Convert 1GB Memory Card to 2GB in Size

Memory cards are used in all forms of digital media like digital cameras, computers, mobile phones and music player. So they are widely used but what if you have purchase a card some months ago and you feel that its storage in not enough to fulfill your needs. Well, there is a good news for you. You can convert a 1GB memory card to 2 GB with the help of free software.

Note: This trick only works on 1GB memory card.

1. First empty your memory card and store data in other media or on your computer.

2. Download Skymedi-2GB-Fix-Software given at the end of this post.

3. Right click on file 1GB_to_2GB.exe and select “Run as Administrator“.

4. Select the drive from the drop down menu you want to fix.

5. In picture below you can see that software in showing the memory card space which is 955 MB.

6. Simply click on Fix button to start the conversion process and click Yes button.

7. Congratulations you have successfully converted a 1Gb memory card to 2 GB.

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5 Ways To Protect Your Computer While Surfing

The World Wide Web consists of more than 150 Million Sites, you would be lucky enough if you could visit just a Million of them, but you will be more luckier if your PC/Laptop/Tablets survives uninfected of any viruses, worms, trojans and hundreds of thousand of illegal means out there waiting like a hungry dog to hunt your device while you enjoy the streams of World Wide Web.

Keeping away from visiting 2 out of 4 sites you visit just on the condition that you feel it doesn’t look safe is just a source to kill your opportunity to visit a potentially great site.

On a better note, I have some greats ways in which you can surf like a Lion and gain information on the biggest virtual world.

1. Discourage Pop-ups

9 out of 10 times its a possibility that pop-up windows are advertisement, mostly-fake subscriptions, data-feeders, spam or an unwanted piece of information.So I advise you to turn-on the “Block Pop-up” option in your browser, possibly because you may even by mistake click on it and then lead to some sort of virus/spam site, other third party unreliable locations.

One more thing to add here is the need to learn that sites which possess multiple pop-ups on their home-pages are the highest possible stop for a free-virus gain, so simply, avoid them.

2. Don’t Compromise on Security Parameters

Users many-a-times reduce the security-level in their browsers feeling that some content might be invisible to them, well that’s not true. If a content is worth reading,watching, enjoying the website are credible enough to secure a reputable position to accommodate the firewall, so the security-level ideally should be the medium/moderate.

3. Click But Think

Websites which come-up on top slots of search-engines when You search a term, and when you land-up on them, you find it taking you to another site, I don’t give you a one-size-fits-all formula but be sure what your doing, see that the click-n-new window style doesn’t continue because the first website was probably deceiving the search-engine for the content which it doesn’t have and definitely they have some other motives such asmalware, make-ad-money, spam, transfer malicious content, Porn, deceive the firewall.So, what I say is rely on sites which seems presentable, hold the content themselves.Still if you encounter any such Site, close them immediately.

4. Don’t Receive Unknown Files

If you receive any unknown files on the internet and the file download window appears by itself while your surfing, this is the Warning Alarm, discard the file, no matter how attractive the file name appears to be, don’t open or download it, because it is a Trojan or a virus/spyware which would reveal your computer and can harm you in many ways.

5. The Best Defence is Attack

Before spam sites attack you, you defend yourself, anti-viruses today are a must have from protecting you from hundred of thousands of sites, I believe a common internet user visits 10 sites a week which are possible threat to the users Data/PC.Use only credible anti-viruses, such as Norton Antivirus Tools, which has spear-headed the anti-virus regime since I was a toddler learning to use Computers.

Surely, these tips would enable you to feel more secure on the web.

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Why my fellow physicists think they know everything (and why they're wrong)

On this long Labor Day weekend in the US, we're bringing you a set of opinion pieces from various Ars writers—and we'd love to have you join the conversation in the comments.

One of the most important things that I've learned in my time writing for Ars Technica is how little I know. Look at my back catalogue of stories and you will notice that most of my articles are combinations of quantum mechanics and optics. Every now and again I venture into the fraught territory of cosmology, materials sciences, and climatology. Even more rarely, I head off into the wild and write something about medicine or biology. 

