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Google Chrome ad featuring Tanjore paintings

2011-12-31T12:10:00.003+05:30

Google chrome's "web is what you make of it " advertisement campaign launched a new ad in India which symbolizes tanjore paintings-the ancient and dying art in India.

Ubislate 7+ tablet PC now available for preorder

2011-12-31T11:51:00.001+05:30

Ubislate-The product of Datawind which is the world's cheapest tablet PC launched by Indian Government 'Aakash'.Since this tablet is for students in India the company has launched the commercial version of the tablet called as ubislate 7+ which is a upgraded version with a small extra cost.

The basic version ubislate costs Rs.2500 while the commercial version costs at Rs.2999.

Ubislate 7+ features

7" Android 2.3 Tablet at Price of Rs. 2999
Faster Cortex A8 – 700 Mhz Processor
High Quality Web Anytime & Anywhere
WiFi & GPRS (SIM & Phone functionality)
Multimedia Powerhouse
Full sized-USB port & Micro-SD slot.

All these feature comes with not a much extra prize when compared to basic version.The company has started prebooking of the tablet which can be available in market by early 2012.

Prebook Now

Convert your website into Digital magazine with Google currents

2011-12-11T15:31:00.001+05:30

Now with google's new product called "Google currents" you can create digital publications of your website or blog and make it available to smartphones and tablets very easily.
Google Current is an mobile application that is available in android market and apple's app store.You can download it to your devices say android smartphone,iphone,android tablets and ipad.Using this application users can read news from different publications in the user friendly format.

Google current focuses more on the design aspects of the application.So if you want to publish your news to google current you can do it with the online creator.

Google currents

You can your blog to google currents by specifying the RSS feed of your blog and google will do the rest and provides the preview of your publication on various devices.

These publications are integrated with google+ hence the readers can easily share contents with their friends easily.Using google currents app on the device can also help you find trending news at the moment.The best feature of this app is that you can read news even when you are offline.

Wolframalpha knows the flights flying above your head

2011-11-18T22:54:00.001+05:30

Ever wanted to know the flight flying above your head right now? Yes you can with Wolframalpha,The search engine which can be called as a 'computational knowledge engine' now offers a new feature that detects the location of your computer and searches the flights flying on the location thus making the coolest flight tracker ever made.

To use this feature you can open www.wolframaplha.com and enter the keyword "flights overhead".This pulls the latest flight details on your location.

This is one among the best features available in wolframalpha.Make a try.!

New features in iPhone4S

2011-10-04T23:53:00.001+05:30

iPhone4S was launched today by Tim cook the new ceo of apple after Steve jobs.

Features:

New Apple A5 chip with dual core processor.

7x faster than iPhone 4.

2x faster CPU.

Improved battery life.9 hours wifi-browsing,6 hours of 3g browsing and 8 hours of 3g talk time.

14.4 MBPS download HSDPA speed.(4G like speed)

iPhone 4s will be both 3g and cdma.

All new camera with 8 Mega pixel sensor.Improved face detection in new camera hardware that makes camera to respond quicker in 1.1 second for taking first picture.

Video recording i 1080p HD with temporal noise reduction and image stabilization.

Airplay Mirroring,you can play games or watch movies in bigger screens with airplay.

Siri, Intelligent Voice recognition on iPhone 4s responds to your intelligent questions.

Cost: 16GB: $199, 32GB for $299, 64GB for $399.(Available in sprint)

Other new features announced in Apple event:

1.cards app:

Yes the physical cards that apple can deliver worldwide.If you want to send out a greeting card to your friend in china.Just tap and pay $5.Apple will do the rest.($3 for US delivery)

2.Updates to Camera,News stand and iMessage apps

3.Find My friends:

Find your friend’s location similar to google latitude.

iCloud

iCloud will be available from October 12

iPod Watches

iPods will sport the watch designs that mimics a real digital wrist watch.

Images courtesy:Engadget.

How to: Recover/Reset windows 7 login password

2011-10-04T01:01:00.001+05:30

Forgot your windows 7 login password? You are not left in a lonely island you can easily recover/reset your login password with the tool mentioned below.

I forgot my recently changed windows 7 password and I have tried many attempts to log into my windows 7 laptop but couldn't.There are lot of windows password cracker tools that may help you recover you password but its hard to find one genuine tool to recover windows password.

