Advantages of Windows 8 Storage Spaces

Small and midsize businesses often cannot afford submit hosts, and battle with the best way to offer their users with enough place to shop information and keep it resistant to components malfunction. Windows 8′s new feature known as Storage Spaces has three benefits: bringing the safety of RAID to the esteem computer, creating an broadening place to shop files, and providing these features at cheaper than other components options.

How much generate place do you need, and how reliable is it? Storage Spaces details the problem that matter how much place you buy, odds are good that you’ll fill it. Disk generate place is cheap, and USB pushes are easy. This generally results in an selection of variously scaled USB pushes connected to your computer, necessitating numerous generate characters you need to spread your information across. If you want generate place that’s secured against components malfunction, replicating two pushes needs they be in the same way scaled or else you drop the additional potential of the bigger generate. For a level-5 RAID, that pieces information across more than two pushes, and you drop the potential of each generate bigger than the tiniest in the RAID.

1. Extended Space

To avoid the hassle of having several generate characters to shop your information on, StorageSpaces allows you to make a online generate that you can develop when required. It acts much like a virtualmachine, where you can make a generate that pretends to be 100GB in dimension, but at first may take up only 10GB of actual place on your hard generate. As you add information to the online generate, the dimension the actual submit increases as required. Using thinprovisioning, which gives the appearance of more place than actually prevails, Shed Spots can do the same thing, allowing you to make a storage share in which several Spots can exist that use the place they need, as they need it. If the Space you created fills up the maximum dimension you at first set, you can even totally recast it to a bigger dimension, leading to the equivalent of a endless generate.

2. Protected Space

Making a bunch of pushes look like one is handy, but could be dangerous if one of them should fail. Shed Spots features RAID technology to shield you, guaranteeing that at least one copy of all your information is available, even in the event of a components malfunction. Windows 8 is certainly not the first to offer software RAID, as Windows 7, XP and even 2000 included this capability. The difference is that the older editions required a fixed, definite job of pushes, whereas Shed Spots allows you to dynamically add pushes of various sizes to grow the storage share while still keeping redundancy of your information.

3. Cheaper Space

What Shed Spots provides is certainly not new, Data Robotics provides a components RAID system known as Drobo that provides the same benefits, and other companies have similar promotions. Unfortunately, these can costs 100′s of dollars for the base system, require specific types of pushes, and are limited in expandability to the number of slot machines in it. Windows 8 Shed Spots needs no additional hardware–you be connected any internal or external pushes that you have, and it uses them. This gives a business the mobility to add place as required, with an ever-expanding online generate that’s secured from components malfunction, keeping its information secure.

The Gadget is a pane on the Windows desktop.

With this GPU Meter Gadget you can display your Vendor, Model, GPU (Clock Speed, Temperature, Usage) , Memory (Clock Speed, Size, Usage), Fan (Speed, Usage), Shader Clock Speed, PCB Temperature and PCI Express.

Last updated: 05/09/2011
File size: 523.29KB
Price: Free
Support operating system: Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008
Support GPU: NVIDIA Series (7,8,9,200,300,400*) and ATI Series (HD 2000,3000,4000,5000 [Catalyst 9.3 or above]*)
*Not all the function is supported.
**Some of function need the latest graphics card driver from Windows Update.

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Meet iGuy – the freestanding foam case for iPad and iPad 2. Every bit as protective as he is a blast to use, iGuy is the perfect iPad accessory for kids and grownups alike. He’s lightweight, easy to hold, and he can stand on his own two feet, even while holding up your iPad. He may look like he’s all about fun, but his soft, squishy body disguises tough EVA foam protection. iGuy will help you feel more secure as you hand your iPad over to your baby or small child!

• Free-standing and kid-friendly!
• Made of safe, non-toxic EVA foam
• Lightweight foam protection with plenty of personality
• Raised screen bezel
• Fits both iPad and iPad 2

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Synopsis:
“The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” follows title character Bilbo Baggins, who is swept into an epic quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor, which was long ago conquered by the dragon Smaug. Approached out of the blue by the wizard Gandalf the Grey, Bilbo finds himself joining a company of thirteen dwarves led by the legendary warrior, Thorin Oakensheild. Their journey will take them into the Wild; through treacherous lands swarming with Goblins and Orcs, deadly Wargs and Giant Spiders, Shapeshifters and Sorcerers. Although their goal lies to the East and the wastelands of the Lonely Mountain first they must escape the goblin tunnels, where Bilbo meets the creature that will change his life forever … Gollum. Here, alone with Gollum, on the shores of an underground lake, the unassuming Bilbo Baggins not only discovers depths ofguile and courage that surprise even him, he also gains possession of Gollum’s “precious” ring that holds unexpected and useful qualities … A simple, gold ring that is tied to the fate of all Middle-earth in ways Bilbo cannot begin to know.

