Latest iPad 3 leaked photos 8M camera with A5X processor

In three separate incidences over the weekend, insiders have leaked iPad 3 photos alluding to the design and purported parts for the soon-to-be-released tablet. Here’s a look at the shots, where they came from, and what they tell us.

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The first of three leaks published on Chinese blog, Apple Daily, displays a side-by-side comparison of the iPad’s shells from its first to third generation. The purported iPad 3 in the comparison displays a noticeable difference in the circumference of the rear-facing camera, assumed to be making space for an 8-megapixel camera. The case’s design itself, while exhibiting little difference from its second-generation predecessor as we’ve expected, may come with a noticeably beveled edge, likely in an effort to fit in a larger battery. We should expect the iPad 3 to trump the 10-hour battery life on its predecessor.

Dual-core A5X



A second leaked photo that sprang up on the Chinese site, WeiPhone, suggests that the iPad 3’s processor will be a quicker dual-core A5X, an upgrade from the dual-core A5, which can be clocked up to 1GHz and debuted in the iPad 2. The news of the A5X may come as a disappointment for those who were expecting the newer A6 quad-core processor. But all hope isn’t lost. According to MacRumors, the A5X processor was created in November 2011, which could very well mean that Apple disguised the A6 as an A5X to prevent a leak such as this. The second possibility: The A5X was a mere stand-in prototype, because Apple is known to create multiple prototypes before finalizing the specifications.

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9.7-inch display

Finally, a leak by yet another Chinese blog, App.wepost.me, offers a glimpse at purported iPad 3 displays packaged to be shipped out. The forum confirms a 9.7-inch, high-resolution 2048 x 1536 Retina Display, but also includes a “dual LED display.” Samsung’s manufacturer, Radiant Opto-Electronics factory in Wujiang, China, is reported to be the supplier and will be shipping out the product to Samsung in South Korea.
With the iPad 3 anticipated March 7 unveiling quickly approaching, everything we’ve been expecting in the iPad 3 remains for the most part, unchanged.


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Microsoft redesigns Windows logo

Microsoft on Friday announced to redesign the logo of Windows software, making a fundamental change to the iconic four-color Windows logo users have been used to for 20 years.


Meshing with the Metro design of Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8, the new logo is a slightly-angled blue block with a thin white cross in the middle, making it look like a window instead of the four-color wavy flag in the past.
"The Windows logo is a strong and widely recognized mark but when we stepped back and analyzed it, we realized an evolution of our logo would better reflect our Metro style design principles and we also felt there was an opportunity to reconnect with some of the powerful characteristics of previous incarnations," said Microsoft in a blog post.
"We did less of a re-design and more to return it to its original meaning and bringing Windows back to its roots -- reimagining the Windows logo as just that -- a window," the company said.



The new logo is designed by Paula Scher from the Pentagram Design Agency, whose notable works include the Citibank logo.
The first Windows logo, which debuted in November 1985, was a blue block spilt by while lines into four different-sized blocks. Since then, the logo has gone through several redesigns, which were all based on the design of a four-color wavy flag.


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Study finds Facebook users more Private than ever

In the two years since the boy-king of social networking Mark Zuckerberg famously declared the death of privacy, it seems Facebook users have actually become more private about sharing their personal details with strangers. In a new study released today by the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, researchers found that since 2010, the number of users that choose to hide their friend lists publicly has actually increased by a staggering 200 percent.

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According to the study, “In March 2010, 17 percent of users in the sample hid their friend list from their public profile. Just 15 months later, 53 percent of users opted to make that list private.”
Researchers crawled the public profiles of 1.4 million Facebook users in order to compile the data — the largest Facebook privacy study ever conducted, according to the authors. Still, that number accounts for only a small fraction of Facebook’s estimated 850 million users. The study also found that women tended to restrict more personal data more often than men (55 percent vs. 49 percent), and that wealthier Facebook users were also the most private.Brave new world
The past few weeks have witnessed the unleashing of a veritable assault on user privacy: Along with an unprecedented (and possibly illegal) change in the way Google will allow its user’s personal information to be shared across its far-reaching web presences, the popular social networking app Path also found itself the focus of Internet ire after acknowledging it had uploaded user’s address books to its servers without their explicit permission.


