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Facebook Security Account Verification

Pradeep — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 11:18:23 +0000

There is a new spam and phishing attack spreading across Facebook that make it look like originated from Facebook Security Team. Beware of this new phishing attack that can compromise your facebook account if you have clicked on the link suggested and try to verify your account by entering facebook username and password.

How to report?

Yes, you can report such facebook chat pop-up by clicking on the “Settings” icon, which you can locate it at the top right corner of that chat window (centered) and select “Report as Spam”

how to report to the spam?

Because of increasing facebook account compromise, it is must to not click on any links that appears not originated from Facebook. Try to avoid loosing your account and have a safe and secure facebook-ing.

Introducing Android 4.0

Pradeep — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 18:39:04 +0000

Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) is the latest version of the Android platform for phones, tablets, and more. It builds on the things people love most about Android — easy multitasking, rich notifications, customizable home screens, resizable widgets, and deep interactivity — and adds powerful new ways of communicating and sharing.

Simple, Beautiful, Useful

Refined, evolved UI

Focused on bringing the power of Android to the surface, Android 4.0 makes common actions more visible and lets you navigate with simple, intuitive gestures. Refined animations and feedback throughout the system make interactions engaging and interesting. An entirely new typeface optimized for high-resolution screens improves readability and brings a polished, modern feel to the user interface. Virtual buttons in the System Bar let you navigate instantly to Back, Home, and Recent Apps. The System Bar and virtual buttons are present across all apps, but can be dimmed by applications for full-screen viewing. You can access each application’s contextual options in the Action Bar, displayed at the top (and sometimes also at the bottom) of the screen.

Multitasking is a key strength of Android and it’s made even easier and more visual on Android 4.0. The Recent Apps button lets you jump instantly from one task to another using the list in the System Bar. The list pops up to show thumbnail images of apps used recently — tapping a thumbnail switches to the app.

Rich and interactive notifications let you keep in constant touch with incoming messages, play music tracks, see real-time updates from apps, and much more. On smaller-screen devices, notifications appear at the top of the screen, while on larger-screen devices they appear in the System Bar.

Home screen folders and favorites tray
New home screen folders offer a new way for you to group your apps and shortcuts logically, just by dragging one onto another. Also, in All Apps launcher, you can now simply drag an app to get information about it or immediately uninstall it, or disable a pre-installed app.

The Recent Apps list makes multitasking simple.

On smaller-screen devices, the home screen now includes a customizable favorites tray visible from all home screens. You can drag apps, shortcuts, folders, and other priority items in or out of the favorites tray for instant access from any home screen.

Resizable widgets

Home screens in Android 4.0 are designed to be content-rich and customizable. You can do much more than add shortcuts — you can embed live application content directly through interactive widgets.

The All Apps launcher (left) and resizable widgets (right) give you apps and rich content from the home screen.

Widgets let you check email, flip through a calendar, play music, check social streams, and more — right from the home screen, without having to launch apps. Widgets are resizable, so you can expand them to show more content or shrink them to save space.

New lock screen actions

The lock screens now let you do more without unlocking. From the slide lock screen, you can jump directly to the camera for a picture or pull down the notifications window to check for messages. When listening to music, you can even manage music tracks and see album art.

Jump to the camera or see notifications without unlocking.

Quick responses for incoming calls

When an incoming call arrives, you can now quickly respond by text message, without needing to pick up the call or unlock the device.

For incoming calls, you can respond instantly by text.

On the incoming call screen, you simply slide a control to see a list of text responses and then tap to send and end the call. You can add your own responses and manage the list from the Settings app.

Swipe to dismiss notifications, tasks, and browser tabs

Android 4.0 makes managing notifications, recent apps, and browser tabs even easier. You can now dismiss individual notifications, apps from the Recent Apps list, and browser tabs with a simple swipe of a finger.

Improved text input and spell-checking

The soft keyboard in Android 4.0 makes text input even faster and more accurate. Error correction and word suggestion are improved through a new set of default dictionaries and more accurate heuristics for handling cases such as double-typed characters, skipped letters, and omitted spaces. Word suggestion is also improved and the suggestion strip is simplified to show only three words at a time.

A spell-checker lets you find errors and fix them faster.

SEO : Search Engine Optimizer

Pradeep — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 07:02:19 +0000

What is meant by SEO?

SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization, which is a process to enhance the sort ability or promotion of a website over the World Wide Web with the use of search engines. It is an activity that provides instantaneous results by searching them. SEO involves a strategy as well as evolved planning. Whatever may be the size of the functioning organization, it is required by each of them. For a fruitful outcome via e-commerce, search engine optimization is a must.

SEO India is a prominent internet based marketing company following a course of action which results in huge organization following positive results. To get working, the website owner has to get listed on the Search Engines. In adverse effects, the business might suffer for not reaching to its ultimate users. For this reason, SEO firm India has become crucial. With the help of expertise of SEO India, any business can get positive returns. India is now one of the best opted places for outsourcing.

Various countries like USA, UK, Australia and Singapore outsource their large business to India. Indians provide them most affordable SEO services in context of prices if you’re dealing with the right people. If you hire SEO Company India, there is no need worry about the website. To write content for websites you need good English and that is surely possible in SEO Services India. So you can have nice content on your website.

SEO services are vital element for an increment in page ranking of a website. SEO Experts and consultants bestow best tactical marketing solutions for website’s promotion. Their skills about the subject provide products in ways that grow your brand and your end result. Optimization of content industriously and building popular links is the task they perform to make the website visible in all major search engines including Google, Alta Vista, Yahoo, etc.SEO services are divided into two general categories, On-page Optimization, and Off-page optimization. On-page optimization considers the two important aspects, the content and the structure of the website, whereas Off-page optimization focuses on the ways to optimize a website, regardless of the content and the structure.

Types of SEO is here to explain the difference between good and bad search engine optimization (SEO) to those who are not familiar with it. It is also a good reminder for those well-meaning SEO consultants who may have strayed into the dark side.

White Hat SEO

White hat SEO, as the name suggests, is clean and wholesome, and the type of search engine optimization service most businesses would want for their website. To put it in more accessible terms, white hat SEO is to search engine marketing what organically grown food is to a healthy diet.

It is not only wholesome and ethical, but is also sustainable. Of course, developing organic and sustainable rankings (just like organic food) requires a lot of time and care. Naturally, this is reflected in the cost of practicing white hat SEO, whether you do it yourself or hire a professional to do it for you. The good news is, however, that the initial higher cost of developing a sustainable SEO strategy, and implementation thereof, translates into cost savings in the long term.

White hat SEO tactics, techniques, and strategies are those which adhere to guidelines set by the search engines, and involve no deception. White hat search engine optimization merely seeks to provide the most search engine friendly presentation of useful content which is inherently valuable and specifically designed for human consumption.

Another important characteristic of white hat SEO is that it cannot generate great results for poor quality content.

Black Hat SEO

Black hat SEO, as you may have already guessed (assuming you read the part about white hat SEO) is the evil brother. It is slick, talks a fast game, and can get you on the top ten list for a while, but your website, and ultimately you, may end up paying a very high price for letting the evil brother be your guide. Going back tot he food reference, you can think of white hat SEO as the fat infused fast food, or the sugary treat full of high fructose corn syrup–it tastes so good and makes you crave more of it. Unfortunately, the goodness comes at a cost, which can be a debilitating and even life-threatening illness in the case of your body, and a penalized or banned website in the case of, well, your website.

Black hat SEO, unlike its wholesome kin, uses tricks, schemes, and games to circumvent the algorithmic barriers set up by the search engines to prevent bad content from gaining high rankings in the search engine result pages (SERPs).

Black hat SEO is not to be mistaken for plain bad search engine optimization which is the result of either lack of knowledge or cutting corners

Bad SEO

Search engine optimization (SEO) is an art rather than a technique. If you overdo this then you might be harming your sites.

