INDIA in 2014

Apple rumor claims new 12-inch MacBook Air and iWatch

2014-03-23T01:47:00.001-07:00

Apple rumor claims new 12-inch MacBook Air and iWatch

A new forum post on a china’s website Weiphone.com (use Google Translation), which has revealed a number of details about Apple’s upcoming plans for its MacBook notebooks as well as some details about its iWatch initiative.

Some of the important details revealed by website :

1. MacBook Air updates are coming soon; MacBook Pro updates won’t occur until September.
2. He discusses a new 12 inch notebook without fan assembly. It comes with a new trackpad design that doesn’t include the mechanical button, as we do on current MacBooks.
3. An Apple watch device does exist but still in prototype stage, so its announcement won’t come anytime soon

Motorola rolling out new system software update for Moto G

2014-02-26T09:05:00.001-08:00

Motorola rolling out new system software update for Moto G

India's Best Online Tech News Hub

2014-02-26T08:22:00.002-08:00

Finally after a long suffer I had launched India's best Technology related news website : WebSpydr
Here are some popular post by WebSpydr:

1) Samsung Galaxy NotePro 12.2 goes on pre-order at Samsung e-store

2)Motorola rolling out new system software update for Moto G

Source: WebSpydr.In

"India in 2013" total posts b/w 2012-2013

2013-06-10T17:22:00.003-07:00

1. How to increase twitter follower

2. UPTU Top 10 Engineering Colleges 2013

3. India's Top 100 Engineering Colleges 2013

4. Jiah Khan committed suicide at her Juhu residence

5. Indian-American teen invents 20-second charger

6. Today's Top Searches on Google

7. India's Economy 2013

8. Amazing Agatti Island,Lakshadweep, India

9. Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" rock the world of desktop OS

10. World's first smartphone for the blind, made in India

11. Asia's largest Tulip garden, Srinagar, Kashmir, India

12. Google+ Hangout is doing wonders !

13. Lotus Temple, New Delhi, India

14. Indian Games which now disappear

15. Beautiful Chandra Taal, Himalayas, India

16. Father of Indian Cinema

17. This is Great ! - Oldest university on earth is reborn after 800 years

18. Amazing ! Great Banyan Tree, Kolkatta, India

19. Andaman and Nicobar Islands

20. Amazing Architecture

21. The Forest Man of India

22. Symbolism of India

23. Switzerland in India

24. Beautiful Lake in the World

25. IIT JEE 2013

26. India's 10 top Engineering Colleges in 2013

27. India's biggest shopping mall : Lulu shopping mall

28. Happy Holi....

29. Online Earning through Survey

30. Finally Afzal Guru has been hanged in Tihar Jail

31. 72nd Birthday of Ghazal King "JAGJIIT SINGH"

32. Pranab Mukherjee promulgates ordinance on crime against women

33. Konark Sun Temple : A milestone of Indian architecture

34. Munnar Hills : A Perfect Holiday Destination in India

35. Join the movement "India Against Corruption" to save India

36. Future of smart phones and its OS : Linux OS

37. Samsung's T900 Fridge runs on Google's Android

38. LabVIEW Basics Tutorial

39. Happy 64th Republic Day

40. Online earning solution

41. Delhi Gang Rape Eye Witness Interview , Must Watched

42. India's Tallest Building

43. Happy Makar Sankranti

44. Impact of FDI on Indian Economy

45. FDI : Foreign Direct Investment

46. Social Networking : Craze of youth

47. Remain unsolved Indo-Pak relationship

48. Swami Vivekananda : The Legend

How to increase twitter follower

2013-06-08T23:25:00.000-07:00

Hello Blogger are you ready to increase your Twitter follower, if yes then proceed to read the post.
Twitter is one of the most popular, useful and unique type of social networking site.Twitter is useful
for all , celebrities use it to share there views with their follower , companies use it for advertising
their sales and product, news and media use it to spread latest news , event etc and they have large
no. of follower.But what about common people like you me or someone else, for us also its very
useful site someone use it to follow their favourite celebrities, companies and someone use it to get
updated by latest news,event,product etc and they doesn't have much follower .
So for common people here is a way of increasing their follower. If you use twitter for gathering
follower or advertising purpose then this is perfect for you, but if you use twitter for news and
updates or follows only specific people just like me then,I personally recommend don't use this why?
first you read then I explain it at last.

Follow the following steps

1. Create a twitter account, if already have just ignore.

2. After creating account go to unfollowers.me and register your twitter account here.

3. Unfollowers.me is just a website where you track who follows you and who unfollows you, but its
milestone feature is that you can follow the people who already register in them and they follow you
back.

