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More budget tablets launched in Indian Markets

noreply@blogger.com (Rishil) — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 23:20:13 PST

Three new budget Android tablets would be availble in Indian markets from 1st March 2012. BSNL recently has announced the cheapest model costing a mere Rs 3,250(~ $68) making a quiet entry into the increasingly competitive market for the hand-held computers. BSNL's Aakash rival is know as T-Pad runs on Android 2.3 Gingerbread, and aim to cater to both the low-end and mid-range segments of the markets. Model 1: BSNL Penta T PAD IS 701R, priced at Rs. 3,250. bears a 7-inch resistive...

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Recharge Your Mobile Online For Free

noreply@blogger.com (Rishil) — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 07:04:41 PST

Good news for all pre-paid mobile users in India. We came across a website which provides a free secure, easy and reliable medium to recharge prepaid mobile phone in India and in-turn also get special offers and deals The website is PayTM.com a product by One97 Communications. Pay Through Mobile is a PCI DSS certified commerce platform that enables users to make secure payments on Web, WAP, IVR and SMS through credit card, debit card, bank account, mobile wallet or prepaid cash...

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Aakash Tablet (cheapest tablet) now available Online

noreply@blogger.com (Rishil) — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 20:16:53 PST

The manufacturer Datawind has now started the online booking and pre booking of the much anticipated low cost Android tablet. The Students' version of the tablet is called Aakash and the commercial version is called the UbiSlate 7, for which pre booking has started. Students' version will be available for Rs 2,500 ($50) and will be delivered in seven days. The commercial version, UbiSlate 7 is priced at Rs 2,999 ($60). The payment mode for both the tablets is cash on delivery. The...

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Google Launches its own Music Service

noreply@blogger.com (Rishil) — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 11:54:57 PST

Google recently unveiled its much anticipated digital music store in the US. Google Music which has more than 13 million songs already on the cloud network will allow consumers access music from various Internet connected devices and easily share tracks with friends. Google's Music Beta also lets people access their personal music collections from any Web connected PC or mobile device powered by Google's Android software. To use the service, people must upload their digital music files...

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Have some fun with Google Search

noreply@blogger.com (Rishil) — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 20:08:54 PST

Google has come up with a spin-tastic search results page for the query "do a barrel roll". Try to do that search on Google and see what happnes.. Google litterlaay makes the search results page do a barrel roll on your browser. Another one is if you try to search "tilt" on Google, the search results are displayed will all results at a slight tilt to the right.. My all time favourite is "google gravity". All you have to do is search for "google gravity" and click on the first link on the...

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Best 3 Siri Alternatives on Android

noreply@blogger.com (Rishil) — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 23:06:31 PDT

When Apple released the iPhone 4S, it introduced Siri - a voice-activated "personal assistant" capable to send messages, make calls, set reminders, and much much more.. Siri is available on iPhone 4S, what about Android phones ? Well here i would like to share you three best alternatives to siri on android. So if you have an android device, be it a mobile phone or a tablet you can simply install this android app and have your own voice activated personal assistant. 1. Vlingo Virtual...

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Samsung Galaxy Nexus with Android 4.0

noreply@blogger.com (Rishil) — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 22:12:11 PDT

After Apple's iPhone 4S release something big and better was expected by Google. Infact there was a teaser video released by Samsung "Something BIG is coming"... and now the something BIG is here... Recently in Hong Kong Samsung and Google have now released the new Samsung Galaxy Nexus and the upcoming Android version 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich). The Samsung Galaxy Nexus will come on the market in November in 16 GB and a 32 gigabyte version. Here is quick summary of the...

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Alternatives to Google Android Market

noreply@blogger.com (Rishil) — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 01:36:37 PDT

With Android enabled phones gaining significant market share across the world, Google's android market remains to be the ultimate source of apps for android devices. Howvever there are alternatives to Google Market, infact there are quite a few websites from where anyone can download android apps. The good part is while Google Market has free and paid apps, some of these paid apps are available for free on these alterantive sites. 1. ANDROIDPIT APP CENTER : The the collection of android...

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Share and Get Rewarded - Blog Loyalty Program

noreply@blogger.com (Rishil) — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 21:22:00 PDT

Askwiki brings you an instant loyalty program that encourage readers to visit the blog every day, share the contents on their social networks and by doing so they earn points. Readers can earn points every day for their actions on the blog and can redeem the points earned for a reward. The service is provided by PunchTab. The PunchTab widget as here at the right side allows readers to earn for there every action as bellow. 1. Liking the page your Facebook. 2. Becoming a Facebook Fan of...

