Now, an app in Apple I Pod , that tells if there are thugs around

Mobile phone users can now provide information about bats and harassment in an area with a new application called Asborometer. The application receives information from government agencies and delivers it on the phone.

As "the estate agent's worst nightmare Dubbed," the application can point out would-be home buyers through nasty neighborhoods. "It's the fastest way to find out how chavvy is your city," the Sun quoted tech writer Drew Cullen as saying.

The application on the iPhone and Google's Android system works is to zip codes and is free to download. "Although the name is fun, it has a serious concern, added:" creator Jeff Gilfelt.

From now Apple designs its own chip for Apple iPad

Normally device maker buys their primary chips from specialized microprocessor companies, but Apple has defied the normal process of designing a fingernail A4-size chip to IPAD. By designing its own chips charges Apple with additional technical costs and potential product delays, reports the New York Times.


The hype around Apple's tablet did not help Apple as many experts felt disappointment of the final product. "I can not see something that looks convincing," said Linley Gwennap, a chip analyst at the Linley Group. "It does not seem like something all new, and if so, are they not get far with it."

Steven P. Jobs, Apple's Chief Executive Officer, said that the A4-chip is "the most advanced chip" Apple had ever spent, and said it was crucial for IPAD speed, reliability and 10 hour battery life. Apple had entered the chip business in 2008 by acquiring the 150-employee startup PA Semi. This company had been working on chips that can handle large amounts of data, but uses very small amounts of power.

A4-powered IPAD's battery life and speed, similar to computers that are running on competing chips. Apple will soon launch IPAD in March, which will offer up to 16 hours of battery life when playing video. These will run on chips from Nvidia and Qualcomm, which has similar designs on A4.

"After what we've seen so far, Apple's product seems to stack up evenly with the competition," said Dean McCarron, a chip analyst with Mercury Research. "Clearly, Apple is using their own standards for what 'best' is." Apple's notebook and desktop computers running on Intel chips, while Samsung has sold Apple the primary chips for the iPhone.

Apple still seems committed to its chip plans. "It is a place where Apple believes that it can provide a unique product and it is signaling a new direction for them," says Nathan Brookwood, a chip analyst with Insight 64th

Is there an eco-angle in an Apple tablet?

Whether we see a beautiful tablet from Apple Wednesday, there is a clear trend towards the use of electronic devices to read what has been traditional print media. From an environmental point of view, that change is a mixed bag, depending both on user behavior, such as technology.

According to reports, Apple will show off a Tablet PC that can be used with a docking station or an electronic reader.

Media engine size with an electronic device, such as the Amazon Kindle may reduce the amount of energy associated with cutting down trees and making physical journals and books, according to some studies.

But electronics recycling, environmental impact is not good. After all, flying an old newspaper in the recycle bin is much more common and easy to recycle electronics, which is the rate the U.S. is estimated at about 10 percent.

As with many environmental issues, the more you ask, is the most complex. But here are some thoughts:

Who does the box?
Apple has taken heat from watchdog groups in the past, but current products are state of the art when it comes to energy efficiency and materials. In the latter products, Apple has gradually use of PVC plastic and dangerous brominated flame retardant, so it would be surprising if it continued this policy with the new material.

Obviously, people should work Apple tablet from the batteries more than a laptop or desktop computer. Batteries, of course, wear and should be replaced after a few years. Apple says laptop batteries last longer than others, and offers a transfer program to replace batteries, so it gets high marks from environmental groups to score.

On the other hand, after a few years, many people are likely to buy something new, instead of sending a unit to upgrade the batteries, which ultimately generates more e-waste.

Pixels to paper.
Intuitively, it seems that the reduction of paper, using an electronic device consumes less power than the trees to collect, process pulp, printing papers, and delivery to your door. But making blanket conclusion about their energy use through electronic communication is not easy.

The Center for Sustainable Communication in Stockholm, Sweden, conducted a study concludes that reading a newspaper on a PC for 30 minutes results in almost the same carbon as printed newspaper. as a device that is smaller than a PC, the reputation of Apple tablet would have to consume less energy.

