What is wron with our sun??

Don't worry people....I am not here to tell you what is actually wrong with our sun; although I have already mentioned that in my previous posts. However, I am going to tell you that again, in the last two months, in June and July (7th July or today to be exact) the sun spewed another firebolt towards us. It was another strong  class solar flare with CME or coronal mass ejection.

 
Mysteriously, many news channel failed to report that, second time, as they missed the June solar flare as well. Visit this website (link below) to find out more on both June and July Solar flare. Thank you D. Byrd

Solar Flare July


Keep your heads-up people as these solar flares could be a warning of a something much bigger in magnitude. Till then....

peace people \m/

Two Solar Storms in two months.....Planet Earth in danger!!

Hello Everyone!!

Sorry I haven't been writing much nowadays, or rather not at all. However, I came across this news that I think I would like to share with you.

It is regarding to one of my earlier post regarding 2012 and what are the chances of earth being destroyed (not completely but nearly) by the end of this year.

Most of you might have seen the movie from Michael Bay (Transformers, Armageddon), known as 'KNOWING'. In that movie we saw how a huge solar flare (from the sun of course) completely destroyed the earth completely. SO yeah, that might happen to us. Not to that magnitude but our hot gas giant is surely cooking something for us.

From the past two months, the sun had been showing some very disturbing behavior. Our gas giant had always been throwing dangerous radiations and charged particles at us. But, for the last two months the Planet Earth is struck by two solar flares, that are the largest of this new millennium. And the scientists and researches say that worst is to come.

So, all you space fanatics, on Thursday's night, you might get a chance of viewing the Nature's miracle, the Northern Lights, without spending a good fortune on travel to the north pole. And if you missed one, then done worry, there are lot more coming your way.. ;D

Peace People \m/ 

THE POWERFUL GAMING EXPERIENCE WITH ALIENWARE M14X

The Alienware Laptops are the high ended gaming laptops by Dell that comes in different size categories, like 15 inch, 17 inch etc. The laptop being discussed is M14X Alienware laptop and is in 14 inch category, hence the name. The new laptop is basically same as the previous bulky and large M15X and M17X laptops and is more portable. The laptop also has the powerful Nvidia graphics support for ultimate gaming. The laptop is a bit bulky, not comparable to Sony Vaio Z or MacBook Air, but still is quite portable. The machine is powered by Intel Core i7 laptops, which is also a great enhancement by Dell.

The laptop has almost the same design as its predecessors. The body is brightly coloured and weighs around 6.5 pounds. The maximum height reaches 1.2 inches, so it could not be considered a thin laptop by any means. But the main reason for the launch of this machine is to provide portability to the Alienware laptops, as they are quite big and hard to carry around. The body has two grilles on the sides of the front end, which is for just design, not ventilation, as the case with the previous versions.

The 14-inch screen is a treat. The display size is 1600 x 900 pixel resolution and could be dropped down to 1366 x 768. The gaming experience is considerably good and the Klipsch speakers are good as ever. The laptop is equipped with the new GeForce GT555M, and is perfect for gaming. Games like Unreal Tournament and Street Fighter IV ran on 1400 x 900 pixel resolution, without any noticeable lag. 



So, the people who are looking for intense gaming on a portable laptop would like to have this delight in their bags.

The keyboard and the track pad are quite funky as they are backlit. But there is more to them then one would notice. The back lights are configurable i.e. you could change the colours of the keyboard and track pad’s light and you can also control the keyboard light in sections. The keys are quite roomy and are separated from each other, even though they are not in the island design. The reason for the separated keys is that the gamers often use the keys, especially WSAD, so users don’t get confused with them. 



The touch pad has a matte finish and is quite responsive, as it should be because it is a gaming laptop. There are two buttons available for the left and right click as well.

The machine is loaded with the Intel core i7 processor, with speeds reaching up to 2.3 GHz. The memory could be expanded to 8 GB and a 750GB hard disk is available. There are quite a few data ports, such as the USB 2.0 and 3.0, SD card reader etc. The optical drive is a DVD burner, but it would have been much appreciated to have a Blu-Ray. There is a video port combo available as well, which includes VGA, HDMI and a Mini Display port. The battery provides a 2 hours 45 minutes video playback, which is quite good for a gaming laptop.

