9 Newest Ultrabooks 2012 by CES

2012 is the year of Ultrabook. This year is the beginning of Super Slim Powerful notebook. You know, this year you  will see many notebook vendor produce that Ultra. Maybe I should explain to you first, what is ultrabook? I know, some of you know, that ultrabook is the thin notebook. But, Intel has their own specification to the notebook that will be given a title "Ultrabook".

1. Have a thin and light design that measures less than 21 mm (0.83 inch) at its thickest point.
2. Include ultra-fast start-up, which can include Intel Rapid Start Tech or third-party solutions.
3. Go from hibernate to keyboard interaction in 7 seconds or less, waking up from sleep “much, much faster.
4. Offer between 5 and 8 hours of battery life, even in the sleekest form factor.
5. Include features that help protect itself and its user, including Intel Anti-Theft Tech.
6. Be powered by Intel Core processors.

Oke. I hope you understand that specification.:D :P. Below is the list of 9 newest crazy tiny Ultrabook CES 2012 version. Enjoy :D

1. Intel Nikiski

The skinny:

The Nikiski is a concept Ultrabook that Intel showed off at its press conference at CES. Not a real product, it's intended to show off just what the platform can do. There are no specs posted on the device, but from our brief hands-on with it, it's definitely light and thin.

Interesting feature:

What looks like a big hole below the keyboard is actually a transparent touchpad. It works like a normal one when the laptop's open, but when you fold it up the fun begins: The custom Windows 8 build shows through the screen, which lets the user check out things like calendar appointments and emails, and even run some apps, with the laptop closed.

Potential roadblock:

It's not a real product.

Bottom line:

While the Nikiski has about zero chance of going into production, its clever execution could inspire some daring manufacturers to take some risks once Intel's Ivy Bridge chips and Windows 8 arrive. Asus, are you listening? :D

2. LG Super Ultrabook Z330/Z430

The skinny:

LG's pair of Super Ultrabooks are respectably compact, with the 13.3-inch Z330 measuring just 0.58 of an inch thick and weighing 2.6 pounds, while the 14-inch Z430 is 0.78 of an inch thick and 3.3 pounds.

Interesting feature:

Both machines are equipped with LG’s proprietary Super Speed Boot technology, which is said to be "roughly three times faster" than other 13-inch notebooks in the market. The Z430, however, also has a combined HDD/SSD drive, which LG says can still boot in 12 seconds and boasts a storage capacity of up to 500GB.

Potential roadblock:

The price, currently not announced.

Bottom line:

LG isn't know for making laptops in the U.S., and it's up in the air whether the machines will ever end up here (LG just says they're launching "worldwide" in the first quarter). If the price is right, they appear to be solid machines.

3. Lenovo ThinkPad T430u

The skinny:

Lenovo's ThinkPad T430u business Ultrabook is less than 0.8 of an inch thick and weighs under four pounds, putting in the same size class as the HP Spectre (i.e. arguably not an Ultrabook)

Interesting feature:

The starting prices is just $849 -- making it the most affordable Ultrabook we've seen.

Potential roadblock:

With no standout feature, the T430u is clearly aimed solely at business users.

Bottom line:

The Lenovo ThinkPad T430u is pretty much an Ultrabook in name only, and you feel like it's just the smallest laptop Lenovo could build without really trying. The company even says you can substitute the SSD for a hard disk, which Ultrabooks aren't supposed to do. But if you're a business, it's not like you care about labels.

4. Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga

The skinny:

The Lenovo Yoga gets its name from its dual-hinge system that lets the screen flip all the way around so the device resembles a tablet. It also allows for a thinner design, Leonvo says, measuring 0.67 inch thick and weighing 3.1 pounds.

Interesting feature:

The hinged design and 13.1-inch touchscreen, which effectively lets the Yoga become a tablet or a stand-up screen. The keyboard automatically shuts off when the screen is folded past 180°, so no worries about accidental button presses.

Potential roadblock:

The Yoga won't be available until Windows 8 is in general release. Will it be obsolete by then?

Bottom line:

Lenovo's Yoga Ultrabook offers an exciting design and a decent price ($1,199) -- if and when it ever comes to market.

