The Top 3 Tech Trends Shaping 2011

Three overarching, interrelated trends -- cloud consumption, virtualization and mobility -- present themselves as key industry themes for 2011. All have been increasing in importance over several years, and this year, all will reach a tipping point for businesses and information security providers alike. To prepare your organization for the cumulative impact of these trends, you will need to consider new and better solutions for next-generation firewalls, application control and visualization, bandwidth management, secure remote access, clean VPN and wireless, and data leakage prevention. Trend 1: Cloud Consumption Taking applications...


Turning Your PC into PS3 with Sony’s Move.ME

Sony Computer Entertainment America earlier this month has released a new software application helping hobbyist, academics, researchers, and students to turn their PCs in to PlayStation3 (PS3) with use of PlayStation Move motion controller as an input device on their own PCs. The new software application by the name of Move.ME could also help medical researchers to prototype, such applications as rehabilitation applications for patients undergoing physical therapy, as well as helping design students to develop new creative concepts in gaming within the areas of 3D modeling, motion capture as well as augmented reality. The new software...


UV Technology Leads to Wastewater Compliance

Under pressure to start disinfecting its wastewater, the Wilsonville Power Systems Development Facility (Wilsonville, AL) turned to Aquionics, a leader in UV disinfection technology, for help. Now the facility is in compliance with state regulations -- in four years of operation, contaminants have been kept within permit limits with minimal maintenance. The Wilsonville Power Systems Development Facility (PSDF) is a research and development center that tests various processes, mainly coal-based technologies, before they are implemented at power supply facilities. In 2006, the growing plant employed 200 people and produced a wastewater...


New Energy Saving Circuit Configuration Reducing Power Consumption in Mobile Equipment

Toshiba has unveiled its newly developed Flip-Flop circuit configuration using 40nm CMOS process which company claims would reduce power consumption in mobile equipment. For example, the measure data that has been recorder when the new configuration has been applied to wireless LAN verifies that the power dissipation of the new flip-flop is up to 77% less than conventional flip-flop, furthermore, it achieves a 24% reduction in overall power consumption. As an essential part a SoC design, a flip-flop is a circuit that temporarily stores one bit of data during arithmetic processing by a SoC which is incorporated within mobile equipment...


High Performance ARM Based Microcontroller for Industrial Application by Fujitsu Semiconductor

Fujitsu Semiconductor Europe has released series of microcontrollers that are designed for industrial applications such as health care sector as well as medical technology. The newly developed FM3 microcontrollers are based on ARM® Cortex TM-M3 core with special peripheral functions. In addition to peripheral functions, the new FM3 series benefit from number of improvements in its peripheral macros such as dedicated encoder inputs for determining rotor position resulting in a reduced load on the CPU. In addition to this, the FM3 series features three independent high precision and very fast 12-bit A/D converters with 16 input channels...


HTTPS is strong secure

You wouldn't write your username and passwords on a postcard and mail it for the world to see, so why are you doing it online? Every time you log in to Twitter, Facebook or any other service that uses a plain HTTP connection that's essentially what you're doing. There is a better way, the secure version of HTTP—HTTPS. That extra "S" in the URL means your connection is secure and it's much harder for anyone else to see what you're doing. But if HTTPS is more secure, why doesn't the entire Web use it?  HTTPS has been around nearly as long as the Web, but it's primarily used by sites that handle money—your bank's website or shopping...


Free Windows 7 Tools You Have to Try

The smartphone marketing phrase "there's an app for that" got me thinking -- isn't there an application for pretty much anything and everything I need on my PC? And aren't those apps typically free? Yes, pretty much.Here are eight of my recent Windows tools discoveries. Let other readers know the ones you've found in the comments section below.Windows 7 tool No. 1: EvernoteThis tool is one that even Mac users will appreciate. I've been using Evernote for the past few weeks to take notes. I brought it to Microsoft's campus for the recent MVP Summit, for example, and CEO Steve Ballmer's keynote even included a reference to note-taking...


