Showing posts with label photo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photo. Show all posts

Monday, September 3, 2012

Fotor, one of the best photo apps for Android

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Fotor is, without doubt, among the best photo apps available for Android devices. Fotor includes everything you might need: it has a camera mode, a mode of high dynamic range camera, editing functions available and even allows a photo collage.
Fotor is also an app intuitive, easy to use, it has a great interface and has many functions at our disposal. In one of its strongest points is its editing tools, among which include filters, frames and many more.
Fotor is available for free on Google Play .

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

PHOTOS: 5 technologies that will never exist


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A. - Part forth this joy of science fiction films is to look amazing toys, and imagine how they could be so outlined the website io9.com .

Some of these tools have come to life with the passage of time, however there are any of these items that could not ever exist. Czech here what they are.

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1) or Sword Lightsaber Laser: Besides being an object rather impractical and dangerous, there is no engineering work that is able to capture the light in this way, it is possible to emerge from a dish and comfortable retreat the user. Besides energy sources to generate impressive tricks of light sabers, would be impossible to find.

















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2) Human Teleportation: Teleportation requires defragment million shares in an object and then play without losing any snippet elsewhere. Divide the human body is thus impossible, and would be almost a suicide attempt.



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3) Time Machine: This object can not dreamed of creating for his operation would need the whole energy of a black hole for a trip.



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4) Traveling faster than light: To perform this feat would require a power stronger than all the universe, that would be uncontrollable and qeu despite being in a spacecraft, arriving at journey's end everything will disintegrate to its path.

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5) Resuscitation after a cryogenic sleep: Maybe a brain can be preserved frozen, but this process does not guarantee the recovery of all information.

Thursday, July 26, 2012

Windows 8 vs. Mountain Lion: What operating system succeeded in bringing the mobile to the desktop?

Meanwhile, Microsoft had higher aspirations: Windows 8 will run on your desktop and laptop as it does on your tablet is unlike anything I've done before.
Let's take a closer look at each one, to try to get a better idea of what the system is ahead.
We begin
The Home Screen Windows 8

The differences between Windows 8 and Mountain Lion are evident from the moment you start.
When launched Windows 8, we saw something completely different: Instead of the common Start menu, toolbar and Windows Explorer, you have a Home Screen, which consists of a square and rectangular icons with your apps called Live Tiles (give more detail below).
  Windows 8

By default, the Home screen displays each application you installed on your PC, but you can choose what and what not to appear there.
You are not restricted with the Apps: you can put other objects on the screen, including booksmarks of your favorite sites and contacts in your address book.
Windows 8 will run also in the traditional computer applications, and will do in a desktop environment that resembles the layout of Windows 7.
You probably take a while to get used to the new environment, especially after all applications have Metro.
Launchpad in OS X

OS X 
When you first enter a Mountain Lion, you will see the typical desktop OS X, the menu above, the OS X Dock on a button and a photo topic of space as desktop wallpaper.
By clicking on the search icon in the Dock will open the Finder window to locate files and folders. Mountain Lion has a strong approach to the Home screen: Launchpad. With Launchpad obtain a presentation as the iPad with icons for your programs, which makes it easier to locate and access them. Although the IOS runs Launchpad, Mountain Lion feels and looks like a Mac, not an iPad.

Notifications and Live Tiles

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The home screen of Windows 8 is more like an app with Live Tiles.
In addition, Live Small Tiles act as informational widgets. Applying Climate Bing, for example, shows weather out, while the Live Tile for Cut The Rope game shows your status in the game.

OS X does not have a special feature that compares to Live Tiles, but includes features similar notification.
Dock icons may show numerous warnings if an application needs your attention, for example, if you have three unread messages, the Mail icon will be displayed.
Notification Mountain Lion alert

Notifications Center in Mountain Lion is a compilation of statements from various applications.
You can see the Notifications Center from anywhere with a simple touch, or giving the start menu click search on your desktop When you give a notification list for each application. Programs may also appear in pop-up style banner that will appear in the top corner. These banners appear at the top whenever you're doing something else on the screen, and will disappear in a few moments.
Windows 8 has pop-up notifications to complement Live Tiles, and have a lot of what has Montain Lion: They also have notices that appear in the top corner of the screen and stay there a while.

Comparison Applications
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Windows Marketplace is clean and attractively designed
Although still very low for many applications, Microsoft Windows Marketplace is attractive and well designed.
From one point of view is quite similar to the Mac App Store: apps are organized into categories, shopping applications with one click and you can view or post user reviews. Although it is too early, we can say that the Windows Marketplace has an advantage over the App Store: test applications. Yes, you can test an application for a period of time before you decide to buy it.

