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Android 4.0 Tips and Techinques

2011-12-02T12:18:00.001-08:00

Android 4.0 is the most significant and different from past versions of Android: Some settings have been moved, multitasking is changed, the launcher is overhauled, and more. While most of these changes add a lot of polish to the operating system, what if you’re the kind of user who wants your phone to feel as fast as possible? In this video, using a Galaxy Nexus As known as Nexus prime, we demonstrate several methods for making your phone feel more snappy in Android Ice Cream Sandwich.

We cover the following:

1. Using a third party launcher will allow you to fit more icons on your home screen, and to more easily navigate in your app drawer

2. You can specify the degree of screen animations with a setting in Developer Options

3. In Android 4.0 you can remove the lock-screen completely, allowing you to jump right into your phone without having to slide to unlock

4. The “swipe to remove” paradigm works not only in the browser to close tabs, but also in the multitask User Interface to remove programs from memory

5. Settings for your Phone are hiding: they've been moved into the phone app

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New Google Maps 6.0

2011-11-29T12:39:00.001-08:00

Google has recently announced the latest version of Google maps app for android. The mapping and navigational application software's new features is indoor mapping and navigation, for instance you are at a super market and you are looking for vegetable portion , on your few finger taps you would be able to find it, no need of buzzing around the market.

Google Maps 6.0 is also said to be able to detect on what floor of the building you are and adjust the map data appropriately, so you will only be seeing what's around you.

According to the developers, the location algorithm is finely tuned, so it should work as well indoors as it does outdoors.You can download the latest version of the app right now from the Market on your phone or tablet

thanks to Google

Who Needs Keys When Siri Has Been Hacked to Start Cars?

2011-11-28T13:04:00.001-08:00

Starting your car using Siri, now that's cool.

Modern Warfare Records Sales

2011-11-10T04:41:00.000-08:00

Activisions Latest first person shooter game Call Of Duty : Modern Warfare 3 hits the stores like a thunderstorm and made new records for sale. Predictions not only came true but this game demolished the previous records.
Activision say that 1.5 million gamers lined up outside the stores to buy a copy of CAD:MW3 on the night of the release.Analysts have predicted even more rise shall appear and about 18 million copies will be sold by the start of the calender year.

Full action packed masterpiece is on the go now, The Infinity Ward engine is far from cutting edge – the overall look of the game has moved on enormously since. The vision, the choreography, the sense of scale and detail, they are awesomely inspiring. There's the agenda-setting opener off the tip of Manhattan, with dozens of warships clustered in front of that iconic skyline, bombers buzzing above, the water crashing against monstrous hulls. Later, in Paris, there are hundreds of paratroopers dropping down around the Eiffel tower as a swarm of choppers blacken the skies. And in one astonishing sequence set aboard a plummeting jumbo jet, the player must indulge in a frenetic shoot-out as the craft's free-fall creates a gravity-free battle zone.The game is brilliantly made and spreading over its battle field colors
so guys run and grab a copy because the game is shit insane.

Nokia N9 Battery

2011-11-09T03:52:00.000-08:00

Here we go with the Nokia N9 battery test, it gives pretty decent battery timing, while MeeGo's cover went out quite well, Nokia's N9 device is one of the best phone running in the market, so we though to take it to the battery extremes.

Nokia's N9 went out on Individual battery test, so then its performance can be statically measured.First of all the battery of phone from 100% to 0% went out in 6 hours and 48 mins with 3g talk time test, It actually works with the promise of manufacturer.After that N9 went out on web browsing test with the WiFi network, while it also gave a pretty decent timing of 4 hours 33 mins from 100% battery to 0%.

Finally N9 went for the last video play back test,The N9 was capable of doing 8 hours and 40 minutes of non-stop SD Xvid video playback before it went through its battery.

Conclusion: Over all the N9 is a great phone to be carried along,That gives the Nokia N9 a final score of 39, meaning that the smartphone will need to be charged every 39 hours if you do 1 hour of each of the three activities described above. So reasonably heavy users should expect to get about a day and a half from the N9.