4. In this website go to the Explorer option on list at top of the website.

5. In Explore option you find there is many people account categories by interest and by following
them you get specified point from that people.

6. Now here you do two things
i) Choose any specific interest section and Follows those people.
ii) Or randomly select the people in any interest and follow them.

The people you can follow they follow you back. Means , if you can follow 50 people then you get 50
follower.But its not always works sometimes you can follow 50 people and only 30 will follow you back
In this case just waiting for 2 days if they not follows you yet then unfollows those how not follows
you back and that hows this website works.

7. You can follow the people in Twitter from unfollowers.me website and they must follows you
back(80%) and if someone not follows you back or unfollow you after following you can just
unfollow them.

8. At one time a day you can check the unfollowers.me website where you can easily find
i) Recently your follower
ii) Recently who unfollows you
iii)People who you follow don't follow you back.
Go to the "People who you follow don't follow you back" option the and if you want you can
unfollows those who don't follow you back and same thing to do for going "Recently who unfollows
you" option.

9. From unfollowers.me website you can follow maximum 100 people/day and maximum of them will
follow you back , if they not then you wait 1 day and at last you go to the option
"People who you follow don't follow you back" and unfollow them.

10. You follow those people who follows you. And check the regular chart on unfollowers.me and
you easily manage your whole Twitter account from unfollowers.me.

How its work

Two basic working principle of the unfollowers.me "I will follow you, you will follow me Or You follow
me,I will follow you back" and "You not follow me , I will also not follow you" .
Unfollowers.me is a website which join by those people who interest to gather followers , so thats why
you also join it. It means all user of Unfollowers.me want bunch of follower in any cost so when you follow any user of this website then its 85% sure they will follow you back because they want follower and they will know that if they not follow you back you also unfollow them and thats how its work, but 15% exception comes when you follow somebody which already has large no. of follower and they wouldn't want to follow you back , In this case you simply unfollow them .
Whenever you join this site you get "20 points" which is shown right side of website in green rectangle background. When you go to the Explorer option you will find that every user who listed have some
follower points which write in their follow green button like " + Follow 2 points" its means you get 2
points from respective user when you follows them , but if the user follows you back you doesn't get
these point means you get either 2 points or 1 follower . Simply when anybody follow you some point
will deducted and when you follows that guy then your points will safe .
How large is your point,that large no. of follower you get.You also buy points from Unfollowers.me
wedsite,but it doesn't recommend by me.

Conclusion

If you are getting confused then flush you confusion just do this join Unfollowers.me website , go to
Explorer option and start following people keep it in mind you have a limits 100 people/day, how
much people you can following that much follower you get , regularly unfollow those whose don't
follow you back ,also follow those who follows you. Regularly check your stats on Unfollowers.me.

If you use twitter to catch the latest activities news etc or
following only specific people then I doesn't recommend
this way to increase follower because after reading this
post you are now know how its works, so when start following
users from Unfollowers.me then your following people list increase with full of random people and your tweet deck is
full with random tweets and your useful tweet by your
favourites or specific people is missing in these tweets.
So if you are ready to compromising with that then you
use this if not then not use this unnecessarily your following
list will increases.

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"Subscribe" button or Follow me on Twitter @rishikeshydv.

UPTU Top 10 Engineering Colleges 2013

2013-06-07T13:09:00.003-07:00

UPTU(GBTU &MMTU) result was out and now time for choose college on the bases appropriate ranking. So here is the unbiased ranking of top 10 colleges of Uttar pradesh (GBTU & MMTU)2013

