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Gurkenfinger
Review by Jörg (5 out of 5 stars): Cool thing, the
"I really missed it in my collection of things, which you can get somewhere on it or reinstecken. After tomato for the eyes, the meatballs for the knee, the cheeky cheek, the stick forn ass and the cheese now finally the cucumber for the fingers. Just cool. "
Amazon’s flash offers can be found on the website as well as in the apps under the “Offers” menu item.)
Daily offers & promotions: The highlights
Every day, Amazon is attracted by a large number of bargains. There is also a lot of technology enthusiasts - from smartphones to SSDs to game consoles like the Xbox One or PS4. However, to be able to use the offers you have to be fast: the individual articles are only available in limited numbers at certain times.
Flashes of the day: Highlights
Here we present the Amazon flash offers of the day in the overview and point to the current highlights. You'll find the long-term Amazon offers in a list.
Amazon Blitzangebote: How it works
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Please note: Amazon Prime customers will have 30 minutes early access to the limited time special offers! In addition, short-term changes to Amazon's flash offerings are possible.
There are constantly offers from different areas. We now show the highlights and then the regular flash offers.
Based on various factors such as our tests, buyer evaluations and the possible savings, we select our highlights among the Amazon flashes every day. These are our deal recommendations for today
Popular, low-cost GoPro alternative with 4K recording at 30 fps, touch display, electronic image stabilizer and app connectivity.
Gaming laptop with 15.6 inch display, Intel Core i7-6700HQ processor, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD, 2TB HDD, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M graphics card and Windows 10 Home.
Powerline kit with WLAN adapter to extend the cover.
External RAID drive with dual Thunderbolt port - compatible with Apple Time Machine.
Multiroom - Sounddeck with integrated subwoofer, NFC, WLAN and USB port.
The Amazon flash offers start at the specified time. Then click "Add to Cart" to reserve the Blitzangebot product. Now you have 15 minutes to complete the purchase. If you leave this time, your reservation will be lost. Amazon is now collecting its own flashbacks on its own website.
Lesetipp: Warning! Amazon phishing with real data
If there is a lot of lightning, the available stock is quickly out of print - in some cases even within a few seconds. Then you still have the option to get on the Warteliste. In this way, depending on your queue space, you will be given the option to buy the Blitzangebot product as soon as a buyer breaks your order.
Despite disabled cookies, Internet users can be tracked by private surfing. This is shown by British IT consultant Sam Greenhalgh on his website. To do this, he abuses the HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) method.
Originally, the HSTS method is used to guarantee secure use of the HTTPS protocol. This is done, for example, by automatically converting HTTP to HTTPS requests. In the course of the conversion, the site writes information such as the URL or preferences into a browser database.
Greenhalgh now showed that a unique identification of the browser is possible from the registered data via JavaScript. To do this, the URL entries are stored with a different validity period from browser to browser.
This allows the browser to be recognized the next time the site is visited - even if the user actually uses the private mode because the incognito mode also accesses the relevant HSTS entries
The issue is mainly affected by Google Chrome, which supports HSTS. Although Mozilla Firefox had the same problems at the time of Greenhalgh's analysis, the current version 34.0.5 does not access the data in private surfing anymore. Only the users of Internet Explorer remain spared, because they do not support HSTS at all.
The K-5 is equipped with a sensor cleaning system, a mechanical image stabilizer, sensitivities up to ISO 51 200, a powerful internal flash with a guide number of 12, a cable socket as well as a flash shoe for the connection of the K-5 External flash units, infrared receivers, full HD video, a SLR viewfinder with a 100% field of view and a 0.61x effective viewfinder image size, a high-resolution, but firmly installed 3-inch monitor and an additional LC display at the front for more ease of use. The only criticism: the range of lenses with ultrasound motor is less broad in the Pentax system than in the competition of Canon and Nikon.
The 11-point phase AF can have 9 cross sensors and can be switched on in live view mode, but this necessarily results in a "blackout" during the focus. The trip delay in the viewfinder operation is ok with 0.33 (1000 lux) and 0.49 s (30 lux).
Image quality
Despite the 2-megapixels on the sensor, the K-5 delivers only a slightly higher resolution than the sister model Kr: 1334 to 1472 LP / BH - okay, but certainly not outstanding in the RAW comparison
Buying advice Nikon system: The DSLRs of the middle class D90, D7000 and D300s
Compared to the corresponding JPEG images, this means a resolution of 6 to 23%. As with the Kr, RAW can reduce the noise in the lower sensitivity range (RAW: 0.4 / 0.6 / 0.7 / 1.0 / 1.4 VN, JPEG: 0.8 / 1.1 / 1.1 / 1.3 / 1.7 VN to ISO 3200). As for the texture, there was not much to gain for the K-5: in the JPEG test, it showed a good fine-tuning (kurtosis 0.2 to ISO 1600), in the RAW format it can with Kurtosis 0.0 to 0.2 only minimally.
However, the K-5 can not hold the good 1026 LP / BH with which it scores with JPEG and ISO 100, and falls roughly to the level of the Kr (max 864 LP / BH). The dynamics are fine for RAW and a bit weaker than JPEG.
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Conclusion The K-5 scores with a top picture quality, in particular with a very detailed signal processing in the JPEG process and an extremely balanced coordination. It can be forgotten that the resolution is not quite what we would have expected from this sensor. The change from JPEG to RAW primarily results in a noise reduction. Buytipp image quality!
The JPEG-based test of the Pantax K-5 can be found here.
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Pentax K-5 RAW
The free mufin player is more than just a player, because the software recognizes the sound of the played songs and automatically creates a playlist with matching music pieces. For this, the mufin player compares characteristic features such as tempo, rhythm or sound density and offers similar songs from your music archive in a playlist. The mufin player can import both iTunes libraries, as well as created playlists in iTunes and match. Also the social component is not missing the player. What music is especially popular with you, keep your friends informed about Facebook or Twitter. If the track is available on mufin.com, a link for listening will be automatically added. Or link tracks from your playlist with an existing Last.fm account.
If a new driver for a particular device does not work properly, the easiest way to eliminate the problems is to return to the previous installation. In Windows Search, tap Device Manager at the bottom left, and then start the tool from the selection screen. Search for the driver problems in the list. Click the right mouse button and select Properties from the context menu. In the window that follows, go to the Drivers tab and use the Previous Drivers button. This works only if a previous version of the driver is already present. The function is also available in Windows 7 and 8.x.
The manual installation of new drivers works analogously via the same context menu with the item Update driver software. Find the drivers on the manufacturer's website. There you will find a guaranteed current version and make sure that the driver has not been manipulated. Some download sites on the Internet offer alternative versions that install malicious software in the background. Never use such packages. To detect the hardware, use the portable Speccy tool. Use the menu in the left window to display the information on the existing hardware components. These include the drives, graphics cards or the sound unit.
Notebook owners call up the Internet offerings of the manufacturer. Many vendors like Dell or Lenovo offer a special service. You can search for the appropriate drivers via the serial number of the device. The number is usually found on the back of the unit. Look carefully for the versions that are compatible with Windows 10. Most vendors provide these updates. Always search for the appropriate version of Windows: 32 or 64 Bit. You will also find the Speccy tool for information about the used Windows. Or you open the Windows Explorer and right-click on this PC. From the context menu, select Properties - and Windows displays the installed version in the window. This also works with Windows 7 or 8.x.
Load and unpack the drivers into a temporary directory. Go to the device manager and start the installation via the context menu of the device. In the following query, select Search for driver software from the computer. Navigate to the directory containing the files and confirm with the OK button. Windows searches for the appropriate driver.
The operating system includes all subdirectories. Confirm the selection and follow the instructions to complete the installation. Alternatively, use DriverMax Pro to search for and download driver updates.
It has a handy, 115 x 84 x 47 mm compact aluminum housing and costs around 500 euros. This makes it only slightly larger and significantly less expensive than the PEN, although it accommodates 480000 RGB pixels, 100% image coverage, and 0.7x effective magnification in contrast to the one integrated electronic viewfinder. The rotating and swiveling, touch-sensitive 3-inch monitor provides a decent preview with 153 333 RGB pixels.
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In addition, it reacts reliably and quickly to inputs, so that it actually benefits the operating comfort - especially since the G3 can also have the usual buttons and rotary wheels. Videos can be recorded with 1920 x 1080 pixels, 50 half images / s including stereo sound in AVCHD format (optional Motion JPEG). For automatic focusing, the G3 uses a contrast measurement on the image sensor and takes 23 points. In good light conditions (1000 Lux), it needed 0.32 in the test, 0.42 s average in darker 30 lux for arming and tripping.