Angry Birds: Ham'O'Ween

2011-11-06T14:02:00.000-08:00

A brand-new, Halloween-themed collection of levels for Angry Bird: Seasons is out today, titled Angry Birds Ham'O'Ween. The pack comes with 30 new spooky-looking levels, but by far the coolest thing featured in the new Angry Birds expansion is the bird it introduces.

Once flung, the new orange bird will inflate itself similarly to a blowfish when you tap the screen.Angry Birds: Ham'O'Ween is free for those who have previously purchased Angry Birds

Angry Birds: Summer Pignic

2011-11-06T13:46:00.000-08:00

Summer Pignic

Angry birds is rolling out with a new series of summer picnic themed levels, as each day passes you will tackle over a new level, this will continue over a month of 30 days.Beside the level , the graphics, the themes, the sounds and the icon are stretched at amaizing levels.

Activate Yourself With Jawbone Up

2011-11-06T09:25:00.000-08:00

The Band and App work together to help you Live healthier

Up is a revolutionary system ,wrist band and smartphone app that tracks your daily activities and inspire you to live a healthier life.This system tracks your movements , sleep patterns , eating habits and put all those stats in palm of your hand.

The wrist band records all sort of health related stats, such as number of steps you took through out the day, how long and how well you slept with its micro movement sensors.Jawbone Up wakes you up in the morning, it reminds you that you have slept over or need rest, it also reminds you to move when you have been inactive for a long time and need little workout.jawbone Up is a incredible thing which is the first step to your healthier life.

Jawbone Up is water proof that means you dont have to take it off when exposed to water.jawbone contains a rechargeable battery , 3.5 mm jack for transferring data, precision motion sensor and a vibration motor.this gadget is affordable priced at 99 USD
The First step to a healthier life is Jawbone Up

The Solar Phones

2011-11-06T01:47:00.000-07:00

Green Gadgets

Now you don't have to worry about your phone running out of juice again, because of the new solar powered phones.The solar phones are aimed for the basic mobile phone functions, these phone provide a very long battery time and whenever you step out in sunlight they automatically start charging.

The two Most popular brands Samsung and Vodafone has promised of a greener earth, these both of the companies have started making cell phones using recycled water bottles and has no brominated flame retardants, beryllium and phthalates all of the substances are INTOXIC.
These Phones have Incredible batter timing , once you charge, it will with stand for 8 days and if you expose the phone to sunlight it will start charging again and inhance the battery time.

Spin Out oF Control

2011-11-04T12:44:00.000-07:00

Spin Out of Control With Google Barrel Roll

Google have introduced new search functions with spinning Millions of users with searching on Google "Do a barrel roll". It is a funny type if trick which most of the users would really enjoy. This function works with selected browsers , Google Chrome and Firefox ,while Internet Explorer made a disappointed,. Even the smartphones users can do a barrel roll on their phones

Play Frogger

2011-11-03T06:16:00.000-07:00

Now Play exciting game Frogger on your favourite blog gizmo stop

Google+ for android

2011-11-01T05:14:00.000-07:00

Google has updated the Google+ app for android and its amazing, with better performance and better User Interface

Google has been working on G+ very keenly with and they have got a major update to the Google+ app, by adding several new features , updating to user friendly interface, redesigned the UI and loads of new fixes.The new version of Google+ is available in the android market, clarifies that its inspired from the new Android version Ice Cream Sandwich.

Google has claimed that their improved new version adds a great performance to the phone and improves its navigation , so thats seriously so cool.They also have been claiming that Google+ will be moreover very good to the battery of your phone, consuming very less battery.They also have added many improvement to the notifications, and adding people to the circle.
So its a free advice to grab one of your Google+ app, and enjoy the Google world.

MOTOACTV Android Wristwatch

2011-10-30T03:02:00.000-07:00

MOTO ACTV is a revolutionary new training system for those athletes who want to push their limits.

It is a Android based fitness tracker, cell phone and a very smart music player.This thing is fully optimized for athletes, its so lightweight , stylish ,comfortable and fully works with you.

So now you can have your personal trainer and DJ while you are working out, riding or playing any sort of sport.

The New MOTOACTV is powered by 600 MHz processor, making the device to push itself to the limits,

Touchscreen is 1.6'' with Gorilla Glass.MOTOACTV features AccuSense™ sensors and GPS which takes full advantage , tracks your speed, heart rate, distance and pace, so that you can statically determine your workout with precision.

