When Intel announced it was shipping its mSATA SSD 310, which is designed to provide a speedy solid state boot drive for notebooks that also have a full size The storage device that holds your OS, programs, and data.Learn Morehard drive, we couldn’t wait to see the new how quickly notebooks with the device would boot. At CES, Lenovo demonstrated its IdeaPad Y570 booting in just over 10 seconds using the Intel SSD 310 and special settings such as a fast-posting BIOS and fast-loading drivers, a combination the notebook-maker calls RapidDrive. N
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Everyone reading this probably takes a decent photo. Smart framing. Anticipated exposure. General taste. Sprinkling of bokeh. What separates amateurs and pros, beyond a paycheck, is simple: Control. For this week’s Shooting Challenge, you’ll control focus on a fundamental level.
Take a photograph of a scene/subject that has some depth but that’s also completely in focus using the rules of hyperfocal distance.
Don’t be scared off. This is a good question! You know how sometimes you’ll take a photograph and something in the foreground is in focus while the background is not?
It may seem unsual for Sony to release a PlayStation app for the iPhone, but this isn’t an app to play PlayStation games with, it’s more of an information tool for keeping up-to-date away from your console.
The PlayStation Official App as it is called, allows you to sign in to your PSN account using your ID. Once logged in you can:
- Keep up to date with your trophies, friends’ games and online status
- Check out all the latest games, news and hardware
- Read all exciting announcements from PlayStation.Blog
This is version 1.0 of the app suggesting Sony intends to update it with more features in the future. The g
Rumors are flying fast that Apple are prepping the iPad 2 for a late January, early February release. Of course Apple have not confirmed any of the rumors, but when have they ever done that?
Founder of Digg, Kevin Rose, has stated that a source close to him is indicating a February 1st release. Other news on the iPad 2 is obviously the ‘square’ shape compared to the curvy design of the original (like the iPhone 3G/S to the iPhone 4). Also included in the rumor mill for the iPad 2 is a higher resolution display and dual cameras (front and back) for some FaceTime-action. <
GSM is the standard digital technology that allows us to make calls worldwide. But what we assume is secure has actually been proven insecure by researchers who demoed an easy way of eavesdropping on encrypted calls and messages.
Although the government can easily hack into a cell phone using a $50,000 network sniffer, these researchers determined that there was an easier and cheaper option: a $15 hack that almost any Joe Shmoe could do it. Scary.
All it takes is four $15 phones as network sniffers, a laptop computer, and a few readily available open source software solutions.
“GSM is insecure, the more so as more is known about GSM,” said Karsten Nohl of Security Research Labs.