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Sheikh Masjid Karunagappally, originally uploaded by getjins.

Sheikh Masjid Karunagappally Kollam Kerala INDIA – Like famous Taj Mahal in Agra

The Forum Nokia Calling All Innovators Competition is open to all mobile application developers, and features three distinct categories for submissions:

• Eco-Challenge: Make a Difference
• Emerging Markets: IMAGINE the Possibilities
• Technology Showcase: The Developer Showdown

Along with a trip to Mobile World Congress 2009 in Barcelona, and distribution of their application for free through a variety of Nokia channels, first place winners in each category will receive USD 25,000 while second place and third place winners of each category will receive USD 10,000 and USD 5,000 respectively.

The contest opens on September 16, 2008 and all entries are due by December 15, 2008. Finalists will be selected and notified in January 2009.

More information about Forum Nokia’s Calling All Innovators, including how to submit an application and complete contest rules and requirements, can be found online at www.callingallinnovators.com

The camera shoots at a resolution of 10 MP and has a 2.5 inch LCD screen. The camera allows users to capture VGA movies up to one hour. The company claims that the noise in videos is reduced through the utilization of a Voice Coil Motor which also increases focus speed. The SX10 also gives 24 shooting modes which can be accessed through an SLR type dial.

The camera which is supposed to hit stores in late October for about $399 (Rs. 18,800 approximately) is powered by 4 AA batteries.

PowerShot SX10 IS Specifications

• 10.0 effective Megapixel CCD
• F2.8-5.7, 20X optical zoom lens, equivalent to 28 – 560 mm
  • Lens uses new “voice coil motor” for increased AF speed and less motor noise
• Optical image stabilization
• Digic 4 image processor
• Flip-out, rotating 2.5″ LCD display with 230,000 pixels + electronic viewfinder
• Full manual controls + numerous scene modes
• New Servo AF mode (also found on the G10) for tracking a moving subject
• Same Intelligent Contrast Control and Face Detection features as the G10
• Records movies at 640 x 480 (30 fps) with stereo sound recording using H.264 codec
  • Zoom lens can be used while recording
• SD/SDHC/MMC/MMCplus/HC MMCplus card slot
• Uses four AA batteries; 600 shots per charge with NiMH cells

Listen, watch and play all day with 24 hours of battery life and room for up to 2000 songs. The new Sansa® Fuze™ from SanDisk® is your portable music machine with 2GB, 4GB, or 8GB of storage. Watch your favorite video clips on the Sansa Fuze’s 1.9″ color screen. Jam to FM radio with 40 preset stations, play with the built-in voice recorder, and share your photos wherever you go. Choose from five electric colors: blue, red, pink, black or silver. Incredible battery life in a 0.3″ thin device—the Sansa Fuze marks the next wave of music & video players.

The MP3 player works with computers running Windows XP or Windows Vista. It also works with Mac and Linux operating systems (under MSC mode.)

The 2GB Sansa Fuze player is priced at Rs.5490, 4GB (1,000 MP3 songs) for Rs.6890 and 8GB (2,000 MP3 songs) for Rs.8999. The 2GB is available in black; the 4GB Sansa Fuze is available in black, red, pink and blue, and the 8GB is available in silver.

Called TraceMonkey, the component is a Just-In-Time (JIT) JavaScript compiler that will eventually replace Firefox’s current SpiderMonkey JavaScript compiler. The new compiler can improve JavaScript performance by up to a factor of seven, and with more speed improvements down the road. For Mozilla JavaScript is increasingly important, not only because of more-demanding sites, but because much of the Firefox browser itself is coded in JavaScript.

Visit – Brendan Eich’s blog “Brendan’s Roadmap Updates” for more details. http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roadmap/archives/2008/09/tracemonkey_update.html

Brendan Eich is the creator of the JavaScript programming language and Chief Technology Officer at the Mozilla Corporation

TraceMonkey Vs V8 (V8- Google chrome JavaScript engine)

Results from head-to-head SunSpider on Windows XP on a Mac Mini and Windows Vista on a MacBook Pro

Microsoft implemented its own version of JavaScript and called it JScript.

Netscape, Microsoft and others started standardizing the scripting language, using the ECMA standardizing organisation (http://www.ecma-international.org/) for that. Thus the language standard is now called ECMA Script.

ECMA standard is only about the core language, with data and objects like numbers, strings, booleans, Object, Array, Function, Date, Math, but NOT about application specific objects like browser specific objects (document, window, links, images etc).

The core features of Netscape’s JavaScript and Microsoft’s JScript are pretty much compliant with the ECMA Script standard, but the application specific objects like the browser DOM (Document Object Model) and the server object model differ, slightly less with time.

The tool allows you to document all the necessary constructs that you might need – not only functions and variables, but also classes, interfaces, namespaces, packages and others. And it does not matter at all which JavaScript frameworks are being used – you can document your code the way you want it, not the way it is being imposed by a framework or a tool.

jGrouseDoc produces highly customizable output – you can either apply your own look and feel via CSS to one of the existing themes or create your own via XSL transformations.

Note that jGrouseDoc is implemented as an ANT task, so it could be easily integrated into your existing build processes or it could be used as a standalone tool.

For more details visit: jgrouse.com

Camera: Fujifilm FinePix S9600
Exposure: 4 sec (4)
Aperture: f/2.8
Focal Length: 6.2 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Exposure Bias: 0/100 EV
Flash: Flash did not fire

Camera: Fujifilm FinePix S9600
Exposure: 4 sec (4)
Aperture: f/2.8
Focal Length: 6.2 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Exposure Bias: 0/100 EV
Flash: Flash did not fire