5. Samsung Series 5 Ultra

The skinny:

Samsung's Series 5 Ultra laptops aim to give great performance at a good price, though with compromises. The 13.3-inch version weighs 3.24 pounds and measures 0.58 of an inch thick. The 14.4-inch model is 3.9 pounds and 0.82 of an inch thick.

Interesting feature:

The 14-inch Samsung Series 5 sports an optical disc drive, typically forbidden on Ultrabooks. Both machines also have a 500GB hard disk for storage, also normally an Ultrabook no-no, but they still work fast thanks to a 16GB SSD cache.

Potential roadblock:

Optical storage? Hard disk? Almost 4 pounds? How are these Ultrabooks?

Bottom line:

The price is right in Samsung's Series 5 -- $950 and $900 for the 14- and 13-inch models, respectively -- but you won't feel like you have a laptop from the future with these. At least you can sub in an SSD for the smaller version for a total price of $1,100.

6. Samsung Series 9

The skinny:

At just 0.64 of an inch thick at its thickest point and 2.5 pounds, the 13-inch Samsung Series 9 gives the Acer Aspire S5 a challenge to its claim of being the world's thinnest Ultrabook.

Interesting feature:

The HD+ SuperBright Plus screen is said to be up to 180 percent brighter than other laptops, which should help in bright sunlight along with the anti-reflective coating.

Potential roadblock:

The price, which is $1,399.

Bottom line:

The display on any machine that you look at for hours matters a lot, but is it worth the premium?

7. HP Envy 14 Spectre

The skinny:

The HP Envy 14 Spectre is actually not so skinny -- it's a full 0.78 inches thick, and it weighs 3.79 pounds, making it the bulkiest Ultrabook we've seen. However, it also has the some of the most novel design features, like a 14-inch screen, a sleek glass back and extra wireless technology.

Interesting feature:

Near-field communication (NFC) is built into the HP Spectre, letting you share things like maps directly from your NFC-equipped phone just by tapping. It'll also eventually let you do things like transfer payment information instantaneously between devices, making the Spectre a little more future-proof than other Ultrabooks.

Potential roadblock:

Other than its size, which arguably disqualifies the Spectre as an Ultrabook, it costs a hefty $1,400.

Bottom line:

This might be the most tricked-out Ultrabook so far, but if you want the ultimate in thin and light, the Spectre definitely isn't it.

8. Dell XPS 13

The skinny:

Dell's first-ever Ultrabook, the XPS 13, clocks in at just 0.71 inches thick and 2.99 pounds. The 13-inch screen is protected by Corning's durable Gorilla Glass.

Interesting feature:

In addition to the 128GB or 256GB hard-disk options, users get 100GB of free cloud storage through Dell DataSafe for cloud backup.

Potential roadblock:

The battery, while rated for more than 8 hours of use, isn't user-replaceable.

Bottom line:

The Dell XPS 13, priced at $999, is a solid Ultrabook, and it throws in some nice freebies, like the cloud storage and a year of Skype Premium. You could do a lot worse.

9. Acer Aspire S5

The skinny:

Claiming to be the "world's thinnest" Ultrabook, the Acer Aspire S5 measures just 0.68 inches at its thickest point and weighs just 3 pounds. It has a 13.3-inch screen.

Interesting feature:

Besides its überthinness, the S5 also boasts next-generation connectivity with a Thunderbolt port, with provides a high-speed connection to peripherals. Acer's Always Connect tech keeps the machine logged into services when it goes to sleep, and you can wake it up via smartphone.

Potential roadblock:

The price, which is currently unknown.

Bottom line:

The Aspire S5's thickness certainly comes in well under Intel's guidelines. If it can perform the same trick with the price, Acer will have scored a home run.

tag : ultrabook, newest ultrabook, CES 2012, ultrabook list, lenovo, asus, toshiba, samsung, acer, thinkpad

source : http://mashable.com/2012/01/18/ces-2012-ultrabooks, google.com

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Smallest World Map Was Created with Salt !!

I know, this stuff is crazy, but you know, it's really amazing. Imagine, with nowdays technology advance, people can create the microsize of world in just a few seconds. I can't explain it more, just read this article that was copied from http://www.dailymail.co.uk/. 

