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Value Wizz is Transfered to www.valuewizz.com

noreply@blogger.com (Awais Akram) — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 05:39:00 +0000

I have just transfer my Blog from blogspot to wordpress i-e http://valuewiz.blogspot.com/ to www.valuewizz.com . Now stay tuned with Value Wizz to find out more.

How to Hide Your Important Data from Other Users?

noreply@blogger.com (Awais Akram) — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 06:03:00 +0000

Normally when you need to secure your important data from other users, then your first choice is to burn it on CD or put it to removable drive instead of hard drive. But imagine if your data size is more than 100 GB then it is not easy to burn it on CD. No worry, you can save your full drive from other users access using this trick.

To enable this feature, you will need to be logged into your computer with administrative rights. First click on Start button to open "Run" and type "CMD" (without the quotes) then press Ok button to open Command Prompt.

Now type diskpart on the blinking cursor and wait for 5 seconds to appear diskpart> utility.

To show the list of volume, type list volume command after the diskpart> prompt, this command will show you all system drives detail.

Now first select the volume that you want to hide, for example,

if you need to hide F drive then first type select volume 2 (in this case) and press enter button.

After loading volume, type remove letter F (in this case) to hide F drive.

Now exit from command prompt and open My Computer to verify drives. But next time, when you want to unhide the D drive, just run assign drive F command after loading volume 2.

Twitter Announces New Website Interface with photos, video

noreply@blogger.com (Awais Akram) — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 05:18:00 +0000

Evan Williams announced a fresh redesign to the biggest Twitter client, Twitter.com. The design draws on many of the innovations first seen in the official iPad app, and you'll see a new multi-pane view that lets you easily click between tweets, profiles, hash tags and other Twitter features.

Clicking on a tweet that contains a picture link will load the picture inline within the Twitter experience, saving you from having to jump to an additional page. Similarly, clicking tweets with video and people will load playable video and profile panes, respectively. You'll also see that much of the navigation (searches, lists, @replies) has been moved to the top of the site.

Again you'll be able to scroll endlessly through tweets and dig down into conversations, and Twitter is also adding keyboard shortcuts to help you move around within the site. Video services like YouTube, Vimeo and Ustream will be supported, and Williams announced that all major Twitter picture hosting services are supported. A small group of users will be able to access the new design, and the site will launch worldwide soon.

Find out more at Twitter.

SpeedOut: How to know USB Drive Speed

noreply@blogger.com (Awais Akram) — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 05:27:00 +0000

USB drives have their own read and write speeds and based on this speed you can use it for specific purposes like playing a game directly from the drive etc. SpeedOut is a simple freeware tool which tells you about the read and write speeds of your USB drive. The application is completely portable and does the testing of reading and writing into the drive before arriving at the actual speed of your USB drives.

You can even use this program to get the speed of external hard disks. The testing does not effect any existing files available in the USB drive nor any data is added to it. The interface is dead simple and all you need is to select the drive and click the start button.

Download it now

5 Tips for Using Gmail Priority Inbox

noreply@blogger.com (Awais Akram) — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 05:13:00 +0000

It’s been a week since Google launched Priority Inbox, and now that you've hopefully had a chance to try it out, Google share some tips to help you manage your email more efficiently. Here are five ways you can make Priority Inbox work even better for you.
1. Customize your Sections
By default, Priority Inbox has three sections: "Important and Unread," "Starred" and "Everything Else.” But that doesn't mean you have to leave them that way. You can make a section show messages from a particular label (like your “Action” or “To-do” label), add a fourth section, or change the maximum size of any section.

2. Train the System
If Gmail makes a mistake, you can help it learn to better categorize your messages. Select the misclassified message, then use the importance buttons at the top of your inbox to correctly mark it as important or not important.

3. See the Best of Your Filtered Messages
You can set up Priority Inbox to show you not just the best of your inbox, but also the best of messages you filter out of your inbox and might otherwise miss. Just change your Priority Inbox settings to “Override filters” and Gmail will surface any important messages that would otherwise skip your inbox.

With this option turned on, you can use filters to archive more aggressively and worry less about missing an important message.

