Samsung launches solar powered mobile.

Samsung introduces the blue earth touch screen mobile phone worlds first eco friendly phone.Every part of the phone is eco -friendly even its name 'BLUE EARTH'.Designed to symbolize a flat and well rounded shiny pebble, Blue Earth is the first solar powered full-touch screen phone. By charging with the solar panel located on the back of the phone, users can generate enough electronic power to call anytime anywhere. Samsung Blue Earth touch screen cell phone is made from recycled plastic called PCM, which is extracted from water bottles, helping to reduce fuel consumption and carbon emissions in the manufacturing process. The Samsung Blue Earth handset, including cell phone charger, is free from harmful substances such as Brominated Flame Retardants, Beryllium and Phthalate.
                                                                   The packaging for Samsung Blue Earth phone is designed to be both small and light, made from recycled paper, and comes with a 5 star energy efficient charger which uses standby power lower than 0.03W. As part of the Voluntary Agreement of European Commission IPP (Integrated Product Policy) pilot program, Samsung has agreed to start using rating on energy consumption on the no-load mode of the mobile phone charger.

HOW TO CREATE WORD COLLAGES

Recently I found this wonderful website which allows text to be collaged.Picasa the software by google allows you to do collage of pictures but gives upto  a limited options.
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.
Take a look at the samples I have dont

YOU CANNOT PRINT CURRENCY USING PHOTOSHOP

Printing fake currency using recent versions of adobe photoshop and paint shop pro is disabled.In the times when producing fake currency using software means like photo copiers and printers a software based bank note detection system is required.The software detects by using the patterns found on the currency which belongs to the EURIon constellation a pattern of stars.

The EURion constellation is a pattern of symbols found on a number of banknote designs since about 1996. It is added to help software detect the presence of a banknote in a digital image. Such software can then block the user from reproducing banknotes to prevent counterfeiting using colour photocopiers.


The banknote detection code in these applications, called the Counterfeit Deterrence System (CDS), was designed by the Central Bank Counterfeit Deterrence Group and supplied to companies such as Adobe as a binary module. However, experiments by Steven J. Murdoch and others showed that this banknote detection code does not rely on the EURion pattern. It instead detects a digital watermark embedded in the images, developed by Digimarc

   
But this also has some disadvantages click here to see wired magazine article

HOW TO HAVE MULTIPLE INBOXES IN GMAIL

Google on thursday introduced the multi inbox feature through its gmail labs feature.The new feature--called Multiple Inboxes--allows users to have multiple viewing panes open simultaneously without having to open another browser window. The upgrade gives users a quick view at important labels as well as saved searches

How to enable this feature
You can get started simply by clicking the tiny green icon located right beside the Gmail settings link. Once Multiple Inboxes is selected, there will be several additional panes hanging out beside your main Gmail window where you are free to adjust what you want to view on those areas simply be clicking on the settings link
Read official gmailblog post 

3D IMAGE SCANNER FROM REALVIEW.

Real-view has introduced a 3D Scanner which it claims to be the first desktop scanner that can scan and capture objects in a complete 360 degree view. Instead of uploading multiple images for viewing an object from different angles, as done with a 2D scanner, a 3D Desktop scanner can scan and paste a single 3 dimensional view of an object that can be viewed from any position with just a click of your mouse. This image can be uploaded into applications like Adobe Acrobat PDF files or any web page.

Though three dimensional printers are gaining some popularity in the consumer markets, they are rare and a 3D scanner is much more hard to find and are exorbitantly priced, in the realm

of tens of thousands of dollars. Now for the first time, Real-view has derived the 3D image capture technology which has been so far used in medical cameras, to come up with an affordable commercial 3D scanner.Though the size of the object that can be scanned is limited to whatever that will fit on its base, it is a big leap in the scanning technology.

There are three models of the Real-View 3-D Desktop Scanner that includes

The Real-View 360 3D, that scans in 360-degree VGA resolution;

The Real-View 360 3D HD, that scans in HD resolution;

The Real-View 360 3D Commercial, designed for larger format and kiosk applications.