Scientists in Zurich have created the world's smallest 3D map - of the world. IBM's perfectly formed 'nano-world', has now been accepted by the Guinness World Record organisation.  The map measures a miniscule 22 by 11 micrometers. Or, to put it in perspective, 1,000 maps would fit on just one grain of salt.

Beautifully formed: The world's smallest map is composed of 500,000 pixels, each measuring 20 nm2 and was created in only 2.23 minutes

Chiseling out Europe: A nanoscale tip - 100,000 times smaller than a sharpened pencil - carves out Europe on the 3D map

The map was 'written' on a polymer and is composed of 500,000 pixels, each measuring 20 nm2 and was created in just two minutes and 23 seconds. A map that can only be seen through a microscope may seem as useful as a chocolate teapot, but the new technology behind it is set to open a whole new world in industry.

Existing nano techniques struggle to make structures smaller than 30 nanometers and are expensive to use.

But the new technique uses a nanoscale tip - 100,000 times smaller than a sharpened pencil - to cheaply create 2D and 3D patterns and structures as small as 15 nanometers.

Lofty peaks: The IBM scientists also created a 25 nanometer-high replica of the Matterhorn peak, a famous Swiss mountain that soars 14,692ft (4,478m) high

A mountain of work: The 3D image was etched onto a piece of molecular glass, representing a scale of 1:5billion

Where the magic happens: IBM's new nanopatterning tool. The picture shows a close-up of the core micro-electro-mechanical system of the tool, which controls the tip

The etching technique the machine uses is similar to how Egyptian’s chiseled away at stone to create drawings and hieroglyphics. The technique opens new prospects for making nanosized electronics and objects in fields ranging from future chip technology to opto-electronics to medicine and life sciences. The findings were published in Science and Advanced Materials.

tag : world smallest map, nano size map, world smallest globe, 2012

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Cara Menyelesaikan Error "A required CD/DVD device driver is missing, Install Operating Sistem USB

Beberapa waktu yang lalu, saya mengalami masalah ketika hendak menginstall Operating System (Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit/84 bit) pada Laptop (Asus) baru saya dengan menggunakan USB drive. Error ini terjadi tepatnya ketika proses instalasi baru pada tahap pengumpulan informasi instalasi. Tampilan error yang mungkin muncul adalah sebagai berikut :

Solusinya cukup sederhana,

Ketika muncul jendela seperti gambar di atas, klik Cancel, dan klik tombol close. Kemudian ketika anda kembali ke tampilan awal instalasi,cabut USB drive yang digunakan instalasi, kemudian masukan ke port USB yang lain. Kemudian lanjutkan prosedur instalasi seperti biasa.

Jika cara ini tidak berhasil, ada beberapa hal yang mungkin terjadi pada laptop atau komputer anda.

1. Setting BIOS storage configuration. Jika tipenya AHCI, ubah menjadi IDE. 
2. Ada kerusakan pada hardware komputer atau laptop anda. 

Semoga posting ini bermanfaat. Jika ada yang ingin bertanya atau menambahkan solusi yang mungkin dilakukan, silahkan posting di comment box di bawah. 

tag : install windows 7 error, cara install windows 7, USB drive

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Download ClickTo!! Software Copy-Paste Yang Sesungguhnya!!

Saya yakin sebagian besar dari Anda, pengguna komputer, pasti sudah sangat akrab dengan kegiatan "copy" dan "paste". Apalagi bagi kalian yang masih berstatus pelajar atau mahasiswa, CTRL+C dan CTRL+V menjadi sahabat terbaik ketika mengerjakan tugas makalah atau pun laporan. Bukan maksud saya menuduh semua pelajar dan mahasiswa melakukan hal itu, tapi saya bermaksud untuk menunjukan Fakta!! :D Yaitu bahwa pelajar dan mahasiswa sangat pandai memanfaatkan teknologi. Hehe :)

Kali ini saya tidak bermaksud untuk melarang atau menggurui para pengguna setia CTRL+C+V. Justru kali ini saya ingin merenggut kesetiaan kalian.:D Maksud saya, saya akan tunjukan di sini satu aplikasi yang sangat sederhana, tapi mampu menampilkan kinerja yang jauh lebih canggih untuk memplagiat rangkaian tulisan dari pada sang pendahulunya,key CTRL+C &V. Aplikasi ini berukuran kecil, layaknya add-on biasa. Aplikasi ini akan segera menampakan wujudnya, segera setelah Anda memblok sederet tulisan dalam komputer Anda dan melakukan ritual CTRL+C atau RightClick + Copy. Perhatikan gambar di bawah ini.