Rank Engineering Colleges Govt./Private UPTU Code

1. HBTI , Kanpur Government 045

2. IET , Luckhnow Government 052

3. M.M.M. Engineering College, Gorakhpur Government 042

4. Bundelkhand Institute of Engineering & Technology , Government 043
Jhansi

5. JSS Academy of Technical Education , Noida Private 091

6. Krishna institute of engineering and technology, Private 199
Ghaziabad

7. Kamla Nehru Institute of Technology , Sultanpur Government 104

8. A.K. Garg Engineering college , Ghaziabad Private 27

9. Dr. K.N. Modi Institute of Engineering & Technology, Private 077
Modinagar

10. G.L.A institute of Technology and Management, Mathura Private 063

India's Top 100 Engineering Colleges 2013

2013-06-05T14:12:00.001-07:00

Rank Engineering college Govt./Private

1. Indian Institute of Technology IIT Kanpur, Kanpur (Government)

2. Indian Institute of Technology IIT Madras, Chennai (Government)

3. Indian Institute of Technology IIT Bombay, Mumbai (Government)

4. Indian Institute of Technology IIT Delhi, Delhi (Government)

5. Indian Institute of Technology IIT Kharagpur, Kharagpur (Government)

6. BITS Pilani, Pilani (Private)

7. IIT Roorkee, Roorkee (Government)

8. IIT-BHU, Varanasi (Government)

9. NIT- National Institute of Technology, Trichy (Government)

10. Delhi College of Engineering, New Delhi (Government)

11. College of Engg , Anna University, Guindy (Government)

12. NIT- National Institute of Technology, Warangal (Government)

13. IIT-Guwahati, Guwahati (Government)

14. Jadavpur University , Faculty of Engg & Tech, Calcutta (Government)

15. NIT- National Institute of Technology, Suratkal (Government)

16. Motilal Nehru National Inst. of Technology, Allahabad (Government)

17. Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad (Government)

18. BIT, Mesra, Ranchi (Private)

19. Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh (Government)

20. IIIT, Hyderabad (Government)

21. Thapar Inst of Engineering & Technology, Patiala (Private)

22. Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, New Delhi (Government)

23. Bengal Eng and Science University , Shibpur, Howrah (Government)

24. Malviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur (Government)

25. VNIT, Nagpur (Government)

26. IIIT, Allahabad (Government)

27. MANIT, Bhopal (Government)

28. PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore (Government)

29. Harcourt Butler Technological Institute, Kanpur (Government)

30. NIT- National Institute of Technology, Kozhikode (Government)

31. Dhirubhai Ambani IICT, Gandhinagar (Private)

32. Osmania Univ. College of Engineering, Hyderabad (Government)

33. College of Engineering , Andhra University, Vishakhapatnam (Government)

34. NIT- National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra (Government)

35. NIT- National Institute of Technology, Rourkela (Government)

36. SVNIT, Surat (Government)

37. Govt. College of Engineering, Pune (Government)

38. Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal (Private)

39. NIT- National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur (Government)

40. NIT Durgapur, Durgapur (Government)

41. NIT Silchar (Government)

42. JNTU, Hyderabad (Government)

43. R.V. College of Engineering, Bangalore (Private)

44. Nirma Institute of Technology, Ahmedabad (Private)

45. University Visvesvaraya College of Engg., Bangalore (Government)

46. VJTI, Mumbai (Government)

47. Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore (Private)

48. Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Coimbatore (Government)

49. SSN College of Engineering, Chennai (Private)

50. College of Engineering, Trivandrum (Government)

51. NIT- National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur (Government)

52. NIT- National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar (Government)

53. SIT, Calcutta (Government)

54. Mumbai University Inst of Chemical Tech., Mumbai (Government)

55. Sardar Patel College of Engineering, Mumbai (Private)

56. P.E.S. Institute of Technology, Bangalore (Private)

57. Maharashtra Institute of Technology, Pune (Private)

58. NIT- National Institute of Technology, Raipur (Government)

59. IIIT, Bangalore (Government)

60. IIIT, Pune (Government)

61. IIIT, Gwalior (Government)

62 NIT- National Institute of Technology, Patna (Government)

63. Amrita Institute of Technology & Science, Coimbatore (Private)

64. National Institute of Engineering, Mysore (Private)

65. B.M.S. College of Engineering, Bangalore (Private)

66. Laxminarayan Institute Of Tech., Nagpur (Government)

67. Amity School of Engineering, Noida (Private)

68. JNTU, Kakinada (Government)

69. S.J. College of Engineering, Mysore (Private)

70. Chaitanya Bharathi Inst. of Technology, Hyderabad (Private)

71. SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai (Private)

72. SASTRA, Thanjavur (Private)

73. Bangalore Institute of Technology, Bangalore (Private)

74. The Technological Inst. of Textile & Sciences, Bhiwani (Government)

75. JNTU, Anantpur (Government)

76. M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore (Private)

77. Gitam , Vishakhapatnam (Private)

78. SV University Engineering College, Tirupati (Government)

79. Vasavi College of Engineering, Hyderabad (Private)

80. The ICFAI Inst of Science and Technology, Hyderabad (Private)

81. Cummins Colleges of Engg of Women, Pune (Government)

82. VIT, Pune (Private)

83. Shri Ramdeo Baba K.N. Engineering College, Nagpur (Private)

84. Muffakham Jah Engineering College, Hyderabad (Private)

85. Karunya Institute of Technology, Coimbatore (Private)

86. D.J. Sanghvi, Mumbai (Private)

87. Sathyabhama Engineering College, Chennai (Private)

88. Kongu Engineering College, Erode (Private)

89. Mepco Schlek Engineering College, Sivakasi (Private)

90. Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Ludhiana (Government)

