Mar 03

New iPad may be sold from March 16th.

Apple has already issued invitations for one new product launch on March 7th. And everyone believe it will be next generation iPad. And the open date of Apple new retail store may mean new iPad will begin to sell on March 16th.

Apple new retail store in Houston Highland Village has change its opening date to March 16. And usually Apple retail store opens on Saturday. People believe it’s for the sales of new iPad.

Apple has done same in iPad 2. iPad 2 was announced on March 2nd of 2011 and it began to sell on March 11th of 2011, 9 days later. And the day interval between March 7th and March 16th is also 9 days.

Mar 02

tablet computer help government to save 50 thousand printing papers every year.

Vancouver municipal tried iPad from this Jan and found they had saved 40% printing papers during the past two months. So they decided to transfer to iPad in this Spring. All the meetings, trainings and application audit procedures will be replaced by iPad without paper.

This proposal comes from Jack Burkman, one former technology executive, and he found except environmental protection, iPad also greatly improves the office efficiency. officials who used BlackBerry said it’s easier to send email through iPad than BlackBerry. And the saving of using iPad to replace BlackBerry is about 336 dollars per year which isn’t a small number.

Feb 06

My piano – will to the musician!

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Testgert: LG Optimus black

Androidversion: 2.2.2

Root: No

Modifications: No

My piano is, as the name implies a kind of Pocket piano, namely fr your Smartphone.

While plenty of selection of Klngen, effects, and many other ways, such as for example the recording mode is available with my piano one.

My piano is 6.3 MB big, untersttzt App2SD, and demands the following permissions:

Audio record: Ermglicht of the application to access the path for audio recordings.Vibra control: Ermglicht of the application, the vibrating alert to steuern.uneingeschrnkter Internet access: Ermglicht of an application to establish network sockets.View Wi-Fi status: see Ermglicht of an application, the information about the Wi-Fi status.View network status: display Ermglicht of an application, the status of all networks.

After the start of my piano the piano with a range of one and a half octaves appears directly. The default setting is a Flgels without effects switched to. Fllt directly the surprisingly good sound in the eye after the first strumming on the keys. Clear to which a real Flgels or the sound of a such app will never use enough good keyboards. Anyway, I was a little surprised. The Flgel with included there are a total of 11 Klnge or instruments to choose from:

Piano(Flgel)Pianino (Klavier)E-Piano(Fender) RhodesOrganSynthS BassVibraphonePizzicatoSaxophoneGuitar

All “instruments” are played over the piano keyboard. The Klangqualitten allows generally for all instruments and Klngen see, at least for a Smartphone. Naturally sound all Klnge times more times less to the toys, the Klangqualitt is still better than I expected htte.

Mchte you to change the instrument, so this is quite simply about the button with the piano keys. Through a tip on one of the displayed tools, to change the sound.

There is however also from within, to take their own samples. To gengt a tip on the button with the microphone. Has it already started a sample you can decide in the now appearing window whether you record a new or wants to use the already existing. To play a new sample, it is enough to play the note F on another instrument within displayed 2 seconds. My piano then stores the sample and process it, which all Tonhhen over the keyboard be played you can. My piano stores only a sample between. If you a sample so permanently keep want, must be the Menbutton this ber and “save item” store. Just as a sample can also ber “load item” be loaded. It is quite funny if you even do any Gerusch a flip of the finger or a Sung sound. After my piano has saved the sample, you can play “themselves” over the keyboard. So, my piano can become a small gag. But back to the actual content.

If you switch the instruments still effects to want, which can do so under “Effects” (Menbutton-> effects). You are here for one “Main effects”, on the other hand the “DSP effects” to choose from. Zhlen to the “main effects”

Reset connection echo

and the “DSP effects”

ReverbFlangerChorusEcho.

The effects can be combined to achieve so the save sound.

If you record an own song would like can also piano make this with my. Just on the arrow button to the right of the screen type, making the camera unit is displayed. Through a tip for the Recordingbutton, the recording starts, a hint on the stop button ends the recording. Just as a sample, also a recording can be saved and restored.

Who does not gengt the size of one and a half octaves, which this can change easily in the settings. Lsst settings themselves at my piano much change and customize, which is why I go here a bit it would like. The settings can be reached via the Menbutton and then, under settings.

The first area relates to the user interface. Here, for example, you can disable the tap of a button also appears, the sound should be so versptet. In addition, 6 different piano available skins to choose from, to look at all really Wi. Also can be set here, as already previously, whether you want to display only one and a half or 2 octaves.

