Android – the next best mobile O/S!

Posted on August 15, 2009 by bastab

In October 2003 Android Inc. was the company founded by Andy Rubin,Rich Miner,Nick Sears and Chris White.And that was the start by which they didn’t probably think they could do big things one day,like what are they are upto now.From that very moment onwards Android Inc. have seen many momet of truth,and the most shining of them being approached by Google to get their products sold to them. Now,it does not happen everyday that you are approached by a company of the stature of Google to approach you to buy your products.Google bought Android™ Inc. and the four joined Google.Thus Google entered the wireless world.

Based on the Linux kernel and released as an Open Source platform under the Apache Licence,Android these days are attracting huge Industry backing.

Although it faces strong hindrances from the already established mobile O/S Symbian and Windows Mobile,the generous backing from Google is surely going toplay a big and significant role in the way Android gets to make itself a steady power in the ever-increasing mobile world.The toughest competition it faces is from Apple iPhone platform which,developers claim,has got both the software and hardware domains equally handful.Additionally,the large pool of independent developers that create interesting applications for the iPhone also work at its advantage.

Whereas,Windows Mobile is seemingly low on development sector these days,with no major technological update for over a year.A launch of the Windows 7 Mobile platform can make a huge difference to the scenario,though.
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But according to the Technical Developers throughout the world,it’s Android which can be touted to be the long-term winner. Symbian(today’s maket leaders) is backed by Nokia only. Whereas for Android the list goes as-Sony Ericsson,Samsung,LG,Acer,ASUS,Motorola,Toshiba and even Huawei,Intel,ARM,Texas Instruments and etc.

The main advantage Android enjoys is the lesser security threats,being a Linux based platform.And the better part being any developers can work on it in their own ways to create better applications,and any handset manufacturer manufacturer can use it for use.

Gmail for mobile gets the outbox feature

Posted on August 14, 2009 by Muhammad Ali

Google in the month of April, launched a browser version of Gmail for mobile. One thing which was missing since then was the Outbox. Well that is no more. Google has added the outbox feature to the mobile version of Gmail.

With this weapon in your armor, you can determine whether a recently sent message was sent or is still in the waiting queue. The Outbox offers a read only view of the subject of the message.

Remember you can only see the subject of the mail and not the body of the message. Do you think that is a limitation?. Please do comment on this question.

Dell to launch smartphone in China this week?

Posted on August 14, 2009 by bastab

After Apple iphone and Google’s android,nowits turn for Dell to get their presence felt in the global market of China by going to lauch their smartphone very soon,if not sooner.And from close sources,they are going to get the launching done withing two-three days.
Now,Dell already having a good competition in the laptop market in China(with Lenovo being the chief competitor),this stunt of the company can be well seen as their measure to take the opportunity of the ever increasing mobile phone market throughout the world.

And as companies from Apple (AAPL) and RIM (RIMM) to Acer and HTC eye the Chinese market, Dell will have to manufacture well-designed competitive devices. That might be hard for the company, which has long specialized in hardware, because the strongest smartphone manufacturers combine deep knowledge in both hardware and software.

The device will supposedly be launching on ChinaMobile, the nation’s largest network server,under a new “Ophone” brand. Ophone is the way China Mobile is branding all devices running Android,and it’s expected that devices from Lenovo and HTC in near future will be handled in the same way too.All Ophones will be built with China-only 3G support,TD-SCDMA.

The Dell smartphone is rumored to be called the mini3i and is expected to be running on Andriod O/S.

Keep a check on this section for the latest updates.

ÜberTwitter for Blackberries : Now thats called tweeting!

Posted on August 13, 2009 by bastab

If you happen to use a blackberry and side-by-side is on twitter,and though you get the best of all the exciting stuffs going around the Technological world,you wish you could have got stuffs like the apple iphone users can access.

Twitterberry was the best alternative till date,before UberTwitter launched its Blackberry application.The application covers all the Twitter basics in your palm-top.You get to tweet(i.e. post messages),you get to check your replies,your DMs(direct messages),and more than that you can Twitter-search,use Twitpic,and will be able to RT(ReTweet) anything from your timeline.