91. Hindustan Inst of Engineering Technology, Chennai (Private)

92. SDM College of Engineering, Dharwad (Private)

93. R.V.R. & J.C. College Of Engg, Guntur (Private)

94. Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, New Delhi (Government)

95. K.L. College of Engineering, Veddeswaram (Private)

96. Dharmsinh Desai Institute of Technology, Nadiad (Private)

97. S.G.S. Institute of Technology & Science, Indore (Government)

98. Jabalpur Engineering College, Jabalpur (Government)

99. Sree Chitra Thirunal College of Engineering, Trivandrum (Private)

100. G.H. Patel College of Engg & Technology, Vallabh Vidyanagar (Government)

Source: Wikipedia , Dataquest , Outlook

Jiah Khan committed suicide at her Juhu residence

2013-06-03T14:12:00.000-07:00

There is heart breaking news for Bollywood that Nishabd actress Jiah Khan, also known as Nafisa Khan, has passed away. While a few in the industry say that she committed suicide, the cause of her death is currently unconfirmed.

Dia Mirza, who replaced Jiah in Tumsa Nahin Dekha, broke the news on Twitter “RIP Nafisa (Jiah) Khan. You were too young and beautiful…”

Tanuj Garg of Balaji Motion Pictures also tweeted “Just heard the shocking news about Jiah Khan ! Such a sweet, pleasant and friendly girl !”

Apart from Amitabh Bachchan’s Nishabd, Jiah also had a significant role to play in Sajid Khan’s Housefull and A.R Murugadoss’ Ghajini.

Amitabh Bachchan, who heard the news tweeted " -WHAT ...!!! Jiah Khan ??? what has happened ? is this correct ? unbelievable !!!"

The last tweet tweeted by Jiah khan on tweeter is
"So sorry I have been off twitter! Took a bit of a break from twitter verse.. sometimes u need a sabbatical to recollect ur thoughts" on 24th May

Police sources said that the incident happened at about 11pm and no suicide note was found. The body has been sent to Cooper Hospital for postmortem.

UPDATE: There are reports that she committed suicide at her Juhu residence and was declared dead at the hospital. The police is yet to confirm the news.

More soon. Stay tuned to Indicine.
For more detail go to source

Source :The Times of India

Indian-American teen invents 20-second charger

2013-05-20T09:54:00.000-07:00

Now mobile get charge in less then 20 sec ,its sound weird but true. An 18-year-old Indian-American girl has invented a super-capacitor device that could potentially charge your cellphone in less than 20 seconds.
Eesha Khare, from Saratoga, California, was awarded the Young Scientist Award by the Intel Foundation after developing the tiny device that fits inside mobile phone batteries, that could allow them to charge within 20-30 seconds.

The so-called super-capacitor, a gizmo that can pack a lot of energy into a tiny space, charges quickly and holds its charge for a long time.According to Khare, her device can last for 10,000 charge-recharge cycles, compared with 1,000 cycles for conventional rechargeable batteries.

The gadget has so far only been tested on an LED light, but the good news is that it has a good chance of working successfully in other devices, like mobile phones.

Today's Top Searches on Google

2013-05-13T14:06:00.001-07:00

India's Economy 2013

2013-05-10T21:33:00.000-07:00

Indian economy is likely to grow at 6.4 per cent rate in 2013, outpacing the 6 per cent expansion in developing Asia-Pacific economies in the same period, a United Nations report on Thursday said.

"India is expected to recover from its relatively low 5 per cent growth in 2012 to 6.4 per cent in 2013...Economic growth in the developing countries of Asia and the Pacific is projected to inch up to 6 per cent in 2013," United Nations' Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 2013 said.

Unveiling the report here, Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council (PMEAC) Chairman C Rangarajan said: "India's economic growth in 2013-14 will be better than 2012-13, but will be lower than the pre-crisis level. We need to organise ourselves to go back to pre-crisis level of growth rate."

According to International Monetary Fund ( IMF), Indian economy is projected to grow by 5.7 per cent in 2013 calendar year. Economic growth in FY'13 is expected to be at decade low of 5 per cent due to global slowdown, according to estimates.

