Nuces Circuits Society Tech Letter

NUCES Circuit Society was formed under the motive of solely being an engineering related society at the otherwise computer sciences dominant FAST circle. It aims at developing and maturing thoughts, procedures and skills of the future electrical engineers, as well as hold competitions and lectures in a healthy environment. The society was formed under the guidance of Prof. Belal Muhammad Hashmi, who still takes keen interest in the day-to-day matters of this society, and is also the faculty advisor. In his lead, the society plans to expand its activities not only on metropolitan level, but also all over our country. NUCES Circuit Society organizes an all Pakistan Micro Controller Competition at SOFTEC, which is the biggest IT extravaganza in Asia. It also plans to introduce Engineering Project Competition this time onwards.

Apple Unleashes the Lion and Electrifies the Air

Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) released its long-awaited Mac OS X Lion operating system Wednesday, together with a lineup of new MacBook Airs, a refresh to the Mac mini line, and the world's first display using the next-generation Thunderbolt port.

Thunderbolt technology will offer up to 10 Gbps of access speed in each direction simultaneously over one cable.

King of the Mac Jungle

OS X Lion, the eighth major release of the operating system, has more than 250 new features, Apple said.

These include new multi-touch gestures; support for full-screen apps; Mission Control, which lets users view everything that's running on their Macs; a redesigned Mail app; and access to the Mac App Store built into the operating system's LaunchPad.

Other features include Resume, which brings apps back to where the user left off when a Mac is restarted or users quit and relaunch apps; an autosave feature; Versions, which automatically records the history of documents as they're being created; and AirDrop... read more http://www.technewsworld.com/story/hardware/72909.html

Google+: A Social Network Even Geeks Can Love?

Google+ may still be in its invitation-only early days, but with all the wild excitement and skyrocketing numbers of users, it's awfully hard to tell.

Quibbles about real-name policies notwithstanding, eager users from virtually every walk of life seem to be flocking to the new social network -- even those of us who are perhaps less than entirely socially minded.

It's not at all surprising, of course, to see your average, run-of-the-mill Facebook fan scampering over to check Google+ out. Such individuals, after all, would likely jump at any opportunity to share photos, updates and every manner of personal details with countless friends far and wide. They are extroverts, in other words, and they *will* share as often and as widely as they can... for more http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Google-A-Social-Network-Even-Geeks-Can-Love-72963.html

Mozilla building mobile OS to battle Chrome

Mozilla revealed preliminary plans today to take the Gecko engine that drives its Firefox browser and turn it into an open-source operating system that will eventually work on phones and tablets.

Called Boot to Gecko, it is known that the source code will be released to the public "in real-time," wrote Andreas Gal, a Mozilla researcher. Gecko is the rendering engine that powers Firefox and the e-mail client Thunderbird. By contrast, while Google's Androidmobile operating system is open source, the main development work on it does not become available until after Google has green-lit its publication--sometimes not until months afterward.

"We will do this work in the open, we will release the source in real-time, we will take all successful additions to an appropriate standards group, and we will track changes that come out of that process. We aren't trying to have these native-grade apps just run on Firefox, we're trying to have them run on the web," Gal said in a forum post. Mike Shaver, Mozilla's vice president of technical strategy, said that the Boot to Gecko apps won't use the Android SDK but instead run new and current Web app APIs....

http://download.cnet.com/8301-2007_4-20083238-12/mozilla-building-mobile-os-to-battle-chrome/

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