Chromebook and Chromebox new devices on Google Chrome OS

I was wondering what will happen with that all on the Internet os, so called Google Chrome OS, but finally I have discovered that they have find the way to sell it. The concept is to sell all in one device both branded & embedded. So Google introduced us 2 new products, first of them is Chromebook. It's standard notebook pc with built in Chrome OS. Interesting point here is that the name of it Chromebook somehow associate to famous Apple MacBook.

Cromebook

What a nice idea, always connected lap-top with lightweight OS that doing just one thing that you need, opening you way to the Internet where you have all similar things that you had on standard desktop. Here i'm talking about average user, but number that type of user is huge. And they also like to have things as simple as they can be.

Chromebox

Another type of users that are bit more engaged to their desktop computers and like big screen to drive their things, have another solution so called chromebox, it does the same thing as Chromebook but in different package :). I also must comment here that it's design looks like Apple's Mac Mini. 

What ADSL line is the best

What ADSL is the best?

People are very often in confusion when they have to choose provider for ADSL service. My suggestion is just to look deep into providers price lists and try to find best solution for you (higher speed and lowest price are ideal match.)
If you what to surf normally without lags in traffic minimal speed to choose at this moment is 6Mbps for download and about 512kbps for upload. If you are wondering why two speeds are mentioned here is what ADSL actually means:

Asymmetric digital subscriber line

Catch is to understand what is asymmetric here. Asymmetric stands here for difference between speed of downloading and uploading data eg. 12/1Mbps (*Mega bits per second, 1Mbps it is one thousand bits in second, so to be clear 8bit = 1byte), that means that with this speed 12/1Mbps you will have download speed of about 1.46Mb/s (Mega Bytes per second ), and you can count that you will be able to download mp3 that is about 4Mb weight in few seconds or DivX movie that is around 700Mb within 10 minutes. But thing is little bit different when you are uploading things, putting photos taking longer 1Mbps is around 124Kb/s and putting photo with average dimensions which is about 4Mb can take about 40 seconds. In theory all of this as I mentioned, but you can experience delays because these are maximal, not guaranteed speeds at many providers.

So chose your ADSL provider carefally...

bandwidthplace.com - Bandwidth place another internet speed test

- Speed Test | Bandwidth | Broadband Internet Services says website called bandwidthplace.com, tihis is another great place where you can test speed of your connections, in previous post I was writing about another places on the web where you can test your speed, but this one is so simple and usable. Good recommendations for bandwidth place dot com. Go check it!

Canon PowerShot ELPH 300 HS

Canon PowerShot ELPH 300 HS 12.1 MP Digital Camera (Black)

Digital Cameras

A digital camera is a camera that takes video or still photographs, or both, digitally by recording images via an electronic image sensor. It is the main device used in the field of digital photography. Digital cameras can do things film cameras cannot: displaying images on a screen immediately after they are recorded, storing thousands of images on a single small memory device, and deleting images to free storage space. The majority, including most compact cameras, can record moving video with sound as well as still photographs. Some can crop and stitch pictures and perform other elementary image editing. Some have a GPS receiver built in, and can produce Geotagged photographs.

Canon PowerShot

Canon's high-end PowerShot digital cameras incorporate the creative performance of a professional digital SLR camera and the compact convenience of a point-and-shoot.

ELPH 300 HS 12.1 MP Digital Camera (Black)

ELPH 300 HS - SPECIFICATIONS

Type

Compact digital still camera with built-in flash, 5x Optical & 4x Digital & 20x Combined Zoom and Optical Image Stabilizer

Image Capture Device

Type - 12.1 Megapixel, 1/2.3-inch CMOS
Total Pixels - Approx. 12.8 Megapixels
Effective Pixels - Approx. 12.1 Megapixels

Lens

Focal Length - 4.3 (W) - 21.5mm (T) (35mm film equivalent: 24-120mm)
Digital Zoom - Approx. 4x
Focusing Range - Normal AF: 2.0 in. (5cm) - infinity (W), 3.0 ft. (90cm) - infinity (T)
Macro: 1.2 in. - 1.6 ft. (3 - 50cm) (W)
Autofocus System - TTL Autofocus

Viewfinders

Optical Viewfinder - N/A
LCD Monitor - 2.7-inch TFT color LCD (wide viewing angle type)
LCD Pixels - Approx. 230,000 dots
LCD Coverage - Approx. 100%

Aperture and Shutter

Maximum Aperture - f/2.7 (W) - f/5.9 (T)
Shutter Speed - 15 - 1/2000 sec. (Total Shutter speed range)

Exposure Control

Sensitivity - Auto, ISO 100/200/400/800/1600/3200
Light Metering Method - Evaluative*, Center weighted average, Spot**
* Facial brightness is evaluated in Face AiAF.
** Fixed to center. Exposure Control Method - AE Lock
Exposure Compensation - +/-2 stops in 1/3-stop increments