In the Budget, Finance Minister P Chidambaram had said the government was targeting a growth of 6.1-6.7 per cent for the current fiscal.

From a high over 9 per cent GDP growth for many years prior to the 2008 crisis, the economy grew 6.5 per cent last year and is projected by analysts to slow down further to a decadal low of 5.5 per cent or even lower this fiscal.

Meanwhile, the increase in economic growth of the developing Asia-Pacific nations to 6 per cent in 2013 from 5.6 per cent in 2012 is partly due to an expected improvement in global demand arising from steady, although sub-par, growth in the United States and a limited rebound in the performance of major emerging economies, the UN report added.

Growth in China is forecast to reach 8 per cent in 2013, slightly up from 7.8 per cent in 2012. Republic of Korea's economic growth is forecast at 2.3 per cent in 2013 against 2 per cent in 2012. Economic growth in Singapore is forecast to be 3 per cent in 2013 from 1.3 percent in 2012.

In contrast, as a group, growth of Pacific island economies is projected to decelerate in 2013 due a sharp energy sector slowdown in Papua New Guinea, which is by far the largest Pacific island, the report said.

Meanwhile, talking about India's current account deficit (CAD) which has touched a record high of 6.7 per cent in the October-December quarter of last fiscal, Rangarajan said," I believe that macroeconomic stability is necessary pre-condition for faster economic growth. Keeping CAD at an appropriate level is extremely important."

Asked impact of falling commodity prices on India's economy, Rangarajan said: "In general, if commodity prices come down then it will be beneficial for countries like India."

Courtesy :The Economic Times

Amazing Agatti Island,Lakshadweep, India

2013-04-29T13:02:00.000-07:00

Spectacular Agatti Island, Lakshadweep, India

Below is the picture of Agatti Aerodrome, located on the southern end of Agatti Island, in the union territory of Lakshadweep in India. It is the sole airstrip in the archipelago, which lies off the west coast of India.

Agatti Island has a breath taking spectacle of sparkling coral reefs, turquoise blue lagoons, silvery beaches and lush green coconut palms. It is one of world's most spectacular tropical islands

Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" rock the world of desktop OS

2013-04-27T20:35:00.002-07:00

The Ubuntu team is very pleased to announce the release of Ubuntu 13.04 for Desktop, Server, Cloud, and Core products.
Codenamed “Raring Ringtail”, 13.04 continues Ubuntu’s proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. This release cycle has seen a significant push toward daily quality, which has allowed most developers and users to participate more actively throughout the cycle, and we feel this also shows in the final quality of this release.
Along with performance improvements to Unity, updates to common desktop packages, and updated core and toolchain components, Ubuntu 13.04 also includes the new Friends service, to consolidate all social networking accounts via Ubuntu Online Accounts. Also included is a tech preview of Upstart’s new user session feature.

Ubuntu 13.04 default desktop

Ubuntu Server 13.04 includes the Grizzy release of OpenStack, alongside deployment and management tools that save devops teams time when deploying distributed applications – whether on private clouds, public clouds, x86 or ARM servers, or on developer laptops. Several key server technologies, from MAAS to Ceph, have been updated to new upstream versions with a variety of new features, and a preview of the new Go rewrite of Juju is available in the backports repository.

To be fair, Ubuntu 13.04 is a good, solid release. It has a more finely tuned and polished Unity shell, with incremental improvements in the Linux kernel and in all the major preinstalled applications. But that's it —
no amazing new features. It even loses a couple of things: there's no ability to install the GNOME classic shell (unlike GNOME 3.8 which does offer a classic mode); and no WUBI (Windows-based UBuntu Installer).It is possible to install a GNOME 3 shell (version 3.6.3.1 at present) from the Ubuntu Software Centre, but if you don't like Unity, GNOME 3 may also not appeal, as you cannot even scale the size of its icons (or at least not without editing the gnome-shell.css file). Alternatively for GNOME die-hards there is now an official remix of Ubuntu, called GNOME Remix.

The GNOME 3.6 desktop, as installed on 13.04 from the Software Centre. 'Show Applications' has been selected, showing that the icon scale is rather larger than Unity's.

WUBI has always been a promotional tool for Ubuntu — a way to tempt Windows users to trial Ubuntu with very little effort. With the extra security features of Windows 7 and now Windows 8, Microsoft has, coincidentally, made it much harder for other operating systems to share a machine with Windows. WUBI has therefore been dropped from 13.04 and the Desktop download page on the Ubuntu website provides specific advice for installing Ubuntu on a computer running Windows 8 or using UEFI firmware.

