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What’s Inside

Gadget Review - Chromebook

Biography - Tim Berners Lee

Game Review - Tomb Raider

Smartphones Comparison

JULY 2013 - VOLUME 01

TECH TALK

NETBOOK

GOOGLE CHROMEBOOK

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Amidst the much created hype by its

Nexus , Google has given a new definition

to its horizon by launching - The Google

Chromebook.

With looks unlike any other Netbook,

Google Chrome powered Chromebook takes

hardly 10 seconds to boot up. This Netbook

differs from the Laptops by some major

differences like Cloud Storage and Running

Functionality.

Chromebook’s high end version THE

CHROMEBOOK PIXEL has been a slight Dud,

because of its price feature, but the laptop

has raised many eyebrows with its Superior

Quality of User Interface. In February 2013,

Google introduced and shipped the 32

GB Chromebook Pixel, whose $1299 price

was more than six times that of the lowest

cost Chromebook, the Acer C7. The Pixel

drew praise for its exterior design and high

resolution screen, said to have the highest

pixels-per-inch of any laptop.

Chromebooks are simple to use and

they update themselves. They boot-up in

seconds, never slow down and require al-

most zero setup or maintenance. Viruses,

malware and other nasties are taken care

of. No extra software (or worrying) re-

quired.

No annoying updates & nothing complicated

to learn. Boots in seconds. Comes with your

favorite Google apps. This Chromebook makes

a great additional computer for getting things

done, for sharing around the home, for every-

one.

OS Google Chrome OS

Launched June 15th 2011

Price `18000 – `70000

Manufacturers Acer, Samsung, Lenovo, HP

Screen 11.6” - 14.0” (Corning Gorilla Glass)

Processor Intel Atom (1.66 GHz) - Intel Atom i5 (2.5 GHz)

Battery Life 4 - 6.5 Hours

RAM 2 GB - 4 GB (DDR3)

Storage 16 GB - 64 GB

Pros Good UI, Lightweight Design, Low Price .

Cons No support for MS Office.

Final Say Good for those who spend time only on net.

BIOGRAPHY 3

Born on 8 June 1995 in southwest London Eng-

land Sir Timothy John Tim Berners-Lee often abbreviat-

ed as “TimBL” is a legendary British computer scientist.

He is often regarded as the father or creator of WORLD

WIDE WEB (www). He is the son of Conway Berners

Lee and Mary Lee Woods who worked on the first

commercially build computer the Ferranti Mark 1.

He completed his primary education from Sheen

Mount Primary School and then went on to attend

south west London's independent Emanuel

School from 1969 to 1973. Thereafter, he

studied at Queen's College, Oxford, from

1973 to 1976, where he received a first-

class degree in physics.

A graduate of Oxford University, Tim

teaches at Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a

3Com Founders Professor of Engineering and in a joint

appointment in the Department of Electrical Engineer-

ing and Computer Science at CSAIL. He is a professor in

the Electronics and Computer Science Department at

the University of Southampton, UK, Director of the

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), and author of

weaving the Web and many more publications.

Subsequent to graduation, he was employed as

an engineer at the telecommunications company Ples-

sey in Poole. Berners-Lee worked as an individual con-

tractor at CERN from June to December 1980.While

there, he anticipated a project-work conceptualized on

the notion of hypertext, to facilitate sharing and up-

dating information among researchers. For illustration,

he built an archetype system named ENQUIRE. After

leaving CERN in late 1980, he went to work at John

Poole's Image Computer Systems, Ltd.

Tim documented what was to become the World

Wide Web with the submission of a proposal specify-

ing a set of technologies that would make the Internet

truly accessible and useful to people. Despite initial

setbacks and with perseverance, by October of 1990,

he had particularized the three fundamental technolo-

gies that remain the foundation of today’s Web:

HTML, URL, and HTTP.

In 1994, Berners-Lee founded the W3C (World

Wide Web Consortium) at MIT. It consisted

of various companies that were willing to

create standards and recommendations to

enhance the eminence of the Web. In De-

cember 2004, he accepted a chair in Com-

puter Science at the School of Electronics

and Computer Science, University of South-

ampton, England, to work on the Semantic Web. Pres-

ently Berners-Lee is President of the Open Data Insti-

tute.

Lee is recognized as the owner of plethora of

achievement including one of the only six members of

World Wide Web hall of fame. He also won the Kilby

Foundation’s “young innovator of the year” award

followed by the software system award from the Asso-

ciation for Computing Machinery (ACM). In 1998 he

was awarded with an honorary doctorate from the

University of Essex. In 1999, Time Magazine named

Berners-Lee one of the 100 Most Important People of

the 20th century and many more triumphs followed

by tons and tons of other achievements.

