“Hack” Gestures for all Synaptics Touchpads

New Laptops with Synpatics touchpad released late last year débuted with either multi-touch or partial gesture support such as ChiralMotion, two-finger scroll & pinch zoom. Some lucky users with older hardware was able to update the driver to get these features while some needed a hacked driver (no supported on Win64 as the signatures were destroyed).

But ALL Synaptics touchpads support multi-touch such as two-finger scroll. Here's a tip on how to get that. First install, Scrybe by Synaptics to get gesture support. If two-finger scroll isn't enabled, even in the touchpad settings, go on to get a resident app to unlock the two-finger scroll.

Norton earns the ‘Best Product of 2009′

2010 started with a bang, well the Norton team over at Symantec were presented with a nice New Year Present. The Norton 2010 products received the title of ‘Best Products of 2009’ by independent test organisation AV-Comparatives

“Due to the big improvements achieved by Symantec, and the various good scores it reached in most of our tests during 2009, Symantec was awarded Best Product of the Year 2009.”

-          AV-Comparatives, Anti-Virus Comparative Summary Report 2009 – December 2009

The Anti-Virus Comparative Summary Report is an annual year-end report by AV-Comparatives, which summarises the result of extensive tests among high-quality Anti-Virus products such as Norton by Symantec, Kaspersky and McAfee. Overall, Norton almost topped the whole test with a few exceptions.

After various rounds of rigorous testing on the products which include Malware Detection tests, Scanning Speed tests and Dynamic Protection tests, Symantec emerged the overall winner of 2009.

If you had bad experience with pre-2007 Norton Products (especially 2006), it's time you give Norton 2010 a try, it installs under 1min, tough security while being lightweight and fast.

Nexus One – Google Phone

Google lauched Nexus One on on January 5, 2010. Singapore, is one of the few countries together with USA, UK and Hong Kong, that Google is making the phone available for delivery to.

Here are some of the phone details.

Pricing & Availability

• USD$529 (without contract)
• USD$179 (with 2 years contract from T-Mobile USA)

Verizon Wireless in the US and Vodafone in Europe plan to bring in the Nexus One as well during Spring 2010. The Nexus One will ship to three international market at the moment, UK, Singapore, and Hong Kong.

Shipping To Singapore
If you are living in Singapore and interested to get the Nexus One, here is the price breakdown for you:

• Nexus One phone (without contract): USD$529
• AC Adapter (Singapore): USD$19.99
• DHL International (Shipping & Handling): USD$28.32
• Total: USD$577.31 or SGD$806.10 (USD$1 = SGD$1.3963)
• After adding in 7% GST: SGD$862.52

Hardware Specifications

• Display: 3.7″ AMOLED 480×800 WVGA display
• Thinness: 11.5mm; Weight: 130g
• Processor/Speed: Qualcomm Snapdragon 3G QSD8250 chipset, delivering speeds up to 1GHz
• Camera: 5 megapixel auto focus with flash and geo tagging
• Onboard memory: 512MB Flash, 512MB RAM
• Expandable memory: 4GB removable SD Card (expandable to 32GB)
• Noise Suppression: Dynamic noise suppression from Audience, Inc.
• Ports: 3.5mm stereo headphone jack with four contacts for inline voice and remote control
• Battery: Removable 1400 mAh
• Personalized laser engraving: Up to 50 characters on the back of the phone
• Trackball: Tri-color notification LED, alerts when new emails, chats, text messages arrive

Software Innovation

• Google Maps Navigation: offering turn-by-turn driving directions with voice output.
• Email: multiple Gmail accounts; universal inbox and Exchange support.
• Phone book: aggregate contacts from multiple sources, including Facebook.
• Quick Contacts: easily switch between communication and social applications.
• Android Market: access to more than 18,000 applications.
• Enter text without typing.
• Use a voice-enabled keyboard for all text fields: speak a text message, instant message, tweet, Facebook update, or complete an email.
• Tell your phone what you want it to do.
• Search Google, call contacts, or get driving directions by just speaking into your phone.
• Take personalization to the next level.
• Dynamic, interactive, live wallpapers react to the touch of a finger.
• More widgets and five home screen panels allow for further device customization.
• Capture camera-quality pictures and video with your device.
• 5 megapixel camera includes LED flash, auto focus, zoom, white balance and color effects.
• View pictures and Picasa Web Albums in the new 3D Gallery.
• Record Hi-Res MPEG4 video, and then upload to YouTube with one click.
• Read your voicemail messages.
• Get transcribed voicemail with Google Voice integration, without changing your number.