Then late last week, Twitter, in acknowledgement of the same iOS bug that allowed Path to pull addresses, also admitted to storing user contact lists on its servers for up to 18 months, in the hopes of being more easily able to suggest twitter followers based on user email addresses.
The privacy lapses have put Apple on the offensive, particularly after US members of congress began a formal inquiry into the behavior, “demanding answers to ‘claims that the practice of collecting consumers’ address book contacts without their permission is common and accepted among [third-party] app developers,’” according to the Guardian. Apple has so far responded only by stating, “We’re working to make this even better for our customers, and as we have done with location services, any app wishing to access contact data will require explicit user approval in a future software release,” quoted the Wall Street Journal.
Conspicuously absent however, from the iOS 5.1 pre-Gold Master leaked this morning, were any mentions of a fix for this issue in the forthcoming update to the software that powers both Apple’s iPhone and iPad.What Facebook does right
Back to that infamous quote: In 2010, Mark Zuckerberg told an audience at the Crunchie awards in San Francisco that “People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people. That social norm is just something that has evolved over time.”
However, according to professor Keith Ross, who headed the recent Facebook privacy study, it is precisely because of the evolving normalness of sharing that users may be turning more private once again: “We believe that greater sensitivity and public awareness of privacy issues, combined with easier privacy options on Facebook, spurred more members to protect their information,” said Ross.
The fact remains that Facebook made it easier, and not more difficult, for users to protect their privacy, regardless of Zuckerberg’s personal philosophies — and Facebook was in turn rewarded with a swelling increase in membership. What this study illustrates is not only that users are looking to more actively curate their online personas — and choose more deliberately what information is shared with whom and how — but that they are willing to stick with a service that offers those choices. The next time Google, Twitter, Path, and the like try to sneak a privacy issue under the Internet’s collective nose, those companies should do well to remember that privacy is no longer an issue that the modern user takes for granted.




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Company sues Apple over iPad name

A company fighting Apple Inc. over its use of the iPad trademark in China took its complaints to a Shanghai court Wednesday, though it says it is willing to talk about a settlement.
Shenzhen Proview Technology claims ownership over the iPad name. Apple says it bought the rights to the name in China and other countries in 2009, but that Proview failed to transfer the rights in mainland China as agreed.

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Proview accuses Apple of acting dishonestly when it bought rights to the iPad name from its Taiwan affiliate and is seeking to prevent sales of the popular tablet computers in China. It has filed lawsuits in several places and has requested that commercial authorities in 40 cities block iPad sales.
Shanghai's Pudong district court convened a hearing on the issue early Wednesday.
Meanwhile, Apple has appealed an earlier ruling against it in a court in Shenzhen, a city in southern China's Guangdong province. The Guangdong High Court is due to hear that case on Feb. 29.
According to Xie Xianghui, a lawyer for Proview, late last week a lower court in Huizhou, another city in Guangdong, ruled that distributors should stop selling iPads in China.
But that ruling may not have a far-reaching effect since the High Court appeal is still pending.
Xie has also said that since no final decisions have been reached in various legal disputes over the issue, both sides are "still able to sit together and reach an out-of-court settlement."
The trademark case is highlighting mixed attitudes toward Apple in China. Chinese are just as crazy about iPads and iPhones as consumers anywhere else and the devices are manufactured in China, employing hundreds of thousands of people.
But public awareness has been growing of criticism over the labor and environmental practices of huge factories that assemble the devices. Major Apple supplier Foxconn Technology Group, a Taiwan company, under intense scrutiny after a spate of worker suicides, recently raised wages by up to 25 percent in the second major salary hike in less than two years.
Many in China expect the two sides to eventually reach a settlement rather than continue to battle in the courts.
Apple, based in Cupertino, California, insists it holds the trademark rights to the iPad in China, having purchased them through a company set up for that purpose for 35,000 British pounds ($55,000).
A court in Hong Kong, which has a separate legal system from mainland China, ruled in July that Proview had acted with the intention of "injuring Apple."
Proview, a maker of LCDs, registered the iPad trademark in China in 2001 for an "Internet Personal Access Device" computer that employed touch panel technology. It contends that the 2009 sale was not legally binding.
So far, iPads have been pulled from shelves in some Chinese cities but there has been no sign of action at the national level.



