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Why do people jailbreak an iPad?

Sarv007 — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:30:31 +0000

Jailbreaking is somewhere like hacking which helps the user to open up the cellphone devices or iPads to allow any kind of unapproved third party program installations. Since one year, this process has become pretty popular as the users get access to many of the pirated applications and also the paid applications available for free over the internet on the jailbroken devices. This is not the only reason why people jailbreak their devices including the iPad. There are many other reasons too of doing so with some of them discussed in this article. Let’s look at these possible reasons why people adopt this method of jailbreaking their devices including the iPad.

More applications and features in your basket: This is the basic reason why people jailbreak their iPads. You not only get free applications but also can find a huge number of applications in your devices. The highly regulated iTunes app store prevents some of the best applications found outside the Apple’s domain. When you jailbreak you make your device free from this restriction imposed by Apple. So by jailbreaking your ipads you can enjoy a number of incredible applications, download a number of YouTube videos for offline viewing, can tweak some hidden setting on your device and can even transfer a number of files via bluetooth. Also, you can enable flash, can even skin the phone with custom theme and icons, run a number of applications in the background and even can filter the phone calls. In other words you have the while under your keypads.

You get access to Winterboard: Another favorite reason for people to jailbreak their iPads is to get an access an application known as Winterboard. This is a perfect application for working with different themes. You can customize the appearance of your iPad’s springboard as your desktop or play with all your application icons and the area where they are found. With the help of this app you can change every aspect of your iPad’s appearance. Right from playing with your carrier log to the appearance of your dock, everything can be customized and that too for free.

You get access to music controls: With this application you can control virtually any kind of audio application on your iPad. The music controls works the same way the iPad controls, however, with this application you can even control apps like Pandora via your lock screen or within any application on your iPad device. With this application you can maintain the music controls on your status bar itself which you do not have to activate unlike the controls of iPod. You just have to press the icons placed over your status bar to control or manage your music. This applications is available for free when you want to use it with apps like Pandora, however, you need to pay 4.99 dollars if you plan to use it to control apps like the Slacker, Sirius/XM, Rhapsody or Last.fm.

Indeed the idea of jailbreaking is one of the best ways to unlock some awesome applications or features on your iPad device. The reasons discussed are few of the reasons why people love to adopt this process and get any application or feature under the sun which is barred by Apple.

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Nokia Hits 45 Percent of Second Generation Windows Phone Market Share

Sarv007 — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:44:34 +0000

Nokia has recently lunched its very first Windows based phone Smartphone, the Lumia 800 by Nokia in November, 2011, and this initial Windows phone has been launched in the United Sates, and it eventually appears that Nokia has been able to dominate the second generation Windows Phone devices.

Nokia’s Success

Nokia has been able to come across some excellent initial success from its evolutions to exclusively supporting the Windows Phone platform for its high-end devices. The initial sales of Nokia’s first two Windows Phones both Nokia Lumia 710 and Lumia 800 are prone to perched approximately 1.3 million units. This particular data however is not fully verified as yet, but for these two smart phones that were launched back in 2011, November, this is certainly not bad. In addition, the fact is that the Windows Phone is not much sought-after or renowned operating system as yet, and the as Nokia has only launched its very first devices in the region on the United States few weeks ago, and the figures are all pretty much extraordinary.

Occasional Gamer Report

As per a report published by Occasional Gamer, now Nokia has been able to acquire approximately 45% of the entire second generation Windows Phone device market. This particular data is basically an estimation whereas the entity has more than one million game installs on the Windows Phone based platform, therefore it should be very much precise, HTC stands at second place with approximately 40% of the entire Smartphone market share, and Samsung stands third with capturing just 12% of the entire market share.

Devices Launched by Nokia

As a matter of fact, Nokia has just launched its very first Windows Phone 7 Smartphone last year in November, 2011, the figure and the market share it acquires seems exceedingly impressive, and it has been suggested by the industry tech experts that Nokia may also end up being the leading and primary Windows Phone handset manufacturer in the near future.

Rivals!

The Nokia OS rivals’ mainly include iOS and Android. In case Nokia was really able to sell 1.3 million units of its Windows Based Phone in the very first round, its metaphor may be pertinent. If we consider the entire Smartphone market as a warzone, then Nokia may as a matter of fact be moving into an appropriate position. It will not outset Android anytime soon, but the tide perhaps be turning for the stressed and under pressure Finnish maker.

Once it happens, it would be truly amazing to see how accepted and popular Nokia is going to be when it comes to the Smartphone’s industry, and not only Windows Phone devices over the period of next twelve months, furthermore, it has been anticipated that Microsoft and Nokia will become partners and it is certainly going to be a successful venture.