Here we give you some of the bad SEO practices that you must avoid:
Invisible keywords must not be added on your website. Keywords are the important words that are responsible for bringing in the traffic on your website. Thus you must make a point to highlight them by using different font color and style. They must be placed at various points on the page. Using hidden keywords or using malicious JavaScript that would embed them on your page is illegal and your site can be black listed by various search engines. They tend to create a false density of keywords around the webpage. Many malicious CSS tweaks are also present that uses the hidden elements to improve the keyword density. Keyword stuffing is another bad practice that you must avoid.
With the growing urge amongst the bloggers to improve the PageRank of their blogs, they need backlinks from the different blogs. They engage in the illegal activity of link buying or link exchange, were they exchange their links in lieu of some money. There are a number of companies that deal in such activities but it is not advised to buy purchase links in order to boost up the ranking. The PR might improve in the start but they will fall later on. Some of the bloggers engage in the act of automatically generating 1000’s of backlink using automated software. These all factors will bring your site SEO down.
Placing the links of other website on your webpages is also not recommended and is considered as link farm by Google and other popular search engines. Many consider directory and comments as the best ways to get the links back to your sites but resubmitting them without any reason is considered suspicious and you might not get the links. Always make sure that your site has proper links that point to the relevant parts of the website.
Cloaking is another malicious practice that is used to improve the ranking. Cloaking is the technique where we present different faces of a website to the user rather than the search engine spiders. This trick might work in some cases but it fails in almost all the cases.
Also keep a check on the spelling in the posts and other areas of your website. The spelling will determine the proper keywords that will help the search engine to index your site but if they are not correct then the search engines will ignore your website altogether.

iphone 4s in india

Pradeep — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 19:57:37 +0000

Apple phone enthusiasts in India should note this date down. November 25 is the official date when Aircel and Airtel would be launching iPhone 4S in the country. For a 16GB iPhone, both Aircel and Airtel have priced it for Rs 44,500 while its higher variant of 32GB would come at Rs 50,900.

iphone 4s

Both the carriers have not made any official announcement regarding the price of Apple iphone 4S 64 GB.

The iPhone 3GS and the iPhone 4 are still available, and an 8GB iPhone 3GS costs just Rs 20,900.For beginners, Apple iPhone 4S is the most talked about phone after the death of its founder Steve Jobs. This phone was announced a day before Job’s demise.

How to book an iPhone?
Now pre orders for iphone 4S 16 GB and iphone 4S 32 GB are available. The phones are available for pre-order on the operators’ respective websites till November 24. As per the information given in the Airtel website, you have to pay the full cash at the time of pre booking and the hand set will be made available to you on the launch day.

Third party services are being used to handle the pre-orders. Bharati Airtel is using Actify.in, while Aircel has teamed up with NCarry.com to handle the bookings.

The phones are being distributed by Beetel in India, while both carriers are offering money-back plans through which the customer can recover the cost of the phone in 3 years.

Features of Apple iPhone 4S

It boasts of a 3.5-inch 960 x 640p widescreen multi-touch Retina display and features World Phone capabilities.Powered by the new iOS 5, this smartphone is integrated with a dual-core A5 chip processor that supposedly offers faster web browsing and considerably enhanced gaming experiences.
With its celebrated optics – which are said to be at par with mid-range digital cameras – and integration with the new iCloud service, the iPhone 4S takes smartphones to a new level.

The 8MP camera has a larger aperture, a custom lens, advanced hybrid infrared filter and face detection feature. Through this camera, owners can record videos in 1080p HD and also use the front facing VGA FaceTime camera for video chatting.The 16GB iPhone 4S would be available in two colours- black and white.

Perhaps the biggest feature of the phone is the new voice-activated personal assistant Siri.

What is Siri?
Siri which is built using ages of research from DARPA and Apple’s own design labs, provides a compelling new way to use a phone, by talking to it.

Just talk to Siri as you would to a person: “Do I need an umbrella?” or “Any great burgers around here?” or “Where’s the closest ATM?” Siri not only understands what you say, it knows what you mean. It figures out the right apps to use to find the right answer. Then, just like a personal assistant, it answers you. Siri makes phone calls, sends messages, schedules meetings, sets reminders, and more.

Siri communicates using natural language, and apart from working, it also jokes. While people in English speaking countries are realizing their dreams of being Iron Man and talking to his personal assistant Jarvis, it remains to be seen how Siri adjusts with the majority of Indians speaking broken English with a complete disregard for proper grammar.

Google’s 1Gb/s (1Gbps) Highspeed Broadband Internet connection : Google’s revolutionary Planning

Pradeep — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 08:56:10 +0000

Google is market leader now and trying to cover all fields in Technology world. One thing which can really make you survive in the tech world is innovation. Google had realized this at an early stage and has always tried to innovate. This is the company which gave us a revolutionary search engine; a 1 GB storage E-mail inbox, when 100 MB was considered enough, for free and also interesting products such as Google Maps & Google Earth with Street View. But they are still not satisfied and plan to bring these services at a lightning fast speed to our homes. Google is experimenting with ultra-fast fiber network internet.