His attainments give the upcoming generation

an inspiration to be successful, hardworking and an

innovator like him.

“You affect the

world by what

you browse...”

TOMB RAIDER

GAME REVIEW 4

Lara Croft is one of the few strong female leads in a

patriarchal industry that generally doesn’t take too

well to the concept of making a “kitchen-residing

sammich maker” the protagonaist.

This time it is a total reboot and has been penned

by Rhianna Pratchett, who also happens to have

worked on games such as Mirror’s Edge, Prince of

Persia (2008 reboot), the overload series, and heav-

enly sword—all of which are known for their excellent

writing. With Tomb Raider, Rhianna pretty much

proves she’s her father’s daughter by weaving an en-

gaging mythos enriched with the right blend of fanta-

sy, intrigue, horror, and reality. Most Importantly it

serves as a great canvas to paint Lara in a whole new

light.

We’re introduced to a rather green Croft setting

sail in pursuit of her maiden adventure—the quest to

find the lost city of Yamatai in the dangerous waters

of the Dragon Triangle off the coast Japan. Needles

to say, poop hits the ceiling and she gets shipwrecked

On the Island of Yamatai, which is infested with mur-

derous savages and the remnants of an ancient army

that protect the island’s secrets and prevents anyone

from leaving it. The rest of the game is about Lara’s

Quest to escape the island, and how this baptism by

fire shapes her into the gutsy, confident woman por-

trayed in the past games.

The most likeable thing about the New Tomb

Raider is how brutal it is. While the earlier games

shied away from showing blood, the reboot doesn’t

fall short when it comes to portraying the grittiness,

violence and aggressing required by the story, Lara

gets beaten, bruised and impaled on multiple occa-

sions. The idea is to show the descent of a rich aristo-

cratic kid who is shielded from the dark side of the

humanity into a hardened survivor and a cold-

blooded killer. When a franchise as large as this risks,

cutting down its reach by embracing the Mature

rating, it’s apparent the developers hold creativity in

higher regard than anything else. These maps encour-

age players to scavenge through and return.

AMAZING GRAPHICS

GAME REVIEW 5

PRICE Rs 999(PC); Rs 2499 (PS3)

PUBLISHER Square Enix

DEVELOPER Crystal Dynamics

PLATFORMS PC, PS3, XBOX 360

FOR Excellent Graphics; TressFX hair simulation;

deep, fluid combat; well-paced story.

AGAINST Puzzles are a let-down; secondary charac-

ters are shallow

SMOOTH GAMEPLAY

Lara’s journey from a sheltered rich girl to a tough-as-nails

Tomb Raider has been mimicked in the gameplay as well. Un-

covering mysteries on the Island, hunting animals for the food

with her bow and arrow, and killing hostile inhabitants add to

her XP, which in turn provides skill points and salvage parts re-

quired to learn new tricks and craft/upgrade items.

A large variety of weapons are available—ranging from

pistols and submachine guns to powerful rifles and shotguns—

and they are all fun to wield. The game is exclusively reserved

for PC, PS3, and XBOX 360.

There is quite a lot of depth in the gameplay, despite the

incorporation of the similar bombastic setpieces every new

game must have. Tomb Raider, however, pulls this off with

more finesse and elegance than most. What we have is a Con-

temporary Raider that strikes a good balance between fan ser-

vice and ticking all the boxes required by a modern Game.

COMPARISION 5

2 3 1

XPERIA Z Full HD Display

16GB Storage

2GB RAM

Android v4.2.2

13 MP Camera

Sec. Camera 2.2 MP

1.5 GHz Processor

Weight 146g

IPS LCD

Battery 2330 mAh

GALAXY S IV Full HD Display

Up-to 64GB Storage

2GB RAM

Android v4.2.2

13 MP Camera

Sec. Camera 2 MP

1.8 GHz Exynos Proc.

Weight 130g

Corning Gorilla 3

Battery 2600 mAh

LUMIA 920 HD+ Display

32GB Storage

1GB RAM

Windows Phone 8

8 MP Camera

Sec. Camera 1.3 MP

1.5 GHz Processor

Weight 185g

IPS LCD

Battery 2000 mAh

With all inspiration and motivation from Madam Principal

Mrs. Alka Kapur and under the able guidance of

Mrs. Deepti Malhotra, HOD of Computer Department

Made By TECHNOSTERS:

Achal Sharma: XI-A

His Youtube Channel

His Blog

Harsh Jindal: XI-A

His Blog

His Youtube Channel

Vishal Wadhwa XI-A

His Youtube Channel

His Blog

Special Thanks:

Aditya Jain XI-A

Harshita Walia XI-A

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