The Alienware M14X, is a well equipped laptop that could be carried in a bag to your business trips or at vacations. The price does looks higher than usual at $2100 for the fully loaded ones and could fall to $1100 if the laptop is downgraded.

  

LG GENISIS

LG Genesis

LG, with US Cellular launched its new Genesis smart phone in May, 2011. The new phone features two, yes two touch screens, which had attracted a lot of users. The mobile also has a physical keyboard which gives the look of a miniature notebook. The phone is the smart phone version of its predecessor LG enV, as it has the same dual screen design. 

 

The keyboard is quite roomy, with QWERTY layout. Running on Android 2.2 version, equipped with 5-MP camera and with some great pre-installed apps, this phone is available in the market from May, 2011.

The new Genesis is pretty much like its predecessors, LG enV Touch but, Genesis is a bit larger. With the dimensions of 4.23 inches tall, 2.4 inches wide and 0.66 inches deep, the phone gives look of a solid smart phone. It is also the heftiest smart phone in market, weighing around 6 ounces. The reason of the bulkiness could be the added Keyboard.

There are two touch screens with the front one measuring 3.5 inches. The display is an ordinary 480x800 pixels TFT screen, which disappoints many, because it could not be considered to the super LCD o the Super AMOLED screens found with the other trendy smart phones. But it does not feel that bad, because of the 16 million colours support it has. The screen does get washed out in bright sunlight.

Favourably, even though the images and video are not that bright, but the touch screens are very responsive and the accelerometers are quick to detect the change in axis. There are four touch sense buttons on the screen for contacts, phone book, messages and web browser. Other then these four, there are four normal touch buttons as well that are not part of the screen. They are for the standard home, menu, search and back shortcuts. The spines of the phone’s body accommodate a range of buttons and ports. The 3.5mm jack for headset and the Micro-USB port are on the right, while the dedicated camera key, the volume control and the power button are on the left side. The 5-megapixel camera and the flash LED are at the back.

As mentioned before, the phone is quite hefty, and the reason for that are the QWERTY layout keyboard and the second (internal) screen. The screen could be opened up to 180 degrees. The internal screen is same as the external one, except that it smaller in size, i.e. 3.2 inches. The keyboard keys are quite large and spacious and it is easy to use the keyboard. There is a dedicated navigation control and android keys on either side of the keyboard.

The phone runs on Android 2.2 and has some nice widgets and application pre-installed. There are LG’s own Facebook and Twitter applications that make the social networking more fun. The 5-MP camera could be used as camcorder in QVGA mode. The phone has 1GHz Snapdragon processor by Qualcomm in its core and is powered by a 1500mAh battery that gives 150 minutes talk time.

If the drawbacks such as speed i.e. 3G, not 4G and the ordinary display, could be balanced with the extra screen and a roomy keyboard advantages, then this phone is quite a good buy for $149.99 per year.

Electronic Product Reviews

Hello Everyone....sorry for posting after so much time.....I know you all missed me and my posts......and I am joking ;)

Anyways, now I have decided to start doing some reviews on some smart phones and Laptops

I will start with a Laptop i.e Portege R835, anew medium ended laptop by Toshiba.....Have a look!

The New Portege 800

Last year, Toshiba launched its Protege 700 series which was considered as a best laptop of that year. This year Toshiba has launched it new Portege 800 series, which retains the dynamicity of the 13 inch Portege Laptops and comes with a few additional features, one of which that is most talked about is its powerful battery.

The portege 800 series laptops have almost the same body of the R700 series, with a few exceptions. The bluish metal alloy body looks elegant as ever, but the sides of the screen is overly chromed and gives a cheap feeling to laptop. The laptop is quite light 3.2 pounds, just like its counter parts in the same category but not as thin like MacBook Air or Samsung 9 series. The laptop reaches a maximum height of 1.1 inches and a minimum of 0.7 inches, hence, the light weight.

The keyboard has the famous trendy look of island keys that are widely spaced and gives a nice look. The keys are more rectangular in shape rather than being square, which would cause typing errors. This style for keys would be selected in such manner so that the size of touch pad could be increased and that is why we see a spacious touch pad and palm rest below the keyboard. The tactile buttons for left and right click are big as well. The keyboard is not backlit and it’s hard to find the keys because many keys are moved from their conventional location, especially Enter and the Right Shift key. As you can see below

The upper lid has the shiny screen with the resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels. The viewing angles of the screen are a bit disappointing and so is the audio, which has always been a letdown in Portege laptops. The R800 series is equipped with Intel HD 3000 graphics accelerator, which cannot be considered as a dedicated graphics option, but it was able to play some of the games, like Unreal Tournament 3, at a fair enough speed.

