We live in a time when text messaging is more common than just about any other form of communication available to us. It would not be a far stretch to say that more people would send a text message before they would pick up the same cell phone and call someone. This is our reality now, whether we like it or not. The advancements and improvements that have been made to cell phones in recent years definitely allow texting to be far easier.

Advantages of Texting With a BlackBerry

One cell phone that has truly reinvented the art of texting is the BlackBerry. This innovated cell phone did something so huge and exciting that it instantly became a hit among consumers. The BlackBerry incorporated the infamous QWERTY keyboard on its device, which allows users to send texts quickly and accurately.

The QWERTY keyboard is designed just as the keyboard that is found on any standard laptop or computer. This eliminates the old school way of texting where T9 was the only option, and you had to push each button on your phone two to three times to get the letter you desired. It was slow and it was frustrating, and honestly pretty lame. Thank goodness times have changed! With the keyboard function on the BlackBerry, no longer do you have to push each button multiple times, or go through a long list to find the punctuation mark you desire. Each letter has its own button, and with the ability to use both hands, it’s possible to type without even looking.

The BlackBerry makes texting and instant messaging fun. In this age where people can text faster than they can speak, it is so beneficial to be able to have a keyboard right at your fingertips. Unlike many other cell phones that may have only a keypad, the BlackBerry allows its users to accurately type their thoughts whether they be in the form of a text message, an email, a note or reminder, or a status update.

The keyboard feature of the BlackBerry helps to eliminate errors and simple mistakes that often happen during typing. Keypads are designed for failure, and touch screens are so sensitive that in the end, what appears on the screen is nothing like the original thought. So if you are looking for something that will launch your texting and instant messaging to the next level, the BlackBerry is by far the way to go.

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Just last week HP announced that it had managed to make a rack unit with 288 chips that took up only seven inches of space. The EnergyCore chip from Calxeda that was used in the rack consumed only a fraction of the energy that other “energy efficient chips” used. Yes, last week was a great week for energy efficient computing.

This week has also started off with an energy efficient bang. Intel announced its newest chip “Rosepoint,” which will feature a built-in Wi-fi radio and will possess cutting edge power-saving technology.

Rosepoint is still being developed, but the fact that the engineers at Intel have been able to fit a Wi-fi radio into a chip represents a huge leap in computing. The chip could hit the market in smartphones and mobile devices by the middle of the decade. The fact that this chip is digital means that it will be much easier to scale down than the traditional analog radios. The scalability of the chips will mean our phones and tablets have the potential to shrink to even smaller sizes.

Fitting a microprocessor with a Wi-fi radio was previously thought to be on the verge of impossible because of the conflicting signals the parts would be sending. Engineers were afraid the two parts would cause too much distortion in the signal; similar to the way a cell phone will cause distortion when it is placed next to a speaker. Intel’s engineers have found ways around that, so the technology is now moving forward.

Chief Technology Officer Justin Rattner said the company is also planning on building a digital cellular radio chip. This could dramatically reduce the complexity of the engineering that is required to build a smartphone, which could lower prices and increase quality for mobile devices in the future.

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There is nothing else that can pain somebody badly than to be thinking of downloading an important file from the internet connection, in the course of doing that, noticed that he would not be able to do it due to low internet connection rate. I know that such person will not be happy because of the importance of taking such an action.

Downloading from the internet as we all know do consume most our internet connection bandwidth, and the only person that can browse, and download from the internet without the connection getting slack is someone who is using an unlimited internet connection coupled with good connectivity option (the “always online” capacitive internet connection with good speed).

Today, I will be talking about ways to use in making your internet connection to work better and become useful at downloading files faster from the web.

1. Use Google Mobile Friendly Site

One thing that you should find testing out whenever you discover that your internet connection is no more performing at its best speed, is to change your approach of using it. You can make use of Google’s mobile friendly feature on google.com homepage to browse when your internet is slow than usual. It is because; this feature will let you reduce the size of the website you’re trying to access overnight.

