ADATA DashDrive UV128 USB 3.0 Flash Drive

ADATA, maker of storage products, introduces its newest USB 3.0 flash drive, the DashDrive UV128. The new drive uses a capless retractable design with sliding USB connector, so you don’t have to worry about losing the cap anymore. The USB connector can be easily pushed out with a flick of the thumb. The matte-textured body is scratch and dirt resistant.

The UV128 is available in 8GB, 16GB and 32GB capacities. It provides up to 25MB/s sequential write speeds. The new DashDrive supports USB 3.0 and is backward compatible with USB 2.0. It comes in black/blue and black/yellow colors and measures 69  x 21 x 9mm.

 

Dropbox readies document previews and easier photo sharing features, allows you to test run them now

Dropbox is continuing to add new features to its popular cloud storage service and the latest ones are the option to preview documents right from its website and share multiple photos at the same time.

Previously, you could only share a single photo at a time or, if you wanted to share a lot of photos, you had to put them in a folder of their own and then share the whole folder.

As for the document preview feature, it’ll work flawlessly with PDFs, presentations, Word documents and even code snippets.

The latest batch of features isn’t yet publicly available, but instead require a sign up for early access.Follow this link to sign up for early access to the new file preview feature and this one to get a taste of multiple photo sharing. The public release, according to the dev team is going to come in a few weeks.

PTA’s DG enforcement becomes OSD

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) in its current state of hierarchical tussle finds Sajjad Latif Khan, Director General enforcement, as Officer on Special Duty (OSD) with immediate effect from Friday.

Sajjad Latif had sent references to the Prime Minister Raja Parvez Ashraf informing him about the current state of uncertainty in the higher ranks of the authority. He said that officers in Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) were having difficulty finding proficient authority in the organization. Khan is said to be planning to file a case against his appointment in the court.

This order is the short-term result of the battle with Sajjad Latif Khan on one side and Member Finance and Member Technical on the other side. A while ago, Khan wrote to Member Finance that he should remain in his position and not exercise the authorities of the Chairman. It is to be noted that Member Finance is in a better standing in the organization as compared to Khan. Sajjad Latif is considered to be a supporter of the dismissed Chairman Farooq Awan. Sources report that Member Finance and Member Technical are gathering irregularities done by dismissed Chairman Farooq Awan and his team including Khan.

Sajjad Latif, in addition to being DG Enforcement was given additional charges of DG HR and DG Law during the short tenure of Farooq Awan. The operational terms of Member Finance and Member Technical are ending this year in February and March respectively. Let us see that who else falls into their wrath before the end of their terms.

Shahbaz Sharif Uses Dozens of Government Websites to Promote His Facebook and Twitter Profiles

Shahbaz Sharif, the Chief Minister of Punjab and also known as Khadim-e-Alaa, uses over two dozen government websites to promote his personal Facebook page and Twitter profile.
These websites – that are owned by government of Punjab and not by Mr. Sharif – are vigorously and shamelessly used by the chief minister to promote a Facebook page and a Twitter profile that he uses for official, personal and political motives.
It maybe recalled that the Facebook page and Twitter Profile in question are personal properties of Mr. Shahbaz, that he will retain even after completing his service term.
Instead of encouraging all these provincial government departments to have their own social media profiles, so that users may follow their updates and they may retain accounts even after the government is over, Mr. Sharif opted to promote his own profiles as if these government websites are his personal perperties.
These government websites range from Punjab Police to Punjab Pension Funds, Daanish Schools to Health Department. Almost every such website has a link to Shahbaz Sharif’s Facebook page and Twitter Profile, encouraging users to become his follower on social networking websites.
When we last checked Shahbaz Sharif had 343,349 fans on Facebook and close to 75,000 followers on Twitter.
It merits mentioning here that there might be more Government Websites used for the same purpose but we could find only 20 such websites – screen of which are attached below:

Video Games Help Children Develop Cognitive Skills than Watching TV

According to a new study by the researchers in the Games Research and Interaction Design Lab at Queensland University of Technology it is better for parents to allow their young children to play video games as compared to letting them watch television. The researchers checked the effects of both games and television shows on children of very young ages from 2 to 5 years old. In their study, they categorized these two media into different categories of passive and active. Active content stimulated children both physically and mentally, whereas passive content did not engage them.

Since while playing video games, users are both active physically and mentally, it stimulates them more than a television show does, which can only make us feel things emotionally, rather than compel us physically or mentally. Television sure is a good means to provide information, but as far as stimulation of the mind is concerned, it does not engage us to think or plan.

Whereas, video games fulfill these things, although there are reports by many researchers that even video games having negative content creates negative emotions and tends to effect human mind negatively, but allowing children to play games like Angry Birds will engage them positively without making them hate or be bias against others.

Video games are very helpful for young children in developing their cognitive skills and thus positively impact their academic and comprehension skills. Researchers have also found that it makes them emotionally better too as their self-esteem improves. Besides, with the kind of way the world events are happening, it is rather advisable that little children be prevented from watching too much television and their time could be well spent on video games.