Gestures

Although we have a clear idea of gesture support for Mountain Lion, do not know yet what we see in Windows 8.
Mountain Lion allows you to use a trackpad to a number of actions, for example, you can use three fingers to open your applications, or turn left or right with three fingers to change desktop or viewing in full screen. If you have the touch sensor Apple Magic Mouse can use some of these functions.
While Windows 8 has some moves by the time they are all for tablets and touch-screen computers.

We do not know what the gestures that have Windows 8 for laptops.
So far it's all in the air, but last year showed a Synaptics touchpad friendly Windows 8 that accepts various gestures.
File Manager

With Mountain Lion, Apple has a small advantage in the Finder, the file manager for OS X.
It looks and works much like you do with Lion-if you're using Windows Explorer or an earlier version of Mac OS X, do not take long to know how to use the form on Lion Mountain.
Microsoft may have worked hard with the interface of Metro, but any progress with the file manager still needs more work and use the traditional Windows Explorer.
Fortunately, Windows 8, Explorer had an update: now features Ribbon toolbar makes access to common features easier
Switching between Metro and the traditional Windows Explorer is just a bit bumpy and frustrating, so we expect Microsoft to do something to make the Metro file management simpler.


icloud and Windows Live

Windows 8 and Mountain Lion are cloud service from Microsoft and Apple, respectively.
Both let you synchronize your data with different devices, and both include some online storage services.
Windows Live is everywhere with Windows 8.
You can access Windows 8 using your Windows Live ID. This will let you sync multiple PC settings through Windows 8 devices, and you can access your account on SkyDrive.
Also, when accessing for the first time a Mountain Lion will ask you to enter your account information icloud.
From there you can sync email, contacts, calendars, notes, reminders, and recent photos through your Macs and IOS devices.
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The Mountain Lion has new documents is the cloud, which allows you to store your documents in the icloud service from Apple. If you have a icloud, you can save your documents directly on a hard drive, if your applications to take information from this feature.

At first glance Documenmtos in the Cloud Mountain Lion is silly and stupid, you can access any document stored in the cloud through the Finder, for example. We hope that these characteristics are improved. icloud is free and comes with 5GB of storage, but you can buy additional storage.

With SkyDrive, Microsoft has a subtle and more traditional approach: Using SkyDrive using a separate application through which you can access to everything you saved on SkyDrive. It is also free but limits you to 25GB of storage. 
What about the tablets?

One of the major points in favor of Windows 8 is that it has "commitments" this operating system runs on your desktop, laptop, tablet PC or touch screen. This advantage is useful when you have to pass your information from one device to another.

On the other hand, Apple still has a big difference between the IOS of mobile devices and Macs. Despite the strong influence on their computers, OS X is OS X. It seems that Apple's philosophy is to keep each system in its authenticity, and some characteristics between the devices are similar and family.


Microsoft seems to want that the tablets are an extension of the PC, while Apple seems to be only a support for Macs. Resumámoslo well, Microsoft wants the tablets represent the next step in the evolution of the PC, not a separate category.


Both Apple and Microsoft are trying to bring the features of their mobile operating systems to the corresponding desktop OS, but their attempts are quite different.

Originally, Mac OS X is still an operating system designed for desktops and laptops. Sure, Apple has added features of IOS, but OS X is still based on windows, menus, folders, and so on. 

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Google + App for iPhone

 Google+ para iPad

In today's world social networks are the order of the day, but it has more acceptance is still Facebook, although there are other alternatives that can provide better or equal service. In this case I will comment that Google + Google's social network has made ​​available a new application.
 
Currently iPad device users did not have an application optimized for this device, now you can get. Google has finally released the optimized version of Google + for iPhone and is available in the App Store. This new version of Google + is 3.0 and has the features that pamper the iPhone version, but on the iPad have wanted to make better use of screen, so make the navigation and use a pleasant experience.

The application puts the photos in the center and encourages people to interact with content through touch gestures. 'The Google + for the iPhone has been designed with the device in mind, "said Google's vice president of product management for Google +, Bradley Horowitz.

Well, maybe some of our readers is a keeper of iPhone and want to download the application d Google + optimized for iPhone, to obtner this application just follow this link , after installing the application come back and leave us a comment about your experience with this application.