I only ever write these articles if the papers on which they are based are written clearly; I want to be reasonably certain that I haven't mangled the research entirely. Yet, if you let yourself be flushed down the intertubes, you will find physicists and engineers like myself expounding on topics that are far outside their field of expertise. These people are often so badly wrong that it is hard to know where to begin in any argument to counter them.

I find it quite frustrating because these are supposedly smart people. So what goes wrong with us physicists?

Just enough knowledge to be dangerous

Part of the problem comes from the idea that physicists and engineers do "hard science" while everyone else does, well, "easy science." We are told that physics is the core science and everything else is, essentially, just an elaboration atop the underlying physics. The implication is that we physicists, if we would only find problems in other fields interesting, could solve the relevant equations and everyone in that field could retire. (Back in the days when nonlinear dynamics was popular, insights based on mathematical physics did have an impact on fields outside of physics—nonlinear equations helped explain the general features of population fluctuations and irregular heart beats, among other things.)

This is compounded by physics being the science that revolutionized society in the 19th and 20th centuries. Chemistry followed suit, and biology is now hitting its stride, but physics made its impression long ago, and it stuck: physics is useful, chemistry is sort of useful, and everything else is just stocking the library.

Then there's the math. Most people are more intimidated by calculus than they are by statistics, and many fields of science make more practical use of statistics than they do of calculus. So, in people's minds—especially in the minds of physicists and engineers who can barely calculate a standard deviation—scientists who use calculus must be truly hard core, and many physicists use lots of math.

All of this has combined to put physics and engineering on a pedestal, at least in many people's minds. But many of us in these fields just don't recognize that the pedestal on which we stand is imaginary, and that we don't really know enough to contribute much at a high level outside of our own field. 

I am focusing on physicists and engineers but, in fact, anyone can fall victim to this belief in their own expertise. Research shows that the less expert we are in some field, the more certain we are that our opinions and predictions are correct. The cynical view of this is that we are all stupid and don't hesitate to exhibit our stupidity in public, but it's more likely that we all know a little something about many different things. Unfortunately, what we don't know are all the caveats, exceptions, and oddities that always accompany the general rules of any field.

This lack of truly specialist knowledge makes it difficult to accurately evaluate new facts and opinions--or even to determine if it is possible to evaluate such facts. 

That doesn't stop us all from trying. The evidence from psychological experiments indicates that people will go to great lengths to make up a coherent story based around facts. And, if they happen to be invested in the story, they will twist themselves into knots to make the result fit their preconceived notions. This sort of reasoning knows no political boundaries: communists did not blame communism for the failure of their regimes, and free market ideologues never blame the market.

I may be wrong, but I tell a good story

Now, you might think that physicists, engineers, and other highly trained individuals might be the sort of people that you could talk down from the ledge of insanity. Unfortunately, you would be wrong. These people aren't stupid (although it would be wrong to think that they are extraordinary, either), and they have been given extensive training in marshaling arguments to support their positions. In fact, our school system actively encourages this, where we set up debates about arbitrary propositions and decide a winner based on debating techniques—facts need not apply. 

So, we have a group of people who have been trained to think nothing of defending absurd positions, have relatively good training in logic, and slightly broader knowledge than the general populace.

The result is some physicists and engineers who argue vehemently, and with little detailed knowledge, that Michael Mann is a moron and that global warming is bunk. We have physicists who don't know their eukaryotes from their prokaryotes arguing that Darwin was daft. We have physicists and engineers who argue that 9/11 was an inside job.

Does it have to be this way?

To be honest, I don't know if human nature is such that this will always be true. But I am more certain that one can train oneself to be open to changing a long-held opinion. For instance, just recently we ran a story about the plague, and one of the authors admitted that he had changed his mind entirely when faced with evidence that undermined his position. 

