Apple has once again brought us another breakthrough invention, the IPhone. So what is it about the iPhone that makes it the current electronic device of choice for many?
The iPhone’s Safari browser provides excellent Internet surfing experience. Over the Safari browser, web pages are displayed in all their html glory. All the graphics and images are displayed, instead of the stripped down versions where limited images and text are shown. Of course, the phone’s excellent quality widescreen adds even more to the experience.
Visual voicemail further pushes the iPhone to the forefront. In the iPhone’s visual voicemail, users can skip messages and move on to the more important ones without having to go through every single message in the mailbox. This makes the iPhone an extremely productive tool.
The phone’s user interface experience is unmatched by any other phone so far. iPhone’s innovative multitouch technology allows users to manipulate the device in varied, fun ways. You can do a multitude of functions with a touch of a finger: zoom in by pinching fingers apart on the screen, flip through web pages by sliding your finger across the screen, press and hold down to magnify a section of text, swipe across the display to look at photos and so on. When browsing the internet or watching videos and playing music, you can tip the phone to its side and the screen adjusts automatically to landscape mode. The iPhone display screen is so attractive you just can’t help but touch it.
Aesthetics is also another factor that sets the iPhone apart from other smartphones in the market. Its design is quite unique – it looks sleek and trim, with practically no external trappings around the phone. The only buttons you see on the phone are the menu button, the power button which you can also use to control calls and on the side are the volume and ringer mute switches. It is very compact at 4.5 inches long, 2.4 inches wide and 0.46 inch thick.
The iPhone is also an iPod, with yet another improved feature: album artwork display. You can browse through your song list in Cover Flow mode and the screen will show you the authentic album designs. This makes it feel like you are flipping through your CD collection.
There is a YouTube player integrated into the phone. You can search the most featured clips, access the most recently posted videos and the most popularly viewed much in the same way you would over the YouTube website.
Camera functions of the iPhone are pretty good. Its 2-megapixel resolution lends to rich, brilliant images and although you cannot edit photos on the iPhone and there is no flash, overall picture quality is still excellent. The shutter feature is also cool, when you take a picture the display closes and opens much in the same way a camera lens would.
Fans of the iPhone say it may indeed be the new standard under which smartphones will be judged. So if you don’t currently own an IPhone, now is the time to get one.

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The beginning of the MUTE peer to peer file sharing network was similar to many others. At first, during the process testing, they had set up 11 nodes to their network. Once the nodes were set-up, they then added a node at one end that contained their test file, while at the same time they added another node at the other end which would be the downloading node. Once the connection had been established between the downloader and the source node, they then added 2 more nodes to each end making the network even bigger. Then the true test was in the bottle neck possibilities of the network, where they then removed several of the original 11 nodes to see if the connection would stay active. It did, and so the MUTE peer to peer file sharing network was born and released to the world.

In basic form, the MUTE peer to peer file sharing network requires master nodes which direct the traffic on both ends of the node, this helps reduce the possibility of a bottle neck in the file sharing network. When using MUTE, after you first start up the program, it searches for the master node and makes a connection, once this connection is made, your application basically has access to the entire network. When you search for a file, that search request is then sent to the master node who in turn sends it to all the nodes it is attached to, as well as any other master nodes. This search is forwarded to all ends of the network until all the copies of the file are found. As each master node gets responses from their nodes, the responses are then slowly added to your search list. It is this reason why after you start a search, it takes a while for all the files to show up in the search screen.

One must keep in mind though, that this is still a decentralized network as these master nodes are not servers that contain the files, they are basically routers whose sole intention is to keep the traffic of connections running smoothly so that there is no bottle neck. Bottle necks are bad, as when one occurs, is can completely disable almost all traffic from passing from one peer to another. By having these redundant master nodes that act as “certain peers are more than equal” the network can stay strong and allow the continuous download of a file without an issue.

The longer your application is connected to the network, and the higher the bandwidth that your connection has, the better chances you have at becoming a master node if another node is shut down, or if more people connect to the network through you.

MUTE is a third generation peer to peer file sharing protocol and is still in use.

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