Aaron Sokoloski

NETWORKING SITES ENHANCING PRIVACY!!!

World is soon turning into a global village. Technology has fared so great that contacting anybody in this global village is no more a dream. My friend recently moved to a place geographically very far from where I stay but of course not totally out of reach. Thanks to Internet, I am regularly in contact with her and hardly feeling the distance.

Many networking sites are now open to users. Orkut, Facebook etc being widely used. These sites are of great help to a large sector of people and I’m one among those. Through these sites I’m getting to know about friends who were difficult to be traced out. Networking sites not just help to be in contact with old friends but also helps in blooming new friends. And here comes a very major problem-Privacy. I have a number of friends in facebook I log in often. Friends are a mixture of old-whom I know and new-whom I hardly know. Sharing everything with everybody was totally a big ‘no’ for me. My prayers were answered. I wanted to share few pictures exclusively with just a group of friends. Such an option is available in facebook and other networking sites too. Facebook allows me to do such things by offering various privacy options. All this is needed because it takes just a few seconds to spread any secret over the net, it might be useful and at times might prove deadly. Though protection is being provided by networking sites its safer to be cautious.

Feelings and information can be shared but not at the cost of somebody’s discomfort.

If you are scared to travel in flights or trains thinking that your co-passenger might have been infected from a pandemic disease, then now on please be fearless to travel. Because a new detector has been invented to detect the sick traveller in flights or trains. This detector can detect the infected person by their way of coughing and it can easily find out that the person has been infected with flu virus.

This detector is likely to become global within few days. Since its a newly launched product, its yet to reach people but within few days I’m sure the aviation industry is going to welcome this product because it is in the interest of passengers‘ health. It can be fixed in the departure lounge which has a microphone that can easily detect anybody coughing and then doctors can be there to diagnose the different kinds of coughs.

This detector is invented by one of the best known biomedical companies called BIONICS. Its originated from University of Leuven which is located in Belgium.

MY NEW DIGITAL IXUS 980 IS – PHOTOGRAPHY REDEFINED

If you have the passion towards photography, then here is the right camera for you. It’s a product of one the best known camera manufacturer Canon. This is Digital IXUS 980 IS from Canon. It gives you the clearest image that you could ever capture. There are lots of digital cameras that you must have heard of. But this one is an amazing product that comes right in your budget. The Digital IXUS 980 IS uses a new processor of Canon called DIGIC 4. This model offers manual mode which also allows control of shutter speed and aperture. Both can be used together with a new QuickShot mode which uses the optical view finder for framing and focusing. It also eliminates shutter lag. The Digital IXUS 980 IS available from late September which is priced at about 349.99pounds. Isn’t it really inexpensive for a 14.7MP camera? I’m sure it’s really worth spending money in this camera. Since it is built in exquisite style and intelligent technology.

By launching this product, Canon has re-energized its Digital IXUS compact camera range. It has replaced the previous product of Canon Digital IXUS 960 IS. This Digital IXUS 980 IS brings several exciting things for its users. First of all its resolution is of 14.7Megapixel which gives a wonderful clarity of the pictures taken from farther places also.

Apart from this, its features are:

Size: The size of this camera is 98×62×28 (mm)

LCD Size: The display size is of 2.5-inch

Maximum Video Resolution: It has video display of 640×480 resolutions.

You can even set autotimer in this camera in order to take the picture for yourselves. This camera provides you with everything what you need to have in a digital camera.

APPLE UNVEILS ITUNE PASS!!

Apple has just launched a new service called Pass for its popular iTunes music store. It’s like a season pass for a favorite artist, in this case the electro band Depeche Mode. Fans who pay $18.99 for this first iTunes Pass immediately get two Depeche Mode singles, Wrong and the “Black Light Odyssey Dub Remix” of the new track Oh Well.Then, on April 21, they’ll receive Depeche Mode’s new album called Sounds of the Universe. Between now and when the pass expires in 15 weeks, fans will also receive videos, remixes and other content, some of it exclusive. All the material is automatically downloaded (in the DRM-free iTunes Plus format) into iTunes. Subscribers receive an email letting you know it’s there.

It’s worth noting that the press release announcing iTunes Pass came from EMI Music, not Apple. Before thinking this is Apple’s entree into the music subscription business, which is something Steve Jobs has pooh-poohed in the past, note that iTunes Pass is quite different.Under an all-you-can eat music subscription plan at a place such as Rhapsody, you have access to the material only as long as you keep paying a fee. With iTunes Pass, you own the content that has been downloaded, even after the pass expires.

It’s a safe bet Apple will soon extend iTunes Pass to other performers. In the release, Apple Vice President Eddy Cue says, “iTunes Pass is a great way for artists to give exclusive music and video, on their own schedule, directly to their fans. iTunes customers are going to love getting additional content directly from their favorite artists right when they make it available.”But Apple isn’t saying who those artists are, much less when the material will be available.

Apple also announced the public beta of Safari 4, which is available today for both Windows PCs and Macs. It incorporates a “Top Sites” visual preview feature, as well as the clever Cover Flow feature (for flipping through your Web history and bookmarks) that is familiar to Mac and iTunes users.I just started testing the new Safari, and it looks positive at first glance. I’ll let you know what I think once I’ve spent more time with it.