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Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Eero has a better solution for the quality of the WiFi signals in homes

Perhaps the WiFi connections we have in our homes are not sufficiently effective in giving coverage to more devices, and above all, get in top condition to any corner of our homes without using WiFi extenders. In this sense, the emerging company based in San Francisco Eero about offering a different system of WiFi coverage to ensure that there are no areas without coverage, which is stable and that is also fast.

To do this, instead of using a single router with WiFi connectivity powerful, the system proposed from Eero is a distributed system in which a number of smaller devices are interconnected generating a mesh network. The pack of three devices WiFi connectivity come at the price of $ 300, each additional WiFi connectivity device costs $ 125. Each of these devices has in its interior with two WiFi signals for connection to 2.4 Ghz and 5 Ghz, Bluetooth 4.0, 1 GHz processor, 512 GB of RAM and 1 GB of internal storage. The idea of having connectivity via Bluetooth is due to the growing need for connected devices using this technology, basically pointing to the Internet of Things.

In addition to the devices, a mobile application available for Android and iOS to set up and manage the status of the network devices that are connected to it can be observed. Since the designated application you can also give access to the devices of the visiting people. There is also an application in the cloud with these tasks.

When asked why they choose to disperse WiFi hotspots in homes, founder and CEO, Nick Weaver, simply states that never tries to cover the whole house with a light bulb so that the same occurs with a WiFi product. With regard to traditional WiFi extenders, Weaver said that the big problem is that they are really cheap and only have a signal, meaning that are constantly switching between them, weakening the bandwidth and performance, and create multiple networks.

Weaver, co-founders and a team of 15 people have been developing their solution silent for the last two years.

Kindle Convert , Amazon's new tool to convert physical books into digital format

If you are planning to spend those physical books that you own a digital format for reading through e-book readers from Amazon has a new tool, Kindle Convert , which is a desktop application for Windows 7 or 8 systems with the that, through a scanner can scan pages of your books for conversion to digital format, creating digital versions of themselves fully compatible with Amazon Kindle app and the Kindle devices.

Yes, the application is not available globally nor is it free as it is available only for users in the United States and has a final price of $ 19.

In addition to scanning books to create digital versions, with Kindle Convert you can preserve those unique elements such as handwritten notes, autographs and pictures, and also number them with free copies on Amazon Cloud Drive, among others.

Among the requirements Kindle Convert is the need for a scanner that can generate .jpeg, .tiff or .pdf files of 300-600 DPI resolution, that has a color depth of 24 bits or 8 bits for grayscale or black and white. In addition, states as needed internet connection and user account on Amazon.

Chances are that people do not invest the time needed to bring his personal library to digital format, and less if the number of books available is high, but if you have sporadic books or wish to have digital versions of some or all his books, this app offers Amazon them is an option that may be considered.

24 free books for learning programming

From linuxlinks comes a list of free books in digital format ideal for those who want to learn to program, expanding the list of 1000 books on programming that we indicate a few months ago.

Updated just two days ago, we can find books C, C ++, C #, PHP, Perl, Python, HTML5, Java, JavaScript, Lua, Pascal, Ruby, CoffeeScript, Scala, Haskell, Fortran, Forth, Erlang, R, Lisp, Ada, Assembly, Prolog and Scheme, always thinking of learners, although all of them are in English.

The links lead to their respective sources, as this book PHP , which has its HTML version published free of charge and sells for $ 9 epub version.

If you wish to learn programming on android you can also consult the course that begins now in February, reported in our monthly list of free online courses in www.sinoloveo.com .

Link: linuxlinks.com | Via Lifehacker

Picturesque Lock Screen, new lock screen application of Microsoft Garage

Microsoft Garage is an initiative of Microsoft by enabling your employees to develop those ideas to keep in mind to bring them to reality experimentally within the time that the company offers. We have already seen some of the applications that employees have developed within this initiative, among which is the lock screen app for Android Lock Screen Next, which was launched in the month of October.

Well, now just released another app lock screen for Android devices, called Picturesque Lock Screen, although it is not yet available internationally for installationthrough Google Play . Picturesque Lock Screen brings a lot of functions to lock screen in Android, offering elegant wallpapers daily, made under the Bing engine that allows the reading of linked pages results without unlocking the device search, section latest that allows access to the entire contents of the articles, rapid notification of calls and messages, and more.

