How Do I Upload Photos From Samsung Galaxy S to PC?

As almost Digital camera would be...
the DCIM folder contains your photo's taken from your phone..
Media folder would be any photo's you placed yourself...
But Generally DCIM is your Main folder...
This is after you Set your Photo to Mass Storage.

Plugging in Samsung Galaxy S:

Step 1. Settings > [Scroll to the Bottom] About Phone > USB Settings > Select "Mass Storage" [This should be the one with Green Dot, if it isnt, Select it] - Once this is done Exit to home screen (Press the back button until back to main screen with background - Not necessary but no point having it on setting screen)

Step 2. Plug in Device to Computer via USB Cable - XP / Vista / 7 works good - Mac Tiger or up Works good too

Step 3. Use the Top Status Bar and pull it down.

Step 4. Select the Status that mentions "USB Connected"

Step 5. A pop up window will show up. Press - MOUNT

Your Device SD is now mounted to PC and is acting as a Mass Storage Removable Disk.

My Computer > Removable Disk X (where X is the next letter available to name a drive)

There you'll find your DCIM folder Plus other folders.

Drag / Copy / Move - Any files you need

Once Done Follow these Steps:

Removing / Unplugging Samsung Galaxy S:

Step 1a. Close the Removable Disk Folder and Make sure No Files is Transferring and/or make sure no program (including windows) is talking to the Removable drive.

Step 1b. You can Safely remove your Drive from your computer. But this step isn't necessary.

Step 2. Open your Status Bar on your Phone on the top screen by pulling it down

Step 3. Click on Status bar "Turn off USB Storage"

Step 4. a Pop up will show up. Click "Turn Off" - This will Dismount your removable Drive from your computer.

Step 5. Unplug your USB cable.

You Are Done.

Simple...

You have another Option. Download Samsung Kies. from Samsung Official Website.

Support for that program is offered by 1-800-SAMSUNG. Although I personally ill advise using that program unless you need to update your phone or back up Device Memory Contacts. That program has known issues and Samsung has taken it off there website numerous times to do "Patch updates" on it to prevent it from crashing.

Windows 8 Start menu should return in August, thanks to new, faster release cycle

Microsoft, recognizing the disappointing truth that iOS and Android aren’t going to being chivalrous and slow down while it fixes Windows 8, is planning to speed up its release cadence yet again. The original plan was to push out a large update every 12 months, rather than releasing a whole new operating system every three years. Now, however, it seems the next major update will arrive as soon as August or September, just a few months after the release of Windows 8.1 Update 1. Yes, this means that, after a very odd 18 months in limbo, the Start menu will officially return this summer.

At its Build developer conference at the start of April, alongside the official unveil of Windows 8.1 Update 1, Microsoft teased the audience with a new Start menu and the ability to run windowed Metro apps on the Desktop. Everyone was rather excited: These were the two main features that keyboard-and-mouse users had been clamoring for since Microsoft first revealed the new Metro Start screen way back in June 2011. At the end of the demo, as the audience gave Microsoft a resounding why-did-this-take-you-three-years? round of applause, Microsoft’s OS chief Terry Myerson dropped the bombshell that these features would come in a “future update.”

Obviously, given Microsoft’s rather lackadaisical approach to updates, we thought it would be another 12 months until the Start menu and windowed Metro apps actually made it to Windows 8. Not so: According to the (surprisingly accurate) Russian leaker Wzor, Update 2 is coming in September. ZDNet and The Verge, citing their own sources, say that the update is coming in August. None of these sources are confirming that the Start menu will return in August/September, but it’s fairly likely. Windowed Metro apps might make it into Update 2, but they could also be pushed back to Windows 9 (currently due in spring 2015).

Windows 8.1 Update 1 Desktop
Windows 8.1 Update 1 (the current version of Windows). Metro apps can be minimized to the taskbar, but they can’t yet be run in a window on the Desktop.
The Windows 8.1 Start menu, when it eventually returns, will look like a hybrid of the Windows 7 Start menu and the tile-based Windows 8 Start screen. There will be the usual apps list, folder hierarchy, and search box on the left — and a bunch of live tiles on the right. Presumably the live tile section will be configurable (and hopefully removable as well, though Microsoft probably won’t be that graceful in defeat). The windowed Metro apps will basically let you run Metro-style apps on the Desktop — you’ll be able to minimize them to the taskbar, resize them, and drag them freely between monitors. This still doesn’t fix the problem of Metro apps being intrinsically hard to use with a mouse and keyboard, though. (If you don’t want to wait for the official return of the Start menu, check out these third-party Start menu replacements — they’re pretty good!)

While consumers should be rightfully excited by the long-overdue return of the Start menu, Microsoft’s shift to a rapid release cycle may cause problems in business/enterprise settings. When it comes to large-scale PC deployments, Windows is it, and has been for some 20 years. IT and sysadmins are used to a much more sedate Windows release cycle, giving them plenty of time to test and plan rollouts to hundreds or thousands of computers. Earlier in the month, Microsoft upset a lot of businesses by announcing that it would only support Windows 8.1 for 30 days after the release of Update 1 — a window that was later increased to 120 days due to backlash.