4. Use Filters to Guarantee Certain Messages Get Marked Important (or not)
If you read and reply to a lot of messages from your mom, Gmail should automatically put incoming messages from her in the “Important and unread” section. But if you want to be 100% sure that all messages from your mom (or your boss, boyfriend, client, landlord, etc.) are marked important, you can create a filter for messages from that sender and select “Always mark as important.” Similarly, if you regularly read messages from your favorite magazine, they should automatically get marked as important.

5. Archive Unimportant Messages Quickly
One of the features that can help make you more efficient is the ability to archive all of the visible messages in the "Everything Else" section at once. Just click on the down arrow next to "Everything Else" and select the "Archive all visible items" option. If you want to be able to archive even more messages at once, you can increase the maximum number of messages that show in that section from the same drop-down.

Facebook Tests New Pages Discovery Tool

noreply@blogger.com (Awais Akram) — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 05:39:00 +0000

Facebook began testing a new Pages discovery tool called the Pages discovery browser. The tool shows some of the most popular pages in your network as well as a list of friends who you have the most shared interests with. It’s an interesting tool,One has to wonder how this will be integrated in the future.

The page is divided into a number of categories: musicians, sports, celebrities, movies, tv shows, media, politicians, brands, and games. While the algorithm is effective at discovering those Pages the user is most likely to want to fan (through some combination of mutual interests and general friend interests), it’s not clear how a user navigates to the page without visiting the page directly. Also of interest is the ability to browse pages by country, although it’s not quite clear how these pages are being selected. While it’s definitely an interesting product, we currently have no idea how this will integrate. If you want to find new Pages though, head on over to the Facebook pages browser.

How to Monitor CPU Temperature

noreply@blogger.com (Awais Akram) — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:51:00 +0000

Core Temp is a freeware tool which allows you to monitor your CPU core temperature and provides you with lots of options to customize. Core Temp is not just for displaying the temperature, it can also alert you when the processor works in too hot of an environment as well as take protective action when user-defined thresholds are reached. Core Temp works on all versions on Windows, both 32 bit and 64 bit.

The application provides over heat protection which enables you to set the temperature or monitor automatically. When overheating occurs, you can shutdown or sleep the PC. Core Temp also has a logging feature, allowing a user to easily record the temperature of his processor(s) over any period of time, then the data can be easily transferred into an excel datasheet for easy graphing.

The settings menu allows you to customize the application. The application comes with in build support for Windows 7 taskbar and displays the information. It is supported on all Intel Core and Core 2 based processors as well as the whole AMD’s Athlon64 line of CPUs.

Download Core Temp

Facebook Adds Remote Logout Feature

noreply@blogger.com (Awais Akram) — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:20:00 +0000

If you're constantly forgetting to log out of Facebook when you use other people's computers or phones, Facebook's new remote logout feature is here. Under Account Settings (specifically, the Account Security section), you can now see a list of places where you're currently logged in, along with some info to help you determine whether each session is legitimate or unauthorized. And, of course, you also have the option to log any of those sessions out.

Based on the approximate location (determined via IP address), the time the session started, and the browser and OS, you should be able to tell whether you just forgot to log out at work, or whether someone else has accessed your account. You can also sign up to be alerted via email or text when someone tries to log in from a device that you haven't registered with Facebook.

The service isn't available for everyone yet, but it's rolling out now, and it should reach you soon if you don't already have it.

How to Clean up your Gmail Inbox Automatically

noreply@blogger.com (Awais Akram) — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 19:44:00 +0000

Gmail has always had an excellent spam filter that keeps junk messages out of your Inbox. Then, earlier this week, Google added a reverse feature that is quite unique to Gmail – it’s called the Priority Inbox. Priority Inbox is like having a personal secretary whose job is to sort your incoming mail based on importance.

Priority Inbox is something similar it’s an intelligent, self-learning filter that automatically puts your most important email messages at the top of your Inbox so that you may deal with them first. The feature is now live for both Gmail and Google Apps email accounts.

Sort your Existing Emails Automatically

Priority Inbox has one limitation – it works with incoming emails only and doesn’t really care about the hundreds and thousands of messages that are lying in your Inbox unattended.

Other Inbox scans your mailbox for less-important emails and sorts them into relevant categories. For instance, email alerts from from CNN, BBC, Google News, etc. would go into the News folder while messages from Amazon, iTunes, etc. will find their place in the Shopping folder.