This is notable because of its rarity, sadly. Our educational systems often do a good job teaching people to construct logical and consistent stories, and to develop arguments to support a position. Unfortunately, they haven't always taught us how to recognize that our opinion may have been ill-formed, that our logical tower may be founded on faulty premises, and that, in general, we are all vulnerable to falling victim to smart people who tell a good story--or to becoming those people ourselves.

I've picked on physicists and engineers here, but perhaps I'm simply the victim of confirmation bias. Now it's your turn: tell me about doctors, lawyers, biologists, and ecologists who declaim at length on topics outside of their expertise. Rather like I have just been doing.

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Can't resist that marshmallow? Self-control doesn't get easier with age

Forty years ago, Walter Mischel conducted a simple yet elegant experiment in which he asked four year old children to resist eating a marshmallow while he was out of the room. He promised that if they hadn't eaten it by the time he returned, they could have two marshmallows. Mischel observed that, while some children were able to resist the tantalizing treat, many others could not. But he didn't stop there—20 years later, he checked again and found that the children who were able to delay their gratification had grown into adults who exhibited greater levels of self control.

It has now been four decades since this experiment, and Mischel and his colleagues are still following some of the participants of the original marshmallow test. In this week’s PNAS, the team reports that the children's differences in self control are still evident after forty years, and there is new information about why some people's brains may be worse at controlling impulses.

In the first part of the new experiment, Mischel and his team were looking for more subtle behavioral differences between "high-delayers" (those who didn’t eat the marshmallow early) and "low-delayers" (those who could not resist the temptation). They wanted to test whether positive social cues would be more difficult for low-delayers to resist.  Fifty-nine participants from the original marshmallow experiment were invited to take part in this new experiment; these people had either performed above average on the marshmallow task or had performed particularly poorly.

The participants were first told to press a button when they saw a face of a particular gender on the computer, and male and female faces were flashed on the screen in random order. In the first part of the study, these faces had neutral expressions. In the second part of the trial, these faces were either happy or fearful. The accuracy with which each participant pressed the button was then calculated.

All participants were equally accurate when the faces were neutral. However, low-delayers were much less accurate when the faces showed emotion. This effect was almost entirely due to false alarms when happy faces were shown—that is, low-delayers often pushed the button when the face was happy, no matter which gender it was. High-delayers, on the other hand, rarely made this particular mistake.

The researchers believe that while the high-delayers were able to separate the emotion from the gender, the happy faces were just too compelling for low-delayers to resist. The neutral faces didn’t cause this problem, indicating that some aspects of impulse control are directly related to the stimuli one has to resist. Additionally, individuals’ behavior in this experiment was directly tied to their behavior in the marshmallow test 40 years ago; self-control is clearly very stable over time.

In the second part of the experiment, the participants performed a similar test inside an fMRI machine, and scientists compared the brain activity of high-delayers and low-delayers. When the participants were suppressing the urge to press the button (when the face was of the wrong gender), an area of the brain called the right inferior frontal gyrus was very active. The researchers found that there was much less activity here in the low-delayers than the high-delayers. 

Instead, the ventral striatum in low-delayers became particularly active at this point; the ventral striatum is part of the limbic system, and it deals with the processing of rewards. In those with low-self control, instead of the right inferior frontal gyrus being able to hold off temptation, the ventral striatum goes into overdrive and the person can’t ignore the attraction. Low-delayers, it seems, are much more sensitive to positive social cues and have trouble suppressing them to deal with other information.

Clearly, more research is needed, but Mischel's long-term study has significantly furthered our understanding of self-control—and resulted in much more nuanced information about why we can’t always resist that marshmallow.

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As often as the square of the small players off of another format war just as the technology giant, has a simple solution to the complex. 

Promise, listening to music, it is easy to get. Audio from the speakersand press play on your wireless device - no cables or docks. Yeah, right. As often as the square of the small players off of another format war just as the technology giant, has a simple solution to the complex.

Wireless Speakers

Basically, break into two camps conflict: with and without compression - the former is not broken, as if to provide a steady stream of music, it was downsizing the last to move more easily they was file.