Paper Company International Paper goes further to say that the paper-and-paper industry uses resources (trees) that can be managed in a sustainable manner, recycling rates are much higher in the paper than electronics.

Energy intensity
The effectiveness of each tablet or e-reader is definitely worth a comparison with laptops and similarly sized devices. Kindle the Amazon, for example, uses technology E Ink, which is significantly more efficient from a power-screen LCD, for example.

But look how much power a device consumes when in the hands of the end user is not the complete story, notes Casey Harrell, a coordinator for Greenpeace's global campaign online. About half of the embedded energy "in an electronic product from the supply chain of companies supplying Apple or other manufacturers, he said.

What's more, as more and more smartphones and tablets are released, the switch to energy consumption in data centers that connect these gadgets. "One tablet can certainly signal a reduction of environmental footprint over traditional print, but the big question is what energy powering the data center in the cloud;" Harrell said.

How the device is used.
Apple can do something of value retention over five years - a long time in the frantic pace of consumer electronics. However, if the purchaser is replacing within a year, it also adds to the electronic waste stream. The same applies if customers are not using the services of recycling.

Overall, an Apple tablet, or the number of electronic readers are expected this year, can bring many benefits from the digitization of content and even change the way we read, day after day. Either bring net environmental benefit, but has more to do with the owner, outside the institution.

Apple, labels talk music in the cloud

leaders have talked with the top four record companies about plans to offer streaming music service free for consumers, several music industry sources told CNET.
Apple's leaders have not revealed many details about their plans, but did discuss the offer iTunes users a means to save copies of their music libraries on Apple's servers. The benefits to an iTunes user will include the ability to back up your music and access songs from the Internet from any Internet-connected device, and be from anywhere in the world.

Apple's song downloads, apparently not affected. Apple has told some music executives that they see on the streaming function as a "value add" that could help stimulate the sale. Apple indicated in negotiations that the current service could be ready to deploy as soon as this spring.

It is unlikely but not impossible that Apple will announce streaming service to a scheduled Jan. 27 press event, where Steve Jobs & Co. are widely expected to unveil a new tablet device. Apple has not publicly disclosed details of the plan, but to the four major record companies, according to sources with knowledge of the discussions. To provide this type of streaming service - even if it is to store and distribute the music you already purchased by a consumer - my sources say Apple may be necessary to negotiate new agreements with the labels.

An Apple spokesman would not comment.
Apple always the curiosity of iTunes fans last month when it bought Lala, a struggling streaming music service. Since then, many people guessed that Apple planned to use Lala and its leaders to stream music and possibly video too. Michael Roberton, founder of MP3.com and one of the tech sector's best-known agitators, led to more speculation Tuesday when he wrote on TechCrunch: "Apple plans to upgrade their users almost overnight into a cloud music service in an ambitious move to beat Amazon and others. "He cites unnamed music industry sources.

Robertson said Wednesday that many people involved in digital music thinks Apple is vulnerable when it comes to cloud computing. Streaming content is considered by many to be the next wave in digital entertainment, and Apple has not had much of a profile in this area. In the past two years, consumers have shown that they like streaming music. Pandora, the 10-year-old streaming radio service, last week announced it had recorded its first profitable quarter.

Robertson said he expects to see an "upload" button on iTunes as part of a future update.

Still, Robertson said an iTunes streaming plan can be problematic for the music industry. There is a possibility that Apple can not believe it has to compensate, or even buy new licenses to stream legally purchased songs to the owners, "says Robertson. As the largest music retailer in the world, Apple has kind of muscle to launch the service without asking for permission, according to Robertson.

"I have spoken with one of the labels the guys about this," Robertson said during our interview. "The person said that the labels are not very happy, but they are not sure that Apple will not try to jam this through no matter what the labels want. Apple can say: 'We sell 2 billion songs and this is what we do. "

On the issue of iTunes have licenses to play legally purchased music, Robertson has some experience. He fights a copyright lawsuit filed two years ago by EMI Music to its streaming-music service, MP3tunes.com. EMI argues that MP3tunes does not have authorization to exploit the company's music this way. Robertson counters that there is nothing illegal about the storage and streaming of someone's legally purchased songs. His case would come to a conclusion later this year.