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Microsoft and VW Join Hands to Develop In-Car Server

Sarv007 — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 17:28:05 +0000

Microsoft and Volkswagen are joining hands in developing a large in-car media server that is capable of storing large files. These servers could very-well stop storing and carrying around Compact Discs in your car. These two “giants” have signed a contract, and together, they will develop a platform that is also capable of fast-file transfers.

The agreement is a landmark-agreement for Microsoft for they have never stepped into the car industry. Microsoft’s exFAT program provides a gigantic leap forward in sizes of media files that can be stored on electronic devices. exFAT is offering car owners reliable and additional resources for bringing new and innovative multimedia into their cars.

Some of the features with the exFAT program

Handles more than 4,000 RAW images, 60 hours of HD recording in one directory or 100 HD movies
Enables future growth in media capacities; increasing support from 32 GB up to 256TB
Speeds up file saves to obtain a full 300MBps speed using storage allocation techniques
Includes OEM-definable parameters in customizing file systems for specific devices
Supports interoperability with future desktop OS.

The primary goal of this joined-venture is to provide infotainment software suites to enhance reusing of software for in-vehicle infotainment, and to drive innovations. The company is developing new technology for a multimedia platform that will provide more infotainment options while reducing driver distractions.

Using this technology will assist Volkswagen to follow future consumer technology developments while proving capable of delivering powerful multimedia experiences. In-vehicle electronics continue to break into the market at break-neck speeds opening up doors for new and exciting opportunities.

Microsoft’s commitment

Microsoft offers flexible property licensing programs that lets companies access many of their foundational technologies it its products, allowing companies to develop devices, services and applications that work with one another.

This program will facilitate the auto industry, as well as other industries to make it easy for customers to move large audio files across other devices. This is a leading technology for the auto industry and Microsoft and Volkswagen are pleased to be doing business together through Microsoft’s patent licensing program.

Volkswagen is not the only company that has entered into a patent licensing agreement with Microsoft. Several leading electronic manufactures such as Panasonic Corp., SONY Electric Company Lts., Olympus America Ind., and Sony Corp., have patent licensing agreements through their property licensing program. Microsoft is the worldwide leader in software and technology services. The company was founded in 1975 to help businesses, and individuals to achieve their full potential.

Audi has been performing their own journey with technology with adding technology such as Google Earth mapping and in-car Internet. American automakers such as Ford have the “Sync” program and the Japan automaker Toyota have the “Entune” program with both focusing on portable-device integration. Volkswagen has been bringing up the rear with introducing a new audio system by “Fender” for their 2012 Beetle.

Microsoft experienced considerable success with the “Sync” program which is what probably prompted the alliance with Volkswagen who is hoping to lead the technology raise instead of bringing up the rear.

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The New Breed of Musicians Has Arrived

Sarv007 — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:00:31 +0000

Music has a quality that no other form of art can equal; even film is often bogged down by its elements. Almost everyone likes music of some variety, and that natural tendency even comes through when it comes to technology.

Beyond all the different ways to make music, there are apps for every kind of smartphone designed turning music from a thought into a physical reality that everyone can listen to and enjoy without the need for imagination. While the barrier to entry for a musician has never been this great, it’s getting easier and easier for those who aren’t classically trained.

Instruments Aren’t What They Used to Be

If your most modern concept of a musical instrument is a Moog Synthesizer, you’re way behind the times. There are more types of music that can sample sounds, manipulate them, and add them into harmonies. While the instruments and mixers available to the average person aren’t at the professional level, they allow the amateur musician to do more things than ever before. Ordinary people can make extraordinary beats without all the wires and switches needed like in the old days.

Music is Literally Everywhere

There was a time when you hear one music being played in cars, banquet halls and elevators. Those days are long gone because the gadgets today can now store more songs than you could listen to in an entire day. The availability of music to the average person has never been this complete, and it’s humbling. Whereas groups of friends used to have to huddle around a boom box to get their groove on, now they can all sit back with their personal music devices and have individual experiences.

Even Phones are Getting into the Act

While some people still imagine a world where music needs something big to be heard properly, those days are over. Considering how many Android apps for musicians are out there, anyone can go beyond the level of “taking their music with them” into creating something special out of nothing literally.

The possibilities are just short of astonishing, and the fact that these Android apps are usually available for under five bucks means that Barry Manilow has officially been unseated. He doesn’t write the songs that make the whole world sing. Everybody does.