Thursday, July 19, 2012

Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ200 with incredible 24x zoom

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Panasonic hopes to gain even more attention with the launch of its new digital camera, the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ200. The new and spectacular supercamara include a zoom up to 24x or even be able to make high-quality photos at maximum zoom.
The Lumix DMC-FZ200 is equipped with a High Sensitivity MOS sensor 12.1 megapixel image processor and a Venus Engine LSI.
The Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ200 is capable of recording video of 12 frames in Full HD and 120 fps, making it one of the best camera on the market. Price and availability were not announced yet.

Monday, July 16, 2012

Facebook for Android updated

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If you have the app on Facebook for your Android device, you probably already reported that a new update is available. The new version of the application will undoubtedly improve your Facebook experience on Android. The app you can use front camera but also has a new feature for messages that can switch between conversations, include friends of friends, share photos enlarged and see who is available, in addition to this was fixed some bugs, security was improved and ultimately improve the overall speed of the application.
Remember that Facebook for Android requires Froyo version (Android 2.2) or later.

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Casio renews its Exilim camera line



Yesterday, Casio announced it will add new models to its Exilim camera line, which will include: EX-N1-N10 EX and EX-N20. All three have powerful camera of 16.1 megapixel sensor and feature a 5x optical zoom. All three models offer advanced features when taking a photograph, as is the case for the Premium Auto function, which analyzes the scene to choose the best configuration for your photo and Make Up function, used to make beautiful shots of faces.
The EX-N1 offers several different colors like blue, black and pink, while the EX-N10 is available in pink, gold and black and the EX-N20 in brown, blue and red.

 

Sunday, July 8, 2012

First trojan for the iPhone and iPad is identified by security expert

 

A security specialist Kaspersky claims to have identified a trojan designed for Apple's mobile devices - iPhone, iPhone and iPod. The worm was disguised as a digital application called "Find and Call" and also have a version for Android devices. Apple has removed the malicious application of the store.
In one post , Denis Maslennikov, Kaspersky Lab expert, says that installing Trojan horse (malicious program that opens up security holes on the device is installed), the application sends the contact list of devices to a remote server. The data are used later in this remote server to send spam via SMS. The main target users in Russia.
Maslennikov said he had contacted Apple and Google to report the malicious application, but did not yet return. In App Store, the app no ​​longer appears, but you can still find it via search engines.
For the "Wired," the Apple spokesperson Trudy Muller said only that the application was removed from the App Store for "unauthorized use of your contact list, a violation of the rules of the store."
It is not the first time that an application "steals" the catalog of contacts in iOS devices. In 2008, the game Aurora Feint was removed from the App Store for security and privacy problems. Aurora sent the contact list of users to their own servers without using encryption features.
More recently, the Path, application to share posts, photos and videos, also captured private data from users of iOS. The company apologized for what happened and claims to have deleted the data collected.
The "Find and Call", unlike the Aurora Feint and Path was developed exclusively for stealing data from mobile devices - what would rank as the first malware for Apple's system.

Friday, April 20, 2012

PicMonkey Indy Image

 

If you are a fan of the photo editing site, Picnik, then you may be wondering what to use when Picnik moves across to Google+ on the 19th April.  Well I think I’ve found one possible solution.  It’s called PicMonkey and offers a very similar set of tools that Picnik used to offer.
I was like a giddy kid in the sweetshop when I came across it and couldn’t help but play around with the site.  Here is a photograph of some daffodils that I’ve enhanced with PicMonkey.  The daffodils were not your usual golden trumpet ones but were an unusual shade of peach and cream.

PicMonkey is an online photo editing tool that allows you to simply drag photos across onto your browser to begin tweaking things without messing around with logging onto the site.

To get started using PicMonkey you can upload an image by simply dragging it from your desktop to the PicMonkey editor. From there you can change things like saturation, contrast, size, and sharpness. You can then add custom frames and special effects like "Polaroid style" to your images. Want to add text to your images? PicMonkey provides a slew of font styles for your use. And if you have just one tiny part of an image that you want to enhance or obscure, PicMonkey gives you tools for that too.

Once you've uploaded a photo you can start using the tools down the left-hand side. There are basic adjustments, like cropping, rotating and sharpening tools, as well as a huge selection of frames and textures. If you like touching up your photos you'll find a number of options to make your face look even more beautiful, like Blemish Fix and Spray Tan.  However, we're most excited about all of the awesome filters, like Warhol, Lomo, HDR, Sepia and Cross Process, which can all be adjusted and customised.



Wednesday, April 18, 2012

##Wow ! Easy RecoverY : Top 10+1 FREE Data Recovery Software !