Arguably, 13.04 has lost three things because Gwibber, the social networking client, has gone too. The recent introduction of the Qt/QML application development toolkit prompted Gwibber's author to update and rewrite it. As part of that process, the application was renamed Friends and as it's not yet fully developed it's no longer part of the default installation set. You can install it separately from the Software Centre though.

Another casualty of Dash rationalisation: the drop-down

text navigation, hidden on the left-hand end of the

desktop bar in 12.10 (above), is now gone in 13.04.

What might have been: Smart Scopes

Early on in the development cycle, Mark Shuttleworth hinted at plans for some startling new features in Ubuntu 13.04. However, the only new feature that briefly surfaced was Smart Scopes, which promised to short-circuit the browser by extending the scope of the Dash search bar.

So keen were Shuttleworth and the Ubuntu developers to include this feature in Raring Ringtail that a slip on the feature freeze date for the beta was authorised to try and accommodate it. This still wasn't enough time, however, and Smart Scopes are currently slated for Ubuntu 13.10.

Smart Scopes are designed to allow you to search for anything, anywhere (local or online) by entering a simple search term to the Dash search. The existing Dash scopes would remain the same (Home, Applications, Files, Music, Pictures and Video displayed as icons across the bottom of the Dash pane), but the Dash Filters are to be expanded with many further scope modifiers helping to increase the accuracy of the search. Online searches will be referred to a Canonical-maintained server using a learning algorithm (hence the 'smart') to refine searching.

Unity 7

In Unity 7 a new-look Nautilus file manager adds file operations icons in a bar above the folder and file window. This seems slightly at odds with the principle of the text drop-down menus for the current application always appearing at the top of the display in the desktop menu bar. The top-level text menu for navigation that used to appear in the desktop bar in 12.10 has now gone, so the only way to navigate to Computer, for example, is via the left-hand panel menu in Nautilus.

New file operations icons occupy a bar at the top of the Nautilus window.

As mentioned in our Beta 1 preview some Ubuntu icons; the Ubuntu button, the Files icon, the Software Centre icon and the Software Updater icon, have been redesigned.

New icons for Unity 7: the Software Centre icon and Software Updater icon now share an 'A' element and the predominantly orange theme with the existing Ubuntu One and Ubuntu One Music icons.

New icons for Unity 7: the Software Centre icon and Software Updater icon now share an 'A' element and the predominantly orange theme with the existing Ubuntu One and Ubuntu One Music icons.
Apart from the changes to Nautilus and the new icons, many of the differences in Unity 7 are subtle and you might not notice them unless you were running two machines side by side performing the same tasks, one with Unity 7 and one with the previous version. These include: fuzzy search for application names in Dash; faster rolling reveal for launcher icons that overflow the bottom of the launcher bar; a further application-switching method using the mouse scroll wheel; and in the options list revealed by right-clicking on the applications launcher icons, if two instances of an application are open a dot appears next to the instance that has the focus.

Linux Kernel 3.8.0-19

Improvements to the Nouveau driver in the 3.8 kernel (the previous Ubuntu 12.10 release uses the 3.5 kernel) mean that 3D acceleration is now supported, for all of the GeForce graphics chips available so far, without the need for further configuration. However, better performance may still be achieved via Nvidia's proprietary driver. Intel graphics are also well supported.

There are improvements to the file systems too, with support for Samsung's F2FS (Flash-Friendly File System) and upgrades to the still-experimental Btrfs and Ext4.

Preinstalled applications

The preinstalled application on Ubuntu 13.04 are: LibreOffice 4.0.2.2 (office suite); Firefox 20.0 (browser); Thunderbird 17.0.5 (email client); Rythmbox 2.98 (music player); Shotwell 0.14.1 (photo manager); Remmina 0.9.99.1 (remote desktop client); and Brasero 5.6.1 (CD/DVD burner).

Better Social Media Integration

Ubuntu's Online Accounts preference pane has some handy new features. Now, when you add an account (like a Facebook or Twitter account), you can choose which apps on your system have access to it. Want Shotwell to access your Facebook photos, but don't want Empathy using it for Facebook chat? You can turn it off here with the flick of a switch.

The Dash also has a new Social lens (see the top image in this post), which allows you to see status updates from the friends you follow in your integrated social media apps. It also gives you notifications of new messages or mentions coming in, which is kind of cool.

What's next?