Image Quality The high RAW resolution is striking. At the Panasonic, the detour via the RAW format and Lightroom above all a huge plus: a considerably higher resolution up to 2195 LP / BH. For comparison: With JPEG it is a maximum of 1590 LP / BH. The results of the Dead-Leaves measurements, which describe the appearance of coarse and uneven structures, are better in JPEG mode due to the stronger internal signal processing, but the G3 also needs to be up to 941 LP / BH in the RAW test not hide. The G3 with RAW still can push the G3 with a weak texture loss (through kurtosis 0.2). The downside: a comparatively strong visual noise (0.7 to 3.5 VN). However, the JPEG mode up to ISO 1600 provides almost the same VN values and takes more effect only with ISO 3200 and 6400. In addition, the dynamics are reduced to as low as 8.0 as of ISO 400.
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Conclusion: The Panasonic Lumix G3 is a mirrorless system camera more compact than SLRs and has in contrast to the Olympus PEN E-P3 a high-resolution, electronic viewfinder integrated. In the RAW test, it also achieves a very high resolution with which it can compete with the 24-megapixel SLR Alpha 65. At the same time, it keeps the texture loss low.
The JPEG-based test of the Panasonic G3 can be found here.
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Panasonic Lumix DMC-G3 RAW
It is officially released today: Nintendo is developing Nintendo games for smartphones and tablets together with the smartphone games developer DeNA. However, this should not be purely porting of existing video games from Nintendo. According to DeNA, new games are developed which are directly tailored to the functions of mobile devices. Since these new games are not to be based on well-known Nintendo franchises, it is presumed that Nintendo will publish spin-offs of known games for smartphones.
The video game giant promises itself from this step, to win new customers who are inspired by the smartphone games for the purchase of Nintendo handhelds or consoles. To this end, there is also a cross-platform service that is compatible with smartphones, tablets, PCs and Nintendo devices. Launch of the "multi-device membership service" is planned for the autumn of 2017.
Although Nintendo had so far opposed to offer its games apart from its own consoles, the game maker now opens to the global smartphone market. This could be due to the unexpectedly poor sales figures of the Wii U and the handheld Nintendo 3DS, which so far were in competition with the mobile games for smartphones and tablets. In terms of gameplay, however, the transition to smartphone games for Nintendo does not appear to be too big. For example, the recently released puzzle game "Pokemon Shuffle" for the 3DS already has various features that are also good on smartphones and tablets Could be implemented.
Internet Explorer has a security vulnerability that allows cybercriminals to spy the mouse movements of users. According to spider.io, a web service provider, who had already pointed out Microsoft’s security vulnerability in October, hackers could also intercept this on the screen keyboard. For example, PIN or TAN numbers could hack into the hands of hackers. The so-called mouse tracking is possible via JavaScript and works with any version of the Internet Explorer.
Apparently, Microsoft has ignored the problem to this day. On the blog, Internet Explorer developer Dean Hachamovitch announced on the 14th of December 2012 to fix the gap as soon as possible with a patch. It is still unknown when the corresponding update appears. The authors of spider.io claim that at least two companies are already exploiting the security gap for targeted advertising. As long as no update for Internet Explorer appears, we suggest alternative browsers such as Chrome, Firefox or Opera.
The SceneLights LB 2500 mini
The LB-2500.mini is a practical as well as flexible LED mini-camcorder for the jacket pocket, which is ready for use immediately thanks to the optional battery. It provides a resolution of 320x180 pixels and a brightness of 60 lumens. The beamer plays videos and displays pictures that are played via USB or a microSD card. As a canvas serves any light surface, a wall or the back of the aircraft seat in the row in front of you. The LED has an operating time of 20,000 hours, the power is supplied either by an optionally available battery or also directly from the socket.
The Beamer, which costs 49.90 euros at Pearl, weighs only 250 grams and is 118x84x44 millimeters small. It is delivered inclusive power supply, remote control, AV cable and American manual and produces a picture diagonal of up to 107 centimeters. The contrast ratio of the tiny is 500: 1
Bizzwire: What is the meaning of the right data protection and secure passwords for companies? Where are the greatest security risks?
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Sebastian Koye: In companies there are many departments with different data-sensitivity. A file server, on which instructions for its own products lie, is less sensitive than e.g. An accounting server on which the billing or personnel data are located. This is about core information that affects the entire company, which should be especially protected. Access to sensitive data requires special protection, and proper selection of authorized employees should be done.
It is also possible to create additional network protection. If you get anywhere from any computer in a business, more damage can occur than with severed network segments.
With regard to passwords, for example, the possibility of guessing this in the context of colleagues and employees is easier. One knows one another and who would not know the first name of the wife or the name of the dog of his citizenship? The password must also be written down in any case.
If private surfing on the Internet is not permitted in a company, this has security-relevant reasons, as the risk of interfering with other malicious software is significantly reduced.
How often should companies change the passwords of their employees?
A now common frequency for changing the password is three months. This can also be set up with today's operating and network systems in such a way that every employee is obliged to do so.
Particular attention should be paid to areas accessible from the outside. These include e.g. The web access for e-mail access or externally used computers with a VPN access.
Corresponding password settings can help to ensure that certain elements such as special characters, numbers, small and upper-case letters are integrated into the password and thus a password can not be guessed.
Our colleagues from the PC magazine present tips on password security
Are there alternatives to secure password? What technical tools are suitable for companies to better protect accounts?
There are sensible additions. The multi-factor authentication offers the possibility to additionally secure a password. For particularly sensitive areas, e.g. With rolling tokens on a key hanger, fingerprint sensors or even smartphone applications, additional hurdles can be created that increase both internal and external data security.
We already use the multiple authentication system for De-Mail, which enables small and medium-sized businesses to communicate on the Internet in a secure way, thus saving costs for franking and enveloping the paper mail.
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OpenOffice is the free alternative for Microsoft’s Office package. The software package provides many features that are also available at Microsoft. Here are some helpful tips and tricks.
Writer: Insert Special Character
On a normal American keyboard you will not find all the special characters, such as © 3/4 ae c n ö o ¢. If you need such character "exotics", place the cursor in your document where the special character is to be inserted. Afterwards, select "Special characters" in the "Insert" main menu. The "Special characters" dialog box opens. Use the "Fonts" and "Area" fonts in the main window to navigate to the desired special character and select the character you want to insert with the mouse.
Impress: The two fastest ways to insert a new slide
The marked character is shown again enlarged on the bottom left behind "characters:" including its number code. When you confirm the "OK" button, the character then moves to the cursor position in your text. When selecting the special character, you should know that different fonts also contain different special characters. If your preferred font does not contain the desired special character, you should search for other fonts.
Writer: Insert Comment
Impress does not have a keyboard shortcut to insert a new slide. Nevertheless, two clicks are sufficient to attach a blank slide. Click "Insert" in the menu at the top of the window. There the first entry is "Slide". This will insert a new slide into the presentation. Option 2: An overview bar is displayed on the left-hand side of the screen. Click with the right mouse button on the free area under the slides. The "New slide" option appears.
CALC: Add certain values of a selected data range
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Tip: To change the order of the slides, you can move them in the left column of option 2 with the mouse. You can also drag the newly inserted slide to a different location.
If several people work on a document, it makes sense to work with comments in the text. For example, it is immediately clear to everyone, where there are, for example, criticisms or changes. To insert a comment, place the cursor at the appropriate point in the text, and click "Comment" on the "Insert" menu (the "Note" option should be selected in older OpenOffice versions.)
An input window appears at the edge of the document. The window automatically displays the name of the current user as well as the date and time at the bottom. In this input box write your comment. When you save the document, the comment will continue to exist, including the date and time, until it is deleted.
If you only want to add certain values from a data specification, use the Calc formula "SUMMWAY". In the standard version of the function, the value check refers to the cells themselves to be added.
In our table, the expression = SUMWAY (B3: B14; 3) adds the contents of all cells in the range "B3" to "B14" that contain the value "3". In addition to an exact value, however, operators such as "greater than" and / or "smaller than" can also be used, e.g. = SUMWAY (C3: C14;> 50 ") Adds numbers greater than" 50 "
The formula construct = SUMWAY (D3: D14; " 130") adds all values of the respective range except the value "130". If you want to add all the numbers that range from 100 to 999, write: = SUMTWAY (E3: E14; "...") The three points represent a three-digit number. For four-digit numbers you set four points, etc. And here is another formula. If you select [SUM] (E3: E14; "[12] .."), all 3-digit numbers beginning with a 1 or 2, ie all numbers from 100 to 299 are added.
