Sony’s Next Generation Portable

Watch this video on Sony NGP

It’s very hot from Japan, the latest version Sony’s Next Generation Portable (Sony NGP), with virtually all sorts of gaming input, and the kind of hardware that can beat any smartphone, well complemented by a 5 inch size OLED screen.

The credit goes to Sony for having introduced the first PSP that sold for about $300 in 2005, followed by the PSPgo. Sony NGP is armed with the next generation CPU, camera, OLED touch screen, and promises an advanced user interface. It is speculated the new Sony NGP will sell for a price tag between $349 and $399.

While the Sony handheld gaming console amazed the audience in Tokyo where it was unveiled, there were apprehensions that the gaming console can be quite a bit high. It is of a great concern not only for the consumers but other Smartphone makers, who create graphics more or less similar to full-scale game consoles.

The dimension of Sony NGP is 7.2×3.3×0.73 inches, slightly bigger than all other PSP. And it is reported, the Sony NGP is 3G capable. However, Sony did not declare the exact price range or the date of release, excepting that it could be by the end of 2011.

How to Use Google Reader to Read News and Blogs

This short video clip explains in a lucid way how to use Google Reader to read all your favorite news sites and blogs in one place and share news with friends. This video is amazingly simple, yet, makes it easy for anyone to use the application to the best use of the available time to read news and blogs. Now read on some essential facts about Google Reader.

Google Reader is an aggregator to enable you read Atom and RSS feeds online or offline, and released by Google in October 2005 on beta status, followed by major revisions to its user-interface in September 2006, and in 2007 it was out of its beta status.

The application enables users subscribe to feeds with the use of its search or by entering in the URL of the RSS or Atom feed, after which new posts from those feeds are shown on the left-hand side of the screen. It also allows for organizing the feeds by date or relevance, or with labels. And it allows sharing with friends and other without sending the links by email or other means as it used to be.

The mobile interface for Google Reader was released in May 2006, and it can be used by devices that support XHTML or WAP 2.0, and it was followed up by a version for iPhone users. Also, Google Reader is incorporated within Mozilla Firefox and the browser SeaMonkey’s feed recognition which can automatically redirect users to Google Reader’s Add Subscription screen.

In order to use Google Reader, you need a Google Account that is free, and web browsers such as Google Chrome, Netscape, Opera, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Windows Internet Explorer, or Wii Internet Channel, and JavaScript must be enabled.