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Sending a tweet is no longer just within the boundary of Earth. On Friday, a NASA astronaut made an history by sending the first ever tweet from outer space.

T.J. Creamer, a Flight Engineer broadcast the following message directly from the International Space Station:

“Hello Twitterverse! We r now LIVE tweeting from the International Space Station — the 1st live tweet from Space! More soon, send your ?s”

The historical  tweet from the Space Stations was made possible when NASA upgrade their software . The upgrade rolled up gave  Space Station astronauts direct  access to the Web.  Prior to this, tweets from astronauts had to be e-mailed down to Earth, then later manually posted ground-based workers.

My wife and I’ve been looking for a good WIFI webcam for a long time already. Most of the available webcam in the market are either needs to be connected to a PC or on a hub. These  are what you call IP cams.

Although there are existing Wifi webcams already in the past 4 years with built-in webserver, they are either bulky or the video rate is slow.

Thanks to technology companies that keeps on improving this small but important gadgets, the latest Wi-Fi video cameras have come a long way.

The latest Wifi webcam from model WIFI-CA100  is exactly the webcam  that my wife and I planning to buy. It has the all features that we are looking for.  It lets you monitor your home, kids, business establishments, or anywhere requiring remote video transmission and supervision.

MODEL: WIFI-CA100

This Wifi webcam can directly access the Internet unlike standard “webcams” that require an attached PC.

Great Features Include:

• It has a PAN rotation of 270 degrees and can be tilted up to 120 degrees.
• Up to a maximum of 10 users can view the webcam at the same time.
• Has infrared LEDs for better  night view.
• Automatically adjust the video rate according to the network bandwidth.
• Has support for motion detection.
• Bi-directional talking and audio supervision.
• Auto reconnect if there’s a failure on the connection.

Enjoy this latest and impressive Wifi webcam.

Avast, an antivirus software,  started detecting all binaries created with Delphi as malware.

At first, it looked like just an isolated incident but according to Avast forum, they really had a bad false positive issue today.  Admittedly, they reported that this incident does not only affects Delphi binaries but Avast started flagging hundreds of innocent files as a “Win32:Delf-MZG” Trojan.  The files affected were high-profile programs produced by Adobe, Realtek sound card drivers, various media players among others.

The errant update had been issued around 12:15 a.m. GMT. A new update was issued at 5:50 a.m. GMT that corrected the problem.

A step-by-step guide on how to restore the files from the Virus Chest can be found here: http://support.avast.com/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=376

Grab the attention of your audience and inspire them with the new, rich and powerful new ways Microsoft® Office 2010 offers.

Be in control in getting things done and deliver amazing results.  The final release of Office 2010 will debut next year but for now Microsoft is offering you to download their Microsoft Office 2010.

Get the download link below but while downloading it,  you may want to know the top 10 benefits you can get in using Office 2010.

Top 10 Benefits of Office 2010*

1. Express your ideas more visually. New and improved image editing tool  lets you transform your documents visual into a superb work of art.
2. Accomplish more when working together. Lets you work on a file with several people at once even if you are in a different locations!
3. Enjoy the familiar Office experience from more locations and more devices.  Extend your work using smartphone or virtually any computer with internet connection anywhere.
4. Create powerful data insights and visuals.  With the new Sparklines feature in Excel, you can now track and highlight and visually present your data.
5. Deliver compelling presentations. Add effects on your PowerPoint 2010 presentation  by embedding your video. Videos are not embedded by default, relieving from managing external video files. Read the rest of this entry »

Just like any other previous Windows OS, Windows 7 will offer in many different flavors. For a mere mortal, choosing what version to use seems confusing. Don’t let the versioning scare you. Microsoft is a bit lazy this time.  They are releasing 12 versions for Windows 7 against 18 on its’ Vista (Microsoft orginally planned to release more versions for Vista like the Itanium vresion but they cancelled).

Below are the versions for Windows 7

• Windows 7 Home Basic
• Windows 7 Starter
• Windows 7 Home Premium
• Windows 7 Home Premium (x64)
• Windows 7 Home Premium N (European Union Only)
• Windows 7 Professional
• Windows 7 Professional (x64)
• Windows 7 Enterprise
• Windows 7 Enterprise (x64)
• Windows 7 Ultimate
• Windows 7 Ultimate (x64)

Which version are REALLY available to the consumers?

Let’s further shorten the list on what version are really available for the regular user.

• Windows 7 Starter (32-bit or x64)
• Windows 7 Home Premium (x64)
• Windows 7 Professional (x64)
• Windows 7 Ultimate (x64)

Windows 7 Home Basic is only for new PC purchase in emerging markets. This will be unheard in North America and Europe.
Windows 7 Starter this is primarily for low end, budget PCs like netbook which will be sold worldwide.
Window 7 with N and K were produced for European Union and Korea market. This is to appease the anti-trust rules and
regulations on those countries.
Windows 7 Enterprise is for corporate users, available through corporate volume licensing subscription programs.
Windows 7 Ultimate functions like Windows 7 Enterprise except it is available at retail for new PCs (out of the box) and as stand-alone.

32-bit or x64?

The difference between the two is a bit technical in nature. To simplify, I suggest leave 32-bit word behind and transport your virtual world to to 64-bit(x64).

Windows 7 are still fully compatible with most if not all 32-bit software EXCEPT for some netbook computers that come with a version of Intel’s Atom processor which are not compatible with x64 instruction set.