Unfortunately, the definition can be quite chaotic. Concepts such as the loss is raw audio, it suggests that the format used to compress the stream, often they (rarely) there. Kleer and DLNA such speakers and some, such as a limitation of the hardware did not realize the potential full form of this is built for compressed protocol, it is fast moped his It's like an interesting road.

At the end of the expression of the three parts of the source file protocol + unit receives a streaming-what you hear. We are what a user's music library, you can not do anything about it, we can help you rest.

Buying Tips

Been cut so, the MP3 128 should do it again a little bit, if you have the rescue, so good Bluetooth, a standard makeshift stream is not. Airplay will send a CD quality, unless the source file should not exceed 16-bit/44.1-kHz, they are not compressed. Start with one of such high bit WAV and AIFF files, but if you want to get quality, you need to build, or DLNA devices for Kleer. But you also need to consider where they are streaming. Bluetooth and Kleer, directly between the speakers and optical devices, distance and the fight against the wall. Wi - to communicate via a DLNA-play unit and air-Fi network, this is the better choice for these large houses.

Glossary

Band 2.4GHz: The most common cordless telephone, a router, which is used inconsumer electronics such as Bluetooth wireless radio frequency devices.

24-bit/96-kHz: How to encode a high-end digital audio. One large music files, 100 MB, thepayoff for the added clarity and dynamics.

16-bit/44.1-kHz: In terms of step-down from a 24-bit dynamics. Often referred to as "quality CD."

We have to test

We have chosen to one unit per four forms described the air, DLNA, Bluetooth, jazz and one Kleer, stone-square-foot house 950, electronica, MSI notebook places them in streaming hip-hop and HTPC for Acer, X. iPod touch and droids

Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin's air

Zeppelin looks and elegant

Crisp sound, although

Sometimes lose the connection.

Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin air in the first (rotation)

The elegant, minimalist, strong enough and expensive boy: Zeppelin is everything you expect from speakers painted Apple. The effect that it is a bit easier. After a set of browser-based wireless handshake and waded a few minutes, the speaker's apartment was filled with flashy hi-hat Buddy Rich. But Zeppelin upscaling 24-bit and 16-bit stream of air while producing clear sound overall, it has a habit of dropping from the network every few days.

Wired: The audio is clean and simple to configure. The spacious 30-pin dock.

Tired: it drops the connection. Kill the 2-second pause, skip words in a song before the party.

Speakers: 7 out of 10

Air: 10 # 7

Sony SA - Share of NS400 Network Home Speakers

Sony is solid as a spokesman

The band can not be wireless,

Process the WAV file.

Second Sony SA - NS400 Network HOMESHARE Speaker (DLNA)

Thumper This is the epitome of no-frills pragmatism. The couple is not boring, but that the network is not good, Wi - like the band is solid Fi. Droid firing audio from a Windows computer and X 7 is not recommended for beginners and DJ rebuffering rug is easy. Sony, however, that the WAV file. Compatible with Windows Media Player is downscaled to a WAV our format, it dramatically, "Kashmir" Led Zeppelin has been hampered by swelling.

Cable: 3.5 mm input cable for playback. One button to switch the audio source.

Fatigue: eye-catching in its simplicity. And midrange, decent bass from the integrated sub sloppy.

Speaker: 5 out of 10

DLNA: 5 10

Creative ZiiSound T6

T6, brought many of the dams

However, the downscaling of the Bluetooth

Sacrificing quality.

Creative ZiiSound T6 third (Bluetooth)

Wireless systems, T6 set thick cable to stream 50 feet for up to be connected to the satellite sub-pairing - Misc chaotic indeed of the line, and the walls of between speakers, for The source is causing the hiccups. Kanye West and a strong sub surprisingly high, "Alright," rattled the windows. However, thanks to Bluetooth, depending on the scale down, sacrifice some audio quality and breadth of their work less - a faint ring hollow trumpet and French horn naughty songs.

Wired: Dead easy. Stable connections at close range.

Fatigue: the missing range and fidelity to the other bands. Beat the low end.

