Make way for the touchbook – Acer’s new dual touchscreen laptop. The device has two touchscreens and no physical keyboard whatsoever. In fact, apart from the power button and the display keyboard button, there are no physical buttons on the device. Put simply, the device looks like two 14-inch tablets glued together on a hinge.
So is the Acer ICONIA dual screen laptop just another trophy for your ‘show off’ wall or does it pack in some utility as well?

First Impression

The device is quite heavy, weighing in at over 2.5 kgs. Open the lid and instead of seeing the usual keyboard, you will find two 14-inch HD touchscreens screens. The device is quite thick and you’d expect such a thick device to house a CD drive at the least but it doesn’t. It doesn’t even house a card reader, which is an extra accessory available with the device. An upside – the device houses one USB3.0 port.

TOUCHSCREEN

Both the displays have a resolution of 1366×768. The upper display is a standard touchscreen where as the lower display has gorilla glass making it scratch resistant.

The touch response on the upper display is pretty bad. The close, maximize and minimize icons along with the scrolling bar have been increased in size to make the touch inputs more responsive but it’s the little things such as trying to control the volume/navigation on VLC, clicking on File, Menu, etc. that becomes quite problematic. The overall experience of touching the monitor to launch, close or perform any action feels quite inconvenient and after some time this reviewer’s arm started hurting with the effort of keeping it up to use the touchscreen.

The bottom touchscreen, however,is an entirely different story. Its response is fabulous,much better than expected. A nifty feature – put all 10 fingers on the display to launch the keyboard, put 5 fingers on the display to launch the Acer ring.

Typing on the keyboard takes some getting used to. The keys are well spaced out and you do get an audio feedback for every key you press a key but the experience isn’t the same as a regular keyboard. In fact, the experience feels rather odd. Especially since we are used to a physical keyboard.

The trackpad on the device is very disappointing. There is no way to distinguish whether your finger is on the trackpad or not. So many times while navigating, this reviewer’s finger subconsciously left the track pad with resulting confusion about why the mouse wasn’t moving. The trackpad could have been bigger and had a different feel to distinguish it from the rest of the surface.

You also have the option to put custom skins on the keyboard display, which is nice.

One Ring to rule them all

As mentioned earlier, upon touching the secondary display with 5 fingers, the Acer ring launches. Conceptually, the Acer ring is a good idea. Practically, it’s a bit buggy, which is to say that the applications crashed sometimes.

Gesture Editor is a cool feature. You can customize and assign specific gestures to launch certain programs or applications. For instance, one swipe of the finger and your browser pops up, or draw the symbol “D” to show the desktop.

You also have As certain essential options such as screen brightness, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, screen saver, hibernate, sleep, shut down, etc. on one click of the Acer ring. Although this feature isn’t a game changer, the availability of the option is nice.

The ring feature also offers one touch access to your music, movies photos and web browsing. Here, the Social Jogger app deserves special mention. This app integrates your social networking and YouTube streams under one roof. The visual representation looks a lot like tweet deck.

Another way in which you can use the dual screen is by expanding the web browser on both the screens. This will reduce the amount of scrolling you do on a particular page but the experience of reading the information feels disjointed. Plus, it’s very inconvenient trying to read text on an inclined screen and then text on a flat surface.

In terms of audio, the speakers on the device are average performance-wise. The midrange and vocal output is good but the speakers lack bass. Movie playback on the device was good. We ran Iron Man 2 in 1080p .mkv format and the movie played without any hiccups. The only way to take advantage of the 2 touchscreens while watching a movie is use the second screen for the controls through the videos app in the Acer ring.

Performance

Performance as a notebook is where the Acer ICONIA dual screen laptop truly disappoints. If you do not get used to the touch keyboard typing will be tedious. You would think that integration of touch on the monitor would add to convenience but there are times when it just frustrates you. Good luck trying to see the virtual keyboard if you are sitting out in the open with a lot of direct sunlight hitting the device.

The device is really heavy and scores low on portability factor.
In terms of connectivity, the device has the charging port, HDMI out and two USB 2.0 ports on the left. The right has the Ethernet port, VGA out, one USB 3.0 port (nice!!) and the headphones and microphone port. A display keyboard and power button is present at either side of the hinge. The device also boasts of a 1.3MP camera for video chatting and Bluetooth 3.0.

A disappointing factor is that the previous generation Intel core i5processors and not the Sandy Bridge powers the device. It also lacks a dedicated graphics card so don’t expect great gaming results. On the 3D mark 06, the device had a score of 2728. The PC mark Vantage gave a score of 6150.