Data Recovery Software: What to Look For

When looking for data recovery software, you need to find a solution that can recover your files from the location where you "lost" them. Perhaps your PC suffered a virus attack or partitions reformatting. Maybe you just need to recover a few critical files that were accidentally deleted. If you lost your files, it is important that you find software that can attempt to relieve you from your specific scenario. When we looked for the best data recovery software, we compared what storage devices they can restore from and their search and restore filters, basic features and technical support to help you discover the most suitable product to solve your data-loss problem.
Recoverable Devices
There are many ways to lose a file. Maybe you accidentally deleted a folder or loaned your USB thumb drive to someone who accidentally lost a few files for you. Because there are many ways to lose data, we looked for software that can recover your files from a variety of storage failures. Most file recovery software can recover deleted files or files emptied from the recycle bin. However, the best data recovery software can also find and restore data from altered partitions, damaged sectors and external drives. Top recovery applications also recover data from a variety of external disk drives and common items like USB drives and discs.
Recovery Features
Though most recovery tools have all basic features, we compared them side-by-side to help you make a better choice about which software solution will work best to solve your data loss problem. Most software supports FAT (a variety of types) and NTFS type file systems. However, some sell FAT or NTFS separately or both types in one product. If you are unsure, select one that offers both.

Beyond basic recovery features, a few applications provide the ability to launch the file search regardless of whether you can access Windows. This is a good option if you want to attempt to recover files without having to disconnect your suspect disk drive and attach it to a PC that can run Windows.
Another option that some software includes is disk imaging. A disk image is an exact image or mirror backup. Disk imaging is useful for making an image of a damaged disk so that you can attempt to access "lost" data with less potential for error. Disk imaging can also create a backup image to prevent loss later.
Search and Recovery Options
Search, filter and sort options are also similar across products. Some will allow you to search for a specific file type during the initial search. Others will let you sort the list of discovered files. Most will let you search by file name, type (or extension), date or file size. Few recovery tools allow you to search for a specific version of a file, but most will list the files' creation, last modified and last access date. Since discovered file lists can be long and often do not contain the original file name, search tools can be quite useful. File previews are also helpful. File previews show you an image of the file or the file code to help you find the file you are hoping to restore.
Help & Support
Recovering lost or deleted files can be complicated. Although the best file recovery software should be easy to use, there should be help readily available if you need it. We verified the type of direct support each company offers, such as telephone, email and instant chat support, as well as support documentation such as user manuals and product FAQs. If you need additional assistance, some companies offer professional data recovery as an additional (but often costly) service.

If you have lost files, there is help. Unless your files have been written over or are located on a completely demolished disk, there is a chance you can recover them. With a little patience and the right data recovery software, you can recoup your losses.

In my experience, accidentally deleting important files or forgetting to backup important files before formatting are quite often. At first when i lost my data in a External Hard-drive crash i didn’t know how to restore my data. But recently i came across these bunch of free softwares which can restore data from crashed HDD and flash drives.

Before Scan ,Please Read!

When recovering data from accidental deletion, there are some rules to follow.
1. Stop using the hard drive you want to recover as main hard drive (Windows has disk and registry activity in background. Don’t believe? Run RegMon, FileMon and DiskMon)
2. Do not install the data recovery software on the hard drive that you want to recover.
3. Do not save the recovered files on the hard drive that you’re recovering.
Do take note that these are my top 10 picks for FREE data recovery software. Number 1 does not mean it is better than number 5.

1.PC INSPECTOR File Recovery


PC inspector Top 10 FREE Data Recovery Software
PC INSPECTOR File Recovery is a data recovery program that supports the FAT 12/16/32 and NTFS file systems. Finds partitions automatically, even if the boot sector or FAT has been erased or damaged. Recovers files with the original time and date stamp. Supports the saving of recovered files on network drives. Recovers files, even when a header entry is no longer available. Setup file is 5.83 MB in size.
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2.Recuva


recuva Top 10 FREE Data Recovery Software
From the maker of the popular CCleaner. Recuva (pronounced “recover”) is a freeware Windows utility to restore files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer. This includes files emptied from the Recycle bin as well as images and other files that have been deleted by user error from digital camera memory cards or MP3 players. It will even bring back files that have been deleted by bugs, crashes and viruses! Setup is only 646 KB in size and it’s portable.
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3.Panda Recovery


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Pandora Recovery actually recovers files permanently removed from Recycle Bin, files originally deleted using Shift + Delete keys bypassing Recycle Bin and files deleted from DOS prompt. Pandora Recovery allows you to find and recover recoverable deleted files from NTFS-formatted volumes, regardless of their type – you can recover pictures, songs, movies or documents. Setup file is 2.12 MB in size.
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4.TOKIWA DataRecovery

DataRecovery is freeware and written by TOKIWA to undelete accidentally deleted files even from recycle bin. It supports FAT12, FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS undeletion. Even in both NTFS compressed files and EFS encrypted files. Zip file is only 198 KB in size, no installation required and it’s portable.

