However despite the fact that they are “looking forward to introducing and demonstrating exciting new mobile products at Mobile World Congress 2012″, the new Galaxy will not be one of them.

Yes, anyone who was hoping for an upgrade for their Samsung Galaxy S2, will have to hold off on their trip to www.o2.co.uk or their local provider branch. You would have thought the mobile congress event would have been the perfect event for the upgrades début.

The hold off could be for a number of reasons:

- Samsung may want to reduce the gap between the launch of the new phone and its US release.

- There might have been a delay in the manufacturing process.

- Perhaps they want the launch to rival the introduction of the iPhone 5, which is thought to début in July of this year.

Whatever the reasoning, Samsung are looking to make the Galaxy S3 a bigger deal.

“The successor to the Galaxy S2 smart phone will be unveiled at a separate Samsung-hosted event in the first half of the year, closer to commercial availability of the product.”

So what will this event be? Naturally the rumour mill is speculating, but one of the most convincing suggestions is that the launch will tie-in with the London 2012 Olympics. It makes sense considering Samsung is an official partner of the Games. What better time to unveil their most anticipated product than during an event that will be seen by billions the world over?

BeCyPDFMetaEdit is a free and handy utility for Windows that lets you easily remove the password from PDF files without changing anything else. It also offers several other features, like you can add a password to your PDF files thus to protect and prevent them from unauthorized access. There are options to edit the Metadata of PDF file, set viewer preferences (page layout, page mode), bookmarks, security and more.

To Remove Password from a PDF, follow the steps below:

Note: To remove the PDF password, you must know the user password.

1. Launch the program and it will let you browse the location of PDF file.

2. Before selecting the file, select the “Complete Rewrite” option from the Open window.

3. Then open the file and tap on Security tab. Set “Security System” to ‘no encryption’ and click on Save button.

Voila! You PDF will no more require a password to open.

To Password-Protect a PDF, move to the Security tab and select “Security System” as ‘Password protection with low or high encryption’.

Some points to consider:

1. If you set only the User Password, then a valid password is required to open the file.

2. If you set only the Owner Password, then everyone would be able to open and view the PDF file but they wont be able to Edit it, if you’ve set some security restrictions. Using this you can restrict a PDF from editing, selecting text, printing and changing PDF properties such as form fields, etc. by un-checking their entries.

3. If you’ve set Both the user and owner password for a PDF – In this case, entering the user password will let you only view the password-protected PDF. But if you open the same file with owner password then you can edit it as well.

Download BeCyPDFMetaEdit  [Portable version also available]

Thanks Labnol

Hardwipe is a 100% free program for Windows that offers various advanced features and options than just letting you securely wipe the data from your computer. It boasts a modern and easy-to-use interface, specially designed for Windows 7. With Hardwipe, one can wipe individual or multiple files, folders, an entire drive or partition. Additionally, it offers the ability to quickly Clean Free Drive Space to prevent anyone from recovering the old wiped data. It does so by overwriting the contents of previously deleted files. During Clean Space operation, the data presently stored on drive will not be wiped.

Hardwipe intelligently controls the disk writing speed for lengthy operations. When the ‘Speed Control’ is set to Automatic, it restricts disk writing considering the computer is being actively used, but increases it to maximum on being idle. You can always select “Full Speed” or “Restricted” from the main window to manually control the speed.

It integrates with Windows explorer that comes handy as you can quickly wipe files from right-click content menu. One can wipe a single file, multiple files or a folder simply by right-clicking. This is also possible for hard disk drives that can be wiped or cleaned.

Shell integration is disabled by default. To enable it, just open Hardwipe and go to Preferences > Options. Then select ‘Show Hardwipe Menus’ option and hit OK.

Key Features:

• Erases files by overwriting their contents prior to deletion.
• Integrates with Windows Explorer
• Supports major overwriting schemes, including: GOST P50739-95, DOD 5220.22-M, Schneier & Gutmann.
• Can even purge the Swapfile used by Windows (not available yet)
• Intelligent use of disk cache so that your computer remains responsive when cleaning entire drives
• Hardwipe can shutdown your computer automatically when finished

Download Hardwipe  [Supports Windows 7, Vista, XP]

The film is defined to spread out in the month of january 26 and it is the 1st big release of 2012.(movie date). “My introduction film, Kaho Naa…Pyaar Hai, also launched in January 13. The date ended up being fortunate to me once, maybe it’s going to be once again,” smiles Hrithik.

 
The Story:
Agneepath picture could be the remake regarding Amitabh Bachchan’s yesteryears film 1990 “Agneepath”. It’s a classic Bollywood revenge drama as well as uses the tale of an young boy whoever daddy is killed by the Don, pushing the actual young man to develop way up along with avenge the loss of life.