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How Wireless GPS Helps Police Officers to Nab Criminals.

Sarv007 — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:42:39 +0000

Wireless GPS proves useful for police officers in responding and fighting crime. One particular aspect is in the form of police dispatching. Dispatchers use wireless systems in keeping track of the whereabouts of police officers while on duty. Maintaining the position of police vehicles helps dispatchers know which officers are closest to scenes of emergencies.

Wireless GPS proves useful for 911 dispatchers

When obtaining this information, employees can contact the nearest officer which can prove a matter of life or death in certain situations. Additionally, dispatchers can determine times of arrival with the aid of this wonderful technology. RFID (Radio-frequency identification) is another form of technology that helps police officers tremendously with using RFID tags in tracking down people on house arrest or parole by sending signals if they enter forbidden areas.

Police officers on patrol are ready to perform their duties with wireless systems, latest global positioning maps and other types of computer upgrades. Most police vehicles are online and hooked into computer-aided dispatch systems.

These new systems have not been fail proof and have experienced tons of glitches. There is always consistent upgrading and properservice being performed to get the new wireless systems as reliable and safe as possible. Training is provided consistently in navigating the system which in return, makes police officers jobs safer and easier with increasing response times. New wireless systems have aided in not only officers response times, but records processing among other exceptional benefits.

Maps and other services

Police officers can access GPS maps in their cruisers to give them exact locations of requests for services. The system lists potential threats, crime trends and call histories, as well. Officers are grateful for wireless systems because it has aided in improving the overall safety of officers in the field.

It has been said that the computer mapping system proves more efficient than ever in comparison to the old system that existed in the eighties. The old system was only upgraded on a periodic basis, but the new GPS wireless system is consistently updated. The maps prove useful for officers in finding safe and quick ways to redirect carsat congested traffic scenes and provide significant details. The GPS technology also comes in handy in areas that determine confusing with street names are similar to other street names in other parts of town. The system overall proves to be a tremendous resource that significantly improves the service that officers give to the public on a daily and nightly basis.

Conclusion

The system has not proved perfect and comes with glitches. Some of the glitches include dealing with firewalls and interfacing with other law enforcement agencies and the CAD system. These glitches were predicted as the technology was introduced to the law enforcement field. Generally, officers who are tech-savvy and even officers who have few computer skills have raved about the new GPS wireless technology that keeps police departments on the cutting edge of this new and innovative technology.

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Exciting Tech gadgets to expect in 2012

Sarv007 — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:36:03 +0000

It’s a new year and there’s a lot of buzz going on about the brilliant new developments that will come over the next 12 months, which promise more fun, power and everyday benefits.

The New iPad3

Rumor has it that Apple is planning to launch the iPad3 sometime during the fourth quarter of this year, according to the Taiwanese site Economic Daily. Though any solid information will have to come directly from the company when they officially unveil it, there have been some popular rumors and hopes. Retina display, better rear camera and even thinner than the iPad2, pushing the boundaries of thinness. Can they go thinner than Samsungs Galaxy Tab 10.1? We’ll wait and see.

Samsung Galaxy S III

Speaking of Samsung, there was a leak through a supposed employee connected to the company in Russia. Yes, we need to take this with a grain of salt, but think of the possibilities. A phone that would work on both Android and Bada OS, runs Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich with a quad core 1.5GHz processor? Wow. Follow that up with a 5-inch screen, 9mm thick, a 12 megapixel camera with Xenon flash and a front two megapixel camera in a metal case and USB 3.0.

The iPhone5

Expected to hit the Apple stores in October of 2012, the iPhone5 is going to have to hit the market hard with some amazing features if it hopes to knock back Google’s Android from taking the lead. What does the rumor mill say? Try being the first 4G (LTE) phone on all three US carriers (AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon), an entire front face screen, growing from 3.5 inches to 4 inches, wireless, inductive charging, but putting the phone on a mat—which could be placed anywhere you might set the iPhone down. Data sharing is available through the air via iOS5, so this feature alone could make the iPhone 100% cordless. A faster chip, better display materials and technology, more memory, improved battery and new antenna design advancements will round out the brilliance.

iTV

Apple seems positioned to dominate the year with technological advancements as it also includes the long rumor iTV release. Taiwanese publications claimed Apple is setting up production of Apple TV sets, starting with a screen product line. But analysts aren’t worried about Apple being able to deliver the technology so much as the content deals needed to make it a success. iTunes is great for downloads, but people will be expecting live broadcasts. Cable and satellite may work, but it doesn’t fit Apple’s revolutionary style—which might lean towards Internet or IPTV. Throw in the high probability of voice control and you have another killer gadget to look forward to this year.

