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When it comes to the turn around almost on a weekly basis was new speculation about the Apple TV, it was with respect to this last issue very quiet. But Cult of Mac reports that an unnamed trustworthy source could evaluate a prototype.

According to this device to remember much coming from the same home cinema and Thunderbolt displays, however, was significantly larger. The only technical details that should have been identified include the presence of Siri voice control and a FaceTime camera. The latter allows for video communication with other Apple devices. For details on the user interface of the TV, the screen size or resolution was not to find out.

Mockup of possible Apple TV (Image: cultofmac.com )
According to the specialist on the television market analyst Paul Gagnon of the NPD Group , a start of the Apple TV is still very unlikely this year. On “exotic” technologies such as 4K resolution, or OLED , the company will give its opinion. In total there will be between two to four models with diagonals of 40 to 60 inches, which are produced by Foxconn. Not least because of the introduction to Sharp’s display manufacturing , this can be taken for granted. According to Gagnon The prices are roughly in the range between 1,000 and 2,000 U.S. dollars.

One problem that has traditionally been Pinterest are the charges of facilitating copyright violation images, allowing to easily share a photo of a Web site without preserving the author has made light the ire of many photographers and illustrators.

Flickr and took a step towards its users: users who post their copyrighted photographs could disable the option to share a picture Pinterest . And now they have added an extra feature: the images in this network share automatically included by the author.

The effect is also retroactive: all Flickr images now show shared Pinterest author and link to the photo page. Thus users who choose to share their pictures allow Pinterest (is optional) maintain ownership of their images (so also can not be edited) and those who want “pinear” something may do so as easily, even from the menu to share images from Flickr.

Mozilla developers Jared wine has announced that the Firefox browser will display no future so-called favicon in the address bar more. The change has been incorporated in the “nightly build” the most experimental preview version of the browser, and is from about mid-July for all users will be released.

As Firefox developer Jared wine on his’ blog ‘writes that the decision has to do mainly with safety issues. Currently appear in the Mozilla browser in addition to a URL favicon (short for “favorite icon”), usually there are logos of each open Web page.

See also: Firefox 12 is now available for download

Their intention is to not only throw off “visual ballast,” writes like wine, but mainly to increase the security of the Firefox browser. It is true that the use of favicons usually a part of the (visual) identity of a website, but there is also always our staff, the place instead of a harmless logo padlock at the proposed location for the favicon.

SSL connection with or without a certificate, and not mixed content (from top to bottom) via SSL secured page

The use of the lock icon has the consequence that the user feels like you are on a secure page, although that is not the case. This increases the risk, as this symbol appears only in the normal case, and should only appear when the browser is using SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) is connected to a specific page.

In future, therefore, the symbol will only appear if there is indeed an SSL connection. On all other non-secured pages in this way (or, pages with “mixed” content) will be republished only a gray globe icon, as is the case even when Chrome browser.

In the lock icon is there two different versions: For pages that use SSL with Extended Validation Certificate, a green icon appears next to it there is also the name of the certificate owner. Where web with SSL, but without extended validation certificate, however, appears only a gray lock icon.

Not long ago I launched the rumor that Microsoft will not take too long to launch Skydrive clients for Windows and OS X , which would use all the space so similar to Dropbox. And … well. Say I’m now using that client on my laptop with Windows 7.

The application is very easy to download and install, as you can imagine, is free and integrates seamlessly with the file browser. Currently identifies as a beta, but is fully functional and gives me the impression of being quite fast and stable and is compatible with Windows Vista, 7 and 8. And is not the only innovation we’ve seen in Skydrive (thank you all for warning).

In addition we can install Windows client application for OS X, compatible unfortunately only Lion and Mountain Lion. In this way we can integrate Skydrive with Finder and work with files in the cloud as if they were on our PC (which really are on our PC, sync in the background, as you know).

On the one hand we have the new storage plans, free or paid. By default, all will have 7GB, which can extend up to the previous 25GB of free Skydrive if we were users before yesterday. And we can add another 20, 50 or 100GB of storage cost of 10, 25 or 50 dollars a year. We raise, by the way, files up to 2GB.

Another new feature that I will take more than a pinch we can, through Skydrive, ride our little private cloud. If we have the client installed on your PC can literally be accessed from anywhere to any file stored on your hard drive and upload to Skydrive to work with him.

An interesting detail, of course, is that shared folders do not count against the size limit for all users that are in that folder. Along with applications from OS X and Windows have been updated IOS and Windows Phone, adding support for the iPhone (either iPhone 2 or the new screen retina).

You can download the application from the site that has enabled Microsoft to this effect, apps.live.com and test it. I, as I say, in Windows I have not had any problems and I think I’ll leave Dropbox by Skydrive (25GB are many GB, after all, and won the integration with Office Web Apps and so on).

The fifth part was published in the autumn of 2011 the “Anno” strategy series will be expanded in the third quarter to an addon. This is the official Ubisoft forum entries refer to, relate to the current issue of gaming magazine Gamestar.

