The time shown by the clock icon on iOS 7 shows current time, complete with moving second hand too. You can see the clock ticking by second.

Not just this, iOS 7 shows dynamic weather, current temperature, maps and even the videos dynamically on the icon view.

This is a real cool enhancement from Apple. Now users can check weather and stuff without launching the app just for basic info.

Modern Communication Technology-crossing all barriers

Modern technology has given birth to various methods of communication, such as video conferencing and social networking websites. No doubt it has removed all the obstacles of time and distance as a person living in any part of the world can nowadays connect easily with any country, for instance UK telephone numbers. It has definitely proven to be a boon for different parts of the society which are linked with each other for business, education or association purposes. Call handling products help in reducing the costs of making calls and also enhance telecommunication services. Inbound numbers include 0845, 0800, 0844 numbers and these result in the increase in  number of received calls by manifold as people want to use a free to call number. They are also used by organizations to present a more professional image and to generate more sales.

Some people believe that because of the modern communication people seldom meet each other as they can communicate mostly through mobiles or internet. However, this fact cannot be denied that technological advancements has helped people to grow their long distance relationships. People can maintain their relationships even if distance separates them, and interpersonal communication can be easily carried on with the smart electronic devices. For example for a couple who cannot ignore professional commitments at the same time want their relationship to work from far off can get connected with each other with the help of video chats, messages and phone calls.

Social Networking Sites

Just imagine the role of Facebook in our lives, immense isn’t it? We are connected to our friends, share with them our feelings and keep contacting with them even if they are residing in other parts of the globe. Moreover, we know all about what is going on in the other person’s life and do not miss anything about the ones we love and care for. There is no doubt that technology and communication has shown the people a new charm of life!

There is another reason why we need social media. Very often people who do not communicate regularly are lost from the contacts. In an ever-increasing number of friends in our list, it has become easier to stay connected with all of them which was not possible earlier. Moreover, the social networking sites have given us another opportunity to rekindle the lost relationships by connecting with them again.

Face-to-face Communication

Another aspect in which technological developments have been taken as boon is an improvement in interpersonal face to face communication. For instance, consider the dating sites-isn’t it wonderful to be able to see and talk to your partner! People can see the expressions and emotions of the other person and this way their relationship may gain a faster and stronger foothold. Not just dating sites, getting interviewed and video chatting with our friends and relatives has become easier with the web cams and conference calls.

Modern technology has also helped people with disabilities as an individual having hearing impairments can take the help of the hearing aids to overcome the challenges. Similarly, with text messages on computers or mobile phones a person having weak vocal cords can communicate back and forth with others. With the help of advancing technology, the process of communication has evolved over the years by breaking many obstacles and yet many more path breaking discoveries and inventions will be soon coming in our way.

Then proceed in choosing the venues while keeping the following aspects in your mind-

The number of people attending

This is the primary factor that decides the place of the event. Calculate the number of people who are attending and check if the setting will be good enough for keeping that amount of people comfortably. Small spot will mean discord and a bigger one will mean wasting of money. Again check if it has the proper infrastructure to handle that volume of transport that will flow in. What is meant is that the parking must also be considered along with the space in that locale.

You just print “R.S.V.P” in your invitation so that you can easily decipher what proportion of guest is turning up.  R.S.V.P means “please respond” in English, and if people are not calling up, you call them up to confirm.

Don’t forget the audience status

Your location must be befitting your status and that of your guests. Quality services must be provided and in case very classy guests are being invited it is better choose the banquet hall of five star hotels or resorts. This way your party will be enjoyed by your guests at the same time keep your image intact.

Guest convenience

Don’t ignore the convenience of the guest arriving. If you plan to host a party in some remote area, you will definitely get the hall at lower rates, but this will decrease your probability of guests turning up. Also, the place must have proper transportation and road after all no guest will enjoy your party after a long bumpy ride. In fact, it is suggested to choose a place in the heart of the city so that all corners may be able to get connected comfortably.

On-going Climate

Wouldn’t it be foolish to have an outdoor party in monsoon? Consider the climatic conditions- If it is hot the hall needs to be properly cooled. If it is winter, the hall needs to be centrally heated to offer your guests ambient temperature. Outdoor or open air parties are good for the beach and in temperate or oceanic climates, not in tropical climates.

Venue services

Your venue must have proper security. You would not want your guests to be robbed of their jewels in the parking lot, isn’t it? So ask for protection personnel. If it does not come with the locale, you must arrange it separately for the VVIP guests that are coming. Apart from this there must be proper fire-fighting measures in the setting like fire extinguishers, smoke detectors and sprinklers. Moreover, your spot must have proper first aid facilities, security cameras and power back-up. Check if your satellite phones work in and around the place.

The success of the event depends a lot on their staff, as well. Check the number of events that the place has been organizing and if possible get a set of referrals from their office.

