FEB 2009 hi-tech news

The other rising issue is that the beta version of windows seven has now been spread by Russian hackers and millions of testers are testing it out.  However officially, there are 7 Microsoft testers and they were asked to describe what has changed…  On the first look, it seems like the desktop hasn’t changed at all but this feeling is faulty, in reality the structure has changed significantly. Most think that the changes were good, but most of them are just little things, but not something important.  For example, the “Seven” if it sees that you are from Russia, it would put a picture of Kremlin on desktop and from regular error messages or alerts you can get rid of by help of special setting.

On productivity side,  the developers claim that windows 7 is optimized for working even on netbooks, most of which now come with a new processor – Intel Atom 1.6GHz and a gigabyte of random accessible memory.  Testers agree that 7 is really loading up quicker and works better in terms of speed. If installed on SSD drive, it overruns Vista by miles in using processor.

A little on capability, unfortunately, some applications, like in Vista’s beta version, are not supported by new operating system. Even worse is that it applies to many antiviruses, such as Panda and McAfee Total Protection and the testers also state that Dr Web 5 has completely crashed the system to the blue death screen and did not allow to uninstall itself. The OS had to be reinstalled and the drive was formatted as otherwise Webby did not allow accessing it in any way. With some Non-Microsoft firewalls the story isn’t any better…

Overall there is yet no point of installing the beta version of windows 7 on any computers other than those sinking in dust in trunk stores, especially on the working computer, unless you want to drink some anti-depressants after each use.

Something completely different that happened this week, is the fact that in 2009 the World will be expecting some kind of wireless energy transmitters, that is one of the major themes today within consumer’s electronics.

The first technology on which it is going to based is called – Wild Charge. Its idea is that the gadget is to be put on special platform, which will be connected to plug and each device will have certain amount of contacting chips which will touch the platform and therefore charge.

The other one is the Legget&Platt, which proposes even more interesting method – eCoupled, the base and the device are provided with little copper strings and the energy is transmitted via magnetic field.

The producers are sure that their products are safe, however persuade the consumer in that they won’t be hit an electric charge and that they will be still alive after using any of these will not be as easy as there are already many rumors about what usually happens in such experiments.

Even though the year has only just started, there is a significant development in communicational technology and what is described here is only a few big drops from a sea, so many things are being developed at any one moment, it is impossible to estimate the impact on it to is and our planet in near future.

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