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Best web tool to record your screen

noreply@blogger.com (Rishil) — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 22:14:33 PDT

This is one of the best web-based screen recording tool i have ever come across, it enables you to capture your computer screen as video without any software installs or any software downloads. This free web based screen recording tool makes it incredibly easy to record a screencast and also share it instantly with your friends via your social networking pages. The web based tool is called the ScreenR. It can not only video record your screen but supports voice record via your system mic....

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Google's Nexus Coming Soon

noreply@blogger.com (Rishil) — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 20:13:29 PDT

After the recent launch of Apple iPhone 4S, Google and Samsung were to launch the big Android Phone ... however the recent development both companies have agreed postpond the dates as they agreed tha this is not the appropriate time for the announcement of a new product out of respect for Steve Jobs. There has been lot of hype on what this new product would be and how Google and Samsung would be associated. Samsung had released a series of video teaser in market as well. That product, by...

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Aakash Tablet - $35 Made In India

noreply@blogger.com (Rishil) — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 21:07:56 PDT

Earlier this year Askwiki had share how global investors are keen to fund this project of $35 tablet. Earlier this week the Telecom and Human Resource Development minister Kapil Sibal recently launched the tablet - Aakash - priced at $35. The original prototype named Sakshat was unveiled in 2009. About 500 students from government engineering schools were at the launch and were among the first to get their very own Aakash devices. Here's a quick review of the Aakash tablet by...

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Steve Jobs - the Apple founder dies at 56

noreply@blogger.com (Rishil) — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 20:46:20 PDT

On Wednesday 5th October Apple announced the death of its visionary co-founder Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs was 56. Jobs passed away after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. Jobs had undergone a liver transplant in April 2009 during an earlier planned six-month leave of absence. He returned to work for a year and a half before his health forced him to take more time off. He told his employees in August, "I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties...

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Apple Announces iPhone 4S - Quick Preview

noreply@blogger.com (Rishil) — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 06:47:07 PDT

Apple yesterday unveiled the next step for its signature smartphone -- the iPhone 4S. There is no iPhone5. Instead you get the same look of the iPhone 4. There are two main reasons why one should buy the iPhone4S - Firstly its digital camera ability, it now has a 8 megapixel camera and a new lens arrangement that offers more accurate and sharper images as well as high-def video and the second reason is a new faster microprocessor called A5. iPhone 4S will be available in black or white and...

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All About Android - Life History

noreply@blogger.com (Rishil) — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 21:13:57 PDT

Android is an operating system for mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers. It is developed by the Open Handset Alliance led by Google. Over the years the android penetration has exponentially grow globaly. Also Google has been releasing free upgrade version of Android. Below is the video on the current state of Android, followed by an infographic on the Android Story so far Infographic on the Android - Full Screen View For all the latest new updates on Android you...

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Happy Birthday Google - Video Graphics

noreply@blogger.com (Rishil) — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 19:49:12 PDT

Its the lucky 13th anniversary of the debut that changed the World Wide Web forever - Google. Larry Page and Sergey Brin begun collaboration on a search engine, which was then called BackRub. They registered the domain name on Sept. 15, 1997. The company as such was incorporated in Sept. 7, 2008. But Google began celebrating its birthday on Sept. 27, in 2005. Below we are sharing two prespective of google - The Google Story and The Hungry Beast The Google Story The Hungry Beast

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Virtual Tour of International museums on Google

noreply@blogger.com (Rishil) — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 20:06:08 PDT

Its called the GoogleArtProject - a concept started off as one of the company's "20% projects" which allows Google employees to take a fifth of their time away from their regular day job, to work on innovations. The Google Art Project currently provide a virtual 360 degree tour of 17 international museums around the world. These museums include the famous National Gallery and Tate Britain in London and they have recently added the Met, MoMa and Frick in New York. The painting can be viewed...

