If you security is your highest concern, and have a lot of important documents and e-mails on gmail which you would not like to fall into someone else’s hands, or have had spam sent through your gmail account, the new security feature by the gmail team, almost makes it impossible for anyone to hack into your account. It is a two step process to sign in. There will be a new link on your account settings page which looks like this:
Gmail advises to take that step nice and slow, and set it up properly in case you lose you primary phone. Once enabled, it will give an additional page after signing into Google, which asks for the verification code. Gmail can call you with the code or text it to you, or you may generate the code in an app on Android, iOS or Blackberry device.
This way you are pretty sure its only you who is logging in, because though someone else may have your password, your Phone remains with you. Further, if you use Remember Verification for thirty days, you will only have to enter the verification once every month.
Sunday, February 13, 2011
IIT Kharagpur’s international programming contest Bitwise 2011
Department of Computer Science and Engineering,IIT Kharagpur organizes annual, time-constrained, algorithm-intensive online programming contest, Bitwise.
Bitwise is a state-of-the-art online programming contest. The contest is time constrained and posed with some of the toughest programming and algorithmic challenges in a short span of 12 hours. The contest will be held on 13th February 2011, for a period of 12 hours. Algorithm intensive programming problems will be put up on the website and the participants would be expected to code their solutions in C/C++. The contest presents a great way to showcase your individual talent at an international scale and benchmark against the best in the world.
There are prizes worth more than $3500 and recruitment opportunities with our sponsors. Bitwise 2010 attracted over 9800 participants from a total of 1473 organizations, universities and institutes spread over 66 countries.
Contest Timings : 1500 (13th Feb) hrs to 0300 (14th Feb) hrs (IST).
Register for the event : www.bitwise.iitkgp.ernet.in
Bitwise is a state-of-the-art online programming contest. The contest is time constrained and posed with some of the toughest programming and algorithmic challenges in a short span of 12 hours. The contest will be held on 13th February 2011, for a period of 12 hours. Algorithm intensive programming problems will be put up on the website and the participants would be expected to code their solutions in C/C++. The contest presents a great way to showcase your individual talent at an international scale and benchmark against the best in the world.
There are prizes worth more than $3500 and recruitment opportunities with our sponsors. Bitwise 2010 attracted over 9800 participants from a total of 1473 organizations, universities and institutes spread over 66 countries.
Contest Timings : 1500 (13th Feb) hrs to 0300 (14th Feb) hrs (IST).
Register for the event : www.bitwise.iitkgp.ernet.in
Friday, February 11, 2011
PC games that are compatible with gamepad
A gamepad (also called joypad or control pad), is a hand held game controller, where the digits (especially thumbs) and analog sticks are used to provide input.
USB Gamepad for PC
Purchased a new gamepad and wondering what all games can be played with it……….Then don’t worry your search is over. Here is a list of the PC games that are compatible with gamepad.
These games will give you the feel of a console gaming. The gamepads supported are not listed here because it changes from game to game.
If the gamepad is not recognized by the game, then you can remap the mouse/keys to the pad using any one of a dozen programs designed for this purpose like pinnacle etc.
SPORTS AND SIMS:
1) Fifa
2) Blazing angels: squadrons of ww2
3) Pacific fighters
4) Heroes of the pacific
5) Metal Gear Solid
6) Cricket
7) Virtua Tennis
ACTION GAMES:
1) Assassin’s Creed 2
2) Assassin’s Creed 3
3) The godfather
4) Gun
5) Tomb raider legend
6) Halo
7) X-men the official game
8 ) Onimusha 3
9) Dynasty warriors 4 hyper
10) GTA: San Andrea’s
11) Simpsons hit & run
12) Devil may cry 3 (special edition)
13) Prince of Persia 2: warrior within
14) Prince of Persia 3: the two thrones
15) Metal gear solid
16) Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
17) Metal gear solid 2: substance
18) The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay
(You need the patch for it to support the gamepads)
19) Star Wars Battlefront 1&2
20) Lego star wars 1&2
OTHER GAMES:
1) Happy potter and the deathly hallows
2) FEAR
3) Resident evil 4
4) Silent hill 2
5) Silent hill 3
6) Silent hill 4: the room
7) Snoopy vs. the Red Baron (Namco)
8 ) Lost Planet: Extreme condition
9) Crysis
10) Overlord
11) Bioshock
12) Halo 2
13) DiRT
USB Gamepad for PC
Purchased a new gamepad and wondering what all games can be played with it……….Then don’t worry your search is over. Here is a list of the PC games that are compatible with gamepad.
These games will give you the feel of a console gaming. The gamepads supported are not listed here because it changes from game to game.
If the gamepad is not recognized by the game, then you can remap the mouse/keys to the pad using any one of a dozen programs designed for this purpose like pinnacle etc.