The laptop has a current generation Core-i processor in it and has a very nice 4 GB of memory that could be increased to 8 GB max. The hard disk is of 640GB with 5400 rpm. This combination enables a user to do multitasking without any hiccup. The R835 performed so well that it out mastered Samsung 9 series and the irony is that one could by two Portege laptops in the price of one Samsung 9. The laptop has quite a few notable expansion ports as USB 3.0 port, HDMI pat. The Laptop’s battery is the biggest pros, with 7 hours video playback support, the battery performance has stunned many critics till now.      

The new Toshiba Portege R835 is a new 13 inch category laptop that could be used as an alternative to MacBook Pro. The machine is equipped with a second generation Intel Core-i processor and has a very powerful battery, but has a few down sides, such as missing Bluetooth and mobile hot Spot support. But, overall it could be considered as a pretty nice buy within an $800 budget.

Pictures Courtesy of cnet reviews 

More reviews coming your way people

Peace \m/

THE HISTORY OF HIP HOP CULTURE

Many of us believe that hip hop is a music genre, but unfortunately we are wrong. Hip hop is more of a dance technique cum repeated singing along method. The genre of Rap music is sometimes confused with Hip Hop. The Hip Hop history is considered very old and originates from Jamaican island. In Jamaica, there is a tradition of making toasts in dinners or get together.


On a very same Jamaican night, a DJ named Kool Herc, was playing music, when he started to use different lines along the songs. With that he also started using two records on different turntables and started to control them manually with his hands and thus the lines of the songs starts repeating. That became a regular thing, where DJs would begin a song on two different records and then start repeat the songs, and it became a huge success as this way of music play is really appreciated by fans of all kinds of music lover, because Hip Hop is more of a culture than music.

THE SHINING DARK OF THE MOON

Saw the movie on the first day of release, 29th June, and was able to just make it, because it was so crowded. Almost everyone from all age genres were there. There was a lot of fuss, and people were going for 3D, but more were going for 2D

The film, yes, the film has its moment. The film starts with a good detailed but a bit disoriented Cybertron, you will see what I mean. We are introduced to the new character Carly, the replacement for Makaila (Megan Fox) at the very start, but a bit abruptly. Mommy and Daddy Witwicky were there as well, I thought that Mommy Witwicky has a bit more mature character this time, but wrong again, you'll see. And then came the Autobots.......Optimus Prime, Bumble Bee, Iron Hide, Ratchet, SideSwipe, CliffHanger, Arcee and a mad scientist of an Aoutobot, I guess Jolt is there as well and a few new Autobots, a total of 9.

Sam Witwicky (Shia Labeouf), is brilliant as ever, especially his freaked out screams 'WwAAAAAA.......WWAAAAAAA..AAAAAAAAAAAAAA.......Bumble Beeeeeeeeee!!'


But the most engaging character of the film is the Sentinal Prime. Kind of a father to Optimus Prime and the Einstein of his Planet. His character is very important, and transforms into his famous Fire Engine and you will be kind of relieved to hear that he is on Autobots and a very nice friend to Optimus.

The mostly beloved Lennox (Josh Dumahell) is team there as well, with Agent Simmons and his new assistant Dutch are fun to watch. the sequence of the wing-suits jump is brilliant.You might come to  know that how widespread the network of these robots is in our world as suggested in the 2nd movie. There are a few scenes in the movie that would stun you for a while, as was everyone in the movie theater. they were like 'o' for quite a few minutes. When you see those scenes to have a look around at everyone's faces and I assure you that you'll enjoy.


The thing that I didn't liked about is that they deliberately used the Iranian Flag in a sequence that many people would find offensive. There wasn't any need to show that.

The CGI is brilliant, some sequence would give you goosebumps. But, critics are saying that there was a lot of CGI involved, but what they are forgetting is that more than 50% of the main characters are Robots. I dont know why they forget such detailed points while critisizing.

You might see a few loose ends in the movie but overall the movie is great. I would give it a B+.  I could have written the whole synopsis here but that would be spoiling the movie. Please do go and see the movie as you might be missing one of the best cinema sensation of all time.