In the following article, we have tested five control programs that make online tax assessment easier and provide you with ways to save more money and thus have more money.
Pre-filled tax declaration from 2017
Elster and some commercial online programs know the answer to almost every tax issue and support you in completing the annual tax return. The advantage of these online helpers is that they do not have to buy and install software, so they can be sure to always use the latest version.
Elster - the official financial management portal
The downside: sometimes the performance of the online control programs hurts, so you wait a while until the pages are loaded or the data is stored. In addition, the data on the Internet servers of the respective providers end up, thus avoiding your control. However, the services tested provide SSL for secure transfer from and to the private computer.
Wage tax-compact.com
From 2017, by the way, it will be even easier to settle his tax declaration online. As of the beginning of 2017, the financial administration wants to offer the "pre-filled tax return" (VaSt). Many data such as name and date of birth, address and religious affiliation are already entered into the tax form. Furthermore, the financial administration has many stored data from third parties, for example the health insurance, the pension insurance or your employer. All these data can be imported via the ElsterOnline portal, the ElsterFormular as well as the services of commercial providers.
WiSo Internet Sparbuch
In order to retrieve your own data stored in the financial administration, you must register and authenticate as a taxpayer at Elster. For registration in the ElsterOnline portal, you need your identification number or tax number, an e-mail address and optionally your new ID card. You enter your data and receive an activation ID for your Elster account by e-mail. You will receive an activation code by post. First, both together generate an electronic certificate, which is checked for each transaction. In the sense of the law, you can use your electronic signature to completely clear your tax declaration, since the certificate replaces your personal signature.
Help with control questions on the web
In addition to the great tools described in the article, there are a number of other resources on the web around tax.
The mother of all online tax programs is Elster, the official tax program of the tax offices. And no matter what software solution you capture your control data, they are always sent via the Elster interface of your control software.
Elster offers employees, retirees and retirees as well as entrepreneurs the possibility to create their tax declaration on the PC and to transmit it electronically to the tax office. There are two possibilities: You can download a software on your computer under the ElsterFormular menu item, fill the forms locally and send them to the tax office via the Internet. ElsterOnline, the service portal for financial management, offers the possibility to register and submit various tax returns and notifications online with an Internet browser.
If you are unsure when you are finished, a help will show you which data is required in the respective field. The help texts have become somewhat more comprehensible over the years, but they are not always sufficient for the tax-advisory auxiliaries of commercial products. Practical: The Elster software accepts various calculations when entering. If an error occurs, the plausibility check warns. However, the information you are supposed to clarify about the nature of the error is often very cryptic. Overall, Elster is mainly used for the transmission of tax data - it is not designed as a tool that reveals a thousand legal tax breaks. If the financial authority has generated the notification, you can also view it electronically via Elster and compare it with the explanatory data for deviations.
Lesetipp: Tips for your online tax return
Lohnsteuer-kompakt.de is the right software if you would like to state your income as an employee (investment N), from capital assets, retirement income or other income (investment SO - without private sales). As a married couple, you can choose whether you want to be assessed together or separately. You can also register income from self-employment or a business enterprise. However, freelancers can not create and transfer revenue receipts (EUR). Furthermore, no income from agriculture or forestry or foreign income can be registered.
It is recommended to start with the free version. The software explains in a concise and comprehensible manner - and sometimes also amusingly, what information is to be made. If you are unsure, click on the help button next to each field. The Pump: On the basis of your data, Lohnsteuer-kompakt.de provides tips on tax savings. Similar to a tax consultant, the software taps your life for further savings. Then you can have your tax savings calculated. You must then send the data to the tax office. In the basic version, the one-time costs 14.99 euros. Anyone who decides for the Deluxe version for 24.99 euros can later have his tax assessment checked for errors by the tax authorities.
Taxpayers'
The WiSo Internet Sparbuch is the online version of the WiSo tax booklet. It helps with income, turnover and trade tax, but also offers fields for income from agriculture and forestry or foreign income. In addition, the software supports the revenue surplus account that self-employed persons who earn more than 17,500 euros a year. In short, all types of revenue are the WiSo software. Thus the Wiso Internet Sparbuch offers much more options than wohnsteuer-kompakt.de. However, the long list threatens to slay the user. Here, the interview mode provides remedy. A question is used to determine which information is entered into the field, in addition, the software explains in a comprehen- sive manner which points are to be taken into account.
Once the interview is finished, you can view the results and search for other options. A calculator calculates the income tax so that you know with pay increases already times, which is to you. When data is transferred, various sources are accepted: in addition to WiSo products such as WiSo My money or the WiSo budget book, data can be imported via T-Online Banking or via StarMoney. In addition, the Internet scarf can read csv and xml files.
SmartSteuer.de
If you want to transfer the data to the tax office, the sum of 29.95 euros for dispatching the final tax declaration via the Internet is a plus. Overall, the WiSo Internet Sparbuch is a very powerful tool, but because of the many functions is confusing. The interview mode slightly reduces this.
The online tool from Steuerfuchs looks extremely sober, but the input masks are clearly structured. Via the interview mode, the software guides all important input fields, which must be filled in the tax declaration. The software processes the employee's salary and income, income as self-employed person or as a trader, income from leasing and leasing as well as income from retirement. In the case of data on agriculture and forestry or on foreign investments, Steuerfuchs.de must be appropriate. Also, the VAT declaration and the EUR investment for self-employed persons can not be created.
If you do not know if you are filling out one or the other field, the software provides help and calculates, for example, the mileage or the sum of the annual depreciation. It is confusing, however, that the interview overview disappears as soon as you click on the form fields. And the help information does not appear in a popup, but catapults the user to another level in the program - which initially irritates a bit. But whoever has become accustomed to the structure gets a useful result when the tax declarations are not too complex. The transfer of the data to the tax office is worth 14.95 euros.
Conclusion
You can try Smartsteuer.de with an anonymous user account. A tidy and clear interface leads in the interview mode through the tax identification. The explanations, which appear on the right margin, however, are quite technocratic. Schön: At the end of the interview, the software analyzes where taxpayer options might be hidden and makes targeted suggestions where savings could be made. If you want to transfer your tax return to the tax office, you will pay € 14.95.
With all online control programs you can quickly enter your data, the programs point to gaps that promise additional tax savings potential. Transmission takes place within seconds, and when the tax refusal is unsuccessful, sample letters help.
Philips 55PUS7101.
Multifunctional
Noticeable on the Philips 55PUS7101 are the curved, sanded feet. They stand out from the current - usually dull-acting - base-unit-paste. Another great thing is the thick broadband loudspeaker on the back of the TV. Together with the hidden main speakers, they gave a very pleasant sound in the test - although the maximum loudness was comparatively low.
Conclusion
As an obligatory in the 7000er series is already already the back-lit Ambilight, which the TV picture in color on the wall behind it projects and thus seemingly enlarged. With the Android TV operating system, many services are preinstalled. Thus, all major streaming providers are on board. The comprehensive gaming portal Gamestree ensures for a while. But also practical applications such as the Teamviewer or a dropbox client are included. Thus, media files can be exchanged and viewed over the Internet. So that the additional downloaded apps no place lack, the device memory of 16 gigabytes via USB hard disk can be extended. On the docked USB memory, the TV also records the current TV program. With just a simple tuner, the receiver can not be changed while the recording is running, but all other ways are open like the app of an online video store.
The user can use the handy keyboard on the back of the remote control to make long-lasting text input. Alternatively, the 7100er can also command the successful smartphone and tablet app. It also provides a comprehensive view of the current TV program and recordings on the recording disk.
The wide-color gamut panel impressed the lab with a very wide color space, which is missing only one thousandth, to represent the usual color space REC.709 for HD. Even the larger DCI-P3 color space he still represented 95 percent. Only in the range of the brightness convinced the Philips not quite. Lights - like the reflections on water drops - did not sparkle as brilliantly as in the competition. With HDR sources one expects simply a fireworks. TV, however, the Philips presented very clear and sharp. Perfect Natural Motion caused for buttery pans and eradicated Ruckler effectively from film material. Although artifacts could be found here and there, their overall performance was still within the scope.
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In March the P2P technology for Windows updates in Windows 10 had indicated, the confirmation comes with the release of the free update. With peer-to-peer technology, the main servers are relieved by the fact that the clients function practically as a server network and, in addition to Microsoft’s sources, can supply themselves with the necessary files to be downloaded. In Windows Update, the function – which is activated by default – can be disabled, as Carsten Knobloch, founder of Caschy’s blog, describes.
