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The new Samsung tablet is believed to have 11.6-inch screen, with a 2,560 x 1,600 resolution.

Samsung is preparing to unveil a new Galaxy Tab with retina display, which is regarded as the best so far. A website, quoting its sources, said that this will be an 11.6 inch tablet with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system running underneath.

Retina display is known for its high pixel density due to which the human eye is unable to distinguish individual pixels. Technically speaking, if the display produces images in about 300 pixels per inch, then it is known as retina display. At this pixel density, images look sharp on the display.
Retina Display currently is available on iPhone 4 where images are seen in 960x640-pixel resolution. The phone is available for Rs 34,000 in India. The next tablet from Apple, iPad 3 will also have retina display in them.
The new Samsung tablet is believed to have an 11.6 inch screen, with a 2,560 x 1,600 resolution, almost equal to retina display. It's also believed to come with 2GHz dual-core Exynos 5250 CPU and a 16:10 aspect ratio. The device is said to have a "special wireless docking mode" which will allow the users to enjoy gaming on HDTVs.

Some apps in the list are paid, but they come with free alternatives as well.

The iTunes app store has numerous notebook apps, which is very much evident when users search for the keyword "note" in the iOS app store search box. Since there are so many, one has to be very careful while choosing one. While some of these are paid, their alternative free versions are also available.

You can use these iOS apps as a replacement of paper.

Agendas (Rs 500)
Most users who have mountains of documents on their desk may use Agendas on their iPad to create interactive meeting agendas. You can then broadcast these to other iPads over WiFi network.


The best part with iPad is, users can get feedback from others which make sure the two way communication is complete.

OneNote (Free)
Those who intend to use OneNote need a Windows Live account to work on it. It shows notes in a list just like a phone directory.
With OneNote Mobile, you can create searchable notes with text, pictures, bullets, and checkboxes. Then keep your notes in sync using free Windows Live SkyDrive cloud storage to access, edit and manage them from virtually anywhere, from your PC or almost any web browser.
Currently, users cannot create notes on iOS devices using this app. We may expect such options in future.

Card Flick (Free)
Exchanging cards is something we need to do regularly, but it is always helpful if users can exchange digital business cards with their business contacts, and the iOS app - Card Flick, does just that.
Using Card Flick, you can create a new card through the My Card tab. Users can start by choosing a theme, and then customize it as per their needs. Every business card will have a photo, name, position and company name. Other additional details which may be included are phone number, email, website, and tagline.

Sketchbook Pro (Rs 250)
The app Sketchbook Pro is good for those who are not designers but they want to draw. However, users may need some time to become familiar with the controls of the app.

Oxford Dictionary (Rs 1,500)

It has a clean interface with word list on the left. Users can either scroll through words or can just tap on the letters needed to get to the relevant word quickly.

On the right side, there is a section where users can see the definitions and examples of how the words are used are displayed. This section can also be resized as per requirement. From the top menu, users can access the history of their word searches, favourites and back and forth navigation arrows which take the users between words recently searched.

Intel, a chip maker has already tied-up with Google for Android based smartphones based on Atom processors.

Intel, world's largest chip maker, plans to bring smartphones based on its Atom processors. The smartphones will be based on Android operating system and Atom processor.
Speaking at the Intel cloud summit, R Ravichandran who is Intel's India and South Asia sales director, said, "Google TV, which uses Intel processors has already debuted. So are Ultrabooks and tablets with Intel processors. Next year, you will see smartphones with Atom cores make their debut,"
Atom based tablets are already available with as many as 35 companies were using the new platform in the first half of 2011 or later. Intel has already said that the devices wouldn't just be limited to Windows 7 or Intel's own MeeGo (Now dead) and would use Android as well.

Intel had announced the availability of its first Atom processor designed for smartphones and tablets in mid-2010.
The chip, which was earlier known as Moorestown, is now called Z600. It provides average 4-5 hours of battery life for cellular browsing or video viewing but over 10 days of standby and about 2 days of audio.
The chipmaker had also claims much better performance than a typical smartphone, with about 1.5 to 3 times more raw computing power as well as a GMA 600 graphics core that supplies more visual details through OpenGL ES 2.0 and hardware video acceleration. It can record video at 720p and play it back at 1080p. Z600 also supports Hyper threading, which means that it behaves like two cores in certain cases. In burst mode, the chip very briefly spikes performance when needed.
To keep the footprint small, Intel is using a full system-on-a-chip with the graphics and most other components built in the chip itself.

Intel is providing different processors to the OEMs (Original equipment manufacturers) - chips up to 1.5 GHz for smartphones and 1.9 GHz for tablets.

