New Android 4.0 OS by Google - Ice Cream Sandwich

Specially untuk peminat smartphone (aku xminat smartphone. hs jatuh bli baru =P).

In case some of you are wondering, this week’s piece is not going to be about actual desserts but it’s actually about Google’s new Android 4.0 operating system (OS). As you may figure out by now, Google’s Android team likes to name their OS based on popular desserts.

Starting from the third update of the Android 1.5 OS, the names have been given in alphabetical order. Cupcake was followed by Donut, Eclair, Froyo, Gingerbread, Honeycomb and now Ice Cream Sandwich.

A lot of work has been done to the new Android OS. Here are some of the key features of Ice Cream Sandwich:
·         Optimised for smartphone and tablet use
·         New user interface, with a new typeface called 'Roboto', updated animations, transition effects, multi-touch gestures and live wallpapers
·         Improved multitasking
·         New homescreen folders and favourites tray
·         Improved lock screen with facial unlock
·         Improved notification menu
·         Resizable widgets, viewable through the application menu
·         Built-in screenshot utility
·         Improved text input and spell-checking
·         Improved voice input
·         Ability to monitor and control data usage
·         Improved accessibility for disabled users
·         New Peoples app
·         Improved Gmail and Calendar app
·         Improved web browser with ability to save web pages and incognito mode
·         Visual voicemail
·         Improved camera app with face detection and panorama mode
·         Improved video recorder with continuous auto-focus, zooming while recording, snapshot while recording and time lapse mode
·         Redesigned Gallery app with photo editor
·         Android Beam for transferring data using NFC

Out of all the new features on Ice Cream Sandwich, one that really caught my eye is Android Beam. It is kind of like Bump but instead of using data connection for sharing stuff, Android Beam uses near field communication (NFC). But the cool thing about Android Beam is that you can share not only contacts, music and photos but also YouTube videos, maps, web pages and even links to apps in the Android Market. This will certainly promote more use of the NFC chip especially in Malaysia since it didn’t really take off when Maxis introduced FastTap back in 2009.

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The Android team also didn’t forget to improve the security of their Android devices. With a newly improved lock screen, you can unlock your phone using your face with Face Unlock. There’s a similar app available on the Android Market called Visidon. It’s a cool feature to have except when you’re in a poorly lit place. Although the Face Unlock demonstration during launch didn’t go according to plan (lighting issues, I presume), it is still a great alternative to the conventional pin code.

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Another great feature which has been eagerly awaited by Android users is the new multitasking user interface (UI). Before this, Android smartphone users only had a task manager to manage apps running in the background, which is not quite convenient because you can only close an app from within the app itself. But now with Ice Cream Sandwich, you can just swipe all that inconvenience away.

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It is easily accessible through a dedicated virtual Recent Apps button at the bottom of the screen which brings a vertical stack of thumbnails for the recently opened apps. The thumbnails show actual screenshots of the app instead of just their icons which makes them easier to identify and see the state you left them in.

Along with the new Android OS, Samsung introduced the first phone to feature the Ice Cream Sandwich, the Galaxy Nexus. Here are some of the hardware specs:
·         4.65 inch (1280 x 720 pixels) Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen with 0.01ms response time and curved display
·         Dual-core 1.2GHz processor
·         1GB of RAM
·         16/32GB of storage
·         5 megapixel auto-focus rear camera with face detection, touch focus, full HD (1080p) video recording at 30fps and LED flash; 1.3 megapixel front-facing camera

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The main highlight here is the screen which is huge and packs a 720p resolution. The Samsung Galaxy S II’s 4.2-inch screen was already a handful but the behemoth Galaxy Nexus has taken it to another level. The curved display may help you out a little bit in reaching the corners of the screen but people with small hands will find it hard to navigate with one hand. But the big question here is why has Samsung gone for a Super AMOLED display instead of the gorgeous Super AMOLED Plus found on the Galaxy S II? To cut cost? Limited supply?

A surprise addition to the Galaxy Nexus is a barometer sensor. Yup, the kind of sensor used to forecast the weather. As odd as it may sound, the barometer sensor is also present on the Motorola Xoom tablet. The purpose for this sensor is not for a more accurate weather forecast but actually to help the device acquire a GPS lock more rapidly by delivering altitude coordinates to the required latitude and longitude GPS equation.  Who knows, maybe someone will come up with an app that can fully utilise the barometer sensor.

So, that covers my roundup of Ice Cream Sandwich and Galaxy Nexus. Will I be getting one? Probably not. That is if Samsung decides to update the Galaxy smartphone series to Ice Cream Sandwhich. For me, the Galaxy S II still remains the smartphone to beat.

 Source : Syah Ismail

Planet X/Nibiru/Elenin betul ke?

Gambaran teori macam mana planet Nibiru/Planet X/Elenin akan melalui sistem solar kite, buat alignmet dengan planet-planet lain n matahari, gerakkan kutub bumi kite, pastu blah tanpe sebarang rasa bersalah.

Cite ni aku dh dengar almost 2 tahun ke 3 tahun lepas. Iklan syampu clear pun ade jugak y tak tahan tu. 2012 apocalypse, kiamat, disaster, armageddon. Macam-macam lagi.

Semuanya dikaitkan dengan kedatangan planet ke 10 dalam sistem solar, rogue planet katenye. DIberi nama Planet X/Nibiru/Elenin (padahal Elenin tu sebijik komet. kesian die tak pepasal kene tuduh nak menjahanamkan bumi).