To do this, simply go to the PC settings in Windows 10 and open the "Update and Security" section. In "Windows Update", click on the "Advanced Options". There you will find the point "Delivery of updates". There one can disable the function completely or adjust so that the P2P principle only in the own home network or additionally also online access. Simply move the slider to the left, or leave it in the default setting, and click the desired option by clicking.
With the rollout of large Windows updates, such a function from Microsoft's point of view is useful, so that there will not be bottlenecks or even failures. Because Microsoft is not always able to allocate up to 40 Terabits per second of bandwidth to distribute updates.
Lesetipp: Windows 10 or Windows 7?
It is less useful to activate the function in the default setting and not to inform the user about it. An active upload restricts the bandwidth for the user. If it is not informed, reduced speed when using cloud services or social networks can quickly lead to unnecessary short-circuit reactions. In addition, there are still users of Internet volumes. Especially these will not welcome additional traffic.
Effective: Slowly moving, high-contrast pictures and animations as shown in the opening credits of Bosch show the full potential of the UHD streams, as the picture from the TV screen photographed. In the series, the bias of these UHD effects have been optimized.
Amazon UHD effects
Panasonic sees the speed of the plasma cells as a major advantage for 3D technology. The new flagship TX-P 65 VT 20 E proves impressively that this technology can still fascinate.
Great 3D cinema
Even the small brother TX-P 50 VT 20E has dusted an innovation price for its 3D technology in issue 6/2010 (test: from page 48). "Innovation" for a device that - if one is listening to the many LCD advocates - is based on a no longer modern technology is unheard of. But the verdict stands and the hypermodern LED TVs have to reach in terms of ghosting and image restraint first what Panasonics plasma device has presented.
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Recommended viewing distance [at least]
True size
The topic of image size plays a much more important role in 3D technology than in the 2D world. Up until now only pixel size and signal resolution, which limited the image size relative to the viewing distance, is now added to a 3D killer argument: the parallax. The position of the eyes to each other (slight squinting) is decisive for the 3D-feeling. The closer an object, the more the eyes must twist.
Gloomy prospects
Critical for 3D TV is that if the objects are deep in the picture, the eyes should be parallel, so the virtual images on the panel must be about 6.5 cm apart. And we've got the problem: when a 3D movie is produced for the average 32-inch TV, the "eye-gap" for a 65-inch model doubles.
The eyes would have to squint away from each other, and no one can do that. Research at all manufacturers and in the Blu-ray forum have led to no solution to this problem. There is no doubt that the setting for the display size for effects has been found in many 3DBlu-ray players, but this should not be a problem.
The fear was great when testing the 3D gigs, the eyes of editors and lab staff could be affected. But all caution quickly turns into naked euphoria when one admires the great Panasonic in 3D action.
Obviously, films are minimized in their 3D depth so that a bending of the eyes does not occur even at a 165 cm image diagonal. The opposite is the case: the huge TV shows not only an optimal cinema angle, but also the depth of the 3D image is significantly increased by the widened parallax.
Panasonic has an excellent mid-range of flicker-free 3D viewing, 3D glasses provide the best overall image clarification and is easily tiltable. Not so good the flicker effects of neon room lighting and the low luminosity of the plasma display. The brilliance had to yield to the urge to reinze the electricity consumption.
With 377 watts in the standard film, the Panasonic for plasma technology is quite economical, according to the legislator however a spendthrift. One should still secure one of these TV giants before they might be banned in a few years.
What remains is breathtaking 3D television in the dark room. With just 10 Candela luminosity, 90 percent of the light energy remains compared to the 2D image on the line. What happens between these 10 candela and the 3D black value of 0.04 cd / cm², however, is enormous. One loses itself formally in the almost flicker-free 3D worlds, which hardly have cross-errors, which are reproduced very pleasantly and precisely. More home cinema fascination is not available at the moment!
Also back in the "normal" TV world makes Panasonics 65-incher a good figure. The factory setting is coherent, color temperature and gamma correspond to the selected values, and the color space is meticulously standardized. Thanks to intermediate images through "Intelligent Frame Creation" and a stutter-poor 24p movie mode, the image representation of fast moving objects is also very good.
The 600 Hz of the plasma bead achieves a good quantization without mis-contours during movements. But even if there is only 300 Hz for each eye in 3D mode, color errors can hardly be detected.
Many colorful pixels
Optimal settings
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With a four-way tuner including CI-Plus option as well as any important connection, Panasonic is prepared for all input eventualities. In addition to the USB jacks, one of which is equipped with the supplied WLAN adapter, a SDXC slot ensures fast playback of JPG photos and AVCHD camcorder recordings.
If you connect a hard drive to the second USB port, you can even take advantage of the USB recording function, which makes the Panasonic to the grown-up TV recorder - including luxurious timer recordings via the program guide
Viera Cast "is the name of Panasonics' network offering, which has been significantly extended over the last few months, and has recently won the" Acetrax "movie-on-demand portal, which is quite selectable for DLNA home networks, As far as codecs are concerned.
A plasma display builds up its image of cells, which are filled with a noble gas mixture, which light up the phosphorescent cell walls when ignited. After years of development the cell walls have become thinner, the gas mixtures more effective and the phosphors faster. You can see in our lab picture the electrodes, which build up the ignition field. They lie as a horizontal band with hole patterns above the cells.
Panasonic TX-P 65 VT 20 E, $ 5,000
TV: 5 m, PAL DVD: 4 m, HD: 3 m
The plasma of Panasonic has the slightest deviation in the viewing angle. Samsung brings it to the smallest viewing angle error, but increases with increasing angle but also the difference between bright and dark picture contents more strongly. Here Philips achieves a good compromise: Although the TV seen from the side quite fast, but not distorted as much.
From the measurement lab -mistributions
(One Touch Play) - When "Play" is pressed on a playback device, all the devices involved switch on and switch off the picture and audio signals.
Tech Info: This can be HDMI-CEC
System Standby - If you switch off the TV, all other devices also switch to standby mode
Position
One Touch Record - The current TV program is immediately recorded by a capable device at the touch of a button.
Timer programming - A timer programming in the EPG is transmitted to a connected recorder.
Drive control (deck control) - The TV also controls all playback functions of a connected player (play, stop, pause, reel, etc.).
Tuner Control - The TV has access to the tuner of a connected set-top box, player or recorder.
Device Menu Control - The TV displays the image of the connected set-top box and can execute functions there.
Send remote control commands - An AV receiver redirects the TV's remote commands to a Blu-ray player.
System Audio Control - The selection of the output speakers and the volume can be taken over by any capable device.
Device Name (Device OSD Name Transfer) - The name and function of the device are displayed on the TV and other components.
Other of the more than 100 CEC commands are: Device Power Status, OSD (OSD) display, Routing Control, System Information, Vendor Specific Commands, and Audiotact Adjustment (Audio Rate Control).
It works quite well over HDMI, but not everything. Fortunately, however, the cooperation with a connected AV receiver is already very good, and so one needs at least for the regulation of the volume no second remote control more. For all other components, the remote control should not be muted.
One or the other function is often only to be activated. Overall, Philips and Sony came out with a successful HDMI concept. They worked well with the connected equipment park.
The Samsung was not quite as successful because he had not fully mastered the TT-micro, but he excelled with the best picture and with coherent equipment and could just as easily pass the test.
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The user numbers of the now 12-year-old operating system Windows XP sink. As Net Applications recently announced, its market share shrank to around 17.2 percent, equivalent to every sixth PC evaluated. In the previous month, 23.9 percent of all Windows users used the old OS.
Since April 2017, Windows XP is no longer officially supported by Microsoft. Since then, the share of users has declined. At this point, about 26.29 percent of all users used Windows XP, while in September it was still 23.87 percent. However, a sharp decline to 17.18 percent is now registered in October.
Not least the two versions of Windows 8 benefit from this movement. The market share of both Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 grew. The share of Windows 8.x users in October rose to 16.8 percent, which is 4.54 percent more than the month before. Significantly, since the market share has fallen to a record low since September.
Also for Windows 7 an increase could be measured. Thus, at 53.05 percent, more than half of all Windows users still use it. Despite the marginal increase of 0.34 percent, it remains the most popular Windows version.
Overall, however, the market share of Windows decreased. From 91.98 percent to 91.53 percent, its market presence decreased. Linux also lost users - the value decreased by more than half to 1.41 percent. By the same token, the share of Apple's Mac OS X grew from 6.38 percent to 7.05 percent.
Net Applications evaluates web traffic to a network of tens of thousands of Web sites.