Another possible conflict between Apple and the labels may come when Apple's streaming service starts to hurt subscription music services, "said Robertson. If Apple is allowed to stream music to a user anywhere in the world, why would anyone pay $ 8 a month subscription? I pointed out that the subscription services also offer all-you-can-eat music. Robertson says that the major and most important songs to music fans are the ones they already own.

"An iTunes streaming service could close the window of opportunity for labels to create a new type of subscription service," said Mr. Robertson.

Fox News "Confirms" Apple Tablet, iLife 2010 and Next iPhone OS

From Fox News, one article posted on Monday, arguing that not only next week's Apple event is now confirmed to host long-rumored tablet discovery, but see the next iteration of Apple's iLife software show. Fox's report also indicates that Apple will be discussed in the next iPhone OS update.

Article Fox News "Clayton Morris is boldly called" Apple Tablet, iPhone Launch 4 approved January 27 "(never mind that it is always iffy to" approve "any new Apple product until Steve Jobs is standing onstage with them), and further detailed Morris had had a conversation with an Apple source early Monday morning.

According to his conversation with the unnamed individual, for next week's San Francisco event will concentrate on three specific projects: a long-rumored Apple tablet the next iteration of iLife and the iPhone OS update. However, iPhone owners have reason to get too excited just yet, because the report indicated that discussions on the next iPhone software will be severely limited level.

TheNextWeb noted that the author Clayton Morris is properly distributed Apple related stories from the past with him, knowing now approved for the Apple event before anyone else.

However, despite Morris 'apparently assured sources, Apple's mysterious event invitation wording may suggest he is not right this time. Apple's invitation, welcomed the press to come and see the companies' most recent creation ". If you take into account the plural to the Apple event organized entirely devoted to the device, which is extensivly so wish, or they indicate that more than expected?

Also in the past Apple has a relatively open with their iPhone OS update notifications, and these events have come later in the year.

Apple's Latest Creation "event is 10 PST on January 27th at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for Theater Arts.

What would you like to see the next iPhone OS, and what are your hopes for the new version of iLife? Let us know the comments!

Apple added iTunes Store page for Haiti donations

Apple has added a page to the iTunes Store, which allows people to donate to the American Red Cross to help those affected by the January 12 earthquake in Haiti.

On the page you can click to donate $ 5, $ 10, $ 25, $ 50, $ 100 or $ 200. Apple notes that 100 percent of donations go to the Red Cross, and "will support emergency relief efforts to help those affected by this earthquake." Donations can go to the emergency, mobilizing relief workers, or providing financial resources.

Apple also says that iTunes will not share your personal information with the Red Cross, so you only get a standard e-mail receipt from iTunes.

Many companies have recently promised to donate profits from their apps to the relief efforts as well.

Note that you can not use iTunes Store credit from donations, I have made a donation this morning and my balance did not change.

IPhone Mini drone and video games to real life

Drones now synonymous with U.S. military strikes in hotspots like Afghanistan. But the French company has now built a mini version piloted by giving iPhone video games on the streets.

Represents the flying saucer-like AR.Drone - your reality increases - caused a sensation when it was indicated on the unsuspecting world at trend setting consumer Electronics show in Las Vegas last week.

This week the creators gave AFP the company's next show in their offices at the Canal Saint-Martin in Paris, where quadricopter "" perplexed and impressed passers-by on a cold winter evening.

One of the 10 engineers who spent four years developing a drone tapped the button on the iPhone it takes from the land and make it hover near the dark waters of the canal.

Then he tilted the phone or forward it sideways to manoeuvre around nearby trees and park benches.

The machine's four propellers whirred calm as he moved through the air, a camera streaming live video from two cameras, three Wi-Fi, to the pilot on the telephone.