I tried with the Pogostick utility and cleared out my password easily in 5 minutes.Please find below the steps to remove the windows 7 password.

(Please note: I have listed here the way to clear/blank out the existing windows password for any user)

This utility works for all kinds of windows operating system ranging from xp,vista windows 7,windows servers in both 32 and 64 bit versions.

You don't need to install any software in your computer to crack this.

Just a USB stick is enough to remove the password.

Since your computer is locked you need to download this tool from other computer and copy it to your USB drive.(to make the usb drive bootable please read the ‘readme.txt’ file’).

Plug into your machine and boot it from the USB drive.

You will see the command prompt like interface.Just hit enter.

the next step is to select the disk number of your primary boot partition(probably c drive).Select 1 or 2 based on your disk.

next is select the windows directory,normally it will select the correct directory so you just hit enter.

Select 1 to password reset the windows system

Select 1

It wil display list of all user accounts in the windows system

Then,select the user account you wish to clear the password.Simply type the username in the prompt.

Select 1 to clear the password.

Now press ! to quit.

Press Y to save changes.

Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to reboot.This time you will not prompted for password and you can password as you wish.

This works fine for me and I would suggest this very simple to tool for you.

Pogostick Link

Instructions

Download tool

How to find the location of Stolen Android Phone

2011-09-30T00:44:00.001+05:30

Lost your android phone or someone stole from you? don't worry, there are quite handy ways to track and locate the stolen/lost android phone.

Often we search for mobile tracking apps and tips to recover lost phone only after losing it.But many antitheft applications require you to pre install the app and it should be running in your phone in order to track and locate.But what happens if you haven’t installed any of the android apps to track the location? The answer is very simple you need to install the tracking application “over the Air” in which Android helps you out.

Also Read: Find lost iPhone/iPad without MobileMe

Plan B

Once you lose your smartphone you can install the application by logging into http://market.android.com and install the app directly to the phone.

Once installed you can send a message with the word “Locate” to your phone.You will get immediate replies to your Gmail associated to your market account the co-ordinates and current location of your phone.

Thanks to “Plan B” by lookout security that created this useful application for free.

There are other options for those who are preventive.See the below the applications that can be installed in your phone to track the location before some pockets it out.

Wheres My Droid:

Another alternative is wheres my droid that has some noteworthy features

Find phone by making it ring/vibrate
Find phone using GPS location
Passcode protection to prevent unauthorized app changes
Use computer to email either attention word.
Sim card change for stolen phones (BETA)

Locate My Droid:

Full control of this application can be accessed through web interface.Even if the application is not running in your lost phone you can login to the website and enable the tracking service remotely.This saves the battery time from wasting in the background while you are using.

Now the popular Mobile Operating system is widely used by everyone and I guess this tip will be very useful in case if you lose your android phone.Share your ideas below in the comment section.I will be updating with newer apps in this category.

Amazon's Kindle Fire -Review

2011-09-28T23:08:00.001+05:30

Amazon entered into the android tablet market by announcing a fresh 7 inch tablet called Kindle Fire.The new device to be sold for $199 very cheaper when compared to $499 basic apple iPad.

Kindle Fire Configuration:

OS: Android 2.3 Gingerbread Operating System.

Screen Size: 7" multi-touch display with IPS (in-plane switching) technology and anti-reflective treatment, 1024 x 600 pixel resolution at 169 ppi, 16 million colours.

Processor: 1GHz dual core processor.

Storage: 8GB Internal Storage,Free cloud storage for amazon contents.

Connectivity: Wireless,USB2.0

Browser: Powered by Amazon Silk –New technology based on cloud.

Appstore: Not the default Android market but uses the Amazon app store.

The device is up for preorder now and will be available by November 21.

Though this device is not a fully loaded competitor for iPad or Galaxy tablets since it is more like a entry level tablet without camera or 3G features in it.

But considering the cost $199 ,Amazon fire is a good bet!.

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How to create your facebook timeline

2011-09-22T23:24:00.001+05:30

Facebook announced timeline feature that shows your entire lifetime in a page.

Facebook’s new timeline feature will be a new way for people to showcase themselves like they do for Facebook profiles.

See Facebook timeline:

Click sign me up in this page http://www.facebook.com/about/timeline and you will be notified once it is launched.