Virtual CloneDrive ensures relaxed DVD evenings
Thanks to Virtual CloneDrive you no longer have to deal with CDs, DVDs and Blu-rays. No more scratches in precious originals, with displaced discs and unnecessary luggage on the road.
For this purpose, Virtual CloneDrive will set up a virtual CD / DVD or Blu-ray drive on your PC. It's like a real drive, except for a small thing: you do not feed it with silver disks, but with image files that contain the data previously stored on CD, DVD or Blu-ray.
The free program supports ISO, BIN and CCD currently the most widely used formats for image files and is thus a good alternative to the functionally similar DAEMON Tools Lite. It can set up a maximum of eight drives at a time. To upload an image file, just double-click it.
To convert a CD, DVD, or Blu-ray to an image file, you need additional software, in addition to Virtual CloneDrive. Which you use depends on the data carrier. For CDs, for example, CloneCD is suitable, CloneDVD is suitable for DVDs and CloneBD for Blu-rays. Similar programs are also available from other manufacturers. Please note that making an image file is a copy that may violate applicable law, for example, if you bypass a copy protection.
The German-language Spyware Doctor protects your computer against a variety of dangerous “PC-diseases”. The “OnGuard” tool provides you with real-time protection against spyware, trojans, keyloggers, spybots and lots of other pests. While you chat with a messenger, such as the MSN Messenger, the “IM Guard” protects you against potentially dangerous URLs received via the chat client. In case of infestation you have the possibility to remove discovered pests or quarantine the system. You can remove the quarantined objects at a later time or restore them as needed.
However, the Asus lacks a background lighting of the silver keys of the keyboard. The huge touchpad with the integrated, very sensitive matte buttons is a bit habituated. The Intel Core i7-2677M is the most powerful processor heart among the devices in the slim chassis.
With the 128 GB SSD, the Zenbook provides a very good system performance. Also in the 3D performance the Asus is good, as well as in the transfer rate of the SSD. In this case, we measure 286 MB / s on average with HD-Tune while reading.
Test: Notebooks up to 550Euro
During the recharge time the Zenbook was 307 minutes on the level of the Acer. The brilliant 13.3-inch display offers very high resolution for this class with 1600 x 900 pixels, and the sound is also very good for such a flat notebook.
The Vive virtual reality headset developed by Valve and HTC will receive some selected developers free of charge. Valve spokesman Doug Lombardi told the IT portal “Ars Technica.”
According to Lombardi, the company is hoping for numerous inquiries from the developers. With the free release of the VR headset Vive, Valve and HTC want to achieve increased interest from the developers, which are to develop mainly on the basis of Valve hardware games.
So far, the first indie developers such as Bossa Studios, known for games like "Surgeon Simulator" or "I am Bread" were equipped with the HTC Vive. From the beginning of April, a website will be launched, which interested developers can apply for using a development kit.
Also at the price of the HTC Vive there is new information. As HTC announced, customers should expect a slightly higher cost than other similar devices. For comparison, the Oculus Virtual Reality Pioneer sells its Rift DK2 for 350 US dollars.
The new ink multifunction device ESP9 from Kodak offers a lot of equipment in a small space.
In addition to the print, scan, copy and fax functions, an automatic duplex unit as well as card slots and a PictBridge port for direct photoprint are standard. The model can be wired or wireless (WiFi) integrated into an existing network. The local connection is guaranteed by the USB 2.0 socket. In addition to the A4 flatbed, an automatic document feeder for multi-page originals is available for scanning, copying and faxing. The printing module works with six pigment inks, which are divided into a black and a five color cartridge. The color expressions are contrast-rich and color-accurate, which applies equally to normal and photographic paper. There are some pigment outliers which are noticeable under the microscope, but they are noticeable under the microscope.
Very good is also the copying quality, here the scanning and printing module work together fast. With the sensor buttons and a large preview display, operation on the device is very simple. Faxing directly from the PC is unfortunately not possible. Something unpleasant is the loud paper feed.
Whether it is the partnership with Ricoh or the realization that the most amazing features on a camera can not replace a sensor size? In any case, Pentax has decided to enter the increasingly competitive market of compact cameras with a comparatively large 1 / 1.7-inch sensor with the MX-1.
Info key for quick access
Compared to other compact cameras, the Pentax MX-1 with 390 grams is already a real chunk. The camera shape is simple and straightforward, the Bauhaus disciples of the twentieth century would not have managed the case better. The retro design of the Pentax MX-1 is not without reason, it is nevertheless an old Pentax SLR series from the seventies leaned. The camera surface is rubberized at the important points and is therefore safe to hold. The various shooting modes P, Av, Tv, M, User and five other settings are selected on the handy main dial on the top of the digital camera.
Folds well: flexible display
The main setting wheel of the Pentax MX-1 is not particularly secured. This camera is also not necessary, because the detent is so strong that accidental adjustment is practically impossible. To the right there is another, slightly smaller wheel. This is only for the exposure correction. Slightly recessed, the camera contour is adapted and also provided with a clear detent, this wheel is also well secured. In contrast to the overall massive construction of the camera, the buttons and the four-way button on the camera's rear side, however, are slightly small.
Excellent processing
The main menu of the Pentax MX-1 offers a lot of adjustment possibilities. The individual positions can be scanned with the four-way button or can be called up with a third small wheel. It is annoying that the camera does not memorize a menu position and the menu must always be searched through from the beginning to the desired menu point. This may take time.
Test Conclusion
Access to a small selection of menu items with its own Info button is much faster. A palette with symbols appears immediately, the position you are looking for is activated and then changed. This position is remembered by the Pentax MX-1 even after it is switched off.
The 3-inch display of the Pentax MX-1 has a resolution of approximately 307,000 pixels. It is foldable for viewing with approx. 90 ° from above and approx. 45 ° from below. The sharpness is very good thanks to the high resolution. Colors are displayed realistically. Under the menu item LCD - setting corrections of the display brightness and colors are possible - but unfortunately they have little effect. Displayed symbols and characters are clearly visible.
Buying advice: Top 5 of the editorial team - DSLRs up to 3,000 Euro
The focal range of the Pentax MX-1 ranges from 28 to 112 mm (KB, optical 4x zoom). This is not lush, but practical. On the other hand, the light intensity is from 1.8 to 2.5. This pleases the user, because this allows juggling with depth depth again. And just for such recordings is also the option not to despise, manually focus. The flash settings can only be accessed if the flash has been opened by hand beforehand. And in the flash menu there is a rare possibility to make flash corrections.
The Pentax MX-1 is well-processed, upper and lower part made entirely of metal. The lens is protected by a metal ring. Also the good quality of the cover for the battery and the plug connections shows how to make it - all stable and basic.
The macromodus of the Pentax MX-1 is very good with 2 cm in the automatic mode and 1 cm with manual focusing and a picture stabilizer is also on board. This is switchable, with the setting "image sensor shift" we have the best experience. The Pentax MX-1 is equipped with a night snapshot automatic, which according to multi-shot technology from 4 pictures a bright and low-noise image as well as the possibility to save pictures as loss-free RAW
The fast shutter speed of the Pentax MX-1 is 1 / 2,000s in automatic mode, 1 / 8,000 s in manual mode, ISO speed ranges from ISO 100 to 12,800. A high-quality CMOS sensor of 1 / 1.7 inches and a moderate resolution of 12 megapixels provide superior image quality.
And measured values such as visual image assessment underline once again that this concept comes up. The center resolution at ISO 100 in wide angle is 1.481 LP / BH, hardly loses at ISO 400 and still remains above 1,200 LP / BH at ISO 1,600. In addition, the marginal waste is never more than 165 LP / BH - go! The noise rises visibly from ISO 400, but also that is whining at a high level. The bottom line is the image performance.
How to find the right digital camera
PENTAX MX-1 Official Video
Pentax has a good start in the 1 / 1.7-inch class. The Pentax MX-1 comes close to the idea of an SLR-photographer at an always-doing camera, even if a viewfinder would have been nice. Kauftipp Edelkompakte.
In this promo video Pentax summarizes the features of the MX-1
Pentax MX-1
PS4 bundles on offer at the Cyber Monday week of Amazon
The Sony PS4 is bundled at the moment cheaper than single. Because Amazon offers the game console in various packages for the Cyber Monday week for less than 340 euros.
For the price of 333 euros each, there is the PlayStation 4 with 500 GB with the following games
The PlayStation 4 bundle consisting of the PS4 console with 500 GB and "Star Wars Battlefront" in the Steelbook edition, including Yoda light sword, is significantly more expensive with 499 euros.
