BRAVIA™ HD TV (LED & LCD) - EX420 Series

KDL-22EX420

 

22 (56 cms) EX420 Series BRAVIA

Access a whole new digital world of content with Sony Internet TV features on EX420 Series. With slim Edge LED backlight and the new X-Reality™ picture engine, every picture will be with clarity and colour.

• High Definition (720p) picture quality with Edge LED backlight
• Skype™ Ready (requires camera CMU-BR100)
• Internet Video, Facebook and Twitter
• Wireless LAN Ready & Wi-Fi Direct (requires Wi-Fi adaptor UWA-BR100)
• X-Reality™ picture engine
• Live Colour™ Technology with Advanced Contrast Enhancer

 

 

Edge LED

Using Edge LED backlight technology results in a much thinner and lighter BRAVIA when compared to conventional direct-type backlight system televisions.
Typically used for small to mid-sized computer monitors, Sony has adapted this new type of backlighting for LCD TVs. The result is a more efficient light transmission process and lower power consumption without any compromise to picture quality.

X-Reality™ Picture Engine

Sony’s advanced image processing engine analyses each scene to give optimum colour and contrast.
Enjoy great pictures, no matter the source
Don’t let your enjoyment be hampered by low-resolution source videos. With Sony’s exclusive X-Reality Engine, everything you watch – from HD movies to web videos – is analysed and selectively processed to give clean, clear, and lifelike pictures. While 3 unique noise reduction features work their magic prior to upscaling, Sony’s Intelligent Image Enhancer divides the signal into four characteristics – texture, outline, contrast, and colour – and optimises each one individually for more vivid and distinct pictures.

 

Skype™ Ready

Make calls to other Skype users or even regular telephone numbers, even as you watch your favourite shows.
Make free video calls over the Internet
Keep in touch with friends and family easily by making and receiving Internet voice and video calls*2 from your television. All you need is a compact microphone/camera to make free Skype-to-Skype calls and low-cost SkypeOut calls to regular telephone numbers.

Remote Keyboard

Connect your TV to your VAIO for seamless navigation.
Easy TV control and text input
Use your VAIO keyboard to control your television and input text quickly and conveniently.

What is Higgs boson or God particle?

 

 

It has been called "the brick that built the universe," "the angel of creation" and "the god particle."
It is thought to have emerged from the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago and have brought much of the rest of the flying debris together to form galaxies, stars and planets.
It is a key component of the "Standard Model" - the all-encompassing theory developed by physicists of how the cosmos as we know it works at its basic level of particles and forces.
But until now, in the four decades since it was first posited, no one has convincingly claimed to have glimpsed the Higgs Boson, let alone proved that it actually exists.
At an eagerly awaited briefing on Tuesday at the CERN research centre near Geneva, two independent teams of " Higgs Hunters" - a term they themselves hate - were widely expected to suggest they were fairly confident they had spotted it.
But not confident enough, in the physics world of ultra-precision where certainty has to be measured at nothing less than 100 per cent, to announce "a discovery."
In the jargon, this level is described as 5 sigma, which would exclude the possibility that the results recorded by the ATLAS and CMS teams at CERN - the 21-nation European Organisation for Nuclear Research - are a fluke.
A million apples As one scientist explained, that level of accuracy would equate to the 17th-century discoverer of gravity, Isaac Newton, sitting under his apple tree and a million apples one after another falling on his head without one missing.
Some leading scientists, including Briton Stephen Hawking, doubt that the tiny piece of matter that would be visible only as a trace on a computer screen is out there at all.
But most scientists involved in sifting through vast amounts of data produced in multi-trillions of particle impacts in CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) over the past 20 months seem sure that it is, in one form or another.
As is another Briton, physicist Peter Higgs, who conceived the idea of the boson - a type of particle that carries force - in the mid-1960s to explain why much of the matter produced by the Big Bang has mass, and can therefore coalesce.
"I find it difficult to imagine how the theory (the Standard Model) works without it," he told the London monthly Prospect.
Higgs, now 82 and seen as a Nobel prize contender, conceived of a mechanism that would fit into the Standard Model and allow particles to have mass - which the model had previously failed to explain.
The mechanism, he argued, was a medium - since called the Higgs Field - existing throughout the universe, which gave other particles mass as they passed through it and were brought together by the Higgs boson.
Without this mechanism, a briefing paper by CERN explains, "the universe would be a very different place.... no ordinary matter as we know it, no chemistry, no biology, and no people."
Higgs - who, like the vast majority of particle physicists as shown in surveys, rejects any religious explanation of the origins of life and the cosmos - has no time for the more spiritual epithets applied to his boson.
"For me, it is there because it is there," he once told journalists on a visit to Geneva, where in the 1960s he worked for a while at CERN, adding archly: "As long as we can prove scientifically that it is."

Photosynth

 

Photosynth is a software application from Microsoft Live Labs and the University of Washington that analyses digital photographs and generates a three-dimensional model of the photos and a point cloud of a photographed object.

 

Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol

Exquisite stunts and the high-decibel action !

Impossible Ghost Protocol the Best Tom Cruise Film in Years…

“A film that delivers two hours plus of thrilling blockbuster entertainment with a goofy grin on its face”

Cruise hits highs..