SPORTS AND SIMS:
1) Fifa
2) Blazing angels: squadrons of ww2
3) Pacific fighters
4) Heroes of the pacific
5) Metal Gear Solid
6) Cricket
7) Virtua Tennis
ACTION GAMES:
1) Assassin’s Creed 2
2) Assassin’s Creed 3
3) The godfather
4) Gun
5) Tomb raider legend
6) Halo
7) X-men the official game
8 ) Onimusha 3
9) Dynasty warriors 4 hyper
10) GTA: San Andrea’s
11) Simpsons hit & run
12) Devil may cry 3 (special edition)
13) Prince of Persia 2: warrior within
14) Prince of Persia 3: the two thrones
15) Metal gear solid
16) Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
17) Metal gear solid 2: substance
18) The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay
(You need the patch for it to support the gamepads)
19) Star Wars Battlefront 1&2
20) Lego star wars 1&2
OTHER GAMES:
1) Happy potter and the deathly hallows
2) FEAR
3) Resident evil 4
4) Silent hill 2
5) Silent hill 3
6) Silent hill 4: the room
7) Snoopy vs. the Red Baron (Namco)
8 ) Lost Planet: Extreme condition
9) Crysis
10) Overlord
11) Bioshock
12) Halo 2
13) DiRT
PC games that are compatible with gamepad
A gamepad (also called joypad or control pad), is a hand held game controller, where the digits (especially thumbs) and analog sticks are used to provide input.
USB Gamepad for PC
Purchased a new gamepad and wondering what all games can be played with it……….Then don’t worry your search is over. Here is a list of the PC games that are compatible with gamepad.
These games will give you the feel of a console gaming. The gamepads supported are not listed here because it changes from game to game.
If the gamepad is not recognized by the game, then you can remap the mouse/keys to the pad using any one of a dozen programs designed for this purpose like pinnacle etc.
SPORTS AND SIMS:
1) Fifa
2) Blazing angels: squadrons of ww2
3) Pacific fighters
4) Heroes of the pacific
5) Metal Gear Solid
6) Cricket
7) Virtua Tennis
ACTION GAMES:
1) Assassin’s Creed 2
2) Assassin’s Creed 3
3) The godfather
4) Gun
5) Tomb raider legend
6) Halo
7) X-men the official game
8 ) Onimusha 3
9) Dynasty warriors 4 hyper
10) GTA: San Andrea’s
11) Simpsons hit & run
12) Devil may cry 3 (special edition)
13) Prince of Persia 2: warrior within
14) Prince of Persia 3: the two thrones
15) Metal gear solid
16) Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
17) Metal gear solid 2: substance
18) The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay
(You need the patch for it to support the gamepads)
19) Star Wars Battlefront 1&2
20) Lego star wars 1&2
OTHER GAMES:
1) Happy potter and the deathly hallows
2) FEAR
3) Resident evil 4
4) Silent hill 2
5) Silent hill 3
6) Silent hill 4: the room
7) Snoopy vs. the Red Baron (Namco)
8 ) Lost Planet: Extreme condition
9) Crysis
10) Overlord
11) Bioshock
12) Halo 2
13) DiRT
USB Gamepad for PC
Purchased a new gamepad and wondering what all games can be played with it……….Then don’t worry your search is over. Here is a list of the PC games that are compatible with gamepad.
These games will give you the feel of a console gaming. The gamepads supported are not listed here because it changes from game to game.
If the gamepad is not recognized by the game, then you can remap the mouse/keys to the pad using any one of a dozen programs designed for this purpose like pinnacle etc.
SPORTS AND SIMS:
1) Fifa
2) Blazing angels: squadrons of ww2
3) Pacific fighters
4) Heroes of the pacific
5) Metal Gear Solid
6) Cricket
7) Virtua Tennis
ACTION GAMES:
1) Assassin’s Creed 2
2) Assassin’s Creed 3
3) The godfather
4) Gun
5) Tomb raider legend
6) Halo
7) X-men the official game
8 ) Onimusha 3
9) Dynasty warriors 4 hyper
10) GTA: San Andrea’s
11) Simpsons hit & run
12) Devil may cry 3 (special edition)
13) Prince of Persia 2: warrior within
14) Prince of Persia 3: the two thrones
15) Metal gear solid
16) Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
17) Metal gear solid 2: substance
18) The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay
(You need the patch for it to support the gamepads)
19) Star Wars Battlefront 1&2
20) Lego star wars 1&2
OTHER GAMES:
1) Happy potter and the deathly hallows
2) FEAR
3) Resident evil 4
4) Silent hill 2
5) Silent hill 3
6) Silent hill 4: the room
7) Snoopy vs. the Red Baron (Namco)
8 ) Lost Planet: Extreme condition
9) Crysis
10) Overlord
11) Bioshock
12) Halo 2
13) DiRT
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Apple iPhone 5 tech specs leaked
Apple iPhone 5 is in its testing stage, “discreetly,” or so claims a senior staff member of Apple.