Wikipedia have ability to Share pages, read an article in a different language, Full screen search, check history of recently viewed pages and there is a ‘Nearby’ option that searches for nearby locations on a Google Map. Moreover, there’s a Settings option to set the preferred text font size and default language for Wikipedia app from a list of various languages offered.

~ This is the initial version of app that has been installed by a very fair amount of Android users. We hope for some future updates that would make it more amazing.

Packaged
In terms of the package, the Lumia 800 has the hardware, the performance and a very good OS. It does miss out on a memory card slot and a front facing camera. We just hope Nokia get the pricing right, and don’t overprice it.

Price: TBA (Update: Rs. 29,999)

Specification of nokia lumia 800:

Qualcomm MSM8255 Snapdragon

1.4GHz processor; 512MB RAM;

Windows Phone 7.5; 3.7-inch AMOLED display,

480 x 800 pixels;

16GB storage;

8MP camera with 720p HD videos;

micro SIM slot only;

1450 mAh battery

It seems best after coming at conclusion , and i think i would prefer 65%  Chance for success for Nokia Lumia 800

Note: For wordpress users, you can skip doing this manually. This plugin will do the trick. Thanks Mohd Ismail.

1. Download required files

Download peel.zip (Alternative – Download), extract it. Your peel/ folder should contain these following files:

• large.swf
• large.jpg
• small.swf
• small.jpg
• peel.js

Plan where you should upload this folder at later stage. For WordPress users, you are suggested to upload peel/ inside wp-content/themes/your_current_theme/. Fow now, let’s fire up your favorite text and image editor.

2. Edit peel.js

Open peel.js with your favorite text editor. Change these following settings:

1. jaaspeel.ad_url – URL you intend to point to.
2. jaaspeel.small_path – Path to small.swf
3. jaaspeel.small_image – Path to small.jpg
4. jaaspeel.big_path – Path to large.swf
5. jaaspeel.big_image – Path to large.jpg

Here’s an example, assuming the domain is hongkiat.com and I’m pointing it to google.com.

3. Edit the images

• small.jpg – The small background visitors see before content behind gets revealed. Edit if you’d like to match it with your background.
• large.jpg – What visitors will see after pointing their mouse to ‘peel the page off’. This is the image you’ll want to edit.

Both flash files, small.swf and large.swf can be left un-touch.

4. Upload files

Upload the entire peel/ folder to via FTP your web account. Make sure it matches with the settings you’ve entered earlier in Step 2.

5. Add Javascript in header

Add the following Javascript after <title> before </head>.

You are done! Refresh the website and you should notice a peel away effect on the top right corner of your site.

Source : http://www.hongkiat.com

It’s good practice to keep multiple backups of your important data, so try USB Flash Copy – a free utility for Windows PCs that automatically takes backups of your flash drive every time you connect it.

No installation is needed and it’s only a 300kb download – get it from www.usbflashcopy.com and run it to set a particular folder on your computer’s hard drive for backups (by default, it makes a backup folder in ‘My Documents’ ).

The first time you connect a USB drive, it will take a complete backup of all contents. Thereafter, it only makes small changes to the backup folder – copying only the files that have been changed or added. If you like, you can alter the settings to keep older versions of files too.

And if multiple people use the same PC or if you have multiple flash drives, you can create profiles for each device (with different settings).

There are several options that offer a richer communication environment, unlimited messaging, and, are available for free. All you need is a smartphone, a free application and a basic data plan that can start as low as 99 per month.

A slew of applications – both proprietary and platform-agnostic – are available in the market. The best-known is the BlackBerry Messenger, known to all fans of the brand as BBM. Two people with BlackBerry phones can chat for free with each other no matter where in the world they are, and that too, in an encrypted environment.

This was the feature that had raised the hackles of India’s home ministry and dominated the headlines earlier this year. Like many other messengers, BBM offers emoticons, real-time delivery and read receipts, among other features.

Apple is expected to offer a proprietary messaging platform in the upcoming iOS5 operating system. Called iMessage (obviously), it will connect users of iPhones, iPad and iPod Touch. With this, Apple fanboys might restrict their social interactions to other Apple users.

But at a time Android devices and other platforms are steadily eating into proprietary smartphone monopolies, cross-platform messenger apps are rising in popularity.

These apps are free and unhindered and offer many additional features such as group chat, multimedia messaging and push notifications. The only two requirements are that you need to have a data connection on your phone and your friends need to have the same app installed on their handset.

Here are a few of the popular ones.

Kik is completely free and available for iOS, Android or Windows phones. With Kik, you get real-time delivery and read receipts when you send a message to a contact. It also allows you to have a group chat or share photos with your contacts.

LiveProfile is totally free too and available for iOS, Android and BlackBerry devices. Besides offering unlimited messaging, it also integrates with social networks such as Twitter and Facebook to figure out which of your friends are already using it. PingChat is available for iOS, BlackBerry and Android. You can send regular text, photos and video messages for free to up to ten people at a time.