How to use Winamp to manage your iPod

   

  10 Steps:

1. First, make sure to enable disk use on your iPod by connecting it and opening iTunes (if it doesn’t auto-launch). Select your iPod and then click the Settings tab. Scroll down to the Options section and remove the check from the box labeled Open iTunes when this iPod is attached. Then place a check in the Enable disk use box (if it isn’t checked already). Click Apply.

   
   

2. Exit out of iTunes, and confirm that your iPod has now mounted itself as a drive.

   

3. Download and install Winamp if you haven’t yet. If you opt to create a custom installation, make sure to leave the iPod support selection in Portable Media Player Support (which is a part of the Winamp Library) checked.

   
   

4. Launch Winamp and if the Media Library window doesn’t appear, select View and then Media Library.

   

5. In the left column of the Media Library window, select your iPod from the Portables list. Any files currently on your iPod will be displayed.

   
   

6. To add music to your iPod, open the Playlist window, add some songs to it and then right-click those songs. From the pop-up menu select Send to: and then choose your iPod.

   
   

7. You’ll see a percentage status indicator as the files are sent to your iPod.

   

8. The files listed on your iPod may not refresh on their own. Just click Portables…

   
   

9. … and then click your iPod again. All of the files you just sent to your iPod will now be listed.

   
   

10. You can eject your iPod right from within Winamp by clicking the Eject button in the bottom right corner of the Media Library window.

Windows Live Essentials

 

Deploy Windows live movie maker / Live Essentials 2011

 

In Windows 7 Microsoft has decided to not include any of the Windows Live programs ( Messenger, Mail, Writer, Photo Gallery, Movie Maker, Family Safety and Toolbar) if you have any user in your organisation that want to use any of the programs you might want to deploy them using a MSI package . But when you try to download the program from http://download.live.com you only get an .exe file that then will download the programs that you want to install.
To get the whole Windows Live package in one file use the link:

Download

 

The MSI file is located in C:\Windows\Installer the folder installer is a hiden folder so you need to show hiden folders.
To find out exact what the files that you need is called you can look in the registry in in this folder:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\UserData�
I have also found it in
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\UserData\S-1-5-18\Products

Go trough the folders that look like 5DD3EF3C1E293CE4DBB628D29DE99819 and look in the folder called InstallProperties  untill you find the right program. When you have found the program look for LocalPackage and there is the path to the MSI for that program.

If you are more of a scripting guy / girl you can also do a scripted installation of the Windows Live Programs. To do that download wlsetup-all.exe the same way as above.

Here are the different command line options that you can play with:

Exampel: WLSetup.exe /AppSelect:Messenger

Additional switches are as follows:

• AppSelect:[ProductID] or ![ProductID]
• log:log_location
• NOToolbarCEIP (to not opt into Toolbar CEIP)
• NOhomepage (to not set home page defaults)
• Nolaunch (blocks all applications from running automatically after your installation is complete)
• NOMU (to opt the computer into Microsoft Update)
• nosearch (to not set search defaults)
• q (for a silent/unattended install)

ProdID’s for the command line:
familysafety
mail
messenger
MovieMaker
olc
silverlight
wlsync
writer
toolbar

Switches:
auto-select products configuration
/AUTOSELECT

no toolbar ceip configuration
/NOTOOLBARCEIP

no search configuration
/NOSEARCH

no homepage configuration
/NOHOMEPAGE

messenger only configuration
/MESSENGERONLY

no CEIP configuration
/NOCEIP

no MU configuration
/NOMU

non-strict dependency configuration
/NOSTRICT

no launch configuration
/NOLAUNCH

silent/quiet configuration
/SILENT  /QUIET

How to download updates that include drivers and hotfixes from the Windows Update Catalogue

 

 

Step 1: Access the Windows Update Catalog

To access the Windows Update Catalog, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Home.aspx

To view a list of frequently asked questions about Windows Update Catalog, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Faq.aspx

 

Step 2: Search for updates from the Windows Update Catalog

To search for updates from the Windows Update Catalog, follow these steps:

1. In the Search text box, type your search terms. For example, you might type Windows Vista Security.
2. Click Search, or press ENTER.
3. Browse the list that is displayed to select the updates that you want to download.
4. Click Add for each selection to add it to the download basket.
5. To search for additional updates to download, repeat steps 2a through 2d.

Step 3: Download updates

To download updates from the Windows Update Catalog, follow these steps:

1. Click view basket under the Search box to view the download basket.
2. Verify your list of updates, and then click Download.
   Note If you are prompted, click Accept to accept the license agreement.
3. Select the location where you want to save the updates. You can either type the full path of the folder, or you can click Browse to locate the folder.
4. Click Continue to start the download.
5. When the download is complete, click Close to close the Download Window.
6. Close the Windows Update Catalog Window.
7. Find the location that you specified in step 3c.

   Note If you have downloaded device drivers for installation, go to "Installing Drivers."

8. Double-click each update, and then follow the instructions to install the update. If the updates are intended for another computer, copy the updates to that computer, and then double-click the updates to install them.

If all the items that you added to the download basket are installed successfully, you are finished.