With “The Deep” is in “Anno 2070″ ( Computer Base Test ) bring the underwater world to the foreground. For the new level of civilization “genius” are used mainly in water extracted and produced goods and products needed. In addition, the game with new vehicles, objects, buildings, technologies and capabilities will be added. Trade routes can be created by submarines underwater. For more complexity to the already out of the economy, “Anno 1404″ ( Computer Base Test hold) known feeder assembly.

The computer manufacturers want to through the introduction of Windows 8 can apparently cause a wide range of tablets on the market that cover an equally broad range of prices. It is priced between 300 and under up to $ 1,000 of the question.

Microsoft and its partners in the device and chip manufacturers will work together closely, in order to capture significant market quickly with Windows 8 shares. The goal is supposed to push the market share of Apple’s iPad tablet in the range of around 70 percent by mid-2013 to below 50 percent, reports the Taiwanese industry publication ‘ DigiTimes ‘.

Windows 8 Tablet

Microsoft wants to get Windows 8 for x86 systems supposedly in September 2012 on the market before then with the ARM version of Windows RT follows a little later. Allegedly planning manufacturers like Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Lenovo, Acer, ASUS and Toshiba by the end of 2012, the introduction of at least 32 different Windows 8 tablets.

Lenovo and Acer Aspire while reportedly after some very low prices, which move between 300 and 1,000 dollars. Entry-level models are even at prices of less than $ 300 on the market for Android-based tablet better able to compete. The devices with prices beyond the 300-dollar mark will increasingly take Apple iPad targeted.

With less fanfare than usual, Samsung has announced the renewal of its NX series cameras (the company without a mirror), which has acquired a new 20 megapixel sensor and WiFi connectivity as most significant changes.

The new Samsung NX20, NX210 and NX1000 share essential technical features such as sensor APS-C sized 20 megapixels, video recording at 1080p, ISO up to 12800, the burst of 8 photos or 3-inch screen, as well wireless connectivity already mentioned.

The differences we must look first in the design, with three clearly differentiated profiles (more compact to more “classic SLR”), and then in detail as the screen is AMOLED and ability to move freely in the Samsung NX20, or fixed on the NX210 AMOLED, which also have viewfinder.

Simplest is the Samsung NX100, with 3 inch screen but not very compact and AMOLED.

As is known now, which has Raspberry Foundation started to deliver copies of their first single-board computer “Raspberry Pi” – orders are possible since the end of February . Already anticipated that the relevant training seminars have gone to students from Equip.

The “Raspberry Pi” is a single-board computer with simple equipment, equal to that of its dimensions to a credit card. It is available in two versions, calling themselves simply as “Model A” and “Model B”. They all share the SoC from Broadcom BCM 2835 with the 700 MHz ARM CPU type ARM1176JZF-S and 256 MB of RAM. As the website of the Foundation is to be found, it should be possible for the CPU to a certain extent to overclock – most copies will create about 800 MHz.

Similarly, both models as the GPU Core IV video from Broadcom, and they each have a composite, a 3.5mm jack and an HDMI port, through which the video and audio output is realized.

Raspberry Pi “Model B” blueprint (image: raspberrypi.org)
The difference between the models is that the “Model B” in place of one of the “Model A” with two USB ports and additional features that still holds an Ethernet controller type from SMSC LAN9512.

For mass storage, memory cards are used, such as SD and MMC cards. They are mandatory for a boot of distress, even if you want an OS to boot from a USB device. The energy consumption will amount to “Model A” at about 2.5 watts in “Model B” at 3.5 watts. The power supply can either be implemented using a micro-USB cable or with four AA batteries. You can install any operating system that is able to support the ARM11 architecture.

It would be presumptuous to ask the terms “HTC” and “crisis” in a direct relationship. It is really about where the former star but are not among the smartphone and tablet manufacturers. Turbulence of the last expression is now a personnel change at a critical point.

As was announced recently, HTC’s Chief Finance Officer has (CFO) and thus replaced the chief finance officer of the company. Shall bear the date of the investment bank Goldman Sachs associate Chia-Lin Chang, the responsibility of the former CFO Winston Yung.

For the experienced Chang here are no less turbulent times before: in addition to stifling competition, HTC has now also with declining sales and profit figures to fight.

The idea goes through to get the contents of thirty Blu-ray in a “cassette” plastic 1.5TB, MiniDisc-style, of course, with higher dimensions.

Sony Optical Disc Archive, which is the name the media, have different sizes in those cassettes, ranging from 300GB to 1.5TB. A Blu-ray Quad face can accommodate up to 128GB, so we can understand that there will be between 3 and 30 of those albums into the new support for Sony.

The drive / burner is external, as it has a special form is not designed to enter the bay free of a computer, and connects via USB 3.0. Write speeds (possibly 12X or higher) and reading have not been published, nor the price.

The first thing we can interpret this storage format is that Sony wants to give customers a stronger support to the discs, as it did with MiniDiscs.

I have no clear destination (clearly professional) because hard drives continue to be a faster and more flexible option, and if we talk about portability, flash memory is advancing rapidly in size. Perhaps the audiovisual market is most interested.

The first units of Sony Optical Disc Archive will go on sale in fall 2012. Neither was there on ODA licensing to other manufacturers.