And moreover, you will also be able to access the site faster than the time it is going to takes you to access the same site on a normal internet connection package.To use the Google mobile friendly service, follow the link ascribes here (www.google.com/gwt/n/). Then enter the URL of the site you want to visit or download from, and from there, everything will keep on becoming easier for you.

2. Install Internet Download Manager

Internet download manager as the name implies; means applications that was majorly developed for a person who wishes to download files from the web faster but are using slow speed internet connection. If you are a kind of person who always have problem in downloading files from most of the secured download sites on the internet, then making use of IDM will make your work easier.

3. Limit Your Download Rate for More Left-Behind Bandwidth

Limit the amount of software and huge files that you’re downloading from the internet on daily basis. And apart from software and applications, browsing several websites on the web is also an act of downloading, and this act also requires an internet bandwidth. And that’s why you will need to limit the amount of things you use your connection for so that you can find it useful when you need it most.

4. Prevent Your Connection from Others Apps Trying To Use It

You may not know that this used to takes place on your computer before. You might find it difficult to believe that there are application softwares that are currently making use of your internet connection without your permission. This kind of application can be referred to as malware and spyware. It functions just as a normal computer software application by sending the data from one computer to another without the owner’s awareness.

Use good antivirus to combat these deadly applications and make your computer lively again and you shall experience good internet connectivity afterward. By making your internet connection lively with this tricks…then you can be sure of accessing the internet and downloading important files to your computer without hassle.

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The green initiative isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, it just keeps moving forward. If you haven’t already done so yet, you might as well jump on the bandwagon and start making small changes in your life that will be better for the environment around you. The changes can be simple and easy switches, but you may be stuck for inspiration.

If you’re looking for ways to go green, well, there’s an app for that. These are some of the best “green apps” on the market right now to help you change your life and your environment.

1. Green Genie

Green Genie is the most basic green app out there, but it’s also the most powerful and most informational. It’s like the beginner’s guide for anyone looking to live a greener lifestyle. There are hundreds of green “projects” you can tackle and features a huge community of people willing to share their experiences and ideas for green projects. Projects can even be as simple as learning about why it’s so helpful to bring your own grocery bags to the store, and with a community there for help and support, the ideas really are limitless.

There’s even a “green directory” in this app that lists essential green reading and recommends websites that explain the benefits of going green and easy ways to make the changes. It also features a plastics directory that explains what all of those labels and numbers on recyclable items actually mean and where the items themselves are or are not recyclable.

The app is only $0.99 and packs a ton of useful information, so it’s totally worth the buck. On top of all of the info, it also gives you ideas on how to save money while going green, so the app will end up paying for itself and then some.

2. Carticipate

Perhaps one of the best ways to go green is to produce less carbon emissions, and one sure fire way to do that is to drive less. Carticipate lets you schedule your trips to and from certain points, and invite your friends or share with others so they can offer to carpool with you.

If you share your trip schedules with friends, it’s easy to coordinate driving plans to eliminate the need for several cars all going to the same place at the same time. Carticipate, though, is also a social community where users can opt to share their schedules with everyone else and hook up with others driving the way they need to be going.

As long as you’re not afraid of strangers, it’s a great app to find other people who are trying to go green and it will help you reduce your carbon footprint (a measure of how much your actions affect the environment and, in particular, climate change). The app is totally free, so it’s easy to start connecting with carpoolers whenever you’re ready to go green!

3. GoodGuide

GoodGuide is an absolute must-have app for the next time you go grocery shopping. It features a bar code scanner that allows you to scan a product while you’re shopping, and it will reveal nutritional and environmental information on the product before you decide to buy it.

It scans products for information involving nutrition, animal welfare, safe and healthy ingredients, energy efficiency, human rights and more, depending on how you customize the app to let it know what’s most important to you.

Once scanned, the app will tell you if the product passes your criteria and give it an overall rating in terms of health and environmental factors. It’s a science-based app that’s available for free, and it’s worth getting if you’re interested in eating healthier, more environmentally-friendly foods on a regular basis.

