MC2 Post 1456 Sony's 4K Ultra HD Video Player

From:   http://www.engadget.com

Link:  http://www.engadget.com/2012/11/29/sony-4k-ultra-hd-video-player-phil-molyneux/ 

 

TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/bsk73uq 

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Xbox SmartGlass Android app now supports 7-inch tablets

The latest update lets you control your Xbox 360 with 

your 7-inch Android tablet.

 

Owners of the Google Nexus 7 and other 7-inch Android tablets can now remotely control their Xbox 360 consoles via a free app.

 

Updated yesterday, the Xbox SmartGlass for Android app acts as a second screen for your Xbox console. You can use the app on your phone or tablet to navigate your Xbox dashboard, control videos and music playing on your console, search Microsoft's Xbox catalog, and surf the Internet.

 

Link:  http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-57556411-75/xbox-smartglass-android-app-now-supports-7-inch-tablets/?part=rss&subj=news&tag=title 

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6:34 AM 11/30/2012

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on QVC Today's Special Value

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FunTab Pro 7" 8GB Android 4.0 Kid Friendly Tablet w?Apps & Accessories.

4 Easy payments of 37.49

Front and Back Camera

HDMI - USB Cable

Web Page says  SOLD OUT.  

It seems it will be coming to Walmart Later...

It doesn’t come with Google Play Store pre-installed but rather with Ematic Kids App Shop with parental controls.

One disadvantage is it’s low res screen of only 800×480 pixels.

Link:  http://www.qvc.com/.product.E223533.html

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  Link:  http://tablet-news.com/2012/10/09/ematic-funtab-pro-is-a-7-inch-tablet-for-kids/
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 This brand new tablet sure isn’t pretty by any means, nor do the specs have anything eye catching. What is important though is the price. For $119 you’ll get your children an Android 4.0 tablet running on a low resolution 7-inch 480×800 display, an unknown 1.2 GHz processor, 512MB of RAM, as well as front and rear cameras.

Link:  http://androidcommunity.com/ematic-releases-the-funtab-7-a-119-android-4-0-tablet-for-kids-20121120/

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MC2 Post 1455 Experiments Challenge Fundamental Understanding of Electromagnetism

From:  http://phys.org

(Phys.org)—A cornerstone of physics may require a rethink if findings at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are confirmed. Recent experiments suggest that the most rigorous predictions based on the fundamental theory of electromagnetism—one of the four fundamental forces in the universe, and harnessed in all electronic devices—may not accurately account for the behavior of atoms in exotic, highly charged states.

 

Link:  http://phys.org/news/2012-11-fundamental-electromagnetism.html

 

TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/d7feoyj 

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Software for the discovery of new crystal structures 

May 11, 2011

A new software called QED (Quantitative Electron Diffraction), which has been licensed by Max Planck Innovation, has now been released by HREM Research Inc., a Japan based company, which is developing products and services in the field of High-Resolution Electron Microscopy. QED allows transmission electron microscopes to acquire novel kinds of data, opening up new possibilities in electron crystallography.

Link:  http://phys.org/news/2011-05-software-discovery-crystal.html#nRlv 

TinyURL:   http://tinyurl.com/c6o4p4z

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The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology is a 2005 update of

Raymond Kurzweil's 1999 book The Age of Spiritual Machines and his 1990 book

The Age of Intelligent Machines. In it, as in the two previous versions, Kurzweil

attempts to give a glimpse of what awaits us in the near future. He proposes a

coming technological singularity, and how we would thus be able to augment our

bodies and minds with technology.

He describes the singularity as resulting from a combination of three important technologies of the 21st century: genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics (including artificial intelligence).

Link:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singularity_Is_Near 

TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/32z2fr 

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Palm’s WebOS lives on…. as an Android App

Link:  http://gigaom.com/mobile/palms-webos-lives-on-as-an-android-app/ 

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Coming to "live" from my Nexus 7 tablet

First a little dictation typing on my blog which I'm doing on my Nexus 7 and of course it has voice to talk in the  capabilities.
That was mostly the way I said it, just One missed word. (This was typed in, old fashion style).