Notably, today even Quad core chips are now available for smartphones. It will be interesting to see how Intel manages to compete as a late comer to the space.

Google has already released the Android version optimised for x86 architecture (which is suitable for intel's processors), which means that smartphones using Atom processors are not that far off.

Here's how you can add subtitles to your video files, plus links to some useful software...
So you remove your DVD remotes, put in City of God DivX CD that you have illegally downloaded/ripped, and voila! No subtitles. You won’t understand even the swear words, so what’s the point? In India, we make movies in a zillion languages, yet good films are few and far between. We also have homegrown videos, where intelligibility of speech and vision is a debatable issue. So subtitles are a part of your DVD architecture that can make life a lot easier.

No worries, here are some tips for retrieving subtitles from the net, adding your own subs, changing their colour etc. I've added pointers on how to resync your subtitles if they go out of sync, as that also happens a lot, yielding funny lip movements. On a frank and serious note, these issues never arise in an original DVD or official download, and it actually is less stressful watching good ol’ box packs. But for anti-DRM folks out there, there's more...
Resources for Subtitles
The first and best way to get your subtitles is to rip it out of the DVD. Let's run through the process. There are quite a few methods and softwares that do it, but I go by the following process. First get yourself VobSub from here. This is a free subtitle filtering utility that works on the Directshow environment. The files associated with it are .sub and .idx. There are other types of subtitle files; we will encounter them as we go along. VobSub is important as it is anyway needed to play subtitles for any AVI file in software media players, provided the .sub and .idx file are in the same directory as the movie, and with the same name.
Another option is to get SubRip from here. This essentially creates text files though the .srt extension. To create your own subtitles, the best software is a spanking new one called Aegisub, so grab it here. There used to be the famous Substation Alpha software, which is not being updated anymore, though it deserves a mention in any subtitle article. The file type it generates is .ssa (again a text), and the mentioned Aegisub supports it. Further, .srt files and many others are also supported. The last, and easiest, thing you can do is download .srt or .sub files from the Internet.

Adding Subtitles
There are two types of 'subbing': hard and soft. Which do you need? Wait, before that, what do they mean? Hard subbing means permanently adding the subs to your video (it will be in the pixels), whereas soft subbing lets you view the video with separate subtitles files being called by the codec, mainly in MPEG 4 part 2 and part 10 file types like DivX, Xvid, and H.264. But, if your DVD player doesn’t support DivX and you have only a VCD option, hard subbing is mandatory. Soft subbing is actually a misnomer; you have to just download the subtitle file, install Vobsub, place the file in the same directory, and watch the clip on something as generic as Windows Media Player. Don’t forget to rename the file to the movie’s name. Even if you create your own subs with Aegisub, you can export and save as normal .sub or .srt subtitle files and view them. Aegisub can be used to do timing and resynching edits, adjust frames per title, adjust colors of the subtitle, and every other small whim. The learning curve is quite flat, too.
Hard subbing
This is the fun and involving part, though not that tough to execute. I use VirtualDub; you can get it here. It's probably the best AVI tool available. Install VirtualDub with all the plugin options; you are required to do this in the option provided while installation wizard. The main file we will need is actually from VobSub installation, namely called text sub, and it shows up as an option while running the wizard.

Once this is done, it's very easy. All you need is the sub file (placed in a folder you can remember). Then open VirtualDub, get in your video, go to filter (Ctrl+F), and add the text sub-filter. The plugin will open and ask for the subtitle file (.srt), so browse and locate it. That’s all. Preview once and render. It could take a while.

This simple workshop will show you how you can access your PC at home or office from anywhere in the world via an Android phone or tablet, iPhone or iPad.

There may have been several occasions when you are at home, on a holiday or travelling and urgently need to access your office PC for some important document you forgot to take with you. What do you do? How do you gain access to your PC?

Well, there is a way to gain access to your PC via the Internet using the Remote Desktop Protocol or RDP. But this involves setting up a live IP address, which is visible all around the world. You can possibly do this for home, but what about your office PC, which is behind a firewall or a proxy server? You would not be able to gain access as easily. In this workshop, we shall show you how simple it is to gain access to your PC at home or office from your Android smartphone or tablet as well as the iPhone or the iPad. All you need is an internet-enabled device with a free-to-use app called TeamViewer. Configuring TeamViewer is easy and you can get it working in a matter of minutes. At the same time, the utility is safe and secure. Once you have your setup working, you can also connect to your desktop PC from any Internet cybercafé using the Web login.