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Google's Eric Schmidt Interview at Dreamforce 2011

noreply@blogger.com (Rishil) — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:55:03 PDT

Salesforce.com's Marc Benioff interviewing Google's Eric Schmidt on various topics from the early days at Google to future plans of Google, from the latest Android story to the future of cloud computing. What companies need to focus on to succeed in a fast moving and quickly changing technology environment. The entire Dreamforce Keynote speech can be seen on the below YouTube Video

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Best of Online Graphs and Charts Creators | AskWiki - [Digg]

Digg — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 21:31:07 PDT

There are several online tools are available that can help you create comprehensively designed flowcharts and graphs within few mins. These tools being online one can use in anywhere with connection to the internet. Sometimes you can find these services are higher quality software. Here are few of them which i liked and hence recommend..

Best of Online Graphs and Charts Creators

noreply@blogger.com (Rishil) — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 21:25:00 PDT

On presentations Graphs and Charts are the best way for visual representation of information and data. Using a well designed graph or chart one can clearly convey the message. Whatever type of data presentation you prefer (pie charts, bubble charts, bar graphs, network diagrams etc.), you have been creating charts in graphic editors manually or use special desktop-software. There are several online tools are available that can help you create comprehensively designed flowcharts and graphs...

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Simple trick to crack a protected PDF file | AskWiki - [Digg]

Digg — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 21:01:03 PDT

Removing a Password from a PDF File can be very easy by using this simple tool. This small software does the trick... Read more: Simple trick to crack a protected PDF file | AskWiki -

Google Plus - The Infographic

noreply@blogger.com (Rishil) — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 20:32:34 PDT

Google Plus is the most talked about social nework these days and is considered to be the NEXT BIG THING! Its already opened up for public and is building up its network This infographic is designed by IdentyMe which goes to share some stats about Google Plus. - Click here for full screen view

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Google acquires Motorola - most expensive acquisitions of this era

noreply@blogger.com (Rishil) — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 01:11:29 PDT

Google and Motorola Mobility recently announced that they have entered into a agreement under which Google will acquire Motorola Mobility for $40.00 per share in cash, or a total of about $12.5 billion. In a blog post, Google co-founder and CEO Larry Page writes that Google has acquired Motorola not only because of its strength in Android smartphones and devices, but also for being a “market leader in the home devices and video solutions business.” However one significant benifit would be...

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Firefox for Androids is now available

noreply@blogger.com (Rishil) — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 20:07:44 PDT

Good news for all you Firefox lovers. The Mozilla Mobile Team was working tirelessly to make Firefox awesome on android tablets and mobiles. Firefox is now available on the Android Market. This Web browser from Mozilla brings the best of desktop browsing to your mobile device. It’s fast, easy to use and customizable, with the latest security and privacy features to help you stay safe online. Firefox for mobile is offered in more than 10 languages too What’s New in Firefox for Android...

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Simple trick to crack a protected PDF file

noreply@blogger.com (Rishil) — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 20:20:42 PDT

Removing a Password from a PDF File can be very easy by using this simple tool. This small software is called BeCyPDFMetaEdit. Follow the below steps... 1. Download the software from the following link. Download Now 2. Install and launch the program, provide the location of the PDF file. 3. Before you select and open the PDF, change the mode to “Complete Rewrite.” 4. Switch to the Security tab and set the “Security System” to “No encryption.” Click the Save button and your PDF...

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Very Affordable Android Tablet Now Available

noreply@blogger.com (Rishil) — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 21:16:25 PDT

Micro-Star International (MSI) a Taiwanese PC manufacturer recently launched an Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread operating system powered range of tablets. With prices starting from Rs 13,999 (approx $ 313) the company aims to cash in on the burgeoning 'tablet' market. While the bigger brands like Apple's iPad and Research in Motions's PlayBook are priced above Rs 25,000 (approx $ 559), the smaller competitors are focusing on price conscious customers. These tablets will be available in two variants...

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The Logic Behind a Credit Card Number

noreply@blogger.com (Rishil) — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 21:21:20 PDT

Any credit card or a debit card has a 16 digit number that’s unique in the world. But did you know these are not just random string of numbers but it reveal a little more than you think. The first six digits of the credit card number is known as the Issuer Identification Number and this is to identify the institution that issued the card. VISA cards follow the series 4xx while MasterCard uses 51-55 as the prefix. The first digit of the card represents the category of industry which issued...

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Read complete articles from Wall Street Journal for Free [Digg]

Digg — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:57:40 PST

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) is one of the best quality newspaper in the United State. It is also the largest circulation news paper. The online version of the Wall Street Journal is equally good with high quality contents, however its a paid subscription service.Here i am sharing one more trick that would enable all to read full articles.