS

Thursday, December 24, 2009
Krento is an utility to launch a application on Windows with a 3D UI.





Its easy to use:

  • Download and install the app, and it parks in your system tray.
  • Windows + C or right-clicking the tray icon to bring it up.
  • Adding your favorite apps is as easy as dragging shortcuts onto a block.(which Krento refers to as stones)
  •  You can also create different application sets
  • To launch an app, just click the stone - or press alt + F# (to open Chrome, for example, I'd press alt + F6).
 Krento uses practically no memory or CPU, and it's also skinnable. Its actually Light-weighted with low graphics.


Download the tool below:


WORLD'S THINNEST TV PANEL BY LG

After the recent announcement relate to 3D multitude, LG is drawing the attention of world by its brand new TV panel. The surprise element is, its the World's thinnest TV panel.


The world's thinnest TV pannel lengths just 2.6mm or 0.1mm thick . It breaks the record set by Samsung of about 3.9mm thick.


LG is able to acheive it by the use of an edge-lit LED backlight ,a new optical film and a few other techniques whic his gonna be discussed on CES.


The prototype panel offers a 120Hz refresh rate and weights under 8.8 pounds, making it ideal for wall-mounted TV.

Just look at this picture and imagine how thin it is...





THE GOOGLE PHONE NEXUS ONE REVILED

Sunday, December 13, 2009
Google placed its foot on smart phone market to compete iPhone. 

Google phone is apparently called as the "Nexus one".Google Phone= iPhone+ a little extra screen+Scroll Wheel. It has a Great Touch screen and Android.



There is no information regarding the specifications and apps in it.And not surprisingly, pictures of the device are starting to hit the web.Here is the rare picture of how the Google Phone will look like.



GET GOOGLE WAVE INVITATION

Thursday, December 10, 2009
GOOGLE WAVE INVITATION GIVE AWAY

I got my Google wave account by the previous month and i am now with 24 invitations left remaining. So, i like to give away all my invitations to my fellow geeks, techsavvy's and googlers.



Who ever needs a Google wave invitation, post your request with your email id in the comments.




DOWNLOAD ALL YOUR FILES FROM GOOGLE DOCS



Finnaly, Google has made it easy to downlaod all the files from Google Docs with ulk donwloads.


It's a logical feature to offer with any online service. Now, there is a limit - 2GB - but that ought to cover just about all your Docs data unless you have some uber-massive presentations stored there. Google figures it's about enough room for 100,000 files or so.

The feature includes  single download of file, bulk downloads, etc.,

USTREAM LIVE VIDEO BROADCASTER APP FOR IPHONE


USTREAM  finally got into the app for iphone to provide the live stream video viewer. 


Before is Qik app where its video uploads weren't live. Ustream video works over 3G and WiFi  and included wit lot of features.You can see the chat about your video, and share it over Facebook and Twitter. 

You can check out Ustream Live Broadcaster for free in the App Store.

DOWNLOAD GOOGLE CHROME FOR MAC

Wednesday, December 09, 2009
Google has finally released its Chrome Browser for  Mac OS.

Chrome is ultra-fast -- it even feels a little bit faster than the developer previews we've been testing -- and seems on par with Safari and Firefox in terms of compatibility with most sites. It passes the Acid3 test and handles HTML5 audio and video quite smoothly.

Download the Chrome Browser For MAC here:



Microprocessor Manufacturing

Tuesday, December 08, 2009
HOW A MICROPROCESSOR CHIP IS BEEN MANUFACTURED.


A Microprocessor is the most complex manufactured product on earth. In fact, it takes hundreds of steps and only the most important ones have been visualized in this picture story.


SAND TO SEMICONDUCTOR CHIP[MICROPROCESSOR]:

 

Sand. Made up of 25 percent silicon, is, after oxygen, the second most abundant chemical element that's in the earth's crust. Sand, especially quartz, has high percentages of silicon in the form of silicon dioxide (SiO2) and is the base ingredient for semiconductor manufacturing.