10 Free Chart Scripts

This week I’ve been working on a project that required data to be shown visually. I needed a Chart Script that was attractive yet gets the data across. The Charts scripts below are built using JavaScript, Flash, Silverlight, and Java.Flot – Flot is a pure Javascript plotting library for jQuery. The focus is on easy usage , attractive plots and interactive features. With Flot you can interact with the data, look at specific data by zooming in, plot a time series, and other various options.Open Flash Chart – Open Flash Chart is a Flash charting component. It is fairly easy to setup and has classes written in PHP, Perl, Python, Java,...


8 Best Open Source Shopping Carts

Hey Everyone, On Sunday I was contacted by a client and they said the needed a shopping cart up by Monday. Since they needed this cart up so fast I went to the easiest solution I knew, Open Source Shopping Carts. I browsed through tons of shopping carts compatible with the best ecommerce hosting and put together a list of only the best carts.  The list is below. is robust, professional grade e-Commerce shopping cart that you can download, install, and use for free. In the back end, you will use a full featured back end to manage your inventory, orders, shipping, and customers in real time. Your customer’s payments are sent directly...


8 Popular Open Source Forums

This week I am working on a project for a client and they requested a forum on their website. Being that I didn’t want my client to have to pay for a forum software. I found quite a few popular Open Source Forum software alternatives. The list below is a collection of 8 popular Open Source Forum software  that can run on any good web hosting. – phpBB is one of the most popular forum softwares. With phpBB you can customize with mods and you can stylize your forum. For a fully Modded phpBB forum with about 500 different mods that all have been fully tested click here. – Vanilla is a lightweight open source forum that was developed...


Mobile WiMAX Will Outpace LTE in Next Few Years

According to a recent report by In-Stat, people are shifting focus from wireless 4G technology and ultra-mobile broadband (UMB) to LTE and WiMAX.Both 4G technologies, meaning those technologies that are expected to meet the requirements of IMT-Advanced, are not even close to becoming available commercially In-Stat reports.LTE Advanced and 802.16m WiMAX are being tailored to offer 100Mbps mobile throughput and 1Gbps stationary throughput. These extremely high throughput capabilities are predicted to be an important part of the ITU’s IMT-Advanced requirements."Mobile WiMAX effectively came on the scene in 2006 with South Korea’s WiBro;...


Reset Windows 7 Password With Ubuntu

Sometimes you forget your Windows password, or maybe your workmate leave and you replace him and you cannot access his ex-computer because it have a password. And you cannot guess his/her password to login. And you cannot reinstall the Windows because it have lot if important data and software that need to be installed and tweak. Then reinstall the Windows is not the answer.If you had this problem then don’t worry, you still can reset Windows 7 password using Ubuntu. Whether boot it from USB or using Ubuntu live CD. To reset Windows 7 using Ubuntu you can use chntpw.So to install chnptw on Ubuntu, follow the steps below:1....


ProXPN- Secure your internet connection instantly

ProXPN- Secure your internet connection instantlySecures your internet with high-bit military-grade VPN encryption, for free Works with all connections from DSL and cable to 3G Gives you 100% private access to the internet Never worry about being spied on again Now nobody can see the websites you visit intercept and read your email, IMs, or anything else record your web history run traces to find out where you live SIGNUP BETA ACCOUNT SIGNUP: https://proxpn.com/index.phpDOWNLOADInstaller: Link will be available after you signup and login at https://proxpn.com/index.php . PROCEDURE 1. Install ProxPN in your PC. 2. Download my modified...


Technology Stack Drupal 7

Drupal’s design goals include both being able to run well on inexpensive web hosting accounts and being able to scale up to massive distributed sites. The former goal means using the most popular technology, and the latter means careful, tight coding. Drupal’s technology stack is illustrated in Figure 1-1. Figure 1-1. Drupal’s technology stackThe operating system is at such a low level in the stack that Drupal does not care much about it. Drupal runs successfully on any operating system that supports PHP. The web server most widely used with Drupal is Apache, though other web servers (including Microsoft IIS) may be used. Because of Drupal’s...