Since RockeTalk is available as either a Symbian or Java app, it works on almost any device – including most smartphones and feature phones. It does regular data and photo messaging, but RockeTalk is different from the others because it includes communities where you can browse content shared by others.

Finally, WhatsApp has support for iPhone, Android, Symbian and BlackBerry. There’s one key difference between WhatsApp and all the others. The others use a PIN, username or some sort of unique identifier – you have to add friends you want to chat with. WhatsApp reads the address book in your phone and automatically identifies which of your contacts is using WhatsApp – because each account is linked to a phone number and SIM card.

That’s also why WhatsApp is not supported on the iPad and iPod Touch. WhatsApp is also the only messenger that’s not completely free – you get one year of free usage, after which you pay $1.99 for every year of unlimited usage. Other advantages include support for offline messages location sharing and complete chat history.

Important note: I paint all of my work using a computer tablet, so there is no guarantee that you’ll go trought these tutorials successfuly when using a mouse. If you’re serious about learing to paint on the computer try and buy a tablet. It doesn’t have to be a Wacom, there are many other companies that make completely decent pen tablets (Genius for example) at an affordable price.

Step one: Drawing the basics

Let us start with the simplest of sketches. As you can see it doesn’t look like much, but that’s not relevant seeing how you will paint over it anyway. The important thing is that you have the basic elements covered; the iris, the eyeball, the lid etc. Now, instead of using a plain white background I’ve went for a flesh color background, because it will be much easier to paint with. Also my sketch color is not black. Black ruins skin tones, so use dark brown instead.

Basic anatomy tips: The biggest mistake one can make when drawing eyes it to draw a completely almond shape eye or make the eye too round. Eyes by definition are not purely geometrical so bare that in mind when starting out. Look at your own eye and see the line of it. Is it round or almond shape? Of course not, so don’t draw them that way.

Step two: Getting started

Now let’s continue with the coloring. I’ve picked out a random color for the eye iris, seeing how it will change anyway. The important thing to know in this step is never to paint the eyeball in pure white. NEVER. The eyeball like all other objects in reality has it’s shadows and highlights, it also has small blood vessels steaming out to the surface (especially if you haven’t slept much) so that all ads to the color map of the eyeball.Start with some warm gray, perhaps with pinkish tones (just slight), or any other light, non white color depending on the atmosphere of your picture. Determine first whether your painting will have a warm or cool hue to it and take it from there. For the purpose of this tutorial, you can simply sample the color from the image on the left.

Step three: Adding shades and light

Now let’s color this. I’ve added various tones of “skin colors” to the mix in order to create a base for the shadow and highlight regions. This part is essential because it provides grounds for your future steps. If the coloring is unnatural then the rest of the picture will be like that, or you’ll have to repeat the coloring step later on. Since I want to keep this tutorial precise and under 15 steps, I’ve carefully thought about the coloring and light/shadow placement.

Important : Contrary to popular opinion, the skin consists of many colors warm and cold, it all depends on the lighting, the fact that our skin is filled with veins and arteries and blood vessels. So when painting, bare this in mind. Never paint with just light and dark variants of one color. Add reddish tones, yellows, for highlights, mix cyan and purple tones with gray for shadows. I’ve put some more conservative combinations for the purpose of this tutorial, but in the future don’t be afraid to try out more expressive color choices (see color management tutorial).

Step four: Smudging the colors

Time to use the smudge tool. If you plan on seriously learning how to paint in Photoshop, you will come to realize the importance of the smudge tool. It is the main tool in the work process and without it mixing colors is a dull and often fruitless endeavor. Smudge all of the colors using small, round motions. Even here you don’t have to be awfully precise, because the full blending will be complete in the next step For me personally the optimal strength of the smudge tool is somewhere between 50% and 80% ( I usually set the tool at 73% strength, because that suits my tablet pen best; it may be different with your tablet) depending on the amount of smudging I need done.

Step five: The importance of gaussian blur

Now it’s time to use the Gaussian Blur filter (Filters/Blur/Gaussian blur). For me it is (besides the smudge tool) the second essential tool in Photoshop. Using the lasso tool select “logical” patches of the painting. By logical I mean portions of the picture where you need to blend in two colors. Also the amount of Gaussian blur depends on two things. How much smudging and blending you’ve done in the previous step and how big the painting and selected part is.This usually means using a value between 1 and 3. Also this is the last step where you are allowed to be messy. From now on precision will also be important.