Each of the four PS4 bundles is available with either a black or white PlayStation 4 console. For an up-to-date PS4 purchase advice, please check out our linked article.
Nowhere else in the world are so many film tourists as in New York City. Hardly a corner was here in a movie or a series to see. Both fans of “Sex and the City” as well as followers of the “Sopranos” or “Gossip Girl” come on their own shooting tours. If you want to eat in the film, the restaurant “Katz’s delicacies”, in which Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal in “Harry & Sally” provided for a look, very well cared for. Macaulay Culkin gets off in “Kevin alone in New York” at the fashionable Plaza Hotel. Will Smith lives in “I am Legend” at Washington Square Park.
1. New York City
Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick comments on the possibility of killing prostitutes in GTA 5. Controversial as the sex from the ego perspective in the GTA 5 release for PS4 and Xbox One or Trevor’s torture scene now seems to be dealing with prostitutes. Instead of paying the women after work, you can simply use them to make short work to save money. However, this is actually an old hat, since this possibility already existed in the predecessor games of Grand Theft Auto V.
Problem is the new GTA 5 feature of the ego perspective. This is designed to provide an even more realistic feel to the game and may help players get more into the virtual world.
For some, this is an improvement of the player's experience, for the others it offers a great attack area for criticism. Hostess Stephanie Ruhle of Bloomberg's Market Makers sees a problem in the murders from the ego perspective and asks Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick directly on it
Zelnick tries to take the wind out of the sails and proves that GTA 5 is a criminal game and a gloomy underworld, but ultimately it is art. In this context, he compares the video game industry with the film industry: Here, too, things are explicitly shown that are not justifiable in moral and ethical ways in real life. Just as there are movies in this area, GTA 5 is a game in a criminal universe.
Zelnick also points out that GTA 5 contains hundreds of hours of fun and you can do in this virtual world many exciting and funny things. Nevertheless, it can not be ruled out that it can also be rough. GTA 5 has been available since November 18, 2017 for PS4 and Xbox One. PC players will still have to wait until January 27, 2017.
Social Network Facebook introduces its messenger – at least the corresponding apps for Windows and the Firefox browser. The message came as a surprise to many users because the app has only been available on the market for almost two years and so far no reasons for the hiring have been mentioned.
In this context, a connection to current events is quickly established. Because only once a week it is, that Facebook bought the Messenger Whatsapp for 19 billion US dollar. The Social Network has already announced the setting of Facebook Messenger for Windows and Firefox. Whether the developments are related remains to be seen.
Downloading the app is already not possible and the app will no longer work as of March 3rd. With the help of Facebook's Facebook Facebook, users of the social network Facebook have the possibility to send text messages, pictures and local data to friends and acquaintances. Since summer 2011 the app was available, Whatsapp was already at this time already and quickly became clear, one can not catch up the enormous advantage to this messaging app, or establish itself as a Whatsapp alternative.
Through the hitherto unconcerned settings of the desktop messenger and the previous takeover of the most successful competitor, it is clear that Facebook is pursuing a new strategy: the focus on the mobile Internet, without compromising. You can find more about Facebook on our topic page. For more information on the Whatsapp purchase by Facebook, please visit our Presserand show.
T-Online is dedicated to the service of the Cewe Color Laboratory. The processing and delivery times of the Telekom with only three business days however to the fastest in the test. Of course you can also try the Cewe lab directly (www.cewe-fotobuch.de), but you can not use the web connection to the Telekom Media Center, where you can save your photos as a telecom customer.
Telekom Photoservice
The Cewe software is very well done, easy to use and garnished with ample design and layout templates. In addition, a free, creative design is easily possible. If it is to go quickly, helps for individual pages the car layout button. You simply drag the photos to a page, write a text, if necessary, and press the button until the layout is done - very handy.
As a basic setting, all images are corrected by the lab - if you do not want to, you have to make sure that the switch is removed.
The print quality is good, but you should make sure that all image magnifications are still in the "green area."
Agnes Happich is responsible for communicating with bloggers at Audi. In conversation with us, she provides insights into the daily social media relations work.
Frau Happich, Audi AG has been investing heavily in online communications and blogger relations for two years. What motivated Audi AG to take this step?
We want the network to be talked about Audi. Bloggers do exactly that. An Autoblogger writes because he has gasoline in the blood because he loves cars so much that he wants to share with others. Bloggers are mostly not journalists, but are always experts in their field with an often impressive fan base on the net. If we want these multipliers to talk about us, we must give them the opportunity to drive our cars and experience our technologies. At the beginning of 2012, we invited bloggers to a media event for the first time - with great success. Since the end of last year, I have been the exclusive spokesman for blogger relations. The bloggers bring us new perspectives and create credible reporting on the web.
Why is it no longer enough to travel alone in the classic communication areas (TV, print, radio)?
We must be there where interested people want to know about Audi. This is usually the case with Google. If you are looking for one of our cars there, you will find blogs alongside our own pages and those of the classic media. Search engines weight blogs for various reasons very highly. And people who get informed before the autokauf find the contributions in the blogs and forums particularly helpful. This is the result of an international survey conducted by the consultancy company Capgemini.
The American blogs may not be as big as those in the US, but for a company that wants to get a new one, it still looks unclear. How did you identify the blogs and bloggers that are important to Audi AG?
We just started. You already come across the Google Blogs search from a blog to the next. There are also Rankings, Charts, Lists for Autoblogger, Techblogger, Reiseblogger, Modeblogger. If you have a selection together, the work begins however only. We then evaluate the importance of the blogs for our communication. There are various tools that give a clue as to the reach of a blog. These include the Google PageRank and Alexa Rank. The individual values are not yet very meaningful for themselves. A comparison, however, provides at least an orientation. Just as important as the reach of a blog is for me the quality of the contributions. You have to read the blogs. Only when I know how a blogger writes, what interests him, I know if he fits the company. All these values flow into a formula that we have developed ourselves. From the results, we then form a ranking. In the meantime, we have developed a distributor of more than 70 blogs focusing on automotive, technology, lifestyle, design and travel.
What is the difference between working with bloggers and working with journalists?
Bloggers look differently at our products. They are the protagonists of their stories, they usually write in the I-perspective and about what they like and experience. That is why I offer not only information, but experiences. One example is the Audi Efficiency Road Trip. Six bloggers have entered a race against the tank needle. The task was to drive as fast as possible and still as fast as possible in the Audi A3 from Ingolstadt to the fair Geneva. The bloggers have lived the competition, the fans and readers have fevered and helped with fuel tips. So I prepare the information differently, find a language different from the colleagues who communicate with journalists. There are also some communication measures. Bloggers want more than press releases and attach much importance to personal exchanges. This happens with us mainly on Facebook in a closed group. Again and again, we invite bloggers to write guest contributions for our Audi Blog (blog.audi.de). In this we link to the pages of the bloggers. Links are an important currency in the world of bloggers, the blogosphere. That is why we link blog contributions to the Audi newsroom.
We evaluate how classic media reach, tonality and the messages in the contributions. However, this is more complex than in the print area. Who
The success of a blogger wants to evaluate, not only the blog itself. A blogger usually prepares a topic in several channels. He writes, for example, a driving report on the Audi RS 7 in his blog. On Facebook he posts pictures of the car and asks the fans what they think of it. On Instagram, he shows photos of the rims or the headlights. A Techblogger might explain in a YouTube video how our infotainment system works.
First, find out what blogs are in your area and read them. Ensure that there is a reliable contact person in your company for the bloggers. Just download the most important bloggers in your industry, introduce your company. Go into an open exchange and listen to. Only those who know the wishes and requirements of their target group can communicate well. And do not use Blogger by any means as free brand ambassadors or second-class journalists. Blogger Relations only work if you take the bloggers seriously and give them access to their own products, let them take a look behind the scenes. And last but not least: Dare to make unusual stories, to allow new perspectives. A blog contribution can not be equated with a journalistic report. It may contain one or other spelling mistakes, but it can give you many points of sympathy through the authentic view of the blogger.
The conversation was conducted by Don Dahlmann. The free journalist blogs on his homepage and can be reached on Twitter at @dondahlmann. He also runs the Racing blog.
In print, the circulation is regarded as the currency, the TV is the audience rate. What solution has Audi found to evaluate blog articles?
What would you advise a company to go into "Blogger Relations"?
Norbert Höpfner: At present, a total of 54 printers and multifunctional devices in color and black and white are awarded the Blue Angel. The certification already refers to Directive RAL-UZ 171, which has been in force for all newly tested devices since the first January of last year. Thus, almost the entire current portfolio of Samsung, including our ten multifunctional A3 copying systems, carries the new eco-label.
