MacBook Air Problem Reportedly Confirmed by Memo

Apple is aware of MacBook Air display problems, according to a memo reportedly     leaked from inside Apple. The memo notes fading 

colors after a MacBook Air wakes from sleep, and mentions a software update. The display problem reportedly affects both the new 13-inch and 11-inch MacBook Airs, and the purported Apple memo offers a workaround.

An Air leak is causing problems for Apple. A memo circulating on tech web sites, purporting to be a leaked internal document from the Cupertino, Calif.-based company, confirms reports  of display problems for the new MacBook Air.

The matter was even dubbed Antennagate by some in the press. Finally, Consumer Reports issued several negative reviews in which the nonprofit organization said it "can't recommend the iPhone 4" because its tests showed an antenna problem that could be fixed by a "bumper" case.

At last, Apple held a hastily arranged press conference . At the event, Apple acknowledged the problem, offered a free bumper case for every iPhone 4 customer, a refund for any case already purchased, or a full refund for an undamaged iPhone 4.

New Research Explores 'False Memories': you have to know

Did you really lock your door, or is it all in your head? Researchers exploring the 

fascinating phenomenon of false memories have observed subjects who had false 

memories created by watching someone else. Researchers found the subjects were 

much more likely to falsely remember doing an action if they had watched someone else 

do it.

 eaPsychological resrch has shown various ways "false memories" are created, such as through the power of suggestion or through vivid imagination. Now scientists studying imagination have found that people who watched a video of someone else doing a simple action often didn't remember and thought they had done it themselves when asked about it two weeks later.

"This is a completely new type of false memory," says Gerald Echterhoff, a psychology professor at the University of Muenster in Germany and co-author of the paper published in the September issue of the journal Psychological Science.

"This is a false memory from just observing someone," he says.

Psychologist Daniel Schacter of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., who has edited a book on false memories, says he hasn't read the new paper, but it "sounds like an extension of earlier work that has shown imagining you'd done something can result in false memories."

"I think it's partly new and partly related to earlier work," Schacter says. "You saw something on TV that you think actually happened. It's another kind of example of what people have talked about as a source memory failure."

Echterhoff says more than 25 percent of participants in the study, as well as in several follow-up experiments, had false memories created by watching someone else. Since the first research on 170 participants was done, findings have been replicated with almost 500 participants, he says.

The paper details three different experiments in which participants read about or actually performed a series of simple actions, such as shaking a bottle or shuffling a deck of cards. Then they watched videos of someone else doing simple actions -- some of which they had done and some they had only seen being done. Two weeks later, they were asked which of as many as 30 actions they had done themselves.
Researchers found the subjects were much more likely to falsely remember doing an action if they had watched someone else do it. Echterhoff says the research controlled for the common situation of thinking you had done something because you do it yourself every day.

hacking PlayStation 3: Jailbreak PS3 Using Android Mobiles

New method of jailbreaking/hacking PlayStation 3 has been surfaced through which you can use your Android Mobiles like HTC Desire, Nexus One with root access to jailbreak your PS3. Using this you will also be able to backup your precious Blu-ray games on PS3 (requires download manager patch).

 

How to Jailbreak PS3 Using Android Mobiles (HTC Desire, Nexus One)

• Download PSFreedom and extract the file
• Now place file named N1-CM6-PSFreedom.tar.gz to the phone’s memory card
• Download this flashable boot.img
• Enter Recovery mode and flash the file named PS3-signed.zip
• Reboot the device
• Now Using the Terminal Emulator type this

#cd sdcard
#su
#insmod psfreedom.ko

• Now Turn off your PS3 Slim by killing power at the power socket and connect your Android mobile via USB.
• Turn on PS3 by pressing power and eject button respectively in quick succession.
• Now you should be able see “Install Package files” in the PS3 XMB menu
• Congrats your PS3 has now been jailbreaked.

How to get the phone back to previous state.

Download this file named PS3-no-more-signed.zip and flash into this file by going to recovery mode.

PSFreedom ports for Samsung Galaxy S and PSP are also under development and would be available soon.