Facebook redesigns News feed

2011-09-21T23:40:00.001+05:30

Facebook is rolling out new layout and design changes to all the Facebook users.Over the few weeks Facebook has been announcing new design changes to Facebook wall and new stories and today the major part of Facebook ‘the news feed’ has been redesigned and rolled to all the users.

It was previously news feed and most recent menu which was displayed at the top of the Facebook wall which provides us the latest activity from your friends.But now the news feeds are integrated into one and the news items are classified as “Top stories” and “Recent stories”.

Top stories are the most important updates that was marked with blue corner.

Recent stories are like live feed of news happening at the moment.

So if you are signing into Facebook after many days you will see the important updates in the “top stories” section and below that you will have recent stories.

News ticker:

Facebook news ticker feature is now live at the right cornet above the chat sidebar.You will have the live news ticking at the corner and you can see the updates without clicking it.

Floating Facebook menu bar:

The Facebook top nav bar is now floating at the top of the window for better and easy navigation.

Photos are Bigger:

The photo album activities are displayed a little bigger than previous versions.

Facebook subscribe:

The subscribe feature aka twitter competitor allows us to subscribe to a person’s updates without adding as a friend.

Smart lists

Facebook groups your friends into separate lists as per the smart lists.Which is exactly similar to Google+ circles feature.

More control on News feed

You can have the ability to switch the subscription type for any person.

Facebook’s major overhaul has made frustrations for many users as they find it difficult to use the new layout.What do you think about this new facebook layout?

Windows 8 new features [Screenshots]

2011-09-14T00:55:00.001+05:30

Windows 8 officially previewed today by Microsoft in their “Build conference”.Windows 8 will be the next generation operating system for Microsoft that will be for both computers and tablet PC’s.

One of the biggest change made Windows 8 was Metro style UI:

The entire look and feel of the operating system is much inspired with Metro UI that was similar to the windows phone 7 phones.

You can use windows key to swap between the metro desktop and windows 7 desktop UI

Boot speed

The boot speed of the operating system is so fast that loads the OS quickly in 6 seconds.

USB 3.0

The next generation USB technology that helps faster file transfers.

Home screen

Task manager

The redesigned task manager helps in monitoring the running apps in a whole new way.

Windows appstore

Appstore to download metro apps as well as win32 apps.

Lighter Operating system:

Windows 8 Explorer

Visual studio 11

Windows 8 platform stack

The taskbar in windows 8 spans multiple monitors.
You can even set pictures as login passwords in windows8.
Developers now have access to SkyDrive just like local file system with help of APIs
Windows 8 devices will be using ARM and Intel processors and this is the first time Microsoft is employing other hardware vendors apart from Intel.
Appstore is not launched during this developer preview and it was just announced.
Windows8 will support visual studio 11 with html5 features.
Split keyboard for tablets and touch devices.
Every computer that runs on windows 7 will be able to run windows 8

Download the Windows 8 ISO files of the developer version at http://dev.windows.com.

Since this is a pre beta release we can expect lot of bug fixes before it goes for the final revision.

Samsung Galaxy Note - featuring Smartphone + Tablet

2011-09-01T16:22:00.001+05:30

Samsung launched Galaxy Note smartphone in IFA-berlin 2011.The new phone is power packed with full list of nice features that neatly integrates a smartphone and a tablet PC.
Samsung galaxy Note, 5.3 inch display is the largest screen size so far available in smartphone market.HD Super amoled display makes the wide screen of 1280×800 resolution .The phone has the thickness of 9.5mm looks slim and sleek.
The new phone also sports the S pen technology that makes the stylus input more intuitive for the wide screen.
This phone runs Android 2.3 gingerbread Operating system with touch wiz UI layered on top.

Galaxy Note, market availability and pricing is yet to be announced.

images via(This is my next)

How to access Gmail offline

2011-09-01T14:04:00.001+05:30

As part of making essential Google services available even offline, Google announced the offline mode for Gmail.

To access Gmail even when you are away from an internet connection in your device you need to install the chrome app for offline Gmail access.

See also : How to update windows 7 offline

Once you install the application you will be able to access the mails in your inbox,can send mail,search and archive.Once you are connected to internet all the changes you made will be synchronized.

Steps to Install Offline Gmail

1. Goto Chrome web store page and install the application

2.The offline mode will be run in background

This application uses the HTML5 offline storage technology to store the emails for offline access.

