Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Siri Is Apple’s Broken Promise
A long time ago, I made a compact with Apple. "You can control my entire technological life, from my computer to my phone to my stereo. I'll pay premium prices. I'll dive into your product ecosystem, and buy books and music and movies and apps from you. Even though they won't work on devices made by anybody else."
Saturday, December 3, 2011
IMDb: Hugo
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Friday, December 2, 2011
Mosquitoes can provide new knowledge of defense against viruses
Studies on the mosquitoes and flies defense against viruses and parasites may be important lessons to come. Climate change makes the mosquito-borne diseases can be spread over larger areas. At the Nobel laureate Jules Hoffman Institute in Strasbourg, France, the researchers argue with each other on exciting new results that you are trying to interpret.
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Medical profession a profession with less and less support and influence
Summarized
The purpose of this study was to investigate changes in the doctor's working with a particular focus on leadership, guidance and support.
Comparisons were made of survey data from two random samples in 1992 (n = 390) and 2010 (n = 1937). Major changes appeared in several respects.
The proportion of physicians who feel they have no business liability has decreased by 45 percentage points, from 76 to 31 percent.
Very significant deterioration was found in terms of support at work.
The time spent on continuing education / reading and research has declined.
The utilization of physicians' highest skills have declined.
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Saturday, November 5, 2011
Check out this iPhone app - News360
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A dailymail.co.uk article from alex
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2052110/Steve-Jobs-biography-Bill-Cli...23 October 2011
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Friday, October 21, 2011
Cellphone use doesn't increase cancer risk, Danish scientists find - New York Daily News
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Cellphones are not linked to cancer, a recent study found.The latest study on cellphones and cancer has found no increased risk - in line with a number of earlier studies.
The scope of the Danish study, published in Friday's British Medical Journal, is impressive but unlikely to end debate on whether cellphones are bad for the health.
Researchers followed more than 350,000 people who had a cellphone between 1987 and 1995 and determined the rate of brain tumors in subscribers wasn't higher than in those who didn't have a device.
Some experts said the Danish study bolsters the contention that casual cellphone use is harmless.
"This paper supports most other reports which do not find any detrimental effects of phone use under normal exposures," said Malcolm Sperrin, director of Medical Physics at Britain's Royal Berkshire Hospital, told Reuters.
Critics said the study was flawed because it didn't measure how much each person used their phone and it excluded corporate subscribers, who may have been the heaviest users in the 1990s.
The U.K. advocacy group Powerwatch also noted that people who didn't sign up for a phone until after 1995 were classified as "non-users" for the purpose of the study.
There have been contradictory findings and dueling studies for years on whether the radiation emitted by cellphones can breed tumors.
In May, the World Health Organization declared mobile phones a possible cancer trigger, lumping them in with coffee, booze and chloroform.
A month later, an international team of researchers debunked the cancer connection, saying there wasn't enough evidence.
Some advocates suggest that until it's clear whether cellphones cause cancer, people keep the phones away from their bodies and limit use by children.
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Large areas of the brain with many Facebook friends
Those who have many friends on Facebook have a brain that looks different than those who do not, according to a new study. Those with many Facebook friends were in the study, larger amygdala, a part of the brain among other things, manages memory and emotions. But it is unclear what caused what, if it is so that those who already have larger amygdala acquire more friends online, or if it is so that those who gain more friends get bigger amygdala gradually. Similar correlations, but in other parts of the brain, scientists have seen among those who have many friends in the physical world. In order to move forward thinking scientists do follow-up studies to see if the brain structures affected by how the subjects are using Facebook and the internet at large. Referens: http://sverigesradio.se/sida/gruppsida.aspx?programid=406&grupp=12718&artikel=4756431
Kanai, R et al. Online social network size is reflected in human brain structure. Proceedings of the Royal Society B; 19 October 2011
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Apple's iOS 5 is the best iOS so far, once you get it installed [Video] - latimes.com
Apple's iOS 5 is the best iOS so far, once you get it installed [Video]
Apple's iOS mobile operating system changed the definition of what a smartphone could be when it launched in 2007 on the first-generation iPhone.
Each year since, we've seen the release of a new, more capable iPhone and annual updates to iOS that add new features for Apple's competitors to follow and features that allow iOS to catch up to its rivals too.
