Nvidia's New GPUs Could Be Real Game Changers

Nvidia is promising gamers major performance improvements with its Kepler GPUs, and the boost won't be limited to full-size PCs. Its new line includes several that are compatible with Ultrabooks, which could give gaming consoles a run for their money in the living room. By some accounts, the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 have squeezed out what can be done graphically. With Kepler, the PC could get a jump.

Nvidia (Nasdaq: NVDA) has launched the first graphic processing units (GPUs) based on its next-generation Kepler graphics architecture, which offers the promise to deliver superior gaming performance, according to the company.

One of the key components of video games on the PC is, of course, the graphics, and as long as there have been games, there have been attempts to take video performance to the next level.

The Kepler graphics architecture is reportedly the result of more than 1.8 million man-hours of work over the past five years. Designed for gaming PCs, the chips include the Nvidia GeForce GTX 680 GPU for desktops, and the GeForce 600M line of GPUs for Ultrabooks.

"The Kepler architecture stands as Nvidia's greatest technical achievement to date," said Brian Kelleher, senior vice president of GPU engineering at Nvidia. "It brings enormous performance and exceptional efficiency. Gamers will love the GTX 680's performance, as well as the fact that it doesn't require loud fans or exotic power supplies. Ultrabook users will love the GT 600M family for its performance and power efficiency."

Will PC Gaming Get a New Life?

The Kepler architecture could also give PC gaming a boost. The platform had seen a decline as gamers moved to video game consoles such as Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT) Xbox 360 and Sony's (NYSE: SNE) PlayStation 3 -- and even to mobile devices. However, the rumors of PC gaming's death have been -- to paraphrase Mark Twain -- greatly exaggerated.

"If anything, PC gaming when you include casual games is growing," said video game analyst Mark Baldwin of Baldwin Consulting. "The casual games don't push the graphics too much, but these have encouraged people to consider the PC as a platform."

Interest in graphics could also change in the post-Flash era on the Web.

"I think HTML 5 will push graphics a bit further, and these chips will take advantage of that," Baldwin told TechNewsWorld.

Attracting the Masses

There is also another area where PC games continue to attract crowds -- the massively multiplayer online roleplaying games (MMORPGs). These online games, which include such addictive titles as the long-reigning champion "World of Warcraft" and the recently released "Star Wars: The Old Republic," have continued to capture a dedicated following.

"The massively multiplayer games are pushing graphics and those are very much in the PC markets," noted Baldwin.

Nor could consoles ever fully overtake this market.

"There are games on consoles, but the interface and keyboard required make the MMORPG really a game that you must play on the PC, and that's where the market is," Baldwin pointed out.

Game On

Beyond the MMORPGs, PC games are ever becoming more demanding with graphics, and this is a market that has long been willing to pay for the best performace.

"Enthusiasts are the type of people that will spend money on their systems," said Wanda Meloni, founder and senior analyst at M2 Research. "Pricing is a huge component, and we've seen a substantial drop in the cost of these components. It is a more attractive price than a decade ago."

In fact, while the GeForce GTX 680 GPU costs US$499, this price is actually a decrease from the cutting-edge chips of just a few years ago. Gaming PCs, which once costs several thousand dollars, have fallen sharply in price, and this has allowed more people to get a "dream machine."

However, cost will be still be a factor for those on a budget.

"It is still more expensive than the $600 ... that the Sony PlayStation costs," said N'Gai Croal, chief consultant for Hit Detection.

"Clearly, price sensitivity is going to matter," he told TechNewsWorld, "except for those who want the PC experience with those games you can't get elsewhere."

PC Entertainment in the Living Room

One long-cited reason for the decline of PC gaming was that the console systems brought gaming to the living room, while the PC was still a system used on a desk in the bedroom or den. With Nvidia GPUs heading to Ultrabooks, come new possibilities for the PC to compete with consoles on their "home turf."

Nvidia's new range of laptop GPUs will debut in the Acer Aspire Timeline Ultra M3.

This could be especially true as the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 show their age. By some accounts, these systems have squeezed out what can be done graphically. With Kepler, the PC could get a jump.

"This is really going to be an opportunity for the PC to build and prove that it is a strong gaming platform," said M2's Meloni.

The fact that many new games have been coming out for both consoles and PC -- notably the latest "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3" from Activision and "Battlefield 3" from Electronic Arts (Nasdaq: ERTS) -- shows that PC gamers have an edge.

"These games are just more exciting to play on the PC," said Bryan Del Rizzo, manager of GEForce and consumer desktop products at Nvidia.

"There is also a great synergy across these platforms," he told TechNewsWorld, "and the PC systems can be hooked up to a big screen TV to really provide a great experience."