After reporting to you that iPad 2 may get double of full HD display, we have discovered some dough on the next generation iPhone 5. Rumor has it that the iPhone 5 is been completely redesigned. We hear from Apple Daily that the iPhone 5 will pack a new A8 processor that’s based on a multi-core Cortex A9 chip. Also see: Previous iPhone 5 rumors
The new Apple flagship smartphone is said to feature a Qualcomm chipset that would come with CDMA, GSM and UMTS baseband support. This clearly means that the iPhone 5 will be made compatible with both Verizon’s and AT&T’s network. However, the iPhone 5 may lack 4G LTE support. Well, this is little disappointing, but 4G LTE networks are still in their nascent stage in the United States and this way the iPhone 5 will avoid the teething problems. Related: iPhone comes to Verizon
Apple’s iPad 2 and iPhone 5 are said to feature a new version of Apple’s custom A4 chip, with dual, faster graphics cores capable of supporting a Retina Display. Apple’s iPad 2 is also expected later this year. The new iPad 2 and iPhone 5 will have more speed on the graphics as well as video processing front. To support high-quality video conferencing, Apple will include hardware acceleration for video decoding and encoding, The next-generation iPad is expected to feature a front-facing camera, which did not make into the original iPad.
According to rumors, Apple will not only be upgrading its video core, but also going to move to multiple cores, which will come in the SGX543 design. Apple’s new custom chip will most probably be in the SGX543 MP2 architecture, which pairs two SGX543 cores to work as one. This will offer around four times the capability of the previous A4 in graphics and video tasks. The new graphics core also supports OpenCL, which is used to offload general purpose computing tasks on the GPU for faster execution.
It is rumored that Sony would be using the same multiple core SGX543 architecture, by using four or eight cores, in its upcoming PlayStation Portable 2.
Coming to our domestic Indian market, even the iPhone 4 still has not been officially launched in India. So, we don’t know when and at what prices would iPhone 5 see the light of the day in India. But the smartphone would need to be really powerful as Indian buyers are hungry for feature-rich smartphones and a deluge of Android phones are slated for release in India.
iPhone 5 Specs and Features
Thinner! With shiny glass back piece-9.3 mm thick
Video chat on 3G, 4G (no longer restricted to WiFi)
Face recognition
Face Time over 3G and 4G
Custom SMS tones
Custom Email alerts with ability to assign with different email address
Sleek design
OLED screen
Scratch proof and shatter proof screen
Wireless sync with iTunes
32G and 64G memory
Extended batter life- 14 hours talk time on 3G and 7 hours on 4G. Standby time of 600 hours
After reporting to you that iPad 2 may get double of full HD display, we have discovered some dough on the next generation iPhone 5. Rumor has it that the iPhone 5 is been completely redesigned. We hear from Apple Daily that the iPhone 5 will pack a new A8 processor that’s based on a multi-core Cortex A9 chip. Also see: Previous iPhone 5 rumors
The new Apple flagship smartphone is said to feature a Qualcomm chipset that would come with CDMA, GSM and UMTS baseband support. This clearly means that the iPhone 5 will be made compatible with both Verizon’s and AT&T’s network. However, the iPhone 5 may lack 4G LTE support. Well, this is little disappointing, but 4G LTE networks are still in their nascent stage in the United States and this way the iPhone 5 will avoid the teething problems. Related: iPhone comes to Verizon
Apple’s iPad 2 and iPhone 5 are said to feature a new version of Apple’s custom A4 chip, with dual, faster graphics cores capable of supporting a Retina Display. Apple’s iPad 2 is also expected later this year. The new iPad 2 and iPhone 5 will have more speed on the graphics as well as video processing front. To support high-quality video conferencing, Apple will include hardware acceleration for video decoding and encoding, The next-generation iPad is expected to feature a front-facing camera, which did not make into the original iPad.
According to rumors, Apple will not only be upgrading its video core, but also going to move to multiple cores, which will come in the SGX543 design. Apple’s new custom chip will most probably be in the SGX543 MP2 architecture, which pairs two SGX543 cores to work as one. This will offer around four times the capability of the previous A4 in graphics and video tasks. The new graphics core also supports OpenCL, which is used to offload general purpose computing tasks on the GPU for faster execution.
It is rumored that Sony would be using the same multiple core SGX543 architecture, by using four or eight cores, in its upcoming PlayStation Portable 2.
Coming to our domestic Indian market, even the iPhone 4 still has not been officially launched in India. So, we don’t know when and at what prices would iPhone 5 see the light of the day in India. But the smartphone would need to be really powerful as Indian buyers are hungry for feature-rich smartphones and a deluge of Android phones are slated for release in India.
iPhone 5 Specs and Features
Thinner! With shiny glass back piece-9.3 mm thick
Video chat on 3G, 4G (no longer restricted to WiFi)
Face recognition
Face Time over 3G and 4G
Custom SMS tones
Custom Email alerts with ability to assign with different email address
Sleek design
OLED screen
Scratch proof and shatter proof screen
Wireless sync with iTunes
32G and 64G memory
Extended batter life- 14 hours talk time on 3G and 7 hours on 4G. Standby time of 600 hours
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