You can stay the drone moves at 18 kilometers (11 miles) per hour, airborne for 15 minutes after 60-minutes Battery charge, the maximum range of 50 meters (yards), and weighs just over 300 grams, or half a pound.

The automatic flight stabilization makes it much better to any other flying toys currently on store market, the company.

"We use very sophisticated technology development - technology used in military and commercial drones," said Henri Seydoux, founder of the Parrot, the company making the toys.

AR.drone is fun to pilot and probably would have hit if he has anything but flying around and onlookers astonish.

But its creators are far more plans for it: a video-gaming.

They represent and encourage this but they have no interest in having their engines used for aerial photography, spying or any other thing.

Back inside their offices, Parrot team proudly displayed their engine capacities.

An engineer to the drone in the air and as soon as they saw the cameras were targets set up around the room, was the transformation of the iPhone screen in the virtual robots to be then he could fire missiles.

To be a beacon serves as target drones on other permits two or more parties to tackle air inside or outside.

This is the aspect of increased reality - merging the physical world with the virtual world.

"This will be expressed drone not only kids play games on their computers but in the garden, the country, or on the beach," Seydoux said the Parrot, which employed 450 people and has previously specialized in the possession of wireless systems free.

"A child can pilot it. I want to make it both very easy to use and safe," he said.

The engineers increased gaming reality show, in essence, but they point out the AR.Drone built on the open platform and the company is inviting outside developers to create games for the device.

The prospect of creating a robot battles increasing reality in much excitement on the gaming world. Gaming websites are awash with comments from the hovered over the heads AR.Drone the awed visitors to the Las Vegas show technical.

Games blog on the Guardian newspaper said Britain was a prediction that has come true "that we all die one day be indulging in real life games, robotic strong slaves in battle on the streets of our towns and cities, as a control We carnage through our computers. "

There are already increasing reality applications in the fields of medicine, defense, navigation, education, and in gaming.

But many observers are touting the AR.Drone as heralding another major thing in the world of video games, in 2009 was worth more than 50 billion dollars (35 billion euros) worldwide, according to industry figures.

But gamers will have to be patient. Parrot says only that a drone going on sale some time this year, and they refuse to confirm the price of 500 dollars that bandied about in the newspapers.

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The Apple iTunes Store page for donations Haiti
Apple has added to the iTunes Store page that allows people to donate to the American Red Cross to assist people affected by the earthquake of January 12 in Haiti.

On these pages you can click on to donate $ 5, $ 10, $ 25, $ 50, $ 100, or $ 200. The Apple that goes 100 per cent of the donations to the Red Cross, and will "support emergency relief efforts to assist people affected by the earthquake." Donations can go to relief supplies, mobilizing relief workers, or providing financial resources.

Apple also says that iTunes for some personal information to the Red Cross, so that you get only receive email from the iTunes standard email.

Many companies have recently pledged to donate profits from their apps with the relief efforts as well.

Note that you can use iTunes Store credit-donations towards my donation this morning and did not change my credit balance.

Story of Newton's encounter with apple goes online

An account of how 18th-century helped by a falling piece of Isaac Newton to develop results on the theory seriously on the web, making scans of the fragile paper manuscripts are widely available to the public for the first time.

Steps are the apple in Newton's science anecdotes among the most celebrated, and the British Royal Society said it is making the documents available online on Monday.

Royal Society librarian Keith Moore is the story that apple managed to keep a Polish in part because it packs so much - the production of works how modern science, implicit reference to the solar system, and even allusion to the Bible .

Newton and describe the process of observation falling apple and guessing at the principle behind it "on it by talking about the scientific method," Moore said.

Recalls "In addition to the shape of the apple on the planet - it is round - and of course the apple falling from the trees which hark, indeed, back to the story of Adam and Eve, and Newton as a religious man would Apt found that many. "

The incident occurred in the mid-1660s, when Newton retreated to a family home in northern England after the outbreak of the plague closed the University of Cambridge, where he was studying.

Recounts the Royal Society's manuscript, written by Newton's contemporary William Stukeley, a spring evening in 1726 when the scientist shared the story of the famous tea more than "under the Shade several apple trees."