Gambaran cara kerja aplikasi Click.to

Aplikasi yang sangat keren ini, dapat diunduh di CLICKtoApp. Click to ini akan mempermudah akses Anda ke berbagai aplikasi yang akan Anda jadikan target CTRL+V. Ketika anda mengaktifkan aplikasi ini, akan segera muncul semacam pop-up berupa ikon-ikon kecil pilihan. Jika ingin mencari informasi yang berhubungan dengan suatu kata kunci di google, contohnya kata Cilacap, tinggal klik icon google, maka Anda akan segera terhubung dengan browser, dan mendapatkan apa yang Anda inginkan. Selamat berCo-Pas ria!!

Video tentang cara kerja klickto!!

tag : download clickto, aplikasi copy paste otomatis, download gratis, ctrl+v, ctrl+c
sumber : http://www.ubergizmo.com/2012/01/click-to-app/  http://www.clicktoapp.com/

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When the Brain Activities Signal Waves is Converted Into Music!!

Music or sound in general is one of the strongest stimulus of human brain after light (sight). We also know that we can activate our brain by using sound. Even our emotional condition can be affected by that kind of waves that tremble our ears skeleton. We can feel very terrible just because of, for example, a ghost like sound, we will feel calm and in comfort when we hear the smooth classical music, and et cetera. In other hand, our brain as the processor, seems to be more active when thinking or get some stimulus from the environment, but instead of it, our brain also active when in the idle mode. Such as when we sleep. Some research have revealed that our brain still active when we sleep. They assume it happen when we're in the dreaming state. But, of late, some researchers also discovered an awesome thing. They got the fact that our brain activities is much better interpreted not in the graphical form, but in the sound wave form. They discovered that our brain activities signal can be converted into musical form.

Here is the story how that discovery can be discovered. I got this from http://thenextweb.com/. It's also bundled with a video that will show you how is the brain sound likes. :D

“Inside each of us, at every moment, a symphony plays. It’s the symphony of consciousness, but at the same time it’s the symphony of the brain. It plays on millions of instruments over millions of channels.”
-Philosopher Dan Lloyd

Music is perhaps the most accessible and emotional form of art, while the brain is one of the most complex and fascinating organs in the human body. Brooklyn based documentary filmmaker Elisa da Prato has teamed up with Philosopher Dan Lloyd to investigate the connection between the two.

To fund their film “Music of the Hemispheres” they’ve put the project up on Kickstarter, and have currently raised just under $2,000 of their $16,000 goal with a month left. In the film, da Prato and Lloyd will investigate modes of data visualization, music composition, performance, and audition. These systems will be “cracked open” and compared to the examination of brain mechanics and the architecture of mind.
“Ever since the first crude brain images appeared on the cover of Scientific American (1978) I’ve had a gut feeling that the ancient questions of philosophy — about mind, perception, and consciousness — would have to be informed by neuroscience,” explains Lloyd. Lloyd began studying neuroimaging in the mid 90s and in 2000 he began using “Virtual Reality Markup Language” to make maps of the mind. After looking at the data depicting brain activity, the neurophilosopher began asking questions like – how does consciousness arise in the brain? In order to better answer these questions, he learned Matlab, a computer programming language in order to handle the data himself.

One very hot night about eight years ago, it occurred to Lloyd that the data he’d been trying to visualize might also be turned into sound and that hearing the data might have advantages over simply viewing complex and layered data. “What if I sonify this data as opposed to visualize it?” he said. He soon theorized that consciousness may operate in a musical structure or perhaps music operates in a conscious structure. Since then he’s been trying to create musical interpretations that reveal something about brain function and are beautiful at the same time.