4. Green Charging

This is a simple $0.99 app that alerts you with sounds and vibrations when your iPhone is fully charged. Electricity is a huge contributor to greenhouse gas emissions and you can help reduce them by unplugging your phone as soon as it’s done charging so as not to waste electricity.

The app can calculate how much talk time and how much standby time you have left on your current charge, and then notifies you when the battery is full once you plug it in. It’s as simple as that. Save energy, save money, save the environment.

5. iRecycle

iRecycle is an easy to use app that helps you locate recycling centers no matter where you are. This free app lets you choose a category of products that you have to recycle and sorts nearby recycling centers based on the materials you have.

There is also a recycling community that offers advice and more knowledge and recycling centers, making this one perfect for beginner greenies. Taking the small step to start recycling can be a great first leap toward going green.

6. Green Me

Once you’ve started to make some changes in your lifestyle to go green, start keeping track of what you do each day to help out your environment. Green Me encourages you to do at least 5 green things each day and helps you keep track of and manage all of the environmentally-friendly things you do.

It’s only $1.99, and it offers a calendar that allows you to visualize how much you’ve done for your environment in a day, a week or a month. The app rates how “green” you’ve been on each given day by color coding the days on your calendar in different shades of green.

If you’re striving for a greener lifestyle, this app is a perfect way for you to keep track of your progress!

Jackie Ryan is a freelance writer and environmental activist. Her stash of Rubbermaid trash cans and recycling bins is overflowing in her home, but she knows that recycling is one of the quickest and most efficient ways to help your environment. She encourages everyone to go green in some way, shape or form!

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From Scalado, a pioneer in imaging technologies and mobile applications, I present this new application called Remove that allows us to automatically select objects that do not interest us in a photograph taken prior to deleting them.

The issue is that when we capture a fairly good clean photograph it is sometimes impossible in some sights of a city or in certain situations. The application lets just solve these problems by eliminating unwanted objects and people who do not want to appear in the photograph background.

The application will available for download from February 27, as will be presented at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona 2012. I leave here with the Youtube video that briefly shows the operation of the application:

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Angry Birds is here on virtually all platforms and now wants to go further into Angry Birds Space. Is expected to travel off-planet takes place in March, when Rovio interplanetary launch a new version of the game Angry Birds Space.

Angry birds space would be the fourth major update of Angry Birds, and incorporate some new variables: the players will catapult the colorful Angry Birds Space out of the new planets to Earth, dealing with the lack of gravity, puzzles and super slow motion speed. “We think fans will love it because so far we have received incredible feedback on the physics of our games,” said Andrew Stalbow Rovio to Yahoo Games.

Stalbow not joking when it comes to physics: NASA and National Geographic will Rovio partners for the launch of this title. The game will also include new birds, plus we have been using so far, with new super powers.

Angry Birds has been downloaded over 700 million times on multiple platforms since its launch in 2009.

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Do you like Facebook? Of course you do…everyone seems to have and use pone regularly these days. While you probably know how to generally tag people on the social networking site, you might not know all of the ideas that allow you to do it in fun ways. While is this handy little guide will seek to show you tagging on Facebook.

Tagging Tip #1 – Status Tagging on Facebook

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If you went out with a friend and had a great time you wanted to tell people about, or maybe you want to make a joke involving one of your friends, you can easily tag them within your status. Just write the status update and begin typing in their name. A drop down menu of possible friends will come up, and when you click on the name it will create an active link to their profile in the status itself. You can keep the whole thing, or erase the first or last name while keeping the link intact.

This can also be done in comments on yours or other people’s threads. When either is done, the person you tagged will get a notification about it and be able to see what you wrote. It will also come up on their wall for others to view.

Tagging Tip #2 – Tag To Share Photos

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When you upload a picture containing a friend, you can easily tell others who they are or give the friend access to show it on their own profile. Just upload the photo and click the Tag Friends button under the image. This will let you select the portion of the picture you wish tagged, such as their face, and then you can type in their name. Once you put in a few letters the drop down menu will give you potential selections, which you can click.

This will do two things. First, it will allow people to scroll over the image and see the tagged names. Second, it will provide a tag in the description with an active link to their profile. If they choose, the friend can remove the tag or refuse to have it shown on their profile.