Step six: Painting the Iris

The human iris is the most critical part of the human eye when it comes to painting. If you don’t succeed in this step it will be very hard to give your work realism and the painting will start to look like some flat anime. Not that there is anything wrong with Anime, but make an effort to do this right. Sure, there are some 5 step Photoshop tutorials on how to paint them using various PS filters, however, most of the results look sterile and completely unnatural and if you’re anything like me, you’ll eventually forget how to do it anyway. So how does one paint the iris? Surprisingly enough, it’s is not all that difficult once you get the hang of it.With the exception of dark and brown eyes, most eyes don’t consist of just one color but tend to have many freckles of color in it and not just towards the center, but also all around it. So take a small brush and start adding dots and lines all over the iris. Since I chose a bluish base for the eye color I now started to add dabs of purple, subdued green and a touch of ocker. If you’re not sure exactly how to take a mirror and analyze your eyes. See the textures. This part is actually fun.

Step seven: Still painting the Iris

Here comes the tricky part. All of these freckles of color need to be blended in properly. Although th ere is no way to do this wrong, you will still need some time to produce optimal results.

Step eight: Adding depth to the eyes (the glassy effect)

Let’s bare in mind that the Iris is not flat, on the contrary it’s like a glass surface and it behaves like a convex lens. Have you ever done an aqua button tutorial, or how to make glass? If you have you’ll come to realize that the principles don’t differ so much. You have a point where the light enters “Point A” ( the round white dot on the right of the iris) and where it spreads “Point B” (the lower left part of the iris) and the rest of it goes from dark (around the point of light entry) to light (all around point B). To simplify it I’ll do a step by step explanation:

1. Determine a light direction and source by adding a white circle on the iris usually somewhere near the pupil.
2. The parts of the Iris the are near the top eye lid should be darker then the rest of the eye because the lid and lashes will give it some shadow. Then paint the light side (B) just opposite of the light source. You do that by adding a new layer and painting the white surface on it, smudge/blur it.
3. Then lower the opacity so that you can see the iris texture on the layer underneath. Or you may use the Color dodge tool on your main menu. Either way the results will be similar. You can also try to use “Overlay” or “Soft light” on your white layer (B), with some middle level opacity.

Step nine: Adding the eye lashes

Now it is time to add some eyelashes to the painting. Generally it is best if you make a separate layer for the lashes, because it will get messy otherwise. Bare in mind when it comes to drawing lashes that they are never perfectly separated, they intertwine, get stuck together, some stand up tall, others slope down. In terms of painting try using a pressure sensitive brush, or just using a regular brush and then taking the smudge tool at some high level (like 80%) and just brush up in the direction you desire.Important : Women make their lashes go upwards because of the use of mascara, but in truth the eye lashes rarely swirl up on their own, but rather they sometimes tend to slightly slope down. This is obviously more noticeable in male eyes.

Step ten: A few thoughts on image modification

So ok, if you’ve managed to successfully complete these above steps, you’re probably feeling very good a bout yourself. But don’t congratulate yourself too much because there is still a lot of work to do. I’ve added some more red and yellow using the color balance tool (CTRL + B), but that part is up to you. Modifying your images with color balance, curves (CTRL + M), and levels (CTRL + L)is a process similar to child’s play. You experiment, discover, learn. And this you will do on your own. I strongly believe that you need to work on these steps alone in order to get some creative experience. Otherwise, you’re just following a manual and that’s no different then learning how to set up your DVD player. What’s missing on this picture? Well, the answer is - texture. The skin is too smooth, everything looks eye candy perfect and that’s just not the way real life works. So in the next step we must learn how to add texture and realistic depth to an image.

Step eleven: Adding texture

This is the least painterly part of the process and it involves a lot of image and layer manipulation. For starters find a photo of human skin. A lot of them are available on the net for free download, or if your have a photo camera, take a snap of your own skin. This is by far the simplest way of adding a texturized feel to your image, without having to spend a lot of time on it. I will repeat the steps I have taken in order to finish this portion of the tutorial, but bare in mind that it will probably be different for you (different skin image, painting, colors etc). Don’t be afraid to improvise. First off the skin image was pasted into a separate layer, then put the layer to have a “Soft light” impact on the overall image. I also set the skin layer’s opacity to 77% and erased portions of the texture that covered the eyeball, iris and lashes. Obviously, this made the image too orange and saturated, so I lowered the saturation (CTRL+U) of the eye layer until I got a good result. Then I lightly smudged the parts of the texture that I thought didn’t work for the picture (such as in the crease between the lid and lower arcade). Then I copied the texture layer, put it to be “Overlay” and then completely desaturated it (made it gray). Turned the opacity to 23% and the fill opacity to 63% and smudged again the parts I didn’t like.

End of the road

Technically there is no such thing as “the end of the road” when it comes to painting. You’re done when you choose to be done (or in this case when I tell you to) but even then there will always be room for perfecting your creations. Now that you have learned the basics to painting human eyes and faces you can use that knowledge to put your own ideas to life and how you’ll measure up is entirely in your hands.In some future tutorial we will concentrate on expressions and conveying emotions in your paintings,because that is a whole new universe to learn about.