You can pair your Bluetooth wireless headphones for easy workout, the Bluetooth headsets are optional.

After all the workout , you can upload the data via WiFi to MOTOACTV website , so you can keep an eye over your Statistics, not only this gizmo is used while workout, but it gives you access to your calls text and messages.The PinPoint of this device is to Keep your life active.

Nokia's Flexible Display

2011-10-27T06:47:00.000-07:00

Nokia's Flexible touch screen

Nokia being one of the incredible brand introducing new technologies recently have introduce Amazing new Flexible touch screen called the Nokia Kinetic Device.Nokia keep on moving ahead in the world of high tech communications.With this new screen you can bend the device from the middle or from around the edges of phone.

The Bending is not only the feature of the phone, Nokia has optimized the bending of the phone to the user interface, creating a nice and classical experience while bending controls the device.Users can zoom in and out from the device while bending it from the middle and they can scroll down while bending from the edges.

The great advantage over this feature is that capacitive touch screens don't allow user to use phone without using the phone with hands, for instance user can not use the phone while wearing the gloves, but this feature in the phone allows to fully use the phone and take the best out of it without any hindrance.

The features of device redefines the all the possibilities of mobile phone, and leads the world to new creativities and innovations.

New Nokia Asha Series

2011-10-26T06:32:00.000-07:00

New Nokia's Asha Family

Nokia has been more over focusing on S40 devices, with their new colorful and powerful Asha devices, Nokia is promoting Affordable and Fast useful phones,the different styles , new colors , new features , nokia will surely get a good response by the users.Nokia has been introducing different devices for different consumers.So everbody can grab a nokia going with his taste.

The selling point of the Nokia Asha would be very different sort of looks to the phones, Young fellows would really appreciate these phones.

Nokia Asha has Introduced three New devices.

Nokia 303
Nokia 300
Nokia 201

These all the devices are made up for the taste of different users

Nokia 303

Nokia 303 has a very powerful 1ghz processor with 5 megapixel camera, that users would really enjoy,the main selling point of this device would be its touch screen and qwerty type interface.
Nokia 303 would be running Great games to be played on touch screen , like angry birds.
The Phone contains 3g connectivity and wifi connectivity so its all to buy a new Nokia 303.

Nokia 300

The New Nokia 300 is also a Touch and type Interface with powerful 1 Ghz Processor.
The phone has All the basic touch features just like proximity and Accelerometer .The Device is 3g enabled and has a 5 mega pixel camera.

Nokia 201

Nokia 201 is very nice and handy phone with cool and basic features, the phone is affordable and supports Dual sims and qwerty keypad , very useful for chatting and texting fellows.No need to carry two devices because of dual sim support.Thanks to Nokia for such great and Affordable Phones.

Samsung Galaxy note

2011-10-25T04:55:00.000-07:00

The New Galaxy Note unbelievably Smart.

The Phone is a 5.3" Touch screen HD Super Amoled touch screen, with introducing S pen.Now don't need to carry your note books , and note pads along .Your phone and your note book merged in a single Brilliant technology.
Now you can write notes , edit pictures, make presentations, make paintings and do alot of things you haven't seen yet

The perfect phone + tablet experience

Water And Dust Resistant Android Smartphones

2011-10-23T15:31:00.000-07:00

Water Resistant, Shock Resistant And Dust Resistant Android Smart phones Unleashed

Active sportsmen fellows can now use Android smart phones, not worrying about any place or anything, while swimming, mountain climbing , hiking or any possible thing , they can carry along their smartphone and get connected.Samsung and Sony Ericsson two most popular brands releasing their real tough smartphone the user gets most out of his phone.These phones carry a message to users that users should use it to abuse it.

Samsung Galaxy Xcover and Sony Ericssons Xperia Active get the perfect place in the markets with their exciting features, these phones are Android 2.3 Gingerbread,which is the latest version enabled with IP67 certified. IP67 certified means that your phone is water proof up to 2 meters ,dust and shock resistant.

