Nokia X7

The Nokia X7 is one of the front-runners of Symbian Anna, a major overhaul bringing portrait QWERTY input, improved browser and a refreshed design to the Symbian^3 platform. But the X7 is also a media-centric device with a premium feel and a 4-inch AMOLED screen. It's also one of the latest high-end Nokia handsets running Symbian, so it deserves some special attention. But does it deserve your buck? We'll guide you through the novelties of the interface, see if that 680MHz ARM 11 processor under the hood can back up the experience, and look at the 8-megapixel fixed focus camera, but let's start with some history.

The Nokia X7 first leaked out in November 2010, but since then it's been through a bumpy ride to the market. In December, it appeared with AT&T branding and seemed set for a Stateside release, but only a month later either the carrier or the phone maker decided to cancel that partnership, so the device wouldn't appear subisdized in the States, at least initially. The Nokia X7 however was finally made official in April heralding the all-new Symbian Anna, previously known as PR 2.0.


Design:

But it's not just the new interface – the Nokia X7 is coming with a rather unique angular design with four grills on each of its corners, but only the bottom two hold speakers. A 4-inch AMOLED screen with a resolution of 360 x 640 pixels dominates the front. It doesn't come with Nokia's ClearBlack enhancement for nearly perfect blacks and better anti-reflection for outdoor visibility, but we found the colors to be very vivid, with blacks still very deep. Add to that Gorilla Glass scratch protection, and you're looking at a delicious screen, corrupted slightly only by the average sunlight legibility. Oh, and we do understand Nokia's wish to keep its ecosystem consistent, but that nHD 360 x 640 pixel resolution seems dated now.

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Google Search To Solve Mathematical Calculations

Tips To Use Google Search To Solve Mathematical Calculations

Ever wondered you can use google search as a calculator other than google search. In this article, I will show you a feature that many people do not know about google is very powerful calculator right from the search line, you can put any equation you want and has lot of symbols and syntax for very complicated equations including a symbol for speed of light, degree Celsius or tangents or different types of things that you learnt in high school, but you do not remember it, you can be helped by google.
Google adds a new feature almost every year. Couple of years ago, it has got its new feature google calculator. Google calculator is a powerful tool that can perform simple as well as complex calculations. With the help of this feature, you can calculate solve basic mathematics arithmetic, unit of measure, various conversions including length, temperature and even currency conversion.
To do the calculations, just type the query in proper format in the google search and press enter or click on search button and result will be displayed on search result page. Some of the examples of the google calculator are as follows:
Basic maths arithmetic

Simple calculations

There are many more instructions that you can use it. To know all about the other instructions, follow the given link.
Source
http://www.google.co.in/help/calculator.html
and
http://www.googleguide.com/help/calculator.html

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The All New Apple iPad Inspired SmartKeyboard Concept For Apple iPhone

Since the time that the world’s most cherished tablet device, Apple iPad hit the markets last year, wherever you turn, you are bound to found something or the other for related to the iPad. Nearly every market in the world has been flooded with iPad accessories, whether they be iPad speaker docks or iPad covers. However, all the glory in the world cannot dispute the fact that the Apple iPhone still remains one of the most desired gadgets of all times and though the iPad has captured the markets in the tablet race, iPhone on the other hand has captured the hearts and minds of users across the globe The iPhone 4 has become a symbol of hi-tech luxury and has made people empty their wallets just by the name of it. However, if there is one thing that lacks in the iPhone is the presence of a tactile keyboard. The on-screen keyboard though very efficient, leaves much to be desired.

 Now, designer Jing Yang of the eico Motion Lab in China has come out with a remarkable conceptual product in the form of the all new SmartKeyboard for Apple iPhone. This magnificent physical keyboard for the iPhone has been greatly inspired from the Smart Cover of the iPad and features a magnet that sticks the keyboard to the iPhone as and when required. Sporting a gorgeous blue color and what looks like ergonomic keys, the SmartKeyboard iphone keyboard concept could definitely be the answer to the keyboard-less presence of the iPhone.

