Technology Speed Track

Yahoo! has officially released the beta version of Yahoo! Messenger 10, the next generation Yahoo! Messenger. Among the new features in Yahoo! Messenger 10 is enhanced video calling in high definition and full screen, new “Updates” view with latest friends’ updates from Yahoo!, Flickr, Twitter and more, and ability to change preferred language with just a few clicks.

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Sony’s S-Series Walkman PMP is coming in September with two versions, the 8GB Sony NWZ-S544 (£129) and the 16GB NWZ-S545 (£149), each with a 16:9 aspect QVGA 2.4-inch LCD display and integrated stereo speakers.

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Synaptics TouchPad is one such pointing device that supports multi-touch. Most of the Synaptics TouchPad hardware devices do support multi-touch, which is implemented at software driver level as Synaptics Gestures. In fact, Synaptics had a commercial video titled “Things You Can Do With a Gesture” to promote new notebooks with Synaptics Gestures.

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Most Synaptics TouchPad can support multi-touch gesture capabilities, which normally depends on software driver support. However, default official driver for Synaptics TouchPad device on most notebook and laptop does not enable these Synaptics Gestures features, instead locking them, probably due to marketing purpose.

There is a modded driver for Synaptics TouchPad that enables multi-touch gesture functions. After installing the mod driver, Synaptics TouchPad settings should now show options to enable Momentum, ChiralMotion, Two Fingers Gesture and Three Fingers Gesture. However, on some version of Synaptics TouchPad hardware, Two Fingers Gesture and Three Fingers Gesture may not be available even with the modded driver installed.

Two Fingers Gesture allows user to enable two finger scrolling feature which is included on newer version of Apple MacBook, allowing user to use two finger motion gesture on the whole surface of touchpad to scroll horizontally and vertically instead of have to move to virtual scrollbars on the edge of the trackpad.

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Now you can apply for theme for Google Chrome only if you are using its Beta, or Dev version (v3.0.195.3 and above). You can see all the themes gallery through here or below.

Its pretty easy to change channels. Here is steps, straight from Google Chrome help pages.

1. Download and run the Google Chrome Channel Changer (http://chromium.googlecode.com/files/chromechannel-2.0.exe).
2. Click the circle next to the channel you want to get updates from.
3. Click Update to save your choice.
4. Click Close.
5. In Google Chrome, click the wrench menu and choose About Google Chrome.
6. Click Update Now to install the current channel’s release.
7. Restart Google Chrome.

Remember to backup your data before doing this.

• Windows XP: \Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default
• Windows Vista: \Users\username\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default

Note: If you encounter the error “update server is not avalaible (error 3)”, try to uninstall and reinstall it; if it’s not fixed, try to download Google Chrome from official website. (In my case, I downloaded installation package from filehippo.com)

Interested in installing Android!!! Why don’t try a LiveAndroid, a LiveCD for Android running on X86 platform? Link to its homepage…

How to Use Instruction: http://code.google.com/p/live-android/wiki/howtouse

First test was on Sony VGN-UX380N, encounter freeze problem. The cause might be lack of video card or net card driver.