In addition to the field for the user interface there the fr’s performance. Attending lsst is among other things set here, whether the notes to sound differently loud with varying pressure polyphony, so how many Tne maximum simultaneously played can and some settings on the DSP effects.

In the last greren the settings area, the area that deals with the technical aspects, the Aufnahmequalitt define attending, as well as various settings bezglich of the possibility to use MIDI of over WiFi, meet. In my opinion a really interesting possibility

Conclusion: My piano is a really wonderful app, that is. Naturally replaced no real instrument but me as an active musician my piano, has excited the app anyway. The Klangqualitten are really convincing fr a Smartphone and the work with us, your own samples and tracks to record make the app just even better. I have a played a sample of the Flgel out and about my piano sounds of the Flgel much the same way as in real. Option, effects to turn to adapt to the sound to the own requirements. My anfnglichen expectations are fully and completely erfllt. My piano is really best for anyone who in between times hold an idea or would like to strum easily so a little.

Feb 06

In the test of Assassin’s creed revelations – part 9

Now you can send the assassins as in brotherhood to various jobs, so that he gets experience points. It is actually just new to get the cities that man free, slowly free from the influence of the Templar and as a result such as ingredients for the bombs or but extra income.

Grew an assassin on level 10 you can assign him a conquered Templar fortress, so that it becomes an assassin festivals. It has done so you can meet a small job along with his young assassins, which ends each time is that you must chase a questionable Templar who infiltrated the respective district. Then you can resend his assassins to travel and increase up to level 15, where you must fulfill an order with him again.

With regard to the Templar festivals, has Ubisoft all effort to increase the challenge of something given. The conquest has become somewhat more difficult than in the predecessor as one now once must – identify the captain by using of Adlerauges without that he noticed one, of course, because he is otherwise usually flees. What is really interesting is but the Templars can also retake the festivals. There is too many guards on the roofs of the way or renovated shops, will increase awareness – and when request is filled, the Templars attack then one of their feasts.

It then follows a Tower Defense mini game in which Ezio must place assassins and barricades to stop the advance of the Knights Templar. A very interesting idea that gives more diversity and dynamics of the entire game; the level of difficulty is located here but from the beginning, relatively high. More so, it has something for Tower Defense games left, because it will run 4 times one of at least 3, in the course of the game on the way.

Multiplayer: Assassinate in a new dimension

Contrary to the opinions of some that Assassin’s creed is a pure single-player game and would have purely from principle in multiplayer no sense make surprised Ubisoft in brotherhood with a highly interesting thought out multiplayer. Granted, at the beginning there was still fairly little maps, modes and characters in brotherhood, but over time was the Brotherhood’sche multiplayer really interesting – unless one has something for the game, of course.

Here’s more on the multiplayer report.

Jan 29

Chronic dev team video of untethered Ios_base::OpenMode shown 5 jailbreak

Chronic Dev-Team: Video von untethered iOS 5 Jailbreak gezeigt

Continue waiting for many interested parties of a Jailbreaks it that an untethered version for Ios_base::OpenMode 5 is released, because after all, just untethered Jailbreaks are very popular. For quite some time there while messages from the iPhone Dev team as well as by the chronic dev team, according to which development teams deal with the search for appropriate exploits, but still no positive news to spread.

Now has pod2g, a member of the chronic dev team, but apparently a solution for an untethered jailbreak for the Apple Ios_base::OpenMode 5 found, which he has packaged as evidence in a video. According to his own statement the jailbreak not only with iOS will 5 be compatible, but also with Apple Ios_base::OpenMode 5.0.1, so that you may enjoy particular attention, when the corresponding jailbreak in a final version as a download is made available.

In the mentioned video has the untethered jailbreak for Ios_base::OpenMode 5 and Ios_base::OpenMode very mature 5.0.1, so that we can hope that the chronic dev team released this in the near future. Unfortunately when pod2g publication planning, especially since you probably the release of Apple Ios_base::OpenMode 5.0.2 would wait to make compatible the untethered jailbreak may also with this operating system, what would be better of course still is at the moment but not yet known.

Source: 9to5mac / image: htaule93 @ Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

Jan 29

AMD Radeon HD 7970 in new Mac Pro planned

 

AMD Radeon HD 7970: In neuem Mac Pro geplant?

Not so long ago Apple has made 10.7.3 the beta version of Mac OS X lion as a download available, has included among others drivers for the new AMD graphics cards with the chipset “Tahiti”. The most powerful model has now released AMD, this is not surprisingly to the AMD Radeon HD 7970, which has also been tested thoroughly.