Cloud Computing is Solution for Administration

The emerging field of cloud computing is an interesting one, and not just for businesses. The field of public administration benefits from the technology as well. Fraunhofer Institutes are developing solutions to create such systems efficiently and to implement security conceptsResearchers will be presenting these and other solutions on "Computing in the Cloud" at CeBIT in Hanover from March 1-5, 2011. Cloud Computing is a tempting development for IT managers: with cloud computing, companies and organizations no longer have to acquire servers and software solutions themselves and instead rent the capacities they need for data, computing...


Saving Energy with Integrated Solutions

A wide range of technologies can be employed to provide customized, cost-efficient, and eco-friendly drive solutions. These include regenerative braking, automatic magnetization adjustment, copper rotors, 87 Hz operation, and intermediate circuit coupling. One company leading the way in this area is NORD, which develops, produces, and markets drive technologies and is an international supplier of all-in solutions. In addition to standard drives, NORD supplies application-specific concepts and solutions, addressing such special requirements as energy-saving drives and explosionproof systems.Reusing Excess EnergyWhen machine motions must...


Wireless Keyboard and Mouse Review 2011

Some of the best wireless keyboard and mouse combos we've reviewed have stellar keyboards and mice in one package. This is an important characteristic because, although the freedom of a wireless keyboard and mouse combo means you aren't trapped at your desk, one of the downsides of purchasing a keyboard and mouse combo is that as a bundle you can't mix and match elements. You may like the keyboard in one but the mouse in another. Instead of worrying about mixing and matching, when searching for the perfect keyboard and mouse combo, look for key elements in both the keyboard and the mouse, and you won't be disappointed with either.FeaturesThe...


Popular Free SEO Tools

SEOBook Keyword Suggestion Tool – Many professional search engine optimization firms use this powerful tool as part of their initial keyword research phase. Do yourself a favor and bookmark it now.Link Hub Finder Tool – If you are lucky enough to have a Google API key, this tool will help you determine link hub sites for virtually any niche.Quintura – Find out where YOU live in your “keyword neighborhood”. A great way to get a relative overview of where you stand and will help you develop your initial goals.HitTail – This sweet little code snipet reveals, in real time, the most promising but least utilized keywords that drive traffic...


Improve Your Web Presence

Creating and publishing your website is the easy part of your work. The hard part is getting target audience.  This is a list of great ways to improve your online presence.Use Technorati to promote your product (write a blog entry and promote that).Write an introduction to your new application and submit it to share sites like Digg, Reddit and Now Public.Make easy to be bookmarked on del.icio.us so you get into the popular page.Submit your web application to Techcrunch.Submit your web to StumbleUpon and get your friends to Stumble your site.Submit your web application to search engines like DMoz.Create a MySpace account and advertise...


Remove False Isass Exe File and Get Rid of Sasser Worm

"Isass.exe", the Local Security Authentication Server, aims to help authenticating users log in their computer correctly. Recently, the file has generated lots of problems and made many users fail to log in their system. All are due to a worm called the Sasser Worm. If you get the Isass.exe not found or missing error message, your system is likely infected by the Sasser Worm. You need to remove the virus as soon as possible.Usually, there are two situations. On the one hand, the worm can infect Isass.exe and force it to malfunction; on the other hand, the worm can delete or disable the legal exe file and display itself with the same name....


Tips to Be a Good Programmer

One weblog subject that by no means seems to get outdated is what makes a superb programmer, or the way to be a superb programmer, or what you can do to be a better programmer. The identical activities are sometimes listed as being the path to successful codewriting, when actually it's just the method by which the true magic happens. With programming, like many issues, it isn't what you do, it's what you learn from it and the one key ingredient to being a superb programmer (in addition to practice) is publicity to programming. Exposure is available in many types, whether or not it's through hands-on apply or taking a look at somebody else code....


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