Although it is not yet available internationally, those that are within the scope of availability of this application must have Android devices from version 4.0.3 onwards.At present, average rating received by users are positive.

Twitter begins testing a tool to facilitate the start to new users

Many current Twitter users will agree that a lot of new users can be quite difficult to adjust the operation of Twitter, a social network with a slightly different operation to which users are accustomed. Therefore, and with the idea of facilitating the process of adaptation, Twitter would be testing a tool to provide a full Timeline relevant content to new users .

Now, from The New York Times asserts that Twitter would have begun testing Instant Timeline -name receiving this new tool- with a small number of new users of Twitter for Android. In general, the operation seems to be pretty good, is that thanks to Instant Timeline new Twitter users can access a wealth of relevant content without stopping to find out how the network works , as at present. To do this, Instant Timeline analyze the user's phone book in order to determine how many of your contacts already have an account on the social network. Thus, in case some of them already on Twitter, Instant Timeline would check the accounts followed by these users in order to make a selection and show them to the new user . Later, as the user start following accounts of interest, recommended by Twitter content would disappear.

Working properly it would not be surprising that Twitter extendiese Instant Timeline to other platforms.

Source: The New York Times .

Now Google Images suggests more images and links related to specific query

As many have been noticing in recent years, when clicking on an image in the results of Google Images one presentation mode in which a black background highlights the selected image and accompanying 8-just like thumbnails to be displayed your right.Sure, with clicking on any of the thumbnails, will also open in presentation mode.

Well, alerting on Google Operating System of a new detail within this presentation mode and the eighth card image is now accompanied by a button "More", which extend in huge step getting the desired results. An example makes this clear:

When looking for the word "minions" will appear dozens of official images of these curious characters, but going further down the results, images created by including fans one that is given to a minion appearance include Wolverine / Wolverine. If we click on it, the aforementioned presentation mode opens.

On your right will appear 8 images related thumbnail and the last one (identified in our capture) the button "More" is. If the press, now the search is quickly filtered by the "minions wolverine" or any image that Google understands that can match:

Of course, the magic is not limited to similar terms but to " search for images from images "whereby the content come to replace the query words rather like cargáramos image directly Google Images and give him to the button Search ; Yes, the limit of 8 images disappears to show dozens of copies.

And that's it, a small detail but it will be quite useful to require specific content with just a few clicks. By the way, can we use the filters at the top to accommodate even better the query.

Thursday, November 13, 2014

mindscapes, relaxing music computer generated

On several occasions we have indicated websites where you can listen (and even create) relaxing music, perfect for letting the background while we concentrate on writing, study or any other task that needs concentration.

What we present is now mindscapes.co , a website that includes four themes (ocean, mountains, space and city) that can be streamed directly from the Internet, being a project created by computers.

Yes, the music that we hear there is the result of mixing sounds following specific algorithms. No one person composing issues a copyright or behind, it's all the result of a "logic" based ones and zeros.

Although the amount of music is not extensive, and the styles are not as flexible as those created with defonic , elmnts , soundrown or any of these other options soothing sounds , it is interesting to see how the computers create "music".

Sony unveils PlayStation Vue, your television service in the cloud

In the last hours, Sony has given a lot of details about the launch of the new TV system in the cloud of the Japanese company . The name of this service is PlayStation Vue, and the beta will be released in the coming weeks in New York.

The aim of PlayStation Vue is providing access to a wide variety of different TV channels without the need to sign any contract to access the content (as is often necessary in pay television). One of the most interesting pillars of PlayStation Vue is that the content will be accessible from a lot of different devices, not limited to those marketed by Sony, a movement with which Sony hopes to replace traditional pay TV.Throughout this month of November you can access the service in beta, but only via invitation, only in New York , plus it will only be accessible from PlayStation 3 and 4. Then, once you have verified the operation of the service, the beta phase will extend the iPad and a lot of different devices, both Sony and the other manufacturers. PlayStation Vue providing access, for the moment, 75 different TV channels such as CBS, Fox and NBCUniversal . Being a television service in the cloud, users can save content to your device for viewing later, can play during the next 28 days. At the moment, PlayStation Vue prices were not disclosed, but Sony has stressed that any contract or installing additional hardware is not necessary, plus we can give unsubscribe at any time.

With a move like this, Sony could give a somewhat broader approach your gaming console , so it was seen as a focused entertainment in general and not only the game, which could increase sales of their consoles device. Although, for now, the service is available only in the United States, it would not be surprising that give results extend to other regions. PlayStation Vue will be released officially to the public during the first quarter of 2015.