 
After procuring raw sand and separating the silicon, the excess material is disposed of and the silicon is purified in multiple steps to finally reach semiconductor manufacturing quality which is called electronic grade silicon. The resulting purity is so great that electronic grade silicon may only have one alien atom for every one billion silicon atoms. After the purification process, the silicon enters the melting phase. In this picture you can see how one big crystal is grown from the purified silicon melt. The resulting mono-crystal is called an ingot.
 
A mono-crystal ingot is produced from electronic grade silicon. One ingot weighs approximately 100 kilograms (or 220 pounds) and has a silicon purity of 99.9999 percent.
  
The ingot is then moved onto the slicing phase where individual silicon discs, called wafers, are sliced thin. Some ingots can stand higher than five feet. Several different diameters of ingots exist depending on the required wafer size. Today, CPUs are commonly made on 300 mm wafers.

 

Once cut, the wafers are polished until they have flawless, mirror-smooth surfaces. Intel doesn't produce its own ingots and wafers, and instead purchases manufacturing-ready wafers from third-party companies. Intel’s advanced 45 nm High-K/Metal Gate process uses wafers with a diameter of 300 mm (or 12-inches). When Intel first began making chips, it printed circuits on 50 mm (2-inches) wafers. These days, Intel uses 300 mm wafers, resulting in decreased costs per chip.



The blue liquid, depicted above, is a photo resist finish similar to those used in film for photography. The wafer spins during this step to allow an evenly-distributed coating that's smooth and also very thin.

 
At this stage, the photo-resistant finish is exposed to ultra violet (UV) light. The chemical reaction triggered by the UV light is similar to what happens to film material in a camera the moment you press the shutter button.

Areas of the resist on the wafer that have been exposed to UV light will become soluble. The exposure is done using masks that act like stencils. When used with UV light, masks create the various circuit patterns. The building of a CPU essentially repeats this process over and over until multiple layers are stacked on top of each other.

A lens (middle) reduces the mask's image to a small focal point. The resulting "print" on the wafer is typically four times smaller, linearly, than the mask's pattern.





 
In the picture we have a representation of what a single transistor would appear like if we could see it with the naked eye. A transistor acts as a switch, controlling the flow of electrical current in a computer chip. Intel researchers have developed transistors so small that they claim roughly 30 million of them could fit on the head of a pin.
 
After being exposed to UV light, the exposed blue photo resist areas are completely dissolved by a solvent. This reveals a pattern of photo resist made by the mask. The beginnings of transistors, interconnects, and other electrical contacts begin to grow from this point.


 

The photo resist layer protects wafer material that should not be etched away. Areas that were exposed will be etched away with chemicals.
 
After the etching, the photo resist is removed and the desired shape becomes visible.


 
After the etching, the photo resist is removed and the desired shape becomes visible.
 
Through a process called ion implantation (one form of a process called doping) the exposed areas of the silicon wafer are bombarded with ions. Ions are implanted in the silicon wafer to alter the way silicon?i these areas conduct electricity. Ions are propelled onto the surface of the wafer at very high velocities. An electrical field accelerates the ions to a speed of over 300,000 km/hour (roughly 185,000 mph).


 

After the ion implantation, the photo resist will be removed and the material that should have been doped (green) now has alien atoms implanted.
 

 
This transistor is close to being finished. Three holes have been etched into the insulation layer (magenta color) above the transistor. These three holes will be filled with copper, which will make up the connections to other transistors.
 
The wafers are put into a copper sulphate solution at this stage. Copper ions are deposited onto the transistor through a process called electroplating. The copper ions travel from the positive terminal (anode) to the negative terminal (cathode) which is represented by the wafer.


 
The copper ions settle as a thin layer on the wafer surface.
 
The excess material is polished off leaving a very thin layer of copper.


 
 
Multiple metal layers are created to interconnects ( wires) in between the various transistors. How these connections have to be “wired” is determined by the architecture and design teams that develop the functionality of the respective processor (for example, Intel’s Core i7 processor). While computer chips look extremely flat, they may actually have over 20 layers to form complex circuitry. If you look at a magnified view of a chip, you will see an intricate network of circuit lines and transistors that look like a futuristic, multi-layered highway system.
 
This fraction of a ready wafer is being put through a first functionality test. In this stage test patterns are fed into every single chip and the response from the chip monitored and compared to "the right answer." 
  