Game Systems

Look for some amazing jumps in game play this year as Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo bring it to the table:

Xbox 720 rumors include a cutting edge AMD Fusion chip, Avatar-style graphics, improved artificial intelligence, more computing horsepower, and a new ecosystem of both apps and games to work between Windows Phone, Windows and Xbox 720.
Sony’s PS4 will be hot on the heels of Microsoft, unwilling to let the Xbox grab the victory over next-gen consoles. Taking a good look at the shortcomings of PS3, the future PS4 will finally get the company back on track to what customers and developers wanted all along. This starts with recycling the Cell processor, ungraded chipsets, reduced sized, improved cooling, a massive hard disk, brilliant new graphics processor and a jump in onboard memory.
Wii U sports a new touch screen controller, precision motion controls and awesome, full HD graphics on a 6.2 inch screen. Nintendo may hit a home run with this more services oriented console which includes a rumor of eReader abilities. Wii U is redefining how the TV, the internet and your game console work and interact together.

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Evil Online: Beyond the Virus

Sarv007 — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:27:54 +0000

The Internet used to be such a nice place. In the beginning, everyone played nice. They shared information about great websites and worthwhile stuff. Slowly and surely, it began to turn ugly. And with the new ugliness, a whole slew of new words and new definitions of old words were created: Troll, spam, spyware, virus, pop-up, trojan, adware, black hat, worm, malware, pop-under, rage, etc.

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There was bad stuff everywhere. Antivirus software was no longer an option; it was essential. Any new file with a .exe became suspect and was quickly quarantined by cautious network administrators. And every piece of email coming in or going out of the servers had to be checked and double checked as a possible threat.

Sometimes I long for the days when the worst you could do to your computer was accidentally drop it off the table.

Who Does These Things?

The worst part is these evils are no accidents. What all these have in common is they were created on purpose. Someone somewhere who is reasonably intelligent decided to create all the evils of the Internet. At least in Greek mythology when Pandora opened the box, she released existing evil–she didn’t have to make them.

And at least most people can understand the underlying reasons for some of these nasty things: pure profit. The online world created a system whereby money can be made for clicking links and visiting sites. With the right trojan or adware infecting unsuspecting computers, thousands of dollars were funneled into the pockets of some real jerks.

Innocent Victims

In its wake, these bad programs taught people to hate, and worst, fear some really useful programs that were accidentally sucked into the fray. Take for example the lowly toolbar. It was a handy tool to let people search the Web and visit popular sites from their browser with one click. Sadly, it got corrupted for a long time, but now they are back and are better than ever.

Online toolbars such as Zugo Bing are reminding us how good toolbars can be. Zugo lets businesses create their own customized toolbars and start pages and give to their customers. The free service lets the business get the branding they want and gives customers the powerful search capabilities, one-click access to sites and quick views of news and weather on the screen no matter what webpage they are visiting.

And best of all, these toolbars come with no evil malware or spyware. The web is still not a safe place, but it is coming back one step at a time.

Smart Moves with Smartphones

Sarv007 — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:55:38 +0000

Not everyone in the world uses smartphones, most likely because not everyone realizes exactly what a smartphone can do for them. Never fear though! The moment smartphones emerged, tech-savvy heroes came flocking in smartphoneville. Never again will you need to wonder if you are using your smartphone to its fullest extent.

Droiddog.com, for example, recently published a smartphone infographic that helps people understand the capabilities of their smartphones and how they can better use them. For those looking for more details, here are a few more nuggets of information about your precious smartphone:

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Use Smartphone to Access the Convenient Zone

For anyone who belongs to the I-don’t-need-a-smartphone-to-get-through-the-day school of thought, think for a moment about finding a telephone number for a business. Now think about whether you would like to flip through the thick-heavy yellow pages or through the cluttered telephone book, or rush to the Internet and pull up all information in ten seconds. It’s not about how we made smartphones a necessity in our lives, but on how they certainly improve our standard of living.

Smartphones also let you have a great level of organization in your life. You can sync calendars and carry them around with you in your pocket. One of the best things about a smartphone is its portability. More portable than the checkbook, day planner or calendar combo, smartphones let you keep track of phone numbers, directions, locations, and schedules. Having your smartphone act as a secretary to keep track of all those things leaves you free to focus on bigger things.

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Smartphone: Your Portable Hero

One special nice feature of a smartphone is its almost instantaneous connection to help in case of an emergency. Without one, you have to resort to numbers you have memorized; with a smartphone, you can get in touch with emergency services, family, employers, and others.

