SmartSwipe -Personal Credit Card Reader

SmartSwipe encrypts and protects your credit card information to make online shopping faster and safer than ever. Just swipe your credit card at your PC.no typing card numbers Encrypted against hackers, viruses and spyware Works on virtually any website accepting credit card payments Light, portable, easy to use Requires Internet connection and available USB port Just plug SmartSwipe  into your PC and go.

Multi-Touch Keyboard and Mouse

Multi-Touch keyboards and mice are the next generation in computer peripherals. These elegant well made devices are composed of quality tempered glass, a solid metal base, and the finest components. They are designed using simple existing technology and have no moving parts.
They have rechargeable Lithium olymer batteries and are completely wireless.




The design is based on a touch screen technology known as FTIR or Frustrated Total Internal Reflection. There are basically infrared LEDs placed at the edge of the glass. In this case, they are hidden inside holes where the glass is mounted to the metal base. Because of the low angle at which the light impacts the internal glass surface, it is bounced around inside the glass, much like looking through a tube to see the reflections on the inside walls. When the glass is touched it frustrates the reflection and the IR light is diffused downward, out of the glass, allowing the camera to see it. Software then determines the location and sends the appropriate information to your computer.



Created by Jason Giddings of Giddings Product Development, the keyboard utilizes frustrated total internal reflection (FTIR) technology to recognize key touches across its Gorilla Glass 2 surface area. Although the demo at CES was a non-working prototype, the product is definitely promising. The keyboard will come with Windows and Mac support, the ability to register multitouch gestures, and both wireless and USB connectivity.

Roll Up Laptops

A computer you can carry under your arm like a stylish, rolled-up yoga mat? Why not, says the Rolltop design company, currently in the process of obtaining partners, investors and manufacturers for its new computing innovation.

Form and function both seem to be on display with the Rolltop 2.0 concept, an improvement on earlier work by the same company and one that seems poised to take the ever-shrinking laptop market by storm. The idea here is that the Rolltop can be - you saw this coming - rolled up and carried around using a shoulder strap just as if you were on your way to the gym or were pretending to be so that everyone in the park could see how "fit" you were.

When you want to use the Rolltop, the plan is for it to simply be rolled out, each segmented section giving enough strength and with enough room for electronic components that the flattened version resembles an actual laptop. The center tube of the roll itself is then used as a charging cable dock and has an AC adapter at the top so that it can take advantage of any local outlet source of power. In addition, the "base", as it is known, contains a web camera, speaker, an Internet connection port and USB ports.

Using full touchscreen technology, the Rolltop itself is actually one large screen that can be made to function as a keyboard with monitor or as a 17" flatscreen for watching movies or as a drawing tablet.

 The back of the Rolltop also features a stand to use when the fullscreen aspect of the device is being used, with the overall aim of the making the Rolltop the ultimate all-in-one laptop system.

As mentioned above, the company is currently seeking partners and investors and if they get the right people with the right money, this thing could easily take off. The size of components currently on the market means that designing a segmented laptop as described should not pose a challenge and so long as it can be made to work seamlessly as shown, the Rolltop could be a massive hit.

Apple iRing -MP3 player

This Gadget is unique because its has great concept of Bluetooth ring which has designed by Victor Solo. This ring connectivity with wireless bluetooth of your ipad and iphone. After connected you can play songs, volume control up and down, skip music, and with play and pause function controls on the ring. iRing features as a touch sensitive functions strip. 

 

 

The Most Useful Websites and Web Apps

The 101 Most Useful Websites on the Internet is a frequently updated list of lesser-known but wonderful websites and cool web apps.

These sites, well most of them, solve at least one problem really well and they all have simple web addresses (URLs) that you can memorize thus saving you a trip to Google.