This small online buying guide can be useful to you on your next buying expedition.

Security Guide

• Before you start reaping benefits from internet shopping, ensure that your confidential details like credit/debit card, online bank account PIN etc. are safe.
• Buy from those websites only who run their online stores on an encrypted HTTP. You can identify this by checking the URL. It must start with HTTPS://.
• Check for trusted payment gates like PayPal, WorldPay etc.

Once the safety of your identity and security of data are ensured, now is the time to look at gaining benefits:

Tips for buying from auction websites

• Note that the items bought from eBay etc. are not being sold by the website but by another user like you who is labeled as “seller”.
• Read the seller’s feedback given by other purchasers before you make a purchase.
• Be careful while bidding as once you become ‘winning bidder’, you are obliged to pay the money.
• If the seller is ‘trader’ you have got better rights than an individual seller. Exercise these rights to your best. Your rights generally include getting the same item displayed by the seller/trader, assured quality etc.
• Understand the T&Cs of money back policy and material return policy.

Tips to buy from online shops

• First build a catalogue of websites that always offer the best products.
• You can also avail of discounts while shopping online. Online shopping has brought many benefits and feel-good factors like Coupons & Promotions, discount vouchers, purchase credits etc.
• As a routine, ensure the safety and security being offered by the online shop.
• Do some homework like feature comparison, price comparison etc. even for web shopping. Because features and prices are common for any type of purchase.
• Look for discount coupons or coupon codes. More often than not all the online shopping sites do offer them directly to their buyers. Make the best use of these discount vouchers when they are available.
• If discount vouchers could not be found from the online selling website, scout for them in coupon websites. The combined purchase power of the coupon websites can work in your favor to get some discount at least.
• At times, websites offer printable coupons that you can produce in the nearby stores and claim the incentive. Look for such coupons too.
• Your best pals can be of great help in accessing the usefulness of a web store or product/service. Take their opinions and experience before taking a purchase decision.
• Book flight tickets online to earn frequent flier mileage points. Redeem them for goodies.
• Get discounts on hotel reservations by booking online. Sometimes there would be combo offers for flight and hotel reservations. Check them out too.

There are many more advantages that you can enjoy by buying online like free shipping, referral schemes etc. So, there is no dearth for those buyers who spare little bit of time in exploring the ways to get benefitted.

Earlier, you had to sit and wait for your favorite TV show to come avoiding your work but today you have a number of choices. You may record the whole show and watch it anytime when you want. Or you can directly go to internet to watch your favorite TV shows there and you can download them easily for watching further. Not only TV shows but you can find movies, songs and videos on internet. All it takes is a little gadget. You may entertain yourself anywhere with little gadgets finding the things which interest you. If you’re a reader you have e-books and enough blogs on internet. If you’re a writer you always have writing tools in your gadget. You can watch movies, listen to songs and most importantly chat and talk with your friends and loved ones no matter how far you are from them. You have applications to make voice calls and video calls through internet which saves money you put in the phone calls.

Automobiles are now being manufactured with standard GPS and emergency call features for the convenience and safety of drivers and their passengers, making the days of carrying a map completely unnecessary and improving the peace of mind of anyone who must travel the roads alone or at night.

Banks and other institution have started using computers to fill data instead of doing it manually which has reduced wastage of time to 10 times for both workers and consumers. Clients can get a quick access to their accounts on their gadget anytime anywhere instead of travelling to the bank. This has helped in development of online market where the consumer gets his order at his doorstep and pays online by internet banking or using credit, debit card. The payment of bills and other accounts related jobs of every business entity is easily managed by the available online facilities. Financial institutions and banks have introduced online internet systems which makes life easier.

Our elder generations never got the chance to learn in interactive classrooms with projectors and 3D images. Neither did they have the luxury of watching videos and movies in high definition and to play best graphic games.

Social networking websites have been incorporated as a part of daily life. Websites like twitter and facebook have given a new revolutionary change to the world of social media and entertainment. People always have such sites to stay connected with their friends and relatives. Meeting the new people online has given way to the rise of the billion dollar industry of dating.

Telephone technology did not take the world by storm overnight but Bell has prophesied the rise of this new technology will have its recognition in due course of time. Within ten years from then, in the USA alone more than 137,000 phones were installed.

From those basic two-way prototypes, telephone, has undergone a metamorphic transformation to the latest multitasking smartphones like Apple Inc’s iPhone. This sojourn was full of experimentation and excitement. But what is in store for today’s future? What new technologies are coming up and how would they change the phone technology? Let us see some of them.

Open Source Phones

We heard about open source software tools but now cell phones that are built on open source technology would be hitting the market any time. Major companies like Yahoo and Google are being roped up to help on this emerging technology in phone industry. A new open source Android OS called Tizen has been created and can support smartphones, tablets, notebooks, in-vehicle infotainment devices etc.