These Android smartphones contain brilliant processors ,Samsungs Galaxy Xcover is clocked at 800 Mhz ,and Sony's Xperia active is clocked at 1 Ghz.Now you can shoot underwater in high definition.Xperia active has a 5 meag pixel camera with flash and samsung has 3.2 mega pixel camera with flash.The phones also contains a great battery timing, perfect for active fellows.

Update status under water, chat with friends while hiking ,shoot inside deep sea, get shortest routes while driving take pictures while sky diving.Now with your IP67 certified smart phones you can do everything with your phones.

BMW i Concept

2011-10-20T07:00:00.000-07:00

The New BMW Electric Cars

The BMW Motors has being entering the competition of global Eco Super Cars.The i8 Pushes itself to the limits of a hybrid , and unleashes the ultimate driving experience.With the Modern touch to its looks it completely unifies itself and catches the eye of almost every person.Its a fully functional car and promising with BMW's unmatched reliability , the car is fully functional , not like other concept cars.

This latest design is for urban Environment, the cars EV is powered by 125 KW motor which drives you around 80 mile Electric driving range.This Super Hybrid car Accelerates with Not to 60 in less then 8 seconds.The amazing this about this car is that this car charges in only one hour, that is so amazing about this car and this car will be totally new benchmark for the Hybrid cars.

To achieve high efficiency, the i3 uses BMW's LifeDrive architecture, which features a carbon passenger cell, keeping the vehicle weight down to a low 2,755 pounds. The 2 door carriage uses to maximum access to the rear seats. Although the BMW i8 was originally designed as a pure EV, it will also be available with an optional range extender, the REx. The REx is a small engine that will primarily be used to charge the electric battery and extend the vehicle's range.The car is electronically limited to the top speed of 134 miles, and gives the fuel economy of 75 miles per gallon.

The Best Future car BMW i8.

Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich Unveils Officially and Review

2011-10-19T07:03:00.000-07:00

The Newest and the Astonishing version of android has became official.The Google and Samsung event held at Hong Kong launched two of the best things , the new phone Google nexus and Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.With the total new User interface and Application Programming interface the Google team has combined the best features of two both honeycomb and gingerbread and giving a unique platform to the world.Google suggested it would become the standard platform across all android devices regardless of whether it's a tablet or phone. Most devices will get the update eventually to create a sense of high standard

KEY FEATURES

Speech to text
Updated User Interface, animations,effects, live wall papers and given new gestures
Tablet and Smartphone uses optimized
Improved Multitasking
New screen and facial lock
re-sizable widgets
text and spell-check improved
Voice input improved
New people app
Improved the speed of web browser
Improved web browser with ability to save web pages and incognito mode
New visual voice mail
Camera is improved with face detection and panorama mode
Bluetooth HDP and Wifi direct support
New design of Gallery and enabling photo editing
Improved video recording and snapshot while recording

User Interface

The user interface of the new version ice cream sandwich is getting a great attention,while it has robotic theme similar to the previous android versions.This version includes new animations , new swipe gestures enabling removing items simply with a swipe.The ice cream sandwich has a awesome modern look which never gets u bored, whenever u feel some change needed u can always openly change almost every thing in your android OS,thats a unique thing about android.

the interface includes:

Improved Multitasking

New notifications screen

Face Unlock

Folders

Re-sizable widgets

Improved lock screen

With its improved messaging the error correction has been improved and its has been more accurate, it can detect double typed characters and double spaces and skipped letters Another great feature is the Speech-to-text, which now lets you talk for as long as you have air in your chest and it'll still keep on recording and transforming your speech into text. After you are done, the voice engine automatically underlines words it thinks might have come out wrong so that you can fix them if necessary.

Conclusion

Android has been heading very fast to the right direction of the smartphone world, soon it will be leading the smartphone world.This new version of android has make a smartphone more functional.Android has most of the rich mobile operating system features and Google has been adding everyday dozens of more.

So what do u think android is getting ahead in the competition of smartphone world, YES certainly it is getting ahead, If you think its not then open up and keep on watching the universe.

What do you think about it, and please give me a positive feed back.

Be Invisible :Breakthrough for Japanese Researchers

2011-10-17T13:33:00.000-07:00

Invisibility technology reveals the world

Jab scientists breakthrough with the technology of being invisible.the japs have discovered that with the help of optical camouflage technology we can be invisible developed by university of Tokyo.This new technology only works with a Cloak, yeah that sounds like harry potters cloak, but that's true that works with a new type of material, known as metamaterial.Thing works with full spectrum of light visible to the eye of a human.the cloak is made of silicon nitrite layer on the top of silicon oxide with very minute pores.