Speakers: 6 of 10

Bluetooth: 5 10

Arcam rcub

Excellent sound quality Rcub

Portability and price.

Fourth Arcam rcub (Kleer)

Kleer streaming, which offers CD-quality audio and easy connection of devices, restricted: Wireless Streaming PC (100 dollars) 30-pin transmitter requires a USB dongle for the iPod Touch and add to. Royal, but mostly worth it. Easy to pair, in order to compete with Zeppelin and audio quality. Neighbors, even the piercing never ever over, "All Mine" If sufficient volume to disturb the corner of the portrait shot. Even better is the best portable speaker rcub in our tests.

Wired looks good. A negligible delay of sound filled the room. The iPod dock acts as a handle.

Road expensive: Tired. Station is not included. Proprietary streaming technology, 4 = life dongle.

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Miso app for the iPhone to synchronize with the pay-TV

Miso app for the iPhone to synchronize with the pay-TV

Twitterverse TV, so full of clatter, of course, the number of companies (including SocialGuide.com and Yap.tv) Network Programming "has been trying to convert their content into a stream of tweets have been added.

Miso There are different approaches: This is a call to move to its own platform. It is not only a big challenge, and potentially high returns.

San Francisco startup, interactive media and supporters as Hearst Ventures, Google will provide Web sites and applications, users should check TV shows, read the comments about the program, have been made to tell their friends what you can see them. . That difference is not much more than our competitors, depending on the event and the flow can be a little more than parade check-in comment.

However, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Somrat Niyogi miso, I believe the company is willing to take a second screen entertainment to a significant new direction. One reason: miso, soybean paste application for iPhone with a set-top boxes, announced an integration agreement with DIRECTV, pay TV companies are synchronized. In other words, a user track miso miso app calls the show once the page dedicated to the program automatically. And this, regardless of the synchronization program of work, whether live or recorded, Niyogi said.

This is the first such deal has been expected to announce a pay-TV operators and content providers miso, said Niyogi, only the beginning of the development of services. In future applications, beef and miso provide interactive entertainment, and, even more content.

For example, he said, "Green" Please imagine watching the episodes and characters sing. Miso application provides information about characters and actors, you can identify the song after the song ended, and guests can determine the performance. Or it could be very fun to share with your friends on the work.

This application may be talking about the program and go back to the criminals, Niyogi said. In Entourage, "maybe I who wear the product, I figure if they are displayed on the TV they can these actors, all I want to know the gossip behind all, I get why I do not care can not "when I saw" I'm watching TV, "rather than on the Web, you can search later?

The company, at least initially, as the provider of the platform, looking at himself as curator of what is happening in it. Long-term, Niyogi, said in an open choice of miso platform for people - fans, networks, advertisers, etc. - the content is to create a program to completion.

"We are a technology company," he said. "Consider us as a platform, so as not to activate the experience of the screen, the second for the others anyone, we are super fun, content owners, appears in working with the network., The best thing is to verify that there are benefits to the audience. "

It's an exciting prospect. However, the comments of the flood, rather than importing them from the miso with Twitter, won the audience as his rival to do difficult and time will start from the beginning has been maintained. Contract with Direct TV, for technical support, to be more interesting than Twitter's still light, and television studios and networks to transform the common platform with a partnership of several soybean You can.

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Homo erectus forgot to pack its best tools when it left Africa

An Acheulian hand axe

Given that chimps have demonstrated the ability to make and use tools in the wild, chances our that our human ancestors inherited some of that ability from the ancestor both humans and chimps have in common. But, starting with the australopithecines, our ancestors started making permanent tools from rocks, and investing increased effort into shaping. Oldowan tools were later used by the first members of the genus Homo, and were carried out of Africa during the global spread of Homo erectus.

By 1.4 million years ago, African Homo erectus was using the far more involved and sophisticated Acheulian tool technology, which later made its way out of Africa. But the transition between the two tool types has remained unclear. Now, scientists are reporting the first find where Oldowan and Acheulian tools have been found at the same site, one that's old enough to indicate that Acheulian tools were available when Homo erectus first left Africa.