1. screenr.com – record movies of your desktop and send them straight to YouTube.
2. ctrlq.org/screenshots – for capturing screenshots of web pages on mobile and desktops.
3. goo.gl – shorten long URLs and convert URLs into QR codes.
4. unfurlr.come – find the original URL that’s hiding behind a short URL.
5. qClock – find the local time of a city using a Google Map.
6. copypastecharacter.com – copy special characters that aren’t on your keyboard.
7. postpost.com – a better search engine for twitter.
8. lovelycharts.com – create flowcharts, network diagrams, sitemaps, etc.
9. iconfinder.com – the best place to find icons of all sizes.
10. office.com – download templates, clipart and images for your Office documents.
11. followupthen.com – the easiest way to setup email reminders.
12. jotti.org – scan any suspicious file or email attachment for viruses.
13. wolframalpha.com – gets answers directly without searching   – see more wolfram tips.
14. printwhatyoulike.com – print web pages without the clutter.
15. joliprint.com – reformats news articles and blog content as a newspaper.
16. ctrql.org/rss – a search engine for RSS feeds.
17. e.ggtimer.com – a simple online timer for your daily needs.
18. coralcdn.org – if a site is down due to heavy traffic, try accessing it through coral CDN.
19. random.org – pick random numbers, flip coins, and more.
20. pdfescape.com – lets you can quickly edit PDFs in the browser itself.
21. viewer.zoho.com – Preview PDFs and Presentations directly in the browser.
22. tubemogul.com – simultaneously upload videos to YouTube and other video sites.
23. ctrlq.org/dictation – online voice recognition in the browser itself.
24. scr.im – share you email address online without worrying about spam.
25. spypig.com – now get read receipts for your email.
26. sizeasy.com – visualize and compare the size of any product.
27. myfonts.com/WhatTheFont – quickly determine the font name from an image.
28. google.com/webfonts – a good collection of open source fonts.
29. regex.info – find data hidden in your photographs – see more EXIF tools.
30. livestream.com – broadcast events live over the web, including your desktop screen.
31. iwantmyname.com – helps you search domains across all TLDs.
32. homestyler.com – design from scratch or re-model your home in 3d.
33. join.me – share you screen with anyone over the web.
34. onlineocr.net – recognize text from scanned PDFs – see other OCR tools.
35. flightstats.com – Track flight status at airports worldwide.
36. wetransfer.com – for sharing really big files online.
37. hundredzeros.com – the site lets you download free Kindle books.
38. polishmywriting.com – check your writing for spelling or grammatical errors.
39. marker.to – easily highlight the important parts of a web page for sharing.
40. typewith.me – work on the same document with multiple people.
41. whichdateworks.com – planning an event? find a date that works for all.
42. everytimezone.com – a less confusing view of the world time zones.
43. gtmetrix.com – the perfect tool for measuring your site performance online.
44. noteflight.com – print music sheets, write your own music online.
45. imo.im – chat with your buddies on Skype, Facebook, Google Talk, etc. from one place.
46. translate.google.com – translate web pages, PDFs and Office documents.
47. kleki.com – create paintings and sketches with a wide variety of brushes.
48. similarsites.com – discover new sites that are similar to what you like already.
49. wordle.net – quick summarize long pieces of text with tag clouds.
50. bubbl.us – create mind-maps, brainstorm ideas in the browser.
51. kuler.adobe.com – get color ideas, also extract colors from photographs.
52. liveshare.com – share your photos in an album instantly.
53. lmgtfy.com – when your friends are too lazy to use Google on their own.
54. midomi.com – when you need to find the name of a song.
55. bing.com/images – automatically find perfectly-sized wallpapers for mobiles.
56. faxzero.com – send an online fax for free – see more fax services.
57. feedmyinbox.com – get RSS feeds as an email newsletter.
58. ge.tt – quickly send a file to someone, they can even preview it before downloading.
59. pipebytes.com – transfer files of any size without uploading to a third-party server.
60. tinychat.com – setup a private chat room in micro-seconds.
61. privnote.com – create text notes that will self-destruct after being read.
62. boxoh.com – track the status of any shipment on Google Maps – alternative.
63. chipin.com – when you need to raise funds online for an event or a cause.
64. downforeveryoneorjustme.com – find if your favorite website is offline or not?
65. ewhois.com – find the other websites of a person with reverse Analytics lookup.
66. whoishostingthis.com – find the web host of any website.
67. google.com/history – found something on Google but can’t remember it now?
68. aviary.com/myna – an online audio editor that lets record, and remix audio clips online.
69. disposablewebpage.com – create a temporary web page that self-destruct.
70. urbandictionary.com – find definitions of slangs and informal words.
71. seatguru.com – consult this site before choosing a seat for your next flight.
72. sxc.hu – download stock images absolutely free.
73. zoom.it – view very high-resolution images in your browser without scrolling.
74. scribblemaps.com – create custom Google Maps easily.
75. alertful.com – quickly setup email reminders for important events.
76. picmonkey.com – Picnik is offline but PicMonkey is an even better image editor.
77. formspring.me – you can ask or answer personal questions here.
78. sumopaint.com – an excellent layer-based online image editor.
79. snopes.com – find if that email offer you received is real or just another scam.
80. typingweb.com – master touch-typing with these practice sessions.
81. mailvu.com – send video emails to anyone using your web cam.
82. timerime.com – create timelines with audio, video and images.
83. stupeflix.com – make a movie out of your images, audio and video clips.
84. safeweb.norton.com – check the trust level of any website.
85. teuxdeux.com – a beautiful to-do app that looks like your paper dairy.
86. deadurl.com – you’ll need this when your bookmarked web pages are deleted.
87. minutes.io – quickly capture effective notes during meetings.
88. youtube.com/leanback – Watch YouTube channels in TV mode.
89. youtube.com/disco – quickly create a video playlist of your favorite artist.
90. talltweets.com – Send tweets longer than 140 characters.
91. pancake.io – create a free and simple website using your Dropbox account.
92. builtwith.com – find the technology stack of any website.
93. woorank.com – research a website from the SEO perspective.
94. mixlr.com – broadcast live audio over the web.
95. radbox.me – bookmark online videos and watch them later .
96. tagmydoc.com – add QR codes to your documents and presentations .
97. notes.io – the easiest way to write short text notes in the browser.
98. ctrlq.org/html-mail – send rich-text mails to anyone, anonymously.
99. fiverr.com – hire people to do little things for $5.
100. otixo.com – easily manage your online files on Dropbox, Google Docs, etc.
101. ifttt.com – create a connection between all your online accounts.