You just have to authorize Other Inbox to access your Gmail account once and it does the rest automatically. Other Inbox is reasonably good at categorizing your emails but you also have the option to choose your own labels (see next screenshot).

Depending up the size of your inbox, it might take anywhere between 5-10 minutes for the whole process to complete.

If you ever want to clear your inbox of all notifications from Twitter and Facebook, you can simply open the “Social Media” label and empty it with a click.

That said, a lot of us will obviously not feel very happy sharing our mailboxes with a third-party. Now they do have a privacy policy in place and you can always manually revoke access to sites that are authorized to access your Gmail and Google Account.

How to Make your Windows Start-up Faster

noreply@blogger.com (Awais Akram) — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:59:00 +0000

Does your Windows computer take really long to start-up? Well, you are not alone with this problem but fortunately, you can get your Windows to start much faster without re-installing Windows or adding any new hardware. The logic is fairly simple. Your computer loads quite a few software programs and services during start-up (look at all the icons in your Windows System tray). If you can trim this list, your computer’s boot time will decrease.

There is a free utility called Soluto and it helped reduce the start-up time of my Windows computer from 3.15 minutes to around 1.25 minutes. All this with a few easy clicks and without confusing the user.

After you install Soluto, it sorts your start-up programs list into three categories:

No-brainer – remove these programs from start-up with giving a second thought.
Potentially removable – another list of start-up programs that may also be removed provided you know what these programs do.
Required – Certain programs and services are required to run Windows properly and therefore should not be removed.

Depending upon the software app, you may then either choose “Pause” to completely remove that app from the start-up queue or choose “Delay” when you want the app to run automatically but not immediately at start-up. Soluto will launch the “delayed” app once the boot up is over and your system is idle.

You can also hover the mouse over any program name and Soluto will display the number of seconds that the app adds to the start-up time. And don’t bother about making mistakes because Soluto has a useful “Undo all” feature that will restore the start-up list to the original state with a click.

Where to download Soluto?

The official site for Soluto is soluto.com but in order to download the program, you should head over to mysoluto.com.

Alternatives to Soluto

If you are tech-savvy, you can also use a utility like Sysinternals Autoruns to manually prevent all the non-essential Windows processes and programs from running at start-up.

Just uncheck all the Autorun entries and Services that you don’t wish to load at startup and reboot your system.

How to Test the Strength of Password Online

noreply@blogger.com (Awais Akram) — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 05:50:00 +0000

Every time you wonder how strong your password should be? Now its very easy Just type your password in the input box of How Secure is my Password and this tool will tell you how long it would take for an average desktop computer to crack your password using the Brute Force method.

The tool uses the simple formula “(number of possible characters ^ password length) / calculations per second” to derive that number but it can also determine if you are using one of the common passwords (like qwerty or 123456) that can be cracked instantly.

“How Secure is my Password” runs inside your browser through JavaScript and therefore your passwords won’t be transmitted anywhere while you are checking their relative strength.

How to Check the Health of Your Hard Drive

noreply@blogger.com (Awais Akram) — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 05:25:00 +0000

Hard disk failure is possibly the worst thing that can happen to your computer and it often occurs without giving any warning signs. You may however run certain tests on your computer beforehand to get an idea about the current condition of your hard disk. This should in turn help you decide whether a replacement drive is necessary or not.

Step 1: Check your Hard Disk for Errors

All recent versions of Windows include a utility called Chkdsk.exe that can check your hard disk for any bad sectors. You may either run Chkdsk from the command line (see details) or launch Windows Explorer, right click the drive that you wish to examine and choose Properties. Switch to the Tools tab and click the “Check Now” button under Error checking. Select “Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors” to perform a thorough disk check.

Step 2: Understand the Sounds of your Disk

Do you sometimes hear strange sounds coming out of the CPU box? Well, if the hard drive is making those sounds, it could be an alarming situation and your best bet would be that you turn off the computer before any further damage is done to the disk. But how do you distinguish between sounds coming from a hard disk with noise that’s made by the fans or the power supply? Here’s a useful page where you can listen to recorded sounds of various hard drives that have lead to a crash. If your disk is making a similar sound, get a replacement quickly.

