Nouvelle Technologie

Designed to capture the attention of consumers and bring attention to cars that don’t significantly impact the environment, Mercedes has launched an inventive advertising campaign regarding hydrogen-powered cars. As first reported by  Mashable , Mercedes-Benz has created a new commercial to promote a vehicle that uses F-CELL hydrogen technology. Designed to advertise the car’s ability to produce zero emissions and protect the environment, Mercedes-Benz covered the automobile in several mats of LEDs on the driver side of the car and mounted a  Canon EOS 5D Mark II digital SLR camera on the opposite side of the vehicle. The Canon 5D Mark II shoots video on the passenger side of the car and the video is displayed in real time on the driver side of the automobile. This concept is somewhat similar to the “ invisibility coat ” designed by a Japanese scientist during 2003 or the  iPad 2 Halloween costume  that displays a giant, grotesque hole in the human body. With...

                  CROWD + OUTSOURCING= CROWDSOURCING Shortly called as distributed online problem-solving model. CrowdSourcing is the business term means, grouping people online as a community and getting help from them as a challenge. We could relate the term Crowdsourcing with the two terms, 1. "MODULARITY": In Computer Science when the work or project to be done is big then we may break those into smaller modules that are given to different individuals to work on.The same is Crowdsourcing where the required need will be serviced by the different people who belong to the community.                     2."MULTIPLEXING/DEMULTIPLEXING": It is the process of combining more signals into a single signal and decomposing a single signal into multiple signals respectively.Similarly Crowdsourcing is a process of splitting a work among many individuals in a community and grouping a...

Battle of the Windows 8 Start Buttons If the absence of a Start Menu button is keeping you from  upgrading to Windows 8 , you are in luck. There are tools available that will put the Start Menu into your Windows 8 desktop and these buttons don’t just have a familiar look-and-feel but they also mimic the functionality of the original Windows Start Menu. I tried about half a dozen Start buttons for Windows 8 from various developers and here are some recommendations on which ones you may use and which ones you should avoid. Win8StartButton  brings the best of both worlds. It adds a Start Menu button to your Windows 8 desktop but the layout is more like a compressed version of the Start Screen of Windows 8. When you open the Start Menu, the search box stays in focus so you can even type a few characters to  quickly open any software program . I really liked this program (it makes you familiar with the start screen) but the only issue is that some of the options a...

How to Upgrade your Computer to Windows 8 Windows 8  is finally here. I just upgraded my Windows 7 desktop to Windows 8 and the process couldn’t be smoother. All the existing software programs work just fine in Windows 8 and the built-in Windows Store offers a plethora of new full-screen “apps” to choose from. Desktop search is so much better in Windows 8, the UI feels more snappy and the system will boot faster. You don’t need to install a  separate anti-virus program  as Windows Defender is already included in Windows 8. If you haven’t played with the Windows 8 beta versions earlier, it may take a day or two to get comfortable with the new layout but overall, Windows 8 is a must-have upgrade. Upgrading to Windows 8 – Step by Step If you are also planning to make the switch to Windows 8 this weekend, here are 3 things you would need: A Windows machine running Windows 7, Vista and Windows XP. It doesn’t matter if you have computer is running W...

Turn CAPS Lock into a Dedicated Windows Key The Windows key is probably the most important key in Windows 8 since it is part of so many new  keyboard shortcuts . Now if you have been using an old keyboard that doesn’t have a dedicated Windows key or if you would like to add another Windows key to your  keyboard for ease of access, what you can do is remap the rarely-used CAPS lock key and turn it into a Windows key. Here’s how: Remap the CAPS Lock Key in Windows To remap any key in Windows, you need to make certain changes to the Windows registry. Since this can be intimidating to most users, there are tools available that let you map one key to another without fiddling with the registry. Sharpkeys and Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator are popular programs that perform key remapping but I prefer ScanMapSet since it requires no installation and once the required keys have been mapped, you can just delete the utility.  Download...

Some More Answers around Windows 8   This week’s WSJ column  answers some common questions that you may have around upgrading to Windows 8 . I also did a little Q&A with Microsoft India  which is shared below: Q. I am planning to assemble my own PC from scratch. Where do I get a full license (System Builder Edition?) of Windows 8? A: You can buy a retail copy of Windows 8 for Rs. 11,999. Q. If I buy a Windows 8 machine, can I downgrade to Windows 7 or Vista later? A: PCs purchased preinstalled with Windows 8 Pro will have the option to downgrade either to Windows 7 Professional or Windows Vista Business. Q. I have a laptop computer and a desktop computer at home. Do I need to buy separate Windows 8 licenses? A: Yes, you need separate licenses. Q. Can I deactivate my Windows 8 license and transfer it to another computer? A: Yes – by completely formatting your drive. Q. If I buy a TechNet / MSDN license, am I allowed to use them on a personal computer...

The official Windows Themes directory at windows.microsoft.com hosts some beautiful themes for your Windows desktop. Some of the newer themes – like these dual-screen panoramic images – are however compatible only with Windows 8 machines. If you aren’t planning to make the upgrade to Windows 8 , the good news is that you can still extract the wallpaper backgrounds of these Windows 8 specific themes and use them on older Windows PCs. Also see: Use Windows 7 Themes on Windows XP or Vista The Windows theme files have a .themepack extension but the Windows 8 specific themes are distributed as .deskthemepack files. Internally, this is just another archive format that you can easily open using the free 7-zip utility. Install the 7-zip utility and then download any of the .deskthemepack files from the Windows Themes gallery. Press F2 to rename the theme file and change its extension to .7z (you can just append .7z to the file name). Now you can right-click this files and...