The site in question lies near Lake Turkana in Kenya, which was already famous for finds relevant to human origins, including the Turkana Boy Homo erectus skeleton, which dates from 1.5 million years ago. The slopes near the northwest shore of the lake contain an extensive sedimentary record that can be matched with others in the nearby area, including some that have been dated using radioactive decay. A few meters below the sediments that contained the tools lies a feature that has been dated to 1.9 million years ago; above them, a different feature sets a younger limit at 1.5 million years. That last figure is rather significant, given that there are no reliably dated Acheulian tools older than 1.4 million years.

Extrapolating based on the depth of the deposits between, the authors estimate that the tools are roughly between 1.72 and 1.81 million years old. That lets them start zeroing in on a more precise date based on reversals in the Earth's magnetic field. This provides a firmer estimate: 1.76 million years, 350,000 years older than the previous site that had been dated so precisely. It also lines up with one of the earliest Homo erectusfossils, reinforcing the link between the two.

Since both toolmaking technologies were present in the same sediments, the site provides a clear indication that one set of techniques didn't simply replace the others. Either the Acheulian tools were developed by people who continued to use their earlier techniques, or the Acheulian technology was imported without its displacing the native one. In either case, the site suggests a more gradual transition than previous evidence had indicated.

The age of these tools also suggests that displacement was very, very gradual. It hadn't spread far enough to be in use by the first members of Homo erectus that left Africa at about the same time, and we don't have reliable dates on Acheulian tools in the Middle East that are much older than a million years. So, even if our ancestors were avid tool users, they weren't all that fond of adopting new technology.

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Sony Alpha SLT-A65: Sony's new camera lineup

Sony Alpha SLT-camera system A65 

Sony Alpha SLT-camera system A65: Sony's exciting new models for serious photo enthusiasts and advanced amateur photographers - to expand the appeal of a semitransparent mirror camera series with a camera mount.

Recent technological improvements, which is semi-transparent mirror, Sony Cyber-shot Sony - A65, the fastest in the corresponding class will be the most interchangeable lens cameras. True organic EL finder new high-resolution SXGA "eyes" such as designing a new layout and tactile buttons for a comfortable contour grip to manipulate the view of the ergonomic Sony's revision A65.

The new Sony Alpha cameras AF system 65 provides a continuous shooting performance at full-resolution image capture of 10 frames per second explosion, has exceeded almost all semi-professional camera.

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MP3 Quality Modifier: Easy Way to Compress mp3 Files

To squeeze more music in a lesser space, the best way is to reduce or compress the size of music files so you can store more media files in limited space. The reason why I’m saying this is that i have a 1 GB mp3 player, and I finally found a way to make it hold about double the number of music files in it without much change in the quality. Quality Modifier is the useful tool to do this task for me.

How to Use

1 – Download Mp3 Quality Modifier (or use This page for more download mirrors)

2 – Click Add Files or Add Folders, but if you want to save time , then Drag and Drop works fine ( for both folders and files)

3 – Change the destination (Optional, otherwise, the converted files will be placed on the desktop)

4 – Change rate (Kbps) . I use 130 and it gives really good results. you can use less than 130 , it will give you less size but the quality is not guaranteed.

5 – Change Sample Frequency (optional, if you didn’t check the box next to it. the best settings will be chosen automatically) you can reduce it if you want, but I recommend you leave that box and let the best settings be chosen automatically.

6 – Click process. and wait till it’s done.

The file size change as in the screenshot below. From 7.74 MB to 2.86 MB and the change in quality is barely noticeable.

Note: I recommend you test it first on one file to make sure that the quality is satisfying enough before you go on and convert the whole album or folder.

The program may seem to be not responding while converting a bunch of files, that behavior is normal and you should let it complete until it finishes.

So, are you planning to use Mp3 Quality Modifier? Or you have a better alternative to do it? please share in comments.

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