Step 3: Catch Errors Before They Happen

Disk Checkup is a free hard disk monitoring utility that displays tons of diagnostic data about your disk. While the level of detail it provides may easily confuse even tech-savvy users, just ignore the numbers and keep the utility running in the background. It monitors your disk’s temperature, read and write error rate, etc. and will alert you when the values of any of these parameters approach dangerous levels. These may be signs of an impending disk failure. Disk Checkup is free for personal use.

Step 4: Thoroughly Test your Hard Disk

SeaTools is free diagnostic tool that can completely test your hard drive regardless of the OS installed on it.

To get started, you need to download the ISO image of SeaTools for DOS and create a bootable CD. Now boot the computer with the CD in the drive, accept the license agreement and run a long test (the full scan). If any defects are found, a list will be offered at the end or after aborting the disk scan.

YouTube to Launch pay-per-view Movies in Future

noreply@blogger.com (Awais Akram) — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:45:00 +0000

Google’s YouTube video site is negotiating with Hollywood’s top movie studios to launch a pay-per-view movie service by the end of this year. YouTube is the dominant online destination for user-generated content. But the Google division wants to turn it into an international on-demand movie service in an effort to head off Apple in the digital distribution of film and TV shows.

Google has been emphasizing its advantage of having the world’s most popular search engine and YouTube, the FT said, citing unnamed sources.

“Google and YouTube are a global phenomenon with a hell of a lot of eyeballs more than any cable or satellite service,” one executive with knowledge of the plans told the FT.

Negotiations have been taking place for a few months, but they have taken on more urgency because Apple could be launching its own counter-move this week. Rumors suggest that Apple will upgrade its ailing Apple TV service this week at a press conference in San Francisco on Sept. 1. Google will likely have to compete with Netflix and Hulu as well.

The Hollywood studios, meanwhile, want to launch new movie services to make up for the decline of DVD movie sales and rentals. The FT said viewers of the Google movie service would stream rather than download movies at a rate of $5 for new films. YouTube has been beta-testing a film rental service since January.

Calendar's Event Scheduling Feature is Back on Google

noreply@blogger.com (Awais Akram) — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 07:03:00 +0000

Last year, Google Calendar tested a feature that made it easier to schedule events with guests. The "sneak preview" was only available for a few months, but now it's back. Google calls it "find a time" and you can use it when you create an event. "If you're able to view your guests' calendars (via sharing, Google Apps shared access, or because they've made their calendars public), you'll be able to compare schedules and pick a time that works for everyone.

Google Calendar redesigned the page that lets you create events and added a more intuitive dialog for repeating events. "The old interface for creating recurring events was clumsy and took up too much space on the screen," admits Google. "Now you'll see only a summary of your recurring event on the main event page; if you want to edit it, you can use a window that opens when you select the 'Repeats' checkbox."

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Google Adds more Official Themes for Chrome

noreply@blogger.com (Awais Akram) — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 06:56:00 +0000

Google has introduced half a dozen new official Chrome themes, but you won't find them if you click the get themes link on your Personal Stuff menu. No, like the scores of user-created themes out there these new themes from Google have been dropped into the Extensions Gallery. The plan is to list everything in the Gallery at some point (possibly once it's re-branded as the Web Store?), but it really shouldn't be hard to give themes their own section on the existing Gallery.

The new themes are called Modern, Adaptive, Vibrant, Inventive, Fresh, and Orkut_Hudson. They're artist-created, and generally not for those of you who like Chrome's interface to be as unobtrusive as possible -- some are downright loud.

Hotmail Users Can Receive SMS Alerts

noreply@blogger.com (Awais Akram) — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 04:56:00 +0000

Hotmail can notify you when an important email has been received by issuing a mobile alert to your phone via SMS. You can receive alerts for all new messages By using mobile alert filters, you can specify what emails are to trigger the alert.

1. Go to Windows Live Hotmail and login to your account.

2. Go to the upper-right corner and mouseover your name.

3. Select Options.

4. Using the menu on the left side of the page, select Mail.

5. Go to Customize your mail and select Mobile alerts for new messages.

6. If you haven’t validated your phone with Hotmail, you will need to do so to proceed. Follow the directions (simply inputting your phone number, waiting for a text message and then inputting the validation code).