Mark Shuttleworth and Canonical have a stated goal of creating a platform-agnostic operating system — that is, an OS that will run on desktop PCs, laptops, tablets and smartphones, all presenting the same user interface with touch support.
Current plans indicate that operating system convergence is to occur with the release of Ubuntu 14.04, due on 24 April 2014. A number of consequences seem to be rippling back from this aim point as the Ubuntu developers get to grips with what will be necessary to achieve this convergence. I've mentioned plans to move from X Windows to the Wayland display server in previous Ubuntu release reviews. One result of the convergence plan is that Wayland has now been dropped in favour of Mir, Ubuntu's own display server, which is currently under development.
Another consequence is that some of the features that were to be included in 13.04 have been shelved in favour of presenting a polished and solid release, with most of the improvements residing behind the scenes. As a result, Raring Ringtail may seem a bit of a disappointment. Some new features should appear in October's 13.10 release, but you'll have to wait until 14.04 for the really big changes.

Availability

Download Ubuntu 13.04 at: www.ubuntu.com/download
Find out about developing for Ubuntu at developer.ubuntu.com
Download Ubuntu Touch Preview onto spare devices here.
Get involved with Mir here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mir/GetInvolved

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World's first smartphone for the blind, made in India

2013-04-18T17:38:00.003-07:00

The world's first smartphone for blind people is here. Soon, they will be able to read SMSes and emails on this phone, which converts all text into Braille patterns.
"We have created the world's first Braille smartphone," says its innovator, Sumit Dagar, whose company is being incubated at the Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship, located in IIM Ahmedabad campus. "This product is based on an innovative 'touch screen' which is capable of elevating and depressing the contents it receives to transform them into 'touchable' patterns," he says.
Dagar, who is a post-graduate from the National Institute of Design (NID), says he was motivated to develop the device when he realised that so far, technology was only serving the mainstream and ignoring the marginalised. He is collaborating with IIT Delhi on making the prototype, which is currently being tested at L V Prasad Eye Institute in Hyderabad.
"The response during the test has been immense. It comes out as a companion more than a phone to the user. We plan to do more advanced versions of the phone in the future," Dagar adds.
Dagar started the project three years ago while studying interaction designing at NID. After working with a couple of companies, he gave up his job to concentrate on his technology, formed a team of six people and started his venture, Kriyate Design Solutions. Currently, the venture is being funded by Rolex Awards under its Young Laureates Programme, in which they select five people from across the world every two years and fund their projects.

How it works

The smartphone uses Shape Memory Alloy technology, based on the concept that metals remember their original shapes, i.e. expand and contract to its original shape after use.
The phone's 'screen' has a grid of pins, which move up and down as per requirement. The grid has a Braille display, where pins come up to represent a character or letter.
This screen will be capable of elevating and depressing the contents to form patterns in Braille.

· All other elements are like any other smartphone.

Source:Times Of India

Asia's largest Tulip garden, Srinagar, Kashmir, India

2013-04-08T18:47:00.003-07:00

Asia’s largest Tulip garden on the banks of Srinagar’s Dal Lake opened this week for both tourists and local residents. The Floriculture department hasplanted 2.3 million bulbs over an area of 15 hectares with 80 varieties of the flower added this year.

Google+ Hangout is doing wonders !

2013-04-08T18:47:00.000-07:00

Google+ Hangout is powering the education of underprivileged children in Indian cities of Kolhapur (Maharashtra) and Kolkata (West Bengal), where two NGOs are using the power of the Internet and virtual classrooms to conduct classes in English and Mathematics.

Kolhapur-based organisation Helpers of Handicapped (HoH), is using the web to provide quality education to about 500 underprivileged children. Through Google Hangout, the HoH school has connected to a school run for slum children in Kolkata, and to another school for the underprivileged in Ahmednagar.

The teachers are quite excited about the prospects of remote education and the excitement of the students is also quite understandable.

Thank you +Google+

Lotus Temple, New Delhi, India

2013-04-08T18:46:00.000-07:00

The Lotus Temple, located in New Delhi, India, is a Bahai House of Worship completed in 1986. Notable for its flower-like shape, it has become a prominent attraction in the city. The Lotus Temple has won numerous architectural awards and it’s the most visited building, attracting more visitors than the Taj Mahal.

Indian Games which now disappear

2013-04-08T18:45:00.001-07:00

Listed below are some of the games that were once played across the streets of the country, which are now fast disappearing, taking away the fun & frolic along with it !

Lagori: Two teams, seven stones, a ball and target.
Lattu: A solid turnip shaped wooden toy, spinning top.
Hopscotch: A tile piece with a flat surface and six boxes drawn in style.