Business & IT: How many printing systems from Samsung already have a Blue Angel?
Currently, there is no other manufacturer in the laser sector that can offer more devices that carry the new Blue Angel as an eco-label. The complete list of printers and multifunctional devices certified to RAL-UZ 171 can be found on the website of the Blauen Engel in the category "office equipment" with print function - RAL UZ 171.
Why is the Blue Angel so important for Samsung?
Norbert Höpfner: For more than 35 years, the Blue Angel has been one of the most prestigious eco - labels in the world and, in our opinion, is the most important label in the United States. The participation of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, the Environment Agency and various independent bodies guarantees the user both the Neutrality as well as the consistently high standard of award criteria. The continuous adaptation of the directives ensures that the equipment thus distinguished actually satisfies the current environmental and health requirements.
This can be seen, for example, in the integration of the fine dust measurement, which was introduced with the RAL-UZ 171. For the first time, a distinction is made between fine and ultra-fine particles so that the new certification guarantees a particularly low level of exposure to pollutants in the room air Br>
Will there be only Samsung printers with blue angels in the future?
Samsung is able to control the installed components of its devices due to the high manufacturing density of up to 95 percent. For this reason, we have always been producing printers and multifunctional devices which are largely recyclable and which result in as little strain as possible. This is also evident from the fact that even some of our older systems have already met the criteria of the current Blue Angel from the outset.
Norbert Höpfner: This is our declared goal! The protection of users' health and the environment is a topic that is of great importance to Samsung. Samsung has been one of the most environmentally friendly companies in the world for years and has been recognized as the most sustainable technology company in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) in 2011.
In order to protect the environment and improve the health protection of its customers, Samsung launched the "PlanetFirst" initiative in 2009 and since then has invested far more than two billion euros in the research and development of sustainable products and environmentally friendly production facilities. The aim of all our activities is to make "green" management, products, processes and jobs.
A specific management guideline includes the ongoing improvement of environmental friendliness with regard to all our business activities, including product design, manufacturing processes and workplace procedures. The ultimate goal of Samsung is to contribute to a life with a good ecological conscience - through technologies that enrich the lives of people.
Norbert Höpfner: Absolutely, because the Blue Angel is now considered a standard specification for pressure equipment. With the reputation of being the most comprehensive and rigorous environmental certification for office equipment worldwide, the label is of immense importance in the project business with authorities and organizations. This is where devices without this distinction usually fall through the grid very quickly.
As a result of the increasing awareness of the responsibility of companies with regard to environmental and health impacts, the seal is becoming more and more relevant. The calls for tenders, which have the presence of the Blue Angel as a standard requirement, are growing ever more, and are now also an absolute must in this area.
Norbert Höpfner: As already mentioned, our "PlanetFirst" initiative deals with the optimization of the entire value chain of our products. For printers and multifunctional devices, Samsung also offers a unique toner-saving feature that reduces consumption by as much as 30 percent, resulting in much less waste.
Quality losses do not have to be taken into account, since not the resolution is reduced, but only the toner order per point. To this end, we also offer a free take-back program of used toner cartridges to deliver them to recycling.
Do such awards actually play a role in project delivery?
What else is there besides the Blue Angel on the environmental agenda at Samsung?
In the case of Sony’s mirrorless A6000, one of the highlights of this test was that the hybrid autofocus system was able to follow a slowly moving object with a single-frame mode and a single-car focus much more reliably than a fast-moving subject with serial mode and continuous tracking. It is also striking that the hit rate hardly seemed to depend on the light conditions. The 13 single images the Sony A6000 achieved during the 7.5 second drive of the chart with single-AF, the average of 87% (2500 lux) and 84% (300 lux) of the best possible MFT contrast. For a faster object and continuous in the darkened laboratory, 25% to 72%.
The K-3 II was not able to build on the successes of the single-AF even with series with a continuous autofocus: although it belonged to the fastest cameras with 14 (2500 Lux) or 13 pictures per 3-second series (300 Lux) , But the MFT50 contrast was average at only 70% (2500 lux) and 69% (300 lux), ie 30% and 31%, respectively, below the optimum, more precisely below the value of the perfectly focused reference image. In the end, this was enough for a midfield position.
The 12 or 11 pictures of the two 3-second series produced in the test were on average 59 (2500 Lux) and 67% (300 Lux) Almost more blurred than the corresponding recordings. We had reduced the serial image speed so that the hybrid autofocus could take a little longer.
The best image of the 2500-Lux series came only to 63%, with Sony Sony, although four hits with over 80%, followed by two more drastic bats with only 17% and 28%. Overall, only a place in the lower midfield for Sony.
Conclusion: With 72 points in the overall evaluation, the EOS 7D and the Nikon D300s are on the same level and thus share the test result in the performance comparison of the top SLRs with the APS-C and 4/3-format sensor. (In ColorFoto 11/09, the test with the pre-production model of the EOS 7D still had an advantage of 1.5 points compared to the D300 s. The serial model could not quite reach this value in the test.)
Canon's 18 megapixel model has a higher resolution of around 200 LP / BH compared to the Nikon D300s (12 Megapixels), but this resolution does not bring any advantage in the overall evaluation. The EOS 7D and the D300s are comparable in dynamics and noise to ISO 1600, but Nikon has less texture loss.
In this case, only the Pentax K7 is better, but much more noise and less dynamics is available - between 8.5 and 6.5 iris in the measured range between ISO 100 and 1600, while Canon / Nikon between 10 and 8.5 Blinds have to offer.
Pleasing for Sony: In comparison to its predecessors, the Alpha 550 has clearly increased its image quality. At a price of 850 euros, it is by far the cheapest camera in this test field, but it has to make do with a plastic case that can not be compared to the splash-proof Magnesium housing of the competitors.
A pivot monitor is available next to the Alpha with the Olympus E-3 and the Panasonic GH1 (whose monitors are not only in a plane like the Sony, but on all sides swivel). In the live view with additional sensor and fast-paced live AF, the Sony scores. A built-in image stabilizer (sensor shift) is available at Olympus, Pentax and Sony. When it comes to video, Panasonic has the nose with the GH1: Full HD video plus the only usable autofocus in film mode.
The probably most catchy operating concept has the Canon to offer, but one learns the many buttons, levers and switches of the Nikon over time to appreciate.
Here you can find detailed previous tests on
Pentax K-7
Panasonic GH-1
The Jukebox Zen by Creative stores up to 20 GB of music in MP3 or WMA format. Through firmware updates, the small player will later also master OggVorbis and other audio formats. The device is available with USB 2.0 or FireWire. The FireWire version also has an old USB 1.1 port. This allows the jukebox to be connected to any PC with a USB port. The Play Center is a multimedial player and a transfer software. Comfort and ease of use are clearly the focus here, but no important functions are missing. Also, the player is not stingy with technical finesse.
With EAX functions, the device plays files faster or slower without changing the pitch. This function helps, for example, with vocabulary trainer: slower pronunciation is better understood. A volume adjustment, 4-band equalizer and a total of eight prefabricated sound pictures leave nothing to be desired. Only one possibility is missing. These can be retrofitted with the optional headphone set with radio function. The resolution of the display is 132 x 64 pixels. This makes fine fonts and extensive menus possible. In terms of ease-of-use, Creative remains an undefeated model. No other player can shine with so many features and sound.
Http://www.europe.creative.com
The fall brings Intel Skylake: At the IFA 2017, the processor manufacturer has announced the release of 48 new Intel Core and Intel Xeon models. Soon a variety of devices will appear with the new chips in the trade. Of course, in the retail trade, the retail sale will start for upgraders and users who want to compile their own PC. The sixth generation of the Core and Xeon processors is manufactured using the 14 nanometer process and is based on the chipsets of the Intel 100 and Intel CM236 series. The fact sheet of Intel calls the following classification for the new processors
The Skylake architecture provides a lower power requirement, especially in high-resolution applications such as playback of 4K videos. Partially, the energy efficiency increases by 60 percent, while the performance compared to the predecessor generation can increase by as much as 60 percent depending on the model.
Lesetipp: Intel or AMD - CPU purchase advice
The integrated Intel HD graphics come with DirectX 12 support and offer a performance up to 40 percent. In addition, the chipsets for Intel's new processors now support Thunderbolt 3 and USB-C.
Lesetipp: Windows 10 or Windows 7
If you are using Windows 10, you are looking forward to an optimized collaboration between the hardware and the new Windows assistant Cortana and the security feature Windows Hello. For more details, see the Intel Press Release (PDF). There you will also find the specs and the projected prices for the different models in US dollars.
