Headbones: Bone Conduction Headphones open your ears to more

by James Talbot

Use your head to amplify sound. 3.5mm jack acts as a Bluetooth receiver to other headphones. Use for running, cycling, walking & more

Resting on your temporal bone, Damson Headbones wirelessly transmit audio to your inner ear while keeping your ears clear to hear what is going on around you. Yet also allow you to shut off background noise when you need.


They are Bluetooth enabled bone conduction headphones which sit just in front of the ear, on the temporal bone. They utilise the acoustic properties of the human skull and its natural ability to work in tandem with the inner ear by sending audio vibrations to the inner ear, maximising the sensory experience of sound and music, whilst minimising the likelihood of hearing damage. check more details>>

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

• Driver type: Incisor Diffusion Technology - micro vibration driver

• 3.5mm Line in - cable your MP3 player

• 3.5mm Line out - Headbones act as a Bluetooth receiver allowing you to use your own favourite headphones.

• Bluetooth: Version 4 CSR APT-X Lossless

• Battery type: Built in Lithium Ion

• Battery size: 320mAh

• Playback time: Up to 10 hours (bone conduction) 20 hours Headphones.

• Standby time: Up to 300 hours (12 days)

• Built in microphone: For Handsfree calls

• Support for two simultaneous connections: Yes

• Auto switch for call answering: Yes

• Water resistant: IPX5 supported

• Frequency response: 60hz - 20khz

• Cables: Micro USB for charging

• Protective Case: Glasses style case for protective storage and pouch for ear buds.

• Weight: 80g (2.8oz)

• Warranty: Two years excluding battery (one year)

Spark- The Watch That Keeps You Awake

by Blanc Watches

"Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake." - Dale Carnegie

Spark- the Watch that Keeps You Awake

It's another average workday and you are sitting in your office, groggily filing away papers or typing a document. After a while, your head droops down to your chin and your eyelids slowly fall like curtains. Five minutes pass and you are dead asleep and oblivious to everything around you.

You're not alone. In fact, one out every five Americans have trouble staying awake during the average workday.

We created Spark to help you overcome fatigue and drowsiness so that you can be as efficient and focused as possible. Check full details>>>

How to Make Windows 8 or 8.1 Look and Feel Like Windows 7

By Avram Piltch, LAPTOP Online Editorial Director 



If you have a PC with Windows 8 or 8.1 but miss Windows 7, there’s no need to downgrade. Following a few simple steps, you can make Microsoft’s current operating system look and feel almost identical to its predecessor. Here’s how to bring back the Start menu and the attractive aero glass theme how to hide other Windows 8 elements like the Charms menu.

Step 1: Swap the Start screen for a Start menu
Without a doubt, the most unfamiliar (and, for some, most annoying) feature of Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 is its tile-based Start screen. Where Windows 7 lets you choose from a list of applications by pulling up the Start menu, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 make you go to a completely separate screen just to launch an application or conduct a search. Windows 8.1 places a Start button in the lower left corner of the screen, but don’t be fooled; it does nothing more than take you back to the same tile-based Start screen when you click it. Read more details>>>

VIdeo: How to FreeNAS 8.2 Step by Step setup

How to setup FreeNAS step by step in 15minutes.

Courtesy of Too Smart Guy from youtube

What is FreeNAS

FreeNAS is a free and open-source software network-attached storage (NAS) system based on FreeBSDand the ZFS file system, with a dedicated management web interface (originally written in PHP, then rewritten from scratch in Python/Django). It is licensed under the terms of the BSD License and runs on commodity 32 and 64-bit x86 hardware. FreeNAS supports Windows, OS X and Unix clients and various virtualization hosts such as XenServer and VMware using the CIFS, AFP, NFS, iSCSI, SSH, rsync and FTP/TFTP protocols. Advanced FreeNAS features include full-disk cryptography and a plug-in architecture for third-party software.

The ZFS file system
FreeNAS supports the legacy Unix File System and the ZFS filesystem which provides data integrity checking to prevent data corruption, enable point in time snapshotting, replication and several levels of redundancy including striping, mirroring, mirrored striping (RAID 1+0), and three levels of RAID-Z.

User experience
FreeNAS is managed through a comprehensive web interface that is supplemented by a minimalistic shell console that handles essential administrative functions. The web interface supports storage array configuration, user management, sharing configuration and system maintenance.

As an embedded system appliance, FreeNAS boots from a 2GB image that typically resides on a USB Flash device or SATA DOM. This image can be configured using a bootable CD-ROM installer or by flashing the image directly using a utility like 'dd'. The FreeNAS operating system is fully independent of its storage arrays, allowing its configuration database and encryption keys to be backed up and restored to a fresh installation of the OS. This separation also allows for FreeNAS system upgrades to be performed through the web interface.

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What is FreeNAS?