Gilli Danda: Combination of four inch danda and a gilli.
Kancha(Goti): Rounded green glass balls, strike and play.
Pallanghuzi: A traditional game played in South India, a wooden board with fourteen pits and shells.

Let us keep these games alive, else the next generation will be able to read them about it in the books only !

Beautiful Chandra Taal, Himalayas, India

2013-04-08T18:44:00.000-07:00

Chandra Taal or The Lake of the Moon is situated at an altitude of about 4,300 m in the Himalayas. The name of the lake originates from its crescent shape.Mountains of scree overlook the lake on one side, and a magnificent cirque presents a view on the other.

Father of Indian Cinema

2013-04-08T18:42:00.002-07:00

100 years of Indian Cinema - Dadasaheb Phalke, Father of Indian Cinema

It was 100 years ago that the first-ever Indian movie was made by a visionary who broke all barriers to launch the world's largest film industry. Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, popularly known as Dadasaheb Phalke was an Indian producer-director-screenwriter. He directed and produced Raja Harishchandra, a silent film in 1913, which is the first full-length Indian feature film and marathi feature film. He made a total of 95 movies and 26 short films in his career spanning 19 years, till 1937.

The Dadasaheb Phalke Award, for lifetime contribution to cinema, was instituted in his honor by the Government of India and is the most prestigious and coveted award in Indian cinema.

This is Great ! - Oldest university on earth is reborn after 800 years

2013-04-08T18:41:00.000-07:00

Nalanda University in Bihar, India, was the first great university in recorded history and one of the world's first residential university. In its heyday, it accommodated over 10,000 students and 2,000 teachers. Originally the university was established in 5th century AD by Gupta Kings. It was destroyed in a war in 1197, when it was just the same time that Oxford was being established and Cambridge had not yet been born.

Nalanda will rise again, thanks to a high-level international team of consultants, including Nobel laureate Prof Amartya Sena. The new university will also be residential, offering courses in science, philosophy and spiritualism along with social sciences. The first academic session is set to start from 2014.

Experts believe the establishment of the university would act as a global reminder of India's history as a center of learning and culture.

Amazing ! Great Banyan Tree, Kolkatta, India

2013-04-08T18:39:00.001-07:00

The Great Banyan tree is a Banyan Tree in Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden, Howrah, Kolkatta, India. It is over 250 years old and in spread it is the one of the largest in the World. The Great Banyan looks more like a forest than an individual tree. The area occupied by the tree is about 14478.44 square metres. The present crown of the tree has a circumference of 1.08 kilometres and it has 2880 aerial roots reaching down to the ground.

And Banyan is the National tree of India !

Andaman and Nicobar Islands

2013-04-08T18:37:00.002-07:00

Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India

Love to get lost in a far away paradise? Welcome to Andaman and Nicobar Islands!

The Andaman and Nicobar Islands are a group of islands at the juncture of the Bay of Bengal and North-east of Indian Ocean, and are a Union Territory of India. The total land area of the territory is approximately 7,950 km. Andaman & Nicobar Islands are blessed with a unique tropical rainforest canopy, made of a mixed flora and endemic floral strains. The territory is home to 270 species of birds & 225 species of butterflies, including some of the larger and most spectacular of the world.

Amazing Architecture

2013-04-08T18:36:00.003-07:00

Amazing Architecture - Mamallapuram, Chennai, India

Varaha Cave Temple, an example of Indian rock-cut architecture dating from the late 7th century, is a rock-cut cave temple located at Mamallapuram, Chennai in the state of Tamil Nadu, India.This is a part of the Group of Monuments at Mahabalipuram and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The Forest Man of India

2013-04-08T18:34:00.003-07:00

Great effort ! Jadav Payeng, India - The man who made a forest !

Jadav Payeng, a man in his mid-fifties, has been instrumental in converting a sand bar in the middle of the river Brahmaputra in Assam, India, into a huge forest. He started his project 30 years ago when he was still a teenager. "Mulai", as he is known among locals, started work on the land in 1980. A scheme was launched at that time by the social forestry division of the district, involving the planting of trees on only 200 hectares. The project was completed after 5 years and all the laborers left, except Mulai. Dedicated to the forest, he stayed on and single-handedly looked after the trees. He not only looked after the plants, but continued to plant more trees on his own effort slowly transforming the area into a big forest. Total area of the forest is about 1000 hectares and now it is known as Mulai forest.

He has been honored by Jawaharlal Nehru University on Earth Day for his remarkable achievement.It’s truly amazing when we see people who single-handedly create something truly significant.

Well done "Forest Man of India"