TOP 10 Unique Websites

With millions of websites on internet, we at times tend miss some extremely well websites that are of great help and more importantly – they charge nothing or in some case even if they charge, they charge affordable. Here are 10 Most Recommended Websites for Freefeast visitors which are perhaps a little less known but you will love to bookmark it in all your devices.

1- http://www.untiny.me/

Lots of people send you customized tiny urls ? Do you get spam links or junk links in form of tiny urls ? Well, untinyme.com is the site that helps to unmask the original url masked in form of tiny url, before actually visiting that link. A good safety measure that avoids viruses through junk links. Why to increase the hits of useless websites when we have untiny.me with us.

2-http://lovelycharts.com

Want to make creative presentations or office documents ? Tired of same default office templates ?
Here is something that will enhance look and feel of your documents, presentations and stuff.
lovelycharts.com offers variety of elegant flowcharts,diagrams, sitemaps etc which cannot be missed, do try it once !

3-http://regex.info/exif.cgi

A good site for ones who work with photographs. Or for those who want to know each minute details of the picture. The camera make, resolution, shutter speed ,Encoding, copy right details if any, etc are the things to name a few.

4-http://join.me

Want to share your screen with someone ? Don’t want to download teamviewer or any such desktop client because of multiple reasons ? I.T filed understands aspect of everyone. Here is a website that will allow you to share your screen with anyone across internet and its easy – no setups required. In their language – No Strings Attached.

5-http://marker.to

Came across some good notations on Internet ? Or want to highlight some important parts of web-page and share ? No need to copy-paste and attach and email. The site marker.to is a hassle free solution which is a browser extension that will help to highlight portions of web-pages and also will provide the new links to share the highlighted documents.

6- http://everytimezone.com

Do you get confused with lots of timezones , its messy at times to know that which date is there in which time zone, this website comes at your rescue in such a case !  Simple and Classic representation of different timezones.

7-http://tagmydoc.com

QRCodes are the new in-thing right ? Want to add QR Codes to your documents / web pages, tagmydoc is the boon for it than. Make your personalized QR Codes for free with the help of this website.

8-http://teuxdeux.com/

Elegant To-Do Application that is easily manageable through browser and Iphone App. Isn’t it cool ? well to add cherry on cake – you can sync both too. It simply looks like a personal diary. You’ll surely love it.