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Decrease Video Resolution, File Size But Retaining Video Quality

Videos and photos have definitely become some of the major sources of entertainment and are very commonly shared on the web. Different websites and especially some of the social networking websites allow the users to upload and share their photos and videos with friends and relatives. But, while sharing one thing that is needed and must be kept in mind that the size of these videos must not be too large. If they are too big, then it becomes very difficult to upload them and thus before uploading the size must be reduced. In one of the other scenario also, where you have a limited space in your hard-disk and you observe that a video is consuming more than the desired hard disk space. Then, in such situations you may look out for a quick way to resize the video dimensions and to reduce the size of the video file e.g. from 1GB to 250MB.

So, one of the utilities which is available on the web and can be used for such scenarios is Moo0 VideoMinimizer. It is basically a small, useful and freely available video resizing application which provides lot of major functionalities. One, it allows you to change the display size of the video i.e. basically the picture size of video, and also the file size. Along with the size reduction, there is an option by which the video quality can also be switched between Best, High and Normal modes. Moo0 VideoMinimizer is really a helpful utility as compared to some of the other tools available of its kind, but still it lacks in some of its functionalities as it does not perform both kinds of resize changes simultaneously, so you will have to either select the Image Size or File Size option. So, in case you want to change the file size, make sure you specify a maximum size limit.

So, if you want to try it out, you may download it from the link given below and after installing it you may observe some of the other functionality of this tool. One of the option are available with this utility is the Image Size change option which offers a number of different kind of settings to change the video image size. For this, you firstly need to select the custom width and height or simply select the preset from the Width x Height drop down menu available on the interface. One of the other things is that you can also enable the test Convert option to test and convert only a small part of the video in order to preview the result before starting the conversion process for the complete video.

So, in this way as soon as you have set all the required parameters, then you may simply drag a video to specified drop box in order to begin the conversion process. Although, you may reduce the size of the file to a great extent but still, it’s advisable that the size of a video mustn’t be reduced too much otherwise it may lead to quality degradation.

Download Moo0 VideoMinimizer

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Apple Magic Trackpad Control Panel In Windows 7

 

Editor’s Note: Apple Magic Trackpad is a wonderful device that is only restricted to Mac OS X. If you plan on using it on Windows 7 (32-bit or 64-bit), you will have to follow the long hectic process of downloading and extracting Bootcamp patch, finding and renaming Trackpad Bin file to .exe format and finally installing the driver. Rather than following this difficult process, we have hosted the Trackpad Windows drivers for you at the bottom of the post

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Now that you have Apple Magic Trackpad running on Windows 7, you will be disappointed to know that the default Mouse properties does not work. In short, you cannot customize the speed or gestures of track pad in Windows. This is where Magic Track pad Control Panel comes in. It is a brilliant tool that allows you to set the tracking speed, double-click speed, and scrolling speed of the track pad, and can be used to change both one finger and two finger gestures.

Under One Finger Gestures, you will find options to enable/disable Tap to Click, Dragging, Drag Lock, and Secondary Click. You can choose Bottom Right Corner or Bottom Left Corner position for Secondary Click. Under Two Finger Gestures, you will find options to enable/disable Scroll and Secondary Tab.
To start using Magic Trackpad Control Panel, first download the controlpanel1.zip file from the developer’s page and extract it. When done, open padset-0.3.exe file and then finally open the Trackpad Control Panel file in the same folder. It will launch the Magic Trackpad Control Center. When closed, it will sit in the system tray and can also be launched at system startup, with or without being minimized.


 Please remember that these steps will be important:

1. The Boot camp driver must be installed. But it seems only to work with all functions using the Microsoft Bluetooth stack.
2. The Microsoft Net Framework 4.0 Client Profile must be installed.
3. Unrar the files and start Trackpad Control Panel.exe  

   You can download the beta version of the control panel here.

 

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