A new palm sized, AMD version PC has been introduced by Compulab fit-PC3. It's processor can be supported by up to 8GB of DDR3 memory. It measures just 16 x 15 x 2.5 cm. It is equipped with 2 x USB 3.0 ports and 6 x USB 2.0 ports. Its Prices start from just $328. 

Google's Android team has just launched Android Training, an online training program to help aspiring developers, who create their own magic. Some 11 general sections, 34 lessons are included in this program to help you get started. This program can solve many common Android development problems like  designing effective navigation, managing audio playback, optimizing battery life. These sections and classes are specially designed to explain the steps required to solve a problem, or implement a feature, with plenty of code snippets and sample code for you to use within your own apps. It has been created for developers who need a refresher course in fine-tuning their apps.

 

Snow can be such a beautiful thing to photograph, its so pure and clean and the white starkness against a blue sky can be breathtaking. The snow, like the rain (in fact, like all inclimate weather) presents unique opportunities, challenges and inspirations for the photographically inclined. It’s all about photo tips for shooting in the snow.  Snow photography taking pictures of snow can be very difficult if there are no contrasting colors the suns glare off of the snow can make it even more difficult. Here are many tips you can use to.

Adjust Your Exposure:
It can be difficult to find the right exposure if your shooting in the snow. Shoot the image using only +1/3 or +2/3 of a stop exposure compensation.
Metering:
The spot meter will serve you best to get most accurate photos. If you’re intended photo is predominantly the snow and ice, you might get away with using the center-weighted meter mode.
Light Source:
Also try shooting while the snow is falling, but avoid flash:
Use a Polarizing or other Filter:
Use a Lens Hood:
Use a low ISO of 200-400 during sunrise or daytime:
You can use a high aperture number without using a tripod:
Limiting your DoF:
Place a large, dark background into a snowing scene:
Bring spare batteries:
Dealing with Shadows:
Adjusting Color:
Snowdrifts:
Focus on the smaller details:

Post processing is one of the most important aspects of digital photography; it is just as important as the photo shoot itself. Photo editing also called post processing. It is a lot different than knowing how to correctly operate your camera, in fact it is a world of its own. There are several thousand ways to post process an image. You will find an assortment of top-notch tutorials that deal with applying post-production techniques and effects, color correction, enhancement and photo retouching Here are some of the most popular and useful Photoshop post processing techniques.

1 Adobe Camera RAW for Beginners: Basic Adjustments:
Adobe Camera RAW’s basics adjustments can make up the backbone of your photography post production. Whether it’s tweaking the blacks or bumping up the brightness, almost every photograph can use a little basic adjustment.

2  Quick & Flexible Photo Colour Manipulation:
It is simple and very flexible way to manipulate colour within an image.

3 Black and White Photoshop Conversion Techniques:
You take photos in colour and then convert them to black and white.

4 Combining Different Exposures in Photoshop:
If you have the ability to produce two entirely different exposures of the same scene, and have Photoshop at your disposal, then you are quite the lucky photographer.

5 Image Retouching: Advanced Skin Softening:

6 Quick Selective Sharpening Technique In Photoshop CS3/CS4:
CS3 has a wonderful new Quick Selection tool. This is the case for the Quick Selection tool, which also allows you to choose the old Magic Wand too.

7 Noise Reduction by Image Averaging:
This section compares a couple common methods for noise reduction, and also introduces an alternative technique: averaging multiple exposures to reduce noise.

8 Quick Tip: Color Correction in Photoshop with the Curves Adjustment Tool:
It helps us in creating desired contrast, but at the same time it allows us to color correct our images.

9 Photo Enhancing Using Dragan and David Hill Effects:
enhances the image by muting the colors while adding a low contrast tri-tone color cast, giving the image a dark moody look.

10 How to Effectively Use Contrast, Auto Levels, and Batch Processing:
It provides you a way of safely using Auto Levels and a better way to adjust the contrast. All this can be built into an Action Script that can be turned into a droplet for drag and drop batch processing.

Chrome extension, Sheepish shows you exactly those companies which keep an eye on you for every site you visit and blocks them from doing so. Online privacy is perhaps one of the most debated topics there is. It allows you to detect these invisible trackers on different websites and lets you control your privacy. It provides you full record of trackers and companies which are interested in your activity. you can browse in a more secure manner with the help of Sheepish. After installing it, just click the Sheepish button to view all details of your browsing and trackers.

Microsoft has announced today that it will soon introduce roll out automatic updates for Internet Explorer. The updates will come in Australia and Brazil in January and then spread out in the world. Updating to the latest browser version will also help speed up HTML5 adoption across all websites.  Updates will start on all computers running Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7. Auto updates will install on those machines, which are explicitly turned on the “automatic updates” feature. These automatic updates are also known as silent updates that display no windows or messages while the process is in progress and they are already been used by the rivals of IE like Chrome and Firefox.

 

There is feature in many browsers to change the size of actual site. But the main defect remains in its place as the size of address bar remains in static size, which can create problem for those users who have some problem in screen resolution. There is an extension which has solved the problem, Make Address Bar Front Size Bigger is the extension which works very cleanly without teasing site's CSS. The Make Font Size Bigger Pack is a Firefox add-on that will automatically increase the font size of the fonts in the Firefox address bar, tab bar and status bar. Firefox users can also download the Make Address Bar Bigger. Just simply download and install it and then write any URL in address bar it will appear bigger than normal size.