9-http://safeweb.norton.com/

A powerful site that can be on top of your bookmark list, well safeweb enables one to check the safety and authentic of any website, so if you land up on any website and feel doubtful about the security , its just a click away !

10-https://encrypted.google.com/

We all love privacy, don’t we ? Well, Google our master search engine helps us to keep our search history secret from our bosses or pears with the help of its encrypted google service.

Aren’t this all wonderful sites which you would love to bookmark, I am sure you all will.

Windows 8 tablets are coming: Tablets for those already not buying tablets

I have been anxious to get my hands on a Surface tablet from Microsoft since the company showed it off with Windows 8. It looks sleek and with that thin keyboard cover could be a "real" PC.

Microsoft is desperate to break into the huge tablet market currently owned by Apple's iPad. The company totally changed its flagship OS solely to crack into that market, even at the risk of upsetting a lot of people. There is no doubt that the objective for Microsoft was to break into the tablet market with Windows 8.
Windows 8 will come in two flavors, full Windows 8 and a lite version (Windows RT). The former will run all the fancy new Windows tablet apps (that largely don't exist yet)
and all of the old Windows programs. The latter tablets will only run the former apps. Make sense?
Further complicating trying to figure out who might benefit from a Windows 8 tablet is the lack (or not) of a keyboard. Even those in the know have assured me that to take full advantage of a Windows 8 tablet, to get much work done at all as a matter of fact, a keyboard is required. Not recommended, required.

That tells me that even those familiar with Windows 8 don't see it as competing with real tablets like the iPad or the Android models. Those are 'consumption' devices, not 'creation' devices and the obvious purpose of a Windows 8 tablet is to do both. Which requires a keyboard. And probably full Windows, not the RT version.
 Microsoft has gone all-in with a complete redesign of Windows 8 for the wrong market. Windows tablets have been around for a decade and Windows users didn't buy them. Sure Microsoft will sell some tablets to the Windows faithful, but the mainstream consumer they really want will run screaming.

Acronyms | Diffrent Chat Acronyms | Abbreviations

Acronym	Expansion
ATW	At The Weekend
BRB	Be Right Back
CM	Call Me
CU	See You
CYE	Check Your Email
DUR?	Do You Remember ?
F2F	Face To Face
GA	Go Ahead
GAL	Get A Life
Gr8	Great
IDK	I Don’t Know
JK	Just Kidding
MYOB	Mind Your Own Business
NTN	No Thanks Needed
W4U	Waiting For You
WFH	Working From Home
WAH	Working At Home
YW	Your’re Welcome
ZZZ	Sleeping
======= NEWS	================= North East West South
CHESS	Chariot , Horses, Elephants, Soldiers
COLD	Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease
JOKE	Joy Of Kids Entertainment
AIM	Ambitions in Mind
DATE	Day And Time Evolution
EAT	Energy And Taste
TEA	Taste And Energy Admitted
PEN	Power Enriched in Nib
SMILE	Sweet Memories in Lips Expression
BYE	Be With You Every Time

The Evolution of Logo

ften we say “First Impression is the last impression”, Logos do the same, it is the first impression of your company, business ,etc.
Logo is a symbol that gives identify your business or brand or corporate Identity.

In 1876, the logo that was trademarked first : ‘The Bass Red Triangle‘.

Lets have a look on some logos and some interesting facts that are attached to them…

Logo of Sun Microsystems


The Logo of Sun Microsystems is one of the world famous ambigrams, You can see ‘Sun’ in all direction in the logo of Sun Microsystems and its formed beautifully.
At the first, it seems like a pattern but when you see carefully that pattern, you can see that is not only pattern but ‘SUN‘ integrated into that.
This beautiful Logo of Sun Microsystems was designed by professor Vaughan Pratt.
Logo of Amazon.com


In the logo of Amazon, that orange colored arrow not only makes a smile but that arrow also connects a and z, it says that you can get ‘ a to z ‘i.e. everything at amazon.com.
Logo of IBM

It is not necessary that every logo should have any hidden meaning inside it,
some logos are very simple but yet very famous.
Say for example the  Logo of IBM.
Did you know why IBM is also known as ‘Big Blue’? one of the reason may be that the International Business Machine (IBM) has its logo in blue color.
Its logo has eight horizontal stripes in the three letters in name of the company (IBM).