White Balance

White Balance Control - Auto*, Daylight, Cloudy, Tungsten, Fluorescent, Fluorescent H, Custom
* Facial color is evaluated in Face AiAF

Flash

Built-in Flash - Auto, Red-eye Reduction, Auto Red-eye Correction, Flash On, Flash Off; FE Lock, Smart Flash, Slow Synchro
Flash Range - 1.6?11.5 ft. (W), 3.0?6.6 ft. (T) (50cm?3.5m (W), 90cm?2.0m (T))
* Image brightness may diminish depending on the shooting distance
Recycling Time - 10 sec. or less (battery voltage: 3.7 V)
Flash Exposure Compensation - N/A

Shooting Specifications

Shooting Modes - P, Auto1, Movie Digest, Portrait, Kids & Pets, Smart Shutter2, High-speed Burst, Best Image Selection, Handheld Night Scene, Low Light, Fish-eye Effect, Miniature Effect, Toy Camera Effect, Monochrome, Super Vivid, Poster Effect, Color Accent, Color Swap, Beach, Underwater, Foliage, Snow, Fireworks, Long Shutter, Stitch Assist, Movie3
*Videos are recorded by pressing the movie button
1Smart Auto also available for videos
2Smile, Wink Self-timer, Face Self-timer
3Standard, Super Slow Motion Movie, Miniature Effect for Movies (Videos are recorded by pressing the movie button)
Photo Effects - My colors Off, Vivid, Neutral, Sepia, Black & White, Positive Film, Lighter Skin, Darker Skin, Vivid Blue, Vivid Green, Vivid Red, Custom Color*
*Adjustment of contrast, sharpness, saturation, red, green, blue and skin tone are available
Self Timer - Approx. 10-sec. delay/approx. 2-sec. delay/custom Shooting start time (0 - 10 sec. (in one-second increments), 20/25/30 sec.) and number of shots (1 - 10 shots (in one-shot increments)) can be specified.
Wireless Control - N/A
Continuous Shooting - Approx. 3.4 shots/sec. (in P mode)
Approx. 8.2 shots/sec. (in High-speed Burst)

Image Storage

Storage Media - SD/SDHC/SDXC memory card, Eye-Fi, MultiMediaCard, MMCplus card, HC MMCplus card
File Format - Design rule for camera file system, DPOF Version 1.1 compliant
Image Recording Format - Normal, Fine
JPEG Compression Mode - Still Image: Exif 2.3 (JPEG)
Video: MOV (Image: H.264; Audio: Linear PCM (stereo))
Number of Recording Pixels -
16:9
4000 x 2248 (Large), 2816 x 1584 (Medium 1), 1920 x 1080 (Medium 2), 640 x 360 (Small)
3:2
4000 x 2664 (Large), 2816 x 1880 (Medium 1), 1600 x 1064 (Medium 2), 640 X 424 (Small)
4:3
4000 x 3000 (Large), 2816 x 2112 (Medium 1), 1600 x 1200 (Medium 2), 640 x 480 (Small)
1:1
2992 x 2992 (Large), 2112 x 2112 (Medium 1), 1200 x 1200 (Medium 2), 480 x 480 (Small)

ELPH 300 HS - USER OPINIONS

"If you are looking for a sleek take anywhere type of compact camera that offers a practical wide angle zoom range, provides dependable performance, and delivers sharp and well exposed images under most conditions, we have no hesitation in recommending the Canon PowerShot ELPH 300 HS."

(citation from digitalreview.ca)

iPhone 5 - iPad 3 and so on... iPhone 6, iPhone 7, iPad 4 - iPhone 4S

update:

iPhone 4S is launched

update:

RIP Steve Jobs

I think this game is endless and hope that Apple will change their product names soon. Imagine in few years question: Did you have seen new iPhone 532 at discount it's price is almost like for iPhone 654, but it don't have  virtual 23G network teleport. These days we have seen that Apple Releases iOS 5 Beta 5 for developers, so now we can expect that iPhone 5 will hit the market very soon, maybe in September? Fame about iPhone is now extended to one other product, it is famous iPad which is now in version 2, but when we can expect iPad 3? And big new iCloud... ?!

Microsoft has bought Skype for $8.5 billion, in an all cash deal !

Microsoft has bought Skype for $8.5 billion

Recent news has hit the world : Microsoft has bought Skype for $8.5 billion, in an all cash deal !!! Skype if finally sold. Facebook and Google were said to be earlier dance partners for Skype, and Microsoft was a late entrant and is now close to walking away with the prize. Actually, now Microsoft is absolute winner of this market battle. I'm pretty sure that this action from MS is just first big step facing the market where Google Voice and Apple Facetime are in top without appropriate competition. I'n next period I'm expecting to see Skype embedded in many Microsoft platform's like Windows Phone 7 and Xbox are. We'll see what will happen next, and what will be the responses from Google, Apple and others that are involved in this market segment.