WiFi Phones

In this ‘unlimited’ world, making long distance calls particularly international calls is still a limited service. Also, it is the costliest service that everyone cannot afford subscribe. People can buy 0800 number to make free calls from UK landlines and 0800 numbers are not bound to a specific location within the United Kingdom so a business can receive calls from all over the country.Though VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) technology has made the international calling as a free service, this is also limited to the computers only. That means one cannot make VoIP call without having a desktop or laptop. But now, this dream would become a reality. WiFi phones would be bridging this gap by enabling VoIP calls.

Mobile Augmentation

In this fast paced world, people crave for ‘all-in-one’ solutions to save time and effort. Though the Smartphone technology has given some sort of ‘all-in-one’ feeling to the users with its ability to accommodate tools & apps that can do diversified activity, tech-savvy users are looking farther than this. Industry experts are foreseeing a ‘mobile augmentation technology’ in near future which can redefine the Smartphone meaning. One expert gave a simulated scenario to understand what this new technology would do for you! Think that you are in a new city and standing in front of a building wondering what is it? All you need to do is to point your mobile towards the building and read through what appears on the screen. Your phone might tell you the history of the building, its current occupiers which would include your favorite restaurant chain and its business hours too. That would be the power of upcoming augmentation of mobile technology.

Real Virtual Keypad

In this era of touch-screen phones, people still prefer to type the message or email by using the physical keypad attached to it. This is because they feel it more accurate and convenient than the virtual keyboard which often imprint wrong alphabet due to high sensitivity of the touch screen. Research teams of various phone manufacturers are working hard to create a virtual keypad that feels and behaves like the physical one. This would be a new technology worth watching when the upcoming models feature it.

EBay is one of the leading online stores in the world. It sells almost anything and everything and to keep the flies hovering around this company serves its consumers with uncountable beneficial deals which they could never avail in the market. EBay not only serves you as a self-online store but also make you reach easily to the independent retailers who can’t afford their own online stores but sell products with offers which beat other online stores in attracting people. They serve us with daily deals, discount vouchers which trim the price of your cart once you apply them. It is up to the user to choose a deal of profit among a plethora of deals and vouchers.
The discounts are made available in many forms based on the product in following ways;

> > · some products have a flat discount that is displayed with product’s details,
> > · some products come in combo deals where you pay the price for one and get another product for free,
> > · there are vouchers which avails you discounts of 10%, 20% or so on specific products,
> > · There are other deals which work on a fixed minimum amount in one billing etc.

> > Sometimes it gets harder for the customer to choose an appropriate deal or discount voucher for his cart value. Ventures like Voucher King help the users in such scenarios. They have every single detail about products and different ways explaining how to use different vouchers efficiently which are subjected to their terms and conditions. You will find the whole directory of the vouchers codes categorized and compiled in an easily apprehensible way which help the user to make a choice and make an efficiently profitable purchase.

The other mode of purchasing on eBay is through auction which needs you to be calculative to fetch a handsome profit. To get the best out of eBay you must know what exactly you are looking for; there are too many of the same items that they will give you a headache through page after page of products. You just need to set an eye over the last minute bargain to get the most profitable deal, which is completely opportunistic. Another important thing to remember is that you have filtered the search results according to your location. Select your location for example if it is UK, you select UK in the search filter tools. Your search results might confuse you as well when you don’t see the expected results after search. Don’t fret it’s just that eBay’s listings are written by different individuals and they might not be tracked down with the keywords you are using. Search for your desired product patiently and look for a result with lesser page views, a less viewed product in auction is easy for us to lift at a substantially lesser price.

Another name for IP telephony is Voice over Internet protocol, in short VoIP. It is a simple process of making calls online instead of a telephone connection. It has other benefits too, which is slowly being understood by the small business concerns.

Nowadays laptops and almost all mobile devices have internet on them. This is the best platform for the IP telephony, and since it is backed up with self-help instructions, customer care desks they are gathering momentum in their preference.

The Benefits

Medium and small enterprises can derive immense benefits from shifting to VoIP calls rather than the telephone calls. With the advanced broadband IP technology has immense scope for SMEs.

Here are how they are more preferable-

1. Less costly: This is the primary reason as due to excessive competition the cost has come down significantly, and this is just the aspect the medium and small businesses need to utilize. Even a lower investment in the area can reap immense benefits than the traditional calling facilities.

2. Ideal choice: There are various choices in telephone services meant for businesses and each of them has their own individual feature in internet protocol telephony. Land-line business service providers are delimited with features, and they also need to establish a proper infrastructure to start working. But not so with IP telephony; the infrastructure of communication already exists in most cases and only the plan has to be availed, hence a lot of plans are noticed. Well this encourages competition surely!

