Thursday, 20 November 2014


3D INTERNET

                    Also known as virtual worlds, the 3D Internet is a powerful new way for you to reach consumers, business customers, co-workers, partners, and students. It combines the immediacy of television, the versatile content of the Web, and the relationship-building strengths of social networking sites likeFace book . Yet unlike the passive experience of television, the 3D Internet is inherently interactive and engaging. Virtual worlds provide immersive 3D experiences that replicate (and in some cases exceed) real life..
Introduction of 3D Internet
The success of 3D communities and mapping applications, combined with the falling costs of producing 3D environments, are leading some analysts to predict that a dramatic shift is taking place in the way people see and navigate the Internet.The appeal of 3D worlds to consumers and vendors lies in the level of immersion that the programs offer. 

The experience of interacting with another character in a 3D environment, as opposed to a screen name or a flat image, adds new appeal to the act of socializing on the Internet.
Advertisements in Microsoft's Virtual Earth 3D mapping application are placed as billboards and signs on top of buildings, blending in with the application's urban landscapes.

3D worlds also hold benefits beyond simple social interactions. Companies that specialize in interior design or furniture showrooms, where users want to view entire rooms from a variety of angles and perspectives, will be able to offer customized models through users' homePCs .
Google representatives report that the company Google is preparing a new revolutionary product called Google Goggles, an interactive visor that will present Internet content in three dimensions. Apparently the recent rumors of a Google phone refers to a product that is much more innovative than the recent Apple iPhone.
Google's new three dimensional virtual reality :
nyone putting on "the Googgles" - as the insiders call them - will be immersed in a three dimensional "stereo-vision" virtual reality called 3dLife. 3dLife is a pun referring to the three dimensional nature of the interface, but also a reference to the increasingly popular Second Life virtual reality.
The "home page" of 3dLife is called "the Library", a virtual room with virtual books categorized according to the Dewey system. Each book presents a knowledge resource within 3dLife or on the regular World Wide Web. If you pick the book for Pandia, Google will open the Pandia Web site within the frame of a virtual painting hanging on the wall in the virtual library. However, Google admits that many users may find this too complicated.

Apparently Google is preparing a new revolutionary product called Google Goggles, an interactive visor which will display Internet content in three dimensions.
A 3D mouse lets you move effortlessly in all dimensions. Move the 3D mouse controller cap to zoom, pan and rotate simultaneously. The 3D mouse is a virtual extension of your body - and the ideal way to navigate virtual worlds like Second Life.
The Space Navigator is designed for precise control over 3D objects in virtual worlds. Move, fly and build effortlessly without having to think about keyboard commands, which makes the experience more lifelike.

Controlling your avatar with this 3D mouse is fluid and effortless. Walk or fly spontaneously, with ease. In fly cam mode you just move the cap in all directions to fly over the landscape and through the virtual world
Hands on: Exit Reality:
The idea behind ExitReality is that when browsing the web in the old-n-busted 2D version you're undoubtedly using now, you can hit a button to magically transform the site into a 3D environment that you can walk around in and virtually socialize with other users visiting the same site. This shares many of the same goals as Google's Lively (which, so far, doesn't seem so lively), though ExitReality is admittedly attempting a few other tricks.
Installation is performed via an executable file which places ExitReality shortcuts in Quick Launch and on the desktop, but somehow forgets to add the necessary ExitReality button to Firefox's toolbar . After adding the button manually and repeatedly being told our current version was out of date, we were ready to 3D-ify some websites and see just how much of reality we could leave in two-dimensional dust.


Exit Reality is designed to offer different kinds of 3D environments that center around spacious rooms that users can explore and customize, but it can also turn some sites like Flickr into virtual museums, hanging photos on virtual walls and halls. Strangely, it's treating Ars Technical as an image gallery and presenting it as a malformed 3D gallery .

3D Shopping is the most effective way to shop online. 3DInternet dedicated years of research and development and has developed the worlds' first fully functional, interactive and collaborative shopping mall where online users can use our 3DInternet's Hyper-Reality technology to navigate and immerse themselves in a Virtual Shopping Environment. Unlike real life, you won't get tired running around a mall looking for that perfect gift; you won't have to worry about your kids getting lost in the crowd; and you can finally say goodbye to waiting in long lines to check out.





Sunday, 9 November 2014


Back up your PC's files for free with these 3 tools


Regular backups are often the only thing that can save your bacon when a hard drive failure or otherwise catastrophic PC meltdown occurs. If your files go poof, they're gone forever unless you've safely stashed copies elsewhere.
You would ideally have at least two back-ups: one kept at home and one stored off-site—a feat that’s easily done with cloud solutions like Backblaze or CrashPlan. There are also various kinds of back-ups you can do like system images that include your files and an OS backup.
But today we’re going to focus on a trio of free, automated tools to back up just your personal files to an external hard drive or other PC—because that’s really the most critical stuff you want to save. PCs and their operating systems can be replaced, but treasured photos of your kids or accounting documents? Not so much.
For all of these tools we’re going to assume your PC is connected to an external hard drive.

Built-in and dead easy

filehistory
The most obvious choice is to use File History, a tool that comes built-in to Windows 8 and 8.1. File History is very much like Time Machine for the Mac, just without all the space traveler graphics. It saves chronological versions of your Windows libraries (documents, music, pictures, and videos), allowing you to go back in time and retrieve specific versions of a file—a handy feature if you want to retrieve a long-deleted section of a document.
By default, File History backs up your documents every hour, but you can change that under Advanced settings.
To get started with File History in Windows 8.1, connect your external drive, then open the Control Panel by right-clicking the Start button and selecting Control Panel.
Make sure the drop down menu in the upper right corner says View by: Large icons. Then just choose File History in the main Control Panel window.
On the next page, click the button labeled Turn on and you’re good to go. If you need to configure File History, look at the links on the left side of the Control Panel screen to specify folders to exclude, select a specific attached drive, and so on.
The only thing with File History is that it won’t grab anything outside your libraries, such as Outlook data files.

SyncBack Free

profile folder
SyncBack Free
A solid third-party option is the free version of SyncBack from 2BrightSparks. With this desktop app all you do is create a new backup, give it a profile name, decide on the type of back-up you want, choose your source and destination folders, and away you go.SyncBack Free lets you schedule times to run your backups via the built-in Task Scheduler in Windows.

Digging into the command line

If you’re not afraid of getting your hands dirty on the command line then try the Rsync utility via Cygwin, a Linux-style command line for Windows.
Rsync is a do-it-yourself option since you’ll have to decide on the commands you use. But the appeal of Rsync is that it’s been around for years, is very solid, and isn’t subject to radical change. In other words, it’s really boring and does its job—which is exactly what you want in a backup utility.
Truth be told, using Rsync isn’t that hard. In fact, you can get it working with just one line of code. I use Rsync for my own backups with this simple instruction on the Cygwin command line:
rsync -auv “/cygdrive/c/Users/[user folder name]/“ “/cygdrive/d/Rsync”
Basically, what this says is start Rsync, copy my entire user folder but only new files or files that have changed, and don’t erase anything. The last little bits that start with “cygdrive” tell Cygwin and Rsync which drives to copy (my entire user folder) and where to copy it to (Drive D:/).