This video clip is just a taste of Photosynth Technology. The possibilities of the uses of this program are endless. The speaker barely scrapes the surface.

You might need a few more gigabytes of RAM but who cares. In 3 years it’s standard anyway right…?

The following post illustrates the rather impressive differences between DirectX 9 vs DirectX 10.

Click here to see original article and judge for yourselves…

The latest releases of Ubuntu for desktop and server are available today for download. This release brings together the best of free and open source software delivered on a stable, easy to use and learn platform. Read the press releases or download it now.

The Ubuntu team is excited to bring you the absolute latest and greatest software that the open source and free software communities have to offer. This is Ubuntu 7.10, which brings a host of excellent new features.

Not yet installed on my home PC but I must say it looks promising…

New releases from related projects

Kubuntu 7.10 - Gutsy Gibbon On the Streets [download]

Edubuntu 7.10 Released [download]

Xubuntu 7.10 “Gutsy Gibbon” (RC) [download]

There are some things in life that are great to share. Important personal or company documents are not amongst them. You would not pass your personal photo album or business documents to the person sitting next to you in an airport or on a plane? Therefore you should protect the “data” on your visible screen in the office or on the move.

How?

The digital age has replaced traditional paper documents and photographs with electronic files and digital pictures. So protect whatever information is on your screen from wandering eyes with a Targus Privacy Screen. The Privacy Screen is a micro slim film that covers the notebook/ LCD screen and only allows normal viewing from directly in front of it, whilst also reducing glare from the screen and protecting it from damage. People viewing from an angle greater than 45 degrees will only see a black screen.

Pro’s

Your visible data are now hidden from anyone sitting next to you.

Con’s

Anyone standing behind you will still see what you’re doing (with reduced glare).

Those sitting to the side of you will think you’ve completely lost it as it would appear you’re working with the notebook shut off.

Conclusion

I don’t see this as a new revolution in the security sector, but for anyone interested here’s the link to the Targus Privacy Screen.

Giant Magnetoresistance (GMR) was independently discovered in 1988 in Fe/Cr/Fe trilayers by a research team led by Peter Grünberg of the Jülich Research Centre, who owns the patent, and in Fe/Cr multilayers by the group of Albert Fert of the University of Paris-Sud, who first saw the large effect in multilayers that led to its naming, and first correctly explained the underlying physics.

Very weak magnetic changes give rise to major differences in electrical resistance in a GMR system. A system of this kind is the perfect tool for reading data from hard disks when information registered magnetically has to be converted to electric current.

Soon researchers and engineers began work to enable use of the effect in read-out heads. In 1997 the first read-out head based on the GMR effect was launched and this soon became the standard technology. Even the most recent read-out techniques of today are further developments of GMR.

Grünberg and Fert have received a number of prestigious prizes and awards for their discovery and contributions to the field of spintronics, including the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2007.

This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded to ALBERT FERT and PETER GRÜNBERG for their discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance. Applications of this phenomenon have revolutionized techniques for retrieving data from hard disks. The discovery also plays a major role in various magnetic sensors as well as for the development of a new generation of electronics. The use of Giant Magnetoresistance can be regarded as one of the first major applications of nanotechnology.

The two scientists are awarded 10 million Swedish kronor (€1.1 million) which is to be split equally amongst them.

Source: Nobelprize.org , Kva.se