Tagging Tip #3 – Tag Someone In A Note

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Notes can be handy, because sometimes there is just too much to say to keep it within the confines of a status update. But if you want specific people to read it you can tag them just before publishing, and a notification will be sent out to them so they can slick the link and be sent to the note itself. Then they can read and comment as they see fit.

Tagging Tip #4 – Tag Someone In A Joke Photo

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Whether it is an image meme or just something you found interesting and amusing, you can tag someone in a photo that they are not in just as easily as those they are. Just go through the same process as you would with regular photo tagging.

Conclusion

Tagging on Facebook is just fun. You get to really get the attention of who you are speaking to, share with your friends and even have a laugh. The possibilities are pretty wide, so get on your profile and enjoy yourself!

Author – Jessy is a Facebook user and social media blogger for LifeInsuranceFinder.com.au, the free life insurance comparison app. Did you know that 3 Facebook users die every minute? Scary!

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Surprisingly and without rumours that he anticipated, Apple today launched Mac OS X Mountain Lion for developers, the new version of OS X Mountain Lion, originally released in July last year.

This would be the OS X Mountain Lion version 10.8, you see the light at only seven months of the launch of its predecessor. The system is a “developers preview”, so that it is not complete. The version for the general public will arrive in this mid-year 2012. Overall, Apple seeks integration between their platforms, merging the operating system even more with IOS.

OS X Mountain Lion incorporates several features that allow you to synchronize and work together with other devices in the company, such as iPhones and iPads.

News

 icloud and shared documents

• On the side of icloud, deepens the synchronization with the cloud of the company on the block, including iWork documents, which will automatically storing copies in the cloud, similar to what you already do in iOS 5 with Pages.
• In Finder you will see a real-time list of all documents stored in icloud, depending on application. You can create document folders by simply dragging one another, very similar to IOS.
• You can edit a document in Mountain Lion and then an iPad, and changes alone are synchronized through the cloud.

Share

• Mountain Lion adds a button to “share” in many applications, which allows for example to send a URL by mail or Messages from Safari. Same with photos, videos, documents, etc.. Share is not limited to applications produced by Apple – so far Vimeo and Flickr have partnered to work the same way.
• Apple will provide developers an API for this feature, so you also can use it.

Integrated Twitter

• Perhaps one of the most interesting things, Apple joined Twitter in Mountain Lion as it is integrated into IOS, ie you can share anything on Twitter directly from the operating system, only a few clicks.
• It works much like walking in IOS. Need to access your account from Mountain Lion, and no client to download any special. Twitter work “in the background” so you can share what happens when you want. Thus, there is no way yet to read the @ replies or DMs, but this is expected to be integrated to the Notification Center in the final version.

Messages, Reminders and Notes

• Added the application “Messages”, which replaces iChat with some changes and a new interface. The application meets chat messages and messages from IMessage, as FaceTime conversations.
• Messages is available today on Mac App Store for use in Lion. The final version will come with the official launch of Mountain Lion.
• Mountain Lion also adds Reminders, an application for making lists included in iOS 5. Also synchronized between devices in the cloud.
• Notes also included in this OS, but added the option to add photos. You can put notes on your desktop (as a post-it). It also works with icloud.

Notifications

• One of the important features included in IOS is the choice of notifications “push” that appear as they occur. This also added to OS X now, through a “Notification Center”, bringing together all messages. The notification center appear to the right of your screen when you click a special button that will be in the top right corner of the menu. Slide two fingers on the touch trackpad also lets you open the center, which displays all the notifications that you have-
• You can receive two types of notifications: alerts and “banners”. Alerts will appear in a pop up, and you close them or read them. The banners will be displayed only 5 seconds in the upper right corner of your screen, then disappear. You can configure what you want for what kind of ads for each application.