Let's try adding a picture:

MC2 Post 1454 A New Kind of Three Amigos--I don't Think So

iPad Mini vs. Google Nexus 7 vs. Amazon Kindle Fire HD

From:  http://reviews.cnet.com 

Link:   http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-31747_7-57537541-243/ipad-mini-vs-google-nexus-7-vs-amazon-kindle-fire-hd/

 

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MC2 Post 1452 How To Use USB Drives With the Nexus 7 and Other Android Devices

From:   http://www.howtogeek.com

The Nexus 7 may not have a lot of storage space – especially the original 8 GB model – but you can connect a USB drive to it if you want to watch videos or access other files.

Unfortunately, Android doesn’t automatically mount USB drives by default. You’ll need to root your device to enable support for USB drives.

Nexus Root Toolkit v1.5.5

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    The StickMount app: StickMount is available for free from Google Play. Note that

StickMount only works if your device is rooted.

    ES File Explorer or another file manager app: We’ll be using ES FIle Explorer here, but you

can also use another file manager if you prefer it.

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Link:   http://www.howtogeek.com/129800/how-to-use-usb-drives-with-the-nexus-7-

and-other-android-devices/

 

TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/c8ed99s  

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Let's TALK BIG DATA....               

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Exclusive: Inside Google Spanner, the Largest 

Single Database on Earth

“You walk into our cubes, and we’ve got VC on — all the time,” says Fikes, who joined Google

in 2001 and now ranks among the company’s distinguished software engineers. “We’ve been

doing this for years. It lowers all the barriers to communication that you typically have.”

The arrangement is only appropriate. Much like the engineering team that created it, Spanner is something that stretches across the globe while 

behaving as if it’s all in one place. 

Unveiled this fall after years of hints and rumors, it’s the first worldwide database worthy of the name — a database designed to seamlessly operate across hundreds of data centers and millions of machines 

and trillions of rows of information.

Link:  http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/11/google-spanner-time/?

utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+

%28Wired%3A+Top+Stories%29 

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Google Spans Entire Planet With GPS-Powered Database

Link:  http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/09/google-spanner/?

utm_source=Contextly&utm_medium=RelatedLinks&utm_campaign=Previous

TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/co6e4wy

Facebook is already building a system that’s somewhat similar to Spanner, in that it aims to juggle information across multiple data centers. Judging from our discussions with Facebook about this system — known as Prism — it’s quite different from Google’s creation. But it shows that other outfits are now staring down many of the same data problems Google first faced in years past.

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Top 10 Most Pirated Movies on BitTorrent

Link:  http://torrentfreak.com/top-10-most-pirated-movies-on-bittorrent-121126/?

utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Torrentfreak+
%28Torrentfreak%29

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TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/bpzfkdn

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http://torrentfreak.com/category/dvdrip/feed/

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MC2 Post 1452 The DEAL The Day BeFore BLACK FRIDAY

Ten Million Photos Were Uploaded To 

Instagram On Thanksgiving

Yes, during American Thanksgiving. Instagram was reportedly seeing roughly 200 uploads per second during the holiday between peak hours of 10am and 6pm EST. The folks at Instagram have labeled this as its most successful day of all time.

Link:  http://www.macgasm.net/2012/11/25/ten-million-photos-were-uploaded-to-instagram-on-thanksgiving/

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Thanksgiving Deals Cut Into Black Friday Sales

Thanksgiving shopping on Thursday took a noticeable bite out of Black Friday's start to the holiday season, as the latest survey found retail sales in stores fell slightly from last year.

Saturday's report from retail technology company ShopperTrak estimated that consumers spent $11.2 billion at stores across the U.S. That is down 1.8 percent from last year's total.