In the first benchmarks and tests, it has shown that the AMD Radeon HD 7970 is their direken ancestor, the AMD Radeon HD 6970, the fastest graphics card on the market, the new card can to distance between 20 and 60 percent. Also in the fight against the nVidia GeForce GTX 580, the ATI Radeon HD 7970 WINS, in this comparison is the gap between 16 and 31 percent.

The AMD Radeon HD 7970 might be also interesting for Apple, after all this is available Pro may in the new Mac, expected for 2012. Should the case be, then it would be a very good performance at Apple definitely available, after all, there should be the AMD Radeon HD 7970 then probably only in combination with very high-performance processors, for example, Apple could set bridge chips for the new Intel Ivy.

I talked with Kreg Snit, who has just successfully developed one cool software called <a href=http://www.ipadconvertersoft.com/dvdtoipad.html>DVD to iPad</a> which claimed to be the fastest conversion program available in the market. He told me his developing experience with AMD Radeon 7970 was it’s one cool card which can highly improve Mac’s visual performance.

 

 

 

Jan 29

Apple IOS in many segments on the rise

Apple iPad: In vielen Segmenten auf dem Vormarsch

This is that Apple’s IOS is the world’s most successful Tablet PC, has long been known and therefore not surprising. However, a new statistic of IDG shows that this is iPad in many segments on the rise and replaces there several other products. Especially in the business segment that seems Apple IOS on getting approval to come.

Among other things this is iPad as mentioned also in the business sector always popular, where now about 19 percent of all iPad users completely without a notebook, because the iPad replaces it very well. In the field of the users, only 16 percent of users abandon on their laptop as long as IOS to use her for this. The Apple appears whole but the ideal complement to other devices to be iPad, after all, many users stated that it has replaced IOS some other devices.

Laptops are also the ones to suffer, 54 percent of those polled look at IOS ye as a partial replacement for a laptop. After smartphones follow with 43 percent of the vote, desktop computer with 33 per cent, TVs also 33 percent and mp3 player with 31 percent. Thus the most respondents put it, to take advantage of the Apple, so just to be able to cover a wide range of areas with a further Device IOS.

Source: 9to5mac / image: Robert Scoble @ Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

Jan 29

ezPDF reader – a PDF reader of the upper class

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-HTC desire with 2.3.7 (root and custom ROM)

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The Appbersicht is roughly divided into four tabs:

-My docs: here is a gewhnlicher file browser, with which the PDF files opened be can. Also, there is still a search and literal features of a Dateiexplorers (e.g. leaving, copying). Fri faster opening of the files it is possible to set a home directory that is displayed after you start the app.

-Recent: as the name suggests you can view all PDF files in the “Recent” tab, which are most recently opened. Instead of a normal list view, the developers here use a chic Bcherregal that the whole equal better look lsst. The “book cover” here is the first page of the file.

All PDF: The Horseman “All PDF” keeps a list of all folders prepared in PDF are files. A tap on the folder name, all files close to bottom out and from the list view ausgewhlt can be.

-Web docs: also an interesting feature is hidden, because from here can you files from a URL or from Google Docs Open! Everything that works beautifully, perhaps wre a dropbox support imaginable.

But now to the essential function: viewing PDF files!

There is actually not so much to say: addition to the features literal link such as weiterblttern or zoom, “ezPDF” still available:

Markings (circles, Kstchen, ink drawing, arrows, text, Bilder…)-Zoom tool direct selection bookmarks full-text search tags export/import night mode-complete conversion to text

But not all features and options are, the angewhlt are you can!

Also erwhnenswert are want the Multitouch gestures, Erklrung I just quote from the Appbeschreibung

-5-point-tap: annotation tool on or off

-4-point-tap: notification bar on or off

-3-point-tap: PDF view or text reflow view

-2-point-tap: reduces the page to fit the width when enlarged

-1-point-tap: toggles menu on or off

Kulturforum is naturally that the used Gert of up to five touch points on the display untersttzt. My desire to process, for example, only up to two points – on Iconia A500 it is, however, without any problems.

The settings are bulging gefllt and provide the night mode features, such as for example scrolling with the Lautstrketaste, Weiterbltter effects, treating hyperlinks, settings fr and and and…

Conclusion: The number of functions in the “ezPDF reader” are virtually berwltigend. I miss nothing really – all important things are auszufllen option available, so the treatment of links, forms, opening of online files and natrlich the insertion of own comments. Can playback of video / audio files and reading of the text is no problem and the Multitouch gestures work without problems.