Game Center and Air Play

• This application also jumps from IOS to OS X. This “social gaming network” has more than 100 million registered users, according to Apple, with over 20,000 games available for IOS. This should start to have support for Mac on.
• Somehow, this should enable people to play between Mac-iPhone-iPad, regardless of the device.
• AirPlay also comes to OS X: If you can project your desktop monitor to an Apple TV via AirPlay, turning the TV into an extra monitor.

Security

• Apple integrated a new security system called “Gatekeeper”, which amounts to a kind of recognition from the company that really is malware threats against the system. Gatekeeper delivers user control over the types of applications that can be installed on the computer. Give three options: allow applications anywhere (it works now), allow only applications on the Mac App Store, or allow Mac applications App Store and developers identified.
• The third option will be enabled by default to come into the operating system, which means you can not install any applications you download just Internet on your machine unless you change this setting.
• One issue that is sure to be controversial is that to be a “developer identified” need to actually be a developer for the Mac App Store, which costs $ 99 per year. No need to sell apps through this platform, but Apple will have to “identified” you have to be on your list.

Others

• The address bar in Safari now allows you to find (as in Chrome)
• Mail now has an area “VIP” where you can make your most important contacts (such as Priority Gmail Inbox)
• He joined a box to search Launchpad
• There seems to be changes in speed, power consumption and boot time, at least in the development version.

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Using Twitter to market your blog and business is becoming more commonplace; however a lot of people making Twitter mistakes are under-utilizing it or ineffectively tweeting to their followers. If you’re trying to promote your work via Twitter then make sure that you are doing so the right way and not falling victim to these common pitfalls:

1. Tweets that sound automated

When you’re composing tweets make sure that they have a touch of personality to them so that you don’t come off sounding like a robot. People aren’t interested in automated tweets, but they are interested in tweets that sound like a real person is behind them and that offer useful information.

2. Don’t flood Twitter

Tweeting over and over again back to back is commonly known as “flooding” Twitter and can end up negatively impacting you and costing you followers. You come across as over-aggressive when you send out a lot of tweets in a row, so make sure to put some space in between them to allow time for others to tweet too.

3. Not updating your profile

Having an updated Twitter profile gives your Twitter some much-needed life. It’s important to update your picture from the standard egg to one of you or your logo, to fill out the details for yourself, your blog, or your business, and to get a customized background so people know you are a legitimate person and not just a spam account.

4. Over selling

While you should definitely be promoting new blog posts, products, and services on Twitter, you have to make sure that you also break it up with other tweets as well. No one wants to be sold to all the time so it’s important to vary the types of tweets you’re sending out to your followers.

5. Not utilizing Twitter’s networking capabilities

Twitter is a wonderful resource for connecting with like-minded business people, mentors, and customers or readers who can give helpful feedback, and not utilizing it for these things is a grave mistake. You can constantly improve the quality of your business or your blog through networking on Twitter – take advantage of it!

While Twitter can really help grow your business and your blog’s traffic, when it’s used in the wrong way it can also end up hurting it. Approach it with professionalism and humanity and you’ll reap the rewards. Be be professional and don’t make any more Twitter Mistakes.

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Since the release candidate version of SQL Server 2012 is now available for download, and will not be long for the final version is a good idea to start to know what’s coming back and i am sharing ten free resources for you to know this software.

Here are some ideas to catch up:

1. Download SQL Server 2012 RC0!
2. You can also download the SQL Server 2012 Express RC0
3. Walk the 16 virtual labs available for you to try the different features.
4. SQL Server Data Tools CTP4. The CTP (Community Technology Preview) number 4 of the “Data Tools” that allow you to develop tools for SQL Server in a much more professional.
5. Download SQL Server 2012 RC0 Semantic Language Statistics, the statistical database language semantics, which is a required component for the characteristic “Semantic Search”.
6. Tutorials SQL Server 2012 RC0 in the MSDN Library: find tutorials on creating features such as tabular or multidimensional models, advanced view, and more.
7. Go to the documentation of SQL Server 2012 RC0.
8. Visit the Resource Center SQL Server 2012 on MSDN.
9. Find samples of databases and files that you can use to learn to use new features.
10. Download the online books available for SQL Server 2012.

Link : SQL Server 2012

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