De tiempo a tiempo es necesario saber desconectar un poco de los hobbies habituales, y hacer otras cosas divertidas para relajarse y evitar que se vuelve aburrido. Dentro de estos ratos de diversi?n, los videojuegos vienen bastante bien, dado que nos permiten vivir aventuras, solucionar puzzles y problemas complicados y muchas otras opciones que han ido creciendo en los ultimos a?os.
Una consola muy buena para esto es la peque?a de Nintendo, l DS/DSi, que que nos permite desfrutar de un cuasi infinito catalogo de juego de todos los tipos, que van desde la diversi?n, al aprendizaje, lectura o incluso oyir musica o ver peque?os v?deos.
Para los juegos tienes muchas ofertas sobre la forma de cartucho o de descarga en la DSiware, pero si quieres otras opciones de otras aplicaciones que no encuentras en los canales tradicionales, puedes buscar en los homebrews, aplicaciones indenpendientes que puedes bajarte de internet y ejecutarlas en la consola con la ayuda de una targeta, la DSTT. Con esta peque?a tarjeta, es posible ganar el acceso a un sin fin de nuevas aplicaciones que muy probablemente nunca llegaran a ver la luz sobre la forma de cartucho, dado que Nintendo decide sobre que aplicaciones llegan a sus plataformas.
La DSTTi tiene gastos de envio gratis para cualquier importe de compra, y en unos pocos dias podr?s empezar a disfrutar en tu consola de nuevas aplicaciones y nuevos juegos que dar?n nueva vida a tu consola.
As seen in the techeye.net website, London's mayor wants to transform the city into a huge open wifi city by 2012 on time for the 2012 olympic games.
The news is interesting because a lot of wifi observers were thinking the the wifi technology would in the end allow the creation of public networks freely available across a city. But the truth is that none of this has happened, and most of the cities with similar projects cancelled them, or simply has rolled a couple of access points, more for the sake of press, than for the real benefit of the city and its citizens.
Mayor of London promises full wi-fi coverage by 2012 In time for the Olympic Games 18 May 2010 14:26 | by Dean Wilson | posted in Internet 3 Comments
The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has today promised that London will be covered in Wi-Fi by the 2012 Olympic Games.
The pledge came at the Google Zeitgeist event held in Hertfordshire, where he said that ?every lampost and every bus stop will one day very soon, and before the 2012 Olympics, be Wi-Fi enabled.?
He even went so far as to say that this is only part of the process, and that City Hall planned to make London the technology capital of the world. He said that Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the internet, was a Londoner and ?so we claim paternity of the internet?. ?London is the home of technology innovation,? he added, saying that the most important project they are planning is called Wifi London.
This new plan will involve installing wi-fi hotspots into street lights and bus stops, which will use the existing electrical supply for those services. Considering how many street lights and bus stops there are around London this would mean thousands of new Wi-Fi hotspots will be popping up. If we couple that with existing ones in cafes and other areas it may mean that you can walk from one end of London to another without ever having to rely on your 3G network for an internet connection.
1000s of IT Jobs at CWJobs Search current IT jobs at CWJobs. Get email alerts as jobs go live! www.cwjobs.co.uk22 of the 32 Greater London boroughs have already signed up to the scheme, which means the process is already well under way. If Johnson can convince the other ten to sign up, which shouldn't be that difficult, then his promise may indeed become a reality.
Not only will this allow people walking the streets to access the wi-fi connections, but it will also allow local homes access too. This will most likely require some sort of payment, however, but may be significantly cheaper than current packages offered through internet service providers.
The Major also revealed his plans to be more transparent with City Hall data by uploading it all to the website. He said that as part of the process of promoting technology in London they will put the information in the public domain.
Since this announcement came at a Google-hosted event, it was only fitting that Johnson close with a few words of praise for the technology giant: ?It's thanks to Google that all of us sentient adults spend so much of our lives grazing absently like ruminants on this vast Serengeti of information.?
But then, it's not Boris' way to tackle these things with subtlety.
In the last months a lot of new news about the future of the Wifi, have been published. Most of them predicting his end, as the the cellular data 3G, has been growing steadly in bandwidth and usage, putting the wifi in a strange situation more focused in home networks, than really MAN or WANs. Parallely, with the new life of the powerline communications, that are coming back to the market with some strengh, allowing to create high bandwith networks without creating any infrastructure, that can reach all the points inside a house, created also some challenge in that area. But now, there are news about the Wifi HD, that will in the future push the bandwidth available for Wifi up to the 7 Gigabits per second. Yes, 7 Gigabit per second, you have read correctly.
One of the most interesting technologies coming along for the WIFI space, is the UMTS base station, which is basically a Wifi router with an UMTS card, that allows to immediatly connect through Wifi, from anyplace using this new hardware.