But the best feature being UberTwitter can use GPS tracker of the phone to track the precise location of the user.And this track search one can use for tracking down other tweeps tweeting all around within 10-20 miles of the user.

You can download UberTwitter from: http://www.ubertwitter.com/bb/download.php

Apple releases Safari 4.0.3

Posted on August 13, 2009 by Muhammad Ali

Apple recently announced a new version for Safari, Safari 4.0.3. This latest releases brings improvements that are related to stability, compatibility and security. A few of them are:

Stability improvements for webpages that use the HTML 5 video tag
Stability improvements for 3rd-party plug-ins
Stability improvements for Top Sites
Fixes an issue that prevented some users from logging into iWork.com
Fixes an issue that could cause web content to be displayed in greyscale instead of color

Download Safari 4.0.3

FaceYourManga – Your virtual alter-ego!

Posted on August 13, 2009 by bastab

Days are gone people would have simply liked to upload their own pictures in the ‘avatar’ of websites during registering,or get compelled to use the retarded artificial avatars pre-loaded there.With the advent of ‘FaceYourManga’ things work in different ways.This website gives you the power to make up your own avatars and even edit on pre-loaded ones,in case you don’t like it(which is the genereal case).

Once you are on the website,click ‘FaceYourManga’ option to create your own avatar,working according to the steps they ask you to follow.You also get to show the previously done stuffs in ‘Your Faces’.

The best thing being you can use them as your avatars in almost all online instant messenger platforms,namely Live Messenger®, Skype®, and many more.

So get going and enjoy your virtual appearance!!

Make a Invisible Folder without making it Hidden!

Posted on August 13, 2009 by mayank

Well this trick is quite common and old but well “Old is Gold” and so if you don’t know it then here’s a trick that will help you make a nameless folder in Windows Xp and the make it invisible! (The invisible part isn’t quite popular!)

Right click on a folder which u want to make invisible.
Rename the folder. hold on alt and type 0160 and then leave alt. type the numbers from the numpad.
Right click again on the that folder and go to properties and then customize and change icon from a folder to a blank icon.
And there it is you have created an invisible folder.

You don’t even have to make it hidden folder and still it’s hidden!

Microsoft’s Zune HD coming on 15th September

Posted on August 13, 2009 by Muhammad Ali

It seems that Microsoft’s multimedia player Zune HD will be officially announced and released on 15TH September. I say this because packaging images have leaked onto the web that suggest and strengthen this fact. Have a look at it yourself.

Seems like 6GB and 32GB models of Zune HD will be available on 8th september which will be the Pre-Order Delivery date.

Tips on how to Save Cell phone battery

Posted on August 13, 2009 by aviral

Often people complain about having their mobile phone battery empty very fast and they have to regularly keep on charging it without even using it too much.

Well, these are some handy and easily applicable tips to save your mobile phone battery:

Switch of the phone when not required. When people go to sleep they leave the phone on, this causes loss in battery without even using it, rather switch it off if not in use. When in a remote area, switch off the phone because the phone isn’t able to find network but it still wastes its energy trying to find it, better to switch it off.
Keep the vibrator function of the phone off. The ringing tone is enough. Even try to keep the volume of the ring tone as low as possible.
Keep the Bluetooth always off unless needed. Bluetooth drains the battery. With Bluetooth on near virus-infected phone may cause damage to the phone.
If your phone has features in the phone like Wi-Fi and GPS, keep them also off as they also eat up the battery.
When you know that you will recharge your phone after a long period of time, avoid using features which would drain up battery. For example flash photography. It completely exhausts the battery very quickly.
Keep the back-light in the phone either off or put the back-light timer really low. This will minimize the depletion of the battery power. Some phones have light sensor, it switches off the back-light when there is light around and turns it on when light is not there or it is minimal.
Try keeping calls as short as possible as this will also minimize the depletion of battery. Talk abt the main point or if the call is getting extended unnecessarily then make an excuse and cut off. If you really have a will to conserve battery talk to the point and for a limited time.

Hope this post will help everyone to save their battery and will be free from the complaints of battery exhaustion without using it much.

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