After tests determine that the wafer has a good yield of functioning processor units, the wafer is cut into pieces (called dies).




 
After tests determine that the wafer has a good yield of functioning processor units, the wafer is cut into pieces (called dies).



This is an individual die, which has been cut out in the previous step (slicing). The die shown here is a die of an Intel Core i7 processor.

 
The substrate, the die, and the heatspreader are put together to form a completed processor. The green substrate builds the electrical and mechanical interface for the processor to interact with the rest of the PC system. The silver heatspreader is a thermal interface where a cooling solution will be applied. This will keep the processor cool during operation.


A microprocessor is the most complex manufactured product on earth. In fact, it takes hundreds of steps and only the most important ones have been visualized in this picture story
 


During this final test the processors will be tested for their key characteristics (among the tested characteristics are power dissipation and maximum frequency).
 

Based on the test result of class testing processors with the same capabilities are put into the same transporting trays. This process is called "binning". Binning determines the maximum operating frequency of a processor, and batches are divided and sold according to stable specifications.



 

The manufactured and tested processors (again Intel Core i7 processor is shown here) either go to system manufacturers in trays or into retail stores in a box. Many thanks to Intel for supplying the and photos in this picture story. Check out Intel's site for full size images of this entire process. 
 
 
 

GOOGLE CHROME EXTENSIONS

Sunday, December 06, 2009
GOOGLE CHROME EXTENSION IS ".CRX"


Like WINDOWS, LINUX and other OS, Google Chrome OS has its own extension named ".crx". The Google Chrome Extensions are utilities which provide support to Chrome OS and enhances it in many ways. The real way to play with Google Chrome OS is to use its Extensions..




So here we go..


LIST OF EXTENSIONS:


Gmail Compose: Click here to Download
It quickly allows you to compose an email through your Gmail account, and works instantly and with a single click.  

Perform a search from Wikipedia, Yahoo, Amazon, Google, and more with the QuickSearch extension. QuickSearch provides searching on your choice of search engine, right from the Chrome browser, and also enables you to customize it to the search engine of your choice. 

Google Tasks for Chrome:Click here to Download
This simple-to-use extension gives you full control over your tasks from the Browser and provides synchronization with your Gmail task list.


Chrome IE Tab:Click here to Downlaod
The Chrome IE Tab extension allows you to run IE from within a tab in Chrome enabling you to display such web pages without leaving Chrome.


Bubble-Translate: Click here to Download
 The extension uses Google Translate for in-line translations. How it works: After installation, go to the plug-in options, chose your desirable language, shortcut & theme. A small icon will show up in the URL address bar. Select text, then click the icon (or use one of the shortcuts suggested in the setting), and the tool tip is automatically displayed.


Chromereader: Click here to Download
Chromereader provides one-click subscription to blogs and websites that you like.


A really nicely done extension is Fittr, which adds some helpful features to Flickr pictures.

Chrome-Metrist:Click here to Download
A Twitter client for Chrome.

It allows you to easily save a bookmark to Delicious, see all of your bookmarks, and get quick access to your Delicious inbox.

Google Wave Checker: Click here to Download
Google Wave Checker is very similar to the Wave Notifier addon for FireFox, it simply notifies you about any unread Waves you have. Here’s an interesting stat: So far 11,446 people downloaded Google Chrome Wave Checker, compared to 23,539 on FireFox -  and most Chrome users do not use extensions yet.  

Jamendo Radio: Click here to Download
he Jamendo Radio extension enables you to listen to music from your Browser like never before. Forget about Google’s 30sec-music, Jamendo  you hours of free music. 



FRING FOR MOBILE, IPHONE AND ITOUCH

FRING is a mobile internet community and communication service that allows friends to connect, share experiences and enhance their online communities together.




Fring  combines your multiple IM contacts into one dynamic profile, which shows each friend’s current availability at a quick glance and enables interaction, all directly from this combined mobile profile. Fring is a mobile chat service that's available on a lot of devices and allows for both IM and voice chat. Recently, the folks at Fring have stepped up their game and started to offer mobile video chat, too, which leads to their big announcement this week: now you can video chat on your iPhone or iPod Touch

 

 

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