Friday, 27 January 2012

World’s Thinnest Laptop – Acer unveiled Worlds Thinnest Laptop


The ultra slim device that weighs less than 1.35Kg, built with a 34 cm (13.3 Inch) LCD and with only 15mm thin, Acer claimed Aspire S5 is the World’s Thinnest Ultrabook Laptop.

Acer unveiled the Ultra slim device in the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show. The Acer Aspire S5 is thinner than Apple’s MacBook Air. The Apple’s MacBook Air is 0.68 Inches at its thickest point with weight is mere a 3 pounds. MacBook Air is thinnest than Intel’s UltraBook Moniker which is 0.71 Inches thickest and 3.1 pound.

Acer Aspire S5 - World's Thinnest UltraBook Laptop
The Acer Aspire S5 has an exquisitely fine curve chassis in “onyx black” color, the material of the chassis is made of Magnesium-Aluminum Alloy. The device operates on Windows 7 and comes with HDMI, USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt ports. Thunderbolt has been a unique feature in Apple’s MacBook Air. But now many manufacturers have started including this feature in their UltraBook laptops.

Acer Aspire S5 - UltraSlim look
The Acer Aspire comes with following top features
1)   Acer Green Instant On which brings the notebook back from sleep mode in less than 1.5 seconds.
2)   Acer Always Connect which reconnects you quickly with any online services you were logged into when your computer went to sleep.

Acer Aspire S5 - Connectivity and Ports
Acer Aspire S5 will hit the market in the 2nd quarter of 2012 and the prices will later be disclosed but the expected price to be somewhere in the range of $899 to $1299.
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Acer Aspire S5 Specifications

Operating System
Windows 7
Processor
Intel’s Latest Sandy Bridge or Third Generation Ivy Bridge
Display
Size – 13.3 Inch
Type – HD Display
Storage
RAM – 8 GB DDR3
HDD – SSD Option
Multimedia
Inbuilt WebCam, Microphone
Dolby Home Theatre Sound
Internal, Stereo Speakers
Battery
Type -  Standard
Life – Upto 10 Hours
Connectivity and Ports
USB – 3.0
Thunderbolt
Mic-in, HeadPhone Out
HDMI
10/100/1000 Ethernet LAN

802.11 b/g/n Wireless LAN

BlueTooth 3.0
Physical Dimension
Weight – 1.35 Kg
15 mm Thin

Monday, 16 January 2012

Facebook on Mobile – Access without GPRS

Facebook on Mobile – Access without GPRS


Are you a Facebook fan and you are dying to access Facebook. But you are in a place where GPRS is not working even any internet café’s not around. Have you ever faced this situation? Don’t’ worry now Facebook has adopted a technology developed by U2Opia, a Singapore based Software company that allows user to access the Facebook without GPRS connection.

The technology is called USSD (Unstructured Supplementary Data) and this technology works on any type of Handsets. All Telecom service providers are already using this technology usually to provide menu based services and to provide alerts such as GPRS usage, Last Call details, etc to users.

AirTel, India’s telecom service provider and Facebook has tied up with U2Opia to offer Facebook on AirTel on USSD technology. Dial *325# or *fbk# on AirTel network to use this service. The service you can access anytime anywhere.

Users can update their status free. But for posting on walls, commenting and liking, confirming friends request, notifications viewing, finding friends will cost  ` 1 per day to user.

The only drawback is – user won’t be able to experience Graphics.

How to access the service –
1)      Dial *325# or *fbk# on AirTel mobile.
Call *325# from AirTel Connection
2)      Click Ok on Fonetwish message.
Fonetwish Message
3)      Enter FaceBook UserName
Enter FaceBook UserName

1)      Enter Password

And now access the FaceBook on your AirTel connection.