Over the last years, the UMTS speed increase and the price decreased, accompagnied by the fact that netbooks and notebooks sales have been booming, have caused the number of UMTS users to soar high, while the ADSL has been growing slower.
One of the main problems associated with the UMTS cards, is that only one pc was able to connect to the internet (with standard solutions) which creaed a bottleneck into the utilization of the service, in case you needed several machines to access the web.
Now, it is over, with these UMTS WIfi access base, you can just take the device with you, and connect a wide number of PCs to the internet enjoying the mobility and speed of the service.
I have already written about it a couple months ago, but it is always interesting to find references from other people who think the same, and that decided to write about it aswell.
It is quite clear that the cellphone is absorving other technologies in its ambition to grow in complexity and attractiveness to the advanced users, and if we try a collective excercise of memory, it will be possible to identify technologies that the cellphone has put in peril, or has directly sent into oblivation.
To the list that the author has compiled, I would add the following elements:
- GPS navigators, - Digital Radio - Personal Television - Email Client
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Ya hab?a escrito sobre este tema, y sobre la ambici?n de los m?viles actuales de engordar en complejidad y funcionalidades, par a que de esta forma sean mas atractivos para los usuarios. Pero es siempre interesante ver que otros tambi?n se han dado cuenta del tema y est?n escribiendo sobre todo. He encontrado un articulo de un autor ingles, que habla de todas las tecnolog?as que el m?vil ha ido dejando sobre el camino, en este proceso de consolidaci?n. El articulo est? muy interesante, y dado que est? en ingles, dejo un resumen de los puntos topics descritos en ellos, a al cual adjuntar? algunos puntos que creo que sean relevantes:
-Cabinas telefonicas, ya practicamente ya no hay dado que los moviles est?n por toda partes y para todos los bolsillos. -Relojes y Alarmas, y nadie utiliza una alarma o un reloj, el movil ha concentrado estas funciones, sin estar?n especificamente preparadas por las constructoras. - Lectores MP3 - Linea telef?nica - Camaras digitales - Consolas de juego
A estas habria que a?adir: GPS, Radio digital, Televisi?n y correo electr?nico.
In a article published at Cellular News, apparently some investigators at Boston Universtiy are currently looking into transforming light bulbs into wifi spots. This would allow to extend the coverage of wifi access points, not only at home, but also, in shops, airports, and public spaces. Is this feasible? Apparently yes, as they have been able to create a prototype and extend the WIFI coverage...
During a couple of years, the WIMAX has been granted the title of successor to the Wifi and killer of the 3G mobile technologies.
The reality is that the 3G has been growing steadly in usage and in bandwith and is being intensively used, not only for long range communications but also in the local loop, where a more and more users are switching their ADSL connections for 3,5G connections with HDSPA and 7,5 Mbps download speed.
What will happen to the WIMAX? I think that even the promotors of the technology probably don´t know anything by now, the truth is that regular users are not able to put their hands on hardware, and I don´t any one that have actually found any infrastructure build with WIMAX where to connect to.
Where I used to live, very hard and rush people, there was a saying about the importance of your head, that was more or less like: "your head is to think and not to wear a hat". This sentence can be applied to the idea that I have discovered in a video published at youtube, that is as simple as effective.
It goes more or less like that: 1. You buy all the access points (small ones) that you can. 2. You go to an intense transit point of people. 3. You configure all the WIFI ssids to reflect an advertising sentence. 4. You configure the initial page of the access point to forward users to ad page (before allowing free access).
And Voila. You have advertised services and products to people that will remenber the action for a long time.
The example showed in the video, is an experience with SIXT in an german airport. They have implemented several wifi with all ssids named with advertising for SIXT. The initial page of the visitor is aswell filled with SIXT adverstments, which people are looking before starting to navigate.
What a good and simple idea. Or at least it seems to me. What do yout think?
all of those that actually have to manage systems, networks and other information technologies, know very well that, sometimes, tension and stress can actually be quite hard to take.
So it is important from time to time, to actually take off all the tension away for a while, before going back to the routine tasks. During one of those breaks I have discovered PSTpanic a nice site where you can actually have a lot of fun, while learning some interesting things and even, possibly win some very tasty prizes.
In the site you will be able to see some interesting pictures of networks admins facing the huge problem of recovering some nasty email pst file. Some of them are really funny to see, and just keep you laughing for minutes. You can then vote on the one that you have best liked.
This last feature becomes the cornerstone for the online competition created by the site and that allows the creation of small game for network admins that can post their own picture and see if they can win the big prize with their creation. I have tried it, but i think that I must be very ugly and I didn´t actually get any votes :) too bad.
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