TeamViewer is an all-in-one solution for remote access over the Internet. It is free for personal use and is compatible with desktop operating systems such as Windows, Mac, Linux and also with mobile operating systems such as Android and iOS. Download TeamViewer for your desktop PC from www.teamviewer.com. We recommend the portable version which can be run from a USB drive or a CD. The app for the smartphone and tablets can be downloaded from their respective online app stores.
 Once downloaded, you'll have to configure it at both ends once, but before you do this, you might need to register with TeamViewer for a free user account. You can do so by signing up at https://login.teamviewer.com/ and creating a free account.

The Desktop PC Configuration
Start TeamViewer and proceed with the installation as you would usually do with any other software. Once the installation is done, start TeamViewer and it will sync with its online servers and allocate a unique ID and password for your computer. Note down these details and keep them safe. Every time you restart the application, you will receive a new password, while the ID will remain static for your PC. This ID and password is a one-time security pass to give the invitation for a remote login to your PC. You can use this ID and password to connect to your desktop PC from a remote location. But if you restart your PC very often, it will be difficult to keep track of the changing passwords. For this reason, you need to set up an unattended access to TeamViewer. Click on ‘Connection’ and then on ‘Setup unattended access’. This will bring up a wizard wherein details such as the PC name and password needs to be specified. Give the desktop PC a name and password of your choice. The next screen will then ask you to enter the details that you registered online. If you did not do it earlier, you can create one now too. After entering the details, your system will now be available to you online with the same password every time. Your desktop PC is now available for remote access. You can now choose to lock the desktop or turn off the monitor.
After starting the TeamViewer app on the smartphone or tablet, enter the login details, connect to the partner and gain remote access within minutes.

The Client Side
After installing TeamViewer on your phone, start the app. You will be welcomed by an initial introduction screen, which can be skipped by pressing the back button. The next screen will be ready on the ‘Connection’ tab, where you can type in the details of the ID and the password of the computer you would like to connect to. Simply skip this and click on the ‘Partner list’ tab. Here, you can log in using your username and password you created on the TeamViewer website. Once you do this, you will see a button called ‘My Partners’. Click on this button and you will now see the desktop PC available online. Click on the PC name and you can gain access to your desktop PC. And you’re done! Simple, isn’t it? Once you've logged in, you can try out a number of features that TeamViewer has to offer. You can change resolutions, switch monitors, tweak the performance by optimizing it for quality or speed, remove wallpapers for better speeds, disable remote cursor, use the keyboard, use the mouse right-clicks, enable function buttons, and the list goes on. So, enjoy your remote access. 

Most Android-based smartphone users would agree that they would prefer testing an app before downloading it to their phone.
Most Android-based smartphone users would agree that they would prefer testing an app before downloading it to their phone. The reason behind this is usually to avoid unnecessary space hogging apps. Some users might also wish to play some of the cool mobile games available for the Android platform on their PC i.e. on a larger display. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how can your favorite Android apps on your Windows-based PC using a simple and free software called BlueStacks.
BlueStacks is an app player for Windows, which can play Android apps faster than it can run on a phone and that too, on a full-screen. The app includes 10 pre-loaded apps and one can add up to 26 more apps of their choice. Favorite apps can be pushed directly from the phone onto the PC using an Android app via internet route. Download and install the software for Windows from the URL ‘www.bluestacks.com’. The software is nothing, but a simple virtual Android operating system, which simulates an Android phone or UI. It uses the desktop PC’s resources such as the processor, the internet connection, mouse, keyboard and the audio card. The installed folder located on the PC contains the necessary files for its use, namely the kernel, data, system, boot and storage (the SD card). The BlueStacks Android (Gingerbread) virtual machine creates a hardware environment with a limited amount of storage (around 363 MB) for installing apps and 262 MB of SD card storage space.
   Once BlueStacks is installed, the application will be running the Android operating system in the background and you will see an icon in the system tray area and a widget will be running on your screen. A single click on the widget will reveal the Android system apps installed in it. Click on the apps and enjoy them on a large screen. Additional apps can be installed from the BlueStacks website by signing in using your Facebook account details. To get to this page, all you need to do is click on the BlueStacks widget, scroll to and click on the app icon/shortcut ‘Get more apps’. A website will open up where you can login using your Facebook details. Once logged in, simply click on the ‘Subscribe’ button for the available apps (in the Featured Apps section) and they shall automatically get installed on your system via the internet. The ‘Could Connect’ link on the same page will highlight a special 9-pin numerical code which needs to be entered on your Android phone running the BlueStacks Cloud Connect app (download it from the Android Market for free). Once done, you can push apps from your phone to your PC by simply selecting multiple apps and syncing it. That’s it! You can now enjoy all your favorite apps from your phone on your Windows desktop PC.