Not just Gmail you can access Google docs,calendar in offline mode using this application.

Via(Google Blog)

New features in Symbian Belle OS

2011-08-25T00:24:00.001+05:30

Symbian ,Flagship Mobile OS from Nokia gets a new version named as Symbian Belle.The new operating system includes UI improvements and new features that will be available on new Nokia 700, 701 and 600 phones and as upgrade for Nokia N8, Nokia C7, Nokia C6-01 and Nokia E7 mobile phones.

New features in Symbian Belle does remind me the Android UI:

1.Home screens: You can add upto six home screens

2.Live Widgets

3.Pull down notification Menu (like android)

4.New Navigation

5.Visual Multitasking

6.NFC

Near field communications is now integrated into the operating system.

Nokia belle was big bet for Nokia before it releases some Windows phone 7 Phones.

Will Nokia gain market share with this update? Share your comments on Nokia Belle.

Samsung Introduces four new Galaxy phones

2011-08-24T22:50:00.001+05:30

Samsung,The Korean mobile phone manufacturer announced the new line up of its popular Galaxy smartphones.According to the press release,Samsung has created new naming system for its galaxy phones that helps people understand the category of the phone.

New Naming system is to create a simplified way of categorizing different galaxy phones tailor made for specific audiences.

Galaxy S – Super smart phones – High end flagship device

Galaxy R – Royal/Refined – Premium model – Power+performance+productivity

Galaxy W – Wonder – Decent quality mobile – Style+performance

Galaxy M – Magical – Economical

Galaxy Y – Young – For young generation

Class Indicators:

Apart from this name a class indicator would additionally say you the type of phone with just knowing the name.For example if any phone has “pro” name tagged to it then it will be a qwerty keypad phone.

pro – Phone using Qwerty keypad

plus – Upgrade from existing model

LTE – Long term evolution or 4G capable phone

(Please note: the four new phones namely Galaxy W,Galaxy Y,Galaxy M pro,Galaxy y pro are yet to be launched to the market on IFA trade show at berlin on September 2011)

Using Google plus to update Facebook and Twitter

2011-08-21T23:57:00.001+05:30

Other than just a social network Google plus have many other uses that are discovered in the recent days,But Google plus itself hasn't become a mainstream social network since Facebook and twitter play a dominant role.Moreover people will choose a network that have most of their friends are using (which is Facebook obviously).So every new user to Google plus will already be having an account in Facebook and twitter,so it will be difficult for them to update multiple social networks.

This idea of updating different social networks while staying on one had led crossrider to develop extensions that help people to update Facebook and twitter while using Google plus. (cool)

For accessing Facebook on Google plus you need to be install this extension.After installing you can see Facebook icon on the Google plus menu.Once clicked you can access you Facebook wall stories and update your status too. [You need to connect your Facebook account].

In the same way you can install Twitter extension for your browser and authorize your twitter account and start using it.This twitter client has many features as the official one.

These browser extensions are very useful for users having multiple social networks.Good to try !

Samsung launches Galaxy tab in India

2011-08-10T22:48:00.001+05:30

Samsung has launched its popular tablet version Galaxy 10.1 Tab in India today.The two new galaxy tabs are named as Galaxy tab 730 and Galaxy tab 750 .Galaxy Tab 750 was renamed version of 10.1 tab and Galaxy tab 730 was renamed version of 8.9 Tab.

The two new Galaxy tabs using Android honeycomb OS 3.1 will be available in market by end of August 2011 and will be priced at Rs,33,990 for normal one and Rs 36,990 for Wi-Fi + 3G.

As Apple is fighting with Samsung in many countries to stop shipping its Android Tablet and smartphones.Soon apple may stop India sales too and grab soon if you want to buy it .

Microsoft teases Google in Gmail Man commercial

2011-07-30T13:04:00.001+05:30

Microsoft teased Gmail in its latest commercial.Microsoft ditched Gmail for non-privacy by scanning emails for providing better advertisements.

In its latest commercial created by the Microsoft office 365 team shows off “Gmail Man” the mail delivery guy who delivers mails after reading them.Google soon removed this video from YouTube.

Its quite clear that Microsoft started attacking Google Apps in the notion of Privacy and make people to switch to office 365.Lets wait to hear back from Google.

What do you love? - The Google way

2011-07-27T23:36:00.001+05:30

What do you love? Google announced a new website wdyl.com aka what do you love? get all the information about the things that you love from web.