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Samsung Galaxy S vs Galaxy S2 – is it worth upgrading?

Samsung has definitely risen to a high level on the smartphone market ever since they released the Galaxy S, which is still one of the most powerful and functional smartphones in the world and can take on any other model with ease. But of course, time does not stay in one place for long, especially in the tech industry, and now Samsung has the successor in line, the Galaxy S2, ready to take the first model’s place as their flagship phone and kick any other phone to the curb.
The Galaxy S2 definitely looks, feels and works like a winner product, but is it so good that it’s worth upgrading from the Galaxy S you bought less than a year ago? That’s what this comparison will help you decide.

• The exterior

On the outside, you’ll find that both Galaxy S and S2 are very attractive, although markedly different from each other. The first Galaxy S has more rounded edges and a style that reminds of the iPhone, with a glossy back cover. The Galaxy S2 has a more unique design – it’s practically a perfected Galaxy S, with a more rectangle look, slightly less rounded edges, a very slim profile, a textured back cover and the same chrome accents on the front panel. I think the Galaxy S2 looks more moderns and stylish, though the Galaxy S can definitely hold its own in the design department.

• Internal Hardware

Aside from the slightly updated exterior design, the biggest difference between the Galaxy S and S2 is in its internal hardware. From the screen to the processor, everything in the Galaxy S2 has been updated to match and outperform any other next generation smartphone, and Galaxy S2 does it like no one else.
The display on the new Galaxy is a super nice 4.3 inch Super AMOLED Plus that is visibly better than the older 4.0 inch AMOLED unit on the Galaxy S, which is almost unbelievable, especially when they have the same standard resolution of 480×800 pixels. The new subpixel technology really shows itself here, and the picture is crisp, clear, bright and colorful – you’re definitely not going to see something like it every day.
Performance wise, the Galaxy S2 is theoretically twice as powerful as the old Galaxy, thanks to Samsung’s own dual core Orion processor running at 1.2 GHz and featuring a new and improved graphics adapter, plus 1024 MB of fast DDR2 RAM. Compare that to the Galaxy S’ single core 1.2 GHz CPU and 512 MB of slightly slower RAM. However, it’s important to note that the Android OS, even in its latest version for smartphones 2.3 Gingerbread, can’t effectively use both cores – it does use them, but on very few occasions. That will change with Ice Cream Sandwich, though, so a dual core is more future proof, but for now, the performance is not that different.
Other hardware differences lie in the new NFC transceiver, an increased amount of storage memory (32 GB as opposed to 16 GB, in addition to the micro SD card slot) and of course, HDMI output in the Galaxy S2.

• Software

Software wise, there are few differences – the devices are pretty much identical, running Android 2.3 (though not all Galaxy S users got the update) with Samsung’s Touch Wiz UI and a slew of custom apps specific to the network of your choice.

• Conclusion

The Galaxy S2 is definitely worth the upgrade, but only IF you have the money (right now, an unlocked Galaxy S2 costs twice as much as a new Galaxy S at about $850, so that’s quite a price) and need the extra performance. The Galaxy S is still a powerful smartphone, and can accomplish anything you need it to, so if you want to save money and get the most out of your investment, it’s better to keep it for another year or so, because something even better than the Galaxy S2 will be available by then.

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Razor Pocket Mod Bella Electric Scooter

An electric scooter is not an entirely new concept. While there have been quite a number of them now available in the market, what may have made them unappealing to most people is that they usually don’t look cool enough a ride to own one. But now style has come to change all that with the arrival of the Razor Pocket Mod Bella Electric Scooter.

The new Razor Pocket Mod Bella Electric Scooter is a stylish scooter designed after the popular classic Italian Vespa. Its stylish and classic design somehow makes one overlook that it is an electric scooter. It comes with a chain driven electric motor that can reach speed of up to 15 mph. It is able to travel up to 10 miles on a single charge, making it an ideal enough mode of transportation inside cities. The Razor Pocket Mod Bella Electric Scooter is available at the I Want One Of Those website for 340 UK Pounds or around US$539

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First Look : Photoshop CS6 Beta

Adobe has announced, for the second time in its history, a free public beta of Photoshop. Photoshop CS6 will be available to try for the next few months as Adobe readies its Creative Suite of applications for launch alongside the brand new Creative Cloud online hub, targeted to creative pros. The Photoshop beta is available now on Adobe Labs. For Macs, the new Photoshop version works only on 64-bit Mac systems, and no longer in 32-bit mode. Windows PCs will need to have Windows XP with Service Pack 3 or higher.

Various under-the-hood improvements promise to make life easier and protect long hours of labor intensive operations. The highest profile of these include Background Save and Auto Recovery, Preset Migration and Sharing, and the new Mercury Graphics Engine.