FreeNAS is a free and open-source software network-attached storage (NAS) system based on FreeBSD and the ZFS file system, with a dedicated management web interface (originally written in PHP, then rewritten from scratch in Python/Django). It is licensed under the terms of the BSD License and runs on commodity 32 and 64-bit x86 hardware. FreeNAS supports Windows, OS X and Unix clients and various virtualization hosts such as XenServer and VMware using the CIFS, AFP, NFS, iSCSI, SSH, rsync and FTP/TFTP protocols. Advanced FreeNAS features include full-disk cryptography and a plug-in architecture for third-party software.

The ZFS file system
FreeNAS supports the legacy Unix File System and the ZFS filesystem which provides data integrity checking to prevent data corruption, enable point in time snapshotting, replication and several levels of redundancy including striping, mirroring, mirrored striping (RAID 1+0), and three levels of RAID-Z.

User experience
FreeNAS is managed through a comprehensive web interface that is supplemented by a minimalistic shell console that handles essential administrative functions. The web interface supports storage array configuration, user management, sharing configuration and system maintenance.

As an embedded system appliance, FreeNAS boots from a 2GB image that typically resides on a USB Flash device or SATA DOM. This image can be configured using a bootable CD-ROM installer or by flashing the image directly using a utility like 'dd'. The FreeNAS operating system is fully independent of its storage arrays, allowing its configuration database and encryption keys to be backed up and restored to a fresh installation of the OS. This separation also allows for FreeNAS system upgrades to be performed through the web interface.

read more details>>>

Turn an Old Computer Into a Do-Anything Home Server with FreeNAS 8

You've heard the word "server" thrown around a lot, but usually in the context of web sites or big companies that have a lot of data to store. In reality, a server can be just as useful in your home. In this guide, we'll walk through how to create your own home server out of an old or cheap computer that can do all your downloading, streaming, and backup tasks 24/7.

Note: If this post looks familiar, it's because we've covered FreeNAS before. Our old guide used FreeNAS 7, which is great, but the new FreeNAS 8 makes installing plugins for BitTorrent, media streaming, Usenet, and other tasks much easier. If you want to check out FreeNAS 7—now called NAS4Free—you can still view our old guide here. Alternatively, if you don't want to use FreeNAS, you can put together a similar setup using Ubuntu.

What Does a NAS or Home Server Do?

Network Attached Storage—or NAS for short—is basically a set of hard drives connected to your network, so any computer in your house can access them. This is great for bigger households or people with multiple computers (like a home theater PC) that all need to access the same data. They're also usually quite low power and low cost, and they don't require a monitor, mouse or keyboard—once you've installed the software, you can configure every aspect of your NAS from a web browser on your other computers. read more details>>>

How to Setup a CCTV DVR for remote viewing online by PC Mac & smart phone internet Access

In this video we have explained how to access CCTV DVRs via web. Port forwarding and firewall rules are explained. We have shown port forwarding on BT Hub and Edimax Router for three well known brand DVRs, Avtech, Dahua and Hikvision. 

Courtesy of securiguide from youtube

What is CCTV?

Closed-circuit television (CCTV) is the use of video cameras to transmit a signal to a specific place, on a limited set of monitors. It differs from broadcast television in that the signal is not openly transmitted, though it may employ point to point (P2P), point to multipoint, or mesh wireless links. Though almost all video cameras fit this definition, the term is most often applied to those used for surveillance in areas that may need monitoring such as banks, casinos, airports, military installations, and convenience stores. Videotelephony is seldom called "CCTV" but the use of video in distance education, where it is an important tool, is often so called.[1][2]

In industrial plants, CCTV equipment may be used to observe parts of a process from a central control room, for example when the environment is not suitable for humans. CCTV systems may operate continuously or only as required to monitor a particular event. A more advanced form of CCTV, utilizing digital video recorders[3] (DVRs), provides recording for possibly many years, with a variety of quality and performance options and extra features (such as motion detection and email alerts). More recently, decentralized IP cameras, some equipped with megapixel sensors, support recording directly to network-attached storage devices, or internal flash for completely stand-alone operation. Surveillance of the public using CCTV is particularly common in many areas around the world. In recent years, the use of body worn video cameras has been introduced as a new form of surveillance.

Contents  [hide]
1 History
   1.1 Technology
   1.2 Application
2 Uses
   2.1 Crime prevention
   2.2 Hacking and video art
   2.3 Industrial processes
   2.4 Traffic monitoring
   2.5 Transport safety
   2.6 Control of retail
   2.7 Criminal use
   2.8 Use in schools
3 Prevalence
4 Privacy
5 Technological developments
   5.1 Computer controlled analytics and identification
   5.2 Retention, storage and preservation
   5.3 Closed-circuit digital photography (CCDP)
   5.4 IP cameras
   5.5 Networking CCTV cameras
   5.6 Integrated systems
   5.7 Wireless security cameras
6 CCTV camera vandalism
7 See also
8 Notes
9 References
10 Further reading
11 External links