Just because the calculations made for the size of the holes, the holes can alter the speed of the light which travels through the layer of cloak.engineers have used this technology to manipulate the abilities to see thing, this cloak should be much larger then the object.well this cloak is a benchmark set by the scientists for invisibility technology.

The person wearing the cloak appears invisible because the background scene is being displayed onto the retro-reflective material. At the same time, light rays from the rest of the world are allowed to reach the user's eye, making it seem as if an invisible person exists in an otherwise normal-looking world

Run Android Apps On Windows Pc

2011-10-15T06:31:00.000-07:00

With its day by day popularity of android ,its becoming the Top OS for smartphones, those who are android user have a real good new that now they can stick around android with their pc, Now they can run all the android applications on their windows computers, this software application is developed by re known software house the Blue Stock

Blue stacks enables the users to quickly change or switch to between the both Os, Users can enjoy their big computer screens with android application and games ,the blue stock enables Android apps on x86-based tablets phones, and notebooks, With the new blue stock there is no need to carry both of the devices.

users can watch the video on youtube by the following link

To Download Blue stack click on download

Sensation XL Springles Beats Spices

2011-10-14T06:11:00.000-07:00

The ultimate music phone powered with beats

Making a perfect combination the Beats by dr dre and Htc Sensation XL add perfect music experience for the music maniacs.htc is one the best phone made untill by the HTC, with alll of the best features which could be provided to a phone the Htc has made a benchmark for phones made for music lovers.Beats are a ultimate headphone which provide an great music experience for the listner.
While htc joining hands with Beats can be a super hit on mobile phone market because Htc's high flying attitude and phone brilliant features of beats which a artist wants, adds up and give the users a new and
ultimate existence of music

Ipad 3 Heads To Production

2011-10-14T05:25:00.000-07:00

Ipad 3 heading towards production

The arrival of iphone 4s clearly demonstrated the world that still there is no other rival can combat with the apple.Now the Apple team is working on the Ipad project.the apple officials claims that Financial analyst Jeff Fidacaro the devices are headed into production.

The ipad builts with about the range of 13 to 14 millions ipads. The Apple looks at the demand of of the ipad user and supplies with the demand.The production varies with the demand of the users.
So the preparations for Apples new BIG product launch are on the super highway.probably in the early quarter of 2012, may be its going to be march or feb.

GTA coming for iOS and Android devices if u have dual core

2011-10-14T04:17:00.000-07:00

Grand Theft Auto 3 For Smartphones

The Rockstar games which is responsible for major gaming hits, recently amazed the world with L.A Noir. now working on smartphone projects.This is a great achievement for smartphone companies and users to have such big gaming companies working for them.Now the Rockstar gaming has decided to go with the most influential Grand Theft Auto series.

With the all time favorite action packed game grand theft auto became the world best game in the times when GTA 3 released.The developers did their best they could of tweaking the controls to work as smoothly as possible with the touch interface of the Smartphones and Tablets, but there’s something about hardware controls with a fully fleshed out game like this that works so well.

The game is compatible with following devices

iOS Devices
- iPad 2
- iPhone 4S

Android Phones
- Droid X2
- HTC Evo 2
- LG Optimus 2X
- Motorola Atrix
- Samsung Galaxy S2

Android Tablets
- Acer Iconia
- Asus Eee Pad
- Motorola Xoom
- Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1

Jailbreak for iOS5 out

2011-10-13T05:09:00.000-07:00

IOS 5 beta has been jail broken many times, but now the real deal has came out the full version of IOS 5 is jail broken.It's intended for devs of jailbroken apps that want to debug their applications, the Dev Team says there are still too many problems with this version of redsnow to be useful with the regular users.
This thing is a tethered jailbreak , meaning you have to boot your iPhone/iPod/iPad by connecting it up with a computer and using redsnow every time you restart or things will try to work as u expected.This redsnow thing is a very good thing to get your iphone out of the jail without any bail.Again thanks to Redsnow.