Simply selecting some program preferences lets Photoshop automatically save and recover your work in the event of a power interruption. When you upgraded from previous versions of Photoshop, you often lost painstakingly applied presets that automated many repetitive tasks. The new version lets you apply your presets, tools and workspaces to the new upgrade. While the Mercury engine is familiar to users of Premiere Pro, Photoshop's new Mercury Graphics Engine is mostly a software-based implementation of multicore functionality.

• The dark side

The changes in the new version of Photoshop are immediately apparent. The program has gone over to the dark side by default, opening to a sophisticated-looking dark gray interface. This is intended to complement themes of some of Adobe's other creative programs -- specifically Lightroom 4, Premiere Pro and After Effects.

Additional default themes in medium gray, light gray, and black are also included. However, you can set the interface colors to whatever you want, and they change immediately. The same holds true for Photoshop's companion asset management application, the now 64-bit Bridge. The dark, Aperture-like theme looks attractive, but as with all light type on a dark background, menu items can be difficult to read.

And speaking of interface updates, Adobe has also redesigned and streamlined the program's menu icons, though they're still familiar and easily recognizeable. Panels are now labeled in upper- and lowercase type instead of in all caps, enhancing legibility. A new Properties panel now combines Adjustment layer and Mask settings into a single panel. Attention to such details keeps the Photoshop looking fresh.

• Content awareness

In past versions of Photoshop, Adobe introduced the concept of content-aware image technology, in which edits can take into account the relationship between objects and elements in an image. This lets you edit in an intuitive way with more realistic looking results. Adobe now has added to the content-aware features of previous versions the new Content Aware Move and Content Aware Patch functions.

The Content Aware Move tool lets you pick up an object and relocate it to another part of the image while the program performs a content-aware fill operation in the background. The Patch tool's new Content Aware option, a more refined cloning operation, lets you choose the pixels used to fill a designated area in an image, as opposed to letting the program decide. Thus, Photoshop performs a little extra blending to make lines and patterns match.

• Layer improvements

Over the years, Photoshop's layers feature has received much attention and many improvements. Photoshop CS6 adds a Layer Search function and the use of vector layers to apply -- for the first time -- strokes, dashed lines, and gradients to vector objects. Other tweaks include the ability to simultaneously change the blend mode of and to duplicate multiple layers. You can also now see opacity, fill and blend modes of hidden layers. And you can now simultaneously change layer styles and effects for all layers in a group.

• Adaptive Wide Angle filter

Photoshop CS6 offers a new way to achieve lens corrections. The Adaptive Wide Angle adjustment filter lets you quickly straighten objects that appear curved in photos shot with wide-angle or fish-eye lenses, or panoramas created with Photomerge. Using Adobe's CS5 lens correction system, which fixes lens-based geometric distortion, chromatic aberration and vignetting, the new filter reads lens metadata and lets you click and drag new on-canvas tools to straighten and align objects vertically or horizontally in the scene.

• Crop tool

Photoshop CS6's GPU-enabled, nondestructive Crop tool sports new composition controls. Whereas CS5 included a basic grid and Rule of Thirds overlay, CS6 lets you preview Golden Ratio, Diagonal, Triangle and Golden Spiral overlays. You can also use the new Perspective Crop tool to straighten images. The new Crop tool is designed to help you change the aspect ratio (shape) of your image more easily, without accidentally changing resolution and thus the image quality.

• Blur Gallery

Added to Photoshop CS5's 11 Blur plug-ins is a new Blur Gallery consisting of Field Blur, Iris Blur and Tilt-Shift. These on-image controls add blurs to any image without requiring selections, layers, or depth maps. Iris Blur creates a shallow depth of field and lets you control the blur's area and intensity. Field Blur lets you pinpoint (with a virtual pushpin) the parts of an image you want blurred and control blur intensity. The Tilt-Shift blur applies blurs along one or more planes, letting you adjust both location and intensity, like the popular Lensbaby tilt-shift lens.

You can also apply and adjust a bokeh (background blur) effect with any of the three new Blur tools. The Blur Gallery offers a full-screen preview with collapsible panels, allowing you to see your results at a respectable size.

• Camera Raw 7

You can edit an image in the Camera Raw interface whether or not it was shot in Raw format. Adobe has rewritten the Camera Raw Basic panel and its controls for easier use. All sliders start at zero, so it's easy to see how to fix even low-resolution shots. Two new controls, Highlights and Shadows (derived from Lightroom 4's processing engine) help pull more detail from images than previous Raw plug-ins. Overall, the Camera Raw 7 plug-in offers more image controls that can be applied with the Adjustment Brush, including Temperature, Tint, Highlights, Shadows, Noise Reduction and MoirA(c) Reduction.

