24x7 Global Incident Map

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Putting this weblink which was forwarded by my friend.

Global Incident Map: There is a lot happening in our world every minute. This 'map' updates every 300 seconds...constantly 24/7. Click on any icon on the map for text update information. It's not just about Terrorism - it's about everything happening every minute some place in the world of terrorism, threats, explosions, airline incidents, etc. It is like "CNN Breaking news". You can click on any city in the world shown on the map which changes every 300 seconds with an up-date. Any subject whether it is flood, trains, war, etc.....

Have you erase your data completely ?

A University of Glamorgan study found more than half the hard drives they saw still contained sensitive information.
It is feared some of the information could be used by criminals.
The Information Commissioner's Office, which monitors data disposal, has said it will be tough on any organisations breaching the Data Protection Act.

The study examined 105 hard drives which had been purchased on internet auction sites and was able to access 92 of them.

The data recovered by the university team included staff passwords and national insurance numbers, a template to print a university degree and even detailed information about school children.

Researchers found 57% of the readable disks contained data which allowed the original owners - ranging from organisations in the leisure and financial services industries to a number of universities - to be identified.

A fifth of the disks contained financial information, including sales receipts and profit and loss reports.

But as with every problem there is a solution, Here is one that will securely erase a single file, a folder, or an entire hard drive:http://www.softpedia.com/get/Security/Secure-cleaning/Eraser.shtml

Free PDF tools

I have found this site that offers you tools to edit your pdf file as you like.
PDFill PDF Tools are FREE PDF Toolbox to Merge, Split, Reorder, Encrypt, Decrypt, Rotate, Crop, Reformat, Header, Footer, Watermark, Images to PDF, PDF to Images, Form Fields Delete/Flatten/List, and PostScript to PDF.

Tech Ecosystem

Last week I had a query from my friend who was looking to buy new plasma TV, but we he hooked it up to his old DVD player the promise of HDMI quality picture was missing. I had a look and found out his 9months old DVD player doesn’t support HDMI output. I guess déjà vu must be coming to you, cause how many times we have brought home Electronic product only to find out it either won’t run or is not backward compatible. Just a month back I had brought Pioneer car audio Bluetooth player where you can through A2DP transfer music from your mobile, laptop and play through car speakers BUT my mobile doest have A2DP profile.








Manufactures through try to make their products backward compatible but still it doesn’t work always.
Cause electronic products today have a ecosystem in which they are made and tested, and will be out of place in older generation, and you purchasing a TV might end up changing everything in your living room except the furniture.
Solution to this problem is god planning
Take account of the your needs

1. What you currently have?



2. How much are you willing to spend?



3. How long do you intend to keep it?

Answer to these questions will help you to find your very own Tech Ecosystem.

India is growing as a big market for FMCG goods where product gets launched simultaneously here as its international release, This may be good for one part, but other part says If the technology comes late then it has been tried and tested in other markets where we save ourselves to be the guinea pigs .
An example will be the ram which is used in computers , their was SDRAM then came RDRAM which was not launched here ,and it was rejected due to its higher price and making and new form of DDR RAM was launched which is the new standard .

ThinkPad T61 Review

It has has been 15 years since IBM launched its first ThinkPad 700C.
ThinkPad T60 gives away to the new T61 with the announce of the Santa Rosa platform, People at the Lenovo have made quite a few changes in the new T61 Firstly the name is change to Just ThinkPad not IBM ThinkPad, The rollcage extends to whole of the laptop even the LCD more of the new features later on in the review.

The following are the specs of the 14.1” T61 being reviewed:



Screen: WXGA+ 1440 x 900 (LG screen)
Processor: Intel T7300 Core 2 Duo (2.0GHz, 800MHz FSB, 4MB Cache)
Hard Drive: 120 GB hard drive
Memory: 1GB x 2 RAM (PC5300, 667 MHz, DDR2 SDRAM), up to 4GB max memory
Optical Drive: DVD+-R Double layer / DVD+-RW Drive (Ultra-slim Super-Multi Drive)
External Ports and Slots: Three USB 2.0, Firewire 400, one SmartCard Reader, one VGA, one 4-in-1 card reader, headphone / line-out, microphone-in, modem, 1Gb Ethernet, Fingerprint reader, Secure chip,webcam
Wireless: WiFi Intel 802.11agn(n-disabled), Bluetooth 2.0 w/ EDR
Graphics: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M (128MB)
Operating System: Windows Vista Business
6-cell Li-Ion battery

Reasons for buying/Competition

The competition to Thinkpad T61 series is:
#Dell Latitude series
#Toshiba Tecra series
#HP business series (nx, nc, etc )
It took me lot of time when deciding on my next IT companion, I finally decided on T61 as it gave me the right mix of business and pleasure features which I was looking for, as luck would have it was not available here in India so I purchase it from Funan IT market from Singapore, where I got a great deal with the purchase I got the additional 1GB (677mhz) of ram and ThinkPad optical notebook mouse and a carry case.

The Features

Software
“Access IBM” is now “ThinkVantage” If you ever seen a Thinkpad notebook you will seen a blue button on the keyboard that is the “ThinkVantage” button it gives access to all Lenovo ThainkVantage software
Access Connections, Active Protection System, Rescue and Recovery, Client Security Solution, Secure Data Disposal, Fingerprint software,System Migration Assistant, System Update
Other notebook makers do have some amount of software but they do not come as close to what ThinkVantage has to offer.

Hardware
It has spill free keyboard, so you don’t have to cry over spilled coffee
The hard drive is protected within the magnesium roll cage and shock mounted. Even if your T61 is dropped the included Active Protection System (APS) software will work with the on board accelerometer to detect a fall situation and end hard drive activity to prevent data loss. This rollcage now even extends to the LCD screen which allows for better singale of WiFi, it holds the LCD in its proper place.
There is Security embedded chip which protects your data physically.
The DVD drive is swapable which means you could take out the DVD drive and swap it with extra battery, and you now have full more than 9hours of standby or swap it with Blueray drive which will be out soon.
The ThinkPad T61 is a premium product with a durable build, it is geared towards business users or simply those willing to pay a bit more to get something that won't fall apart after 1-year of use.

Input and Output Ports
T61 has 3x USB 2.0 ports, 1 firewire port, Smart card, MMC card reader, monitor out port, modem and Ethernet LAN port.

Heat and Fan
The bottom never got as hot on the T61, and all around it just felt cooler. Since there’s a lot more heat vents on the T61, the fan doesn’t need to run as much. But even when it does run, the T61 fan is very quiet. The addition of more vents on the T61 really goes a long way to keeping the system cool, but internally the T61 uses a new cooling system too, so some true design innovation is at work here.

Keyboard
The ThinkPad keyboard is one of, if not the best, notebook keyboards out there. There's zero flex, every key feels individual, every key has great travel/feedback and the keyboard is full-size.

Warranty
I got 3 years international warranty .ThinkPad warranties are different than most other notebooks. They follow the machine, not the buyer. No registration or proof of purchase is ever necessary. If you sell your ThinkPad, there is no need to transfer the warranty. Machine type and serial number are required to look it up.

Pros
Excellent build quality, magnesium internal cage in lid and body provide extra protection
Keyboard is highly usable, one of the best in the industry
System runs cool, even though it now has more powerful processor
FireWire and media card reader are nice new port options for the T-series
Great performance and good battery life with integrated graphics
Integrated WWAN and web camera are nice options to have

Cons
Screen brightness is lacking, in strong lighting situations screen appears washed out
Would rather not have the Windows Live toolbar built-in
T61 is thicker than the ThinkPad T60 and T43 notebooks
Screen is not centered