Read in Serbian on Online Srbija - Internet Magazine page > Microsoft kupio Skype za 8,5 milijardi dolara !

Publicso !

Publicso is surviving it first months on the web ;), new thing is that we have one experiment on Publicso Experiment ! Anyway if Publicso grow there will be much more ;) try it ;)

Microsoft’s Bing uses Google search results! poor ms !

Official Google Blog: Microsoft’s Bing uses Google search results—and denies it

It is simply amazing what ideas guys from Microsoft have ! Read this article on Google blog and you'll see facts...

Publicso.com - Early Beta Preview is Launched

Last night Early Beta Preview of Publicso is Launched, you can check, test and try Publicso Photo Sharing and messaging services ! http://www.publicso.com

Probajte Publicso u ranoj beta fazi, budite među prvima i dobijte željeni username. Publicso je servis za deljenje fotografija i razmenu kratkih poruka! http://www.publicso.com

Internet Speed Test - Speakeasy, SpeedTest, BandwidthPlace

SpeedTest.net and SpeakEasy speed test

These days I have tested many of different tools for Internet speed measurement. One of the most popular and widely used is the SpeedTest.net, it gives probably the best results. I also like the test by SpeakEasy. Both and SpeedTest.net and SpeakEasy speed test are using third party solution to provide testing and it is the same made by Ookla Net Metrics Company. The first of these have better design and offer much more testing serves. The second one have very simple design, but offers very few servers. I have also found many other tools that cover this topic, but with less functionality than SpeakEasy and SpeedTest. There are many of really good tools all over the Internet, but it is hard to mention all of them here. I have also included one of free bandwidth speed tests here. Enjoy!

Test your internet speed here!

PageRank for Chrome Like in Firefox Google Toolbar

PageRank plugin for Google Chrome

For a long time I was searching for good PageRank plugin for Google Chrome, until I have found  this one. It is called PageRank extension and it is made by kalehrishi. Before this one, I have used several other plugins and extensions, some of them were opening PageRank in popup window, some of them were not displaying PageRank for current page (like Chrome SEO extension). This plugin is good solution for people who were switched from Firefox with Google toolbar and it looks even better :). It doesn't require any action from user, it is just doing what it is made for, standing in a corner and displaying PageRank. It is lightweight plugin and in my case installation took about 3 seconds :). You should check it, here is download link. Enjoy !

Free burning software

Everyday life teach us to use simplest solutions, I think that many of users that are looking for free burning software actually don't need it because they are using some of Microsoft Windows OS products that have built in functions for CD and DVD burning. But if that built in solutions don't fit your burning needs you can try some third party solution such as CDBurnerXP. CDBurnerXP is an application to burn CDs and DVDs, including Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs. It also includes the feature to burn and create ISOs, as well as a multi-language interface. Everyone, even companies, can use it for free. It does not include adware or similar malicious components. So if you wand to try you can download it here. There are a lot of free burning software on market and you should choose one that bast fit to your needs.

Broadcast yourself with YouTube business cards !

YouTube one of the most successful websites in world have simply great ideas. YouTube just making business cards for channels, with your username and your design. It is a very interesting thing, everyone can order this. This is one of the great ways to put things together. Very good business move, and very creative idea, visit the link: [link] and take a look on bright side of life. These small pieces of paper always were interesting to design, collect and keeping someone's contact outside cell phone. Anyway this is also creative way to promote yours YouTube Channel !

Audio-Video Cnverter named "Supper" is simply amazing !

The best free audio-video converter

A few months ago I was surprised when I have found this audio video converting program."Super" is a really good program. This is one of the best freeware programs that I have ever seen. It supports multiple formats conversion. You can convert several audio and video formats from one to another and the best thing is that it is absolutely free.
Super is good tool to encode full length movies to any other format without any time or function limitation. Super does not require any additional external codecs to be installed, absolutely nothing. All necessary codecs are built in.
I have tried many programs for conversion, but list of supported formats by Supper is simply amazing it can convert 3gp, 3g2, amv, asf, avi, dat, dvr-ms, fli, flc, flv, m2ts, mpg, mkv, mov, m4v, mp4, nsv, ogm, qt, rm(vb), str, swf, ts, trp, ty, ty+, tmf, viv, vob, wmv and more of video formats and different audio formats like aac, ac3, amr, flac, mmf, m4a, mp2, mp3, mpc, ogg, ra, wav, wma ...
During the conversion you can choose different options like change bit rate, resolution, disable audio or extract audio from video and more... Visit Super's website read more and download your copy of Super you will be very satisfied I'm sure.