The no.1 reason to step into 64-bit is BIG Memory! Windows 7 can use up to 192GB of RAM (it depends on version), compared to 32-bit version which can access to less than 4GB.

Intel and AMD are now both producing x64 platform. 64-bit is now the mainstream PC platform. With the increase of memory capacity and decreasing price, there’s no other way but to embrace x64 version.

Discover new technology and applications that wil help increase productivity in your business. Meet up with top distributors and resellers of the world’s leading brand names. Gain market intelligence and be updated on the latest trends.

Get up close and take a first-hand look at the latest I.T. products and software for computing, imaging, printing, connecting and communications, security, entertainment and lifestyle applications.

This is the right time to show off your wares in the biggest one-stop shop for ICT products and services in Metro Manila.  Be ready to take advantage of full-scale marketing and promotional salvo.

Reach out to both corporate buyers and end-users just in time for the Christmas buying season.  COMDAPP Expo 2009 is rightly scheduled  for your year-end sales blitz.

COMDDAP EXPO MANILA 2009

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Windows 7 has been launched in the United States on the 22nd of October 2009. Philippine launch is not far either.

Windows 7 Launch

Mark this two dates on your calendar, Nov. 7 and 8, 2009. Be at the SM North EDSA Cyberzone on those days and witness the Windows 7 big launch!

You may also avail of the launch price of Windows Home Basic for only PhP7,777. Standard retail price of this version is at PhP8,000.

How to avail the launch price?

1. Go to your nearest participating Microsoft reseller (or email delphinoy@yahoo.com) and pay 50% deposit fee.

2. Claim your Windows 7 Home Basic on Nov. 7, 2009.

Promo period is from Oct. 15 to Nov. 6, 2009 only. Hurry and get your Windows 7 copy.

Microsoft prepared  games and prizes, have celebrities, demos and freebies! They’ll giving away lots of goodies. Everyone gets a chance to bring home gadgets, goodies, maybe even laptops!

Don’t think about it, just be there!

Calling people from Cebu! You’ll have your own Windows 7 launch soon!

eBay topped the most trusted company in terms of privacy according to a recent study. Facebook stole the spotlight by securing the 10th place.

The two-part study from Ponemon Institute and Truste – both privacy specialists, surveyed more than 6,000 U.S. consumers. The latest survey mostly reflects which companies were seems to have the best privacy practices based on consumer brand perception and doesn’t necessarily translate to the most trustworthy companies.

Top 10 Most Trusted Companies In Privacy

1. ebay
2. Verizon
3. US Postal Service
4. WebMD
5. IBM
6. Procter & Gamble
7. Nationwide
8. Intuit
9. Yahoo
10. Facebook

This is the first time a social network company – Facebook, to break the top 10 list. Facebook had been on the privacy blunders in the past but because of  the new privacy features that Facebook has offered, they were able to convinced the panel of judges to give the company a top spot on the “trusted list”. Some of the features added recently is the include friend list and increased control over public listings.

Among the criteria that were used in assessing the level of trustworthiness is whether a company:

• has a clear readability and easy to find privacy statement
• provides adequate access to account information
• uses cookies and discloses that to users
• shares data with other companies and affiliates
• has a data retention policy
• has a chief privacy officer
• whether they disclose a user’s e-mail during password reset
• and whether they use Web beacons.

What companies do you trust to guard your privacy?

Thew new iPod shoots video, a larger screen, and FM radio.

Want to post video on Facebook or MobileMe? Thew built-in video can record  either in portrait or landscape mode – perfect for sharing to any social network communities.The video camera in iPod nano lets you shoot video – with video effects.It lets you record fun wherever you are. Upload and share it with friends on the Internet with a single click.

This iPod is amazing, the video quality is really surprising.

The superb music player has now a built-in mic too. All the surroundings audio can be recorded together with the video.

Why a video camera for the nano? “iPod nano is the world’s most popular music player with over 100 million sold,” said Jobs, Apple’s CEO.”The company was inspired by the popularity of pocket flash memory-based video cameras like those from Flip and Kodak,”Job said.

Special Effects Feature

Apple throws in fifteen special effects which include:

• Thermal
• Mirror
• XRay
• Motion Blur
• Sepia
• Cyborg
• Film Grain
• Black and White,
• Security Cam
• Bulge
• Kaleido
• Light Tunnel
• Dent
• Stretch
• Twirl

Another new addition to the nano 5G  is an FM radio. Read the rest of this entry »

Asus, one of the world’s biggest consumer electronics businesses, confirmed last week that it is planning to launch ebook by the end of this year.

Asus ebook will about to start a new revolutionize way on how an ebook reader should be. Not only it will be the cheapest digital reader to be sold in the market but Asus claims its new ebook reader will be smarter and more versatile that any current available reader in the market today.

According to Jerry Shen, the company’s president, they plan to unveil the device before the end of the year -with different models.

This futuristic ebook reader has a hinged spine, like a printed book. It’s like you are just reading a normal book, using the touchscreen to turn on the pages. It has also a feature to browse the web while seeing the current text on screen.

Asus screens boast a full color unlike the current ebook readers that have monochrome screens only.

And  lastly, you can also make a cheap phone calls over the internet using this device  because it has a “speaker, a webcam and a mic for Skype”.