Microsoft would love to release Windows updates every few months so that it can keep pace with the iOS and Android competition — but doing so might alienate the large businesses, institutions, and enterprises that make up a sizable portion of Microsoft’s revenues. It will be interesting to see how Microsoft ameliorates the vastly different requirements of consumers and businesses.

Source: Extremetech

Fastest Mobile Networks 2014 needs your help

Everyone thinks they know which mobile network is the fastest, which is the most reliable, and which has the best coverage in their area. Chances are that you have some pretty good anecdotal evidence about the correct answer for each question, but the simple fact is that someone should do some real testing to figure out which of Cleveland’s mobile networks is the fastest and if Verizon actually is more reliable than Sprint in Philadelphia. That’s exactly what PCMag’s Fastest Mobile Networks does each year.

Our colleagues at PCMag organized Fastest Mobile Networks (FMN) in order to quantitatively test which of the nation’s major mobile networks were the fastest in each segment of the country, which was the most reliable, and which had the best coverage. It turns out that this sort of testing is a huge undertaking, but by getting six cars, filling each with eight LG G2 smartphones, and then sending it on a predetermined course around the country, it’s possible to get a good idea about the status of the nation’s mobile coverage. These routes cover 30 major cities and all the areas between them, with a huge amount of data collected along the way.

FMN 2014The FMN car fleet is very good at what it does, but it can’t offer complete coverage of the country. That’s why the other component of Fastest Mobile Networks data is crowdsourced. Anyone in the US with a mobile device can load up Sensorly’s free app (available on both Android and iOS), take a speed test, and contribute their anonymized data to the test. There are other reasons to keep the app after you do the test, such as for coverage maps and data usage analysis, so you’ll be doing more than helping out the FMN team when you download it.

Fastest Mobile Networks 2014 runs from May 1 until the end of the month, during which time people will contribute their own data and the cars will be making their way across the country. You can follow the team’s progress at @pcmphones and get live updates from each driver. At the end of the testing period PCMag’s team will pool the data, choose each area’s best carrier, and then decide which of America’s mobile networks reigns supreme.

The final results will be freely available on PCMag.com — not hidden away in a white paper or bundled into an expensive report — so you’ll be able to see the outcome you contributed to and get a better idea of which network is the best in your part of the country.

Microsoft will announce new Surface on May 20, may switch to Qualcomm for next-gen ARM device

Microsoft has signaled that it’s going to update its Surface at an upcoming announcement on May 20 with a new Intel product. If rumors are accurate, we’ll see a new ARM device as well, possibly powered by a Qualcomm solution rather than the Nvidia SoCs that the company used for both the Surface RT and Surface 2. Surface sales were up by 50% last quarter, with total revenue of $494 million — but the Surface cost of revenue was $539 million, which keeps the entire segment in the hole.

Using Qualcomm for a new miniature Surface (possibly something in the seven to 10 inch range) makes sense for multiple reasons. While Nvidia originally planned to deploy two versions of the Tegra 4, the lower-end Tegra 4i has never shipped in volume to US customers (though the upcoming privacy-focused Blackphone will reportedly use this SoC). Microsoft was likely looking to trim power consumption and performance for its smaller device, and Qualcomm has a number of Snapdragon 600 products that could do it. That doesn’t mean Redmond is unhappy with Nvidia as a partner, but the Tegra manufacturer just may not have had a preferred solution for this segment.

Surface x86: Bay Trail or Haswell?

The other interesting question is whether we’ll see a Bay Trail-powered Surface mini or a point refresh on Surface 2 Pro. The problem with the latter is that Microsoft already did a recent CPU upgrade to the newer Surface; the Core i5-4300U replaced the Core i5-4200U earlier this year. Intel doesn’t really offer anything else that constitutes an improvement in the 15W TDP category — there’s the Core i5-4350U, which swaps CPU clock for additional GPU horsepower, and a Core i7-4510U with a slightly higher top-end frequency and an extra 1MB of L2 cache, but those are pretty slim pickings to hang an upgrade on.

Intel could give Microsoft a limited-edition Broadwell part (effectively launching its 14nm hardware early), but that’s the kind of move that would infuriate every other OEM partner.  The other alternative is that the company will launch two Surface mini tablets — an x86 flavor and ARM one. Whether this bifurcated strategy would confuse customers is an open question — in fact, the entire future of the ARM side of the Windows business is an open question, and one that Microsoft has previously hinted it might resolve by killing its Windows RT business. We know Bay Trail is powering a great many other Windows 8.1 small tablets, so using it in Mini-Surface 2 wouldn’t be unprecedented.

What Microsoft does with its miniature Surface tablet should signal exactly how serious it is about building an ARM ecosystem. If it keeps an ARM flavor in play (regardless of SoC vendor), it’ll mean it remains committed to developing for both architectures. If the Qualcomm rumor isn’t true, then launching an x86 miniature tablet (again, using Haswell or Bay Trail) will signal its decision to move back towards an x86-only shop.