google broadband overview

Fiber optic communication has never been exploited to its full potential and has failed in reaching out to the masses . Google plans to change this by testing high-speed broadband networks in a small number of trial locations across the United States. Fiber optic communication is the method of transferring data from one place to another by sending pulses of light through an optical fiber.Google plans to revolutionize internet speeds forever by introducing connection speed of a mind boggling 1Gb/sec for as many as 500,000 people. That makes it about 20 times faster than the highest internet speed provided by AT&T or Verizon in USA. That is also about a 1000 times faster than the average speed we see in Indian broadband connections. Google says that this will have three main uses: To encourage the development of bandwidth-intensive applications whose development had been somewhat restricted before, to explore new ways of deploying fiber networks and provide an “open access” network which gives the user a choice to have multiple service providers. If this experiment becomes a success, Google can redefine what internet speed is all about.Although, this looks quite promising, this can take up some time to come into practice. Laying an infrastructure for fiber optics is a cumbersome and time consuming process. Also, the estimated cost of the project has been put between $500 million and $1 billion. Google’s lack of experience in this field may also prove to be a hindrance. This will not be a smooth ride for Google and as one industry expert says “If it was easy, everyone would have done it.”

This may take even longer to impact India and the pathetic broadband speed we get here. But when it does, it will surely be very big. Imagine downloading 200 of your favourite songs from iTunes in just about 8 seconds. The prospects are obviously exciting but we will have to wait and see how this shapes up. Via Thinkdigit & Google

Currently in India Broadband services providers like Reliance & Airtel are good enough to handle current scenario. But things are changing everyday, Soon Indian internet user will be in need of more speeds for their requirements. Currently, 1Gbps speed is like a dream in India, It seems the time arrived when we can expect such things to happen. Previously TATA announced Power Launcher promising broadband speed upto 100mbps for just Rs.10,500 (USD$233) per month. Currently, ISPs like Reliance giving 2Mbps Unlimited plan @ Rs. 2599+tax (USD$55) per month.

Google Plus vs Facebook

Pradeep — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 08:49:09 +0000

Google has again entered into the social networking game with new strategies. Google’s new social networking platform Google plus has been released as an “Invite only” release and this is a popular marketing technique nowadays to intensify the users’ urge to join while doing the beta testing with a limited number of users. I got an invite and explored it for a while and all I can say is Google+ is really cool. However, at this stage it’s very hard to predict if the Google plus vs Facebook competition will make sense. Because, social networking is a market that closely works on peoples’ psychology giving them a virtual world with an environment that they want. Google already has its social network Orkut, which has almost been ignored by many and it does not have any potential to grow. It’s still bit popular in India and a few other countries and it speaks all about it. Forget Orkut, even google has forgotten it now.
Facebook is the most successful social network in the internet history, unlike the other social networks facebook’s growth is solid and it keeps the platform changing frequently so as to give the people something new and keeping them busy with them so that they will not feel bored and think of going outside facebook (not for all but for the majority it works). Moreover facebook started challenging the other Internet giants who are/were not at all into the social networking business. Though google is still the largest Internet company, it has been affected a lot by the growth of facebook. How? Because google’s main income is coming from advertising (Google Ads) and after facebook started its advertising game (Facebook Ads) the advertisers have got another choice and the growth of facebook grabbed some advertising areas from google since the social network allows some kind of unique demographic targeting that a search engine or content network can’t provide. Still Google is bigger than facebook and the advertising market google has is much larger than Facebook but things can change in future.

What is Google Plus?

Pradeep — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 04:50:37 +0000

Google Circles are groups of friends you organize by topic: Friends, Family, College Buddies, Roommates, etc.
From your Circles page you drag and drop your contacts into each of these groups, which makes it easier to share what you want with them.

Hangouts lets you video chat with all your buddies

Hangouts are virtual rooms where you can video chat with people in your circles. For example, if you’re not busy, you can start a talk with your pals.
So, basically, it’s just video chat

How do you get to Google+?
So how do you access Google+? You know that handy toolbar at the top of your screen when you’re logged into Google? That’s changing.
Soon, it will turn into a transparent gray bar with a “+You” button that will be your portal to all the features we just mentioned.

30 Non Stop Entertaining HD Games for iPad 2

Pradeep — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 09:51:50 +0000

Apple iPad 2 stands out as the best tablet ever launched because of its User Interface. Its the habit of apple to bring any device with much focus towards its UI. They gave the excellence to iPod Touch at first, then iPhone and finally with iPad. After huge success with iPad, apple has developed iPad 2 with more advancement in processor, memory and size as well. When you need entertainment with your iPad 2, then you must try out some extra ordinary games available.