This week, with the release of the iPhone 4S, came the release of iOS 5 to the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 and first-generation iPad and iPad 2. And again, iOS plays a bit of catch-up with features while adding a lot of newness as well.
In all, Apple says there are more than 200 new features in iOS 5. I won't go over all them here as I haven't yet found all 200 for myself. However, the conclusion I've arrived at after days of testing iOS 5 is that this is the best and most complete version of iOS 5 to date.
Since iOS' initial release five years ago, iOS has been tweaked and improved and now has an answer for nearly every complaint I have for it. That's not to say that I don't have gripes with iOS 5 -- I do. But my complaints are now mostly limited to simply getting the operating system installed on my device -- something that shouldn't be a problem for those not rushing to install iOS 5 on day one.
In the video below, my colleague Michelle Maltais and I talk about what a buggy and cumbersome pain it was to install iOS 5 and even get iCloud up an running this week.
We also offer our take on some of the more prominent features in iOS 5 such as new multi-touch gestures, a notification center (finally), Twitter integration, the new Newsstand app folder, iMessage (Apple's answer to BBM) and handy location-based Reminders.
One item not covered in our video review is the number of improvements made to iOS' version of the Safari browser. The update to iOS 5 brings tabbed browsing and integration with Safari on your laptop or desktop for bookmarks and reading list. These additions make Safari much more useful by syncing across devices and pull a bit ahead of Android's browser with the addition of reading list integration, while catching up with tabbed browsing -- something Android has offered for a while now.
There are also a few features offered in iOS 5 we haven't had the chance to test out that we'll return to at a later date -- such as the Siri voice-command personal assistant app found only on the iPhone 4S and iTunes Match, a $25-per-year service (set to debut in October) that replicates an iTunes users' entire music collection, including songs not purchased from iTunes, in the cloud.
But even without Siri and without iTunes Match yet available, my opinion is that iOS 5 is the most polished and intuitive mobile operating system on the market today. I'd rank it above any version of Google's Android released thus far and Microsoft's Windows Phone software too.
I'm still delving into Windows Phone Mango and we'll have a detailed review into Mango on the Technology blog soon (maybe I'll change my tune in iOS taking the top spot by the time that's done with). And Google is set to release its all-new Android Ice Cream Sandwich OS next week. So while Apple may be on top with iOS 5, the competition will only getting tougher ahead.
Feel free to sound off on iOS 5 in the comments below.
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Photo: Apple's iOS 5 operating system running on two Apple iPad 2 tablets and an iPhone 4. Credit: Armand Emamdjomeh/Los Angeles Times
Thursday, October 13, 2011
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Change the Location of Your iPhone Backup | Oliver Aaltonen's Blog | aaltonen.us
Are those iOS backups taking up too much space on your boot drive? While there’s no built-in function in the iTunes preferences menu for moving the archive folder, it’s a simple procedure on most platforms. While others have mentioned this in the past, I haven’t come across a single page with instructions for all major operating systems. For reference, the instructions are below:
Mac OS X
- Close iTunes
- Move the existing ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/ folder to the destination drive (for example, named BigExternalDrive)
- Open a command prompt by launching Terminal and create a symbolic link using a command similar to the one below, replacing /Volumes/BigExternalDrive/Backup with the path to your destination:
1ln -s /Volumes/BigExternalDrive/Backup/ ~/Library/Application\ Support/MobileSync/BackupWindows Vista and Windows 7
- Close iTunes
- Move the existing C:\Users\(username)\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\ folder to the destination drive (for example, D:\)
- Open a command prompt and create an NTFS junction point using a command similar to the one below, replacing D:\Backup with the path to your destination:
1mklink /J "C:\Users\(username)\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup" "D:\Backup"Windows XP
- Close iTunes
- Download and extract this junction utility to your Desktop
- Move the existing C:\Documents and Settings\(username)\Application Data\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\ folder to the destination drive (for example, D:\)
- Open a command prompt an NTFS junction point using a command similar to the one below, replacing D:\Backup with the path to your destination:
1cd Desktop
2junction "C:\Documents and Settings\(username)\Application Data\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup" "D:\Backup"References:
- Apple: iPhone and iPod touch: About backups
- TheiPhoneGuru.net: Change the Location of Your iTunes Backups on Windows Vista or 7 (iPhone and iPad)
- SuperUser: How to change iPhone backup location on windows ?
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