Writers: Guillermo del Toro, Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens
Director: Peter Jackson
Cast: Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Cate Blanchett, Orlando Bloom, Ian Holm, Christopher Lee, Hugo Weaving, Elijah Wood, Evangeline Lily, Andy Serkis, Richard Armitage

Bank Negara Malaysia revealed the new series of Malaysian banknotes today, Wednesday 21 December 2011. The new series draws its inspiration from the distinctive features of Malaysia, incorporating elements of the country’s natural treasures, culture and heritage. Themed ‘Distinctively Malaysia’, the banknotes features traditional expressions in the art and craft, natural wonders, flora and fauna and the economy.

The banknotes issued are in the denominations of RM1, RM5, RM10, RM20 and RM100. Commemorative sets are on sale starting today, Thursday 22 December 2012

It is the successor to the PlayStation Portable as part of the PlayStation brand of gaming devices. It was released in Japan and parts of Asia on December 17, 2011[1] and is expected to be released in Europe, Australia, and North America on February 22, 2012.

FEATURES:
- The new PS Vita 3G/Wi-Fi, powered by AT&T’s Mobile Broadband Network

- Front and Rear Cameras

- Six Axis Motion Sensor

- Stunning 5″ OLED touch screen.

-The rear multi touch pad gives you greater hand control while freeing up the brilliance of the front OLED screen.

- Locate, connect and play with friends via GPS and social networking apps like NEAR.

- With cross platform play you can start playing a game on your PS3 console, pause the game and pick up on PS Vita right where you left off. You can also join in multiplayer games on your PS Vita and play against players on their PS3 consoles

- Discover a fully immersive first person shooter experience with dual analog sticks.

- See your games more brilliantly than ever before with the 5″ OLED screen which displays approximately 16 million colors.

• Your Cover
• Your Stories
• Your Apps

How to get it :
Log in to your facebook account, visit Facebook Timeline Page
Klik the ‘Get Timeline’ button at the lower right side page to activate the new profile of yours.

- 5.3″ large screen + Light & thin design
- The world’s first 5.3″ HD Super AMOLED display
- Minimum screen scrolling & transition
- Smart & Intuitive scheduler – The S Planner
- Advanced 8MP camera
- A 2500mAh battery
- HSPA+ 21Mbps
- 1.4GHz dual core processor

Google’s Social Networking Approach

remembeR the ‘buZZ‘ ? Google’s previous approach to social networking, but it’s nothing than just a failure. Hence, the new Google+ Project; bringing innovative features, promising more control over the social networking experience.

Google+ innovates in the area of privacy.

You share different things with different people. But sharing the right stuff with the right people shouldn’t be a hassle. Google+ Circles makes it easy to put your friends from Saturday night in one circle, your parents in another, and your boss in a circle by himself, just like real life.

what Google+ Sparks does: looks for videos and articles it thinks you’ll like, so when you’re free, there’s always something to watch, read, and share

Google+ hanGoutS; Bumping into friends while you’re out and about is one of the best parts of going out and about. With Hangouts, the unplanned meet-up comes to the web for the first time. Let buddies know you’re hanging out and see who drops by for a face-to-face-to-face chat. Until we perfect teleportation, it’s the next best thing.

Taking photos is fun. Sharing photos is fun. Getting photos off your phone and on to the web is pretty much the opposite of fun. That’s why we created Instant Upload: so that from now on, your photos upload themselves. You don’t even have to say ‘cheese’ or even ‘google’ … :p

Texting is great, but not when you’re trying get six different people to decide on a movie. Huddle takes care of it by turning all those different conversations into one simple group chat, so everyone gets on the same page long before thumbs get sore.

Google+ Poll, Will it Dethrone Facebook?

Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 2 Trailer 3 Official (HD)