Apple iPhone 5 / 4S launching on 4th October 2011. It is supposed to have a bigger screen, a 8 megapixel camera, GSM + CDMA chipset in one, better faster gprs 21 Mbps. They are planning to launch it by 15th of October 2011. Fingers Crossed

The new retina display on the Apple iPhone 4

Retina display is also called Virtual retina display VRD. t is an “IPS” technology and is “better than OLED technology for smaller products like the iPhone.

A VRD unit consists of 4 modules; drive electronics to break down an incoming source image into an information stream, a light source made up of laser(s) or LED(s), a scanner bank made up of horizontal and vertical scanners, and a lens to expand the image that projects through the scanners. As in a television, the scanners rapidly oscillate left-to-right or down-to-up, selectively permitting colors through in precise configurations that produce a high-resolution 2mm x 2mm field of pixels. Then a lens acting as an expander boosts the size of the image to something like 18mm x 18mm, allowing for a larger and more natural image. The pixel field is then projected onto the eye, where the eye's lens focuses the image onto the retina. Aside from tapping into the optic nerve itself, there may be no more effective way to display an image.

The virtual retinal display is highly efficient with respect to power consumption, requiring far less power than the postage-stamp LCD screens used commonly in today's mobile devices. A VRD display uses about a microwatt of power. Since VRD displays project images directly onto the retina, they provide a sharp, clear image regardless of external lighting conditions. VRD displays require a fraction of the hardware of conventional display devices, allowing for lighter and more elegant mobile devices, in high demand for today's electronics market. VRD shows strong potential to replace LCD screens in cell phones, handheld computers, handheld gaming systems, and eventually even larger computers such as laptops.

VRD technology is being exclusively commercialized by the Seattle-based tech company MicroVision, Inc. Two products available so far include Nomad(tm), a head-mounted VRD system that displays a monochromatic overlay of relevant information to a task at hand, and Flic(tm), a laser bar code scanner. Nomad uses Windows CE and the 802.11b wireless protocol. As the components of VRD displays decrease in cost and the manufacturing processes used to create them improve, distribution of the product will surely expand to a very large market.

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-virtual-retinal-display.htm

ArcGIS maps on Blackberry

The developers of Freeance Mobile software that brings GIS to BlackBerry, announced today the release of Freeance View, a free version of their mobile GIS software that works with ESRI’s ArcGIS Server software and which provides access to live ArcGIS map services from BlackBerry smartphones. Now available for free download - which runs on almost any BlackBerry smartphone model from any wireless carrier. The Freeance View application can be easily downloaded from here.

Making you own websites.

Last year before I started working on websites it used to haunt me on how do poeple make such flashy websites with so much stuff in it like instant verification of the username is available or not.And even had the mental block of one cannot make websites without having programming skills.
Well this system called CMS(Content Manangement System) actually made it much easier for me.Its pretty simple. Install the CMS on a webhost-- use a template and make you website.You got loads of help up on the Internet and this is site is going to be one more stop for all the resources required for CMS.Watch this video below just as a starters on CMS.

Well for some names which I often use are Joomla ,Wordpress and Drupal when it comes to CMS.Have a look at these sites before we proceed. Heres also a list of CMS which are available in the market.I just started using it ,still a long way to cover.

GIS Dev Updates in India

GIS in India is proliferating at jet speed !! And not only GIS, but more products are taking birth with solutions built around it. Mostly in Local Search , classifieds, LBS and mapping solutions.

Recently rediff maps came into picture. It was a huge disappointment after looking at this beta product. It looks like they were in real hurry to push this product live without even thinking to correct their basics right. Its a crap, and we know it.

Giants in Indian mapping like google maps, yahoo maps, mapmyindia are steadily progressing at a slower pace. As such, no new innovations are visible, but they are not at all quiet. They are adding up the data on daily basis. Mostly, yahoo maps are pushing more detailed tiles for 2nd, 3rd tier cities of India. Google is more into launching their routing solutions for India. Looking at directions in India on google maps will be fun. Hopefully, the routing features will be similar as they provide on US maps.

Vidteq has come up with a brilliant product for Bangalore Junta. Showing videos of roads and traffic while searching a route is the best feature a user can demand for. Good luck ! Vidteq team :)

Today, google enabled Directions/Routing feature in India. This is not available through maps.google.com, rather its available on google.com/mapmaker

Chat without installing messenger using javascript based messenger

Inline chats are in, but what if u need more functionalities.

Have a look at http://izuz.net/
It has javascript based messengers for Google talk, Windows LIVE messenger, MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, AOL Messenger

You can be any where in the world, be it africa, china, russia, mongolia... chat easily.

http://izuz.net/

Google chrome... the brand new browser with brand new features

Google comes up with a new browser, Google chrome, to challege the Internet explorer which is the banner of Microsoft as far as the browsers are concerned.  It has been built using the Mozilla as the backbone, integrating Apple safari and apple webkit. Built on a multiprocess environment. having a seperate thread, seperate memory for each tab, which gets realeased when the tab is closed.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13

Its fast. Built very intelligently, for instance the full screen mode is like default and u dont need the top bar always with the browser.

Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.

Crash control can control a tab crash, the browser need not be closed. 

People behind firewall can rejoice, incognito mode allows u to open sites that are behind firewall and for which there will be no trace.

so enjoy.

There are other basic features that are taken from IE and Firefox. 

http://www.google.com/chrome