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5.SoftPerfect File Recovery

SoftPerfect File Recovery is a free and useful tool to restore accidentally deleted files from hard and floppy disks, USB flash drives, CF and SD cards and other storage media. It supports the popular file systems such as FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS and NTFS5 with compression and encryption. If your important files disappeared and you can’t find them in the recycle bin, try this software product and get the files back to life. Easy to use, no installation is required. Program is only 247 KB in size.

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6.Undelete Plus

Undelete Plus is a quick and effective way to restore accidentally deleted files. It can also recover files that have been emptied from the Recycle Bin, permanantly deleted files within Windows using the Shift + Delete, and files that have been deleted from within a Command Prompt. Undelete Plus works under Win 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista operating systems. The program supports all Windows file systems for hard and floppy drives including FAT12/16/32,NTFS/NTFS5 and image recovery from CompactFlash, SmartMedia, MultiMedia and Secure Digital cards. Program is only 583 KB in size and requires no installation. Portable.

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7.FreeUndelete

FreeUndelete is data recovery program for deleted files. In case of accidental deletion of files on a NTFS (used by default in Windows XP, 2000 and NT), FAT32 or FAT16 file systems FreeUndelete is the utility to help. Setup file is 866 KB in size.

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8.ADRC Data Recovery Software Tools

ADRC Data Recovery Software Tools contains a collection of DIY data recovery tools that supports a wide variety of drives and file systems. The software incorporates extremely simple GUI with novice users in mind. The software zooms in to do only critical recovery functions with minimum complexity so one could recover the data easily. It gives you full control to undelete files, disk image back up, restore a backup image, copy files from hard disk with bad sectors, disk cloning, backup, edit and restore your boot parameters. No installation required, portable and program is only 132 KB in size.

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9.Glary Undelete

Glary Undelete is a free and easy-to-use yet powerful file undelete solution for FAT and NTFS file systems. It will bring back files emptied from the Recycle Bin, in a DOS window, from Windows Explorer with the SHIFT key held down. It will even recover files that have been deleted by bugs, crashes and viruses! Glary Undelete works under Win 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista operating systems. The program supports all Windows file systems for hard and floppy drives including FAT12/16/32,NTFS/NTFS5 and image recovery from CompactFlash, SmartMedia, MultiMedia and Secure Digital cards. Setup is 1.17 MB in size.

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10.Avira UnErase Personal

Avira UnErase recovers data that have been deleted from the hard drive  either accidentally or as a result of a virus infection, an uninstaller or defective software. The danger of important data being lost forever is averted with Avira UnErase. Setup file is 402 KB in size.

 Top 10 FREE Data Recovery Software
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There you go, the top 10 free data recovery software. That should help you get your data back.

and Program for recovery Photo.

PhotoRec
PhotoRec is a program designed to recover erased files, or files that are not readable due to corrupt partitions etc. Contrary to what its name implies, Photorec does not only recover photos, but a wide variety of files as well [Free, Open Source].



And You can see Paid Data Recovery Program in http://data-recovery-software-review.toptenreviews.com/

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Photo of Facebook’s datacenter



Facebook Hardware Team HQ

 Facebook already built its own data center and its own servers. And now the social-networking giant is building its own storage hardware — hardware for housing all the digital stuff uploaded by its more than 845 million users. “We store a few photos here and there,” says Frank Frankovsky, the ex-Dell man who oversees hardware design at Facebook. That would be an understatement. According to some estimates, the company stores over 140 billion digital photographs — and counting. Like Google and Amazon, Facebook runs an online operation that’s well beyond the scope of the average business, and that translates to unprecedented hardware costs — and hardware complications. If you’re housing 140 billion digital photos, you need a new breed of hardware. As with its data center and server creations, Facebook intends to “open source” its storage designs, sharing them with anyone who wants them. The effort is part of the company’s Open Compute Project, which seeks to further reduce the cost and power consumption of data center hardware by facilitating collaboration across the industry.