"He told me, he was just in the same situation, as when the former, the concept of Gravitation on intention," wrote Stukeley.

"It was occasion'd at the apple to fall, as he sat in contemplative mood. Why should that apple perpendicularly always descend to the ground, he thought to himself ... Why should it not go sideways , or more? But, always to the center of the world? Assuredly, the reason is, that it draws the world. There must be drawing power in question. "

Stukeley required to account for the long-lost notes of Newton's 17-century rival Robert Hooke scientific site of the Royal Society's website.

Users can flip through both documents use the same page turning software used to browse Leonardo sketches and the early work of Jane Austen's the British Library's.

The Royal Society for the academy of scientists founded in 1660 to collect, discuss and spread scientific knowledge. It is marking its 350 mark this year with more than 60 on-line the most important scientific papers.

Apple launches free MobileMe Gallery application for iPhone

Although you can already use the iPhone MobileMe gallery just visit your URL, Apple's new MobileMe Gallery to make it faster and easier access.this Application is free of cost and comes with a very respectable set of features.

Not only can you visit your entire gallery (as well as password protected albums), but you can also view photos and movies, published by his friends, obtained previously-viewed photos, even when you do not have Internet access, and e-mail link to any album in the same app.

One of MobileMe users are often referred to complaints that many Web service Apps can not be used on the iPhone and those who have the iPhone app equivalents do not always provide all the functionality. MobileMe Gallery, F, or what it is worth it, looks really better than to enter the galleries in Safari: it is easy to find a gallery of friends, upload photos snappily, and then even neat scrolling marquee photos.

APP supports German, French and Japanese languages, including English language, and is compatible with the iPhone or iPod touch running iPhone OS 3.1 or later. APP, however, should be actively MobileMe subscription, even if you just want to see other people's public albums.

Keynote 3D Stuff 3.0 released by iPresentee

iPresentee, the developer add-ons for Apple's iWork and iLife Apps, has released Keynote 3D Stuff 3.0, 3D images in a package can be used with Apple's Keynote, iWeb and Pages.

Keynote 3D Stuff collection consists of 181 3D objects, including a large number of people silhouettes, office objects like pencils, computers, file cabinets, household items like lamps and chairs, and other whimsical items. Version 3.0 adds 66 new 3D objects package, lifting 115 included from previous releases.

Keynote All 3D objects in the background is transparent and can be used on any colored background. Within Apple's Keynote, iWeb and Pages, these objects can be adjusted to the size, orientation, and opacity, fitted with shadows or even overlapped with one another to create extra effects. All Keynote 3D Stuff objects designed in 3D. Each object is optimized for 1024-by-768-pixel presentations and pages of documents or iWeb templates of any size. They are also compatible with Microsoft PowerPoint and Word.

In addition, the update iPresentee offers Keynote and iWeb View Suite. Keynote Show includes a package of 60 Keynote Themes, 47 Keynote Motion Themes, Keynote Animations 115 and 181 Keynote 3D Stuff objects for $ 70th IWeb Suite package includes 35 iWeb Themes 35 iWeb Themes for Business, 10 iWeb, Magnetic, 75 iWeb Animations and 181 Keynote 3D Stuff objects.

Keynote 3D Stuff 3.0, $ 25 and requires Mac OS X, but with Keynote, iWeb or Pages version.

Samples and more information about Keynote 3D Stuff you will find iPresentee website.

Apple tablet disclosed in January 2010

Apple Inc. is set to announce new tablet device later this month, reported the Wall Street Journal on Monday, as anticipation builds around what could be the company's biggest product launch of the i Phone.

Apple plans to ship its multimedia tablet with 10 - to 11-inch touchscreen March, the report said, people can inform you mention at the company.

While analysts and media reports speculating for months that Apple planned to disclose the tablet in the first half of 2010, Apple has never confirmed it is working on such a device.

The Wall Street Journal-affiliated All Things Digital blog reported earlier Monday, a state you can not name sources, that Apple is planning to make a major product announcement on January 27 , 2010 event in San Francisco.