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Photographer captures worlds in water drops

Photographer Markus Reugels uses high-speed photography to capture these images of falling droplets. CREDIT: Markus Reugels, LiquidArt

Carefully "posed" water droplets turn flat photographs, like this one of Jupiter, into spherical worlds. Credit: Markus Reugels, LiquidArt

Another, simpler, photographic technique involves dripping milk or cream into water to create dreamy images like this one. Credit: Markus Reugels, LiquidArt

Photographer Markus Reugels uses high-speed photography to capture these images of falling droplets.



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Download OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Dev .DMG File (Direct Download)

Leaked Mirror Download Link of Mac OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion Developer Preview 1 12A128p .DMG (3.45GB) – Apple has managed to release the next generation of Mac’s Operating System “OS X 10.8″ soon (within next weeks). But currently Appla has seeded its Dev Preview Edition in the Dev Center Page of course accessible only for registered developers.In case if you can’t wait for its official release, you can try its Dev Preview 1 but remember that this is not the final stable version. So use it with your own risks.

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Apple's Mountain Lion for Developers

Apple has announced OS X Mountain Lion, the next version of its Mac operating system.

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Mountain Lion, which is available to developers from today, takes more features and applications from the iPad and iPhone and brings them to Apple's laptop and desktop computers. It will be available to users, Apple says, "in late Summer 2012".

The new version of OS X brings iOS features such as Notification Centre, Game Centre and AirPlay mirroring will now be a part of the Mac Applications such as Notes and Reminders, which will be familiar to iPhone and iPad users are also coming to OS X.

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Microsoft Windows Phone 8 details leak

Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 will support NFC and content sharing with computers and tablets, according to a leaked video.

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The new version of Microsoft's mobile phone operating system will share a lot of components with Windows 8, the new operating system for computers and tablets, allowing developers to reuse much of their code when transferring apps.

The information comes from a leaked video featuring Joe Belfiore, Microsoft's Windows Phone manager, and apparently intended for staff at Nokia.

Windows Phone 8 is codenamed 'Apollo' and is due to be released after 'Tango', the next update to Windows Phone 7.

The new operating system will, according to Belfiore, support NFC - the Near Field Communication system that allows services including contactless payments. It will also support new screen resolutions for Windows handsets and removable microSD storage.

Improved data synchronisation means that music collections and Xbox gaming data will be shared seamlessly between computers and mobile handsets.

Current Windows Phone apps will work on Windows Phone 8 handsets, Belfiore said.
In a leaked "roadmap" for Windows Phone last year, Microsoft said it was preparing for the introduction of 'superphones' in late 2012. The 'Apollo' version of Windows Phone would be designed for these devices, the company said.
Although there is no firm definition for a superphone, they are generally expected to include very high definition screens, more powerful multi-core processors based on ARM’s forthcoming A15 architecture and connectivity over next generation mobile broadband.
The introduction of such handsets next year is expected to set the scene for the next major battle of the smartphone wars, with the iPhone 5 and more advanced Android devices also in the works.
The current version of Windows Mobile, “Mango”, released in October, was generally well-received by reviewers. Microsoft was late to properly join the smartphone wars, however, and sales have been slow so far, despite the introduction of Nokia's first flagship Windows Phone handset, the Lumia 800.
Figures from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech show Windows Phone has only around a 1.3 per cent share of the market.
Nokia committed to making only Windows Phone devices early in 2011, but has said it will only begin to fully exploit the partnership when Apollo is released.
“We made the decision to go to Windows Phone when Mango was pretty much done, so we were able to impact some elements of it but you'll really see the fruits of what we can do with Microsoft when the Apollo version of Windows Phone comes out,” spokesman Niklas Savander said in October.