Link:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/25/thanksgiving-black-friday-sales_n_2185606.html 

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As a recipient of these early shoppers, I snagged a post birthday gift of a iPad Stylus that works just Fine on my Nexus 7 Tablet and Autodesk's SketchBook Mobile Express.

SketchBook Express pop-up Tools

Color Picker

Quick Finger Sketch

 

Same Finger Sketch with Color added.

Link:  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.adsk.sketchbookhd&hl=en

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MC2 Post 1451 HP, RIM, AMD and the Other Big IT Turkeys of 2012

Just a Few eWeek singled out of  the 11 

"doing Badly" boys of IT in 2012...

A Slide-Show of the Usual Suspects on Runway.

Apple and Adobe Flash made the "List" too.

From:   http://www.eweek.com

Link:   http://www.eweek.com/it-management/slideshows/hp-rim-amd-among-10-prominent-it-turkeys-of-2012/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+RSS%2Ftech+%28eWEEK+Technology+News%29

Add eWeek  to that List with 193 Characters to a Simple Link....    

Wingman.

 

TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/bp52uso 

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This image was taken by Front Hazcam onboard NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity 

on Sol 102 (2012-

11-18 21:41:54 UTC). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Has Curiosity made an 'Earth-Shaking' Discovery?

The Mars Science Laboratory team has hinted that they might have some big news to share soon.

But like good scientists, they are waiting until they verify their results before saying anything definitive.

Link:  http://phys.org/news/2012-11-curiosity-earth-shaking-discovery.html

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MC2 Post 1450 Look Out Tablets Here Come Some Big 5 Smartphones

And They're Mostly Androids

Top 5″ Plus Best Buy Android Smartphones

From:   http://androidadvices.com




With the smartphone market and the tablet market getting crowded with competition, companies are bringing in new smartphones which come in between a thin line separating the Smartphone and Tablets. Some call them Phablets but they are essentially Smartphones with a 5– inch ‘huge’ display at offer.

Here we are going to list of the Best, cheapest and the most accepted Phablet devices or 5”

Android smartphone devices available in the market.

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Samsung Galaxy Note:

Samsung Galaxy Note 2:

LG Optimus Vu 2:

Spice Mi-500:

Micromax A110:

HTC J Butterfly:

Oppo Find 5:

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Link:   http://androidadvices.com/best-android-5-inch-smart-phones/

 

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MC2 Post 1449 Three older Birds huddled around a Nexus Tablet waiting for a Turkey

Turkey cooking in the kitchen.  The Ladies having a chat in the living room.  The Men in the TV Room,the first of many many football games playing silently as the men meander through the new world of "Tablets".

The three brothers, with Dad included trying to maker sense of out of this new-fangled device called a Tablet.

Drift back thirty plus years when the three minus 4th brother Bod used to pour over the "New" Age of Computers":  Atari, Commodore, PC Jr. and even Radio Shack's Color Computer.

Talking TECH still comes easy to the three brothers.

The old become new again.

And the Videos on the much smaller screen, that overshadowed the mega dynamo called the "NFL" and three decades find themselves relating again to Laurel and Hardy still very able to make them Laugh.

Bob and Ernie's  "King Fu Super 8 Movie"



Ernie, and the Family

Having a Great

Thanksgiving at Lydia and Steve's

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MC2 Post 1450 Black Friday Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday

This Friday is the breakeven point for many businesses known in the trade as Black Friday, during which many retailers hold massive sales.

Which Businesses Will Thrive This Holiday Season -- and Which Won't

The next day’s focus is on supporting local stores by shopping on Small Business Saturday, an event started by American Express now widely embraced by organizations including the Small Business Administration.

From:   http://www.forbes.com

Link:  http://www.forbes.com/sites/caroltice/2012/11/21/black-friday-small-business-saturday-and-cyber-monday-which-will-you-shop/ 

 

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