Logo of Sony Vaio
What is hidden in the logo of Sony Vaio ???

Here Vaio is combination of VA + IO where VA represents analog signal and IO represents binary code i.e. 1 and 0.
 





Logo of Fedex

In the logo of FedEx, white space is there in between ‘E’ and ‘x’ which makes white colored right arrow in FedEx, that arrow indicates speed and precision.
Logo of LG (Life’s Good)




In the logo of LG, there is a  symbol of Pac Man which integrated in the name.
There are many other logos but the main thing is that logo is nothing without the branding of your business.
I am sure now, whenever you see any logo, you will try to find or observe that logo to find hidden message in it.

One of the world’s most well known and valuable company Microsoft, founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1975.
Recently we have heard that Microsoft has changed its logo after 25 years. Let see the all logos of Microsoft.
1. First Logo of Microsoft :
This is the Very First Logo of Microsoft that was  used in 1975.

 

2. Blibbet Logo:  This logo was used from 1975 to 1987



3. Pac Man Logo : This logo was used from 1987 to 2012 and designer of this logo was : Scott Baker. This logo has a one slash between first ‘O’ to ‘S’ .
Actually till 1994 this logo was used i.e. no slogan with Logo but onwards slogan was added to the same logo.


4. Logo with Slogan ‘Where do you want to go today?’:
As mentioned above, the logo till 2012 remain same but slogan with logo was changed.
In 1994, the slogan displayed with logo was “Where do you want to go today?”. The duration of this logo was 1994 to 2002.


5. Logo with Slogan ‘Your potential. Our passion’:
From 2006 to 2011, Slogan was  “Your potential. Our passion.” with the same Pac Man logo.


6. Logo with Slogan ‘Be What’s Next.’:
From 2011 – 2012 the slogan was “Be What’s Next.” with the same logo of Microsoft.


7. Current Logo Of Microsoft :
In 23 august of 2012, Google announced the new logo for Microsoft i.e, after 25 years. This new logo has four squares having four colors and used font ‘sans serif’ called Seoge. This logo is similar to current window logo just difference is that in new logo four squares are in four colors.

Apple Inc…World’s most famous company of software, personal Computers, and consumer electronics .
Apple is the 3rd largest mobile phone maker of world.
Apple was established in 1st April of 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne and incorporated in 1977 by only Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak i.e. without Ronald  Wayne.
When company was established,  the name was “Apple Computer, Inc.” and upto 30 years having this name but in 2007  ‘Computer’ was removed from company name and from then till today the name is “Apple Inc.”
Why name Apple ??
Jobs wanted a name which comes first in alphabetically in order then Atari : one of his competitor company.
It is also said that one day Steve jobs was on fruitarian diet and while coming back from an apple farm he got an idea of this name.
But why Bite is there in an Apple Logo??
Some says that there is a bite in an apple to differentiate it from a cherry or a tomato or another fruit.
One of the reason is that to tribute to ‘Father of Computer Science’  i.e. Alan Turing because he has committed suicide in jail using a apple laced with cyanide.
First Logo of an Apple

In the first logo of Apple, “Sir Isaac Newton sitting under an apple tree“.
It has the incription ” Newton… A Mind Forever Voyaging Through Strange Seas of Thought … Alone”.
First logo was designed by Ron Wayne in  1976.
First Slogan of Apple : “Byte into an Apple“.
First Product of Apple : “Apple I“.
Rainbow Logo
The first logo was immediately changed to “bitten rainbow colored Apple” mostly known as “Rainbow Apple” by Rob Janoff.
Duration of this logo was from 1976 to 1998. The Colored stripes in the logo represents the fact that new products will be available in color not in just black and white at that time.

In 1997, when Steve Jobs return to Apple he replaced Colorful strips of rainbow Apple into monochromatic look in various themes like..

In 1998, Monochromatic themed look of Apple Logo.

In 2001, Aqua themed look of Apple Logo.

In 2003, Glass themed look of Apple Logo : This is Latest and perfectly suits on each product of Apple.