In late 2009, da Prato introduced NYU Scientist Dr. Zoran Josipovic to Lloyd. In February 2010, Josipovic sent subject Jeff Sable, (a good friend of Da Prato’s and a graduate of the NYU’s ITP program), through a fMRI scanner and asked him to meditate while viewing different visual stimulus. His brain activity was recorded and Josipovic shared his data with Lloyd who sonified the data and extrapolated its “musical score.”
Since then, da Prato and Lloyd have continued to work on Music of the Hemispheres, and are planning to create a film and an experiment, pairing artists with scientists, commissioning new musical works and documenting emerging breakthroughs in Music Cognition and Theory.
“Music and brain waves are intensely similar… It’s really like music… it is music…You are music,” says Lloyd in the following video for Kickstarter. Check it out below!


Source : ➤ Music of the Hemispheres

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New Software To Edit A Photo Realistically

 

When you are asked about photoshop, without thinking, you will answer "its a sophisticated software that can manipulate photo very realistic". That's right. But, if it will be another condition when you see these picture below. I got this article from gizmag. I think this software is very cool. But, you know, you have to be more determine to be an advance here. :D

For more than twenty years, the software program Photoshop has been the industry standard for seamlessly manipulating images, especially the removal of unwanted items like blemishes, wires and telephone poles. When it comes to adding something to a photo, however, the process is still rather involved. Now, a team from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), led by PhD candidate Kevin Karsch, is presenting a new algorithm at Siggraph Asia 2011 that promises to radically simplify the procedure of believably incorporating new or "synthetic" objects in still shots and the results are quite impressive.


To appreciate the elegance of the UIUC team's contribution, it's helpful to understand just what an improvement it is over current techniques. Look at any effects-heavy feature film and you'll see instances where computer-generated objects, be they giant robots, dinosaurs or futuristic vehicles, were added to previously-shot footage (also called a background plate in the Biz). In order to sell the illusion that the added objects were there in the first place, technicians typically need to gather copious amounts of on-set data (e.g. lens height and focal length, size of on-set objects and direction/color temperature of visible light sources, etc.) from which they recreate a virtual environment. When this is done poorly, it's a dead giveaway that the added object is fake and was inserted after the original image or footage was shot.

The genius of the Karsch team's approach lies in what the user doesn't have to provide in order to create believable additions. (Currently, the software only handles still images, but plans are in the works to tackle film and video sequences before long). Starting with a still photo about which nothing is known, novice users have been able to add virtual subjects in just minutes with results good enough to fool experts. That's great news for graphic artists, but maybe not so thrilling for folks like crime scene investigators who'll soon have to doubt the veracity of every object in frame!

To pull off this digital sleight-of-hand, the process is broken up into intuitive stages, the first being the creation of 3D geometry from 2D data. "The main idea is we want to take our picture and we want to get a 3D model of the scene from it," Karsch explained. "We first apply an automatic estimation procedure which tries to find the boundaries of the scene - it tries to find the walls, the ceiling, the floor." Since that's occasionally inaccurate, the software also includes an interface that allows the user to refine the estimate.
"With two vanishing points, we can recover the focal length of the camera, and then using the rest of the input we can also recover a rough representation of the 3D geometry of the scene: where the floors are at, where the walls are at and where the ceiling is at," Karsch added.

Next, the Lighting Stage requires the user to identify light sources in the image, whether in frame or not. In the traditional computer graphics approach, lighting sources and characteristics are identified by placing a chrome reference ball in front of the camera. The UIUC team's approach eliminates the need for that and a host of other steps as it calculates a decent representation of the actual lighting conditions.
If the object to be added will land behind another opaque item, the Occluding Object Stage (in which the user basically scribbles on the objects that will block part of the object to be added) comes next. Also called a spectral matting procedure, this generates an object mask which, when applied, creates the illusion that the added object is behind the masked one.
Enabling beginners to generate professional results with minimal time and effort is sure to make the Karsch team's algorithm a big hit in the graphics world. Judging from the sample images provided from the team's paper, the approach adeptly handles just about every lighting condition conceivable, even for transparent and shadowed subjects. For those of you itching to get your hands on it, plans are in the works to create an online version that anyone can use. In the meantime, it seems we'll just have to make do with run-of-the-mill reality!
Source: Kevin Karsch

Check out the video below for a look at the software in action:





See other photo in this link .


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