Facebook's new datacenter. Huge!
Facebook is so big that it has its own flag:
Facebook has its own flag. Hangs in front of datacenter and the tour is over.
Walking in, yes, we are in the right place:
Sign in lobby of Facebook datacenter.
Just past the Facebook sign is a monitor in the lobby that shows you the state of the datacenter and how well the cooling systems are working:
Cooling chart at Facebook datacenter entrance.
Inside the security door the local community made these quilts, which is their interpretation of what a social network looks like:
Quilts done by local community in entranceway to Facebook datacenter.
Walking in Thomas Furlong, director of site operations at Facebook, brought us into a huge series of rooms which “process” the air. First room filters the air. Second room filters it further.
Here’s Thomas showing us one of the huge walls of filters (these filters are similar to the ones in my home heating system, except here Facebook has a wall of them).
Thomas Furlong, director of site operations at Facebook, shows us a huge wall of filters at its datacenter
Here’s a better shot of just how massive this filtering room is:
The air filter at Facebook datacenter. Big!
Then the air goes into a third room, one where the air is mixed to control humidity and temperature (if it’s cold outside, as it was today, they bring some heat up from inside the datacenter and mix it here) and on the other side, there’s a huge array of fans, each of which has a five horsepower motor (today the fans were moving at 1/3 speed, which makes them more efficient).
Here you can see the back sides of one of the huge banks of filters:
Air filters at Facebook's datacenter.
Here Thomas stands in front of the fans:
Facebook fans!
Here’s a closeup look at one of the fans that forces air through the datacenter and through the filtering/processing rooms:
Each fan has 5hp motor.
Finally, the air moves through one final step before going downstairs into the datacenter. In this final step small jets spray micro-packets of water into the air. As the water evaporates, which it does very rapidly, it cools the air. One room I didn’t take photos in was filled with pumps and reverse osmosis filters, which makes the water super pure so it works better when using it to cool in this way. One final set of filters makes sure no water gets into the datacenter. Here’s a closer look at the array of water jets:
Water cooling at Facebook data center.
Here you can see the scale of the room that sprays that water:
Filter room #2 at Facebook datacenter. Huge!
Here’s a closeup of one of the jets of cooling water:
Water-cooling jet at Facebook datacenter.
Finally we got to follow the air down into the datacenter where there was a huge floor with dozens of rows. Each row had rack after rack of servers.
Here Thomas stands in front of just one of those racks:
Tom Furlong gives us our first look at Open Compute servers at Facebook datacenter.
A look down the main corridor at Facebook's new datacenter
This 180-degree view gives you a look down the main corridor (on the side you can see is only half the datacenter — these are the newer “Open Compute” servers, the other half they asked us not to take pictures of, and that contained their older server technology).

Panoramic Photo of one of the rows of servers inside Facebook's new datacenter
What does this all mean? Well, for one, it brings jobs to Prineville, which is a small town with about 10,000 residents in a very rural county (we drove about half an hour through mostly farmland just to get to Prineville). But listen to Prineville’s mayor to hear what it means for her community.

Monday, April 16, 2012

What is Inside Instagram's Headquarters ?

Hello world,




just now

We talked about facebook and Instagram...

Instagram is a free photo sharing program launched in October 2010 that allows users to take a photo, apply a digital filter to it, and then share it on a variety of social networking services, including Instagram's own. A distinctive feature confines photos to a square shape, similar to Kodak Instamatic and Polaroid images, in contrast to the 4:3 aspect ratio typically used by mobile device cameras.

With this post, we're kicking off a new occasional photo feature that will take you inside of the headquarters of today's top tech companies, from the big multinationals to the young startups of Silicon Valley.

A free photo sharing application that has been called "the hottest iPhone startup right now," Instagram operates out of Twitter's old office at 164 South Park St. in the South Park neighborhood of San Francisco. The company, founded without a business model or any specific financing in mind, has quickly grown: It now has more than four million users sharing photos through the app and posting them to a variety of social networks such as Foursquare, Twitter and Posterous. It has just four employees

 

Entrance

Early Sketches

Lobby

Lobby

Camera Collection

Camera Collection

Camera Collection

Camera Crew

Entrance

Dessert for 4

Espresso

Espresso

Kevin

Kevin

Conference Room

Conference Room

Main Room

Main Room

Main Room

Main Room

Main Room

Whiteboard

Window

Mike and Shayne

Mike and Shayne

Shayne

Working on New Features

Third-Party App

Entrance

@juanpoolio unwrapping his Emmy! #nprlife (Taken with Instagram at NPR Headquarters)