Here we have 30 non stop entertaining HD Games for iPad 2. We have listed only paid games that gives excellent gaming experience with your ultimate worlds advanced tablet iPad 2. Go through the list and download your favorite game today.
Some of the games are available for free and some of them are paid versions. You can download all the games from iTunes by using the link provided under each heading.
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Source :www.dailytut.com

Intel pays Nvidia $1.5 billion in license dispute

Pradeep — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 12:19:57 +0000

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Intel Corp will pay graphics chip designer Nvidia $1.5 billion to license its technology, settling a legal dispute and smoothing the way for better competition in PC processors.
The agreement was a major victory for Nvidia, sending its shares up 4 after hours in recognition of the value of its high-end graphics technology to Intel.
The deal gives Intel, the world’s biggest chipmaker, the right to use Nvidia’s technology in its PC chips as graphics processing becomes increasingly important.
Nvidia gets to use some of Intel’s technology as it works to build its own PC central processors, using architecture licensed from Britain’s ARM Holdings.
Many investors had expected a settlement, but it had been unclear how much Intel might pay Nvidia and the $1 billion payment was not built into the value of Nvidia’s stock, said Kevin Cassidy, an analyst at Stifel Nicolaus.
“Impressive, it’s a big number,” said Doug Freedman, an analyst at Gleacher & Company.
The agreement comes as Nvidia tries to carry the momentum of low-energy chips based on ARM architecture — now ubiquitous in smartphones — into PCs.
Last week, Nvidia announced it is developing an ARM-based PC central processor under the code name “Project Denver” and will aim them at everything from workstations to supercomputers, directly challenging Intel.
The agreement announced on Monday does not give Nvidia the right to make central processors using Intel’s prized “x86″ technology.
“Those are not our core businesses nor do we have the intention or strategy to go develop those things,” Nvidia chief executive Jen-Hsun Huang said in a conference call with analysts.
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Nvidia specializes in processors that are ideal for processing complex graphics and has been promoting them to be used for other complicated mathematical tasks, such as medical imaging and weather forecasting.
While traditional central processors found in PCs are designed to make huge calculations very quickly, one after another, graphics processors, or GPUs, excel at carrying out several small calculations at the same time, which makes them handy for specific kinds of tasks.
“Nvidia has been talking about the world needing a parallel processor and it seems Intel is validating their technology,” Cassidy said.
Nvidia’s shares jumped 4.45 percent after hours after closing up 3.83 percent. Intel’s shares were down 0.2 percent after hours.
The legal dispute settled on Monday began when Intel sued Silicon Valley neighbor Nvidia in 2009 and Nvidia counter-sued over licenses for technology used to make chipsets, which are groups of integrated circuits that connect to the microprocessor in a PC.
Intel has been under attack from regulators for years over aggressive pricing and sales tactics in marketing its chips.
Its microprocessors are the brains in 80 percent of the world’s personal computers, making compatibility with Intel’s architecture key for smaller chip makers.
In August, Intel settled a U.S. Federal Trade Commission complaint accusing it of using its market dominance to unfairly stifle competition.
Since the Santa Clara, California-based companies launched their suits, Nvidia has wound down its chipset business and redeployed its chipset engineers to its mobile unit to take advantage of the tablet and smartphone booms.
Last week, Nvidia’s shares surged 29 percent as the company’s new Tegra 2 mobile chip impressed investors at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

Now, a robot to wash and dry your hair!

Pradeep — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 11:57:41 +0000

Japanese scientists have developed a hair-washing robot that uses 16 robotic fingers and two motorised arms to do the job.
Created at Panasonic Corporation, the robot has been created to replicate the hands of a human hair stylist, and is designed to help with the care of the country’s “silver generation”.
The arms can scan the head three-dimensionally, measure and record the shape in order to determine the precise amount of pressure in the correct locations.
Eight “fingers” and three motors on every arm independently control the motion and pressure of the massage movements.
“The hair-washing robot was developed to fill the needs of workers at hospitals and health care facilities,” The Telegraph quoted a Panasonic spokesman as saying.
“Studies among them revealed their dilemma that they cannot attend to each and every request of the patients, such as shampooing, as it will add another task to the workers who are already burdened with many tasks.” (ANI)