A Facebook review would be a nice thing. Well packed in a short video or a newly generated timeline, in which only the highlights can be seen. The good news: Facebook offers such a thing. The even better: You can choose whether you want to see only the highlights of the past year or the full time since the log in to Facebook.
1. The Facebook Annual Review
At the end of the year, Facebook grabs the highlights, such as posts with particularly many likes or even pictures in a timeline, which were posted during the past year. This is a nice memory and summarizes the year.
2. The Facebook overview
To create the year back, log into Facebook. If you enter www.facebook.com/yearinreview into the browser's address line, a page will appear, which looks like a normal timeline, but shows your own profile as well as other pictures from this year. In the chronicle, Facebook then posts posts from the past year chronologically, with the status updates being chosen with the most reactions like likes or comments.
Picture gallery
Guide: Missed Stories - See what posts Facebook hides
The whole retrospective is called "lookback" at Facebook and summarizes the entire time with Facebook since the registration of the respective user. So the highlights of the entire "Facebook career" are picked out and summarized in a one minute video. To create a complete view, tap www.facebook.com/lookback in the address line. Facebook then opens the menu in which the video is created. Important: Here you can decide for yourself which moments of the previous time were real highlights in Facebook, by marking the pictures below the video, which should appear in retrospect. This creates a video that is tailored exactly to the user.
More on the topic: Facebook on shopping tour - the most important changes in the gallery
And this changes with both teleconverters (350/350 euro) only moderately. While the “small” converter, especially in the corners shows somewhat weaker performance, the 2x version is at the longest focal distance with a slightly lower center contrast than the 1.4er on the road. For this zoom range and the good output light, the EF 2x II seems the more attractive choice, because the 140-400 with 5.6 opening aperture and image stabilizer extends the possibilities without too many compromises. Both solutions receive a digital recommendation.
Canon EF 2,8 / 70-200 mm L IS II USM - EF 1.4x II (Canon 5D Mark II)
The MyTechnisat app can also be used to program recordings on the go. The pre and post run time can be set as desired.
Recording on the TV (Technisat TL 40 ISIO)
Actually, computers are the ideal tools when it comes to performing tasks regularly and at a certain point in time. Almost all operating systems offer help programs. In Windows systems, this is the so-called task scheduler, which is called a task scheduler in the German-language versions. Microsoft has issued a general overhaul with Windows Vista, but since then it has been largely unchanged and is available on all versions of Windows 10 and on the servers.
First use of the task scheduler
In this article, we will show what the task scheduler can do and how to use it - and we will not leave out the friends of the command line.
Schedule a task
Whoever wants to start the task planner for the first time will not find it so easy. The path to Windows Server and Windows 10 is basically
Other properties
After the start of this program, the typical three-part window of an MMC (Microsoft Management Console) appears as it is used for many tasks of the system administration. For this reason, you can start this tool with Taskschd.msc directly from the command line.
Remote access included
The console is divided into three areas: On the right hand side, users are listed under the top entry Task Scheduling with an entry named Task Scheduler Library. Clicking on it opens a tree structure that lists all tasks entered on this local system. These are then again divided into categories such as .NET Framework or Active Directory Rights Management. By clicking on one of these categories, the program displays in the middle window which tasks are already defined, whether they are active or disabled, when they were last active, and when they are restarted. If the user has not selected any of these categories in the right pane, the middle window displays an overall view of the tasks on the system.
If you now want to define a new task on your Windows system, proceed as follows
Praxistipp: Many users want to use task scheduling to start not only system utilities but also self-running PowerShell scripts. There are two things to consider: After creating a new task, select Start program from the action menu. In the field Program / Script you can not enter the name of your script. Here you have to define the path to the program PowerShell.exe:% SystemRoot% \ system32 \ WindowsPower Shell \ v1.0 \ powershell.exe
Enter this path, which is valid for all Windows systems, including Windows 10 with the PowerShell 5, in one line. To enter the path to your script you want to start, enter the Add arguments (optional) window. This must be done in the form of a -command parameter: -command "C: \ my_scripts \ task.ps1" where you have to adapt this path to your system, of course. If the script is not running then you should check the execution policies that are running PowerShell scripts on your system, and then adjust them if necessary.
The properties window of each task, which you can also open by right-clicking on the task in the list in the middle window, offers the user a lot more setting options. For example, it can set whether the task is specifically configured for Windows 10 or Windows 7 or Server 2008. It can also specify which account to use to perform the task on the system.
Users can create and manage tasks directly from the MMC on other Windows systems on the net
Praxistipp: In numerous tests, we were able to find that this type of connection in a Windows domain worked well with different target systems, but there was often a problem with the remote system in a Windows workgroup. In these cases, make sure that the task scheduler (service name Schedule) service is active on the remote computer, as well as the services that depend on it (RPC and system event broker).
Not only the Linux supporters or pure nostalgics know how to work on the command line. For administrators, script execution is always useful and can help automate tasks. For task planning, Windows provides the command line program schtasks. A simple call to the form: schtasks lists tasks on the system in a relatively compact form. If you want to display all tasks in detail and with all parameters, choose the following call: schtasks / query / fo list / v | More
The / query parameter causes the command to list all scheduled tasks on this system. Use / fo to define the format of the display, we have selected the list format, as an alternative the table and CSV formats are still available. With / v, we finally determined that the output really shows all the settings and parameters. Since such an output is usually very extensive and then "rush" only over the screen, we have them with the pipe command | To the program more, which enforces a page-wise output. You can, of course, also redirect the output by means of the character> into a file, which looks something like this: schtasks / query / fo list / v> output. Txt
Also directly from the command line
The most important switches are
All of these calls have other parameters that allow the Admin to specify tasks more precisely. But also at the command line Windows offers here a help. For example, the call: schtasks / query /? The complete parameter list of this switch and lists examples for this.
Lesetipp
Are you one of the smartphone streamers within the category of music consumers and are not satisfied with your TV sound? Then the Musicbox M from Canton would be the right thing for you. Your smartphone is also an Apple offspring? Then watch out and read on!
20 liter craftsmanship
In principle, the Musicbox M is an active speaker with docking station for iPod / iPhone and streaming possibility via Bluetooth also from other mobile phones. Thanks to analog and digital inputs, you can also feed your TV sound into the music box. This option brings a great benefit, because the active Canton box will save you a hi-fi system or a soundbar.
Bassplay without borders
Certainly, you will not be able to replace a stereo or home cinema system with 2.1 or 5.1 speakers. But for an estimated 80 per cent of all picture and sound consumers, the demand of this sound center is sufficient.
Conclusion
The approximately 20-liter box is made of solid MDF (Middle Density Fibreboard) and not of a choppy, thin-walled plastic. Here you can find classic loudspeaker craftsmanship a la Canton. Two 15-centimeter coaxial chassis with aluminum diaphragm and fabric tweeter are installed. The digital amplifiers as well as the DSP chip for the signal processing including active control of the four chassis come from Texas Instruments
In addition to the analogue and the optical digital input, there is an FM antenna input and a subwoofer output on the rear panel. The latter needs who is not satisfied with a 45 Hertz lower limit frequency and just under 100 decibels maximum sound level and would like to connect an external subwoofer. This is because an optional docked subwoofer relieves the coax drivers and thus raises the possible maximum level.
The hearing test showed that this option is hardly necessary. The Musicbox plays not only high levels, but also low frequencies sovereign. Thanks to electrical high-pass filtering, the sound reproduction is up to 45 hertz, with a very high level of filtering, which helps the load capacity.
The song "More Love" by e-bassist Victor Wooten shows the level and bass potential of the Canton sound center. Even Peter Weniger's "Half-Life" jazz album does not set the box in front of unsolvable tasks: the power of the electric bass from the two chassis is more than impressive, but the desire for an additional subwoofer is not an option
You can switch between Stereo, Wide and Surround modes with the supplied remote control. In most cases, even with pure stereo recordings, the surround mode was the better playback choice.
Monaural parts remain clean in the middle even when the seat is positioned on the side. The Wide mode pulls the stage extremely wide. If you're not sitting in the middle of the music box, this DSP variant has a good width staggering.
For the TV sound the Canton Musicbox M is an enrichment. For Dolby digital signals, a PCM downmix must first be set up in the TV or player so that it can process the signal. But then the TV sound is hardly recognizable. The bass content as well as the clear mids and highs are a pleasure.
Whether streaming via Bluetooth in CD quality or direct contact via dock, Cantons Musicbox M replaces some Hi-Fi system and some soundbar.
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