The battery life of the device is bad. The device possesses a 4-cell lithium ion battery that powers two LED displays. Pushing the device to itslimits, the battery barely lasted an hour. But use the device conservatively and you may be able to touch the three-hour mark.

Verdict

The device has some interesting features such as the Acer ring app and USB 3.0. But the device needs some serious dedicated apps to justify the use of dual touchscreens. As a multimedia device,it is an unique and fun experience but falls short when you decide to use it as a notebook. If you want a new toy to show off then by all means this is for you, but if you want the biggest bang for your bucks -all 70,000 of them -look elsewhere, as the Acer ICONIA dual screen notebook is pretty much only good for novelty value.

Pros

Cool Acer ring UI
USB 3.0 support
Great touch response on the lower display
Innovative design
Cons:
Uncomfortable typing experience
Small trackpad
Monitor touch experience is disappointing
Heavy
No CD Drive

Price: Rs. 69,990

RATINGS

Performance: 3
Price: 2.5
Ease of setup: 5
Ergonomics: 3
Wow Factor: 3.5
Overall: 3

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2. Make lots of friends, facebook has limit of 5000 friends per user. How many do you have?
3. Ask questions & reply promptly
5. Update your status frequently but not over frequently. Thrice a day is good; 10 times a day is spam.
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5. Write something which make sense, but don’t forget to write senseless sometimes.
6. Understand what your facebook friends likes to read and love to reply.
7. Publish your photographs on wall.
8. Keep your facebook wall clean by regularly deleting your recent activities
9. Wish birthdays of people connected to you, update wall with useful information & sometimes crack jokes.
10. Write logical, write truth & be creative.


11. Play mafia war less and get engage with your friends more via wall posts
12. Make your wall posts short, like a breaking news headline & don’t write something which goes bouncer(over head)
13. Use English as a common language if majority of your friends are from different countries.
14. Mention others with @name while replying on wall post
15. Write sometimes incomplete wall post and others will complete it
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19. Use Social Interview facebook application & other applications which directly or indirectly involve your friends.
20. & here is the last one: Make every facebook update with intentions of sharing, learning or entertaining others.

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Have you encountered the pop up window as below ?

If yes … then you must have chosen to password protect your account details saved in firefox. This is a very secured feature. But, what if you forgot the master password ? This becomes more irritating… when everytime you open a website for which you have saved a password in firefox .. and when the master password window pops up… you realize that you do not remember it anymore.. and just choose “Cancel” ! Everytime you do this .. you feel more frustrated.

Although there are methods to recover that master password … and that too by Brute Force, which is hit and trial process.  There is a tool “Firepassword” developed to retrieve the encrypted passwords from the firefox database. It is a console based tool and can be used offline. You need to know all the commands of it before using it. And then export it to a text file.

Coming back to resetting… me too .. forgot the master password and suffered more than a year and never really cared much. But, recently I came to know a trick to reset it and saved me.

Just follow the instructions below and you can get your master password RESET. But before that, please note that this method will neither recover your master password nor retrieve your account details saved in firefox. It just RESETS the master password. In a sense, it is good. Because, if anybody has to reset your password, then he/she can not get your account details saved in it.

So here is the procedure :

1. Open firefox browser.

2. In the address bar, simply copy the address below and paste it.

3. Hit enter.

4. You will be prompted : If you reset your master password, all your stored web and e-mail passwords, form data, personal certificates, and private keys will be forgotten. Are you sure you want to reset your master password ?

5. And in the bottom right, you will see options as below.

6. Choose “Reset”.

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We have seen many interesting wrist watches with all sorts of unique features,the latest comes from well known company Citizen where in Japan they have just released two models of bluetooth watches that are part of the Virt M series.

Bluetooth watches

These two watches are named TM84-0351V and TM84-0352V and they can somewhat control your cell phone via Bluetooth. At the moment these watches are only compatible with Japanese phones . Now let’s take a look at its features. These watches can display mail or news on there own display that you received on your cell phone. Only limitation is that they can show upto 210 character messages. Besides reading mail, you can also store up to 10 mails on your watch and read it at any time. With their LCD display and magnify feature these watches should provide easy reading of mail in full color.


Another option is that these watches will notify you if you receive a call or a mail on your phone with vibration,glowing display and icons . That way you can easily control your cell phones volume,hold or reject calls and check your battery level. With all these features you can even control you camera shutter with a single button. These watches are light and they come in leather or stainless steel but at the moment they only work with certain cell phones from SoftBank mobile operator. As for the price of these devices, it remains unknown.

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