7. Under Which Hotmail messages do you want to receive mobile alerts for?, select the Messages I specify using mobile alert filters radio button.

8. Click the Save button.

9. You will then be taken to the Manage rules page. Click the New button to create a new filter.

10. Under Step 1, use the first drop-down to select what field you want Hotmail to check. Options are Sender’s address, Sender’s name, To/cc address, Subject, or Message has attachments.

11. Use the second dropdown to select the proper value (is, contains, contains word, does not contain, begins with, or ends with).

12. Input the proper value (an email address, person’s name, etc.) into the textbox.

13. Under Step 2, select the Mobile alert radio button.

14. Click the Save button.

Repeat the Create Rule steps from above to add additional filters. When you receive an email that meets the proper criteria, Hotmail will send you a mobile alert stating who the message is from and the subject of the email.

How to Avoid Surprises on Twitter

noreply@blogger.com (Awais Akram) — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 05:36:00 +0000

If you would like to prevent apps from fiddling with your Twitter stream without asking, the easiest solution would be to not use them at all. That’s however an extreme approach as you’ll then miss a whole lot of other apps that are both nice and useful. The solution is however simple. When you add an app to your Twitter account, you’ll see an authorization page where you can either allow or deny the app access to your Twitter data.

Read the language carefully. If it read something like “the app would like to access and update your data on Twitter,” you are granting the app permission to post to your Twitter stream. Majority of the Twitter apps won’t misuse that privilege but some may.

Therefore, if you are trying out a new app on Twitter that you have never heard of before, it may be a good idea to authorize only the ones that require read-only access to your Twitter data as seen in the screenshot below.

How to Analyze Your Facebook Friends with Docs.com

noreply@blogger.com (Awais Akram) — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:58:00 +0000

Docs.com is a place where you can easily create new office documents in the browser or upload your existing documents and share them with your circle of Facebook friends as well as the outside web. The service is exactly like Office Web Apps except that it uses your Facebook account and not your Windows Live ID.The FUSE Labs team at Microsoft, that is responsible for Docs.com is busy adding new mashups to Docs.com to make the service even more appealing to Facebook users.

For instance, they have created a template called Friends Chart that automatically pulls information of all your Facebook friends and presents them as editable charts inside a spreadsheet. You get to visualize your friend mix by gender, by their age group and their current location (city).

Then there’s the Slideshow template that will help you turn any of your Facebook photo albums into a nice and animated photo slideshow in PowerPoint format.

These are some built-in samples but going forward, I hope the FUSE Labs team can provide some sort of Google Apps Script like functionality that will let anyone write simple mashups around Facebook using the Docs.com platform. That would be very interesting!

10 Myths about Twitter

noreply@blogger.com (Awais Akram) — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 10:43:00 +0000

Twitter is Launching his Own Tweet Button

noreply@blogger.com (Awais Akram) — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 10:56:00 +0000

If you are familiar with StumbleUpon and TweetMeme, a service which lets users share web content directly from the webpage they are visiting itself and not logging in to any separate pages, then we’ve got good news for you. Twitter is introducing its own button feature which will allow users to post and share their favorite web pages or URLs directly to Twitter without using StumbleUpon or any other third party source like TweetMeme etc.

This service is in the pipeline and may be in active soon. There is a problem however with this early launch: the service may not be available to the entire Twitter subscriber base and may be only a few test accounts get the chance to use the service and then subsequently the service would be expanded.

The official tweet button comes in at three different sizes measuring in at 10 x 20, 55 x 20, and 55 x 63. It also features the Twitter bird alongside the button. The twitter button will make other add-ons pretty useless once it arrives since it will be the best and most optimal piece of utility to use. The creation of an official Twitter button follows similar decisions by Twitter taken in the past where they have presented their own solutions thereby curbing third party Twitter app developers like Atebits for its Tweetie mobile apps or Cloudhopper for its SMS programs in the past.

Free Microsoft Money Plus is Now Available

noreply@blogger.com (Awais Akram) — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 09:50:00 +0000

Last year, Microsoft stopped making new versions of Microsoft Money, their personal money management software package and now they’ve made it available for everybody for free. The new “Sunset” versions were created so that existing customers could continue to install MS Money without requiring activation, but that also means anybody can download and install it.