3. Extremely flexible: Flexibility is immense in IP telephone and you can expand your network any time you want to. As your business spreads and flourishes you must understand how beneficial it will be.

4. Functionally better: IP telephone gives you options that are not available for the land-line connection. They are video conferencing and calling three ways.

5. Capability to connect remotely: Remote working is the latest trend in businesses and this poses a lot of competition to the SMEs. But with the IP telephone technology getting connected remotely will become extremely convenient. This convenience is even hard to think of for the traditional calling services. A basic broadband connection can let anybody get connected to the work force.

Will the shifting be extremely difficult?

You must be wondering how to establish IP telephony in your office, but this is not at all a difficult task. Only an internet connection and 56k modem can let you establish your IP telephone. If you have fiber optic broadband it is unbeatable and hence the best for IP, and with the various plans and deals this is extremely convenient also. Many large businesses have their own IP systems.

Who is availing the benefit?

IP telephone is not a novel concept. It is rather some years old now, and many have successfully shifted over to this mode of communication. Take, for example, the incidence of the largest libraries of USA called JMRL. As soon as they improved their broadband capacity they shifted to VoIP from their existing landlines.

Small entrepreneurs are making the best use of IP telephony nowadays. It is flexible, functional and extremely cost efficient.

Choosing the topic for our new blog is one of the most important question which can either waster our time or make our lives. Here you’ll be getting few tips and ideas on how to chose the topic for your new blog and then you can continue working on it.

1. What’s your full time profession

Many people I know, might be a student of environmental sciences and would start blogging on a tech niche blog! come on guys what’s wrong with you! make a blog on something related to your field of study. You will get new topics and new info about it every single day. It’s your domain man! You will never run out of topics but also you will be authority in that niche! as you’re qualified in it!

2. Your favorite sport

Better if you play it too! that way you will never run out of topics too! you will always have something to post about your favorite sport or sports team and events related to it! You will have lots and lots of information as well as pictures to post about it!

3. Don’t just choose because someone got lucky with it

If someone made huge money with cats and dogs blogs, that’s because he knew about cats and dogs (or spent time in learning about them) or maybe owned cats and dogs himself. If you’ll follow the niche blindly, chances are you’re gonna waste your time and energy in it.

4. Focus on what’s your field of interest and specialty

If you’re writing about sports, don’t start about all the sports, focus on what’s your main interest, be it basketball, swimming or hockey, whatever. Stick to it, write about it, search about it. Because searching about it won’t feel hectic to you as you’re already interested in that sport right ?

5. Make a list and then taper down

Make a list of topics which you think you can blog about. Write down the list, no seriously! write it down on a piece of paper. Now take time to sit and think. Number the items in priority that which ones are your favorite and which ones you can write alot and good about.

6. Write good, not much

The whole point is giving some value, not just content. Everyone knows how being fat is, how bad it is, but a few know how to make the fat go, to make you slim. So if you can provide the complete picture of something, start that niche!

If you have any suggestions or questions please let me know!

The graph search tour takes you through the features enhanced in facebook via graph search launch.

Once your account is approved for Facebook Graph Search you will get a notification on your Facebook homepage saying that your account is now approved for Facebook Graph Search and now you can upgrade to the new search system.

Once upgraded, not just the search changes, but the whole top bar moves into different sequence of icons.

Facebook asks you to take a tour of Facebook Graph Search (click to enlarge):

Explore the new Graph Search

Take 2 minutes to see how you can find more of what you’re looking for on Facebook and discover fun connections.

Clicking on “Take a Tour” begins the tour of the Facebook Graph Search and auto types a search query for you in the top search bar. For me It searched for the institute where I graduated from “Islamic International Medical College”.

The Search can be seen in snap shot below (click to enlarge) :

The awesome thing about it, you don’t get only results through name, it gives you an option to search for the people who graduated from that institute (guessing automatically that it’s an institute name)

Gives you an option to see people who goto the college currently, your friends who goto that college. Not only this, but people who are related to that college and live in some specific city or place even.

Gives further options too such as people who went to that college and work somewhere else too etc.

Infact, these are just suggestions, you can type any such query yourself in awesome Facebook Graph Search and get very relevant and precise results for your query!

While searching, you can use TAB key to move between suggestions and suggested results!

You can personalize the search results like my friends who went to some college etc.

Once search is done, results are personalized specifically for you!

At the end of the tour, Facebook tells you more about awesomeness of the new Facebook Graph Search, showing the popup :

So now Facebook Graph Search isn’t boring as before, like typical search systems, rather it’s quite intelligent now and can search alot of details queries. You can search for photos of you and your friends, restaurants near you, music your friends listen to and so on!

Have your account been approved for Facebook Graph Search already? how did you find the awesome new feature of Facebook ?