Another great thing about smartphones is that they’re with you all the time; they’re practically an extension of yourself. If you’re rushing around getting ready for a flight out of town, you’re smartphone can tell you that the incoming snowstorm delayed the flight for two hours. You can always be reached, not only by phone calls, but by video, text, email, and many other ways.

Scratch the I-don’t-a-smartphone mentality. Nowadays, smartphones are a do-or-die necessity. They really do make life a heck of a lot easier.

Why Cloud Computing is Just a Pie in the Sky?

Sarv007 — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 08:37:50 +0000

Cloud Computing is now regarded as the next big stage in the internet development. It’s the internet “cloud” that’s going to enable businesses access a centralized hub in order to run software tools, storage and processing. But it still seems to be a Pie in the sky and the reasons for this belief are many. We shall understand more on this new term and also discuss why cloud computing is utterly impractical.

What is Cloud Computing?

Cloud computing moves computation to web in form of a service, which is web-based. Cloud computing is different from grid or utility computing. In Cloud computing, institutions contract with the internet vendors for computational resources. Cloud computing in simpler terms is the use of multiple servers via single digital network. These servers can be accessed through computer, tablet, notebook, smartphone or any other device. Cloud Computing is a process in which storage is done with the help of a cloud server.

How is Cloud computing aims to benefit you?

It’s the software that will always boast of targeting to match up your needs in the first place. You have a choice in the features that you require and also in payment plans. These plans let you begin with a package that covers all the present needs in addition to the ‘additional’ service which reflects business growth. Here are a few things you would like to know about Cloud Computing -

Cloud services aim to afford connection so that you can access crucial business information just anywhere and anytime. Flexibility in operation and secure access through web browser is something that you can’t miss!
Bid farewell to data back-up because now your cloud service provider will be responsible for storing your information in targeted “data centers” with minimal risk of damage. It’s time for you to stay relaxed even when your PC or mobile device is lost or stolen – you know you still have your data backed up!
Cloud services offer you low initial costs and trial arrangements that further enable effective evaluation of applications.

Cloud Computing: Limitations & Concerns

Most of us are aware of this new term because we are already using it as in software used for web-based banking or in income tax. Now, this is a well understood fact that the software does not run on a personal machine – it rather runs in, what you call, “cloud”. Here both your machine and your web browser is a client. But is anyone actually bothered about the OS or database Google is using? As a user, we simply login to the software.

One of the most important points of concern is that Cloud computing is ‘internet-based’. So, the immediate question that arrives next to this is whether the internet connection utilized by this service is actually capable of handling the demands of your applications. People spend good sums of money on the high-end communications for the sake of supercomputers and scientific clusters. These are the networks that actually have low-latency and Cloud computing depends largely on the internet communications infrastructure.

There are possible concerns for running applications in the cloud that are data-intensive. Cloud Computing can be a hard achieved dream in a time when high end internet connected HPC sites with several 10 gigabit links are struggling. There are multiple other issues that affect performance in an environment of cloud computing.

Cloud computing can be seen as a pie in the sky, even though it is generating good deal of interest, as its scope is somewhere bogged down by its potential limitations. In future, we might see more modifications in this concept but for the time being it is certainly nothing much more than just a ‘pie in the sky’.

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Spam Becomes Worse, When You Unsubscribe!

Sarv007 — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 16:49:23 +0000

Yes read it right! Spam becomes a lot worse when you try to unsubscribe from advertisement mails, because the spammers then get to know your email address is real.

If you want to become a big spammer you will need email addresses: millions of them. In order to get them at the lowest cost, spammers use various techniques which automatically search the net for addresses, or use brute force and dictionary attacks to guess typical mail address. Such as strings with common first and last names.

How spammer gets to know about email is active or not?

In order to check the addresses it has found, the spammer uses a peculiarity of the email protocol SMTP, which always answers wrongly with an error message. If there is no error message, the address is known to exist. However to find out if his mails are also being read, the spammer must provoke you to react. Therefore, many messages have fake ‘Remove’ or ‘Unsubscribe’ links which only register the fact that you opened the mail, which means you have seen the spam ad mail.

How you get more spam?

If the spammer has verified your address once, he can start making money from it because he knows you are a potential buyer. Not only does he then send you more spam than before, but also sells your data to other spammers and cycle goes on.

Of the 107 trillion emails sent in 2010, 89%were spam. That means 95 trillion spam mails every year or 262 billion every day.

Note: Don’t click on ‘Remove from list’ or ‘Unsubscribe’ link, just hit the spam button.

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