The new website provides you the information from all the Google services collectively.The video helps to understand more about what do you love

The mashup of information from all Google products including,news,maps,translate,Gmail,books,mobile and 20 more displayed on a single webpage as similar to Qwiki.

Like this news ? Follow us on Facebook and Twitter to get latest updates.

Apple launches new MacBook Air models

2011-07-21T01:03:00.001+05:30

Apple have redesigned and upgraded MacBook Air models with latest Sandy bridge processor and ultra fast Thunderbolt IO technology that helps data transfer speed upto 10 Gbps.

The new line of MacBook Airs are redesigned from previous MacBook airs that looks sleek and shiny.

This launch of new MacBook came along with commercial release of MAC OS Lion that was previewed a year ago.Apple silently killed the old MacBook $999 model and you cant buy it anymore.

These new MacBook Airs will be sipped with Mac OS lion which sports many new features as well.Available in 11 and 13 inches, base price is $999.

See the detailed comparison between MacBook air models.

Switch to new Blogger Interface

2011-07-09T18:06:00.001+05:30

The new Blogger user interface is now available for everyone and you can try this new UI at http://draft.blogger.com.

Early 2011 Google announced the plans for the new Blogger UI and tested it for quite some months.Based on the feedbacks from the users, blogger improved the interface much further and now it was made available for everyone.

Still This new interface is available only in draft mode [otherwise Beta in terms of Blogger].

The UI looks cleaner and simple.We played around with this new interface and found some new features.

The Homescreen- Shows recent statistics and updates

Compose Page- With post settings on the right

You can see pageviews on every blog post

You change even the default blogger favicon

Try at http://draft.blogger.com.

The Interface looks pretty but will be productive ? we would like to hear from you.

Youtube redesigns Video interface

2011-07-07T23:58:00.001+05:30

YouTube gets a brand new interface for videos,channels and playlists.This experimental feature called Cosmic panda provides you lighter,darker and much simple video interface.

After Google+ and Gmail the next update comes to Google’s YouTube.Here are the new features introduced in Cosmic panda

A new experience for watching videos and playlists
Better editing tools for customizing your channel
Keep watching when moving between videos (For Chrome)

Screenshots of the New YouTube interface

Try Cosmic Panda and share your thoughts.

How to Video call your friends on facebook

2011-07-06T23:59:00.001+05:30

Facebook’s awesome event is all about launching the video calling feature on Facebook with help of Microsoft’s Skype.

Facebook video calling is a tight integration of Skype on Facebook.You can able to call your friend right from your browser.

To begin using Facebook video calling chat feature you can follow these steps.

1.Proceed to http://facebook.com/videocalling

Click “get started”.

2.You may now visit any of your friend’s wall you will be able to see the Camera icon next to the profile and in chat window as well.

3.For the first time when you click “call” button you will be asked to install the Facebook video calling plugin for your browser.

Download and install the plugin,Once the plugin is installed you may call your friends by simply clicking “call” button.

If you get the error message saying “problem with video calling “ please see the support page

Do you believe this is an awesome feature? we would like to hear from you.

How to send google plus invites to your friends

2011-07-04T00:54:00.001+05:30

Google plus is now on insane demand and Google have shut down the invite system for some time and there are always loopholes already that helps you get into Google plus without an invite actually.

Step 1: Find someone who is already on Google plus.

Step 2: Your friend should add you to a circle like “friends”

Step 3: Ask him to upload a picture or add a status message and share with you by specifying circle name at the box at the bottom.

Here in this demo, I have added my friend who is not using Google plus to a circle called “friends” and shared a post with him.

You can notice a checkbox at the bottom “also email the person not using Google+”

This will trigger the notification to you and next time you enter http://plus.google.com you will be able to use it.

Update : Install the Google plus extension on Chrome and access Google+ through the extension.You will be directed to Join Google+ page [ this is working for some people]

Please let us know your comments.

What happens every 60 seconds on Internet

2011-07-03T16:18:00.001+05:30

Growth of Internet is tremendous over the years because of number of people using the internet in developing countries is fastest as ever.

The infographic by goGlobe shows the growth of internet companies of this era.

Some mentionable stats happening every minute

168 Million emails sent
694445 search queries
695000 Facebook status updates
98000 tweets

See more Infographics