Microsoft has an account on Instagram

With currently only two photographs, microsoft already present in one of the largest social networks of photography today: Instagram.

Available in instagram.com/microsoft , wants to focus on pictures of people using Microsoft tools to make their everyday tasks. For it has hired Justin Bastien, as we read in mashable , photographer to travel the world capturing images and telling stories, professional whose clients to other major brands such as National Geographic or Canon (you can see their work on justinbastien.com )

One of the photos shows a woman using Skype to communicate with other coffee aficionados, although the image is not displayed anywhere mark or Skype or Microsoft, is not the goal.

The texts are accompanied Tag #DoMore (do more), so it seems we have a new player in Instagram hashtag.

Blackberry introduces mobile video conferencing solution: BBM Meetings

BBM wants to compete with WhatsApp Messenger in the business world, the new BBM Meetings wants to take market share from Skype.

This is a new solution announced by BlackBerry, an application available for Android, Blackberry 10 Windows and OSX (iOS is still in development) that allow you to communicate both voice and video, supporting meetings up to 25 people can connect from different platforms.

This function is available in the business option and will cost $ 12.50 per month. The details, which are available on blackberry.com show that the goal is peritir transform a meeting in a conference chat voice or video with a single click, making simple presentations from mobile devices or even join the meeting from a phone fixed.

Continue to opt for privacy by allowing users to block or mute, always setting the privacy of every meeting held.

The funny thing is that there is no free version available, even limiting the number of people participating. It is a solution that requires subscription, so it is difficult to conquer users who already use Skype, Viber and other alternatives extremely used in the market.

It's smart to invest heavily in the software market when the hardware is lost at such a high rate, but you do know the market well, and seems not to be the case for BlackBerry.

Nvidia will launch its "Netflix for games"

The maker of graphics processors Nvidia launched in this month in North America and over the next year in Europe and Asia its new streaming service game called Grid, focused his Shield Tablet devices as well as its predecessor which is currently regarded as Shield Portable.

Nvidia has chosen this way to launch its streaming service games to their mobile devices instead of betting on desktops that have their graphs, more in line with the Sony PlayStation Now service with the PlayStation 4, as stated in his blog . In this regard, Phil Eisler said in an interview PlayStation Now is based on PS3 chips, which was developed ten years ago by Nvidia, and adds that in benchmark tests, Grid is 12 times more potent and get twice the rate photographs relating to the streaming of games through PS Now.

In the interview, since Nvidia pointed to Grid as Netflix games twice, even though at present its catalog of games is still small, with a total of 20 games ranging from one year antiquity to play with up to a decade, although since the company raised add new games every week, hoping to bring more than 100 games over the next year.

Grid will be available for now as a free preview for users Shield Shield Portable Tablet and without yet have defined a deadline for this mode or final plan prices. At least we know that until the first half of 2015, Grid will be free for users Shield devices.

Grid moment will not support so users can export data items that have, where also played games that are initiated through Grid, can not be resumed outside the ecosystem of Nvidia. The spread of the games will take place through WiFi networks, although there is the possibility that users can use USB ethernet adapters to connect, where in any case, an internet connection 10Mb / s or higher recommended .

As a final point, Nvidia aims to reach Shield Lollipop Tablet soon though it will take a few months to arrive in the case of Shield Portable. We leave you with the video:

New version of aviary offers its extension pack for free for a limited time

Aviary is a photo editor that have dedicated many articles in recent years. Since I was exclusive web version, until it began to join thousands of mobile applications so they can use the power of your photo editor, has had a long and productive way until Adobe bought it a few months ago.

Within Adobe has done a good job with this publisher, today released a new version that includes all its extension pack (photo effects) for free, with over $ 200. Although this promotion is limited in time (in November alone), once obtained the packs, we can use them whenever we want.

To obtain necessary report an Adobe ID (free), providing access and opportunity to synchronize the extensions we have chosen sieepre you want (now or in the future).

The new version, available for iOS and android (links are in aviary.com ) also includes 4 new effects that help improve both the brightness and colors of the images of our mobile.

This first update since it is held by adobe, specified in his blog , promises to be the first step for further integration with Creative Cloud platform. Hopefully not adversely affect the many applications that use this editor as an extra functionality.