The Microsoft Money Plus Sunset versions are replacements for expired versions of Microsoft Money Essentials, Deluxe, Premium, and Home and Business. They allow existing customers to use MoneyPlus to continue accessing their data. Changes to the new versions include file conversions from older versions of Money, no required activation, no online services and no assisted support. Microsoft Money Plus Sunset is available now.

Microsoft Money Plus Sunset

Google Chrome's Upcoming in-tab Options Menu

noreply@blogger.com (Awais Akram) — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 07:52:00 +0000

Preview releases of Chrome demonstrate some Firefox 4-like functionality by placing options inside the browser window instead of in a popup.Google moved the Chrome bookmarks manager from a separate application window into a tab. Recently, work began on into a tab as well. While it's still not totally functional, chrome://options has come a long way in a short amount of time.moving Chrome's options menuFor the most part, all the UI elements are now active. Certain sub-menus have yet to be activated (like font settings and sync).

So why move everything into tabs, anyway? Once Google has everything sorted out and running in-tabs, future changes to Chrome's UI should be easier to implement across different platforms. Since it's Chrome itself rendering things, developers won't have to worry as much about a change looking good on Windows while breaking something on Mac, for example. The switch should also lead to a more consistent experience across Chrome's entire user base.

How to Zoom Facebook Photos with Facebook Photo Zoom

noreply@blogger.com (Awais Akram) — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 10:59:00 +0000

Facebook is today’s one of the most popular social networking website. Millions of people interact with their friends and family members and share their thoughts, pictures and videos with each other. The photo viewing aspect of Facebook is one of the most loved features by its users. This is why Facebook is constantly making improvements in this section.

However, with all the improvements, there remain some flaws which need to be solved by the Facebook team like the inability to view more than one picture at a time and the photo zoo feature. Thankfully, add-ons are now available for Chrome and Firefox which add useful feature to the Facebook Photos.

Facebook Photo Zoom is a Google Chrome extension which lets user enlarge the Facebook photos once they hover the mouse button over the image. When the plugin is installed, clicking the thumbnail image of the photo in an album will enlarge it to its original size without the user having to actually click on the photo. The same extension exists for the Firefox web browser as well and lets user enlarge Facebook photos in Firefox as well.

Both the Chrome and the Firefox variants of the Facebook Photo Zoom are available at the Extensions Gallery and the Add-ons portal for those two web browsers respectively.

How To Enable Notepad Status Bar In Windows 7

noreply@blogger.com (Awais Akram) — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 19:48:00 +0000

By default, Windows 7 build-in Notepad does not show the status bar. However, it is necessary at times to know basic statistics of the document like number of lines consumed and current column location. By doing a little tweaking in Windows Registry, you can easily make the status bar apparent in Notepad. In this post we will let you know how to enable the status bar of Notepad. This is useful for users who cannot enable Status Bar from View menu as shown in the screenshot below. Status bar can’t be enabled when Word Wrap is enabled.

Enabling Status Bar of Notepad requires modifying the registry, before you begin with the process, make sure that you have ample knowledge of backing up the registry files to prevent any erratic system behavior.

To start out with, from taskbar click Windows Start Orb button, type regedit and hit Enter. This will bring up Windows Registry Editor dialog.

Now look for the following key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Notepad

Once Notepad registry keys are opened, double-click the StatusBar key. This will bring up a small registry key editor, now change the value from 0 to 1. Click OK to save the changes.

Now close down the registry editor and open a text file in Notepad. At the lower part of the window, you will see a Status bar showing Line and Column number.

Google Stops selling Nexus One

noreply@blogger.com (Awais Akram) — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 17:44:00 +0000

Search giant Google's experiments in smartphone retailing is officially over. Some six month sfter the company launched its first "superphone" (as google called it) the HTC designed Nexus One, it has stopped selling the device through its online strore. "Sorry folks the Nexus One is no longer available for purchase directly from Google" the company announced on its website.

Google had warned users a month back about its plan to shut down the web store, but has promised that it will make the device available to registered developers through a partner.

The company acknowledge that its Nexus One retailing model failed to catch on with customers, but refused to give any figure of the numbers of phones it sold during its brief stint as a phone retailer.