• Painting and drawing

Photoshop would not be Photoshop without fresh tools and streamlined methods of painting and drawing. New erodible brush tips are designed to wear down naturally. You can also use erodible tips with the Brush tool, Pencil tool, Mixer Brush tool and Eraser tool. A new Airbrush tip features a real physics engine to make airbrushing more realistic. That's in addition to improved brush rotation, painting presets and more. A new Oil Paint filter lets you instantly turn a photo into an oil painting.

• Video

Photoshop CS6's new video functionality -- designed as a starting point for video creation -- features a new Timeline panel in addition to Photoshop's familiar Animation panel. The workflow, targeted to photographers, includes letting you create, edit, splice and add audio track and transitions to your clips in a drag-and-drop interface. Having all Photoshop's editing tools at your disposal offers manifold artistic options. You can then export and render video in a number of formats.

• Improved auto correction

Photoshop always let you automatically correct images with various controls under the Image menu. Photoshop CS6 approaches auto corrections in a different and more intelligent way. Auto options are available in Curves, Levels, and -- for the first time -- Brightness/Contrast controls. The interface is the same, but the underlying algorithms driving them have changed. The Auto button derives its results from a database of thousands of hand-edited images. An Enhance Brightness and Contrast algorithm -- developed with reference to thousands of manually corrected examples -- bases calculations on image data.

• 3D

Adobe has revamped its 3D engine for CS6 to make it easier and faster to create and manipulate 3D objects. A new in-context and on-canvas editing interface is designed to enhance usability. Right-clicking on a 3D object shows contextual pop-up panels with content of the panel related to the area clicked.

Adobe has scrapped CS5's large ReposA(c) dialog box and subsumed the 3D technology into the interface. Now, a Properties panel and widgets enable 3D extrusion and the manipulation of 3D objects in real time. The program also supports draggable shadows and ground plane reflections. The Picture In Picture window shows an alternate view of the 3D object. With it, you can switch camera views, pan, zoom and swap this view with the main document window.

For combining 2D and 3D functions, you can add 3D objects to a photo and have the object align with the Vanishing Point of the image.

• Skin tone aware selections and masking

Photoshop CS6 introduces more controls for preserving skin tones in images where you either want to change or adjust the skin color, or preserve skin tones as you change other parts of the picture. The Color Range dialog box, under the Select menu, offers both a Skin Tones option and a Detect Faces checkbox. Used in concert, they can help you create an accurate mask.

• There's lots more

These are only a few highlights of the new Photoshop CS6 upgrade, now available in beta on Adobe Labs, and due out by summer. There's a lot more to look at in the beta, including Character and Paragraph styles; a lorem ipsum generator for creating placeholder text and Rich cursors; a handy informational overlay that appears whenever you use the Move, Crop, Free Transform; and similar tools. It shows size information, rotation angle, and x/y coordinates.

The new version of Photoshop welcomes Contact Sheet II and PDF Presentation back into the package, as well as a redesigned, streamlined print dialog box. New Bicubic Automatic image resampling (handy for enlargements) lets Photoshop pick the best interpolation method. It's also used with the Crop tool and Free Transform tools.

We will have a full review of Photoshop CS6 when the final version launches. Stay tuned.


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Zync Z-990 Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) Tablet

Zync launched India's first Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) tablet named as Zync Z-990 which is very low cost to compare other Android 4.0 tablets. The tablet is priced at Rs 8,990 and comes with a 7 inch capacitive screen that can respond to upto five point touches, so you can use your all five fingers at a time.

Zync is a part of Noida based Apple Group companies which has been into mining business in Hong Kong.

Specification:

Processor	1.2 GHz
O/S	Android 4.0
Price	Rs. 8,990
RAM	1 GB
Screen	7" Five point touch screen
Memory	4 GB (In built)
Expandable	up to 32GB
Camera	0.3 mega pixel (Front)
Keyboard	External
Weight	380 grams`
Connectivity	3G USB Doungles, USB, HDMI Port,

Asish Garg, chairman, Apple Group companies (parent company of Zync), said, "The Zync Z-990 is India's first Android 4.0 tablet with features such as control over data usage, new gallery app with photo editor, new lock action, new user interface, new camera capabilities and five point touch." "We have also designed a keyboard especially for this tablet and priced it just as nominally," he further added.

The Zync Z-990 is available from various e-commerce websites like Yebhi.com, Letsbuy.com and HomeShop18.com. An attached keyboard especially designed for this tablet is also being offered by the company along with this tablet for a discounted price. It comes with a one year warranty as well.

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