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Download VLC Media Player v2.0.0(Direct Download)

VLC Media Player it is now updated to version 2.0. featuring many advanced abilities including faster decoding on multi-core, GPU, and mobile hardware.

Version 2.0 is a major upgrade edition for this popular app. As a refresh, the VLC iPhone app was listed and appear in iTunes App Store before it got disappear again.
Since VLC 2.0, it now supports many new devices and even BluRay Discs. Being rewritten from scratch, VLC Media Player 2.0 supports multi-threaded decoding for H.264, MPEG-4/Xvid and WebM which are recently being a most used web and mobile format.

VLC Media Player 2.0 is made available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Anyway, for further more new features list and download link can be found in its official website here. For a shortcut, you may also use following direct download link:
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Users take tablets on a honeymoon, and into the bathroom

On Monday, researchers from the marketing firm Rosetta released study findings in which nearly 900 tablet owners were asked about their experiences with the mobile devices, and a question that has been haunting each and every tablet user since the devices first went mainstream almost two years ago has finally been answered, namely: How many of us take our tablets into the bathroom?
The answer, surprisingly or not, is quite a few. The study found that almost 25 percent of tablet owners regularly use the devices while… otherwise preoccupied… and a full majority of users — 68 percent — also take the devices to the bedroom with them.
According to Jay Lichtenstein, a Partner in Rosetta’s Consulting Practice, “We expected usage in the living room, kitchen, etc., but didn’t expect such high percentages in the bedroom, bathroom and even outside the home (for example, on the patio). This data about device usage in different locations, combined with our device preference data, reinforced that tablets are not necessarily the primary devices for a lot of things; instead, it is an ad-on device so you can keep accessing info anywhere.”
While bedroom use is perhaps less surprising, given a tablet’s multipurpose role as e-reader and Web browser, the researchers did discover what they referred to as a “honeymoon” period with new tablet ownership. During this time, which can last from one to six months, owners tend to travel with their tablets more often, and use their devices for many varied tasks, exploring the tablets full potential — perhaps at the expense of their significant others. So if you were planning on giving a tablet as a gift to a special someone this Valentine’s Day — don’t say you haven’t been warned.
“Like in any relationship,” says Lichtenstein, “the pressure is on to keep consumers engaged and happy with their tablets beyond that initial infatuation period,” referring to the so-called honeymoon.
The study also found that after this initial excitement eventually wore off, users tended to revert back to more traditional methods of computing, with 47 percent preferring a PC to browse the Web, and 39 percent preferring a computer for online shopping.
Tablets reigned supreme over time for users reading books, magazines, and newspapers, and also to check email, perhaps signaling a trend that tablets are becoming less interactive and more unidirectional, such as books or TV. The popularity of tablet gaming, however, would seem to refute this theory, although even that seems to decrease over time; 34 percent of users reported gaming on their tablets in the first month, as opposed to 29 percent after 12 months, according to the study.
If these findings hold true, there are many implications beyond tech companies simply facing up to the facts and offering antibacterial touch screens: Tablet use, although explosive in the past year in terms of growth, seems to offer almost a novelty effect in terms of the end-user. If reading, something that consumers have been doing in a big way on the Amazon Kindle and other devices since at least 2007, is the primary use of a tablet after the initial 12 months, these devices are clearly not being used to their full potential. Unless tablet makers and independent developers can innovate in terms of new uses for tablets, this study seems to illustrate a point that perhaps the researchers failed to fully comprehend: Maybe tablets aren’t really the life-changing gadgets we in the tech community assume them to be. Take a look at the full infographic here.



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