Apple WWDC 2010 Highlights (iPhone 4 Announced)

Highlights of WWDC 2010

iPhone 4 Announced
Design & Build
Just as expected from leaked photos. Looking good there
Stainless steel band around the phoneDesign is really sleek here, thinner than 3GSAntenna outside the case !?! Yes, the steel band actsas the antenna.Available in Black or White models

Camera & Recording
5 megapixels camera with LED flash with front camera.
It allows 5xdigital zoomHD Video Recording up to 720p at30fps. Tap-to-focus recording with built-in editing and easier sharing
GyroscopeA 6-Axis motion sensing, 3 axis Gyroscope will bepresent in the iPhone 4. We can expect great motion sensing games.

Display4 times the pixel density in display, Apple callsit Retina Display. The whole new display allows 326ppi at 960x640resolution.Display is using IPS technology, 800:1contrast ratio, display is at 3.5 inch. Jobs demonstrate with quality of photos between 3GS and iPhone 4.

Internals Powered by A4 chip, uses microSIM and whoa, thebattery is big802.11n WiFi Support, up to 32GB of storage.7 hours of 3G talk, 6 hours of 3G browsing, 10 hours ofWiFi browsing, 10 hours of video, 40 hours of music.Still on the old GSM / UMTS

OSiPhone OS 4 is now known as iOS4Jobs demonstrate the iOS4 features we know, multi-tasking. the new Mailfeature, capable of renaming folders. It was announced beforeiMovie for iPhone - yes, add those effects to your videos. geotag them.Not free though, at US4.99 at App StoreBing is coming to iOS4Developers will get a gold master release of iOS4 todayiBookStore & iAds
iBookstore coming iPhone 4. Not a surprise to be honest.Automatically sync bookmarks, books to your devices. Noextra cost for transfer to other devices. iAds explained again, nothing new here

Video ChatApple calls it FaceTimeRequirements: iPhone 4 To iPhone 4 only. Wi-Fi only (no 3G?!)FaceTime allows you to use front and rear camera and supports bothportrait and landscape.

Price & Availability

iPhone 4: Price: US$299 for 32GB, US$199 for16GB

iPhone 3GS 8GB: US$99

Availablity: June 24 2010 for 5countries : United States, Japan, France, Germany and United KingdomFor AT&T customers, if your contract expires at any time in 2010,you are eligible for upgrade to the iPhone4.Pre-orders start a week from tomorrow. 18more countries will be getting it in JulyiPhone 3G, 3GS and iPod touch 2nd gen will be able to go iOS4 - free. Not all features are included for 3G and iPod touch 2G
Availability of iOS4: June 21Official Images From Apple

Update 1: Apple has updated their official website for iPhone
Update 2: No news on Safari 5 or a rumored magic trackpad.

Apple's iPad 2 Media Event streaming video now available

See the magic unfold on stage through your Mac/PC or iOS devices here.

The announcements includes:

Apple launches the iPad 2

iOS 4.3 to launch on March 11th

Android to allow searching for parking lots

Driving may be a pleasure in itself, especially if one can even cough out sufficient funds to own a car down here in sunny Singapore, but it also comes with a whole lot of annoying peeves that can usually threaten to ruin one's sanity for the day. And searching for parking lots is usually one of those peeves, especially if one were to drive down the tourist belt over at Orchard Road during the weekends or on public holidays.

Fortunately, it seems that Google now has a solution to offer for busy motorists who are always spending more time looking for a parking lot than cruising down the roads: an app in the Android Marketplace which allows fellow motorists leaving their spots to make them out on Google's Open Spot service. The marked spot will be visible to all users of the app, and those who happen to be in the area can then fill in the empty space and mark the area as taken. Of course, they are also expected to 'unmark' the occupied area once they move out of the parking lot.

However, Engadget has reported that Google's Open Spot service, for all its usefulness, is still rather basic: at least, it seems that it is only capable of marking available parking spots, and not allowing users to make notes such whether it is a paid parking spot, a restricted area or if it is a popular illegal parking spot where our ever-so-friendly 'parking auntie' happens to be out for some note-taking. Not to mention that similar services has been offered in the past as well.

But hey, Google is the one providing such a service now. On top of that, Open Spot is completely free to download and use (assuming that it works on our local roads). Surely we could trust Google not to be evil, right?

Source: Engadget

Aquagrafx Introduces Waterblocks for the GeForce GTX 295 amp; GTX 260

aquagrafx GTX295

Today we present you the aquafrax GTX295 watercooler just in time with the release of the GTX 295 graphics card. The cooler is built sandwich style to cool both of the cards. The intermediate level is made of Delrin, the cooling blocks of 99,9% electrolyte copper. As special feature one will be able to choose if water runs paralell or in series through the blocks. So you can choose between high flow and low restriction or better cooling with high flow velocity. In parallel mode you need an additional T-Connector.

GPU´s are cooled with high efficient microstructure. Focus was also on low restriction. The threads are G 1/4 and coooler will be available as of next week. Materials are copper and delrin.

aquagrafx GT200b

Also available in about a week will be the block for the newer GTX 260 cards with a 55nm GPU. Both, the old and the new block will be available from aqua-computer. The block is made of 99,9 % pure electrolyte copper, as all of our new graphic card coolers. Height of the cooler is 8 mm. The result is a low weight and the single slot possibility. Price will be 89,90 EUR.

Materials: copper, stainless steel, plexiglas
Threads: G1/4