Baru-baru ni NASA ade keluarkan fact terbaru pasal komet Elenin aka Nibiru, Planet X ni. Further info below (panjang n no time to translate =P )

The moment long feared by conspiracy theorists is nearly upon us: The "doomsday comet" Elenin will make its closest approach to Earth Sunday (Oct. 16). Or what's left of it will, anyway.

Comet Elenin started breaking up in August after being blasted by a huge solar storm, and a close pass by the sun on Sept. 10 apparently finished it off, astronomers say. So what will cruise within 22 million miles (35.4 million kilometers) of our planet Sunday is likely to be a stream of debris rather than a completely intact comet.

And the leftovers of Elenin won't return for 12,000 years, astronomers say.

"Folks are having trouble finding it, so I think it's probably dead and gone," said astronomer Don Yeomans of the Near-Earth Object Program Office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. [Gallery: Comet Elenin in Pictures]

That means it probably won't present much of a skywatching show Sunday, scientists have said.

The doomsday comet

Elenin's apparent demise may come as a relief to some folks, since apocalyptic rumors circulating on the Internet portrayed the comet as a major threat to Earth.

One theory claimed Elenin would set off havoc on Earth after aligning with other heavenly bodies, spurring massive earthquakes and tsunamis. Another held that Elenin was not a comet at all, but in fact a rogue planet called Nibiru that would bring about the end times on Earth. After all, the comet's name could be taken as a spooky acronym: "Extinction-Level Event: Nibiru Is Nigh."

Those ideas were pure nonsense, Yeomans said.

"Elenin was a second-rate, wimpy little comet that never should have been noted for anything, really," he told SPACE.com. "It was not even a bright one."

Elenin's remains will not be the only objects about to make their closest pass of Earth. One day after the Elenin flyby, the small asteroid 2009 TM8 will zip close by. Like Elenin, it poses no risk of striking our home planet.

Asteroid 2009 TM8 is about 21 feet (6.4 meters) wide and the size of a schoolbus. It will come within 212,000 miles of Earth  –  just inside the orbit of the moon  –  when it zips by on Monday morning (Oct. 17).

Say goodbye to Elenin

Elenin was named after its discoverer, Russian amateur astronomer Leonid Elenin, who spotted it in December 2010. Before the icy wanderer broke up, its nucleus was likely 2 to 3 miles (3 to 5 km) in diameter, scientists say.

Elenin never posed any threat to life on Earth, Yeomans said. It was far too small to exert any appreciable influence on our planet unless it managed to hit us.

"Just driving to work every day in my subcompact car is going to have far more of a gravitational effect on Earth than this comet ever will," Yeomans said.


Elenin's supposed connection to earthquakes was just a correlation, and a weak one at that, he added. Relatively strong earthquakes occur every day somewhere on Earth, so it's easy — but not statistically valid — to blame some of them on the comet's changing position.

Yeomans views the frenzy over Elenin as a product of the Internet age, which allows loud and often uninformed voices to drown out the rather more prosaic results that scientists publish in peer-reviewed journals.

"It's a snowball effect on the Web," Yeomans said. "You get one or two folks who make an outrageous claim, and a bunch of others pile on. Some folks are actually making a living this way."

Elenin's crumbs will soon leave Earth in the rear-view mirror, speeding out on a long journey to the outer solar system. But Yeomans doesn't think the departure will keep the conspiracy theorists down for long.

"It's time to move on to the next armageddon," he said.

NASA dh cakap bende tu xde ape. Tapi biase la theorist. Asalkan web page diorang laku. Macam-macam boleh jadi. Macam sms berangkai tu. Kalo xhantar kt 10 orang akan ditimpa bala. WTFish (pinjam dgn membe aku)

Source : Yahoo news, NASA

Ni lah die. Leonid Elenin. Orang y jumpe komet Elenin.

Kalo nak tau lagi pasal teori konspirasi yang dicipta pasal nibiru nih boleh klik link kt bawah. Macam-macam cite boleh tau pasal kedatangan rogue planet ni. y artikel kt atas yang baru korang bace tu pun dijawabnye balik. ntah betul ke tidak. ape2 pun jangan la percaya cakap orang kapir lahanat tuh. Kiamat hanya Allah je yang tahu.

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5 Surprisingly Healthy Fruits and Veggies You Aren't Eating

1. Purple potatoes (xtau name Melayu die ape)

Membantu menurunkan tekanan darah. (Xmacam ubi kentang biase tu)

2. Laici

Menurut Journal of Nutrition, laici adalah the second-highest level of heart-healthy polyphenols daripada 24 bijik buahan y di test (Juara dimenangi oleh stroberi). Laici ade antioksidan yang sangat kuat yang boleh prevent sel-sel breast cancer daripada membentuk (Sichuan University).

3.Jambu Batu

5 kali lagi banyak Vitamin C dari oren. Ade lycopene, yang boleh prevent heart disease.

4. Bok Choy

Kandungan Vitamin A 10 kali lagi banyak dari yang normal sepatutnye amik (lagi elok). Ade antioksidan yang boleh reduce risiko untuk kena bermacam2 jenis kanser.

5. Pear aka buah lai

Sebijik pear boleh bagi kite separuh daripada daily recommended amount of fibre. Fibre, membantu rendahkan paras kolestrol dan tekanan darah.

Source : Yahoo